Raids Thanos block mission

So what are we expected to do when we're having a great Raid run but Thanos decides to prompt the block mission several times in a row all while building up Furies and Pierces? Just stand there and take the 50k block damage to complete the mission?

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SirGamesBond

Jimajohn

Titania.

Squirrelguy

Titania.

Granted, that would be a good move next time, but my Mr. F is having a rough go of things today.

Wicket329

Titania.

This assumes you have a haymaker ready to go when the prompt comes up. If that prompt comes right after your indestructible finishes, you’re out of luck for a while. Also, there should be more than one (1) viable option for this.

Fit_Fun9329

Had the exact same thought lol. Why not change it to „hit with special“ or something

ege999men

For assault kitty ignores the damage
For vanguard absorbing man Uru form reduces the damage drastically
Tactician is very rough with not a real option I can think of

I think you shouldn't go too hard on yourself for not bringing the right champs since it's everyone's first raid. But make sure to rank and pick the good champs next time and don't grief your alliance next month

DrZola

So what are we expected to do when we're having a great Raid run but Thanos decides to prompt the block mission several times in a row all while building up Furies and Pierces? Just stand there and take the 50k block damage to complete the mission?

This is the point I’m afraid. The only answer is death—and sincerely hoping someone on the team who actually plays the game gives it a whirl and says “hey devs, this is kind of punitive…”

Dr. Zola

BigBlueOx

Right now it seems all we get is deaf ears to valid concerns like this, or hilarious after the fact updates.

Zuko_ILC

Pierce is too strong. Raids needs some fixing for sure.

cur53d

It would be nice if the prompts had a timer and expired after a while. Especially when it's intercept and he just holds block forever.

TripleB

Tactition, Kushala regenerates from blocked hits. Up to 75% I believe.

Vegeta9001

Terrible design flaw when 95% of the raid options just die from blocked hits because of a huge oversight. Block hit should not ever be a "mission" when pierce and fury are a thing, change it to knockdown and job done.

Pikolu

If you're deep into the fight, you only need to occasionally complete missions to keep role force up, and if you're a few fights in, you only need to complete a couple missions to get your max damage. You don't need to spam complete the missions the entire time, especially if you're playing into the boost you chose. If you're playing into your boost, you get role force within completing 2 missions and then you are free to ignore the missions (assuming the next role is fully ramped) until your role force is about to expire and then you can complete another one.

BigBlueOx

If you're deep into the fight, you only need to occasionally complete missions to keep role force up, and if you're a few fights in, you only need to complete a couple missions to get your max damage. You don't need to spam complete the missions the entire time, especially if you're playing into the boost you chose. If you're playing into your boost, you get role force within completing 2 missions and then you are free to ignore the missions (assuming the next role is fully ramped) until your role force is about to expire and then you can complete another one.

Cool that’s not the point here though. It’s ridiculous to have an instant death mission tied to RNG and be required to access your damage with no way around it. No skill can bypass this design. It’s just more evidence of this being a live server beta.

DrZola

If you're deep into the fight, you only need to occasionally complete missions to keep role force up, and if you're a few fights in, you only need to complete a couple missions to get your max damage. You don't need to spam complete the missions the entire time, especially if you're playing into the boost you chose. If you're playing into your boost, you get role force within completing 2 missions and then you are free to ignore the missions (assuming the next role is fully ramped) until your role force is about to expire and then you can complete another one.
Cool that’s not the point here though. It’s ridiculous to have an instant death mission tied to RNG and be required to access your damage with no way around it. No skill can bypass this design. It’s just more evidence of this being a live server beta.

We are the Beta. Again.

Dr. Zola

ege999men

Tactition, Kushala regenerates from blocked hits. Up to 75% I believe.

I've actually thought about that but how do you even activate the block heal blessing without blocking first. it's still better than the other tacticians probably but worse than other roles

Vegeta9001

If you're deep into the fight, you only need to occasionally complete missions to keep role force up, and if you're a few fights in, you only need to complete a couple missions to get your max damage. You don't need to spam complete the missions the entire time, especially if you're playing into the boost you chose. If you're playing into your boost, you get role force within completing 2 missions and then you are free to ignore the missions (assuming the next role is fully ramped) until your role force is about to expire and then you can complete another one.

Doesn't change the fact it's a glaring oversight, my roleforce expired earlier and I got back to back blocks, two blocks later I was dead.

FunnyDude

If you are lucky enough, you can see 4-5 block missions in a row, then you are dead before you can do anything meaningful.

Toproller89

I'm kinda glad to know it's not just me, but it's still terrible, there are definitely some things to work on for next raid.

Chovner

I know this is supposed to be hard and a big team effort, but they already added the insta death 3:00 timer, along with the 10% insta death damage cap (they love them some timer and damage caps

), but adding this Thanos insta death mission is either just evil or an incompetence oversight....

Toproller89

I think it's only fair that there is some form of compensation, even if it's just revives. Some of us have been using revives other than the cheap 100% ones from store

Bulmkt

My issue with Thanos’s prompt is it appears along side his buffs and then the position on the screen isn’t the same so you have to look up a lot to see where it is while avoiding a punch in the face. Could his prompt next time around be placed in a certain section of the screen that doesn’t get shuffled around with his buffs?

willrun4adonut

My issue with Thanos’s prompt is it appears along side his buffs and then the position on the screen isn’t the same so you have to look up a lot to see where it is while avoiding a punch in the face. Could his prompt next time around be placed in a certain section of the screen that doesn’t get shuffled around with his buffs?

I agree. I also would like it called out instead because that catches my old eye faster than it just appearing with no notice.

but maybe if it was a call out, I'd complain too 🤷‍♂️

SecondSkriller

So what are we expected to do when we're having a great Raid run but Thanos decides to prompt the block mission several times in a row all while building up Furies and Pierces? Just stand there and take the 50k block damage to complete the mission?

Stop complaining about stuff like this, are you really incapable of hitting that 10% damage cap? It’s incredibly easy after the charges are built, it’s insane to me that you’re having this problem.

Bugmat78

Terrible design flaw when 95% of the raid options just die from blocked hits because of a huge oversight. Block hit should not ever be a "mission" when pierce and fury are a thing, change it to knockdown and job done.

PIKESTAIN

If they just changed it to strike thanos block it would be fine.

DevsAreHappy

Tons of missions they can choose (they created many missions in Necropolis already), but Kabam decided to choose block for a reason, for example, because devs are happy with the difficulty?

I honestly think Kabam should hire a few game testers in top tier alliances.

JDH

I want to love raids, but I'm not enjoying it at all. It may be dead on arrival for me. Good luck everyone.

Matty_Ice

A guy in my ally took a 30k hit through block. It was only 8K when he took it to the face. Make it make sense.

Etm34

Is there an official raids discussion post? Because I’d like to share a breakdown about all of my experience so far.

Anyways, yeah, pierce and fury are wayyy overtuned for the defender at the moment. Maestro is my third boss on my lane. He started the fight yesterday with 33 furies. No pierce or additional furies yet. I took a blocked combo to bait a heavy and he took off 79% of my health on my R2 Hulkbuster before either champ had even landed a single hit…. I am totally fine with these being challenging and not able to finish a boss in a solo. Do I think 10% is low given you’re losing 80% of your health before you even fight? Yeah. Are the 2 revives (that can’t go into overflow) enough? Not at all. This needs to be retuned for the February raid, or people aren’t going to play this