Are you saying Trips remembers the oldest days, when this forum was all cornfields? Cause Pepperidge Farm remembers too. :D

On a more serious note, are you having extra trouble hitting the stages you want to due to the awakening stages, Trevor? Or are you able to effectively move around them?

Yup, i just checked when i started playing and it was 20/12/20- so a couple of months over 3 years ago and trips was already one of the oldies :)

I can go around the awakening stages for now, but might become a roadblock.

If i want to do them in future i would have to start awakening bad epics and rares - 'just for cursed city'

Any frustration I have I attribute to unrealilistic expectations on my part due to my current LOE (less time and still no spend...).  Nothing Plarium has done fits my style of play, nor should it.   This new content is fabulous for those looking to invest a significant combination of time and money, Plariums target audience  (not us).  

Finishing all 100 stages in 1st or 2nd month -- unrealilistic

Depending on how many diferent rotations (assuming it is even fixed not infinite) maybe it takes us 6-12 months to complete... and that may be just for 1 month.  

We complain that we have no reason to build new champs, then switch to complaining we have to build them :)  What other content do we need to build champs for, I consider myself casual PvP and play it more than all you LOL.  Hydra, we all have "good enough" teams.

TLDR: We aren't supposed to be able to finish this immediately, we are now midgame :)  

Anyone get past S6? Requirements are a bit ridiculous for that stage.

Part of the problem, which admittedly might be only a temporary one, is that the rotations happen so quickly that there isn't really much time to actually invest resources into the people you need to level just for those stages. Which, to be fair, might be intentional as Trips implied.

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I have one champ with gear for that stage... so let me know what you do lol

Mine's similar, lol - got Jorrg and Toragi at 60, and Hotatsu at 50. Not thrilled with the idea of needing to level random people here just for this one room :/

I really wish they would change Deadrise so that I didn't have to go all the way around the map to circumvent Borgoth. All of my good sheild champions are undead. UKD, Biringiri, Toragi. I just need to get Venommage up to snuff. I have sat on him for too long. He is three star ascended also. I just need to get it done for a ton of content. 

Can get by with a couple 50s, at least a couple in my clan did

Yeh i get it, its supposed to take many months to complete. 

As for the target audience, i get that they want people to spend but what do you call a significant time investment?

I probably spend a couple of hours a week reading here or watching raid related utube, and i probably play 10 hours a week.

That feels a huge time investment for a mobile game to me?

Yes that is huge imo as well.  my guess is for Plarium it is 100% of whatever your total gaming time is.  That equates to 100% SOW.  An arguement could be made that they want even more than that, idk....

Its too much, the only redeeming thing is that a good chunk of that 10 hours is auto runs while i am not at the screen.

I think this thread might have convinced me to take a break, i miss time spent on other games - cheers :)

A list of useful epics to build for this rotation during this training would be nice. I haven't done any S stages yet so I'll let you all start...

Not getting past him this go around idk if it's the way my champs are geared or the champs I have but I'll keep at it maybe I'll get lucky in the time I have left I do enjoy the city a lot 

Champ training so I'll let you know which ones I boost. 

ruining cycle of magic was bs, they should nerf that part of the boss or at least exclude cool downs from the mastery...... literally every support champ has it.  last rotation i cleared about 91 stages i think and was able to get through amius in an extremely rng heavy manual fight after many attempts.  outside of the mastery issue, really enjoyed rotation 1,  fire knight stopped me there (don't have the meta fire knight champs), and couldn't take the paths around.

this rotation i went straight for amius and just flat out brute forced him with double rotos, siphi and vogoth on full auto. took 30 minutes.  worth it lol.

s6 stopped my progress this time as well, wish there was a route around it.  my current plan is jorgg, frog, criodan (cc is important), dhukk (more CC), and ultimate galek. hotatsu would work for galek but i have him built already.  just need to finish building some of them for my next attempt, but these teams have worked for others just as an fyi for anyone attempting it.

i probably won't 100% the content for awhile (if ever), wish they'd be a bit less restrictive but it has given me a reason to build a bunch of champs.  faction wars was my favorite content in this game, and this is closer to it than anything else so far (outside of maybe DT secret rooms), so i think it's great so far.  lots of good rewards here too, and i need the free resources to offset all of the silver i'm burning through!

also wish we'd get points for clearing every area instead of one giant lump sum for clearing the entire thing.

just my 2c.  overall i'd rate it 9/10, few minor fixes to make it 10/10.

Hey mods - can one of you do me a favour and check if the CR on this boss is correct? It really seems *way* higher than any other boss - especially on the a2 move.

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An rng shitshow for sure, I really never figured out a strategy unlike last rotation.  Reduced my artifact storage by 12 since I had to gear 2 more champs.

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