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As for the response from Kabam - appreciate the communications and hearing the player base as it comes to EQ and the new setup. As a Valiant FTP I enjoy monthly EQ so much. It’s fun, helps with stocking up on mats, shards, gold and sig stones. It’s a. The past few months have been a great tune up imo. I don’t mind the champion swap and class restrictions that much- I manage to clear the content and it’s enjoyable for me.

With that being said as someone who loves EQ - this change is probably the worst update I’ve seen in a long time and I’ve been here for 10+ years. As others mentioned it’’s a drain on time, resources, and chase. I just cleared the normal mode and got a premium hero crystal and some t2cc. I don’t know how cav, or TB players will even fair with those health pools in normal mode also. Crazy. The Elder difficulty is horrible. Bleed nodes, stupid high health pools and attack ratings. This will be the first month in 6 years I haven’t finished/explored EQ. I can’t afford the revives or energy let alone use a mutant roster that is 80% not immune to bleed and poison DOT. Blade’s chip damage was nuts on my bleed immune 7* R3 Dust. 7* R1’s and below melt 50 seconds in to each fight.

All of this to say- thanks for the response but we are day 2 into a new month of EQ. If I’m reading this correct- there won’t be any re-tunes, or updates until next month? That’s crazy. I’ve stayed in game for every shenanigan, outrage, scandal, compensation or even lack thereof. I think I’ve posted to forums like 5 times over the life of my account. As a FTP player I have a high tolerance for grinding through and also pretty low expectations as to what this game provides an account like mine. But this is one of the wildest negative impact an update has had on my game play / account. I’m progressing through all the act 9 content, clearing all daily/monthly challenges, battle grounds etc but new EQ has always been the highlight of the month especially in the days where I was just grinding to try and become uncollected, Cav, TB with the slowest rank up materials acquisition ever.

Is there a way where this can be resolved in some form or level of playability for the month until the issues get sorted? I genuinely can’t believe the EQ rewards given to Cav, TB, Paragon, or Valiant for the energy spent to progress to elder. Literally the first total net-negative in EQ I’ve ever had playing EQ. One month till resolve is honestly just bad customer service, PR, and IT.

I also echo the sentiment as everyone else when it comes to prestige, the changes, and that it’s all tied to EQ progression/rewards? Why was any of this green lighted? Someone or multiple people HAD to know this was going to be horrible and either they were pushed back on or someone in the top offices has shown again that they don’t care at all about the customer base until it affects their revenue. There’s 100000 lessons Kabam has had the opportunity to learn from in the last 10 years from Kabam Mike scolding everyone one forums, to silent nerfs, and hundreds of other ways the loyal base has been slighted and ignored over the years. I don’t love losing 5k prestige but I can deal with it, we’ll see how the change works but tying that to EQ and rewards and just changing so much of the game in one update shows how out of touch the company is with the players.

I may 100% the classic and leave the Elder.
This is not funny at all and I don’t want to waste time to collect 1/10 of what should be the correct reward.

Couldn’t agree more. Very thorough post! Also think the relic event should’ve never been alliance based as well to add on to all the recent talk about EQ. Kabam has heard some of the concerns - but is still missing the point that it’s not just the difficulty that’s screwed up with this new EQ

That really is the most likely outcome… but even this sounds a little too optimistic for Kabam.

What if the current adaptive difficulty level for everyone was their cap? I can down-select a few notches and take marginally fewer rewards. It still allows Kabam to incentivize prestige while allowing the player base flexibility to match their skills and appetite.

That said, some of these node choices seem really not fun. It really makes you wonder how much the team playtests the content.

I think there needs to be an option to drop down to a lower difficulty tier - so if you’re not able to do Valiant level EQ you can do paragon for the Paragon rewards, for example. There’s still potentially the problem of having to lock in your difficulty, but that way you would have options.

I would leave the autoscaling content for special events, endgame type stuff.

Monthly EQ was always pretty enjoyable even way back when I struggled for a completion run of Master but this Elder difficulty is not my cup of tea at all.

They're addressing the difficulty as the main problem, but in my opinion it goes deeper. Eq would always be a place to get resources in order to get some champs ranked, even if in little amounts, but consistently.

This provided us with opportunities to get stronger little by little, in order to tackle difficult but rewarding contents.

The ideia of the changes goes against the purpose of it by itself, its keeping us from rewards that we were getting before.

The Prestige thing wasn't that well thought, it pushes newer valiants to difficults that are impossible and reduce resources possible to get since it limits availability according to prestige, not capabilities.

We get Mike, Pinwheel plus a few guardians commenting on casual forum posts and making insightful posts themselves. What a day that begs the question...

ARE FORUMS BACK??!

I enjoy picking the difficulty I want to play. There are times I play the highest option I have and it is usually a challenge, but other times I want to relax and just plow through a lower difficulty. That seems to have gone away. So you promoted me to Paragon with no option to play a lower level. Next time I am in the mood for pure frustration I will give it a shot. Until then, I think it is time for a break. Maybe I am missing something, wouldn’t be the first time, but I think a break is in order anyway.