Atmospherics - Where is everyone at with the game?
GeneralMerce
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How are you feeling within the game right now?
Personally, I am feeling good about my account/roster progression with my 4th R4 on the way, decent champion pulls and in the 8.1 exploration groove, but that's about where my optimism ends. I am generally displeased with where the game is going recently. I am annoyed about how stupid 50% of the Thronebreaker+ EQ (though i appreciate the gold), and truly questioning if kabam understands the ramifications of making EQ harder than low/mid progression. I have completely stopped doing battlegrounds (which was my favorite game mode during season 2-3) outside of my 48hr objectives, just not worth the time/energy commitment with the crappy meta and awful matchmaking. I am farming 20% revives to herc nuke EOP while also needing energy to 100% EQ for the month. AW is still fun, but 1 month of battling it out is not really worth the small pot of rewards. AQ is too repetitive though I do like the glory store revamp.
Am I hitting a wall or are you feeling the same way?
Personally, I am feeling good about my account/roster progression with my 4th R4 on the way, decent champion pulls and in the 8.1 exploration groove, but that's about where my optimism ends. I am generally displeased with where the game is going recently. I am annoyed about how stupid 50% of the Thronebreaker+ EQ (though i appreciate the gold), and truly questioning if kabam understands the ramifications of making EQ harder than low/mid progression. I have completely stopped doing battlegrounds (which was my favorite game mode during season 2-3) outside of my 48hr objectives, just not worth the time/energy commitment with the crappy meta and awful matchmaking. I am farming 20% revives to herc nuke EOP while also needing energy to 100% EQ for the month. AW is still fun, but 1 month of battling it out is not really worth the small pot of rewards. AQ is too repetitive though I do like the glory store revamp.
Am I hitting a wall or are you feeling the same way?
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This month, I'm not doing anything outside of AQ & AW. The game feels like a chore lately and I'm not really feeling it.
...which is not bad. I will embrace the plateau. I will camp here for a while, do mindlessly arena and farm units (for Spring Cleaning or 4th of July) and items (for when 8.2 drops). And who knows...? I might even manage to cut down on some playing time and devot time to other hobbies, which I have left behind.
It's all good.
I have found peace of mind in not caring about the side quest objectives except for the cav shards. Couldn't care less about the relic stuff tbh. Also battlegrounds end in a week so that will free up energy to play TB eq + side quest and farm more revives for my first EOP acceptance clear with only juggy. Having fun too.
I never had a massive issue with this month's bg nodes, since I started preparing for it as soon as the announcement came out 3 weeks in advance, but I've been getting matched pretty consistently with stronger rosters than mine due to my prestige being so high (currently over 14k), and currently struggling in low plat, hoping to make my way at least to plat 1 before the season ends.
I have act 7/8.1 on hold at the moment while working on building my roster for rop and the new carina's challenges, and running through EQ in the meantime. Hardly touched arenas this month, which I might have to change if I'm hoping to complete carina's.
Thronebreaker EQ is whatever, more annoying than anything else with the massive health pools + identical nodes to old cavalier. Again would've been a lot more interesting to see the paradox/weapon nodes implemented here. Not being able to autoplay through conqueror difficulty is also annoying, and probably not worth exploring the shards at this point, as I'd rather put my focus somewhere else if I'm having to actively play the game.
I'm not in a competitive alliance at the moment and only really playing low level AQs for the steady glory income.
Pretty damn good
Arenas = i hate and dont have time for those, hence why im always broke on gold
Incursions = I kinda like it, but it takes too much time, and for that, goes in the same problem as above, the gold from there saves me from bankrupcy sometimes tough lol
AQ = I COMPLETELY DISPISE AQ, my endgame ally does M5 and everyone slacks lol
AW = i rly like AW, prob my fav game mode, even tough i feel like trash when i die lol
BGs = i like this a lot, specially the great rewards, but its also too time consuming and the matchmaking makes u pretty angry sometimes lol
Im trying to advance on story mode, but the amount of monthly content keeps me from doing that, so i still need to explore 7.3 and beyond
Other than that, i have 100% all Variants and LOL
Still gotta do Abyss and im 4/9 on both Carina Challenges, 0 on the new one
Not too bad for a 8 year F2P i guess
That said, the EQ is a relatively small part of what I do each month. I have enjoyed the current BG meta, but I'm roughly two weeks behind schedule compared to where I'm usually at this time in previous seasons, so I definitely understand those who get stuck. I'm lucky to have a decent number of champions that work in the meta but it's definitely the most restrictive Victory Track meta we've had so far and I'm not the only one who feels like it would have served better as a week-long Gladiator's Circuit meta than a month-long Victory Track one.
Now that I've explored TB and Cav EQ and when the BG season ends, I'll start preparing for my EOP runs in earnest. I'm looking forward to it. It'll be hell, I'm sure, but I really enjoyed the fights in the past so it'll be fun to try them out again with new champions. Plus, I haven't fought Nameless Thanos in forever. Probably four years or something. So that'll be fun.
Its just a game folks, life has enough ways to kick you in the balls without letting this do it too.
This is almost as fresh and challenging as it was when I did my first ROL run. Took me 2 days I remember.
Resources are pretty easy to come, I'm opening plenty of 6*crystals, doing EQ with some challenge and also preparing for the Carina challenges. I do arena here and there plus Battlegrounds is pretty amazing.
People kept asking for p2p for years, yes, years and now that finally it's here, instead of enjoying the game mode for what it is, they choose to complain. Sure, there are flaws, there will always be, but come on, get in there and enjoy, whether you win or lose. Make some fun rank ups and throw them at your opponent.
Last but not the least, all rewards have been upgraded, gold is flowing quite well, unit flow is decent. Relics aren't what they're supposed to be but there's something there.
For me, it's looking good as long as I play it in the right quantities. 20-30 minutes a day isn't much. Maybe a couple of hours if I do arena and BG the same day.