Dev Diary: Cavalier Difficulty in 2021 and Beyond - New Buffs for February!

MCOC Team

Summoners!

Everybody's favourite Balance Designer and sick beast of a gamer, Kabam John, has taken some time to jot down some thoughts on Cavalier Difficulty, what we've seen so far, and what's to come in the future! There's also a sneak peek at the new Buffs coming in the Cavalier Difficulty Event quest in February!

Read the post here!

Wiredawg1

How does this even make sense. You want to make it less time consuming but add harder nodes in? Explain the logic in that.

odishika123

Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again

Crcrcrc

I prefer the original cav nodes by a lot. These new ones do not have nearly as many counters.

Masterpuff

Meh, something no one really needed. Itll make it slightly less boring and monotonous, but rewards are still barely worth the time for endgame players.

TheBair123

I mean it doesn't directly affect me that much, but the Tech one is super annoying. I mean the only tech champs that i can think of that inflict Armor Break in their normal kit are IMIW, Iron Man, Iron Patriot, War Machine, and Hulkbuster. And I would really only use Hulkbuster in the Cav EQ

BlackTuran

TheBair123 said:

I mean it doesn't directly affect me that much, but the Tech one is super annoying. I mean the only tech champs that i can think of that inflict Armor Break in their normal kit are IMIW, Iron Man, Iron Patriot, War Machine, and Hulkbuster. And I would really only use Hulkbuster in the Cav EQ

Warlock sp2 as well

SpideyFunko

“sick beast of a gamer” this is why I like john

Kabam Miike

TheBair123 said:

I mean it doesn't directly affect me that much, but the Tech one is super annoying. I mean the only tech champs that i can think of that inflict Armor Break in their normal kit are IMIW, Iron Man, Iron Patriot, War Machine, and Hulkbuster. And I would really only use Hulkbuster in the Cav EQ

You don't need to bring an Armor Break Champion. There are also quite a few Tech Champions that have access to Heal Block, and the Armor Break Node only extends the benefit to Champions that Armor Break and don't have access to Heal Block.

Kabam Miike

odishika123 said:

Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again

The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.

Raganator

Basically. If you have been using otherwise expiring resources on champs to get through Cav faster. Stop.

Malinmad

This is very nice for the EndGame players with very deep rosters that were getting bored with the same nodes every months... However, unfortunately for me, I think it means the end of my exploration runs in Cav EQ

I did some rankups to be able to do those exploration runs...

Well... It was fun for a while...

ThēMandalorian

I read the responses but they don't address the concerns we have and gimped our champs we have ranked for this content already.

slacker

Bruh, that science node gonna hurt iAbom than help him, hope i'm wrong

Rotelly

Kabam Miike said:

odishika123 said:

Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again

The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.

This is a horrible idea, lets talk about the number of skill champs that can cause Disorient, Incinerate or Shock effect.
- Disorient (Fury[SP1], Night Thrasher[Synergy], Ronin [SP1])
- Incinerate (Agent Venom [SP2], Cross Bones[SP2], Gwenpool [SP1], Winter Soldier [SP1/SP2]
- Shock (Black Widow DO [Basic], Night Thrasher[SP1], Thor Rag [SP3]

Okay based on that only 8 out of 32 skill champs are useful for this buff and only one of the champs can inflict the debuff without having to rely on a special attack

Renaxqq

I had counters for cavalier difficulty but now that's it... I will not be able to do cavalier difficulty anymore.

Sarvanga1_

Rotelly said:

Kabam Miike said:

odishika123 said:

Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again

The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.

This is a horrible idea, lets talk about the number of skill champs that can cause Disorient, Incinerate or Shock effect.
- Disorient (Fury[SP1], Night Thrasher[Synergy], Ronin [SP1])
- Incinerate (Agent Venom [SP2], Cross Bones[SP2], Gwenpool [SP1], Winter Soldier [SP1/SP2]
- Shock (Black Widow DO [Basic], Night Thrasher[SP1], Thor Rag [SP3]

Okay based on that only 8 out of 32 skill champs are useful for this buff and only one of the champs can inflict the debuff without having to rely on a special attack

You are forgetting masacre and fury.

Gogeta91199

@Kabam Miike can you plz atleast change the 10% t5cc crystals to a selector. Its frustrating getting troll rolled when you are so close to forming a t5cc and achieving thronebreaker. Please consider adding a selector.

Rotelly

Sarvanga1_ said:

Rotelly said:

Kabam Miike said:

odishika123 said:

Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again

The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.

This is a horrible idea, lets talk about the number of skill champs that can cause Disorient, Incinerate or Shock effect.
- Disorient (Fury[SP1], Night Thrasher[Synergy], Ronin [SP1])
- Incinerate (Agent Venom [SP2], Cross Bones[SP2], Gwenpool [SP1], Winter Soldier [SP1/SP2]
- Shock (Black Widow DO [Basic], Night Thrasher[SP1], Thor Rag [SP3]

Okay based on that only 8 out of 32 skill champs are useful for this buff and only one of the champs can inflict the debuff without having to rely on a special attack

You are forgetting masacre and fury.

Good catch with Masacre, i have fury on the list but he requires an SP1 to trigger disorient

ThēMandalorian

Rotelly said:

Sarvanga1_ said:

Rotelly said:

Kabam Miike said:

odishika123 said:

Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again

The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.

This is a horrible idea, lets talk about the number of skill champs that can cause Disorient, Incinerate or Shock effect.
- Disorient (Fury[SP1], Night Thrasher[Synergy], Ronin [SP1])
- Incinerate (Agent Venom [SP2], Cross Bones[SP2], Gwenpool [SP1], Winter Soldier [SP1/SP2]
- Shock (Black Widow DO [Basic], Night Thrasher[SP1], Thor Rag [SP3]

Okay based on that only 8 out of 32 skill champs are useful for this buff and only one of the champs can inflict the debuff without having to rely on a special attack

You are forgetting masacre and fury.

Good catch with Masacre, i have fury on the list but he requires an SP1 to trigger disorient

Elsa Bloodstone was also missed as Incinerate.

Kabam Miike

Rotelly said:

Kabam Miike said:

odishika123 said:

Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again

The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.

This is a horrible idea, lets talk about the number of skill champs that can cause Disorient, Incinerate or Shock effect.
- Disorient (Fury[SP1], Night Thrasher[Synergy], Ronin [SP1])
- Incinerate (Agent Venom [SP2], Cross Bones[SP2], Gwenpool [SP1], Winter Soldier [SP1/SP2]
- Shock (Black Widow DO [Basic], Night Thrasher[SP1], Thor Rag [SP3]

Okay based on that only 8 out of 32 skill champs are useful for this buff and only one of the champs can inflict the debuff without having to rely on a special attack

That's not Counting Champions that suppress Evade with their natural Kits. True Accuracy/Strike, and Ability Accuracy reduction. Those aren't limited to the Skill class either. Remember that you do not have to use the Class that gets the bonus from the buffs, but you get a nice bonus for doing so.

Andyball270

How about a thronebreaker difficulty? I want better rewards and i dont mind the extra effort.