How much time have you wasted in the labyrinth so far?

I've done the merc laby about 80 times now. Still no sight of any flicker, anger, flammability, ice/chaos golem enhancement :[

Havent played PoE in about a year before friday.

After some rips in HC I went to Lab for the first time as a 48 Shadow in HC.

Almost died about 5 times. Super annoying. Wont do cruel until im 70.

Beat it on normal first time through. Probably took 20-30 min. Don't remember what level but was cursed with Vulnerability from like room 2 on. Death rumbas did more damage to me than Izaro.

Did normal labyrinth at lvl40 or so, took around 15-20 minutes.

Did Cruel labyrinth at lvl63 or so, took only 15 minutess tops since the layout was really easy and fast to run through.

I'll probably do Merc labyrinth once I hit 80 or so... My gear is utter crap for the most part and I cant be bothered to update it just yet :P

I dont see what all the fuss is. The traps are easy enough to dodge and the boss is easy as long as you dont let him get super-buffed during the first two fights.

Though I'll admit that I did watch some streamers run through the labyrinth a few times during Alpha... So I kinda knew what to expect and what to do.

Been looking for that "Hidden Switch" no luck so far

i´ve only done it about 3 times on my main rockyfive who is decked out in great gear (not mirror but 700pdps 2h 2x6links mingsheart devos usual RT cyclone build 91)
i had a lot of respect for traps until found out that they basically tickle me and you´ve to have no microskills at all to avoid em and pose an issue to you.
the thing that puts me off about farming lab is the plenty deadends.
izaro is a cool mini-raid-boss kinda fight but also RNG reliant selfcasting endurance charges helps a lot and since i leach to 100%life infightnonstop i never fall down to low life.

enough about me , i´ve "wasted" a few hours overall with trials and normal cruel merc doing it halfhearted just for the 6points.

grinding the enchants now is where it´s at or str8 up go to perandus league and gamble with a fresh start.

it´s not hard , it´s antifun and obnoxious to run to him but after a while you should know the layouts in and out go full dmg and just bust his ass.

as a tanky leacher spec , its fairly simple i can although imagine fulldmg ranged builds having a hard time.

I did normal labyrinth at lvl 50, with 1.5k HP, RF totem build, and it took like 1 hour, nailed it at the first try. The level 3x mobs around and between traps were really helpful to refill my life flasks which I had 4, and I could spam them like hell when passing through traps. Based on this experience, I plan to do cruel labyrinth at lvl 75, heavily overleveled does help.

Wasted way too much time. I've had more crashes and disconnects in that hellhole in the last 4 days then I've had in the previous 18 months combined.

I want to love it.. I really do, and I'm trying my best to stay positive, but to date it's been a completely joyless experience.

So far, I've made it through normal once, but it took 10+ attempts (bugs, crashes and a good old fashion death on phase 3 on my first attempt at it). Still unable to complete cruel thanks to crashes and disconnects though.

For the first time ever my response when asked what I was going to level next was "Nothing" purely because I don't want the heartache of going through that ##^$ again.

Add another 2 crashes to the tally... sigh

Did normal Lab yesterday, with trials in 35mins.(lvl 95 std.) I oneshoted every Izaro stage. I think i will learn more about the Izaro skills in cruel and merc. I dont like the Lab mechanis (jump and run) in a rpg.