I was playing helltide today (I had been playing for about 22 hours so the patch was not applied to my client until 1 hour ago where my pc crashed and I had to login again to find 8G waiting for me) so I got crashed while I was playing helltide fine so far, logged in again and in my good luck helltide was open 2 minutes before my login (PERFECT).
…so after the helltide (and patch …improvements)
What I’ve noticed is the hell tide is now a treasure hunt under strict time, in normal days what I would get from this event was the following, playing with minimum effort and enjoying the hell out of this event.
- 2-3 normal circle Events
- 4-6 harbringer bosses
- 1-2 commander bosses
- 0-1 helltide boss that cricket looking one (cant remember the name)
- 300-350 cinders in good time (maybe before half time of the event)
- 2-3 times in town to sell items
- eventually search and open the desired chests
What I’ve got after the patch with maximum effort and higher monsters/bosses I am 62 level up on 63 level and they was 65, harder to kill and constantly worry about the time instead of enjoying the event.
- 0-1 normal circle events
- 1-2 harbringer bosses
- 0-1 commander bosses
- 0-1 cricket looking boss
- 200 cinders in 12 minutes before the event ends
- 0-1 times in town to sell items
- eventually I open the first random unwanted chests I found because I was running out of time
no time for looking into anything else (not even events, I had to look into chest-like-items to find cinders because mobs wasnt dropping them and in some rare cases multiple drops from some other mobs
- I got 2 beggar players who went after the drops i’ve made without helping me (I had to lose them running out because I like solo play)
in general I did not enjoy the event at all, I was running out of time, didnt get what I wanted from it and felt anxiety.
Taking so many from the gameplay is the equivallent metaphor: I go in the store with my parrents and they gave me to ride a blue motorcycle I love that motorcycle but when I went home I had a yellow bike.
I believe many people can understand my feelings and the dissapointment.
- PS: that was the only thing I’ve checked.
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Yes helltides got a huge nerf in the latest patch on multiple levels. Some of the things I think they should change:
- Not losing cinders when you die.
- All chests are marked on the in-game map
- Mobs drop more cinders
- Chests give more loot (opening a chest for 250 cinders and getting 1 legendary sucks)
Untill any of this changes I won’t be doing any helltides and so far I’ve barely done any.
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To tell you the truth I was thinking the EXCACT same changes to improve it (or bring it in a playable stage) I dont think i can play this event again, its not worth the time or effort 
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Yea they will fix it maybe next week . If exploit or extra damage on skill they fix it in 1 hour.
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This is nice as the current cinder drop rate after patch 1.1 was absolutely abysmal to a point I decided not to do anymore Helltides. I could get 175 cinders before the patch in about 10 to 12 minutes but it took me nearly 40 minutes to get 250 post-patch.
One wonders how incompetent or chaotic development must be to introduce these bugs that massively impact one of their 2 remaining end-game activities and no-one notices before the patch, and the bug, is rolled out?
No one is testing anything mate. They just do it and see if it sticks. Typical Chinese strategy. Why analyze and make some calculations that would take time, when you can build, destroy and rebuild faster until something works? Just build, destroy and rebuild over and over and over. Something has to work eventually no?
Literally step by step Chinese tactics, 101 China science 
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yeah i’ve read lots of complaints the only bug they “found” in general is that helltide is not throwing, they will have a campfire on friday and lots of people uninstalled, a guy said they stole our time and this should be illegal and lots lots of stuff so anyway…
at the moment i am not willing to play since they take their time, i am taking my time off the game aswell, not that i could play since i die very often and i tryhard to kill monsters, i am not used to this i think i will go back in d2 that i was playing until a month ago
Even before this patch and the introduced bug cinder droprates was bad and now you need 250 of them just for 1 mystery chest. That’s why I think they should buff the droprate atleast from elites and bosses in helltides.