Yeah the runs are really dependant of what powers you get it seems, I was expecting our base kit to have the biggest impact even with powers but when you get a bunch of dots and instant damage you’re basically back in 8.3 lol, I checked the dps meter on the last boss of layer 3 and the majority of my dps came from my powers.
There’s also a few specific anima powers that drop only from rares that are really useful, got one yesterday that made it impossible for me to take more than 25% of my health in damage at once, basically bypassing completely the one shot mechanics, the other option was that every 12 sec a mob you target will have a debuff making it take 1%-50% more damage, I kinda regret not trying it now.
Overall Thorghast is quite fun, I cannot wait to see the other wings and I guess my first impression last week was a bit too hasty in hindsight.