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yeah, what they said!!!!!

I honestly liked the format of Valiant EQ the past couple months…it seems like for "Adaptive EQ", they decided to take the same format and turn the difficulty up to 1,000. I don't know how they fumbled this as hard as they did, but it seems like the solution is relatively simple:

• Tune down defender health pools and attack ratings to reasonable levels (can still scale moderately with prestige).
• Fewer fights per path, 15 is way too many.
• Go back to full health after each champion swap. Why they decided to change this while the fights are as overtuned as they currently are (even on Classic difficulty) is beyond me.

It feels like Kabam had 5 different people working on ideas for how to make Adaptive EQ more difficult, and each of them implemented one idea, but none of the employees communicated their ideas to each other to make sure that all of the changes together made sense. Either that, or the quest is bugged and they unintentionally overtuned health pools and attack ratings. Either way, this is a serious quality control issue, and this quest never should've been released as is.

Spot on. All their decisions make sense when you start at this presupposition driving content and sales and not something about “they messed up”… “ this was a mistake” “they seem out of touch”…. Time to put the rose color glasses down. The game is being driven in a narrow direction for a select few. It’s just that simple.

3. Its sooo bad and needs a lot of rework to even be worth the limited time I have.

Nah, they responded, but all they really said is that they're looking through our feedback and are evaluating their options. Releasing the dailies early was a bandaid for the meantime.

They'll say something when they have a plan solidified.

EQ should not be this difficult or time consuming at all. That’s what WoF, The Crucible, EOP is for, to test our skills and fighting abilities. To have to do Classic to get to Elder is not it. Like others have said, once Kabam took the restrictions off of Thronebreaker to play Paragon, it made it better. Now we are expected to do it all over again and with more difficult fights with restrictions to class of champs we can use in Elder. Just a huge fail in regards to the whole player base….

If I had the bright idea of taking 10 years of data on player PI, success rate at content based on defender levels, and tie it into an algorithm that could auto tweak difficulty levels to encourage set levels of game engagement time as well as revive/ potion use every month, cutting back on company costs and time every month, I'd also be patting myself on the back while updating my resume and LinkedIn profile to tout my awesomeness. And I'm even wearing shorts.

Of course i wouldn't be caught on a livestream doing so, but different strokes...