So, in-game email this morning warns of impending removal of current Gauntlets…
The Gauntlet portal also has a bright red ! button for information…
If we look at the Gauntlet portal, we see that the current season ends on 19th June…
The Inferno 6 Gauntlet has a 49315 Combat Rating requirement. There’s no way that F2P players have that CR and most low-mid spenders won’t either. This means, once again, unless CR values for the bosses are amended prior to these Gauntlets being removed, only whales (or people carried by them) can get the portal cosmetic.
So, folks, you have around a month to befriend 7 whales and ask them nicely to carry you.
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It’s not only the Combat Rating, but the insane amount of DPS and Invulnerability needed to get this done.
On our Leaderboards only 1 group (with some of the biggest whales) cleared the Inferno 6 Gauntlet and it took them 30 Minutes. This means they had to survive the enraged phase of the last boss for quite some time. I can’t imagine that a lot of people will get the Portal cosmetic, before the season ends…
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Took a look at the Inferno 6 Gauntlet Leaderboard on the server I’m on…
- 8 players with 5/5 bosses - 18 min 34 sec
- 1 player with 2/5 bosses - 8 min 55 sec
- 2 players with 1/5 bosses - 2 min 51 sec
- 7 players with 1/5 bosses - 4 min 04 sec
All 8 of the players that cleared it had more than enough CR, with a few of the raid having around 50,000 CR.
I’m around 600 CR too low. 
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Well, I have the CR and have had it for every highest Gauntlet so far, but never beat it, not even the ones that carried over two seasons.
It’s one of the few PvE challenges reserved only for whales, just like every season’s highest challenge rifts.
I assume not every whale has a need to shove it up people’s faces in PvP, so some other incentive for them to spend is necessary.
Hmm… I have the CR49,300 and still I have a month.
I assume we need CR around 50,000 or so for that difficulty.
I’ll do my best and once I will surpass the INF6 gauntlet also I will help my friends as much as I can in our server. 
But It’s OK when I would not be able to do that. Yes, I want the portal cosmetic though.
The thing is that higher CR doesn’t really help you in Gauntlet. No matter how high your CR is, it can only give you 11% damage bonus at best. That can never compensate the damage you gain from high resonance.
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Yeah so many focus on CR only and wonder why it’s so hard. It’s way more than just that. It’s DPS, it’s party composition, secondaries and communication.
I hope my whale clanmates will organize another charity G5 run for peasants like me. 