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They are very common outside hotels if you're looking for one as quickly as possible.

If you're talking about polls, they've been broken since the provider broke the forums.

Another unintended (I would hope) effect is that these new structures limit your ability to use and enjoy new champs. I got my shiner new Karolina, for example, and if I want to use her seriously in a sustained way my options are…? AQ, incursions, go smack people in RoL for the millionth time. AW and BGs are poor places to test and learn.

The new approach trivializes champs, especially new ones that you’re trying to learn.

Inexperienced TB here I’d stay where you are

my suggestion is use either wong or sentry. It’s only worth using sentry if you’re going to use him for most of the run. I did my run with sentry cause I didn’t have wong at the time. I’ve since pulled Wong, and I strongly recommend using him instead.

I explored Elder difficulty of old and re-run version already. I think I have experienced that first before commenting.

I hope Kabam can revert it to the Valiant Gauntlet few months ago.

It's all about flexibility and effort/reward consideration.

Under old format, valiant players can auto-run lower EQ or go straight to Paragon Gauntlet and then Valiant Gauntlet. Now you need to complete Classic in order to proceed to Elder, which means I need to complete Classic twice this month. Although Elder completion also means Classic exploration, Kabam tied me up the time for unattractive rewards.

Adaptive system is not based on your progression title nor your roster depth, but top 30 champs' prestige. You got 30k prestige dosen't mean you're an end gamer. ZERO relationship. However, it determines your rewards in this new EQ format. Adaptive system make reward comparison difficult. I did Excel comparison myself and I think I'm worse off in term of catalysts but pump up a lot of statcast relic related materials. Although you may challenge me that my rewards "double up" after re-run, but how about next month?

I won't waste time arguing whether "adaptive system" is an improvement or not as the starting point (prestige) is already wrong imho. Prestige based adaptive system only serves one agenda: whales out top 30 prestige and demand for sig stones. Prestige is a moving target, or a carrot to be exact.

I'd pretty much agree with all of this.

I agree that the concept has real value, and potentially rejuvenates an increasingly stale game mode.

Personally, I like having monthly content that's a bit of a challenge. And I'm not expecting 'endgame' rewards for it. But (1) not everyone wants that kind of challenge, and (2) the rewards don't need to be amazing, but need to be sufficient that I don't feel I'm completely wasting time that could be spent far more profitably elsewhere.

So, it would be good if Kabam kept working on Adaptive EQ as a long-term solution.

It would be good if there were a way to adjust the difficulty (and rewards), so that if people are finding it too hard/boring they can adjust the difficulty level to get through more (or less?) easily. Doing this could even counter a problem DNA3000 pointed out elsewhere, whereby Adaptive quests prevent people having a sense of progression, because it never gets easier.

If the player had the ability to tune difficulty/rewards down (and up?) a couple of notches, they could see progress a bit like working on a golf handicap.

Hey, I used to have to do Monthly EQ at -2 difficulty; and now I can easily do it on standard. I wonder if I can push myself to do +1 difficulty next month?

Because yelena wouldn't have been asked big of a threat if dazzler could nuke her. Dazzler was in decks as the best mutant attacker for bg when yelena came out. Yelenas impact would've been alot lesser if she just got nuked by one of the most common mutants 🤷🏾

Also when dazzler came out she could take about 85% of the top defenders so it was kinda like kabam releasing an op attacker that answered the games needs at the time. Especially with that monstrous damage. After they've made their money, they move on and create new threats ur basic attackers can't handle. That's where the "damage caps" and safeguard/protection defenders came in.

This.

And this 👆🏼

First of all, thank you Rex and Crashed for the change of plans. And for participating in the thread, which was pretty vitriolic at times.

Is there any useful learning that can be taken from these events? I can't help thinking that - to most of us here - the community response to the changes in Energy availability were entirely predictable.

Isn't this the kind of proposed change that might have benefitted from consultation with some of the long-standing and insightful members of the forum community (like DNA3000) and/or the CCP?

I came online into forums to answer exactly this. I knew these posts will come.

We have never received war season rewards this early before. They cannot send everyone their old rewards without checking on the alliances who climbed a bracket this season.

Takes time.

Like you said, assuming intent via text is not helpful - nothing was meant as condescending here.
I was saying the Season just ended, so we need to compare the data between last and this season's results to compensate the difference in rewards.

The data team will be done with this as soon as they can, and we'll push comp immediately once we have that list.