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Okay, I know Valiant EQ is supposed to be experimental, but when the feedback prior has been overwhelmingly positive, doesn't mean you have to try an make it worse.

Even, and especially, if the response to this is: “these changes were already planned.” I hope Kabam gets how that just actually makes the whole thing worse.

Let’s break this down.

After both months of the Valiant EQ player feedback was pretty much consistent: great rewards - maybe even a little too good, difficulty feels okay but content takes too long because the fights are tedious and there’s too many of them. Please rebalance as fewer fights with a little bit more difficulty would be perfect. Longer fights =/= difficult fights. More fights =/= more difficulty.

Give or take, that was the summary of feedback from the community both times.

So players - Kabam’s beta testers in this scenario - provided this feedback. Kabam moves ahead with the intended changes so we shift into phase two of this test.

Now, the implemented changes were clearly just going to exacerbate the issues players had with the format and the major complaints players made.

I say clearly because even if it wasn’t known in advance, the received feedback tells us this.

Regardless, shifting to phase two.

Now, let’s give the benefit of the doubt and say that these changes were already planned and already in motion - there was no way to stop the trolly.

Do you see why I say that’s even worse?

Why introduce this in stages at all?

Introducing something in stages should allow for the stages to be spaced out so that feedback can be taken into account and course-correction can be taken.

If there’s either no intention or ability to take community feedback into account during the testing / stages phase and no course correction will take place until the final stage, then simply introduce the final draft of what the Valiant EQ will be.