Unofficial HP Challenges Feedback Thread (Tiers 1-3)

Hopefully there's been time for players to work their way through the 3 currently released tiers of HP challenges, as well as claim their Rosa's ring and other rewards. Figured a thread for users to post their thoughts (or possibly vent frustrations ) could provide useful information towards the development of future tiers. I mostly just wanted a spot to talk about my thoughts on tier 3, but t1 and t2 (or anything else) are obviously welcome. If you want to post but need direction, some nice talking points could be:

• What are your favorite quest tiers/parts of tiers so far?
• Did you party up or tackle the quests solo (and at lower or higher levels?), and how long did they take?
• How many of the quest items did you loot manually, versus buy directly from the Free Market? If the items couldn't be found in FM, *would* you have bought from FM if they were?
• How are the rewards from tiers 1-3? Would they encourage you to do the questlines on a washed character?

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I actually really enjoyed the tier 3 questline more than the first two, and felt like it could have even fit in as an actual quest from the main game. There was a good balance of playing with the new quest toys (alien HQ, rebuilding the tower, etc), and good ol' fashioned killing mobs and looting items.

I feel a major pain point of the first two tiers will be that almost all of the killing/looting is concentrated at the end in one super quest. While superquests generally don't take long especially in a party, I can say, at least personally, that they feel much more daunting than the steady progress gained while performing an equivalent amount of work divided over multiple quests. I think there's definitely a time and place for them as major milestones (t2 kill quest is probably easiest to smega for, for example), but t3 tells me that they should not be the *only* challenge.