Again, why not? You havent explained any reason why this shouldnt be done. Its easy enough to avoid.
Again this is true. Gatekeeping already exist in Diablo 4. Capstome dungeon comes to mind. The stacking debuff is tolerable. Only those that doesnāt have high movement speed suffers.
Do what I do. Just skip it. If enough people stop trying for the seasonal journey they will fix it.
To YOU.
Which Iām not going to doā¦
What do you care anyway? Anything anyone says you will rebut with the exact same one to two liners thatās part of your odd script consisting of 10 or so for a dollar bargain reply bin narrative.
I have already had this discussion with others and voiced my personal opinions on the matter on multiple forums.
I will entertain no further engagement with you as itās pointless and futile - and, as I said, regardless of what I say, you will stand by Dev decisions no matter how backwards, asinine or egregious they may be.
As you always have and can be assumed, according to the āscript historyā, always will.
Cease and desist your fruitless questioning and attempting to engage.
Youāre welcome for this response, you should now feel special.
Wow, someone got butt-hurt real quick over a question. I am assuming you have no real rational reason why Diablo cannot have this easy to avoid mechanic. Some of you get so bent out of shape over a little video game. It is so odd.
Iām happy to have gotten this response. Right from the top drawer and blended with nuances of the other standard replies.
Made my Forum day.
Youāre a real 
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(cāmon be honest: Youāre either an AI or a Dev in disguiseā¦ The alternative, that youāre a regular old human, ā¦I wonāt go further with it. Forget it.)
Apparently you pay a WHOLE lot of attention to me which is also pretty weird. Here I am just asking you a simple question and you get all butt-hurt. Usually, when someone cannot communicate their stance on a subject it means they really have no rational reason. Its ok. Good talking to you.
Same to you Dr.
Keep up the good work.
p.s. I pay attention to the forums - you tend to stand out for obv reasons. Donāt get all squirmy or fuzzy feels - whichever. 
At the end of the day, itās mostly a unique Title &ā¦ some random loot or materials you can farm anywhere else.
Iād expect nothing less from a Top tier season journey, requiring a minimal dedication, rather than a frivolous checklist,
I do offer my sympathy for any character class generally struggling with Pits/Tormented Bosses, those are balance issues, which hopefully will get fixed.
I donāt mind the Seasonal requirements at all.
I went semi-off topic because someone mentioned Pit bosses and Debuffs(possibly new S5 onward āmechanic/flavorless featureā).
I am against that - the Debuffs specifically - anywhere in the game.
The Pit itself is timed, has powerful Shadow Clones and scaling difficulty - Debuffs are a nonsensical addition to something with layers of parameters already in place.
Further - mark the unending stream of feedback about the hectic nature of the fights and coloring issues etc.
So specifically in Pits - Debuffs are asinine as thereās already conditions.
With Tormented Echos - Players SHOULD be able to engage in a battle of attrition without some arbitrary and foolish Boss Win mechanic punishing mistakes.
It does absolutely nothing to āTestā the Top Tier Meta Builds/Specs nor does it affect top players - it only serves to frustrate a large % of the Playerbase when they engage for the challenge and a few missteps cause damage to scale exponentially?
Thatās just dumb and was never in the franchise and should not be in it.
Especially since zerging is not possible - itās a small arena and HP resets on player death.
Iāll use Malphas as an example:
Pre nerf, it was a challenging fight for my 78 Incinerate/Firewall Sorc.
I had to be creative with my Construct to assist eHP and Barrier etc.
I had to be careful with only 9 potions.
It was FUN and fraught with peril(I hadnāt researched mechanics and which Tower was the best to leave alone etc).
The fights I had with Malphas and a sub optimal homebrew build were some of the best times I had in this game.
IF there were Debuff stacks in this fight - I never would have beaten him until much later and/or respecād to Blizz or BL.
The stacks take away the FUN challenge of a toe to toe fight by adding an arbitrary difficulty layer to something when one is already punished for being underleveled or undergeared.
Something so arbitrary that at the end of the day it becomes trivial and the threat is neutered at a point in character evolution.
So itās pointless, arbitrary and 100% gatekeeping outside of that threshold and a worthless addition/feature to the game.
This - ON TOPIC - adds to the OP because it adds an additional layer of gatekeeping to Seasonal Completion for Players.
(SD can be happy I explained my stance on it now. Heāll bb with a āskillā oriented or some nonsense reply)
Wow, already thinking about me. This is so weird. I must be living in your head, yet I have no idea who you are 
