Pinnacle of Chaos is way out of band

I’m testing this in Legacy at 460 corruption. I can clear normal echoes fairly easily. Can certainly get blown up if I’m careless but it’s not really hard.

This echo is near impossible. There are 3 champions at a time plus two omens. Two of the champions get that crazy damage reduction buff from the omen that makes them have something like 5x effective HP. Between champion affixes, whatever the monsters normally do and two omens I barely have any time or space to stand and cast. Unlike the well designed recent boss encounters, all of these effects are quickly lethal by themselves.

I manage to kill a set of 3 and another spawns, then another. I realize the bar is maybe 20% full at this point, so, what, two dozen total or so? I eventually can’t keep ahead of the FX spam and die. Try it a few more times and give up.

This echo is harder than Fading Brink. By a lot. And it says “Tier 1” so I guess it gets worse? If this is the intended difficulty, it shouldn’t be getting automatically placed by echo chains.

I’ll try it later on a character that’s at lower corruption and see if it’s a scaling problem or it’s always like this.

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its ridiculous. huge mood killer for myself when i run into this echo. makes me want to stop playing every time i run into it, especially as a new player. this was not tested

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Had this spawn in for the first time. Currently only at 140 corruption and it’s still absolute insanity. I can clear everything I’ve faced so far very easily, but this has been completely unplayable. IMO, the Omen buff is way too high. Not only does it tend to target Champions which already have a bloated health pool, it also fully heals them on top of making them take minimal damage. Doesn’t feel good to fight against at all. And if this is the experience at such low corruption, I don’t even want to imagine how bad it gets with 500+ corruption and higher tiers

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I had this today. Have a pretty strong Bladedancer Shadow Rend build and got the second or so thingie to half health and then nothing. After like 10 Mins. of that thing staying at 50% health, not moving a single digit I just let myself getting killed. Just weird and frustrating.