Skolas - Far too much of an investment in time
Completing Skolas requires far too much of an investment in time. I have two characters and have managed to complete Skolas twice (once on each character - post burn removal), so this isn't a post stemming from bitterness, but from frustration.
With 5 rounds before the man himself, with 3 waves of enemies per round for the first 4 rounds and a boss in the fourth, that's 13 waves of enemies before you get to Skolas. Assuming, best case of about 10 mins per wave, with no wipes, that's almost two hours of grinding to get through the rounds.
Realistically though, it's pretty damn difficult to go flawless.and on some of my attempts, including the successful ones, some rounds themselves have taken well in excess of an hour.
Forgetting about Skolas, I think any activity which requires a solid 2 hours of grinding with no option of being able to save and come back, is flawed. Maybe some of us, or even a lot of us have no issue allocating hours of time to spend on a single activity, but surely not us all?
And this isn't even factoring in taking down Skolas. The quickest I have managed to do this was 25 mins. My other successful attempt was closer to an hour and a half.
My 5 attempts at Skolas have taken anything between 4 hours and one unsuccessfully attempt was closer to 9!!!!! Given the fact the rewards are poor, especially considering the effort and considering it's so hard to get a team to be able to commit to that sort of solid chunk of time, I have zero interest in running it again.
Surely Bungie can not expect people to be able to invest that much time in one continuous chunk?
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People are still doing skolas? Lol I did it three times a week until the burns went away. Poe sucks isn't worth the trouble loot sucks weapons and armor are trash waist of time
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Stapling your nuts to a wooden bridge and then jumping off would be more productive and satisfying than doing lvl 35 skolas. Its brutal w/o checkpoints.
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Ancient astronaut theorists say "yes"
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there comes a point where its not worth doing, the rewards are shit and it can take a bit of time, better of running 3 characters through poe 32-34
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I have not done Skolas since the long endeavor of failure after the patch. He was worlds easier with the burn. I already beat him twice. Maybe some day do him one more time, but why? Get another ship...
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Honestly, it's taking a little while but not too long. I just want the loot to be better, no need for checkpoints.
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I know it can take a while at first but eventually you will be able to get it down to around an hour for the whole thing including the big guy. The problem is the loot is not that good. I have most of the primary elementals but they are not that great. I have 9 characters across 3 accounts so my chances of getting drops are better but even then the rate is a bit stingy.
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Edited by StartedFriend42: 7/19/2015 9:24:22 PMIt doesn't take that long I got him second time
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Take a fella from Yorkshire and one from Alabama and you won't have much trouble. They helped me with my first Skolas run. Round 4 was worse than Skolas. But yes, checkpoints.