while i understand that this is not a popular opinion, and im very sorry for those who did not have a good time on day 1, i think the boss' health bar is part of the skill gap that you need to juggle and perfect on top of just knowing mechanics and performing those properly. the boss' beefy health bar is not artificial difficulty. optimizing and maximizing dps takes a lot of trial and error to perfect your build and your team's dps strat. it is a skill, and there's more to encounters than just learning mechanics. you need to learn ad spawns, which ads drop what, best weapons to use for certain situations, where to stand under which circumstances during dps. every dps phase that we fell short of that insurmountable wall that was the warpriest's health bar we learned little optimizations we could do to increase our damage and consistency. over hours of trying, failing, and learning, we finally broke through that wall. we never thought we'd be able to do that again, much less with a tighter timer in challenge mode. after even more hours of trial and error, build crafting, and optimizations, we somehow did it. the rush of moments like that are hard to come by, and while a little bit of warpriest was rng dependent, overall i think it was a great difficulty option that forced you to balance uncertain rng elements, ammo economies, enemy spawns/buff placements, and team coordination with the base mechanics of the encounter.