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The only reasoning I can find to this change is the "balance" of the economy with new sources of radiance and the radiance store. In a way it makes sense if you really think about, the only problem is that mysterium comes from a casual game mode, and radiance doesn't.

*puts tinfoil hat on*

It's the long con to eliminate the traders outpost. "Buff" it with nothing of value leaving summoners with no hope of a reasonable and actual buff for at least another 18 months, then at the same time reduce available mysterium. Then after awhile, you eliminate the traders outpost because summoners are less engaged with it than before, are less likely to miss it, and are now just more annoyed having another currency to gain that offers nothing of value. So you eliminate it to make summoners happy that it's one less thing they have to waste time and thought on, but you don't put those rewards anywhere else because the players are distracted by the relief of not having to worry about something so underwhelming anymore. And now you've lowered the reward budget so you have more room to slowly increase it later.

*takes tinfoil hat off*

I think they've just officially lost any ability to pretend that they know what the players want and make effective, realistic and reasonable changes in that direction.

So, this was a very hot take, that I think has been adequately discussed and rebutted (eg. Fin).

In an effort to provide feedback on how it might be made more competitive, less *entirely* rng based, and less of a grind, here are some pain points (read: opportunities for cool improvements).

1. Champs have nothing to do with the assigned card (and yes, I’ll be referring to this using the words card/suit/etc) values except for the fantastic four, which was a cool idea. If they could be related, then that would be a nice but not totally necessary addition. You could skew the mechanics slightly by creating your own classes, or just using the 6 champion classes that already exist and revising how combinations work. It’s a fun idea, but the ease of adoption by means of piggybacking off poker knowledge is offset by the fact that we are specifically playing a marvel fighting game, and that’s less relevant in this mode than blatant poker rules. I’d be happy to iterate some ideas for math on a new system/mechanics if you’d like.

2. As previously stated, the actual gameplay isn’t particularly difficult at all. Not related to the star value, but moreso that the opponents are at a comparable level to crazy boosted (~400% often) attackers. I don’t think anyone wants to have really long fights, but neither should it feel so easy that it loses stakes. Some ideas to up the stakes while also upping enjoyability of the mode: just up the defender difficulty across the board, make their health pools a similar level but increase attack or fight complexity, don’t allow us to use an entire team if one of our champs gets knocked out but make a knockout mean that you lose that round and fail to swap out cards, increase the star level of opponents (or difficulty) as the rounds of swapping progress (eg. Round 1 is vs a 2 star, round 2 is vs a 3 star, and round 3 is vs a 4 star with appropriate ranking/leveling).

Side note, but one awesome benefit to the red/blue-under style of node buffs is that it incentivizes weird matchups that aren’t ideal. This is an awesome mechanic that can be strategized around slightly, but at the detriment of your ideal card draws.

3. The ranked rewards structure is ridiculous. I get and approve of milking whales, but this is just wild. At least make some sort of lower-tier solo rewards like battle chips that can be gotten after the “top” significant milestone. And also, increase the milestone limits.

4. Give us some defined rules as to how the “rng” of the system works. I assume it’s practically the same as a 52-card deck, but nowhere is that stated, and the animations give a similarly untrustworthiness to the gacha box style as they do with crystals. It’s not a requirement, but some even loose description of “there are a max of 4 cards of any given value” or “when you discard cards, they don’t go back to the possible draw/generate new card pile” or something would go a long way to making the summoner feel like they have a grasp enough to form strategies without watching hours of poker tutorials on YouTube.

Legit since the incursions one already changed their worth to almost nothing

The incursions one actually took SOME skill, at least.
Smashing through the low levels of EQ in the fastest time hardly took skill, just a fast phone and nuke champs.

But some of these "Legends" were carried by someone on incursions

@willrun4adonut

Actually, I didn't carry anyone for legends titles since they were banning people for that. I believe it was mostly when they were being carried by someone who was using mods, but I didn't want to risk it

It was also way harder because it was zone 25, hacks were worse and we didn't have ascension nor r5 champs yet.

And this o could be wrong, but I thought the second incursions title was in solo only.