Sadly I think I’ve gone from loving this game (I’ve dumped 54 hours into essentially a chapter) into being extremely frustrated with the game. Don’t get me wrong, the game is still amazing and I’m excited for its future, but the crucible is killing me.
I’m running an INT build and I’ve run the crucible 50+ times and I’ve yet to beat it. Of course part of it is me getting good, but at the same time, the crucible needs to be tweaked.
The worst part of the crucible is the grind through all the levels. There should be some kind of system that if I dump more embers into the altar it will take me directly to the boss or at the very least it cuts down the ridiculous amount of rooms to go through.
There are also many bugs in the crucible, half of my deaths have come from glitching to the floor, getting caught on terrain, etc.
Another piece of advice for the boss room is to get rid of all the pillars on the sides, again it is something that I constantly find myself getting stuck and it’s annoying.
At this point, I can breeze through the rooms, but it is still too time-consuming, and then I get to the boss and I die to some BS issue. I’ve made it to the second half of the boss fight three times and I’ve yet to do any damage to him because his first drop-down immediately kills me which to me is not fun, or his initial lunge attack.
It just seems like there is too high of a toughness jump from the rooms to the boss. I’m going to step away from the game for a while because I don’t want to spoil my experience with something like this.