Seen full Citadel raid .. I dont like it at all

Seen on Darthmicrotrnsaction youtube you can check.

The fights are so annoying and long. So many times the bosses are imunne to damage and you are waiting for some mechanic.

Will be so painful to try to do with automatchmaking with casual players.

The loot sux so hard as well.

I have 1700 hours in Lost ark and still think those mechanics are just annoyence. Citadel is not Diablo content I would like.

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These type games were never meant to have raids.

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it is like season 3 Malphas but x10 the tedious.

i started to appreciate how fortunate and efficient even soloing Malphas’ 4 chambers compared to dark citadel.

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Challenging bosses are good. Long dungeons (or raids or whatever they are called) that you can progress through are also good. Forced grouping is not.

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If you find the loot sucks and you aren’t good with mechanics then all good. DC wasn’t made for you.

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https://i.ibb.co/x5ZG3Qd/IMG-3460.jpg
Hmm… auspicious post.

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I havent seen any vids about it and I already know I hate because of co-op.

Having to wait for others is such a buzz kill.

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Agreed.

Agreed for the right type of game. I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s good for a much faster paced game like Diablo. Especially if the first time you clear it, it can take upwards of an hour. Just my opinion though.

:100:%

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I shared that video yesterday in the forum. The immune phases are basically like Lilith but you aren’t bound on a small circle with spikes. The best takeaway from that video is if DM and Rhykker can do it, most casuals can do it. If not, then you probably shouldn’t play D4 at all.

Also good thing it’s just cosmetics so you are not forced to farm it. Just think of it like Lilith. Do it once to get the cosmetics.

I think the most challenging part with Citadel is running with randoms who are clueless on what to do. No, I’m not speaking about day 1. That’s obvious. I’m speaking of the obvious — already playing a month and still clueless. I give a month because that’s often when most folks are done with the season (at least from what I have seen in the forum threads)

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IMO, ANY boss fight in ANY video game that takes longer than ~90 seconds is boring as hell.

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No one is forcing you to do the content, you can get scrolls elsewhere bud, keep that in mind. I will gladly group up with clueless random casuals and laugh when we both die due to impending doom. :sweat_smile::rofl:

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You must hate Elden Ring with every fiber of your body lmao

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Yea, Elden ring has some of the best designed bosses in video games but since they take longer than 90 seconds to complete… trash game, trash bosses.

Flawless logic by Swampdog.

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What this man said ^^^

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Except Elden Ring is a Souls type game expected to have long boss fights.

D4 is an ARPG supposed to be fast paced.

Look at what happens in Pits currently. A lot of people get to the point where they can clear the pit but the boss fight takes so long they stop pushing. It becomes tedious. Same thing happens going from T7 to T8.

Saw your post above commenting on mechanics. You’re the guy who thinks if someone doesn’t like something it’s because they aren’t good at it. Or at least you use that approach to support your argument.

I’m calling it again. The only way this content will be ā€œpopularā€ in an ARPG is if they gate a ā€˜must have’ item behind it. That means the retemper scroll drop rate will suck everywhere else in the game.

Blizzard won’t let an entire season run with failed content. They don’t like bad usage statistics on developed items.

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I’m not comparing Elden Ring to Diablo 4.

Read the quote then reread my previous post. And stop being hung up on tempering scrolls. Blizzard announced you can also farm them in infernal hordes.

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My trust in Blizzard is at an all time low given the current state of class balance.

If they want people to play DC, and they do, then it’s going to take much more than some cosmetics to get people to invest raid time in a single activity in an ARPG.

We’ll see what the drop rate is in IH. My bet is that it’s really, really low. Like the Mythic I never saw drop in IH low.

I bet you don’t play monster hunter rofl

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I haven’t no. I have played a lot of games that have long boss fights. At the end of them, I’m never hit with a feeling of accomplishment, just relief that they’re over.

This is true for any video game I’ve played, from Borderlands to Mass Effect. It’s just dull, it gets into a cycle where you have to repeat the same motions over and over. Hard pass for me. YMMV

As for the new raid… holy crap, I just watched a video of it and it looks awful. Utterly unfun, stupid doors, stupid step-here spots, stupid timers, etc. I was shocked at how unfun it looks. I will never do this content.

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Yes. They will either shift the rewards to some other mechanic or VoH will have a very short lifespan.