Why was level cap 20 again? Ashava is almost impossible to kill with people keep feeding it or coming at lvl17 to grief you. This was the worst beta yet because of lack of loot and no ultimate. In my opinion it should’ve been kept to lvl25, I’ve tried 4 times last night and still couldn’t beat it on my 510 Power level barbarian with almost full legendaries after farming for 12 hours straight, but players die to mechanics and making it harder to kill with boss HP scaling with player numbers. The Disparity between someone with rare gear and blue is massive and legendary gear is game changing, did they really expect for a lot of people to beat this boss at lvl20 running in blues (cuz gear doesn’t drop anymore) to kill a world boss with around 6-7 people?
I’ve tried 4 times, including one time in World Tier 1 (3 times World 2 and then swapped World 1 for final try) and almost all the time we get him down to 50% or 25% for when I was on world 1 with me dying only single time during the whole thing, And being punished for other players getting 1 shot every 2 seconds. Again why was this beta only locked behind lvl20? Me and friends got plenty of gear that we couldn’t wear also, cuz it was locked behind lvl21-25 and had to salvage it.
Feedback from Asmon from today’s stream: players who got to lvl20 in server slam and dealt damage to world boss to receive the accessory to make the player base happy and not make them want to refund/quit just because of this silly event, not everyone have the time to play this limited time only event with massive drawbacks that only spawns at 3 hour intervals, having players grief you with lower levels could’ve been easily fixed too by making them not able to participate.
I’m considering refunding my Ultimate Edition of the game after this whole fiasco
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just saw the thread title with asmongold, then saw this novel and now i’m going to admit i did not read and putting this thread on mute.
peace out.
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How do I upvote this? The parroting of streamers needs to stop.
Develop your own identity people!!! Learn to accept challenge in your life!!!
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i agree with them keeping low levels out but thats about it. also they are not sending the reward to everyone. only those who killed the boss. it was rumor with no sources to back it up.
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No, she was too easy. People are gonna face roll her at release with level25+ gear. Less than a minute for sure.
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seen asmongold i knew it was a bad post (did not road)
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Don’t know bro. Barb player here. Leveled to 20 while clearing some barb aspect dungeons, imprinted them on some rares - got some legendaries, finished the storyline tooget 2 more legendaries. Put some gems and had 3 defensives.
I’ll admit - first attempt died 3 times but we killed her.
There was an attempt where underlevels and very clueless people came.
Latter 2 attempts - we beat the crap out of her without even me dying once.
Not so hard if you got half a brain.
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I understand the frustration if you were unable to successfully kill the boss, especially with multiple tries. I tried a couple times in the March beta weekends and was unsuccessful each time. This morning I thought, what the “hell” and drove my Sorc over there to take a stab at it just to say I had done so, fully intending to try to avoid dying over and over by simply throwing Hydras under her while staying out of range, and really having no hope of killing her on the first and last try. Then at the last minute I decided to switch to my Barbie and see if melee was doable. We had like five Rogues, and a couple other people. Indeed, I probably died 4-5 times but we also frikkin’ stomped her with almost seven minutes left on the timer at the end.
So really, I think it was mostly about the luck of getting people who would actually put DPS into the boss rather than stand around panicking and dying lol. The amount of DPS required to kill her was only like four reasonably effective people being alive maybe 80% of the time.
The game also had plenty of social systems one could use to put together a group rather than trying to succeed at group content with random pickups.
I’m happy to have gotten it done, but again I had no expectation that it was likely and can’t imagine whining about it if I had failed. Whatever the cosmetic thing is will be like every pre-order-bonus-item-ever, which means you’ll likely never see it in game after the first month lol.
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The torch was not passed. The age of short-form video and mobile gaming has created a flood of participation trophy console gamers that expect to clear every bit of content without any thought into build, itemization, or gameplay. The entire concept of “grinding” is antithetical to their very nature. God save us.
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This basically sums up everything. I understand the frustration. RNG and scheduling affected the chances a lot for us who actually have lives. blizzard decision to start the world event on day 2 and on mothers day really hurt those of us who have real lives but at the end of the day nobody is going to care about this skin in the very near future. Just got to hope blizzard doesn’t have same scheduling issues with other events. Seasons being quarterly is good to hear at the very least.
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The sooner you realize some of these streamers just spew bullcrap clickbait the better off you’ll be.
This take is laughably bad by him.
If you’re debating refunding over a beta weekend we never planned on getting because they wanted to stress test their servers further, with an artificially but not impossibly increased challenge with a reward that was very very very attainable, I don’t know what to tell you.
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Can we please stop giving streamers views? This whole streamer/influencer trend needs to die.
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Ashava was arguably easy if you just played on WT1. I beat her 3 times with randoms on WT1 without issue. Tier 2 was impossible, but Tier 1 was fine.
I was going to read until I saw asmongold, peace out
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Why? They are entertaining. And this take is not bad at all.
The take was terrible by a terrible player who has the power to negatively influence the development of the game with his terrible takes and wide reach.
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You lost believability when you claimed to fight Ashava wt1 with that level of gear and group. We did WT1 Ashava with 10 people and a level 16 and 12, and we had 3 minutes to spare on the first attempt on Saturday and no real legendary items equpped.
I find it exceptionally hard to believe you failed at that level on the final attempt.
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This weekend had a very narrow focus, and it wasn’t gear, monsters, balance, or color palettes.
Five rogues will do that – congrats on the RNG luck 
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will