How about this idea:
Scale the mobbing sections to party size. Put a New-U right before Wotan, and scale him up to 4 player.
Bam, we have a doable mobbing area, and a valid raid boss akin to the BL2 raid bosses.
I also like the idea of a quick-change station there to respec before Wotan. That’s something most of the Raids in BL2 had.
This is a really good point. People cite the past games raid bosses, but you didn’t have to redo a 30-minute run if you failed in those situations. I don’t know many games that make you start back at the beginning of the entire thing if you fail at a section, even for raids; they need to add some check points.
Probably a 30-minute redo is acceptable if the drops are guaranteed like Fabricator’s Ion Cannon.
I’d be down for an extra 20-30 minutes if the loot was guaranteed. Beats boss farming when you’re spending that much time in a load screen on console for 10 runs.