#Aphrodite's Heel Feedback

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grave knoll
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I personally like it alot, I would like to see 2-3 of these types of things per event. Uniques and special items are always fun but puzzles make for good laughs and big hunts. Alrhough idk if theres more puzzles....

viscid moth
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The event is awesome. I love Thadacles as a boss. If not for the fact he's open world boss, then Darza could not hold his candle to him. Real Chadacles if u ask me 😝

Thas is a real bullet hell, literal hell. But I love it even more. I've seen so many pros die. But at the same he's not absurdly broken (at least not when u face him 2nd time and know what's what xP). The patterns are hard but manage'able and it requires much skill, and with his ai and many different attacks, aoes popping all over, the fight is so dynamic and risky.

To all who worked on the design, visual yes but mechanical especially - chapeau bas 🫡 💘

eager charm
tawdry valve
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Nerf bosses a lot pls. On every boss just happening massacre cuz shots doing so many dps + aoe zones can just push you in boss and thats a insta kill without time for nexussing.
Nerf bosses a lot and its will be a cool event, but now - me and some guys just starting to hate it.

stable jungle
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Cool boss, good variety of attacks. There is enough bullet hell but also opportunity for players to work as a team and heal each other
What I don’t like is being launched into death. With proper attention you can notice where paths and purple heart bombs are going to happen, but I believe I’ve been deleted by an unnoticeable one
Otherwise a good new challenge to come by

crystal widget
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yeah nerf bosses

uneven oak
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Remove the Knockback.

tawdry valve
sturdy spade
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When thadacles spawns, no other world bosses need to spawn until he dies

teal valley
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Boss fight is well made, but the droprates are ridiculous, i have doe like 60 now and all i have got is #1 piece

long needle
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I personally prefer events where players can complete missions at their own pace without relying on a large group or chasing a boss that only appears under specific conditions. I enjoyed the Halloween event, where a special boss appeared after a dungeon or defeating Darza.

I also prefer knowing what I’m working towards rather than randomly attacking a boss to see its rewards. While this event effectively promotes teamwork, it feels more focused on encouraging pack purchases rather than individual achievements.

Overall, the event isn’t bad, but I personally prefer a more traditional style. Comparing both, I’d rate Halloween a 10 and Valentine’s a 6.

sturdy spade
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Loot drop potions in the event esscense shop

surreal current
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make the burning effect last for a bit less time, all i can ask for

wet parcel
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Make a custom voice line from chadacles when killing a character with more than 5k glory. Let him say “Get dunked on lol”

viscid moth
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Tbh all the death messages sink in between his dialogue for me and only between 10-15 I realised yes, people are dying when I'm playing, but they're just pretty when doing so 😆
Could be a different hue to easier see what's flavour dialogue/boss banter and what's rip fren mesagu ;-;

mystic ravine
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boss has a lot of stacked projectiles ive heard, and it feels that way as i and others randomly get hit for like 400. knockback is annoying. good bullet hell overall though just terrible to have in a permadeath with a nexus feature

dense thorn
dense thorn
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dropped range from 64 to 12 tiles for aoe warnings

dense thorn
viscid moth
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R.I.P. Chadacles. You will be missed 💔

wet parcel
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😭

sturdy spade
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@dense thorn obvs we don’t need to know numbers but the Halloween event loot pool was perfect, did you have this event set to them same or no

dense thorn
sturdy spade
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Roger

abstract mason
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The one thing that did need nerfing imo is range of some projectiles, especially the ones that pierce the pillars, so if you get caught in the wrong rotation (especially those horizontal slices) you aren't forced to tavern

mystic ravine
hoary portal
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It was better when it was hard ;-;

viscid moth
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I will say the red wall being slower is a nice welcome for slow classes, allowing them to get more hits, but it's a little sad that he is Chad no more.

I get why the people felt negative towards him. The fight was super hard, comparing to relatively no gain other than collectables. The level of difficulty really did match some endgame guy with endgame loot. For a "sidequest" farmable(?) event boss, he might've felt like waste of time and possibly characters. I mostly disagree with that, but then again, I understand the reasoning behind that.

I gotta say, it also is quite a move from the devs, because it allows us to gather essence faster, impacting our speed of farming event items, so that's another gift for the community from that change.

As a noob that came back and is playing heavily for past 2.5 weeks, I have to say that Chadacles was very cool and refreshing. I accept him becoming greek choir boy instead staying killer Chad he was, but seeing what you can cook up, I can't wait for the future of Darza. Next time I think it would be better to warn the community about the difficulty and what they should except, a little more, although I personally, had enough of warning seeing first 2-3 fights, and I died only from underestimating the boss ~30 fights in.

And lastly, I think that really hard and spacious world bosses are pretty cool. In dungeons we are trapped with the boss, so if we do an oopsie we have to bail and have no means to return. Here, we can run away, chill a little, and even if we have to back to tavern, we can tp back in. Yeah, the contribution resets, but you at least get a second chance.

And lastly lastly, I think that pattern based bosses that actually don't allow you to cheese are a welcome thing, but again, I think that should be for actual endgame challenges with endgame worthy rewards (tho idk how about u, imo event pets are endgame content ;_;)

dense thorn
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for those curious of the changes:

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Thadacles

  • Increased drop rates of several items
  • Reduced armor (20 → 14)
  • Reduced slash damage (25% ap → 5% ap)
  • Reduced slash poison tier (4 → 3)
  • Reduced bolt damage (123 → 69 ap)
  • Reduced bolt speed
  • Reduced bolt curve (75 → 45)
  • Reduced orb damage (14% ap → 6.9% ap)
  • Reduced orb mana damage (14% ap → 6.9% ap)
  • Reduced spinner size (2.3 → 2.2)
  • Reduced spinner damage (172 → 114)
  • Reduced spinner speed
  • Reduced dagger damage (114 → 96)
  • Reduced dagger poison tier (3 → 2)
  • Reduced red wall speed
  • Removed red wall armor pierce (ap)
  • Removed an outer set of pink waves from circling phase
  • Reduced pink wave damage (172 ap → 114)
  • Reduced pink wave poison tier (2 → 1)
  • Removed pink wave armor pierce (ap)

Valenstrike (knockback hearts)

  • Now only appears once every 20% of Thadacles' HP
  • Reduced damage for all sizes by 50% (max 50% ap → 25% ap)
  • Reduced range (64u → 12u)
  • Reduced speed for all sizes by 50%
  • Reduced knockback for all sizes by 50%

Valenbooms (falling aoes)

  • Now appears all at once at reduced rates, slightly increasing amount every 20% of Thadacles' HP
  • Adjusted red heart damage for all sizes (88 → 69) (99 → 96) (101 → 123)
  • Removed red heart armor pierce (ap)
  • Reduced purple heart knockback
  • Removed purple heart confuse debuff
wet parcel
abstract mason
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I think the falling hearts are a great little piece of design that made the fight more interactive and rewarding with the blue/green hearts, seeing more like that in future content would be good.

wet parcel
abstract mason
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Could also be implemented like devas has extra participation points for clearers, have something give you a DPS boost for the fight if you do the right thing

heady silo
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a counter for thadacles kills

wet parcel
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Now that he’s betacles we should name it “Get in the Locker Nerd”

viscid moth
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fr the betacles dies so fast that i can't even swap eq between characters or run peacefully one dungeon, for 1 event boss to die, summon betales and 4 times already I tp'ed 1s before his death ;-;

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takes not even 40s to take him down D:

uneven oak
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I agree, Thadacles is too soft now.. The fight would be perfect if it was just reverted to the difficulty before and just include the knockback changes.

heady silo
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Event bosses are supposed to be more approachable for newer players. I much agree with the take earlier that if you're looking for high difficulty request it for permanent content not the event stuff

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lucid relic
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The loot rate is horrendous so far, even with the buff. ive only gotten 3 event chests 2 being reroll hearts 1 being a backpack and i already have around 530 event essence and no trace of a letter piece or gear in sight.

red drum
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The idea of getting all the letter pieces in order to get the first event quest feels pretty bad..
I got all the pieces not in order because i was missing piece #2 and manage to get the pet from Aphrodite without getting the first event quests completed.. now i have to wait for the #3 to drop and then the #4 again wich feels pretty rare if you ask me.
The loots on event arent friendly with me too apparently rng hates me, i got 3 hats so far ( 1600+ essence )

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For the rest the event is a masterpiece cooked by our devschumby

heady silo
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Should have had an attainment for thadacles kills like Halloween had for pumpza and reaper and easter had for lola

worn turret
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Well, 3,2k event ess and still havent dropped dagger neither tali. Bring me at least an option from coins please 💀

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