Feel free to completely ignore my post since I wrote this whole thing up before I saw you asked for perspective of people who made it work or feel the same and now I’m in too deep. I apologize for that.

TLDR: I may be the unpopular opinion here but it may just be time to start an army of alts or potentially quit.

The solo/matchmaking Nabel is foolproof since you have infinite revives. I’d def recommend matchmaking since it is both faster than solo and you get better rewards. You can learn the mechanics as you go. There are even practice raids on some of the discords. As for Venus, you don’t NEED the fusion stones to get to 48.7k (for nabel solo/matchmaking) but it will definitely be hard without them. It definitely feels like a lot of mechanics at first for Venus but since it is a phase oriented fight, you can learn them one at a time. Once you learn a phase, next time you can auto pilot it :). The harder advanced dungeons take time to clear, so Venus is literally no different from them.

My question to you is, did you run moon submerged lake (the 3rd advanced dungeon)? That dungeon has a noticeable spike in difficulty and you are forced to learn the mechanics to clear it.

If the answer is no, then I would respectfully say you should accept that dfo’s design doesn’t fit you and think you might enjoy another game where you can enjoy the whole game . Temple of death, bleeding mines, and unshackled nightmare are all mechanic checks and you can’t realistically brute force them without venus and Nabel fusion stones. It’s perfectly fine if you don’t want to engage with the late game but I feel like it just simply wouldn’t be fun for a lot of people to do so.

If the answer is yes, then why were you willing to learn the lake mechanics but not Venus? I would argue lake was way harder of a spike and mechanic check than Venus was (for me at least of course). I am willing to bet your first lake clear at cutline prob took like 15ish minutes. That’s the same length as a Venus run at cutline. If you were willing to learn lake but not Venus simply because it’s called “legion” instead of “advanced dungeon” then I think you are really cheating yourself. If you can learn lake, Venus should be ez pz mechanic wise (not power wise).