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it’s like deja vu ,.:same as last month,..do my daily objectives and then check out,..cause who wants total gated side quests lol,…FUN!!

Also, what's up with these new relics?

"Physical penetration"? Surely there is a better phrase for that.

I don't know if it's a question of trust for me. I've always trusted that they want to do what's best for the game to keep it running for as long as possible. I have disagreed with some of the decisions that they've made to further that goal, but I haven't lost trust in both me and them ultimately wanting the same thing - for the game to continue running.

For example: I think the general idea of an adaptive EQ difficulty is a good one since it should, in theory, keep both the difficulty and the rewards of the EQ relevant for everyone going forward. However, the execution of it was painful this month. I don't think the update fixed all of its issues and I don't think the dev diary addresses some of the biggest problems that I (and many others) see with it, but I still think that it will be a good addition to the game once all of the kinks have been sorted out. I'm just baffled that they scrapped the old EQ entirely and rolled out an untested new format. I'm sure that they tested it, but it clearly would have benefited from being tested by the community before the 1.0 build was released into the wild. Having an "adaptive SQ" one month would have made them aware of all of the problems before scrapping the old EQ format entirely.

The Spider-Woman situation is similar, in my eyes. I completely agree with the core nerf. I 100% think that Ensnare should be removed from defense. I think it's actively harmful to the game. Serpent and Enchantress are really, really, really difficult defenders, but at least they're reliably so which means that your usual counters tend to work well in most regular circumstances. The problem with Spider-Woman is that it's very hard to counter her even when you're playing "right", because she'll randomly fail anything you try to do throughout the fight.

So I agree with their general intention, and I think the decision to nerf her was made with what's best for the game in mind. But again, the execution was terrible.

Therefore, I'm a little conflicted. I still have faith in their overall vision for the game and how to keep it running. However, they are making terrible decisions when it comes to achieving that shared goal that we all have. The good thing is that I think those bad decisions have been mostly short-term. I haven't felt my faith in the rebalance program get rocked to the core like some other people's faiths seem to have been, so I am fairly confident that things will get back on track there shortly. Likewise, I felt that the emergency improvement to the new EQ was a solid one and it seems as if further good changes are coming down the line. The issue will be how far down the line they come. It's a little worrying that they don't have the capacity to fix the need to complete Classic difficulty until early next year. That in itself isn't one of my major gripes with the adaptive EQ, but I hope that doesn't mean that other changes will also be delayed for similar reasons.

In the end, I'm cautiously optimistic. It's hard to say why so many terrible decisions got bundled into one single month, but it does seem anomalous to me in the grand scheme of things. I would be very surprised if October turned out the same way. But despite that, there's still work to be done to get the ship back on track. I still think we have the same destination in mind, but let's not hit any more icebergs on our way there, okay?

The bounty event is just stupid. It will take the whole month just to get a couple of bounties. My alliance doesn't usually even do raids so we are screwed. Even trying to get those points in AQ or AW will take forever. Ive been alright with other changes but this is ****. We'll never get anywhere near those milestones because we won't be able to do the bounties.

The bounty side quest is ridiculous. Why not like before where we fought fight could pick the bounty, use it to enter and then get the rewards. Now to get the bounty we have to hit incredibly point value milestones. Also where are the minion crystals? Is this coming later?

Sorry forgot the lol at the end.

I mean, we can't really pull data on something that doesn't exist yet haha

There are a lot of different levels to this comp and no magic button for it, unfortunately.
I wish it were an easier process, but it's very manual.

The Quest just got updated today, so we can only start pulling data for those who completed it once htat update happens. Going to be a few days before comp for Act 6 can be sent out.

We made it a lot easier this round from where the tune down was last month - another +/- 30% in both health and attack, based on progression.

Jump in and give it a shot; it should feel like much less of a slog

Weren't you the same fella literally complaining last week there was nothing to do in game? I stand by what I said on that thread regardless of who started it though, yall will literally complain when there's too much and again when there's nothing. Can't please any of yall.