Quote Originally Posted by Chasingstars View Post
It was more negatively affected by the amount of grindy and timegated aspects put in it. That made even their own version of the Palace of the Dead known as Torghast be known as 'Choreghast'. People may bemoan PotD and find it boring, but its never been mandatory for your endgame raids and trials.
I completely agree with you, and I'd like to add that while Torghast resembles palace of the dead, it also has the following characteristics that make it absolutely awful:
  • Gear is not normalized, when casual players complained it was too hard, the developers sheepishly admitted that they'd tuned it against M+/Heroic raid gear and then nerfed it into the ground, pissing off the M+/raiding crowd who already found it lacking the challenge that they craved. In the end, no one was happy.
  • The rewards are lackluster. It doesn't drop anything except for the soul ash that everyone is there to grind and additional companions for your mission tables (like getting additional NPCs for your Grand Company squadrons).
  • It's filled with trash mobs upon trash mobs upon trash mobs that (at best) provide temporary buffs for the rest of your run. There is no persistent power gain.