I never finished last night, only on the second encounter.
But:
- The raid environment itself is amazing. Place is huge, music is epic, and Calus actually talks to you (albeit briefly). It's very Caligula (and has fat naked cabal men attack you)
- The loot is dogshit and nonexistent - because.....
- You get TOKENS instead
- To use those TOKENS you have to BEAT the raid, so unless you ever complete it, you arent getting any raid gear
- BUT, if youre in a clan that DOES clear it, you get a raid engram for doing absolutely fucking nothing, and it is assumed now that Trials will work the same way
- When you complete an encounter, you get a "key" that you can use to open a chest located in the maze-like labyrinth (a "secret" side-area that acts as a backdoor to each encounter room). When you find one, and we found ours, you get a GENERIC PURPLE ENGRAM AND MORE TOKENS NO RAID GEAR WTF
- ZERO bosses, except the final fight. Every encounter is a gimmick encounter. The first one (baths) is basically Totems 2.0. The second encounter that broke our spirits is the gardens which is basically Gorgons 2.0 but with even worse pathing logic and bugs galore with being caught. The third encounter is different but again, not a boss fight.
- When you complete an encounter room, you go back to the main "hub" to go to the next room, and they make you do this dumb public event encounter. So you have to do this about 3-4 times across the whole raid.
- The final fight literally REQUIRES A MIC because you have to call out a symbol that ONLY YOU CAN SEE [not a complaint, but leading up to....]
Friendly reminder that people actually want matchmaking for Raids LMAO