Phase 1 of the raid is the worst part. It takes forever to get through and is the most demoralizing part of the raid. the tenacity is to high on nihilus to land any debuffs on him in tier 5 sith raids. in tier 4 its possible for debuffs to land, so thats why tier 4 is generally more liked and we have good participation for it. Tier 5 raids are hard to get people motivated to try because its really hard for people without JTR or Death Trooper to do much damage since the debuffs don't stick. Bounty Hunters are making some big strides and helping out, but not many have geared them up yet. The random annihilates from Nihilus are not fun to go against and the complete bypassing of protection from nihilus's attacks also are not fun to go against. If Phase 1 is fixed to be more fair for people without JTR or Death Trooper, then this would help out a lot. the Tenacity/anihiliate/protection bypassing is just to much for it to be enjoyable for most and participation is very low guild wide for this. Usually the players with JTR and Death Trooper are the ones that are doing all the work and its really frustrating.
I agree with your assessment of phase 1, but would also like to add that the purple protection on nihilus with annihilate makes it more so demoralizing. It would be ok to have one or the other, both seems like a phase 4 thing.
Capital Games Team
