Alexander!. Thoughts on difficulty? and endgame. [possible spoilers]

[Onikimaru]

Just curious as to what people thought of the difficulty?, alexander was cleared in the first hour of it being out. Now of course not everybody is going to clear it in the first hour but isn't that a little too easy?. Not bashing on it, i get that its story mode. But to say it was coil with echo?, not even close!.

All that aside here are some things i really enjoyed about alexander!.

I loved the overall theme of the raid. The music was very well done and i could seriously raid to it all day long!. I skimmed through the story after FLOOOOR 1 because well....it just wasn't like coil where i had to work for the next piece of it.
FLOOOOR 2 was very very VERY cool. I would love for them to do more mechanics like the mountable goblin contraption. And having to work the environment to help your team and get things done!.

FLOOOOR 4 was pretty cool, being flung up into some random pipe to kill some adds is a nice little surprise and i think if they expanded upon that, maybe with some(RNG mobs? and different environments?), we would some some really interesting content in the future.

Now for the bad stuff(and it looks like i am going to be "THAT" guy.)

But...i can't help but feel that SE COULD have given the bosses more than two mechanics each. I mean ravana was a fairly well designed solid fight, bismark's concept was very cool but the fight was overall very short.

We have savage coming up in two or so weeks and i think by making this raid very easy they have given the more casual playerbase a good reason to go ahead and meet some people to tackle savage, especially since alexander has no weapons and i over heard a lot of people complain about that so, hopefully that is enough motivation for people to attempt that harder challenge!.

[Cirgellon]

Aren't there two difficulties? I think the easier one is supposed to be easy.

[KyteStones]

Floors...they are called... floors..

[Eidolon]

Easiest turns to date. This is basically faceroll content. It's easier than EX primals like Ravana right now imo.

[Itseotle]

Your right not everyone is going to clear it in the first hour. Friend of mine been wiping on turn 2 for 3 hours between about 5 groups. I think its fine lol

[StrejdaTom]

It is faceroll. Cleared it in a few tries in duty finder but honestly.. I dont mind. I will finally be able to fully enjoy hard raids without being afraid of casuals trying to force SE to nerf it.

[Khalithar]

Your right not everyone is going to clear it in the first hour. Friend of mine been wiping on turn 2 for 3 hours between about 5 groups. I think its fine lol

It's about as difficult as the skill of the dps. It's really easy mechanics but they have to be done perfectly and both bosses have to die in ten minutes at practically the same time. Been taking me about two hours to do right now, one group just didn't have the dps for it, the second refused to listen when I tried to explain the mechanics to them and died so I just dropped. =/

[winters_night]

my problem so far is that people that have cleared it give soooo little info on what the fights do than after 2 wipes they rage quit.. Seriously just gonna go level some alts

[Kiara1]

I havent found a group to beat the first one yet. After two hours of wiping and ha ing to explain strat to the same group 3 times before they actually understood what to do.
With df groups the difficulty is good imo but I think if you play with actually skilled players first floor should be easy

[SpookyGhost]

I hate floor 3's tether mechanic because nobody in DF can:

1. Stay still for me to get the tether off them
2. Agree on whether they want to move away from me, or have me move (when I move, they run after me, as though they are just begging for death)
3. The other tank will not take responsibility to pick up a tether if I'm trapped in the previous +/- mechanic

Does anyone know any other consistent method of dealing with this? I'm running with my static later so it'll be fine then, but in DF I just don't know what to tell these people.