Well, this was a pleasant surprise. Having a too difficult CR at season start can deter people from playing.
There have been difficult CRs at season start before but based on the feedback I’ve seen this might have been excessively difficult. Majority of players generally do CR only for the season start and want to get over with it as quickly as possible. This wouldn’t been the case with CR 270.
I haven’t played in years, but was dusting of my Wizard robes until I saw the challenge rift. Tried it for a good while, but this is just impossible for me so was thinking of hanging back my robes, but it looks I’ll be playing after all.
Manald is useless when your hurling frozen orbs and the combination with Storm Armor is just plain ridicilious. Also teleport on the bar, but not the illusionist passive. And a Zei with rank 0 despite the fact that the Frozen Orb makes this a RANGED build and to top it all off a useless 2H weapon.
Honestly, why didn’t they put 2 set pieces on the character to make it a REEL challenge.
Thank you.
I would have been very disappointed to have to wait until next week to start the season.
What a great reactivity on your part. Much love from EU <3
Excellent news, thanks a lot @PezRadar!
So what?
Why? You can’t compete vs US players with your EU hero.
So?
Why do you compare it to NA?
If you can’t do it you can skip it.
Why so much drama about potential 2-3 more hours of play to the lvl 70. CR is same for everyone in EU.
Why it is a must? We had so many seasons before CR was introduced to the game.
I never saw anyone complain that 90% of CRs are too easy. That is the problem here.
People can practice that CR few days ahead and they still complain. Snow flakes.
I was waiting for this to show up.
The fact that blizz themselves acknowledge it means it was truly a problem. Since the rewards are so enticing it isn’t meant to be a brick wall.
And yes, saving 3-4 hours of lvling and bounty runs is a big plus.
No need to be a jerk to us casuals.
Since i know nothing about Asia CR, i compare it to what i know about.
It’s not a must, but it really speeds up the process and makes things more efficient.
I’ve done the season start on all 3 regions for several seasons, but I’ll probably wait until Sunday to run things. It’s no fun to hold off on Challenge Rift, do it as soon as season starts, get to level 70, only for Blizzard to rollback or restart the season because of some mistake they made. (This has happened a couple of times on the Asia server.).
And then I see people cry that last season was too long. There is nothing to do…
If you like the challenge, then just level without the CR reward.
Right now you are angry over nothing, which makes you more of a snowflake than anyone here.
I dunno man, the overwhelming majority agreed this needed change including people that are far better at the game probably even than you.
I’m not taking sides here. I have seen other stupidly bad builds as challenge rifts and concluded some builds were put together by small children. However I do want to point out that just because something is hard doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Obviously the build creator did it in a said amount of time and clearly they’re not too efficient. So if they can do it, we can do it!
Ah so you want unfair advantage?
You accept too easy to be bad. I see no fight in you at all.
I haven’t decided if I will run s27. I may just push to guardian then stop.
Never in my OP did i say it was impossible far from it. But i still have PTSD from Season 25, I was LAN with 3 other friends , it was a necro build , i was by far the most experienced one of the group, i had to do it 4 times on each PC it was awful.
For some it would have been frustrating enough to quit the season all together.
This is not supposed to be the challenge , just a helpful hand.
i see no point in anything you write here. Zip your pants back up and stop trolling.
I never played Wizard after completing set dungeons for wings. I used Wizard to craft gear for Enchantress. So I have around 10 hours on Wizard total. I finished this “hard” CR just now after 2nd try. I admit that I had to see where elites are and where I can get power and conduit.
imgur DOT com/a/3s8jH6V
Maybe Blizzard should just give you materials for free 5 mins into the season. I dont see the difference between that and what you are asking for.