-much lower stress than infernal hordes, you can zone out entirely except on the last boss
-smaller incremental difficulty jumps
-much shorter time investment needed per run
infernal hordes are far more efficient, but the pit is not as useless in season 5 as some people claim
I agree, the jump from 6 to 7 in Infernal Hordes is way too high. The Pit is the only thing for people to try and improve their gear at that point unless they are running a meta uber build.
Magic 8 ball says that horde rewards will be toned down after this season
Maybe not since the new world tiers are tied to the pit it now has a purpose other than masterworking mats
also glyph ep from the pit. masterworking from nmd and horde.
What stress you are talking about?
I guess you are right T6 and T7 is probably bigger jump than pit 42 and 41
You mean that 11 min horde takes? Really? Do you really start D4 if you have 4 min before uber arrives? 
Pit is just to challenge your build, nothing more nothing less.
Yup, had to use the pit quite a bit to be able to clear IH tier 7.
If you are comfortable doing IH7, sure it is better than the Pit. Otherwise, the Pit is still an option.
I am just starting to be able to clear IH7. To succeed, I have to remain focused for close to 20 min. It is fun to do once but impossible to repeat several times. I can clear Pit 91 in 3 to 4 min, only need to be careful with the end Boss. Read about how I would be drowning in Stygian Stones with IH7 but didn’t experience that. Only did a couple of IH7 runs but I admit going back to the more relaxing Pit.
If you cannot clear IH7, you don’t have any other option than the Pit.
did a pit 85 while half asleep
started a pit 7, died instantly to the fiend because i was paying as much attention as i did in the 85
also, this whole conversation is pointless because any rational person plays this game with other people given that when you play solo it takes 20x more time to accomplish anything
There was no word about IH in the Campfire. If next season masterworking mats are available in IH the same way there are now, players who can do high Tier Hordes will not do NMDs, just like they do not do Pit anymore this season. I am wondering if there is not something different coming for IH.
Some of the pit maps are bad. Linear. Dead ends. Not much strategy. Shrines despawn. Could use some love
Well I am playing OP build, but in H8 I play also hearthstone on second monitor and don´t even look d4 at just mashing piaono
Seems pretty relaxing to me
Party/solo seems irrelevant in comparsion pit vs horde.
im so good at diablo the devs just send loot to my stash
Lol I didn´t flex at all, I just want to point out that horde really isn´t hard. You just randomly mashing all buttons you have. That is it, that is the loop… Didn´t bother with pit, bcs why… but I can imagine if boss can´t hit you it must be much harder…
Funny you mentioned, I found GA tyrael in “you left on floor” in stash.
So if we had access to the stats, they would say 90%+ of the profiles have cleared tier 8 solo?
Bro as I mentioned many times. According to Blizzard over 50% playerbase didn´t finish lvl 100.
Average D4 enjoyer tells us literary nothing about difficulty of game. If you was willing to spent like 10hours in S5…cg you are above average D4 gamer.
BUT H8 is still not hard, mobs just have lots of HP. If you can´t finish, you just play weak build. If you are playing strong build and can´t finish it, you are maybe undergeared, if you have strong build with proper gear… and can´t finish it… you just suck.
Horde isn´t hard rly, it is just dps check.
hm, but nmd would be a solid alternative, especially if you cant do ih7 i guess.
I like the pit (besides the stupid bosses of course).
But running the dungeon and filling the bar is fun.
For me it would be even more fun when filling the bar tooks some more time, maybe like 10 minutes instead of 2.
Every 3 minutes I have to port out to town and port again in into the new pit…
2 times loading for nothing 
I don’t understand why anyone find IH fun. The rewards are great though
They are actually working on the IH.
The rewards get heavily nerfed in 2.0