DTS at level 9

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Before I begin, let me contextualize.

I have 2600h of NR, 2 accounts on 9999. Started a new file and I'm playing normal mode for fun and climbing DoN slowly.

Got in a ED Fulgor run to farm some sovereigns. Crater is on.

Me (Raider), another raider and an executor.

Day 1 was weird pathing, got to the basement at level 3 with no gaol cleared, only two PoIs. Cleared a revenant and the Crucible castle. I ping the top to start it before day 1 ends so we can go to creater faster. No need to finish the boss, just chip away some HP.

It's DTS. I'm very confident on my build, got some good DMG, and negation, rot axe and so on. I climb faster after leveling at the basement, the team goes outside the castle to level on the grace near the woods. I start the fight and got DTS to 60% and no one comes. Executor arrives soon after, right in time to revive me once. We continue the fight and DTS has only 25% HP left when circle starts closing. I wonder where is raider and see he went alone to a fire camp instead of helping. Got distracted and died to DTS again. Executor dies trying to revive me.

End of day level 8 was pretty easy still and we go right to finish DTS and this let us clear all crater with spare time to mess around. Easy peasy Fulgor with a golden Greatclaw.

After the fight, raider messages me

"DTS at level 9, you're dumb? Please uninstall Nightreign and never play again"

I laughed. I remember the time I would be afraid of that on normal mode. DoN really brings up the real hard game, but in normal game that seems like a joke. And the player was full of himself after he saw us dying lol. I got some good laughs. Higher Depth mentality for optimized routing really changed the way I play.

Would you guys skip DTS at that level?