Get a Free 3-6 Star Baron Zemo this Week!
Log in to the Summoner's Market at https://store.playcontestofchampions.com/ and claim the Baron Zemo Selector between 10am PT November 24 and 10am PT on December 1st.
Proven and Below: 3-Star
Conqueror/Uncollected: 4-Star
Cavalier/Thronebreaker: 5-Star
Paragon/Valiant: 6-Star
You can only claim this Baron Zemo one time. The Baron Zemo is delivered as a selector, claiming it will require you to choose your rarity immediately. If you plan to change your Progression level during the Cyber Week event, we suggest you wait until you have made that change before claiming this selector.
Log in to the Summoner's Market at https://store.playcontestofchampions.com/ and claim the Baron Zemo Selector between 10am PT November 24 and 10am PT on December 1st.
Proven and Below: 3-Star
Conqueror/Uncollected: 4-Star
Cavalier/Thronebreaker: 5-Star
Paragon/Valiant: 6-Star
You can only claim this Baron Zemo one time. The Baron Zemo is delivered as a selector, claiming it will require you to choose your rarity immediately. If you plan to change your Progression level during the Cyber Week event, we suggest you wait until you have made that change before claiming this selector.
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5 years of playing and I've never been as unmotivated as I am now, we need something more accessible
I don’t spend on this game outside a bit on holidays. I have completed everything play in a top masters ally and have 3 r4s and close to a 4th. It has taken a lot of work. What is wrong with rewarding players that have put that work in? I am the furthest thing from a whale. But they keep the game going and don’t effect your life.
With that said finishing act 7.4 is not a great achievement for any player that plays at the higher levels. It’s not that difficult. The only progression way is to say you have to have finished everything. Well there are plenty that will never want to finish some of carinas. Speaking from experience the LOL ones except O Canada were ridiculous as well as Mikes revenge and punch out. So this seems to be a nice compromise for those like me who have grinded it out and those that spent on things like ggcs.
If you are saying titles have always been linked to completion, 2 real titles were linked to progression and now 2 linked to roster. It’s not like it’s been dozens of progression milestones. It was 2. Uncollected and cavalier.
As far as what we receive in r4 materials being in high level allys. I’ve been in top 20 aq ally for years and finished masters for just as long, placing in top 3 multiple times. With that being said the amount of R4 materials we receive at this time won’t change anything. Check for yourself. And don’t look at this season they just raised it.
I think what this title shows is that the tap is going to open on resources. With battlegrounds, story mode (already beta of 8.1) and I’m sure it will be elsewhere soon.
Most importantly, kabam needs to give a bt of something to their end game players. We don’t get much challenging content because most just complain it’s too hard. So war is our only real challenge and now hopefully battlegrounds.
You know what would have been helpful to the playerbase …. A 2022 roadmap that explained this paragon title and other plans for the future.
Actually, maybe a little.
I’m not going to come out here and express only my opinion, but a pretty valid concern: do we as a community accept that a progression title is structured to temporarily available events and deals? That’s I think the biggest thing holding me back right now.
All progression titles thus far have come from instances that are fixed/non-temporary in the game:
Uncollected: Beat Collector in 5.2
Cavalier: Beat Sentinel in 6.1
Thronebreaker: Beat Grandmaster in 6.4, and have 1 r3 - but if you explored act 6 and/or completed abyss, you had one.
Now, paragon’s immediate requirements are to:
- Complete/Explore Grandmaster’s (?) Gauntlet from nearly a year ago
- Complete/Explore Summer of Pain from months ago
- Complete Carina’s Challenges
- Spend on a 10k unit offer/12k unit offer available for 24 hours
- Play in a high tier alliance
- Alternatively, spend
As it exists in the game right now, we are only able to unlock the requirements from Carina’s Challenges and by playing in a high tier alliance. I’m not saying there won’t be opportunities to come in which we will be able to gain these resources. What I’m saying is, the progression title is immediately now attributed to players having been playing, paying, and exploring temporary content for a longer time duration than anyone who missed those opportunities. It seems time and opportunity > skill here.
I personally don’t like that. I don’t like the fact that those who made different choices in the game (Ie: to forgo dropping 3 odins on the 10k offer, or couldn’t finish a week of SOP, or do the last path of grandmaster’s gauntlet) are now left behind.
To give you a sense of where I’m at, I have:
- Explored all story content
- Am close to finishing Carina’s Vol 2
- Completed and Explored all SOP, Gauntlet
- Did not buy the 10k offer (although I guess I was supposed to, now)
- Regularly played in a high tier alliance until gifting three everything out of wack with the AQ scores.
I have 1 R4 from Act 4 Exploration. I will get a second one from finishing 2 more Carina’s Challenges. I’m not close to that third one.
Finally, I want to ask a couple questions that seem redundant but it’s clearly making an impact here.
1) Carina’s Challenges were meant to be a challenging mode for those who are elite completion-ists for extra rewards or so they were marketed. Is it fair they are being used in the calculation for the next progression level.
2) Restated from above: is it fair that temporary content that is not in the game currently are being used for calculation for the next progression level?
3) Is it fair that time-sensitive offers (like the 10k/12k offer, only available for 24 hours) are used in calculation for the next progression level?
There isn't anything different in this title vs TB. The day 1 release isn't meant for a wide majority but for those that are at the top because there is way less for them in the game to strive for. All they have is top tier AQ and AW to do. Also, AW and AQ aren't the benchmark for this title, it's just part of it because there is constant R4 mats in rewards.
There are F2P out there with 3 R4's, may not be as many as spenders but it's still possible. At some point we'll all be paragon and the same groups will be complaining about the requirements for the next title to be released.
BS is thinking you deserve everything immediately regardless of how you play in a progressional game as a service. BS is thinking there should be no advantages beyond what you personally do. BS is thinking that the players doing more than you should only get what you think they deserve to get.
I said finished everything, and used earned units to buy unit offers. Only cash deals I bought was 2 odins on 4th of July. I bought the unit deals and 20 ggcs with units I grinded. And I’m halfway to a 4th. So if you’ve truly done all of the content I would imagine you’d be at 3 r4s if not very close.