Why was the enchanted forest scrapped?

[AzuredreamsXT]

It sounded cool to me, a new branch would be great IMO (if it applied to 3 rune games)

[duvessa]

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Did you try playing it?

[Amnesiac]

I found it ok on highlevel characters, though(If it hasn't been made even worse).

[Hirsch I]

I once burned the whole thing with a DsBe that had the tier 2 fire facet. the enchantress died in 3 hits aswell. I tought it was easy and fun.
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then I tried it again with a non insanely lucky character. oh the pain and suffering.

[khalil]

I went there once, with a MuNe
I didn't come back until I had tornado up.

[Tenaya]

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Did you try playing it?

From a difficulty perspective, it was fine as long as I had tornado and sticky flame. Earth magic (LRD and Shatter) did very poorly.
Fun-wise, it was about 2 levels too long, but was a nice to have a change from Crypt.

[cerebovssquire]

Pretty much anything is fine difficulty-wise with tornado though. Non-conjurers can have huge issues with Forest. That in itself is an issue (it seems far to easy if you have a good source of EV-ignoring damage compared to when you don't). Also, there was a big disparity between Crypt and Forest's difficulty levels that was more extreme than between any of the Lair branches, so it seems strange that they would spawn together.

[Amnesiac]

I've cleared it with a few stabbers, it was ok.

[Arkhan]

Aw. I was really looking forwards to a new branch on stable. Could ya like, make it one of the many random destinations of Pandemonium or something instead if it's not gonna alternate with Crypt or whatever it was going to do in the end?

[Wahaha]

There's a full floor forest vault that can appear in Depths, or Dungeon in previous versions.

[Viashino_wizard]

Aw. I was really looking forwards to a new branch on stable. Could ya like, make it one of the many random destinations of Pandemonium or something instead if it's not gonna alternate with Crypt or whatever it was going to do in the end?

The enemies from Forest have been mostly moved to swamp and shoals, and professional spriggans now appear in the main dungeon.

Which is nice, because Swamp can use all the diversification it can get.

[diviton]

I've actually never had problems with Forest. I've always found it really easy for some reason. Air Mages and Enchanters can be rough and Assassin's just constantly running away is annoying, but otherwise it wasn't so bad. The new Crypt on the other hand... Jiangshi and Revenant were very troublesome. I don't mind losing Forest though because I found it to be boring in comparison to the Crypt.