5.3.6 Refill farm change

Since the other got closed for being derailed, maybe a thread to discuss the change without having to rely on observations alone

For me, it's a very very bad change. It was the perfect place to farm the items . It took long enough and you had to actually do the fight and not able to autofight it was not like the act 1 reveiv farm that was nerfed long back

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QuikPik

I thought this act was fine for farming refills. You couldn't auto play and it took 90 energy to complete. Sometimes you got no refills but had to run it anyway to reset it. With the increased demand of energy from side quests and battlegrounds, we need a consistent way to get energy refills.

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awesomesauce

Was all story content nerfed in terms of finding items and resources? Or just 5.3.6 and the full energy refills?

CoatHang3r

Gone but not forgotten. Rip 5.3.6 ers.

Typhoon

Can someone link me to the correspondence from Dev team on this?

AverageDesi

Gone but not forgotten. Rip 5.3.6 ers.

You single handedly caused the change to the farm

/S

AverageDesi

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2082626/#Comment_2082626

@Typhoon

Furrymoosen

It is quite disgusting how this company continues to exceed the expectations of our disappointment, especially given how low our expectations for excitement have been for the last year plus. What a terrible, terrible move. 5.3.6 has spent years not hurting anyone or anything. Of course there are more places to farm (assuming they haven't changed them all), but this is just another money grab. The character of this company is very disappointing.

LilMaddogHT

@Kabam Miike

So auto-farming easy quests where you don't have to 'play' the game (just auto-fight) for Revives is ok...?

Auto-questing w/ beefy R3 or R4 6-Star champions in Realm of Legends for Health Potions is ok...?

But actually having to invest your time and play the game to farm for Energy Refills is NOT ok...?

Please let's have a reasonable discussion about this... Respawn rate just too OP in 5.3.6? Why not just lower the RNG that it spawns, rather than rip it away? Kabam controls the items and rates on the maps and there will always be maps that have better rates than others until you just actually make the change to make it all equal. Why the discrepancy?

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BuggyDClown

I had argument like months before on forums about it
I said it to keep it down. Don't poke too much about it. Kabam may know about it but players should not make it obvious how beneficial it is to them . But instead I was laughed on. Those pros said that 5.3.6 will be last place to nerf bla bla bla bla bla.
I predicted that once a hard but very rewarding content comes it will be patched
I got lot of disagrees. I said that this dumbness will get this thing down. TBH players deserved this nerf and I want that kabam don't reverse it(I used to farm 5.3.6 too so I know what I am saying). This should be lesson why players should not poke game team too much how beneficial something is to all players

Simple lesson : if you find such thing again, FFS please don't go on announcement mode. Enjoy it and spread to ally mates and friend. Don't come to forums to Brag/flex. Keep it low. Otherwise I am predicting again that some placed and things will get patch soon .

What a waste of such good quest. Gonna miss my farm 😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫

Typhoon

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2082626/#Comment_2082626

@Typhoon

Wow, that is garbage.

Transparency, level down!

GoDlyZor

@Kabam Miike
Please let's have a reasonable discussion about this... Respawn rate just too OP in 5.3.6? Why not just lower the RNG that it spawns, rather than rip it away? Kabam controls the items and rates on the maps and there will always be maps that have better rates than others until you just actually make the change to make it all equal. Why the discrepancy?

Totally agree with you on this and Kabam needs a lot more transparency and details than the reactive comment Kabam Miike did but from my own testing they did lower the RNG and didn't rip it away altogether. I just cleared the map going down middle and to the top left collecting a full refill in the process (from before the change) and when I cleared and opened it up again (After the change) a full refill had spawned in the middle path where the KG is. Out of 4 runs that was the only full refill but it still is possible..

Virtual_Phantom

This change is horrible for the quality of life in this game. I have been playing again for the past 2 years, and have never been forced to spend on energy. I have also always had the opportunity to knockout whatever content was needed at one time vs. spreading it out over a huge period of time (including monthly EQ)! This change hinders my chances with my work schedules to be able to do so going forward. I do truly love this game and this basically takes away my ability to explore content every month at times I can afford to login and play this game I enjoy so much without spending money to do so. I already spend a lot of money for other things in this game, energy will not be one them.

Etm34

Pro Tip from now on; If you figure out quests with seemingly higher drop rates of energy refills/revives…
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Don’t say anything

Typhoon

I also love how it was stated that they planned to get this out next month and planned to announce it, and May is in 4 days. Really holding onto information until the last minute. Thanks for the heads up!

Noobda

It should be reversed kabam!

Graves_3

My only question is how can the changes accidentally go live early? This is not the first time something has made its way to the game earlier than intended without any announcement. Or is this the standard excuse going forward?

GroundedWisdom

I also love how it was stated that they planned to get this out next month and planned to announce it, and May is in 4 days. Really holding onto information until the last minute. Thanks for the heads up!

That's how they always operate. They release the information when the monthly changes are posted.

AverageDesi

Guys for the collective love of refills, don't get the thread closed. And don't feed the

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GroundedWisdom

I also love how it was stated that they planned to get this out next month and planned to announce it, and May is in 4 days. Really holding onto information until the last minute. Thanks for the heads up!
That's how they always operate. They release the information when the monthly changes are posted.
Except they didn't operate like that this time, did they?

Didn't you just rack up like 300 disagrees from the other thread from telling people they're wrong for assuming Kabam changed things?

Back for more?

I have no control over how people react.
What I said was wait for actual information before assuming.

DrZola

Easiest way to resolve all of this is to create a permanent trade-in of L1 revives against energy refills. If I’m willing to burn a full refill to get a single L1 revive (or vice versa), then just make it a part of the stores. Roughly equivalent in value and I get to save time.

Dr. Zola

Noobda

Easiest way to resolve all of this is to create a permanent trade-in of L1 revives against energy refills. If I’m willing to burn a full refill to get a single L1 revive (or vice versa), then just make it a part of the stores. Roughly equivalent in value and I get to save time.

Dr. Zola

I used to use 5.3.6 to farm more refills from the few refills I had. Those refills helped me alot in like exploring cav eq on day1 and some more stuff. If any refill would ever be expiring , I would be jumping in to farm revives . Never had to worry about refills/ lvl1 revives this way.

Bolland

Absolutely awful decision to change this. Shocking!

DrZola

Easiest way to resolve all of this is to create a permanent trade-in of L1 revives against energy refills. If I’m willing to burn a full refill to get a single L1 revive (or vice versa), then just make it a part of the stores. Roughly equivalent in value and I get to save time.

Dr. Zola

I used to use 5.3.6 to farm more refills from the few refills I had. Those refills helped me alot in like exploring cav eq on day1 and some more stuff. If any refill would ever be expiring , I would be jumping in to farm revives . Never had to worry about refills/ lvl1 revives this way.

Understood. This isn’t a pro-player move. If the team refuses to allow swaps of low level items, there should be semi-reliable spots in game that allow players to play the game to get simple items like refills and low level revives.

Dr. Zola

phil56201

Im wondering if this change retroactively replaced what was already spawned on the map?

What I understood from those who routinely farmed that quest, the upper 2 paths never spawned small refills.

I haven’t touched Act 5 since I explored it years ago, yet when I went in today, this is whats on the map.

Was there always a chance for a small energy refill, or were the items changed?

QuikPik

The paths with Loki and all mystic one never had small refills. It was always 0, 1, or 2 full refills.

phil56201

The paths with Loki and all mystic one never had small refills. It was always 0, 1, or 2 full refills.

Then I'd have to assume that the drops were changed. That quest is untouched since I explored it 3-4 years ago.

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