Endgame is incredibly tedious and has many anti-fun designs

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voodoochile78#9787 wrote:

In before the trolls arrive to call you a bad player that deserves to be punished.

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voodoochile78#9787 wrote:

In before the trolls arrive to call you a bad player that deserves to be punished.

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teprac#3183 wrote:

I just want to play the character and kill things and get loot and the game gets in my way.

I feel like I'm fighting the game and forced to do chores.

At level 95, I'm constantly being held back from playing against level-appropriate content.

1. Juicing up waystones takes a million clicks and it's always the same. Basic currency -> slam exalts -> vaal. Repeat this hundreds of times. God have mercy if you also instill them, the interaction is even worse. There's no thought to the process, it's just mindless, wasted tie doing the same thing over and over.
2. Tower maps are boring and short, I don't even bother using real waystones on them.
3. Having to juice towers at all feels like so much work for so little reward. You take all this time to set up like maybe 3 maps.
4. Whenever I'm not running a max difficulty map it feels bad. t16 waystones are not common enough, like 8-10% on corrupt? So I've got this ridiculous demi-god character that has to run through completely trivial content 90% of the time, where I know I won't get top tier loot except the occasional high currency.
5. Pinnacle bosses are too much of a grind to encounter, you should be able to fight them more often.
6. Citadels aren't common enough, and are also too easy.
7. Arbiter of Ash is a bullshit fight. The fire wind instant kill is not telegraphed well enough to see consistently, and the fire death orbs are often off-screen or so far apart that it's impossible to reach them even with high movement. The only way to consistently not die is to delete the boss before he does anything.
8. Many map types still need more checkpoints.
9. Rare mobs need to show up earlier. They show almost instantly on tiny Crypt maps but take a year to show up on Hidden Grotto?
10. Open maps are under-represented in the distribution. Maps like Steppe are relatively rare, while long linear and corridor maps like Seepage are probably 80% of the maps.
11. Atlas has too many gaps between entire zones that should be accessible without rerouting.
12. Pinnacle zones are boring. The twisted domain forces like 4 minutes of walking with zero challenge. Simulacrums have FIFTEEN waves with a ton of running? I tried one expedition and it was so boring that I haven't even loaded another.
13. Breach splinters.

Suggestions:

1. Remove tower maps, just let us place a tablet in without running the map.
2. Instead of dropping waystones, just add difficulty nodes to the atlas tree. Once you are running 15-16s you never want anything below it.
3. Figure some way to auto-juice maps, like let us set some currency to auto-cast on a map node or something.
4. Pinnacle bosses should be accessible more often, even if you lower their drop rates. Up the drop rate on access tokens by a factor of five.
5. Make rare mobs show up on the minimap if you get near them, or show up earlier on the minimap.
6. Rebalance the Atlas to have a better distribution of open map types. Corridors, mazes, and linear maps are good and necessary for variety, but open maps are fun.
7. Connect more nodes in the Atlas to get rid of the gaps or some currency that bridges gaps.