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Edited by bobswerski: 6/30/2015 2:01:51 PM
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What keeps you from completing PoE 35 (Skolas) every week?

Too difficult

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No checkpoints

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Rewards are not equal to the effort

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What's your biggest beef with Skolas? I remember having this pressing need to do Crota every single week without fail, and have a full set of raid weapons and armor for 2 characters, it's not an issue of difficulty. I don't do this with PoE and actually have not completed Skolas yet. Why? [b]For me it's mostly the checkpoint[/b], I just don't have that kind of time to play most nights; add in the fact that the rewards are really not any more attractive than doing the level 34 in [u]much[/u] less time and using that etheric light to ascend an older raid weapon that's basically better in every way. Edit: On further thought maybe it's 60/40 the lackluster rewards and not the checkpoint that discourages me, though they are really the same thing in a way: if I could pick it up again the next day at a checkpoint, the effort is less onerous. I'd like to see a single checkpoint right before Skolas (non-sharable) to save a lot of frustration from network issues or time constraints. It's far less demoralizing to say "OK, gotta, go, let's pick this up tomorrow", than "Well I just completely wasted my night." Edit 2: For all you MLG ballers who solo it in an hour, more power to you but the site won't allow me to add another option now. Suffice it to say that this topic is not really intended for your particular demographic, which is suspect is the minority of Destiny players. Edit 3: If your answer is "I do it every week, git gud," then please choose which option you think would make it more appealing than it already is. For your purposes, "too difficult" would equal "takes too long".

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  • It takes 45 minutes to get to Skolas. Getting by him is the issue for most because they don't communicate well or know what to do. Last week, I joined a couple of buds who said they needed help and they know I've done multiple times (pre/post patch). I needed the cipher points to I said why not. We get to Skolas in about 55 minutes, one wipe at the arc round. This was their party so I sat back and "took orders" as we did our thing. We have no trouble getting the bonds broken but that's where the issues started. Communication on the poison pass and first set of mines cost us a couple of times. I finally step up and take a little charge of the directions. With that, we get to the second set and I (as a hunter) go invisible and go to take out the mines. The leader starts yelling at me to kill Skolas and not worry about the mines. I go, "huh?" He then tries to tell me the mines go away when you kill Skolas.... I then ask, have you actually completed this before because someone who completed it would not say that. He was adamant. Come to find out, he did do it once but it was pre patch Gally-ville and he was the stationary one who didn't worry about the mines. My other fireteam member backed me up on that finally. Moral of the story, know what you're doing.

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