Thoughts on this month's Cav EQ?
Justin2524
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I think they've tried to make it too complicate and hard, and a sneaky way of making us rank up champs that don't matter.
Thoughts on this month's Cav EQ? 538 votes
Love it
7%
43 votes
Indifferent
15%
82 votes
Hate it
67%
361 votes
Haven't done Cav EQ in months and probably won't for a while
9%
52 votes
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Seems unnecessarily difficult this month though, trouble fighting like cage in chapter 1 doesn’t bode well for the rest of the EQ
For normal cav even tb player it's very unlikely to have a ranked up champ from every tag
But after a few paths, it’s beginning to feel like a miss. Anything that requires precise game mechanics (example: evading in 2.1) at this point with the game’s issues probably should have been put on ice for a few months. And some of the hash tagged champs don’t quite align with what you need to run the paths against the selected opponents.
Positive note: I appreciate the effort at trying something new. If the tags get organized better and we are able to select “or” as well as “and” with respect to the tags, that would be a QoL plus.
Dr. Zola
This is a game and supposed to be fun. If I wanted to spend a ton of time reading I'd pick up a book. Reading all of the nodes and filtering champion tags is a total pain.
That said, I won't vote because, while I dislike some things about the changes and am not overall positive to this month's EQ, I still don't "hate" it. That's too strong a word.
However, I'm also coming at this from a Thronebreaker perspective. I absolutely sympathize with Cavalier players. It's not easy to just have these champions ranked up, especially with no notice whatsoever. I don't have a strong roster in most of these tags and am even lacking decent champions in most of the combined tags. It really feels like Kabam overestimated how many good Guardians of the Galaxy, Thunderbolts and Fantastic Four champs there are in the game, as well as how many mid-tier players have those specific champions ranked up.
It’s very disappointing to see the highly restrictive variant 8 followed by a monthly EQ with narrower nodes than before. These decisions contradict design principles Kabam promised in the roadmaps.
I’ve got two TB accounts, so I’m fine, but you can’t say something is targeted at Cavalier players then impose restrictions like these. One reason that class gates were mostly fine in EQ is that resources allocate by class, and many other in-game nodes and abilities function off class relationships. The natural flow of the game results in you ranking up champs across all 6 classes. These random tags, which can’t even be searched as a group btw…not so much.
However, I think it's important that Cav players keep something in mind. Veteran players were once in the same position that you are. For example, when Uncollected EQ first came out (release of MODOK as a character) I found it quite difficult at the time, for me personally anyway. And was faced with the decision to either only do initial completion or to use many items if I wanted the rewards for full exploration. So, believe it or not, most of us do actually know what it feels like. We've all been there at some point or another. Growing our experience and rosters is what allowed us to eventually claim the rewards at low or no cost.
But, I think part of the root issue is that too many players are being grouped into the same difficulty. We need a TB version and/or a new title. So Cav can be tuned for Cav and TB for TB/TB+, etc.
But for the time being, hopefully Kabam takes everyone's feedback and works on a solution for all. And in the mean time, if anyone is struggling with the current version, please don't hesitate to ask veteran players for advice. It's what we did, before we were veterans players.
For a lot of the quests this month, I just built a team ignoring the tags, and had no issues. When I did have champions ranked that matched the tags, I would bring them and enjoy the boost.
I think in the past, CEQ restricted you to only the class champions, and made others unplayable for the paths at least. As a relatively new Thronebreaker, this made some quests really easy, but others very difficult.
So, while less people be may able to enjoy the benefits of the nodes, I believe that more will be able to get through and explore CEQ by using their normal go-to champions.
I don't feel that the difficulty has increased. The missions are perfect to be able to complete them with 5 * r4 even 4 * r5.
The last EQs was boring to me.