Cost of Gear Replacement and Masteries Reset after the first free reset can be costly and hinder the progression in terms of getting the best gear and masteries for each Champ. I'm still stuck in the first areas of Sintranos Cursed City on hard and normal. As a F2P, don't have enough 6* (level 60) Champions in every Faction or Affinity to take on the harder bosses in all areas of the game.

as a fairly new player, its nice to see the top of the top struggling with stages, it'll be years before im even thinking of touching those stages and i think thats a really solid thing for the game to have, everyone should have something to strive for other than better rng

Sintranos hard is actually pretty hard. What their statement should have been is we need to make this hard for Whales.

There are definite bloopers in the enemy team design. Very familiar from DT hard already - and they've never fixed the most annoying floors. Every once in a while they just make a floor that's someone's idea of a practical joke.

I feel like plarium has spent the last year letting me know I'm not meant to play this game anymore.

Tim's my Clan leader and knows the game amazingly well. I love that guy, he's elevated me toward the end game from where I was.

I'm f2p for three years. I'm a gamer for 40. I enjoy your vids. Raid is just now pushing skill based content. This video is as much as I and most likely 1000s of players will ever see of this content. You joke, but Raid is a wallet based game--absolutely. Fifty dollars a week couldn't get people to this content uniformly if said player began when Raid dropped. That's more than $10k. Why have so many encouraged this type of game format?

This is insanity, me personally, I'll never have an account strong enough to get this far because I'm not a spender.. It's really amazing how out of touch these developers are. If even you are having issues then what about the average player? I'm level 82 with a fair amount of top tier legendaries thought my max power is like 60k and my best legendary is probably Ma' Shalled but what good will that do when I can use him in like 3 stages and that's it... Guess we can just go kick rocks and watch youtubers try to beat it if we can't.

Not only the gear change and masteries. One thing I'm also encountering is the the vault. Taking champs out of my reserves in order to gear them and such for just 1 cursed city battle is brutal for just finding room now.

The rewards are really nice, but the 'gameplay' is very lacking. I feel the restrictions are more prohibitive than anything really, locking a lot of players out from even trying if they meet roadblocks early. A score based system, with multipliers for using the 'restricted' champs, would help alleviate this issue, so you can at least play the floors with what you have. It may be more interesting to see a score value on the leaderboard too, instead of just the turn count at the end.

Hope you had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year. I like cursed city, even though i can't even complete marketplace on Hard. I simply don't have the roster. I'm even getting stuck on Normal, again because I don't have the champs. But that is also what makes it interesting. More than the Doom Tower secret rooms, these restrictions make use of champs that you really don't use, like ever. So when summoning, champs you'd otherwise feed, maybe you take a second look at to see if they can help out in cintranos. But having said that, I do wish champ storage was more generous, and there was a friend system, like they have in Watcher of Realms, where you could "borrow" other people's champs to help you beat some of these stages, on normal at the very least.

Hope yall had a Merry Christmas and heres to a Prosperous and Happy new year to you all!!

I could understand making a Nightmare difficulty that would reward primal shards or primal fragments as well as soulstones to appeal to the new mechanics of the game. But I think Hard mode is perfectly hard for what they were trying to achieve.

Currently I can't beat any of the bosses, even on normal difficulty. I do like the idea of the game having an endgame that's difficult. There's a reason to keep collecting and leveling champions for a long time.

The main problem is various mini bosses and if people do not have the heros they are blocked from going further.

You say everything is on the table for changes for Sintranos... Plarium, remove gear removal costs from the entire game. It's engagement/discovery punishment, and that's bad design.

Personally I think with all the new content we need to use champs in so many places now PLARIUM WE NEED MULTIPLE GEAR LOADOUTS PLEASE. My hydra build isn't the same for cb or for arena or dungeons that's my biggest complaint with the entire game

17:22 - 17:25 hahaha funniest moment ever :D ash talks about the game and in the background, 2 attacking very hard :D

*Those who beat that stage, some 10 guys or so by now, Friday 29th, used multiple Stun sets, and Freeze sets on taunters, a combination of both.* Also needed for the Champfort stage you showed prior. Regarding your vid last night, my problem isn't silver, but another thing you mentioned: A solid interface for those cases where we need to swap gear around, I could've beaten those stages, if it wasn't because I don't want to have health issues from the stress of having to write down or screenie every champ I'm taking something from, so I know who to return stuff once I'm done. LbnL, HH's optimiser has 1 team at least where you can see the setup for S19. Cheers, hope you read this.

Sintranos regular is hard for me I'm a newer player so I still can't do a lot of Doom Tower, Hydra is years away if I'm still playing, no one in my clan can do Hydra. The worst thing they did for Sintranos is the restrictions. I keep hearing raid creators say that we need to take champions out of the vault what they fail to realize is most of us don't have many champions to take out free-to-play anyway. And even if I did the cost to regear them would be another obstacle I have seen creators spend 5 million silver to regear one champion. I did like 4/5 of the beginner rooms and nothing since now I am waiting for the reset to see if the next rotation will allow me to do a couple more rooms. Currently, I have one team for everything I do in raid so having endless teams to meet the requirements of the many rooms is not achievable for me. Great videos I have learned a lot from watching your guides.

What they mean when they say Cursed City needs to be harder is that it’s currently being cleared at a lower price point than intended.

Hey Ash, just wanted to give props to your editor who started adding in the Wilhelm scream to your videos for the last month or so now, very funny and cool. You thought I wouldn’t notice huh? Well guess what, I did! Haha!

Ash, they've challenged you. DT hard stalls me at floor 90. Go figure. We should all get challenged in a game. I'm enjoying the new content!

4:15 I think the first big change they need to make is a 5 tier system for the area, bump normal to hard, and hard to brutal, the new normal has 0 restrictions, then you move over to nightmare and ultra nightmare for harder challenges if they are needed. possibly splitting sintranos over to be 2 different cities, one normal one 'illusionary' where you get told the requirements for each rotation so you can theory craft as a normal player and maybe prep or make it a near carbon copy of the current one where there are no restrictions at all, it doesn't need to reward as good or even on a per space basis, but it would be nice and essentially free extra content to do if you want.

Ooof. Here's to hoping that in 2024 Plarium will come around and get their act together. This is unsustainable...

Thanks for tuning in ;)

My Raid is a champion COLLECTOR game. So having restrictions utilizes more of my collection than any other content. Very happy the end rooms of Sintranos has slapped all the CCs who have been raving how EASY this content is right in the kisser LOL

The only thing I can think of for the taras marischka stage is putting deflect equipment on your nukers to put the 2 turn stuns back on taras and put refresh accessories on your provoke champs. And most of all pray for rng XD. Of course getting good deflect equip is already hard enough.

ASH "What would you guys do?". We will spend money and make Plarium happy.

Ah man my cluster there, the one with the brilliant name. 😂 Peasants love it😂

Dear Ash, about Hydra Clash ... it is so annoying: even if we win the hydra clash against 4 other clans, we just get NOTHING, so CONGRATULATIONS YOU GET NOTHING. 🙄 The problem is, that for the lowest reward you need to make 35+ Millions damage and most of the time, no one in my clan does. Can't it start at let's say 6.6+ Millions ? Thats the biggest chest of the lowest tier. Didn't they say at the beginning, that only the top 1000 (?) clans can participate ? I would prefere to go back there ... better to not participate, then to win and get nothing, that sucks. P.S.: We all run hydra in auto mode ... nobody want's to do this manual.

3:34 plarium when you aee brutal as the difficulty, make the stage where you enter the rest of the upper region a double boss, specifically iron twin and sand devil. Make the restrictions to be only rares, and for them to be rank 3-5. This will be an incredible way to make the content fum 😃

Kinagashi is available and is a reviver for that stage

I can't get through normal cursed city let alone hard mode. I just don't have the rosta for it and I'm not giving palarium my hard earned cash either. Love the game so I'll just do what I can when I can. Great video as always. Happy holidays ash

I noticed on my level 53 account I ran to around 4 or 5 keys before hitting a wall. Realized I was in hard but only made it about the same in normal. Considering I'm at entry level for Sintranos it's probably incredible progress, but only 5 built strong enough for 150 TP, maybe another 5 passable. I'm planning a bank job so I can buy enough resources to gear and 6* al my 60's, and pump up the more recent leggos

A great Xmas present would be saying hi to your clash of clan mates.

New Restriction only use +4 empowered champs from Sulvan Watchers.. lol

Hey ash long time viewer here, love the videos keep it up! Hoping you read this, reaching out for some help bringing something to attention to plarium. So I may or may not have spent 1.2k on primals just to get mezomel and find out she’s not usable anywhere in this game. I have epics more useful than her in more areas. Aren’t mythics supposed to be AMAZING? What’s the point of spending that kind of money? If you could help promote buffing these extremely underwhelming $1600 champions I truly would appreciate that. Take care big guy

Shout out from the dev. Keep the good work!

Well ain't that something. When I first started playing Cursed City I accidentally was playing it on hard mode and I was wondering why it was so difficult until I realized I wasn't playing it on easy lol. In terms of champion restriction I have find some other HP champions since the only good ones I have is Geomancer and Artak but I can't used them in certain areas.

Again, F2P person here, I thought the Cursed City SUCKED. Then I realized hard mode was on. After that, I started getting places. LOL I love it. facing off against the 2 bosses at once was pretty cool to me. Some of the rewards I'd never seen as well. 😉

I think with cursed city they should introduce 3 more main bosses for it and give us more keys a day and cycle through one main boss a week and at the end of the month if you've killed all four bosses that month you get a unique piece of legendary amour and if the introduce a nightmare mode for it it would be a mythical piece instead but that just my idea feel free to add on to it

They have made this content flexible enough for players to avoid certain paths which means some rooms can be made crazy hard and left optional to please the absolute end game players , this is a good thing but honestly I am not sure if they need to really make it more hard - if someone like you is feeling the silver crunch then imagine the state of an average player ( even if they are end game ) , the least they can do is offer free regear token like the double xp tokens and the best that the can do is get rid of gear removal cost- not sure if it will crash the infrastructure but it will be a landmark change in terms of quality of game improvement, it will open up the game like never before

I really enjoy watching live arena (not so much playing since I don't have a huge roster to pull from), but I think the number one thing they could do that would catapult it up in popularity is having private duels you could challenge people to. Should always be on, no rewards and just for fun, and could challenge clan mates via the clan menu or friends/random people using a duel code or something. Could you imagine how fun that would be dueling viewers or other CCs for content? Streamers in particular I imaging would have entire duel nights. You could have a private tournament and implement your own personal rules via agreement like say no one uses polymorph in the duels. I think that would be huge for live arena and no reason not to if there's no rewards and just for fun. They already have the code framework and everything so it would be super easy to implement, just need to add in a duel button on the clan screen and the manual link code system.

The endgame is having enough time to do everything, it’s starting to get ridiculous

Or with gear removal thing have different gear builds with the same champion that you can switch between so you can have the same champion with different builds you can switch between.

🕓🅿️Ⓜ️lol .... Ash man I don't know if you will read this or if it will mean as much as I hope it does to you but I want to say thank you . Bro I watch your videos because I can always count on them being somewhat uplifting even when we're going through hard times with raid lol and inspiring when we're not. I don't have any kids but I know one thing I've seen you and your kid on here and bro if I had one that's the relationship I would want with mine man you are without a doubt a genuinely good guy man and there's few left in this crazy world please hang on to that because it's something that money or popularity can never get you Happy holidays to you and yours brother as always in my prayers I hope to the good Lord that I didn't come off too corny on this😂

They need to increase the champion inventory

Great video as ever. I like the cursed city and felt it tests you to the limit. My issue is the cost of changing gear between champions. If Plarium develop content which requires so much changing of gear surely they should remove the cost of swapping gear. It will encourage people to play this content. Silver is currently the biggest resource constraint stopping me from playing. If I have got gear and paid silver to roll it up and glyph it then I should be able to use that on who I want for zero cost. That change alone would help so many players in my view

They just want us to put high level awakening and fully ascended gear + accessories on those selected epic champs (which btw will not be used anywhere in the game if they are already end-end-game) to beat the last few remaining stages. Obviously it is a way for Plarium to drain out your resources for literally nothing so its either you are 100% sure to clear everything at the end or just don't bother wasting resources and wait 10 months instead for Kharnage. I don't consider these niche secret room as end game level/content, sorry to say, it is nothing more than a resource drain.

Our clan isn’t doing hydra that much. Our leader tried to pump it up, but people started leaving because it’s kind of a waste.

2.40. OMG!! Live arena!! I totally forgot about that too. Again. That's anutha update I COMPLETELY don't bother with!!

We have been trying to play some hydra but we don't really ever manage much in it

Thanks for another great video Ash, and for all the content you've put out over the years. Even on normal and with probably a much better than average team this stage was no pushover. Best bet on hard is to just stun set stun set stun set and try to keep cc up imo. If you havnt seen it yet, 2nd wave is 2 Ba satha, 2 Krokmar, and sulfuryion. I imagine they are very, very tanky on hard.

I like watching CC's videos, but we all have to admit that if we want to see change for things to actually make the game fun and not just having "luck" by pulling champs from shards, then they really need to listen to us or else the game will eventually fail. I've only been a low-spender and even after a year of playing, I still don't have very many champs and all this company seems to care about is "spam spam spam them with ads for monetization. Oh, did you buy anything? Hey, did you buy something? Hey wanna buy more? Hey you should buy more. I know you spent hundreds of dollars, but hey, spend more." That's literally how this game is and a lot of CCs don't seem to talk about that. Really makes me wonder if Plarium is buying some of the bigger CCs off with free shards or whatnot.

Not sure if everyone knows this but if you think your stuck on the weekly quests "clear 2 stages of cursed city" you can replay the stages you already cleared. Didnt find that out until this week, so dont miss out on your extra energy flask people.

Nicely done!

Funny thing is that CC's were complaining that this is too easy. Now it's, Soulcross is so dang hard, and S19 stage is impossible lol. Imagine how a lvl 52 player must feel coming into Cobblemarket normal and running into restrictions that lock them out of C1 stage immediately because they only have a few epics and maybe a login leggo or 2. What you said about the silver cost, add mastery and awakening changes (gems) and back again and you will see why this mode is already dead imo, just like Live Arena became a dead zone inside 2 months where only the Whales and Krakens hang out playing each other with the 1 team and a couple subs that you have. It will become a smash and grab at the start of each rotation and forget it until next rotation without a massive cut in resource cost. I have frag/fusions to do where I get a champ after 2 weeks grind, or spend all my silver/gem resource here and grind for probably a year, 18 months and maybe get a leggo and get 1 epic book a month and no other high end tomes, or shards of any hue. I know what I'm going to do, and I think once the Ooohh! shiny wears off, so will the majority of the player base.

Love the Chanel thanks for putting these videos together!

.... I'm currently at 9.03 final thoughts, I had to laugh so much! ... exactly my sense of humor :)

Looking jacked bro, stay focused

I just pulled Sacreds during extra legendary event, and I got two new champions, Michinaki, and a new one Gwendolyn the Silent.

Use Supreme Elhain. Start with Crack shot on Merishka (probably not correct spelling 😅). If you can one shot her, you win.

ASH make a vid on how to beat hard and brutal campagain and some tips on what artifacts to use in campagain many ppl i know are stuck on hard mode dragon bosses

I definitely like the update, I get that it is hard; but thats the point. For me this is a marathon not a sprint. I like to have the ability to build champions and know that I'll have more uses for a champion. Would love a Gwyndolin or Basilis Roanas build on the other channel

10:27 damn not even 5 percent of their hp is loss

7 have completed now...all use morag!

Needing a certain amount of ascend stars is pay to win.

Currently 9 people have beaten stage 19. That level on normal was a grind as well. I'm f2p, so I'll take that mini w

Thank you for the great content this year Ash, it was really enjoyable. I wish you the best :)

Not doing sintranos until they change it to weekly or monthly keys. Shame on plarium for adding yet another daily key activity when they know very well that is one of the biggest issues with their game at the moment.

funnily enough - even if i was allowed to use everybody in my team i think i would struggle

If I had to speculate, if you can kill both taras, then you deal with marichka, who revives taras ofc but then she’s dead. Easier said then done given sethalia and Staltus ofc

best i can think of is to either bring a stun/freeze champ or if there are none, a champion in one of those sets, and just get lucky on the tarases (and marichka probably), then try to burst down the marichka

The silver boss is my wall right now. I can't afford to build my champions.

Completely agree with you with the Silver. Another thing...I have a lot of pieces of champions from fusions that I have not been able to complete...what good does it do me to have those champions without completing them? You should be able to exchange pieces from one champion to another? otherwise there are champions that I will never be able to complete.

Star Wars has a mod roll out feature.. So you can setup a mod outfit and use it for whoever whenever.

The conditions are bullshit I can't beat the sorath double boss stage bc I don't have a champ available with HP burn

Lvl 80 almost, I'd like to say my hydra team is non existant, couldn't be bothered. After I finish my nm and unm teams I might start working on it, probably not for another 3 months lol

You must contact the person that completed it and host him on your channel. Most of us won't have the champions to complete that stage.

Looking good Ash ma man !!! Keep it like this cuz you are doing good !!

Ash raging at a level in raid is so good😂😂

It's odd that these rooms are restricting to Rare/Epic as well, I don't have the resources to really get into this content but it would have made sense that finally some of the commons or uncommons have at least one use case. Why even have them in the game apart from food if not for Cursed City?

your videos are so entertaining to watch

cursed city is the best thing for years raid has come out with and best of all, its not clan dependent, so no forced participation or expectations. As far as marichka, she needs taken out first, but need to stun taras or be in stone skin and buffed. Easier said than done, but at least theres no pressure from the clan to complete.

Crazy in normal and hard the double boss encounter no problem. But the regular dt struggle bosses with secret room stipulations shut the door on Dark fae , Both spiders, Bommel and Scrab smh.

Easy solution. Free gear swaps and if you swap gear on a champ, those specific champs can’t go into arena for 12hrs. Hire me plarium

Another new restriction..Have a parent that works for Plarium or is an Oil Prince.

I would LOVE to be able to change my champs affinity…. Would lead to building a second geo and a second skullcrusher at least

[RISE] USMC will be mine ill ask him every day i see him to Join Souptopian Knights lmao lol but as always great video... P.S still lil upset bout the global chat weirdos comment lmao lol

Live Arena, Hydra Clash and Sintranos moved my account from end game down to mid game. Live Arena times are not the best for me, only 1/10 of my clan does Hydra Clash unfortunately cuz there isnt an incentive to burn your time if you cant get to 35m, and Sintranos requires so much gear swapping that i cannot afford the silver. the game has grown which is good, but seems to require so much spending of money, and more importantly time, that the new content doesnt fit into the time block I allow for RAID every day. QOL is now far more important to me than Triple Boss Stages, Zero Paths, and SuperCalofragilisticexpealodsious Champions....or whatever is "Next in Raid" :))

Some of the clans in the cluster i'm in (Oath cluster) take Hydra Clash seriously, but only the top few clans.

Hydra clash makes me want to do hydra less if anything. The mode has so much potential but to me I feel like I prefer demon lord clan boss style, you grind up your consistent one key team and then you just use it to reap rewards. Live arena is an absolute joke, such a flawed game mode in a game like raid. Matchmaking is only based on rank and you cannot control who you fight so some battles you will just get rolled by a whale and simply cannot do anything about it. Cursed city is a cool concept similar to faction wars it incentivizes you to build new champions and use them, the main problem is that these boss and double boss stages suffer from some of the terrible new boss designs that require such specific mechanics to counter and you have to cram 2 sets of counter strategies into one team with a limited champ selection. Neat in concept, some of the boss designs make it not very fun/interesting mostly just unfair and/or specific champ checks. I prefer when there is some team building flexibility and creativity rather than just needing a specific legendary to make a stage work

Morag in a stun set.

Block active skills on Taras if u can find one

10.42. Soooo I was right?? Cursed city isn't fit like 99.99999% of us then?? GOT IT!!

in every AD Raid be like "we got over 500 champions" yet 3 of the same champ in waves in all content .. cmon Plarium

Live arena needs seasons and also bettwr rewards after quintus

I like the new content and would love to do more playing around with team but I still have the same problem I've had since day one in this game, it costs so much silver and it is not fun.

still get on every day do basics but i dont have the love or patience to grind this game anymore #watcherofrealms goat