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So I just want to ask, Kabam —will there be any kind of package for players who actually went through this month’s Adaptive EQ on Elder difficulty?

Because, this EQ isn’t “adaptive,” it’s absurdly overtuned. The defenders feel like Everest-level defenders with health pools and attack values way beyond anything reasonable. Add in punishing, unfun interaction nodes, and it’s less “adaptive” and more “unplayable.”

Each fight is 5+ minutes of slogging, 16 fights per quest, burning through revives and potions— for what? Rewards that are barely on par with what we’ve already seen from the Valiant Gauntlet.

At first, I thought players calling this EQ garbage were exaggerating. Then I played it. Turns out, they were being generous. How did this even pass testing from the same team that claims to “keep player experience in mind”?

And look, I get it — mistakes can happen. Maybe the team thought boosts would make these fights go faster, but in practice that clearly hasn’t worked. Instead, it turned into a frustrating slog. When those mistakes translate into pure pain for the players, it only seems fair to compensate the ones who actually pushed through and finished it.

Now, plenty of players are skipping this EQ altogether. But for those of us who went through it, dealing with Kabam’s mistake and carrying the pain, shouldn’t there be something better than these insult-tier rewards?

If next month’s EQ really is going to be “less miserable,” fine. But that doesn’t erase the disaster this one turned out to be. Players who suffered through it deserve acknowledgment— and better rewards than what we got.

I became Valiant about 3 months ago, and I’m currently in the bottom tier of Prestige. When I first checked out the new EQ rewards, I was honestly disappointed. At first glance, it looked way worse than the old Paragon + Valiant rewards. Titan shards and T7 basics especially seemed like a huge nerf.

But then I decided to do the math properly, combining the daily harvests, weekly harvests, and EQ rewards, and things look a bit different.

Note: Daily run can be done 6 days a week, and weekly run can be completed 4 times per month.

Monthly Reward Comparison

T6B
Old (Paragon + Valiant): 4
New (Daily + Weekly + EQ): 22

T3A
Old (Paragon + Valiant): 4
New (Daily + Weekly + EQ): 22

T6CC
Old (Paragon + Valiant): 3.5
New (Daily + Weekly + EQ): ~ 12

T4A
Old (Valiant): 45,600 shards
New (Only in Weekly + EQ): 1 full catalyst + 31,900 shards

7* Shards
Old (Paragon + Valiant): 18,000
New (Wed & Sat + Weekly + EQ): 27,400

7* Awakening Gem Shards
Old (Valiant): 2,000
New (Only in EQ): 1,600

T7B
Old (Valiant): 25,200
New (Only in EQ): 9,200

Titan Shards
Old (Valiant): 8,000
New (Only in EQ): 3,400

Conclusion

At first glance, it looked like a straight nerf. But after combining daily + weekly + EQ rewards, most items actually got a significant boost—except for Titan shards and T7B, which remain heavily reduced for me. The only bottleneck now is energy, requiring 2 refills per day to fully farm daily rewards and supply runs.

I have a little different take on why Im upset about everything lately. Not a cringe post, just wanting to bring awareness to what I feel is the biggest frustration for me and maybe something others don't know or have not thought about.

There are many things Kabam could do but for some unexplained reason they just wont.

As far as EQ goes, Kabam 100% could just tune down the numbers and send some revives out. They could. It wouldn't break the game, it wouldn't cause an imbalance, they have done it in the past with no issues. But they just won't. This could have been done day 1. Could be done today. It is simple on this one and anyone who says it's not is lying.

But they don't. Why? No one knows. It would put out so many fires but my only conclusion is that they are so fed up with the player base they would rather let us fester. They. Don't. Care. Period.

Another example?

Sure. After all the shiz-show the last 3 months they could have thrown a basic package out. Few hundred units, some revives and refills, maybe some shards. Any kind of scraps. But again. Nope.

Literally no reason. None. Just disdain for the players.

Screw Kabam. I think im about done. You want my money but dont give a (*EDITED) about me or anyone else that plays. Even the whales anymore.
I've never seen a company that hates it's customer so much.

They could band aid everything but still choose not to.

IT. IS. A. CHOICE.

They are flipping you off and expecting you to take it because we always do dont we?

We threaten and then just log back in.

They know we are their Bich.