Big Changes Coming to Act 6 this June!

MCOC Team

Greetings Summoners!

The Battlerealm is an ever-churning place, constantly in flux and shifting with the sands of time. Soon the flux will bring change in the form of an update to ACT 6 - REBIRTH! 

Some of the changes you can expect with this update include an Energy Cost reduction, Health and Attack tuning on Defenders and some improvements to The Champion Boss of Act 6.2.6.

This update to Act 6 arrives on June 8 2022, but we wanted to give any Summoners that might be trying to make their way through it right now or preparing to try it in the future a heads up so that they could so prepare accordingly!

Rarity and Class Gates in Act 6 Chapter 2 removed. 

• Class and Rarity gates are the gates found on Paths. Act 6 remains only accessible by 5-Star and 6-Star Champions.
• All Class Gates in Act 6.2 have been removed.
• All Rarity Gates in Act 6.2 have been removed.

• Choice Nodes added just prior to Final Bosses for all of Act 6.

• Choice nodes added to every Map in Act 6 between the final fight in a path and the Final Boss.
• Choice nodes allow players to swap out 1 non-KO'd Champion on their team for 1 in their Roster.
• Rarity restrictions still apply (only 5 or 6 Star Champions).

• Energy Cost per Step reduced in Acts 5 and 6.

• Energy per Step reduced from 3 to 2.

• The Champion Boss of Act 6 Chapter 2 Reworked.

• The complete breakdown will be posted in the first comment on this Post.
• Reduced regeneration in the Champion's Kit and cut regen at the start of the fight.
• Added health cap to all Phases so The Champion cannot regenerate out of a Phase.
• Changed Unstoppable Stun on Contact clause in Phase 2 to Unstoppable Stun on Player Struck.
• Increased duration of Phase 2 and reduced duration of Phase 3.
• Cut direct damage when inflicting Nullify/Stagger on The Champion in Phase 3.
• Added Persistent Variable to track removing Indestructible Charges in final Phase so that Indestructible Charges do not reset every time players enter the fight. Charges are now persistent, and the number left carries over between fights allowing players to keep progress even after they get KO'd.
• Cleaned up language on some of the ability descriptions.

• Link Nodes removed from Quest 6.2.6 to make The Champion less punishing on repeat playthroughs. 

• Nodes removed were…
• Burden of Might
• Aspect of Death
• Dismay
• Prove Yourself
• Nodes remaining are…
• Spite
• Unblockable (First 6 Seconds)
• Enhanced Abilities - 20%
• Kinetic Transference - 1

• All fights (excluding the Grandmaster Boss of Act 6.4.6) have had their Attack and Health values retuned.

• Our target tuning values are now based on players using high-Rank 5-Star Champions.
• Attack values have been retuned to be more forgiving and allow for player to make mistakes (struck by a full combo, get caught in a full Special 1, etc.) without being immediately KO'd.
• Health pools were retuned according to a target health pool split up between the average number of path fights inside a Quest.
• Quests with a higher number of fights per path will have opponents with lower health pools when compared to Quest with fewer fights per path.

Kabam Miike

Champion Boss Fight Breakdown:

The changes being made between the Old and New versions of The Champion Boss are outlined below, as well as a comprehensive outline of the entire New Champion Boss Kits.

INCOMING CHANGES

Base Kit

• Reduce potency of Regeneration while Unstoppable from 5% max to 1% max.

Pre-Show Phase

• Cut "At the start of the fight, The Champion instantly regenerates 30% of the Health Points his opponent is missing." mechanic in Pre-Show Phase.
• Replace "If the Champion is already at 100% of his max Health, he instead begins the fight with 3 of his Fury Buffs active." with "If the Champion begins this fight at 100% of his max Health, he begins the fight with 3 of his Fury Buffs active." in Pre-Show Phase.

Opening Bout Phase

• Replace "While The Champion is Unstoppable, any contact with him leaves the Attacker Stunned for 2.5 seconds." with "While The Champion is Unstoppable, whenever the Attacker is struck they are inflicts with a Stun Debuff for 1.5 second(s)." in Opening Bout Phase.
• Add "Any damage dealt that would push The Champion into Opening Bout is capped until he enters the mode. The Champions is Heal Block against gaining health beyond 70%." to Opening Bout Phase.

Main Event Phase

• Cut "The Champion deals 2% of his Attack as Direct Damage to the Attacker every time they Stagger or Nullify a Buff on him." from Main Event Phase.
• Replace "Whenever a Damage Over Time or Stun Debuff is placed on The Champion, he has a 100% chance to shrug it off instantly." with "Whenever a Damage Over Time or Stun Debuff is placed on The Champion, he has a 100% chance to Purify it instantly." in Main Event phase.
• Add "Any damage dealt that would push The Champion into Opening Bout is capped until he enters the mode. The Champions is Heal Block against gaining health beyond 70%." to Main Event Phase

Kabam Miike

THE CHAMPION BOSS KIT (NEW)

Signature Ability - “Primal Fury”

Passive

• When at least one of his Fury Buffs is active, The Champion unleashes the full potential of The Power Primordial. This increases the Potency of his Armor Break by 80%. Additionally, when he activates 2 or more of his Fury Buffs, he becomes Unstoppable, shrugging off the impact of the opponent’s Basic Attacks for 5 seconds.
• While attacking or defending on the final node in a Quest, for each active Fury Buff and while his Unstoppable Buff is active, he regenerates 1% of the damage taken this fight per second, excluding the amount already regenerated by this ability. This ability can regenerate up to a maximum of 1% Health per second.
• In addition to regenerating Health, The Champion is immune to Fate Seal, Heal Block, Petrify, and any effects that modify Regeneration other than Poison.

Persistent Charge

• The Champion channels The Power Primordial, the residual energy left over from the Big Bang, to enhance his physical form and gain up to 8 Persistent Charges.
• Every 13 seconds, The Champion gains 1 Persistent Charge and activates Fury Buffs equal to his Persistent Charge, each granting him +1863.4 Attack Rating for 4.2 seconds.
• 1 Persistent Charge(s) are lost for every 20 hits in the opponent’s Combo Meter and when the opponent uses Nullify to remove any of his Fury Buffs.

Champion of the Universe

• The Champion always seeks to fight against the Greatest Fighters in the universe. While fighting them, he gains Persistent Charges 40% faster and increases the Duration and Ability Accuracy of all of his Buffs by a flat +60%.
• Contest’s Greatest Fighters: All the Summoner's Champions.

While attacking or defending the final node in a Quest:

•  +750 Armor Rating
•  +45.92 Block Penetration

Light Attacks - Requires 2 Persistent Charges: 

• Activates True Accuracy for 7 seconds if intercepting the opponent’s Dash Attack, allowing him to ignore Auto Block and all Evade effects.

Medium Attacks - Requires 3 Persistent Charges: 

• Inflicts an Armor Break if intercepting the opponent’s Dash Attack, reducing Armor Rating by -921.43 - -685.71 for 6 seconds.

Special 1

• When The Champion has 4 or more Persistent Charges, he spends one to activate a Regeneration Buff, regenerating 2371 Health over 3 seconds.

Special 2

• Spends 2 Persistent Charge(s) if hitting the opponent, granting +9000 Critical Rating for this attack.

Special 3

• Spends 2 Persistent Charge(s) to activate a Fury Buff, granting +677 Attack Rating for 10 seconds. This Fury also counts towards The Champion’s Primal Fury Signature Ability.

Power Stone

• Tryco Slatterus channels the might of his Power Stone to strengthen and enhance his abilities based on how full his Health is. Only 1 Power Stone threshold may be active at a time.

Between 100% and 71% Health - Pre-Show

• If the Champion begins this fight at 100% of his max Health, he begins the fight with 3 of his Fury Buffs active.
• While The Champion is in the Pre-Show, his Health cannot fall below 70%.

Between 70% and 31% Health - Opening Bout

• While The Champion is Unstoppable, whenever the Attacker is struck they are inflicted with a Stun Debuff for 1.5 second(s).
• All of The Champion’s Light Attacks are Unblockable and he fights aggressive.
• While The Champion is in the Opening Bout, his Health cannot exceed 70% or fall below 40%.

Between 30% and 11% Health - Main Event

• All of The Champion’s Medium Attacks are Unblockable and he becomes very aggressive.
• Whenever a Damage Over Time or Stun Debuff is placed on The Champion, he has a 100% chance to Purify it instantly.
• While The Champion is in the Main Event, his Health cannot exceed 40% or fall below 10%.

Between 10% and 0% Health - Dark Match

• The Champion Gains 3 Persistent Indestructible Charges. Avoiding a Special attack with the Dexterity Mastery removes one Charge (Cooldown: 1 second) and grants the Attacker Prowess. When all the Charges have been removed, the Champion gains Indestructible against any Basic Attack.
• While The Champion is in the Dark Match, his Health cannot exceed 10%.

VikRafa

This is pretty disappointing to see, Since I 100% Act 6 prior to the first nerf this is making it significantly easier for players to get Thronebreaker whilst over the past 2 years It has been a challenge for those otherwise.

This change seems unnecessary as Act 6 and ThroneBreaker are supposed to be hard achievements to get and overall by change the difficulty greatly reduces the achievement...

IKON

"We're stripping away the last hard content the game has to offer"

Buttehrs

VikRafa said:

This is pretty disappointing to see, Since I 100% Act 6 prior to the first nerf this is making it significantly easier for players to get Thronebreaker whilst over the past 2 years It has been a challenge for those otherwise.

This change seems unnecessary as Act 6 and ThroneBreaker are supposed to be hard achievements to get and overall by change the difficulty greatly reduces the achievement...

Act 6 as a whole is still going to be challenging. The 6.2 champion is still going to give people fits. Grandmaster isn't being touched at all. So it's still not going to be a total cakewalk

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Mysterio

You nerfed me? I was a beatiful act 6 boss and everyone loved without a doubt this is not an illusion please people like me!

Barney_5tinson

this is actually a bittersweet post, I recently tried the champion boss with no mystic, and I got off all the indestructible charges and used a special only to take of 5% hp after wasting an enourmous amount of revives, I am literally speechless whether I should be happy or sad I cant tell,

Barney_5tinson

And I ran out of revives and had to quit the quest where he had 5% left, I as far as I can tell I deserve this
change

OGAvenger

IKON said:

"We're stripping away the last hard content the game has to offer"

There’s so much wrong in this short sentence it’s incredible.

Get out of your bubble that’s miles past act 6 and start thinking from a different perspective.

This in absolutely no way affects you.

IKON

OGAvenger said:

IKON said:

"We're stripping away the last hard content the game has to offer"

There’s so much wrong in this short sentence it’s incredible.

Get out of your bubble that’s miles past act 6 and start thinking from a different perspective.

This in absolutely no way affects you.

It is factually correct, I offer no opinion on whether its good or bad.

Ironman3000

Ok, what do those who slogged through Act 6 right when it came out get in compensation?

DrDrill

I finished everything in the game (including carinas 1+2), and I must say. that this is a great addition, atm, act 6, especially 6.2 is harder than 8.1 (and all act 7 combined), this way, people will progress in a steady fashion rather than burn couple odins on one chapter in act6.
which is great for people with multiple account, as well as mid tier players.

P.S.: although it costed me ~5-7k units to explore act 6. I'm ok with the change, which gonna make more people catch up to the next progression of the game and focus on Abyss and Carina's Challenges.

tfdrp2

The main story content, in any game, is not something that should be frustrating enough to drive people from the game and/or to stop growing.

I'm guessing that the changes are necessary based on data of folks who just stopped at Act6, only did 1 run through, etc. Also, Book 2 Ch 1 being much easier than Act 6 makes no sense, imho.

Raganator

This is not surprising. It feels like the majority of players aren't looking for a challenge and Act 6 was a challenge, even when nerfed. Kabam likely has data that would suggest newer players stop playing when they get to Act 6.

ItsDamien

The only thing I ever wanted was to see an energy cost reduction.

Mauled

Not sure what I think of this to be honest.

I think the energy reduction is an excellent move and introduction of the champion selectors before the boss is a good move.

The difficulty in Act 6, a few lanes excepted isn’t ridiculous these days. With the access players have to resources, Act 6 is a fairly achievable goal for an undeveloped roster with the only real requirements being a counter to Sinister and ideally a decent mystic for the champion.
My concern here is that this will make becoming TB very easy and with the next progression point being Paragon and these are currently light years apart as it is. The difference between a fresh TB now and myself - still TB but with only carinas to go and playing T1 AW is massive, let alone when you halve the roster requirements of TB.

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Skiddy212

i'm on the last stretch of 6.4.6. I will try to finish before this as I want to do it while it is difficult

I will say though...the energy decrease is appreciated...especially since im in love with battlegrounds

Bolland

@Kabam Miike Is some form of compensation being considered for those like myself who 100% Act 6 in the past couple of months?

I fully appreciate nerfing Act 6, it was overly hard with some horrible gated paths. That being said it was challenge which I’m glad I conquered.

Rasilover

Can’t wait for the compensation posts

MrSakuragi

Rasilover said:

Can’t wait for the compensation posts

Too late.

OGAvenger

Nobody needs any compensation. This is a necessary change…coming from someone who 100% act 6 a long time ago and couldn’t be affected any less on this change.

Act 6.2 shouldn’t be harder and more roster restricting than act 8

Phibe19

I would like to know what will happen to the abyss of legends. Currently it is the most difficult content, will there also be nerfeo? I ask why the prizes currently make players not want to explore it, I passed it almost a year ago at 100% and currently I only see players talking about passing act 7 since it has better prizes and little difficulty. What's next to encourage players to explore it? nerfeo or an improvement of prizes?

AverageDesi

I'd rather no compensation rather than have to endure the " why did i get less compensation than the other guy" posts

Eb0ny-O-M4w

This is ... quite disappointing ...

RicoShay

Assuming there is compensation will it be tiered? I've explored 6.1 and 6.4 in recent months and am currently about to 100% 6.2 but will I just get banded for comp with the players who got initial completion or will my exploration be rewarded in some sense? I'm not demanding anything. Just need to know if my unit stash is going to be dedicated to speedrunning the entire act.

Apologies Desi but I'm going to be one of those guys that complain about less compensation. my bad

VikRafa

OGAvenger said:

Nobody needs any compensation. This is a necessary change…coming from someone who 100% act 6 a long time ago and couldn’t be affected any less on this change.

Act 6.2 shouldn’t be harder and more roster restricting than act 8

Huh? So because you happen to be now entitled to easier content those of us who completed it whilst it was actually significantly more challenging are to just sit whilst we grinded and burnt though half of the resources you will have to?
Act 6 should be harder than act 7 as Act 7 is the outcome of the difficulty of Act 6, It's more of a calm and easier piece of content to do after you finally got the highest title in the game being thronebreaker. Maybe if people stopped crying so much and just did the content they were offered we wouldn't be in such a standstill.

Buttehrs

Phibe19 said:

I would like to know what will happen to the abyss of legends. Currently it is the most difficult content, will there also be nerfeo? I ask why the prizes currently make players not want to explore it, I passed it almost a year ago at 100% and currently I only see players talking about passing act 7 since it has better prizes and little difficulty. What's next to encourage players to explore it? nerfeo or an improvement of prizes?

Considering they have never ever touch RoL or LoL since they released I'm gonna say.....nothing will happen with AoL either. They are the kind of content you COULD do if you want those kinds of rewards but not necessary because the game moves on over time.