[quote]I see you’ve never run a GM if you think alters are as hard as them. The third tier offerings can be hard but they are not as hard as a gm. Not when you get buffs and GMs basically give the player no buff. You’re also not as low in power level and there are no champions. Alters are actually really well balanced and are the ideal sort of season progression where they get easier as the season goes on.[/quote] Atleast a gm doesn't force me to play bonk titan. It's not as hard but only select subclasses allow you to live. When atriccion is on I can't be bothered with a tier 3. Everything hits hard enough and especially the shriekers if u don't have a sniper with u. There's plenty of stuff that's annoying in tier 3s, but in my opinion I'd rather not do them since the effort is not worth the reward.

Alters don’t force you to play any particular subclass. And attrition isn’t that bad. There are so many trash adds which easily drop the attraction pick ups making it easy to deal with any enemy as they always kick start your recovery. If you have an issue playing any subclass in alters or using the modifier to your advantage that’s a skill issue not the activity. Also nothing requires you doing their three so if you’re not good enough to do one then don’t do then.

Let me rephrase, tier 3s force you on loadouts and with attrition its oppressive. U can have ur opinion about it chuck it up as a skill issue. I think it's bad design. Yes u don't need to do so but it's the easiest way of grinding at the start. For me it's not a good activity and pls keep skill issue out the situation :). Cus nothing in this activity is about skill. It just wants you to play slow.

It’s a skill issue if you can’t do a tier 3 without it a specific loadout or have that big of an issue with attrition. And it’s not like I’m judging you for not being able to do so but it is just skill. And if you aren’t high enough skill for tier 3 then it’s not faster to do them when it takes only four tier 2 which are super easy to do. You are only harming your own experience to stretch beyond your skill level. Hell you don’t even need do alters for most of the story or even after the story so if you don’t like the activity you can also just not do it at all and leave it be and allow those that like it to like it.