Completely agree with you on Vox. I hate it, like alot. Still need the Master Clear, tried LFG a couple times but people trying don't seem to realize that going in underleveled without proper loadouts isn't smart. I hate timer missions too, once in a while....sure, but this whole exotic mission crap always having a stupid timer that gives no room for error just makes the activity unfun. Maybe I'll try again just to get the catalyst and never play it again. Bungie continues to just not get what kept us coming back were the guns and the fun, not BS timers and FOMO.
Presage and Harbinger didn't even have timers did they? Aside from Master mode on Presage? I don't know. I like timers and feel like they're pretty damn rare in this game. I want more ways to efficiently progress in this game rather than everything being super grindy.
As for Vox specifically, I enjoyed it.. the tank bit was frustrating for a while where early on you're not even killing the tanks in time, then you kill the tanks with like 10 seconds left and then it's like shoot these 9 shield generators and 3 towers and you're like "fuck!". But then all the little tricks you come up with to get through it as fast as possible come together and next thing you know you're clearing it with 2-3 minutes to spare.
No, the vehicle combat is not good, and I don't it to show up all over the game... but at least in this small context I find it pretty fun.
Then the second half timer I mean that just never even was a factor for me. My standard loadout for Witch Queen has been that first glaive you craft, plus Gjally, and whatever for primary (usually it's just something decent that deals with barrier or overload).
The thing that really sucks about this exotic quest compared to earlier ones is why the hell is the pinnacle reward for killing X champions? You get to like 52% or something on a normal run... you want us to run it 6 times a fucking week for pinnacles? Huh? So obviously you just cheese it by getting to the second half, killing the two yellow bars and suiciding like 7 times because that's going to be a hell of a lot faster than a whole second run of Vox. Just tedious.
I haven't tried master mode, so I can't comment there, I just hope it's fun to do solo.
The only D2 I've played in the past couple of weeks really was doing pinnacles on my Titan last night, well not quite all the pinnacles, just all the +2s, because the +1 pinnacles I've learned are not even worth it. I only bother with them when powerful/primes can also get me to the next level, and I usually regret doing that too. For context I did most/all of the pinnacles on all characters the first two weeks (being pretty efficient with the math), along with lots of bounties to level the artifact, then did that session last night and my Titan is 1558+16=1574. So should be a pretty leisurely paced week to get ready for GM nightfalls.
