Paragon yet stuck..

I am pretty early paragon, I have 4 r4 and about to have my 5th. I’ve 100% Act 7 as well as 8.1, I have beaten Abyss of Legends. I see the new content dropping, yet I don’t feel it is for me. Seeing all the rewards drop and content creators make EOP and Guantlet seem not as difficult makes it exciting, then of course when I make an attempt to look into this content, I just give up. I’m not into using countless revives (abyss was a one time thing and i hated it) or restarting the quest if my fight isn’t near perfection. So I find myself completing the monthly quest and calling it quits until the next week of event drops/ new month. Anyone have any suggestions on what I could work on to be more confident or even consistent in the game to want to complete more end game content? Am I a minority and this is a personal issue?

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Cat_Murdock

I don’t think that’s odd at all. I’m around your levelish, 6 r4 but no abyss clear. My biggest advice is to try not to use content creators as a guideline for skill and success. Most people who have been dedicated enough to create a YouTube following have been able to dedicate a lot of time and skill to the game, but it doesn’t represent the average player. I have several friends who are like this, and I admire their skills, love their advice, but know that they’re not the expected benchmark for me. It’s okay to mess up and use some revives (and even the best of players are using a lot of items to get through these Carina Challenges). And if using revives does bother you, then come back when your roster is strong enough that you don’t have to. It may take a while but it’s fine to go as slow or fast as you want.

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TC1

I don’t think that’s odd at all. I’m around your levelish, 6 r4 but no abyss clear. My biggest advice is to try not to use content creators as a guideline for skill and success. Most people who have been dedicated enough to create a YouTube following have been able to dedicate a lot of time and skill to the game, but it doesn’t represent the average player. I have several friends who are like this, and I admire their skills, love their advice, but know that they’re not the expected benchmark for me. It’s okay to mess up and use some revives (and even the best of players are using a lot of items to get through these Carina Challenges). And if using revives does bother you, then come back when your roster is strong enough that you don’t have to. It may take a while but it’s fine to go as slow or fast as you want.

I do appreciate it. I try not to look at streamers as a benchmark but I often see some beat content with champs i have myself and then don’t have the same success. I’ve always admired the game, and am not trying to come off as a complainer, I just know I am not one for this type of content so my current options in game are very limited and pending new months/ story content. I used to play the game so much and now I almost got to just logging in for the calendar and that’s about it…

SandeepS

I set myself different goals. Im not a multiple fights of long duration person, dont have the patience so not done labyrinth. Ive got about 8 r4 right now so I'm doing things to increase that (so war) and also focus on targetting champs (so battlegrounds). Doing this saves me lots of units which is the third thing I'm doing so I can buy j4/cyber offers or use them for limited revives for events like the previous EOP where you do a single fight and get decent rewards.

Moosetiptronic

Have you 100% the new TB difficulty?

I'm similar. 8 r4 and can rank 3 more, act 7 and 8.1 100% and one abyss run done.... I have used way too many revives on all of that and was probably on an average of 10-15 revives per superior Kang run.

@Cat_Murdock is right, you can't compare yourself to kt, bero, swedeah, MSD, karateMike or even Rich or Hoff. These are people at the very top of the skill tree in the first group, or effectively play this semi-professionally in the second group. If you log in for an hour or two a day, you're a rank amateur 😉

But!!! That is the vast majority of players and the forums is often a bad place to also compare, as there are some people on here who post a lot (demon, pikolu, average, DNA, mauled, wicket, workin and others I'm forgetting) who are in a similar skill bracket to some of the best on that list. Also, forum posters are notoriously dedicated to games.

So what else is there to do? AQ, AW, battlegrounds and spread out content?

I try to do the 22 hour events to at least the fourth milestone (although often miss the arena one) and that means I save the event quest until the EQ event is on. That's 7-8 revives and lv4 potions and 175 units a month from doing TB (and cav) when it's on and then saving those revives alongside farming act 3.2.6 for additional revives for runs of EOP as was or gauntlet (which I did both of the prior times at HUGE revive count! 😁).

There's no rush on this stuff and not all of it is supposed to be done by everyone.

One last thing, due to the reward mechanics in this game, the government mandated insert into UK tv adverts on certain forms of entertainment has a maxim that is sadly true in this game too; when the fun stops, stop!