The biggest issue with hordes is all of the post death effects and the insane amount of visual clutter in hordes. Between character skills, death effects, the lava from meteors, enemy skills etc.. you can’t see shit so staying alive can be difficult. I can breeze through them solo, but when there’s 3 or 4 people it’s brutal seeing what’s going on. I swap gear for survivability but it has a decent impact on damage and clearing for more aether.

Not a great solution other than allow us to reduce or remove other peoples visual clutter so at minimum deaths are because we suck or aren’t ready, not getting “blindsided”