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I wanted to raise some concerns about the recent direction prestige is heading with the addition of Ascension and the Top 30 prestige list changes.

For players who focus on prestige as a major part of progression, the current system feels increasingly unfair and heavily dependent on RNG rather than planning or investment.

Right now, we can’t even rank 6 our 7-star champions yet, which already limits the ability to push prestige through normal progression. However, with Ascension now boosting prestige, certain champions can suddenly jump ahead on the leaderboard while others are stuck waiting for access to the right champs.

What makes this even more frustrating is the RNG element tied to which champions can be ascended. If prestige is something you care about, you currently have very little control over your progression because it depends entirely on whether you randomly pull one of the specific champions that can be ascended and happen to be high prestige.

Prestige used to reward:

Long-term roster development

Strategic rank-ups

Resource investment

Now it feels like it rewards luck in crystal pulls more than anything else.

The issue isn’t ascension itself. It’s that the system is being layered on top of prestige before players even have the ability to fully rank up their current top tier champions (7★ Rank 6).

This creates a few problems:

Prestige is increasingly RNG-driven

Roster planning becomes almost impossible

Players who prioritize prestige are forced to chase random pulls instead of progression paths

If ascension is going to impact prestige this heavily, it would make more sense if:

Players had broader access to ascension options, or

Ascension did not affect prestige, or

We at least had 7★ Rank 6 available first so prestige progression still followed the normal rank structure.

Right now it feels like prestige has moved from something players could strategically build toward to something determined by crystal RNG, which doesn’t feel great for players who enjoy that side of the game.

I’m curious how other prestige-focused players feel about this. At this point I'm highly considering just walking away from this game which I've played for over 10 years.