Whoever made Torghasts Twisting Corridors is sadistic

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3 hours, 18 floors. Only started getting hard on the 17th floor. Died to the last boss repeatedly.
I just feel abysmal now. I shouldn’t get a feeling of “Self loathing” and a feeling that I’ve just wasted 3 hours, from a game.
Seriously, take whoever designed that evil, horrific feature, and slap them before firing them.
And I know I won’t get much sympathy on the forums, I fully expect people to say “git gud” and deride me. But just know, that I’m choosing to get drunk instead of comitting suicide. (Anyway, going to force myself to sleep instead of drinking. Healthier option for the mind. Don’t drink when you’re depressed, folks. It doesn’t help.)

Really I just needed some outlet to scream into.

I was hoping a nice long run of Torghast would be fun, on the day that I lost the friendship of my parents. But no, I’m not even allowed to have a good time in a bloody video game.

All I needed was 100 more soul ash to make my first legendary. I thought I’d get loads from an 18 floor torghast.
Instead I get booted out with the threat of a copyritten monster (Seriously doubt they got permission to rip off the Torrasque) and nothing, NOTHING for my long hours of work.
And when a game feels like work, what the hell am I even doing with my life?

It’s also really badly designed.
They should’ve made it endless, infinite floors, and a reward based on how high you get.
On floor 16, I literally could not die, invincible. On floor 17, it was a tough time. On floor 18, I died. So infinite floors would never be infinite. But at least I would’ve left, having completed the 17th floor, and have something to show for that.
Instead, I leave feeling beaten. I feel like I’ve just wasted 3 hours. I feel awful right now. As someone who already has really bad depression and a generally terrible life, I can tell, you, adding more awful on that does not help!

Video games are supposed to be escapism, they’re supposed to help you escape the horrors of real life. Yes, they can be a challenge, but they shouldn’t be punishing to this level.
You shouldn’t have to spend 3 hours to get nothing. At the very least, I should get some sympathy.

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This…but devs here are thick skulled - their philosophy is - if we are suffering cause we have to make a game for you than youll suffer too for playing it! or at least i think thats been their philosophy for a while now :smiley:

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if you are looking for a “fun time” you are playing the wrong video game Clonk.

this game only works well for no life neckbeard try hards who play purely for gear.

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You don’t get any soul ash or any usable currency from twisting corridors, at all. You get a title, toys and a mount.

It’s the challenge wing of Torghast.

Unless you want the toy, title or mount, it’s pointless to do twisting corridors. Unless you’re doing it for the legendary memory for a wing that’s not open or if you’re doing it for fun, like I have done a few times.

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I understand the philosophy of a challenge. You beat a hard challenge, you feel good after it.
But there’s a flaw here. If that hard challenge was stressful, punishing and generally just a really awful time. Then that little bit of good you feel after it, doesn’t even cover it. You just feel burned out.
Speaking from a psychological point of view here, burn out is very common in video gaming these days. The amount of people I’ve spoken to, either friends or patients, who have said they feel “Burned out” has really gone up in the last few years. It’s possible that with covid people feel forced to play video games more than before and that’s causing burnout. But the games themselves aren’t helping either.

Torghast causes burnout, I will play WoW again… but I feel burned out, I can’t play for a while. I’d feel the exact same if I had beat that last boss. I’d be happier, I wouldn’t feel like I’d wasted my time, but to spend such an amount of time bashing my head against a wall hoping that the endorphines will rush in, isn’t good for the mind.
The perma death needs to be removed, with that there, I was just worried that the next floor would be harder. I didn’t enjoy the 3 hours I spent, if I had enjoyed them thoroughly, then yeah, it’d still have been worth doing, despite the fail.
But those 3 hours were spent watching a death clock with worry, try enjoying life if you constantly worry about it ending. I have a great amount of depression on that subject.

Since I came out as trans and shaved my beard off, I guess I lost the ability to play WoW, it’s good to have an excuse.
Alas, I can’t blame me being trans, so I’ll blame the developers instead.

I… don’t? I really did do it all for nothing. Further to my point that if I’d beat that stupid boss, I’d still be depressed…

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If you look on the layers you can see the rewards in normal torghast… you didn’t find it odd that twisting corridors doesn’t have any listings for soul ash and only lists title, pet, toy & mount?

This just feels like you didn’t actually look at anything and just queued up cause “game ez free stuff”

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I didn’t see any rewards. I did highlight them, but I assumed that one of my addons were screwing things up.

So no, try not to judge me based on baseless opinions. I didn’t just think “Easy free stuff”. I thought “18 layers, cool, think how powerful I’ll be by the end, that might be fun, and I need some fun today!”
I just wanted to have a good time. I didn’t know about toys, titles, mounts and pets, Those things are a nice bonus, and I love going for them. But if I had known about that, I might’ve read up on what the catch is, because Blizzard rarely give away mounts for nothing. Unless it’s another recolour.

Anyway, going to force myself to sleep instead of drinking. Healthier option for the mind.

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Blizzard own the torrasque :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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I feel you. I did the same when TC came out. No issues until floor 18 and i couldnt kill the last boss. I didnt touch TC for months after that. It wasnt fun. I’ve done it later, some layers solo and some in groups. If you have some friends to group with i recommend doing that :slight_smile:

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WoW is not a “fun” game. I m talking for Retail. If you want to have fun in this game you need to farm everything. M+ & raids & dailies etc. However Thorgast now also became “mandatory” somehow.

I never step on Twisting Corridors but hearing same xp from others. I hope you find a way to get some fun.

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I did the whole twisting corridor on week one of release.

The final layers, are unimaginably luck dependent for a lot of classes.

It’s beyond bad balancing.

If you’re lucky with what you get, You’ll manage.

If you’re unlucky, you’ll hit a WALL with the final boss. There’s absolutely nothing you can do.

There is no avoidable mechanic to dodge and survive. There is no skill compensation. You just lose.

I recommend finding 4 others and group clearing it together. But It’s probably not going to be easy anymore, since most people who wanted to do it are already done with the content, and even if some people remained, a lot of players left the game, so there’s not much to choose from anymore.

But if you do manage to find 4 others to help you out, the run is a piece of cake with 5 man.

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Terrible balance indeed, stopped at level 5 for that exact reason and decided I’d rather not waste my time for a mount and a pet. It.ll be ezsier with 9.1 gear anyway

There’s no git gud to give when the issue is the content itself

You should’ve checked the interface, no soul ash from the corridors. It was supposed to be a cosmetic only run and… There barely was any cosmetics in there.

There’s actually dozens of tmogs now obtained in the basic Torghast wings while the corridors only get a few pets, toys and a mount

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This. I had more than 200% bonus health and I ended up taking 130k dmg from a single auto while the boss was around 40% hp. (Was around 200ilvl iirc so 30k base HP)

I was full HP but hey, there’s no was to escape that and no alternative gameplay for havoc than to hit in melee sooooo…

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