World Tier 4 Is Addictive, But Not Fun

This is just my own personal opinion of the game from around level 70 onwards. If you find the game fun past this point, that is cool and you don’t need to read this post. Continue having fun :slight_smile:
For those who feel as I do and that World Tier 4 needs more work, keep reading my short assessment of the game I feel needs more work from this point forward.

I still enjoy the game a lot while building my early characters from Tier 2 through Tier 3. But as soon as I jump to World Tier 4, there are a few dislikes that stop me enjoying this game.
The first being the significant jump in difficulty with resistances. As soon as I change to World Tier 4, the amount of things that can rapidly take health from my character, such as Putrid Wasps, Fire, poison. It is not so much an individual enemy but crowds of them doing this or all these damages together. I understand the difficulty needs to be higher for a World Tier jump, but the problem is in the games state in WT4, it is simply not fun. The only strategy is simply destroy the enemy with swift brutal force as fast as possible before you die and then repeat this over and over for each cluster of enemies. No strategy involved at all.
As a Rogue player, it isn’t difficult to do this, but as soon as you run out of evades, barriers or you get slowed down, you die within a second when inside these clusters of enemies who give elemental damage.

The other thing about WT4 that I dislike is that trying to acquire (Ancestral) Gear has become stale IMO after looking for good gear in previous world tiers. It is now tedious because of the above problem.

At the core of my dislike, I prefer games that are not geared towards diffculty, but to get the best gear, I must switch to WT4 - the highest difficulty. Why cannot I look for Ancestral Gear in WT3, where the game is easier. This would be more fun for players such as myself who like less of a challenge.

Obviously this post will gather comments like “get good” or “WT4 is easy” but for me, it isn’t just about being easy, it’s about being fun. And for me WT4 is not fun in it’s current play style.

Thanks for reading and hope the devs take this onboard and provide a better World Tier 4 or a brand new “End Tier” experience for players like me in this situation.

Just camp world bosses if you don’t want to actually play on WT4. Essentially free ancestral gear (and usually at ilvl 925) for basically no effort at all, since there’ll invariably be someone else there to kill the boss for you.

Once you get your gears and correct build, your problems will be solved. After it, you gonna start thinking about why i cant loot better items than lvl80s. You cant because genuis devs are listening trolls only and they decide to fix all items to lvl80. There are no better ones. Also there are not much differents between 60lvl 80lvl items, even some of them are betters.

Once you hit lvl60 and got your 60lvl items you can congratz yourself for finishing the game

Frozen orb was enough to frustrate me for a decade.

World tier 4 is no different than 3 or 2 or 1.

WT3 also has resistance penalty, why was that not a problem ?

Here’s the thing though, thought finally someone who understands the game and mobs need some evolution/progression… That they’re practically the same monsters for 80+ levels & e.t.c.

Nope :sweat_smile: , the exact opposite lol

Compared to S1-ish - resistances are a “nerf” if your res. are under 35%, if they’re above then they’re a buff

If don’t mind - may I ask at what level did you unlock WT4 ? :thinking:

Yep, doing one or two world bosses, one or two nightmare dungeons to improve some paragons… hopefully we will have some content patch soon.

There’s a cheese for this, just run back and forth between the 2 events just north of Gea Kul, or farm vampire keys at lower difficulty and use them to open vampire chests at WT4.

Honestly don’t have a problem with finding loads of Ancestral gear and regularly do what you just suggested and get stacks of it. Just finding the right piece with the right stats for my build can take a long while. Whilst doing this, constantly being frustrated by the other problems I mentioned lol :slight_smile:

@Lostariel - I started WT4 at level 73.

@Darkside - I am hoping that this is the case, perhaps with the changes with Season 2, I can eventually find a build I am happy with playing WT4 with :slight_smile:

Another thing I forgot to mention that is annoying, is upgrading Sacred/Ancestral Gear costs Forgotten Souls. Having to do Helltide and also waiting for a Helltide is very irritating.

One thing that would help with searching for and upgrading gear (apart from removing the Forgotten Soul requirement) would be allowing us to change two stats on Ancestral gear. That would make finding the right piece of gear quicker, even if the expence was high in rerolling it :slight_smile: