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One question for you @WednesdayLength, do you believe all players can hit the 285,000 mark without doing the AW Showcase related points and Nightmare raids? Just curious and if so please let me know. This realm event seems different than prior ones where the entire community could honestly get the top rewards and then the rank rewards is what distinguished between players.

No, because they're not supposed to. If you want or new the absolute top tier of rewards you shouldn't expect to get them without doing big content. This showcase is probably the easiest one we've had so far by the way

One point I would argue with is the notion of “big content.”

We can only do the content that’s in front of us, and whether that’s big enough or not isn’t really in our control. Sure, the Showcase and Gauntlet aren’t really bad but they aren’t really “big” compared to things like Carina’s or WoF or Necro. They’re just the latest incarnation of “harder” content.

As for top tier rewards being only available to players who compete the hardest content available, I agree with you—you should not get it all for less.

But I also think there’s a bit of a gap in the Realm event where a player who does everything except Raids finds himself at or below the 6* nexus crystal or even 6* saga sig stone milestones.

Obviously Kabam feels differently, but those aren’t anywhere near top rewards for players who can do everything else except Raids. There is decent stuff along the way, but the breakdown seems disproportionately weighted against non-Raids players and alliances.

If anything disappoints me about a “Realm” event, that’s it.

Dr. Zola

Edit: I will add that I am at the “1665 points every other day” part of this month with a 465 points from DSE day in between. That lasts for the rest of the month until August content drops. Adding points to my Realm score will be slow for the next few weeks, which kind of exemplifies the event design issues.

Big content is just a phrase I used, I'm not trying to argue what it's definitely described as big content.

Also like, that's kind of the point of these events? I didn't do raids before it thinking it was going to be too hard and now I do them and realise it's not as hard as i thought and it's one of my favourite games modes. The point is to push people to want to try these new modes for the rewards

Understood. I tend to think of Necro or Epoch or similar content as “big” but I get your point.

I’m also fine with encouraging players to get involved in Raids, but I don’t think this is how you do it. Instead of “try Raids and get better prizes” it feels more like “no good prizes if you don’t do Raids and Nightmare Raids specifically.” It’s much more stick than carrot.

And I’m not advocating for getting all the milestones if you don’t do Raids. No one should get the top several milestones if they don’t have substantial points from Raids.

On its face, the milestone structure and progression is puzzling, progressing from 7* shard selectors and 7* sig selectors to tiers of 6* sig stones and a 6* Nexus. That winds up being around the spot a non-Raids player would top out—ergo, more stick than carrot.

Dr. Zola