Just did a 6 hour ARAH speed run. Feels good man.
Did you get tokens Hawkian?
I didn't get anything, but as long as the 4 of you did, I'm glad I stuck with the run.
I'm a little torn about Arah, or more accurately, that the original scenario of "5 tokens per chest" was just dropped when it so clearly is the only thing standing between the path we were doing and total lunacy- and I'm assuming it wasn't the hardest of the 4.
Investing that much time in a dungeon necessarily isn't a bad thing to ask of your players, especially when it's their first time and everything needs to be learned. It's a well-made dungeon and then fights (even Lupicus in retrospect) are fair, if requiring a lot more coordination than most other bosses.
The problem is that a lot can happen over the course of 5 and a half hours. In my case that was Comcast deciding to give me the old in-out during the last hour. Made me completely unable to help the team or stay reliably connected, which made the rest of the team struggle more, and then got stuck/lagged on completion, so had to leave to ensure everybody else got the rewards.
If I had 15 or 10 or 5 tokens from the run to show for it (or even a single rare), I'd feel a lot more like I actually progressed by spending that much time on a dungeon and missing out on the reward. When the chests had tokens, you'd feel like at every one you got a "reward checkpoint" meaning if you failed or had to quit, you had something to show for the work up to that point. Last's night's run just cost me 15 silver with no reward and the reason I couldn't complete it didn't even have anything to do with the game.
Oh well; since we did finish the run I'm still glad I went. I won't be running the dungeon again unless it's much earlier in the day though.
edit: Shout out to katoki for coming through in the clutch. Adriaaa said we wouldn't leave that dungeon without beating it and by gum he was right.
