Tier 2 rifts have a proper champion miniboss that’s much tougher to kill so I think it’s only an issue with T1s (and those are meant for < 5 players anyway). My bigger possible issue is with rewards since I’m still not sure why are we closing them, at least PoF had the new armors, elegy mosaics, trade contracts in addition to regular drops like unids and money.
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Ravi@feddit.de 10 months ago
I haven’t really looked on the rewars yet. I have done quite some Tier 1 Rifts. My main proposal is to reduce the health/amount of the trash mobs in the first phase and triple the hp of the “boss” monster. I don’t know how others feel about this, but clearing trash never feels great, fighting boss like monsters is great. Right now the trash clearing part is very long and the “boss” barely survives the breakbar burst at best.
Kaldo@beehaw.org 10 months ago
nightdice@feddit.de 10 months ago
I can help you with that! The Essences are used in legendary armor crafting for the PvE legendary armor.
Kaldo@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Thanks but I said as much already in the main post above ( “do we know if they are actually used for anything besides crafting the new legendary armor once it’s available in 9 months?”). I already have legendary armor from raiding so I’m not interested in this one, and considering the essences are accountbound I’m not sure what are they good for to me.
Ravi@feddit.de 10 months ago
Okay that seems plausible, just wish the pre-event was shorter then.
Out of curiosity, have you unlocked the astral ward masteries? My guess would be that you need the rifts to get the non legendary armor unlocked by the madtery.
Sina@beehaw.org 10 months ago
The tier2 boss champ I’ve seen was stronger than most pof legendary bounties.
Ravi@feddit.de 10 months ago
Sounds better to me. I don’t mind if they give you harder open world content. Legendary bounties are laughable easy in trains nowadays anyway.
Kaldo@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Not quite, they only had one bounty modifier and could still be killed pretty fast with 5-10 players. I’d say PoF regular bounty, and then tier 3 is gonna be a PoF legendary bounty-level fight.
Sina@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Those green circles really wrecked everyone though, It’s possibly a bug.
CoffeeDart@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
no its not … the mechanic is that people with greens spread out and don’t overlap eachother and there also need to be atleast 1 more non green circle player in them to help soak the damage. They should really tweak this mechanic so that if there are only 3 players, it doesnt give out 3 green circles. That’s whats happening currently