Way too difficult for returning players

I am a returning player, having quit soon after Venom's buff. I have returned due to boredom, only to find that, the stupidity of since-added champions aside, the game is much more difficult. Take this latest event (Valkyrie-Gorr event) for example: I am waaay beyond the Heroic difficulty, but not anywhere near being able to do Master. Yet I had just unlocked Act 5.1.2 when I quit, and back then I had used the pre-buff Storm and BP for a lot of 5.1.1. Variant difficulty on Back Issues was already obscene, or else the rewards for basic were obscene, but this is even worse. Even with buffed duped BP and buffed Storm, duped AA, a 4th duped 4* and a 5* Guillotine, I was unable to reach the boss on Master.

Plus the Exploration rewards for Heroic in events are now s***.

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winterthur

For returning players, you need to manage the expectation of being able to pick the game up as if you had not left. Is it not the same for every where else?

Vendemiaire

Have you tried using a time machine?

rogueKlyntar

For returning players, you need to manage the expectation of being able to pick the game up as if you had not left. Is it not the same for every where else?

Most games don't have to repeatedly buff every character so that returning players have no idea what they're up against. I can pick up SW:GoH and do just as well as the last time I played (two years ago now). For Future Fight, 5 years, but same thing, though I swore off the game since it's so P2W. This is the only game where this is not the case.

With so many new characters, as well, I can't possibly advance even as slowly as I used to, as I have no idea what they can do. Just reading their stats doesn't help me, I need to either fight them or use them to know how they work. I don't have anybody newer than Claire, Night Thrasher, Stealth Spidey, Annihilus, Diablo, (id remember which is newer, I was on and off at times ever since Venom' buff) except Dragon Man.

LordSmasher

Yeh, the complexity with champions in the game has ramped up a lot. I'm usually pretty on top of it but every now and then I find myself going "Huh? What just happened?".

My advice would be to stick to story mode where new champs are gradually introduced.

Bugmat78

For returning players, you need to manage the expectation of being able to pick the game up as if you had not left. Is it not the same for every where else?
Most games don't have to repeatedly buff every character so that returning players have no idea what they're up against. I can pick up SW:GoH and do just as well as the last time I played (two years ago now). For Future Fight, 5 years, but same thing, though I swore off the game since it's so P2W. This is the only game where this is not the case.

With so many new characters, as well, I can't possibly advance even as slowly as I used to, as I have no idea what they can do. Just reading their stats doesn't help me, I need to either fight them or use them to know how they work. I don't have anybody newer than Claire, Night Thrasher, Stealth Spidey, Annihilus, Diablo, (id remember which is newer, I was on and off at times ever since Venom' buff) except Dragon Man.

Arena is your best friend in a situation like this, to learn how to fight most champs except the newest ones in EQ. Or do Heroic until yo are ready to go back to Masters level. I have a contender account and can complete masters EQ as I am "up to date".

There's no helping it - you were out fo the game for 2 years..that's a lot of time in MCOC.

Malreck04

I’m sorry but returning players are the last demographic the game needs to be made for