What happened to "just log on and smash out a few paths"?

LordSmasher

There used to be a playstyle where you could log on, take your team of moment and run a few paths in a quest.
You might need to the occasional counter to a difficult node or enemey champ but not always.
When you wanted to try something different you could go a variant or explore the left over paths in a story quest.

That casual playstyle has gone.

The counter-play game style has taken over all the quests. This playstyle is more of a take these 2 or 3 champs and run every fight with them. If its the last quest in Cavalier that a lot of repetitive fights.
Some people like that like that but I don't, the way I used to engage with the game has been removed and the remaining options are unpalatable.

Anyone else feeling similar?

CyborgNinja135

Imo cav difficulty allows me to experiment more with champs I wouldn't normally bring into quests and have fun with them. Like being able to make Bishop a horseman for this month's mutant nodes and watch him destroy entire paths, or using DDHK in the skill quest. Sure if I'm in a rush I could just clear every path on the mutant quest with Apoc and call it a day.
I just like cav eq because of that. It gives some champions the little bit of extra damage they need and makes them fun to play.

IronGladiator22

I agree with this, but I like the way Cavalier tries to make the experience more unique and interesting with unique matchups.

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Chikel

CyborgNinja135 said:

Imo cav difficulty allows me to experiment more with champs I wouldn't normally bring into quests and have fun with them. Like being able to make Bishop a horseman for this month's mutant nodes and watch him destroy entire paths, or using DDHK in the skill quest. Sure if I'm in a rush I could just clear every path on the mutant quest with Apoc and call it a day.
I just like cav eq because of that. It gives some champions the little bit of extra damage they need and makes them fun to play.

Yea. I wouldn't normally use Aegon in eq but this one gave me the opportunity to do so simply because he's amazing in it

ItsDamien

It’s called doing Uncollected

GroundedWisdom

ItsDamien said:

It’s called doing Uncollected

I believe the OP is referring to Pokémon Go.

No_oneuk

There's a reason why it's not like that anymore.

Because for most people, that's boring.

If you run against something with no challenge for long enough most people walk away. The game naturally evolves by virtue of new characters needing to be new and distinct, which means new abilities which means new methods to counter those abilities. They have to keep the game fresh for most of us to keep playing, or the game would die out.

You have to keep moving or you'll drown, which is especially true in the world of game development.

Chikel

ItsDamien said:

It’s called doing Uncollected

UC actually takes no longer than Cav nowadays. You have the same nodes without the specific cav nodes that makes everything go faster. Sure the healthpool os smaller but I find it longer than Cav.

Nojokejaym

It seems OP is on his own with this one