Finally played Raid and it is so bad!

This is only my opinion but I have to admit I truly dislike raid. It’s like Kabam took all the bad ideas players complained about in the past and put them together in a new game mode: 1. Entry ticket with high cost (and now you can’t even use gold), 2. Coordination and need to wait for other to play (à la AQ previous linked nodes), 3. Need to use lots of items due to forced time out or max damage limit killing you instantly ( bye bye Corvus).
And to top it all off the fights are so repetitive.

Comments

A_Fungi

Guess it just isn't for you then.

Wicket329

I agree about the ticket cost, I think Kabam needs to re-examine that. Every other point you brought up shows a pretty deep misunderstanding of the mode though.

Yes, you need to coordinate with alliance mates in order to accomplish the goal. That is what Raids are in every game that has them, they are huge cooperative pieces of content. Further, the coordination that you need is actually pretty minimal. I’m in a line chat with my two lane partners and we just tag each other when we’ve gone. No rush, super easy. You’ve got a whole week to do it.

Need to use lots of items? If you are, you’re doing it wrong. The potion store grants seven 100% revives for one gold each, twice a week, for a total of 15 attempts per player. If every attempt is flawless, it takes about 25 runs to clear a lane, not including the boss. You have 45 attempts between the three of you. You have, between the three of you, 20 additional attempts to be used on either the lanes if you aren’t hitting the damage cap or on the Ultron boss. That’s more than enough.

kus234

I agree about the ticket cost, I think Kabam needs to re-examine that. Every other point you brought up shows a pretty deep misunderstanding of the mode though.

Yes, you need to coordinate with alliance mates in order to accomplish the goal. That is what Raids are in every game that has them, they are huge cooperative pieces of content. Further, the coordination that you need is actually pretty minimal. I’m in a line chat with my two lane partners and we just tag each other when we’ve gone. No rush, super easy. You’ve got a whole week to do it.

Need to use lots of items? If you are, you’re doing it wrong. The potion store grants seven 100% revives for one gold each, twice a week, for a total of 15 attempts per player. If every attempt is flawless, it takes about 25 runs to clear a lane, not including the boss. You have 45 attempts between the three of you. You have, between the three of you, 20 additional attempts to be used on either the lanes if you aren’t hitting the damage cap or on the Ultron boss. That’s more than enough.

100% agree loving the mode and play together feel

Glassback

Point one
Yes, the cost is very high and not being able to use gold is disappointing.

Point two
A good alliance that is more highly ranked has this level of communication and organisation already. If you’re ready to play and want to do more and others aren’t there and won’t communicate, you’re in the wrong alliance.

Point three
The intention of the mode is you do a max of 12% per run and use a culmination of all the skills that go beyond casual questing and a deep understanding of how to counter the defenders. It isn’t a casual mode, it’s for those of use who can simply achieve exploration or completion of the highest AQ maps.

Folkvangr

This is only my opinion but I have to admit I truly dislike raid. It’s like Kabam took all the bad ideas players complained about in the past and put them together in a new game mode: 1. Entry ticket with high cost (and now you can’t even use gold), 2. Coordination and need to wait for other to play (à la AQ previous linked nodes), 3. Need to use lots of items due to forced time out or max damage limit killing you instantly ( bye bye Corvus).
And to top it all off the fights are so repetitive.

If you reach the 10-12% on each attempt it be completed with the 14 free revives, you aren’t forced to use any other items unless you don’t fight properly

Ourobøros

There's 7.5k 7* shards at the end, plus the treasures and conclusion and exploration rewards, and it's once a month only

Emilia90

Disagree. With the changes, it’s super easy and fun to do. My ally mates and I cleared our battlegroup in the first 3 days without much effort. You get a lot of shards and the revives are available in the store for free so…

DRTO

I might have agreed with all of this last month, but the changes they've made already made this Raid week prett enjoyable. My alliance has already finished the map and overall I've enjoyed it a lot more.

I agree with your point about ticket costs, I think it's dumb that theres any entry cost at all for this. But as for the other points, it's not that much coordination required. Yes you do need to actually talk to your alliance mates but from what I experienced it's just a quick tag every day. And it's not a whole lot of item use I actually finished with 2 revives to spare. Yes you can mess up and die easily but if you know what you're doing it's not too difficult.

Sure fights are repetitive, but so is AQ.

Wozzle007

I prefer raids to normal AQ. dislike the entry cost and the RNG chests. But overall, the fights are now fun and exciting. Kabam messed up royally with Raids 1. Raids 2 was so much better.

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Stertsl

I don't get the cost complains. Just save some glory after each week to buy a few tickets. We already get some after exploring each day,you just have to buy a few with glory. We get like 15k glory in 3 weeks, it's nothing if you spend some of that for tickets for a mode with good rewards

Bulmkt

I agree with the ticket cost - it’s excessively expensive.

As for the rest of Raids - I’m ok with it.

AzKicker316

The raid changes were definitely a positive. My BG cleared paths within first 3 days using only 'free' revives, so that we restocked with the second set of revives for the boss. Besides the entry cost, raids are now preferable to regular AQ.

Freak96

The cost is high, I agree.

Don't know what you're smoking, though. Raid is the most fun I've had in AQ in the past 9 years.

Demonzfyre

This is only my opinion but I have to admit I truly dislike raid. It’s like Kabam took all the bad ideas players complained about in the past and put them together in a new game mode: 1. Entry ticket with high cost (and now you can’t even use gold), 2. Coordination and need to wait for other to play (à la AQ previous linked nodes), 3. Need to use lots of items due to forced time out or max damage limit killing you instantly ( bye bye Corvus).
And to top it all off the fights are so repetitive.

Wow, an alliance mode requires coordination..... who would have thought...