If it’s not tuned for certain classes or specs to be able to complete solo at higher layers, and the recommendation is to do it with other people to overcome this, then why not just do dungeons instead which are better designed for group content?
If it’s not tuned to be a solo experience for all specs/classes, even tanks and healers, what is the purpose of Torghast if dungeons already exist then? If your goal with Torghast isn’t solo content for everyone, it just seems pointless then.
It was supposed to be solo content. Then something terrible happened, and Ion’s Group-Or-Die mentality took over.
If they’re going to force grouping and make it a significant challenge, then it should reward gear as well. Especially since it takes the same time as an entire raid night to climb the ladder every week.
Absolutely this. If normal dungeons can reward gear then Torghast should too. Otherwise what’s the point of a headache with no reward?
Making it group content is an exceptionally bad Idea.
It doesn’t have the excitement of maybe dropping something useful. And once you’ve done it for the week it doesn’t drop anything. So in a lot situations it becomes a charity chore.
I suspect the issue is players are far outpacing the planned progression and were getting an extremely clumsy and untested clamp down.
Unfortunately, I don’t believe they had settled on a specific vision for Torghast before the game went live.
Let’s ask Tupac when he comes in.
He has all the knowledge and answers about Boreghast.
I agree, Blizzard should atleast announce their Intentions. That’s very reasonable and respectable to request.
“People are totally enjoying it, trust me dude, I have no evidence of this but everyone on these forums and anywhere else online not enjoying it don’t represent the invisible playerbase I made up in my head who are enjoying it”
Lol so true Spell
Week 1: Torghast is awesome!
Week 2: Thank you Blizz! Most fun I’ve had in the game!
Week 3: I can’t clear 7 & 8 in my 162 gear?! This is the worst!
This might make sense if Week 3 didnt introduce significant health buffs and changes to certain spec’s experience.
It’s almost like something happened in week 3, maybe some tuning changes or something, hmm 
Stretch the time played metrics as far as possible.
It became a challenge. Layers 1 - 6 are still cake. It suddenly got bad when people struggled. We have 8 floors for 6 months. Gear up, get lucky, and get that mount!
Luck isn’t a challenge.
Gearing up is. Whining because you can’t clear the (intended) challenging layers is sad.
make it as painful and unrewarding to players as humanly possible? clearly
You mean Week 3: Sucks I can’t kill the second layer boss with my ilvl 161 bear.
I don’t want to do layer 8, but I would like to be able to solo layer 3.
Keep at it. You’re clearly in the minority. Most people downed 3 in less gear week one.
This is the problem. Not the challenge. Killing endless swarms of mobs for an hour is so lame.