Will we ever see a higher difficulty level for side quests?

Let me just start off by saying that the idea of kabam trying to lump everyone from new cav players, to endgame thronebreakers into one difficulty level for the side quests simply doesn’t make sense.

In AQ we have mythic & even eternal difficulty levels. Is there any chance we could see this implemented into other game modes?

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TheBair123

i mean at this point i don't think it's a matter of if it's coming, but when. my personal hope is that we get a new title either end of this year at the earliest or maybe even next year. before then, we would hopefully get a new SQ difficulty where we can actually use r3s and the few r4s that some have. also, i think some boss rushes now and then would make up for the lack of a higher difficulty. at least that gives something to do. summer of pain was a huge success, anyways

Colinwhitworth69

Likely, considering the game has previously evolved to meet the rising skill and rosters.

But there’s been nothing in the road maps about it, so don’t hold your breath.

DNA3000

Let me just start off by saying that the idea of kabam trying to lump everyone from new cav players, to endgame thronebreakers into one difficulty level for the side quests simply doesn’t make sense.

In AQ we have mythic & even eternal difficulty levels. Is there any chance we could see this implemented into other game modes?

In practical terms? Nope.

I mean, higher difficulty tiers will come eventually, but Kabam is also restructuring the game so that the lower tiers don't matter as much or are completely eliminated. We gained Cav but we lost Beginner. We'll probably lose Normal the day we get TB and start the game at Heroic.

The devs only have so much I/O. They simultaneously announced a slow down in champion update pacing all the while adding another developer to assist with it. They restructured arenas from five to three. They radically simplified the first three story Act content, to help accelerate players towards Uncollected. These are all signs that the game can't get "wider." We're only ever going to have so many difficulty tiers, and we can't just add more to distinguish between the early Cavs and the intermediate Cavs and the late stage Cavs and the pre-TB Cavs and the early TBs and the progressing TBs and the end game TBs and the super-GM TBs.

The difficulty tiers are always going to be wide, and the widest is always going to be the highest, for a couple of reasons that basically boil down to player population. At the highest levels of the game you have the widest range of player strength. This also means it is the thinnest: there are fewer players of any particular strength. This simultaneously means it is more difficult to encapsulate them into a single difficulty tier, but there aren't enough of them to dedicate developer resources to slice them up in a targeted way. You target Uncollected players and you're targeting tens of thousands of players. You target intermediate Cavs and you're probably targeting thousands of players. You target pre-TB Cavs and you're probably targeting a couple busloads of players. It quickly becomes economically impossible to target that finely.