This week in MCOC history I learned I am an idiot

DNA3000

Do you remember the day you learned that Parry was a thing? How about the day you learned you could save crystals indefinitely?

We all have that thing that took us way longer than most to figure out, only to discover this was common knowledge everywhere. I can't remember the last time that happened to me, or rather the second to last time, because it was a while ago. But I do remember the last time, because that time is now. Behold:



For years, I've had this little ritual. Every week when AQ resets, I go in and spectate the map on day one, so I can see who the minibosses are. Every. Single. Week. Because how else am I going to know who to bring for those fights?

Years. Fricken years. I don't even know how far back this feature goes, because of course not. Not to mention, I'm pretty sure I've mentioned to many, Many, MANY people over those years that I do this. Exactly zero people ever said "huh?" even once.

This hurts more than the Infinity crystal.

GroundedWisdom

Been there. We all have something that's under our nose.

ReignkingTW

For years I didn't know you could Spectate a war before selecting your team.

Mackey

I've got to admit, that infinity crystal joke was brilliant, definitely humoured me anyway

Colinwhitworth69

Mine was playing at least a year before I realized that the progress bar during the sp3 was a mini-game.

SummonerNR

Don’t feel too bad @DNA3000 , that's actually something sort of semi-recent, at least in terms of how often they change the AQ Boss.
Might have been only within the last 2-3 major boss changes (long seasons) for AQ ?
Pretty sure Modifiers were in game well before this change to the Miniboss champ being added to the Panels.


And for AW Spectate, @ReignkingTW , yes, that may have been in game for many years now.
But NOT forever. For those old enough, there never used to be Spectate because you actually could not see who the defenders were even within the map until you actually started the fight.

Thus the obsolete Masteries for being able to “peek” at nodes within xx steps away (and the corresponding Class based “Peek” masteries).
All AW nodes used to just be ‘??’ all over the board for many early seasons of AW. And maybe depending what level you played at, or what season as it went along, you could maybe see just the Class of the hidden champ.

TyEdge

I developed a whole system for doing paths on maps until I realized the solid versus dashed lines. I was probably 2-3 months into the game.

willrun4adonut

I didn't know that about the AQ bosses, so you're not alone.

For a whole year, I kept hearing about Ronan cheeses bosses with a lot of buffs. I would always take him in and could never figure it out because no one ever explained to me how he cheeses it, and they just talked like it was so obvious. Then I realized this wasn't Ronan.

ZAHIDMALIK1588

TyEdge said:

I developed a whole system for doing paths on maps until I realized the solid versus dashed lines. I was probably 2-3 months into the game.

Finally, someone speaks English, it took me 5 months to figure that out. LOL, thanks BTW, this thing was eating me alive, I can breathe now

Rohit_316

Shortest DNA post ever.

Crusaderjr

dont worry there are still people who dont know the % on crystals are per crystal and not a whole percentage when opening for example, 10 at a time. and also some people still think when they duel another players account, they are actually playing vs someone lol

Matty_Ice

Man… I do the exact same thing that you do. Thanks for this!

Snizzbar

Surprised there haven't been a bunch of comments mentioning the arena team shuffle - I was at least two years into the game before I was told about that one

NEXTON

Rohit_316 said:

Shortest DNA post ever.

It threw me off guard for a moment, I had to make sure it was DNA who posted it 😂.

SammyDe

With my AQ switching between 4/5/6, I still need to spectate to get my bearings everyday. I think it is kind of normal to check the nodes before jumping in.

SpideyFunko

most relatable dna post ever

SummonerNR

Snizzbar said:

Surprised there haven't been a bunch of comments mentioning the arena team shuffle - I was at least two years into the game before I was told about that one

Ah, YES, that's the big one I was thinking of (couldn’t think of it last night) that was my early alliance's big realization.

That you could re-order (drag-n-drop) your 3 Arena champs around to better match them up against the corresponding 3 champs you were gonna fight.

———

Other big realization, many years later, was being able to ask for quest Energy Help before actually running it all the way down to ZERO and getting the pop-up energy box to ask for Help.

Click on your Energy Bar at top of screen would pop-up the box, and you can ask for Help early on, just a few steps into starting your quest. Or in cases you finish a quest but haven’t totally run out of energy yet.

**Further enhanced semi-recently now, so that you can apply Refills that will go beyond your Max Energy capacity. (also without having to wait until you reach ZERO).

ReignkingTW

For years I had no idea what was going on in this game.

Two examples:
1) I had no idea what Hood's invisibility was or how it happened.
2) GR's fate seal. Until I randomly used it on Juggs one day, I didn't realize that his unstoppable was a buff and that fate seal would end it.

Why? This was before Aunt Mai and research was impossible. It reminds me of what Seatin had to say in his last video -- there are just no ways in-game to learn about the many nuances and interactions. There's no guide that says what a buff is are what ability accuracy does.

GroundedWisdom

Anyone remember when you thought the Arena was real-time PVP? Lol.

DarkestDestroyer

I never knew there was a way to get the arena streak and for years struggled with hard match ups until I realised there was a way to do it

TheWatcher_

A while ago, I thought duels were real time. Took me a while to figure out they were not

AverageDesi

The exit from quest screen also has a team select button. You don't need to exist and enter again

Thomildo

You know you can drag champs from the synergy menu? Fairly recently discovered that one..

Sundance_2099

Thomildo said:

You know you can drag champs from the synergy menu? Fairly recently discovered that one..

that's a recent change.

Savage123456789

The biggest one I had was when I was exploring quests early in mcoc journey and was trying to memorize the paths I already did. To avoid repeating the paths. I didn’t realize the lines change from dash to solid till at least a year later since I realized there’s no way Kabam made it this hard to explore quests. A couple of times I went through the wrong paths because of this. It was easy on earlier contents with fewer paths, when the paths started increasing with convoluted turns, that’s when I would get mad trying to explore quests , lol

Shake_a_Quake

Mine's a bit simpler and dumber, tbh. Didn't know parry was a thing, and i was just mindlessly upgrading the parry mastery, thinking it zeroed incoming attacks when just blocked.
Plus, realised only after becoming UC, that you could dex, special attacks.

DNA3000

ReignkingTW said:

For years I had no idea what was going on in this game.

Two examples:
1) I had no idea what Hood's invisibility was or how it happened.
2) GR's fate seal. Until I randomly used it on Juggs one day, I didn't realize that his unstoppable was a buff and that fate seal would end it.

Why? This was before Aunt Mai and research was impossible. It reminds me of what Seatin had to say in his last video -- there are just no ways in-game to learn about the many nuances and interactions. There's no guide that says what a buff is are what ability accuracy does.

Inside ball: even those of us who understand the mechanics backwards and forwards sometimes argue over just exactly what's going on in the game. For example, it wasn't long ago that a relatively recent forum thread brought up the question of whether there was any difference between Evade and "not hit when dashing back." Turns out there is: those are not just different mechanics, they do completely different things.