Waking Nightmare - Gorr Boss Event Information (7/20/22)

Thank you Daredevil for the excellent summary! I also greatly enjoyed that event for the most part, but would like to expand on just one main point.

The counterpoint to a good challenge, is the increased time commitment required to complete it.

I love challenge and variety. Succeeding against a very tough challenge is fun, and a terrific feeling of accomplishment. However, succeeding over, and over, and over again can turn the fun into a slog. I want to keep getting these challenges, but with less repetition. It's why I've always liked WtS and Puzzle Gauntlet.

Maybe they could configure an event with four unrestricted pins, and only one with the Heroic roster limits. (And ideally, that would unlock one corresponding boss pin with the limits as well). Then we get the challenge, but without the extreme expansion of playing time requirements. And for the players that don't want (or can't do) the challenge, they can skip that one pin.

<Personal experiences from the last event below, for some additional context>

The alliance I'm in needed a lot of help. I had to play through every node, and take advantage of every free boss hit through the last time slice on Sunday, to just barely complete round 7. Moreover, I had none of the available 5stars champed, but the nodes were scaled as if I did (I have ten 5-champs overall). The combo of those two details made the playing time drastically longer than normal, and exceeded the comfort level.

The other thing I ran into, is that I needed to do a lot of team reconfiguring to fight the boss, and different side node enemies. I constantly ran up against the swap limit for Supports, due to that nature of alternating back and forth. So I was forced into completing many nodes with something less than my optimal configuration.

LavaManLee said:

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Daredevil217 said:

- The restricted roster was a lot of fun for me. I played characters I normally wouldn’t have. If you were bored playing the only 5*s (who lacked synergy) then that’s on you. Plenty of people enjoyed rediscovering or discovering for the first time Agent Venom, Brock, Scorpion, Bullseye, etc. There were definitely some cool synergistic teams. 

Conversely, if you enjoy rediscovering characters, but don't do that during events for some reason, then that's on you.

Nothing is stopping you EVER from playing whom you want to, when you want to (except, of course, if anything is restricted).  So the whole "if you were bored, that's on you" is a very flimsy argument.

I was definitely bored because it was the same boosted characters (Dark Avengers) every single time who I personally did not find fun. Is that on me?  Sure, I guess.  But the flippant comment of "that's on you" is a bit sanctimonious and dismissive.

I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings. But you did say you only used three of the available characters and then complained about lack of variety, so I was just pointing that out. It seems others who expanded their approach enjoyed it more. 

This boss event run is not heroic so let's keep the topic on this event and not talking about heroic events.

I'm all for having that discussion, and have participated plenty about it in appropriate threads. Let's keep this thread about this event though please. 

Yes. And now its lost internet connection. Sigh.

Third attempt and I'm in.

in after 4 try's, already bored after ProfX hulkoye pimp slaps Gorr.
oh well at least gona bag 2 covers for thoress

Yup - just did Drax wave node without Drax. I guess he might have been invisible?

It's strangely scaled. A level 50 or 100 enemy should not have that much HP. He also seems to take a lot less damage than would be expected. Ah, well.

Yeah I just read. Had not had the strength of will to read all that text describing his abilities. Will probably be an awful drag later on.