Quote Originally Posted by RiyahArp View Post
its ok, this is just forum posting. I feel he was a big step up from nidhogg hard, and honestly, he is; just compare the add phases for example. When I beat him at i290, he was comparable to Hashmal imo, and I went back and spammed that stupid trial as healer so I could carry others through it. My main worry is that he sets a pretty high benchmark for trial difficulty this early in the expansion, and that he is actually an example of what you all want; normal content to be harder. Most people were too busy rah rahing that to realize how many ppl were abandoning it at the intended ilvl.
And why did he feel harsh at that level and made people abandon duty?
Because there was no step up to that difficulty. People had been able to faceroll everything up to this point and suddenly they're thrown into a fight with adequate challenge for their level.

If the dungeons leading up to him had become progressively more challenging, thus helping people get used to what's required of them, I do believe the whining for nerfs would have been far less. And you wouldn't have had to "carry" your friends, as they would have been able to carry their own weight.