The challenges this league was waaaay too hard.
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As somebody who doesn't trade the challenges might as well not even exist this league. I don't have enough time in the day to ever finish the vast majority of them. I used to be able to hit 12 and get something neat, now I could realistically hit 8 or 9 and all I would get are some dumb brown gloves. I really, really hope this was a failed experiment and they go back to more sensible challenges. I understand there are people who breath this game and they want some harder stuff to work toward with their 1600 hours per league investment, but that shouldn't be most of the challenges being offered and it shouldn't have most of the challenge rewards locked behind them. Add a new "hard mode challenges" tab and give them like platinum glowy trophies for their hideout for completing them.
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" Ehm - no offense but in regards to your last suggestion, thats literally how it is. The 2nd armour set is the same as the first one, just with additional glow. And by all means, the first one is totally doable in the course of an entire league! Here are the challenges that are pretty easy: 1. Learning the ropes 2. The Basics of Sentinels 3. Complete Vendor Recipes 4. Defeat these Act Bosses I 5. Complete Encounters I 6. Defeat these Act Bosses II 7. Defeat Magic or Rare monsters 8. Complete Breach Encounters 9. Defeat Possessed Rogue Exiles 10. Complete Essence Encounters 11. Combine Sentinels 12. Complete Metamorph Encounters 13. Use Recombinators 14. Use Eldritch Altars 15. Powering the Sentinels 16. Complete Unique Maps 17. Defeat Empowered Encounters If you set up your Atlas for Essences and Breach you will eventually finish them, same goes for the atlas altars - 500 altars in total where often 4 of them spawn on a map, that´s 125 maps in total. Is that really too much for you? The metamorph conditions are damn easy, the hardest is to kill a rogue metamorph together with a normal one in 5 seconds, but with a bit of kiting thats still easy to do, it took me only 2 trys. The unique Maps: Doryanis drops regularly from delve, u don´t even need to delve deep. I dropped mine at around 160 from the Boss already. From those encounters the flawless breachstone might be the hardest to do and the hardest to acquire. But finishing this list alone gets you to 17/40! So in order to complete the first armour set you only need 7 more, and it´s totally up to you which ones you wanna do. And from today you still have roughly 2 months left to do it. Sorry, I get that some of them are harder than in past leagues, but the rewards are higher as well. And I think I´m not getting tired mentioning it, but when I, full-time work with only 2 days off of work, manage to clear 38/40 in only 4 weeks then ANY1 can clear 24/40 in the course of a full season... Last edited by Vennto#1610 on Jun 13, 2022, 4:57:31 AM
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" So you are telling me I could get the brown gloves AND the brown boots. Wow, how exciting. Except of course I've already spent more time on this league than any other previous league and I don't have most of those. I'm just about burnt out and probably not going to play much more, I've just been trying to find a Coward's Trial from Kirac for the past few days to hit 115/115 on my atlas. Could I attain some of those challenges you listed if I played every single day for the next 3 months? Sure. That's never going to happen though. I have 1232 hours played of this game according to Steam, my second most played game after RimWorld, over 100 of those hours were this league. This isn't a MMO or a job, I've had my fun for the league, challenges weren't a part of that this time and I got nothing out of it, I'm already thinking about next league. I'd rather have footprints or a weapon effect. Brown gloves and boots are a nothing. |
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" No, I´m telling you that having 5 completed challenges while 17 are pretty doable in a reasonable amount of time just shows that you don´t get them done in the time that they actually take and you could have been further down the road already. Secondly, my main point, was that only 7 hard ones are really needed to get the full armour set - I didn´t define which one since this is open to personal preference, I just identified the 17 most easy ones but sure, read into it whatever you want. " Perfect - then take away that you enjoyed the league and focus on the next one, but the challenges weren´t that impossible to do - at least not the 24 first ones, no matter how you frame that. |
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Sentinel was designed exclusively for streamers and no lifers. Game balance is over the top difficult for new to seasoned players. Challenges are impossible for casual players. Itemization has reached the worst state in years (countless nerfs over the years i.e. cluster jewels; forcing build enabling RNG exclusives: Aegis Aura, ashes, melding, enlighten, etc). HC not viable.
One word to describe Sentinel: Punishment. |
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I agree with everything in this thread. You are my people.
Except Vennto. [Removed by Support] Last edited by Isaac_GGG#0000 on Jun 13, 2022, 4:44:50 PM
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" I agree with your list. Seeing Harvest unwilted gardens is a nightmare. Have the Harvest fully procced most this league and only seen a single unwilted garden happen. some guides try to pretend you can do this with parties but that doesn't actually matter as you don't know when one will spawn. I've also had more luck farming apothecary cards then spawning one of the unwilted gardens. Having a 4th plot is actually fairly easy and common on the other hand. The only thing more I could raise this is to double the minor or major nodes depending on what it is to boost this if both are specced into it. Other then that 10% feels like less then 1% truthfully on proccing even a single unwilted garden plot. Some of these atlas nodes don't seem very effective. I'd assume I'd at least see it sometimes if it was 10%. Worse though you need 3 of these out of 4 patches in one map. This is heavily low RNG to literally feeling impossible. It's like trying to farm a mirror which the mirror this league is probably even more obtainable (crimson temple farms). lol. jk Sorry i was trying to refer to those 17 easy challenges. Also to note if your not in SSF the essence one can be easily finished if friends or guild memebers were farming it as you can join party and support in defeating the essence mobs. The 2 of the 4 modifiers have to come from getting lucky on corrupting 2 of the specific essences to ugrade them. Good way tro make money selling essences until it happens otherwise which is still low rng but your friend might have procced it instead. Last edited by ChaosCreature7#3562 on Jun 13, 2022, 5:39:59 PM
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Challenges are like getting Platinum on PlayStation, it's not important unless you wanna show off.
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" The thing you are missing is that your idea of reasonable is unreasonable. The amount of time you have already dedicated to this league is quite honestly ridiculous and beyond the ability of the vast majority of gamers. I mean I'm unemployed and have all the free time in the world and even I'm taken aback by the staggering amount of "dedication" some people appear to have for this game. Just remember to sleep, hydrate, and hygiene. Using the same bottle for the last two doesn't count. |
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" I would honestly love to see how much time I've dedicated to this league then and how it is unreasonable to assume that as a baseline. I can just repeat myself: 1. I did not take time off on leaguestart 2. I did take only 2 days off of work in total, while working full time 3. Im renovating my new place that I am going to move into in a few days after work sometimes 4. I was out multiple evenings meeting Friends or my GF 5. Also, no: I did not forsake personal hygiene for the sake of playing, wtf. Like sure, I play a lot on weekends if the time allows it and after work, but I wonder: are you saying I've invested unreasonable amounts just based on my challenges or is there a way to actually check my time investment? Then I could look it up and we have a real number to argue about. |
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