The "The Watch" Dungeons feel underwhelming

[Coro]

I'm 45 hours into the game now and had my fair share for runs in those dungeons inside The Watch. I must say, that it doesn't fully work the way it's supposed to. For me, there are only 3 scenarios:

- I play with 4 or so other random people which is fine overall (but makes the "music pillar" riddles a pain). But shared loot from normal chests and mobs is rather dumb. That many people makes beating the boss easier though.

- There is a single other person that very often gets lost/disconnects (this scenario happens the most to me)

- I am completely alone

For now this is supposed to be the endgame, I guess. A simple grind that is not really fun to do, considering how many T3 essences you need for some of the items.

I like the game so far, even though there is a LOT of work to do to stay relevant. But this part especially is very very underwhelming.

[iLLuzions]

go for extreme ascended realms, you get way more t3 way faster and you actually get to see new stuff sometimes and not those braindead dungeons which just repeat assets used in the sarting areas, well the ascended also reuse everything but its still much better than those dungeons :)

[Coro]

Originally posted by iLLuzions:

go for extreme ascended realms, you get way more t3 way faster and you actually get to see new stuff sometimes and not those braindead dungeons which just repeat assets used in the sarting areas, well the ascended also reuse everything but its still much better than those dungeons :)

Yeah, that's what I'm doing as we speak. I wouldn't say "much better", but it sure gives more essences. But this is where the downside of procedural generated levels comes in. If you've seen one of them, you've seen them all.

[stretch]

It's EA.
Is it stated anywhere that this is endgame?
There is the portal to the next area that is not open to consider.
Some resources go to T5 but most only T3 so there is potential there.

It's a little tiresome seeing people constantly moaning about the poor endgame in EA games all the time recently.

Are you all going to be tendering official apologies when future content is released?

It's EA and the game is not finished. If it is still this simplistic when they claim it is complete and released then yes you would have valid cause for complaint but until that point you are simply regurgitating the same old tired nonsense.

It's not endgame. It might indeed be representative of what is to come for all I know and that would indeed be a little sad but for now I will give them the benefit of the doubt. This is only the first hub area and I would suspect that the intention is to have those portals eventually access different scenarios and not just the same old tired one it has now.

The extreme realms do indeed give far better rewards in terms of essence than the Watch but the Watch does allow you a free ride with other people if you cannot manage it yourself.
It's a means to an end and not THE end.

People are currently moaning about Enshroudeds endgame as well and that game is only half completed. Get a grip folks. Wait till they declare it done before you moan about something you have not even seen yet.
Believe it or not endgame content does not appear in the middle of a game. Weird.

[Coro]

I actually said "for now" when I mentioned the end game aspect. And it's called criticism on a game mechanic. I'm not saying it's utterly ♥♥♥♥. Just that The Watch Dungeons are not as fun as they could be. There's a difference between that and just straight up hating on the game without considering EA status.
Although, I have seen enough games never getting out of EA or just never turning into something good even after full release. I want this game to succeed, but just because it's EA and there's potential improvement on the way doesn't make me naive enough to only see and mention the good aspects of it.
People tend to use the "it's EA, give it time" argument on games that are in this state for 4+ years. It's just as tiresome as those that complain on missing things from day 1 onwards.