Dastardly Duos is awful

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It’s shockingly unfun and feels nonsensical. First of all, your tank keeps dying after a while, no matter what you do. Like, things are totally out of your control. And the tank also makes no effort to pull the mobs into the score multiplier circles, so at best I can follow it with ONE.

Gears are random as some add time, and some summon more enemies making it harder (but probably gives you more points, but also makes more likely your tank dies)…

It’s just a convoluted mess. I’m sure there is some rhyme or reason to the mechanics, but if you have to read up a guide on the very basics, it’s a sign of failure.

This is totally unlike other similar solo challenges such as Horrific Visions, the delve bosses or the Brawler’s Guild which usually feel a lot more intuitive.

Also, it really sucks that after the “use 10 bullhorns” achievement, there is also one for 15. If you only have 10 when you start the attempt, you might need to do the same nightmare once more after you collected 15.

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When it was announced I was foolishly excited for it. Been such a let down indeed.

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I’ve not really enjoyed it either. I’m not sure who it is aimed at but it’s not me. Am just clocking off the achievements.

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It’s quite fun in a group.

Just because it allows entering it as solo does not mean it will also be optimal to do so.

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The tank NPC needs a pet control bar because they are a complete idiot on position.

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That’s true. Which is why it’s very fun when there’s a human tank…

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I eat that hotdog thing just to get the knockback to try and usher the tank and the mobs into the xp zone.

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This is not a solo challenge. It CAN be played solo, even without the NPCs.

If you’re not enjoying it just leave it alone. I dislike PvP but i’m not making threads about it on the forums.

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Criticism is permitted of a PvE event (it’s not like PvPers don’t complain about things in PvP).

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Just sick of players saying that becasue they dislike something there is zero place for it in the game.
You don’t like it? Move on.
I however am loving it when I play with my wee group. Regular after raid cooldown activity.

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easiest by far is just to go tank yourself, second week i managed to score 1.1m as a tank with npcs not using any modifier food.

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Okay, so first of all, it wasn’t really promoted as a group event that “can also be” played as solo. Yes I know delves and horrific visions can be done in groups too, but let’s be honest, for the most part they are meant to be solo challenges, but at the very least, they work as such.

This one doesn’t really. I think it’s valid to criticize content in comparison to other, similar and similarly positioned content. Else, you can say the same about ANYTHING. “Oh you don’t like this particular dungeon? You don’t like “awakening the machine?” Just don’t play it.” And that’s not healthy.

Btw, I probably won’t go for the high score achivements. I did the other ones that seemed easy, got all the cosmeic rewards, so that was enough.

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I don’t even understand the timer… 5 minutes left, and the fight just abruptly ends after 4 or 6 bosses.

How the heck do we get all 8 for the achievement???

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The fact they give you a full team of followers by default tells you it is not designed to be played solo.

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I tried it when it was first released and never went back.
Not for me. Not fun.
Also: Not worth doing it.

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Without being 100% certain, I think we get 1 more boss every week. Last week I got Rattlegore which wasn’t present in the 1st and 2nd weeks. This week (4th) I got Foe Ripper 5000. Maybe next week we’ll get one of the two missing for the achievement, and the last week the final one.

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Was under the impression the Achievement was to kill all 8 bosses in a single run.

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I noticed Foe Ripper appeared this week, killed it but didn’t register on the achievement as done, popped in again but still didn’t count :thinking:

… not sure either if we kill them overtime or all at once to register the 8 achievement :thinking:

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I have no idea. But I do know that I did kill Foe Ripper 5000 yesterday and even got 900k+ points, yet the relevant achievements didn’t have them ticked. I will enter again today to see if it refreshes.

Yep, thank you, I am in the same situation.

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That is just a case of doing it every week.

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