Shout out to the raid design team - great job this tier

[OliverQ]

Just finished M5-8 Cruiserweight tier normal mode. I had an absolute blast. Some of the best raids they've ever made. M7 will likely be the gold standard of raids going forward. Of the 4, M6 felt the weakest, but still overall solid. I like this tier better than M1-4 Lightweight.

M5 is a blast both thematically and musically. M7 is hectic, fun, crazy. M8 has amazing music and good thematics.

I will say we may get some people struggling with these raids because they are slightly more challenging starting out, but they're so much fun.

Please keep doing more raids like this design team! I can't wait for Savage.

[xbahax92]

Me and my friends had a lot of fun. It's a very fun tier.
I got really impressed by M5, it was so fun watching my char dance.
It's a very fast paced DDR tier, but I can already see the thrill in savage next week.

[Kisshu]

Really good tier. Liked the first three fights, but last fight did feel a bit lacking in comparison.

[MisterNublet]

The themes were fun and the songs were great (except for m8).

The combat itself wasn't anything incredible. I thought we were suppose to have some kind of enhanced combat design, but all I saw were a bunch of reused mechanics and lots of left/right and stacks.

[Xrono_Amber]

The faster cast speed mechanic has clearly benefited raids, I won't argue here. But I don't know if I'm getting too stiff, or if the raids lack something...mmm...amazing. I wasn't very excited about any of the fights. The music in the third fight is the most fun for me, the second and fourth are kind of lagging behind, but maybe the fourth song will appeal to me eventually. The first one... the idea is not bad, but the instrumental itself is not bright enough. Maybe it's also because the developers promised something about a new battle design, but I didn't notice anything strikingly new. The battles are fast, yes, but the speed itself is not a breakthrough.

[Gullis]

they were fun, but I didn't really see anything of that mindblowing "NEW ENCOUNTER DESIGN!!!!" they were boasting about

[Sylpharia]

This deserves to be said.

This tier was really fun to play through and I am curious about the savages. The 3rd one will probably be quite a wall but let's go.

[Volgia]

Really good tier. Liked the first three fights, but last fight did feel a bit lacking in comparison.

After how intense the third fight was, the fourth fight felt a bit tame.... I wonder if he's just gonna turn into a giant gundam in phase 2 on savage.

[DynnDiablos]

They're definitely pushing things into faster, reaction-based combat, which unfortunately I can't keep up with due to my memory issues and some other cognitive things. I get folks want harder normal content, but I think this may push some folks out of normal raids completely if this is the direction they continue to double down on. I struggled with the first tier of these raids but managed. This is basically not fair to anyone else for me to be in because I am never going to remember the mechanics and will just be a detriment, so doing it all once is enough for me. I don't really like the gear and I am crafting all my 740 so no real reason for me to do it anyway. I will focus on making all you raiders food for next week

[MisterNublet]

They're definitely pushing things into faster, reaction-based combat, which unfortunately I can't keep up with due to my memory issues and some other cognitive things. I get folks want harder normal content, but I think this may push some folks out of normal raids completely if this is the direction they continue to double down on. I struggled with the first tier of these raids but managed. This is basically not fair to anyone else for me to be in because I am never going to remember the mechanics and will just be a detriment, so doing it all once is enough for me. I don't really like the gear and I am crafting all my 740 so no real reason for me to do it anyway. I will focus on making all you raiders food for next week

This faster DDR style isn't it. It's obvious the battle design team is creatively bankrupt that their plan is to speed up the fights to mask the fact that they're reusing the same tired arse mechanics.

The negative is that it affects yourself that can't handle faster mechanics.

The other negative is that I already don't even care to run this content again because its the same shit we've been doing the last 6 years.