Thank you for increased difficulty

[HyoMinPark]

Eh, While more teeth is great, I wonder if it's more teeth or just gear checks. I don't wanna be that guy but I think we should wait and get gear before we toss our hats off to SE. If I remember correctly BW had teeth on first release too but that ended as soon as peopel got gear. D: I will say tho the last fight in omega feels like it def has teeth. THo I wonder if it's too late for it cause all I'm seeing is disbands :c

Low item level gear doesn’t change the fact that Alphascape NM is the first 8-man raid this expansion that has actual DPS checks in 3 out of 4 of its floors: nails + dragons in V10, Level Checker in V11, and PoA Omega-M/Lunar Shower Omega-F in V12. No amount of gear will save you if you cannot properly perform the check, as the damage far exceeds any HP limit we have. That also doesn’t change that it’s the first 8-man raid (to my knowledge) that also has a floor with a soft enrage (V12N—if you do not kill the two Omegas at the same time, the one left will continuously cast Lunar Shower until its dead or you’re dead—I’ve wiped to the enrage at least twice so far). These are good things, and I want to see more of them in future 8-man normal mode content.

We had that difficulty. people called it faceroll and said it wasn't enough to make people git gud. Now they made it harder, and the same people here in a few months will say the same things again, and ask for harder content. Zero point in arguing any more, let them endure the wipes.

If you paid attention to posts from those who actually advocate for harder content, they note the first pull in Baelsar’s Wall to be one of the hardest 60 dungeons HW offered, especially if you pulled all the way to the end. Because those archers were serious business if you didn’t take care of them and the DoTs they spread willy-nilly to everyone in the party.

Compare that to Swallow’s Compass, which is an absolute joke of an “expert dungeon”—why is it that I can do it on a healer in i350 barely melded crafted gear and never have to actually press a healing button on my healers outside of Regen/A.Benefic/Adlo? And even the regen isn’t needed. That’s pathetic, and that’s what people argue against.