1300 hours in and I feel that Into the Mist has ruined the game for me.

[Unfortunate Flux]

The boss's attack that heals itself is absolute garbage. This may be the end of the game for me. That ♥♥♥♥ is just not fun. I left the game without even training something because that boss just makes me not care. End rant.

[Jalir]

That's unfortunate. It's been a long time since I did my 5 runs, but I do recall the first one being tough.

https://wiki.melvoridle.com/w/Into_the_Mist/Guide#Strategy_2:_Minimal_Thinking_and_Effort

Pretty sure you can Idle each phase of the dungeon.

[cygmus]

I completely understand.

Combat in general, Slayer, Dungeons and gearing for such (oh and gearing for Thieving) is the least fun thing in the game for me.

The new 120 planed combat, dungeons and gearing sounds like the very opposite of fun for me. lol

[wyy]

I was so happy to be done with "Into the Mist", but then had the "Impending Darkness" ahead, estimated 2 hours of paying attention and switching gears to maybe beat it... If not, start over.
So much for the Automation, Casual, Minimalist and Idler store tags... High end dungeons are the complete opposite of those.

I've pretty much given up on it and I'm just letting the game grind endlessly, almost hitting 700m farming xp, going for 1B, for no reason whatsoever, because that was what actually made the game fun for me.

[Unfortunate Flux]

Thanks for the replies, still haven't decided how I want to go forward.

[Jalir]

Originally posted by Unfortunate Flux:

Thanks for the replies, still haven't decided how I want to go forward.

Try NGU Idle if you want a similar experience, without the need for real active play. It was my Idle game of choice prior to this game.

[Twisty]

Originally posted by Jalir:

Originally posted by Unfortunate Flux:

Thanks for the replies, still haven't decided how I want to go forward.

Try NGU Idle if you want a similar experience, without the need for real active play. It was my Idle game of choice prior to this game.

NGU gamers rise up! Such a good game. Play the original, not industries.

[DUP]

The combination of stressful endgame fighting and the dev making the long announced expansion pay-dlc took the fun out of Melvor for me. Team NGU now.

[ꓕиᥕᥕи]

Huh? I have 180+ hours and I finished Into the Mist on my first try - since I had equipment for each phase. Pretty easy to finish all 3 phases - just juggle eq in each phase. What's the problem here?

[Huillam]

While Melvor is mostly an idle game Into the Mist and Impending Darkness force you to play actively (by keeping button pressed and doing nothing else during some of the boss attacks). It's not exactly fun or entertaining and the boss being able to heal itself you may have to do that for hours if you're unlucky.

Personaly I only need to complete Impending Darkness to reach 100% completion: It's been weeks and I've yet to find the motivation to even launch the game knowing how boring it will be.

[Mr. Payne]

I'd say that Into the Mist and Impending Darkness, in total, is maybe 3 hours of your time actually looking at what's happening.. For the folks that have 1300+ hours, that's .23% of the total time you've played.

I like how something so small is taken in such a way that it ruins everything. What's even more crazy you've paid $0.007684615 per hour to play.

[Twelve-Oh-One Alarm]

Originally posted by Mr. Payne:

I'd say that Into the Mist and Impending Darkness, in total, is maybe 3 hours of your time actually looking at what's happening.. For the folks that have 1300+ hours, that's .23% of the total time you've played.

I like how something so small is taken in such a way that it ruins everything. What's even more crazy you've paid $0.007684615 per hour to play.

It's an idle game. Hours played is not a valid argument as most of us don't play for > 90% of our hours counted.

[Huillam]

The fact that 99.77% of my playtime has been fun doesn't mean that I'm looking forward for those 0.23.
Does it ruin everything? I don't think I would agree with the statement but odds are good that's enough to end the game for me.

[wyy]

Originally posted by Mr. Payne:

I'd say that Into the Mist and Impending Darkness, in total, is maybe 3 hours of your time actually looking at what's happening.. For the folks that have 1300+ hours, that's .23% of the total time you've played.

I like how something so small is taken in such a way that it ruins everything. What's even more crazy you've paid $0.007684615 per hour to play.

Well, if you want to put it into percentages then, Into the mist and Impending darkness represent a tiny amount of content in terms of completion, its a small % of monsters and items compared to the rest of the game.

It has taken some players 100 - 500 hours of pretty much safe idling and grinding, and this sets the expectation for the game, it chill and pressure free, given enough time u can get your hands on anything.

Then end game content however requires your full focus and attention, which i might add, is mostly waiting for something to happen, and only then react to it, if it goes wrong... you start over.

Its not engaging its mind numbing.

[Mr. Payne]

Sucks y'all feel like that, 120 combat expansion won't make it any better for anyone with the view of wanting it to be a full idle game.

[D3N]

I finished into the mist on my first try, but i went in with maxed stats and best in slot gear, and i almost died too.
I agree that the last 2 dungeons are not "idle" and ruin a bit the game. At the end of the day this is an Idle game, and i want to idle it, if i wanted to pay attention and actually play the game i would be playing the real Runescape