1 is a longer crawl with 3 bosses. 1 is an arena style - think Hive Master. Yes. Not overly but the bracket list will prove useful further in the year.
Previous episodes and Anniversary Event. No God Ring but more old school traditional bounties and a boss that has the functionality of the world bosses without the secondary currency, time to defeat, etc.
Are you able to reveal which developers are working on the two raids? Each developer always brings their own flavour to certain content in episodes, so it gives the community an idea of what to expect. Where Quixotic might use 360 cone attacks and breakout mechanics (Darkseid's War Factory, Lady Blackhawk in Phoenix Cannon, second boss in Convergence of Unmaking), TLantern is a fan of the mind control mechanic. And of course you like giving bosses prompts to those group members who dare use an orbital strike or supply drop (Deathstroke, The Merciless, Vampire Lord, Grail, Zeus). Millbarge likes strafing runs and big lasers (Ultimate Soldier, Hive Master in Machine, Lobo and Steve Trevor in the LexCorp Tower solo, even the madness increase in Shattered Gotham) but use of the player's own movement mode not so much (Crown of Thorns, Shattered Gotham, Convergence of Unmaking). Just as examples.
I'm excited more so to see what the mechanics of this ep are. Hope it's alot more mind controlling and encasements or just being caged. Followed by being stunned can't move from one shots or all of the above. Last time I was caged or in a ball I used the bathroom and when I came back I was kicked. Why put these mechanics in the game if we can't use the bathroom for 5 mins? Maybe a pause button this episode? Could that be the something else?
I hope the long crawl map is not all over the place like FGS and no jumping like COU. I prefer to fake dps those raids rather than support. I have trouble moving around mob to mob. So yeah to arenas!!!
If artifacts aren't coming to this DLC, what are you guys going to replace to compensate? Specifically I'm not a fan of some DLCs but if they come included with artifacts, I'll at least be curious about it in wanting to try it out.