AGS you watch too much youtube vids. those people who finish mutation under 15min are deck out in everyway and play with above requirement if not more. so what you do? you cut timer for mutation runs which force group make up to play in certain ways light/low con/weapon type and certain class only “sorry all mages”. make hardcore version of muation and reward those who are able to play in those condition but don’t punish other that can’t do what the elites do. not sure how everyone feels but i always thought this game suppose to be fun and enjoyable.
but tbf bit everyone is running optimized 2/3 perk bis sets it’s just static teams that have complimentary builds to create fast clears.
muts are a simple gear check once you have the baseline of ward and 625 it’s really just a matter of opti to lower clear times.
I wish ppl would stop looking at muts as some sort of proper end game content w a difficulty curve simply because it exists at the end of the road of a very shallow PvE content progression.
it’s nothing but a timesink to placate players who otherwise would rage at the devs for lack of gameplay tasks.
I disagree and agree partially with you.
On one hand i don’t think they are hard at all and i have done gold with extremely questionable groups.
On the other hand i am always in favour of easier content for more casual players.
This easier content however, is already available in the form of M8, for example. Don’t forget that M9-10 is elite and M8 is hard, difficulty wise.
You are attempting to do elite level runs and want them to be easy?
I would be ok with having a specific Mutation mode that you could run all the time called “challenge mode” that had even tighter timmings, and that was even harder.
you could give it a weekly reward for doing this very hard content, but let people run as many times as they want. could even work as practice tool for learning groups