I hate how easy it is to stack damage
As the playerbase has continued to amass relics, I've noticed that the games I queue into are increasingly disgusting. Wiping out field bosses in under a minute on day one is normal now. People are just mashing attack and facetanking things because the boss is melting quicker than they're running out of flasks. Some of this is undoubtedly derived from everyone's increase in experience and familiarity with the game leading to getting more upgrades quickly, but a very large chunk is also coming from evergaol effects, especially now that it's purchasable from the collector board. This single effect can provide over a 30% DPS increase whereas most other relic effects might boost a single damage type by 6.5% maximum.
I've done runs where the only content people would do was gaols and POI's that have gaol keys until they physically could not anymore. I just got done with a Heolster run where the teammates died within the first 2 minutes, but we still managed to finish it at a blistering pace because our damage was just so ridiculous.
People are stacking statuses and damage effects until they barely have to play the game anymore. It's officially at the point where I look forward to playing with new players, and dislike it when I play with experienced ones. Even the Everdarks are going down in under one or two minutes because damage is completely out of control- and that's without the game-winning super rares.
I miss having to actually fight the bosses.
Posted Jul 8, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC