Metamorph is dead, long live the king. Can we have Archnemesis back?

Players who enjoy bossing have lost a league which appealed to them, and when compared to the sheer deluge of leagues that incentivize speed clearing, this is a pretty big hit for some.

So, how about we bring back Archnemesis from when it was introduced in its own league? You find rares, you pump them full of special modifiers and juice them, they drop lots of rewards for the sheer pain you're about to put yourself through. They may not have been bosses like Metamorphs were, but they sure fought like one sometimes.

Yes please, Archnemesis was quite a nice and fun "in map" league mechanic. A much better version and more rewarding for the diff than any version of Metamorph past it's own league.

having to remember what all the combos were was a pain though...

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

having to remember what all the combos were was a pain though...

Reintroduce with an auto-fill mechanic. In fact, add auto-fill to other aspects of the game too (anoints and stuff).

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

having to remember what all the combos were was a pain though...

A search and/or save feature for combos would be great.

Dear lord no... even the remnants of AN mods still in the game are so bad

o plz brick Archnemesis with full power. it was dam fun

+1. I really liked Archnem and the loss of Metamorph really does leave us in a position where clearspeed is the only build worth building.

If you want more bosses in your maps you can do essences fully juiced, and on top you can do maven. So fast maps are not bad to witness alot quickly and do 10 boss fights.

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demon7310 wrote:

If you want more bosses in your maps you can do essences fully juiced, and on top you can do maven. So fast maps are not bad to witness alot quickly and do 10 boss fights.

And what else am I supposed to do with all of the extra atlas passives? If you run a build with strong single-target DPS, you have a great deal less options to choose from compared to speed clear mapping.

Off the top of my head, bossers have:

- Essence
- Maven Witnessing (Destructive Play)
- Betrayal
- Blight maybe?
- Bestiary I guess?

Everything else on the atlas tree is best utilized by non-bossing builds.

And before anyone says it, yes I know Destructive Play is a really good passive. I used it and am well aware of how rewarding it can be. The point I'm making is more that there's a lack of variety that non-mapping builds have by comparison. Removing Metamorph only narrowed those options even further.

There is a very distinct lack of options for slower clearing builds to utilize for atlas passives, even less now that Metamorph is being removed. You can't tell me Ultimatum, which is replacing Metamorph, is a league that bossing builds can get a lot of value out of. I think implementing old Archnemesis league mechanics back into the game isn't that big of an ask.