Updating Torghast this Week

[Ryecoke-stormrage]

I find it cute that you make those assumptions and are posting on a level 40 warrior. You don’t know anything about me or my skill. But I won’t stoop to your level.

What is the actual source? Don’t just say “first link on google”, because I’m not getting that same result. And I’m looking far beyond just one source.

Your arguments are so cherry-picked that it’s getting sad… and then you result to personal attacks when your argument holds no water. Grow up.

[Exactlee-tichondrius]

Please don’t ruin Torghast for those of us that like the challenge. Make an easy setting for people that just want the rewards. Torghast is going to be made even easier once people have gear, why nerf it?

[Zapco-sargeras]

I cleared a 7 chambers earlier today solo and it went pretty smooth. I did an 8 upper reaches about 20 minutes ago and got my lunch money stolen. I would imagine the “fix” for the layer 8 difficulty has not been rolled out in its entirety yet? I just found it odd how feasible the full 7 clear was from earlier this morning to the 8 I just tried.

[Bums-atiesh]

Okay stalker

[Kryax-area-52]

We’re not in discord and or raiding.

You’d be doing yourself a favor to learn to communicate clearly on the forums, otherwise your intended point may be lost in translation.

I’ve played FPS games for over 20 years, trust me, i know all about communicating efficiently and being short/frank about it.

[anon47035836]

Blizz nerfed torghast because the “community” wants the rewards NOW. Just watch, in a few months, they gonna be complaining that torghast is pointless.

[Mawrio-moon-guard (Mawrio)]

@Abendroth-zuljin

So how long did you need to bang your head until you realised : hey maybe I’m not ready for this?

Guess it was easier to come here to whine.

I beat layer 8 first try but thanks. I never complained that its too hard. I just think not fun and imbalanced.

[Abendroth-zuljin (Abendroth)]

Am I supposed to be happy they killed the difficulty of something I’ll do every weeks because of that one thing I only have to do once?

[Kryax-area-52]

Stalker? LOL…

Embarrassed a little?

[Glortia-moknathal]

@Saichoses-destromath

It’s sad that “FUN and ACCESSIBLE” = steamroll with your eyes closed.

There is a big difference between faceroll and torghast even after nerfs.

[Bugfound-warsong]

@Zubzug-area-52

People complaining about RNG powers but that’s exactly how Roguelikes are supposed to be.

But I don’t like Rogues, see the problem?

[Mistyvixen-thrall]

@Damniel-aerie-peak

Battletoads isn’t hard. Played it growing up and it wasn’t even hard. Halo 2 legendary campaign is harder than Battletoads

I remember beating Battletoads when I was 8 years old. I thought Ninja Gaiden was harder, personally.

Would take the difficulty in either of those games over something like Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy.

[Bums-atiesh]

The only thing embarrassing is someone tracking someone’s messages.

[Fenny-wyrmrest-accord]

@Kaivax

Since the launch of Shadowlands, we’ve been constantly evaluating and reacting to the player experience in Torghast, Tower of the Damned. In previous weeks, we’ve made surgical changes to address pain points. This week, with the opening of a much more difficult section of the tower, we’ve seen a great deal of feedback from players that we feel is best addressed with a whole slate of updates. Some of these changes have already gone live with hotfixes over the last 24 hours, and the rest will be applied to the game today (and possibly tomorrow).

In summary, we want to reduce the length of a Torghast run, increase players’ success rates for a few specializations that are struggling more than the others, and give players more options in dealing with the challenges that Torghast presents. Here are the changes we’re making:

Torghast, Tower of the Damned

• Health and damage of all creatures in Torghast reduced by 6% at Layer 1, increasing to 26% at Layer 8.
  • Developers’ note: The net effect should be that Layer 8 is now roughly as difficult as Layer 6 was prior to this change, with other Layers’ difficulty is reduced proportionally.
• Health of all creatures reduced for players in groups by up to 25%.
• Damage of all creatures reduced for 4- and 5-player groups by up to 20%.
• When the Empowered enemy at the end of a floor is a spellcaster, they should now have a longer delay between their basic magic damage spells.
  • Developers’ note: The goal of this change is to make powerful spellcasters less punishing for specializations that lack a frequent interrupt.
• For all classes, major cooldowns will now reset when you transition to a new floor.
  • Developers’ note: This functionality should mirror the way cooldowns reset at the end of a raid encounter, or when starting a Mythic Keystone dungeon, affecting most abilities with a cooldown of 3 minutes or longer.
• Anima Powers/Cells
  • The starting Anima Cell in Torghast now offers a stronger selection of Anima powers.
  • Anima Cells dropped by rare creatures within Torghast now always have at least 3 choices to choose from.
  • The chance for an Anima Cell to drop from a creature on any given floor has been increased.
  • Unnatural Power no longer provides immunity to crowd controlling effects at 10 stacks.
• Enemies
  • Massive Crusher’s Armor Plating cast time increased to 3 seconds (was 1 second) and can be interrupted and/or dispelled. Recast time increased to 16 seconds (was 8 seconds).
  • Tower Sentinel’s Oppressive Aura haste reduction and slow now scales up to 10% (was 25%).
  • Deadsoul Chorus’s Death Blast now reduces healing received by 15% and stacks 5 times (was 25% and stacks 4 times).
  • Skeletal Remains and Lumbering Creation’s Bone Shrapnel now marks the ground and then explodes after 2 seconds, giving players time to move away (was instant).
  • Deadsoul Stalker now fades away after 15 melee attacks (was 7) and remains hidden for 15 seconds (was 30 seconds).
  • Deadsoul Devil now reincarnates with 15% health remaining (was at 40% health).
• Bosses
  • Elder Longbranch’s Bounty of the Forest cast time increased to 4 seconds (was 2 seconds), time between casts increased to 45 seconds (was 30 seconds), and Hardened Shell now only requires 6 attacks or skills to remove (was 9 attacks).
  • Decayspeaker’s Hardened Shell now only requires 6 attacks or skills to remove (was 9 attacks).
  • Goxul the Devourer’s Health and damage decreased by 10%, and time between casts of Mass Devour increased to 36 seconds (was 18 seconds).
• Torments and Upper Reaches
  • Fracturing Forces and Eye of Skoldus enemies’ health and damage reduced by 50%, now increase assassin health by 5% per stack (was 10%).
  • Fracturing Forces and Eye of Skoldus enemies will no longer ambush players who have recently been in combat.
  • The Jailer’s Directive now increases health by 10% (was 50%).

You’ll find all of the changes above noted in our ongoing Hotfixes Update post soon after they go live.

I’m glad I got to experience at least layer 7 before this change. At least it won’t take as long; but I did enjoy the challenge.

[Syzara-lightnings-blade]

Still no loot to this place. PRetty much a waste of even running it.

I mean raid finder is easier than this and it rewards loot. Come on blizzard.

[Flyball-sargeras]

Shrink the floor count a d up the rate of anima powers.

That would actually make it fun.

[Vàsh-area-52]

They’ll be releasing Torghast Twisting corridors, much harder, that’s the challenging content, and lots of people still can’t do Layer 7 8 or earlier.

This should smoothen the difficulty rise.

But in a game so big, majority will never be happy. Though I don’t know why this community always needs to have the trash talkers on people like me who appreciate these changes.

[anon47035836]

It’s already ruined my dude. Even if blizz made a challange mode specifically for people that like challenges, people will feel entitled to it’s rewards without putting in any type of effort and will ruin that mode too just to please them.

[Pantherheart-dalaran]

@Xenna-bloodhoof

it’s a good start, but still needs some more rewards that apply to the rest of the game and not just while in there.

No, that’s the whole point of it being a roguelite. There’s already too many rewards coming out of it with the legos.

[Badgeese-zuljin]

18…ima kms right after I throw up.

18 no check points, 3x the length 3x the fatigue.