The title says it all.
I’m farming torment 2 and 3 atm and i am unable to even get close to killing EoH torment 1. Even after creating a specific build for tanking damage, i can take maybe 3 hits before i get one-shot due to the debuff. This is despite that same build doing all the damage in the first 10 seconds of the fight. When doing proper game balance, this should not be possible.
Now all of this would apply regardless of class, but to add to it I’m playing barbarian, the class that is designed specifically to face-tank and not have to bother. The fact that i can make a build with specific stats and aspects for tanking damage and still get one-shot means that there is no point in playing the class in the first place.
The reason Diablo is seen as among the peak of ARPG’s by anyone who doesn’t also play Microsoft Excel, is that the game feels amazing to play. This does not feel amazing, it doesn’t feel good, nor okay. It is actually infuriating. I came here because i wanted to be a roaring barbarian, not because i wanted to play dance-dance revolution mixed with bullet hell arcades that were coded in the colors red, red and some blues that are blocked out by foreground reds.
This boss was clearly designed to appease a certain part of the gaming market that won’t ever respect Diablo for what it is regardless of what you do. It’s like the devs said to themselves “PoE is pretty popular”, and then went on to copy only the absolutely worst part of it. It’s like Microsoft seeing the popularity of macs and copying only the locked down app store, and nothing else.
And for anyone who feels like replying that it is well designed because it’s ‘difficult’, i have beat every from-soft game and you’re all cringe. An enemy in a shooter game that can absorb 4 billion bullets isn’t fun. Brick walls are notoriously difficult to get through, doesn’t make it fun to bash your head against it. And one-shot bullet hells in an ARPG, especially one that is designed for the exact opposite, isn’t fun. Playing against this boss only ever makes me want to stop playing entirely, and no matter how many redditors proclaim themselves superior for working around the bad design, it doesn’t change the fact that the design is still bad.