The Mercenary prismatic trial challenge

[Revolver Rez]

Honestly, its just unfair and unfun. The other challenges in this game are reasonable enough given enough playtime, but this one just demands endless repetition and restarting and its frankly the most poorly thought out thing in the game so far. Surely the devs could have put the difficulty of this one in line with the other skill unlock challenges? Or did they want to try and justify having prismatic trials in the first place and just went about it in the worst possible way?

EDIT: Okay, so I actually managed it thanks to the relatively easy seed this time, but I still think the challenge is too much for many players and Hopoo should re-think adding anything else like this to the game.

[AyatoEnmado]

引用自 Jimmy Hunter：

引用自 AyatoEnmado：

Yet again another friendly response but i'm playing the victim that doesn't learns from my mistakes, in the upcoming update merc is going to get the "expose" passive and eviscerating wind has that.

The fact you think "Expose" is going to change Slicing Winds to be useful already shows you really don't understand why Slicing Winds is absolute trash in his current kit.

i necro'd this post cause i felt of asking help

Instead of necroing to ask a question that's been asked 100s times over, maybe you should read through the other 100s of posts for the answers?

It really doesn't help you're acting like a child by complaining about someone not posting in the manner you want them to post towards you at. I don't remotely understand how you could think anyone is going to hold any kind of respect towards you when you're busy complaining about the tone while being unable to accept the advice you need to hear.

Lol eviscerating winds gives 1 sec reduction cd on all abilities per hit, and eviscerating wind applies that per area, and, with expose gives bonus 350% bonus dmg on the enemy exposed.Not useful right?

[Arachnid]

Ethereal challenge isn't fun at all, I've tried for about 4 hours, and keep failing. I'm done trying. The point of a game is to be fun, and this isn't. It's core content, not a hat.

It would be better if they had a restart button, or a way to change the difficulty, but it shouldn't take 4+ hours for a game mode that's not fun. Seriously...not being able to take a single hit? You take falling damage. you fail. You get hit, you fail. You accidentally hit the crystal and it explodes, you fail. If you have shields and you're hit, you fail. There are only 2 abilities that let you evade damage, but you're forced to use them on the crystals, meaning you're regularly waiting for it to recharge, all while trying to dodge fireballs from behind, and enemies teleporting into existance in front of you, and then you have to use your abilities to try and hit them before you get hit...which you will.

Shame on the devs for forcing us to play a in such a horribly frustrating way to unlock a character ability (even if it reportedly sucks).

Also, I watched that guys video...he ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ starts with a preon. I start with a radar. He doesn't seem to have many enemies spawn in front of him. Also, my crystals are totally not where his are...and the box I opened up just gives me...wait for it...another ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ radar.

[EyeOculus]

引用自 Arachnid：

Also, I watched that guys video...he ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ starts with a preon. I start with a radar. He doesn't seem to have many enemies spawn in front of him. Also, my crystals are totally not where his are...and the box I opened up just gives me...wait for it...another ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ radar.

The challenge switches every day.

[Zeddy]

Every 72 hours, and the trial is also different on consoles.

[Arachnid]

引用自 Dankenstein：

引用自 Arachnid：

Ethereal challenge isn't fun at all, I've tried for about 4 hours, and keep failing. I'm done trying. The point of a game is to be fun, and this isn't. It's core content, not a hat.

It would be better if they had a restart button, or a way to change the difficulty, but it shouldn't take 4+ hours for a game mode that's not fun. Seriously...not being able to take a single hit? You take falling damage. you fail. You get hit, you fail. You accidentally hit the crystal and it explodes, you fail. If you have shields and you're hit, you fail. There are only 2 abilities that let you evade damage, but you're forced to use them on the crystals, meaning you're regularly waiting for it to recharge, all while trying to dodge fireballs from behind, and enemies teleporting into existance in front of you, and then you have to use your abilities to try and hit them before you get hit...which you will.

Shame on the devs for forcing us to play a in such a horribly frustrating way to unlock a character ability (even if it reportedly sucks).

Also, I watched that guys video...he ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ starts with a preon. I start with a radar. He doesn't seem to have many enemies spawn in front of him. Also, my crystals are totally not where his are...and the box I opened up just gives me...wait for it...another ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ radar.

Look at the trial details before you start it... you have to use the radar for it to change to preon.

Even so, there's too many enemy spawns, and the 0 damage requirement for a gameplay mode outside of 'normal' is insane. If they had made it "don't get any normal health damage for 1 map", I could definitely do that by the 4th map or so. But sure as hell not on a speed run with fireballs coming at me, 0 shields, tons of spawns, etc etc

I still say they need to change it. They should look at what percentage of people actually unlock that achievement. I suspect it's pretty damn low compared to most others. I just unlocked the 10 minute timer one for the Preon. Took as many tries as it did because the snow map wasn't always the 3rd map.

[Azurda]

引用自 Arachnid：

I still say they need to change it. They should look at what percentage of people actually unlock that achievement. I suspect it's pretty damn low compared to most others

I mean, if people cant dedicate 3-5 mins of their life to do almost any prismatic trial seed, its their problem, not the achievement. ♥♥♥♥ is easy, and theres a whole yt channel where the guy shows how to get achievement on any seed.

[Stoic Honour]

I actually just finished it on the seed from the other day.

Kinship, Glass, Swarms and Enigma were the artifacts. First level was all lemurians.

Trying to dodge and weave between literally 20-30 fireballs a second was nearly impossible, but having glass made it doable after improving a bit.

[Stoic Honour]

PRO TIP! I don't think I could have done it without glass active, it may be worth waiting for a glass seed.

[Xao]

It's a badly designed, broken challenge that gives a badly designed, broken ability you'll never use.

Just ignore it. Or edit your save.

[Jimmy Hunter]

引用自 Arachnid：

Took as many tries as it did because the snow map wasn't always the 3rd map.

Bazaar Beyond Time would like to remind you of it's services of choosing the next stage.

[Arachnid]

引用自 Jimmy Hunter：

引用自 Arachnid：

Took as many tries as it did because the snow map wasn't always the 3rd map.

Bazaar Beyond Time would like to remind you of it's services of choosing the next stage.

I actually did try that, but turns out my vision sucks and it was the wrong map, so that's 4 coins wasted. That said, I'm now at over 100 coins, so w/e. And again, I managed to pull off the speed run with about 2 1/2 minutes to spare thanks to Acrid...damn he's fun to play as...easily my favorite character.

[Zeddy]

引用自 Arachnid：

and the 0 damage requirement for a gameplay mode outside of 'normal' is insane

I'm curious about this one! In my experience, prismatic trials play like any regular rainstorm run. Is it the artifacts that makes prismatics tougher than clearing stage 3 with Huntress?

Personally I did the huntress challenge by picking a prismatic trial with glass so I wouldn't have to waste 2 stages getting to it.

[Arachnid]

The problem is that for the challenge you're not allowed to get hit even once, even with shields since they appear to count as health.If you're hit once, you have to restart. Again, and again.

[Jimmy Hunter]

引用自 Arachnid：

The problem is that for the challenge you're not allowed to get hit even once, even with shields since they appear to count as health.If you're hit once, you have to restart. Again, and again.

It's almost like Merc has 2 skills that prevents taking damage...

[Arachnid]

引用自 Jimmy Hunter：

引用自 Arachnid：

The problem is that for the challenge you're not allowed to get hit even once, even with shields since they appear to count as health.If you're hit once, you have to restart. Again, and again.

It's almost like Merc has 2 skills that prevents taking damage...

1, I have to use them sparingly due to the crystal damaging me if I don't save 1 of them
2. They have moderate to long recharge times.
3. Timing them is painful when there's swarms of long range enemies. Oh, and don't fall.

Again, I want statistics on how many people have gotten that achievement. I have nearly every other at this point, but have pretty much given up on this one.