One attempt on pinnacle bosses is absurd

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Just one attempt makes attempting any pinnacle boss blindly a suicide.
It forces you to search and watch guides not to waste all the time you spent farming resources to open portals.

I have lots of real time things to do besides following all the streamers\yt personas and watch their guide videos, but at the same time I learn from my mistakes when playing. So if I reattempt the boss, I will probably manage the attack that took me by surprise.

The very fact that I can't reattempt the boss even once after dying makes me not want to refarm for it again. And the single thought of how much time went into farming splinters/breachstones etc and the idea that I need to spend the same amount again pushes me off the game. Besides, maybe the boss will oneshot me by surprise again on my second attempt, and I will have to refarm for it again.

Whoever decided on players having one attempt on the (probably) hardest late game content made a very poor decision. It kills the opportunity to learn the bosses. By the time it takes to refarm some may forget the experience of their last attempt.

I don't mind having one attempt on regular maps, as we have an abundance of waystones (though it makes me a little bit upset), but again, to reiterate on the topic, one attempt on the pinnacle boss is just smells like bad game design to me.

Stupid indeed.

I wouldn't mind 1 attempt if the bosses were more accessible - but they're a huge chore to get to yourself and the keys are very expensive.

Xesht is the only one that is somewhat affordable.

Even that key, solo farming is pretty tedious - pick up the 300 splinters 1 by one.....

It's is comically bad game design, no chance it stays this way for launch.

These bosses being hard to find and one tries makes it seem like a lazy way to extend engagement.

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Karishin#7986 wrote:

These bosses being hard to find and one tries makes it seem like a lazy way to extend engagement.

That's exactly what it is. Inflating player engagement metrics, just like how Blizzard does similar things in their games.

whats a pinnacle boss?

Boss HP resetting yes, but one try for a damn citadel? HUH? It takes 100 hours to find one.

Now I have to study a youtube video 5 times because this became an incredibly precious and limited resource. Stupid.

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Carinyc#0837 wrote:

whats a pinnacle boss?

It's a name for a group of endgame bosses, who require you to farm some specific resource, related to that bosse's domain, to access them.

You get the required resource by participating in the event that can spawn on a map, eg breach, delirium, ritual, expedition. And you need to farm these events a lot to get the required amount of resources. For example, breach pinnacle boss requires you to get 300 of breach splinters, and in the beginning you get around 15 of those per breach event.

Yeah agree. They need to tune this. It is not fun at all as it is.