Progression Sucks but Y’all’s Solutions Do Too. Here’s What I’d Do
Since yesterday, I’ve seen a lot of cavalier people rightfully complain about not just the offers they were allowed to buy, but also the general separation between early cav players and highly progressed cav players, and between advanced cav players and Thronebreaker. While recent cav players may really benefit from their offers, the cavalier pool is still a huge range of players at different levels, and most cav players were really shafted.
I’ve also heard some solutions, but most of them sound like they were written by the same Kabam employees who came up with Thronebreaker. A lot of “if you have X 5* R5s, then introduce a new cav level (with better offers)”, or “if you have X 6* R2s,” etc. I have major beef with these ideas and with how Thronebreaker is currently - since when should progression and access to improved goods become based on what you have rather than what you’ve done? Isn’t that just insane to you? Talk about the rich getting richer.
Get this - I’m a cav player who’s done Act 6 100%. I rushed a bit in October to explore it all hoping I’d get to Thronebreaker in time for this weekend’s deals. But nope. Unless y’all expect me to rank up Black Bolt, YellowJacket, cosmic Spidey or Modok to R3, I literally can’t become Thronebreaker. It’s totally fair to say I’m only posting cuz I’m salty, cuz hell yes I’m salty! When most of your friends can buy class specific 6* Nexus crystals and 25% T5CC selectors even if they’re only at 50% Act 6 exploration (or less), while you’re 100% done with all of the main story and stuck with the cav ****, you get salty. But I’ve always hated the Thronebreaker requirements. Hate’s just a bit more pronounced this week.
Anyway, this is what I’d do. Take Cav and split it into two by adding a new level below Thronebreaker - this just helps to separate the huge gap of players with the current cavalier title (which Thronebreaker didn’t even come close to separating). The requirements for this new level should be 6.4 completion. Just beat the Grandmaster once and you can get a bump up in progression. Im pretty sure this pretty evenly divides this large group of players.
As for Thronebreaker, since we’re unfortunately already steeped into the problem as it is, just add an “or” requirement of either having an R3 OR 100% exploration. I realize I’m probably just one of a very small number of players who would benefit from this, but that’s OK for two reasons. First, at least the cavalier gap gets solved with the previous suggestion. Second, it at least returns the principle of talent-based progression back to the game. I’m afraid of the slippery slope of making progression beyond Thronebreaker continuously based on one’s roster rather than one’s story accomplishments.
Kabam, in the future, please stop with the rank-based roster requirements. It introduces a certain level of luck required to move up, which is far from ideal to speak nothing of being inconsistent. It’s amazing that the cavalier level existed for so long as the top level and that after all that time to come up with a new level, THIS became the requirement. Please focus better on how often to introduce new progression and what the requirements should be.
TL;DR Thronebreaker sucks cuz I’ve had bad luck but accomplished a lot and Kabam needs to do something about it.
