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3. ⁠The unfair advantage: a newly made valiant can just skip all the content I worked my ass for, and get almost the same number of r4s I have for cash. This cheapens my effort, and is due to the fact Kabam skipped a progression level for 7r4s.
On the other hand someone who decides to go all in after putting in the work in game will have 14 r4 champs - which will put him way ahead in competitive modes.
These two scenarios just promote FOMO, and might force someone unwilling or unable to spend - to spend nevertheless just to keep up.

I agree with all your points but do have to push back on this one.

Players are a little too precious about the "effort" they put in and thinking that money shouldn't allow a player to achieve equal footing if they didn't put in the same effort.

This is a game - ostensibly it is fun (whether it is in collecting champions, fighting matches, or feeling accomplished by achieving some personal milestone) and wastes some time. While the dopamine hit from rewards and the openings from the rewards is undeniable, there should still be something beyond the rewards itself that most players play this game for.

Theoretically a player that played Necropolis achieved something personally, on top of the rewards. A "new Valiant" player that buys those same rewards does not have that sense of personal achievement. Does it "cheapen your effort"? Only if you think the only point of playing this game/endgame mode is the rewards you end up with.

I do agree with the concern of "needing to spend to keep up", but that is only in competitive modes, and only if you fancy yourself as swimming in that pool. For most players, I would wager that it is not a big concern at all, since most players are not spending enough to where they would be in that high spending cohort. For most players who match up against someone with a similar roster strength, it doesn't matter if you got a 7R3 from Necropolis and they got a 7R3 from buying July 4th offers.

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I also have the T7B to r4 another champ, I just don't have the lower materials at the moment since I ranked up a few champs to deal with the last WOF quest. I haven't decided who to rank up, though, other than probably not anyone in either of those three classes. Otherwise Attuma and Deathless She-Hulk would have been obvious choices.

Do you think attuma is still worthy to r4? Mine is sig 150 I have invested a lot of sigs on him but donno if he's still good in defense as some champs can completely shut him down and he's bad on bg attack.

I don't really care about BG, which frees up who I consider worthy of r4'ing.

The thing about Attuma is that he's the only one who does what he does. His ability to reverse ability accuracy modifications is nuts. You got one of those nodes that puts a disorient on you whenever you block? Suddenly you can block (and just do stuff in general) even better. Champs that decrease your stun ability accuracy, such as Red Skull when he starts getting armor up buffs? You only stun him more securely. Neutralize making life difficult for your other champs? It'll only make Attuma get more buffs. Tranquilize will make you place more debuffs. Glancing much? Your abilities will just trigger more frequently instead of being unable to trigger at all.

The list goes on and on. Whenever something lowers your ability accuracy to do something, he just does it better instead. This is a piece of utility that I value extremely highly. The other month there was a Baron Zemo boss that I didn't think I had a counter for before I realized that I had Attuma. I just baited out Sp1 after Sp1 from Zemo, each increasing my overall ability accuracy. When he did root me, he just increased the ability accuracy of my unstoppable (and evade, if I had had one) by 50%.

He can just get through so many nodes and abilities that are really quite annoying with every other champion.

Jeez... reading is hard i guess 😕

War meta champs only... Otherwise you will literally MELT!
-Hype and sp1 only?
-I believe CMM can heavy counter Zola but you won't gain power so the detonation will catch up to you eventually.
-Maybe some PS1 interactions?

Lol no.. the def tactic is a joke

Curious what level you're playing at for you to consider losing roughly 2% of your health in an equal matchup (more if class disadvantage or if you're punching up) every 3 seconds for a fight just to use a couple of potions? Feels very costly.
-Yes you can do the fight without dying using a nontactic. I wholly agree (Ironheart and getting the fight down is an option so thanks for those shares). But if the expectation is full health if you use that champ, what cost does that bring?
-Yes the 2% every 3 seconds is an extreme where it'll be less than that outside worst case. Id say half that in a typical match where they're throwing specials. That ends up being maybe 1% every 3 seconds meaning full health, no chip damage, you lost 60% in a 3 min fight.
-Yes the use of Riri will probably help reduce the time to throw specials on that node and reduce the 1% to maybe 0.8% or half your health.
- I appreciate the idea of spec'ing into energy resist. That was a good call.

Again, it feels costly given t1 war expectations so thinking through tactic options for planning purposes is important.

I think another major difference is that I'm never in a war fight for 3 minutes.. that's an eternity for me
I prioritize damage first in AW, and utility second.. many defensive abilities and nodes can be countered by gameplay.. and the sooner the fight is over, the safer a fight it was (less time for anything to stack up.. or go sideways, etc.).. but again, that's just me

Ok, I just looked up my worst fight so far this off season regarding tac damage
2:20 fight (yes, an eternity according to my statement:) using a champ with no energy resistance and it removed roughly 15% of my health over 2:20
So yeah, it's annoying, but not terrible?

I get your frustration, but what’s the rush? The CCP challenges aren’t going anywhere? How does that put a kink in your plans for the deals?

If they take longer than this week because of me not wanting to reset. I could miss out on the myserium on this week. I need that mysterium to buy resources. 2nd if I wanna farm health potions this delays my plans for that and third I just wanna get the dam champ lmao. I just want the stupid bug to be fixed. If they are aware of it, ain't no way they taken this long to fix a bug. When that whole raid fiasco happen it only took them an hour or two to fix weapon X regeneration passive buff from exceeding the damage that was done. I don"t see why one node has taken this long to fix!!!


I'm also not a patient person tbh. Once i start something i gotta finish it. Otherwise it ruins my day💀