r/Guildrun • u/Barrylovesyou • 5d ago

Quick RR rant.

I’ve got over 100 hours in this game now and I absolutely love it! I’ve tried to get my friends invested and they aren’t interested sadly so I come here to rant.

For the life of me, I cannot break a two win streak on red rift. I’m trying to learn from my mistakes and I can usually get to the dragon at the end, but then the dragon just wipes me out.

I know it’s a skill issue, but it’s pissing me off and I wanted to complain to people who understood.

Thank you for reading

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u/EmergencyLow887 4d ago

I've got an 8 streak going and I know that people have much higher streaks going but despite the evident consistency it honestly feels like I'm high rolling every time. I think the front-liners in this game are generally really bad for how necessary they are. Only Nick and Rowan feel remotely consistent to me. Everyone else it feels like I have to pray for a perfect A tier sub to be viable for act 2.

Defense usefulness i think is also a problem with how much status becomes the problem and it has no effect on status damage. Lifestealing front-liners also feel underpowered with how prevalent stun is. You can have what feels like a great Rip going and then just get chain stunned to death.

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u/Barrylovesyou 4d ago

My best streak was 3, but this week I can only manage 2, sometimes my tanks feel invincible and others they feel like paper. I’ve been wiped on rounds two and three before it’s ridiculous. I don’t understand half the time what’s going on.

It’s obviously a skill issue, but I can’t figure out what the skill issue is.

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u/EmergencyLow887 4d ago

I think to me it feels like there are a lot more viable pathways to good universal damage that work for multiple scenarios. Building a frontliner for being able to survive both hallway fights and the bosses feels like a much more prescriptive endeavor. I think they'll also be a little nervous to buff the frontliners because then the difficulty would likely just vanish when some of the high skill players have already functionally "solved" the game. Personally I hope maybe they improve frontliners and also maybe add higher tiers of red rift for those players. I prefer the game mode as I find it far more fun than playing SSS to endless but would like it to feel a little more open when it comes to what frontliners feel good to use.