World Orphion's Nexus Of Light Feedback

A somewhat bugged run where I kept all of my Raid Buffs from the last raid run. Might want to check that out CT...


I would post this in HERO BETA Feedback, but seeing how polished this Raid is, I honestly doubt that there will be sweeping changes to it from now to live servers, so I'm just going to post my feedback here.

So, Orphion's Raid came out today about several hours from this post. Finally, after 5 years of waiting for this boss, we finally get it in 1.20! We had a... fairly rough start on it as the first set of rooms were bugged and weren't completable, but they were patched within a couple of hours thankfully so we could do the raid.

And so... After 5 years... After preparing and learning this game since Gavel's release...

The wait was worth it.

Raid Rooms​

I'm pretty sure I've done this raid enough times to have gotten all the rooms.

In short, they're all really good. They're possibly the best Raid Rooms I've done so far. Every room has a sense of teamwork to them (besides the Resource room, that's pretty standard), and they're all very creative and balanced out.

My favorite room is the Darkness Crystal room, where you have to both defend and guide the holder of the crystal to the light. It's a really neat task and kind of a neat way to create different "visions" for players.

I don't really have much to say here... They're all just really good, and I honestly suggest you try them all out for yourself.

Raid Buffs​

At first glance and upon further inspection, these are definitely the strongest and possibly the most well thought-out raid buffs out of the current 3 available Raids.

Out of a set of Raid buffs, there's usually the Best-in-Slot ones. However, in my experience most buff seems to have some good use, such as the Explosive Impact buff which is very useful in mobbing enemies in the Orphion Bossfight.

Now some of them, like always, are really really good, such as the 10K HP buff and the +70 SP buff. However, they're fairly situational depending on what you're build is. I find the 70 SP to be very good for glass cannons with low HP (such as myself). Those are Tier 3 buffs though, so it's fair that they're very good.

Raid Boss (Orphion, the Light Beast)​

I've kept most of the feedback sections fairly short because I don't have much to say about them. However, I really want to emphasize on this specific boss how great it is, so I'm gonna try to write up more.

Some backstory: Around 5 years ago, many of you, including myself, saw this "raid" be teased for the very first time whenever we completed the Realm of Light quest. We all waited patiently during this time and eventually thought that this was scrapped in favor of different development areas. Looking back, I really wasn't disappointed by this as it's been too long to really be upset about it.

Then, 1.20 rolled around announcing Orphion's Raid. Finally, after 5 years of waiting for this boss, we FINALLY get to fight him!
I was honestly scared for this fight, not because it could be super difficult (It's not, but it's pretty fair), but because of the other Raids. NotG and TCC set low bars for me honestly, and they weren't as grand as I had hoped. I honestly expected but was frightful that Orphion would be the same. It'd be hyped up, but instead end up a buggy and unbalanced mess. But I didn't want to believe that after all this time of waiting, it would be for crap.

I was so, SO relieved... to have been proven wrong.

Orphion, the Light Beast, is the BEST BOSS Wynncraft has made, period.

Even with just 4 players (I do want to address the player amount in a moment), the boss fight is very well balanced. There is thought and coordination into what players need to do in order to survive.

Probably the most thoughtful one is the prison mechanic. A random player is targeted for Crystallization, in which the other players must free them from it before they get swarmed down and die. With how frequent it occurs and how dangerous the battlefield is with adds and the boss itself, it's a pretty urgent matter to attend to.
Only issue I have with this is that it can be hard sometimes to find the player who is marked for Crystallization through the haze of enemies and particles. Perhaps marking them with a Glowing effect would make it more obvious?

As for the boss's spells in general, main issue I have with them, such as Multihit and TP, is that you cannot tell when he is casting an ability or not. This is a general issue with all Wynncraft Armor Stand bosses that use normal Wynncraft spells, but it's more of an issue here since most of Orphion's attacks can one shot most players.
There isn't much that the CT can do to fix this I believe. Personally though, giving Orphion all custom spells would solve this in a sense, and I think it'd make him more interesting. Or at least removing his most devastatingly sudden ones like Multihit and Heavy Explosion.

The Parasite fight (phase 2 basically) is decent. Not as special as the Orphion bossfight itself, and very much so easier. There is also a prison mechanic here, but it's not as threatening as the others since it seems you can attack while inside it. I don't believe that's supposed to be the case however.

Overall, this fight is really cool and fairly chaotic. Some telegraphing improvements is definitely needed however, as it's fairly hard to tell when Orphion's most devastating attacks are about to happen (Multihit and Heavy Explosion). Other than that, it's a great boss and I'm hoping to see more like this in the future.

Raid Rewards
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Unfortunately, they're broken at the time, but I've heard rumors of some of them granting SP and other special bonuses. We'll have to see.

Overall​

Like I said previously, Orphion's Nexus of Light is the best Raid in Wynncraft at the moment. It's very balanced for high level players and is definitely the hardest bossfight in Wynncraft for most players. You definitely need a skilled party to defeat this boss, and you can't haggle on your Class Builds. I'd say this is a promising outlook on Wynncraft's difficulty and I hope more bosses of this quality and difficulty.

Now, the MAIN ISSUE I have with this raid is the fact that only 4 level 100+ players can enter. I honestly want to enter with 5 players, because I think the bossfight definitely improves in quality with another person, as you can theoretically bring all 5 classes then. Perhaps increasing the level cap to 550 would fix this, as I would love to run it with 1 more person.

Anyway, that's all I have to say! There are of course some bugs here and there, but they're fairly minor and I honestly expect them to get fixed before Orphion hits live servers.

Thanks for reading, and as always, feedback is appreciated!

 

Super excited to play Orphion’s Nexus of Light! Personally, I thought the other raids were phenomenal. Even though I haven’t personally gotten around to playing TCC, I’ve seen enough people play it to see how cool fighting the giant colossus looked and felt. NotG isn’t really special, but it doesn’t have to be honestly. NotG is there to introduce raids to the player so I never had high expectations for it. I think it does a really amazing job for the job it was given. I personally think NotG exceeded the expectations I had for a starter raid. ONoL is a pretty big raid obviously, definitely super story based and had to live up to 5 YEAR expectations so it makes sense how long they delayed it to make sure it was perfect. Overall I’m super excited and happy with all these raids and Wynncraft has a bright future looking forward!

PS: “Play the savior!” and “Journey” are my two favorite dungeon/raid songs in the entire game, slowly becoming my favorites overall. I can’t stop listening to them

 

Are they on Xaviers yt channel? (Ik play the saviour is tho)

 

Wait, so Orphion isn't on radiant mode anymore?

 

Both are, they just aren’t in the Wynn OST playlist :c

 

I figured Orphion would be much better at launch than all the other raid bosses because Pepo and I had many months to plan test and rework it. The other ones, ehhhh, it was more like weeks.

 

I did NoL on the open beta and i was stoked. Ever since i did the OG RoL questline i wanted to fight orphion soo bad it was killing me.
then walking into the room of doors was astounding, after all the room we went thru to get to orphion, when we got that GIANT DOOR FROM THE GROUND i almost stared crying i was sooooo stoked. Then we enter the room and i just lost it, i was in full fanboy mode and just loved every singe moment. I physically could not get enough, the dialogue from orphion 1000000/10 the fight 100000/10 the raid 1000000/10. I could not rerun this enough
The CT outdid themselves on this raid. 100% worth thr wait for this raid bro