u/Takeshi_92

(from Developer Notes #14 - AMA Season 2 Key Responses, 2 months ago)

We got nothing on today's dev note about the "entirely new region",
I hope they will just reveal it to to us on livestream before the update.

They BETTER DO IT, or else it means they treat us like fools and lie to us.

We know according to leaks there is only Ban's town as new "region", so we'll see..
People got hyped after this and theorised purgatory, demon world etc..

So it will be disapointing if there is no big region with lot of content,
all other gachas got huge expansions on their 2.0.

Am I the only one who finds the naming/design of the current PvE content backwards?

Taranis and Spider are called Raids, but they don't really feel like Raids.
You spend ~20-30 minutes (for the average player) running around the same dungeon 2 times a week, even though they can be played with up to 5 players, the game makes them WAY easier when playing solo. So most players play it solo..

So in practice, the "Raids" are basically solo dungeons.

Then you have the Worm Boss Hunt.

When you enter it, the game literally puts it under "Dungeon", yet it feels much more like what most MMO players would consider a Raid:
A big group of players actually taking on the same encounter together, where the multiplayer aspect is the whole point of the content.
And honestly? It's way more fun.

The format itself is what makes it feel like a Raid.
I'd much rather see something like the Worm become permanent content with multiple different difficulty levels and sliiiightly different rewards. Than the boring actual "raids".
And make it matchmaking only with very reasonable minimum combat power for entrance, so groups cant gatekeep and kick you for no reasons.

Because right now it's kind of funny:
The content called “Raid” plays like a Dungeon, while the content called “Dungeon” plays like a Raid.
I'd much rather have more content like this (with different difficulties) than spend ~30 minutes running SOLO through the SAME dungeon twice a week and call that my Raid experience.
If your raid is boring dont make it 30 minutes, even 10 is too much, solo is boring when your content is trash, let us play real raids.
Don't say that you have fun clearing raid for the 10th time, we all know we force ourselves for the rewards. Just like this worm event (because the worm is too easy for now to defeat) but at least the worm is 2 minutes and not too consuming. The endgame here is supposed junction, not "raids".

Or we can find another solution: make the actual "Raids" 10-player content. That would be the right scale considering how much they scale up the difficulty when you group with 5 players. Players could do different bosses by splitting up, explore the dungeon freely in groups, then regroup for the final boss. Add a kick button, and allow someone else to join if someone gets kicked/leaves before the final boss. That would be WAY MORE FUN. Especially if there were like 3-5 dungeons rotating every week. Most players would stay engaged, and the content would actually feel fresh instead of doing the exact same thing over and over.

Or keep it at 5 players, but make it so you can't do it solo, and reduce the dumb scaling. They make it 9999x harder with 5 people instead of 5x.
Literally what's the point? Everyone do it solo, groups are a mess, people leave or kick you for no reasons. It's NOT multiplayer content.
Then change the Raid every week, so there's a rotation and we're not playing the same thing over and over.

I don't think the game needs to make the content harder or give insane rewards. Just make the Raid actually feel like a Raid.

The actual Raid experience is the temporary event we're going to lose..
I hope more people can address this so the devs listen, because 7DS Origin got the Raid/Dungeon formula backwards.

I saw no one fully maxing Bug DPS, so I tried to build him and make him good! This is my best time on red demon yet (world lvl 4 ofc)

I used daisy and slater for crit, tristan to burst quickly (you can change him according to boss weakness)

When you burst you wanna use special attack twice, then normal skill, then special attack twice again, then ult.

You MUST make sure you press these attacks when the boss doesnt move so you can teleport behind his back and do the big damage, except for the ult where you can hit anywhere.

Bug's build is: Demon's Stealth engraved set, with Life crystal Earrings and necklace for Pierce stats so you avoid getting block, and the arachne ring for crit, then just put escanor's axe, meli's dual swords, and a decent sr book!

My Bug is P7 btw.

I tried Orgot Abyss with Bug Diane Daisy Tioreh and cleared it in 3:17min, so it still need work..

Let me know what you think!