Only the Scythe of Thag is good, the Mace and Hammer belong to the Thaumaturgy Bench as illusions 
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I believe there is a player who loves the Hammer of Thag and considers it the best weapon⦠maybe @MarcosC? Not sure. 
I think it has a lot of to do with that playerās preferences. I hate strength weapons, I was using them in my first years, but now? Nah.
Okay, it isnāt absolutely terrible⦠But it is the worst legendary 2H hammer despite being one of the rarest 
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Oh, this one personally finds the entire game fairly easyā¦
When jank doesnāt do the killing.
Jank, however, is very lethal.
There isnāt really a lot of end game content is there?
The game challenge basically plateaued with the Wine Cellar.
One could argue the Harpy Vault is more challenging, but that has to do with a specific tweak added after release.
Should the game have more content designed to challenge the more advanced player?
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I personally would welcome it, but Funcom will just release cosmetics for dress-up pokemon simulator 3.0
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Damn right it should. I had high hopes for Kurak dungeon. Instead, the greatest challenges there were:
- figuring out how to deal with the Big Bad Bug
- remembering to bring a weapon to which golems are vulnerable
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I donāt love it. I donāt like great axes, but itās the only legendary great axe on the Exiled Lands. I get it because⦠well, people need stuff to do. I like the dungeon. I prefer the looks of Thagās hammer. Itās a small replica of his own, but now its stats are crap. It serves for illusion.
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Given that the premium content is all supposed to be cosmetic only, thatās where their money will come from.
This one had hoped that the next monetization would be successful enough to keep new content flowing.
Hope is the road to disappointment.
The Kurak boss rush had some good features.
The rapidly appearing maze and need to manage light were not bad ideas at all.
That some of the bosses were basically invulnerable summons and we had to target the summoner while avoiding the conjuration was a good idea.
While this one would have preferred branches and an explorable dungeon with enemies leading to the main confrontation with Kurak (Like Warmakerās where you beat the mini bosses in any order to unlock the final boss, but instead fought thru a small dungeon to get to the mini bosses, one themed off undead, another off golems, a third with demons to showcase the three flavours of sorcery minion and then combine their looted broken wands to get access to fight Kurak, or a summoned horror of his)⦠it still wasnāt bad.
The bug was bad. But bugs are bad.
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Xevyr
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These Thag nerfing threads remind me of a recent reddit postā¦
The person was upset that their thrall died to the Arena Champion⦠so there was an attached videoā¦
Apparently they were trying to āskipā it⦠but either unaware of the crack-in-the-wall-shortcut or just too overconfident to bother⦠they strolled inside the arena⦠jogged past the arena champion in total ignorance aggroing her⦠leaving their thrall behind pinned at a corner being attacked by the Arena Champion⦠but they just kept on jogging in their heavy godbreaker set
(the bucket probably obstructing their vision or something)
And then they got the notification that their thrall died while following them⦠and they were in total shock and surprise⦠enough to make a thread about it like āWTF, has the arena champ been buffed?ā 
Like⦠what were they expecting? that she waves and tosses some kisses after them and leaves the thrall alone?
Even before the thrall died, I was annoyed just watching that the nerve of people trying to do dungeons in this manner⦠
Iām getting the impression that people asking for a Thag nerf want to do dungeons in this manner⦠jog through doing absolutely nothing but collecting select loot and ignore everything and everyone then get back to their buildingā¦
Iām sorry⦠but no⦠The game has multiple activities for different kinds of people⦠if youāre not into dungeons, stick to your buildings⦠nobody is forcing you to do it⦠and you most certainly donāt need the ābest dungeon weapons and armorā if you donāt like combat anyway
Itās not reasonable to ask that all dungeons be balanced to that level of ignorance just so you can complete some collection⦠you donāt need anyway 
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True, those were some good pieces, but the way it was all cobbled together was underwhelming. Good potential squandered by hasty execution.
I expected more from a dungeon that was supposed to be the culmination of the whole Age.
Just like I expected the new Age to start with a bang similar to the beginning of the Age of Sorcery. 
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I saw a golem with 44038 hp. Just putting this out here, maybe Funcom will revisit their golems.
Teng
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If Iām not mistaken, about three years ago it was possible to avoid a fight with the Arena Champion by going around her on the left. I saw videos like this on YouTube.
When I came into the game, I couldnāt repeat it.
But the person youāre writing about is acting like heās already managed to avoid the Arena Champion before.
There is a difference between avoiding the Arena completely by going through the wall-crack on the left, or walking past the Arena Champion and hoping she will leave you (and your thrall) alone.
Donāt know which one youāre referring to, but @Xevyr seems to be talking about the second option, which obviously draws the bossā aggro 
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Teng
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About the second.
(never used the first one)
When i play full encumbrance and go in there to gather, i avoid this fight. I donāt even use the scraps so why bother?
On the hallway order stop!
Run and enter the right entrance, go loot the chest on the left entrance avoiding the skeleton lizards, exit fast order move and go. The champion doesnāt follow up to the spiders and undead hyenas.
Itās easy to kill her even full encumbrance, but why?
Nah, iāll pass.
If however she was dropping quake, then maybe i would bother killing her even full encumbrance.
Uhm?
Thag is pretty useless the recipes it gives is not worth the trouble unless you want the armour used as skin.
The bow seems okay thoughā¦
If they make him stronger it should at least be worth it.
Doubt anyone cares since its like this for a long time now, including almost all dungeon rewards to be useless (especially for weapons).
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NORfem
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He was weak and not exciting, but one of the 1 skulls, one hitted my server friend and his thrall in 1 hit, we did a run yesterday, my janos lvl 15 ran out of food but managed on some leftovers until the end.
I ran corrupted build and felt thags āforce fieldā didnt damage me, but I might have gone clear them.
The dungeon feels too foggy and too dark, somoen I watched on YT also said he never remembered it to be this foggy, almost like it hurts your eyes.
NORfem
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We tried Arena Champion yesterday, I had Golum 20k HP, with my buff 30k HP, no heal so who cares.
Also a server m8 had the undead for test, The Arena champ crushed the undead like within 3 combos, then I sent in my gollum, With oil and setting them on fire he survived with around 5k hp left.
The last boss in there took longer, prob because he got more armor and we less AP.
But I just had a rerun again in GW2, now they know BOSSES yes in all caps.
- After the run my golum glitched out and ended up with 86400 HP.
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Try it again with another one. I hope youāll get another one with this hp.
NORfem
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Its not ārealā hp. Just a bug so they donāt die i think. since they canāt figure out the heal thing yet.
I think he is back to his 20k HP now after server restart.
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