The thing is, I don’t like Crucible. I don’t have “fun” playing a survival mode repetitively. (I don’t mind SR however).
My issue these days is that “99% of feedback” is all from crucible experience. You can’t help but feel that one just shouldn’t have an opinion and your original quote whether intentional or not pretty much conveys this.
I’m not at all advocating that we use crucible experience, and only crucible experience, to assess a build’s quality. In fact, many crafters don’t.
Plenty of things are used in MC to quantitatively demonstrate how viable a build is:
But like it or not, the crucible is used as the most common yardstick to assess builds because it’s the most consistent end game challenge we have.
For example, SR is too prone to RNG, and you can’t expect every build to kill celestials.
^So I’m afraid we’ll just have to disagree here.
It did if you take in account all content. You can cruise through main game with any skill converted to any type of dmg. But when it comes to strict endgame…
…I even couldn’t clear Crucible on my newest Venomblade remake. Not 4:40, not 6:00, not 12:00. 0:00! Not viable. Like 10% consistency. Even though the remake was relatively tankier than my previous versions (double Ravager’s Eye and everything, no Prismatic Diamond - all defense oriented components, etc). Only when I did pharma (Courageous T.) I could clear it with any decent consistency. And even then it required crazy piloting and spidey sense not to get one-shot all of a sudden.
Now, dervish itself doesn’t have much in terms of alternative defense (outside perma Ascension) but VB is (was?) a top tier set! If this can’t clear crucible by (no false modesty) a relatively decent pilot than what about all those hundreds other builds with limited defensive options?
Rocking the s**t out Darius C isn’t enough even for beginners who start planning for endgame. For people who want their builds to clear 170 someday and maybe also do some SR, diversity kinda… you know… was nerfed.