Current State of the MCOC in 2025

Hello,

It has been awhile. I didn't announce it but I left the game 2 years ago due to being burnt out as an alliance leader and spending a little too much money. I was curious what is the current state of the game as I may decide to go back. My account was top 100 worthy 2 years ago but I know how often things change. It'll be fun to go through the acts I've missed and build my account back up. Any feedback before my potential return would help.

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JESUSCHRIST

Honest advice if you don't intend to spend, you will be lagging way behind and maybe a little miserable with whatever you have right now

2 years ago, there's no valiant (new progression level after paragon)

2 years ago, there's no battlegrounds (doesn't apply to you if you don't intend to play this mode)

2 years ago, there's no 7* rank 3 champions

JESUSCHRIST

Top 100 worthy account 2 years ago probably look like this

You are most likely a paragon with 6* rank 4 champions

It's really hard to do anything with 6* rank 4 champions which is 2 generations behind the current strength of most champions these days (7* rank 3 and 6* rank 5 ascended)

Chuck_Finley

Hello,

It has been awhile. I didn't announce it but I left the game 2 years ago due to being burnt out as an alliance leader and spending a little too much money. I was curious what is the current state of the game as I may decide to go back. My account was top 100 worthy 2 years ago but I know how often things change. It'll be fun to go through the acts I've missed and build my account back up. Any feedback before my potential return would help.

You are in a much better position to enjoy the game than the highest progression players. Basically everything will be relevant… as opposed to basically everything being irrelevant

Wicket329

None of those comments are helpful or responsive to the post.

@TheTalents your first instinct is right, dive into story content for the best rewards for your effort. Honestly should be plenty doable with your roster as is. From there, I’d start looking at the permanent Everest content that’s been released since you left, especially the Carina’s Challenges. Take some time to build up healthy item reserves from Apothecary and the Super Daily Event.

You’ll probably be a bit rusty after all hat kind of break, so don’t be in any rush. Prioritize getting two 7* champs to r3 for the Valiant title, and look to get involved with an alliance running regular AQ and AW. You’ll be surprised how quickly you can catch up.

GrabmeMCOC

You will have a lot of fun catching up. It’ll feel fresh and new.

GrabmeMCOC

Hello,

It has been awhile. I didn't announce it but I left the game 2 years ago due to being burnt out as an alliance leader and spending a little too much money. I was curious what is the current state of the game as I may decide to go back. My account was top 100 worthy 2 years ago but I know how often things change. It'll be fun to go through the acts I've missed and build my account back up. Any feedback before my potential return would help.
You are in a much better position to enjoy the game than the highest progression players. Basically everything will be relevant… as opposed to basically everything being irrelevant

Correct.

GrabmeMCOC

Honest advice if you don't intend to spend, you will be lagging way behind and maybe a little miserable with whatever you have right now

2 years ago, there's no valiant (new progression level after paragon)

2 years ago, there's no battlegrounds (doesn't apply to you if you don't intend to play this mode)

2 years ago, there's no 7* rank 3 champions

If they were top 100 2 years ago, they don’t need that explaining to them. Their skill set will enable them to catch up within 6 months.

SirGamesBond

JESUSCHRIST

Honest advice if you don't intend to spend, you will be lagging way behind and maybe a little miserable with whatever you have right now

2 years ago, there's no valiant (new progression level after paragon)

2 years ago, there's no battlegrounds (doesn't apply to you if you don't intend to play this mode)

2 years ago, there's no 7* rank 3 champions
If they were top 100 2 years ago, they don’t need that explaining to them. Their skill set will enable them to catch up within 6 months.

The real question is what objectives does the OP has if he were to come back to the game

If the objective is to have some casual fun, any account will be more than sufficient

If the objective is to have a competitive account, den some spending might be necessary if not just spend more time playing to catch up

Some people do enjoy the process of playing and catching up to the current progress of the game

JESUSCHRIST

If OP intends to spend some money, there won't be a problem

If not 6* rank 4 champions will have a fairly hard time even in Thronebreaker difficulty event quest and arena against 7* rank 3/4 champions

T-DeAdLY-J

Short version: Tons of new content, rank 4 7 stars, more bugs, more whale milking offers added, more bugs. Same input and AI issues.

CesarSV7

Hello,

It has been awhile. I didn't announce it but I left the game 2 years ago due to being burnt out as an alliance leader and spending a little too much money. I was curious what is the current state of the game as I may decide to go back. My account was top 100 worthy 2 years ago but I know how often things change. It'll be fun to go through the acts I've missed and build my account back up. Any feedback before my potential return would help.

• Increase monetization on champs and rank up resources.
• Unit devaluation
• Stale rewards in most game areas besides permenant content.

BringPopcorn

How dare you comeback after 2 years when you left without saying goodbye. And now you comeback expecting us to tell you how things are going....

Demonzfyre

👀

TotemCorruption

The current state of the game is active, but they're doing a scheduled maintenance tomorrow evening for about 3 hours.
Hope that helps!

Vendemiaire

Almost same stance but my account was not Top 100 worthy. Also was a leader of a Plat 1/2 alliance and got burnt out and quit two years ago. I returned to the game last month and there's a whole ton of content to boot. Explored Act 8 and Act 9.1, did a completion of Epoch of Pain, and now planning to complete the 10 year's Carina's Challenge as my first Necro run. It's fun because you'll be catching up to a lot and will discover 2 years worth of new champions.

TheTalents

I can only play this game competitively. No point in being a casual. Your advice really helps. Sounds like I should explore the acts and Carina then go to an alliance. It's a good start. My previous alliance was top 5 the last time i checked. They wouldn't be able to bring me back for at 6 months and a bunch of spending lol.

Buttehrs

I mean you could always just try to come back and if your having fun, stay playing and if not take another break.

Crcrcrc

whoa is this the guy who was once top ranked?

Here’s an ultra condensed guide to catching up as a whale

you are gonna be severely behind the meta so I would recommend blitzing through story to unlock valiant, so you have the highest offer tiers available since you want to spend. Once there, you’re gonna want to spend on any and all focused methods of 7* acquisition and rank up resources to help get your roster built up with the new top tier champions. Take a look at any of the top level yt accounts going through war or battlegrounds to see who you should be ranking up, there’s some really cool new champs from the last two years you’ve missed.

Once you have valiant and begin widening your roster, your goal should be first to get through necropolis and it’s related carina challenges, then through epoch of pain for a r4 gem. These are both fairly easy tasks with a mildly large unit stash and good planning, but lack of roster depth may hurt you for epoch. There are some fantastic video guides out there though.

Luckily for you fourth of july will be a great place to blast your prestige up with sig stones and even more rankup mats so that you can remain competitive in aq and eligible for a top alliance, but other than that 7* sig stones are still fairly scarce. The updated sigil provides a few extra though along with the reworked daily event.

Top ranked alliance quest content isn’t really going to be a struggle (except maybe nightmare raids?), the hard part is the prestige requirements right now. You’ve missed a lot of easy rankup materials so it’ll take a bit to catch up. Top ranked war is in an interesting spot with the new map, so you’ll have to learn how to fight some of the new defenders (which you can get plenty of practice with in battlegrounds)

DNA3000

I can only play this game competitively. No point in being a casual. Your advice really helps. Sounds like I should explore the acts and Carina then go to an alliance. It's a good start. My previous alliance was top 5 the last time i checked. They wouldn't be able to bring me back for at 6 months and a bunch of spending lol.

If you’re looking to be competitive, in roster and account terms you would be looking to get to Valiant ASAP, which was introduced more or less with the Necropolis back in late 2023. You need to complete Act 8.3 and have at least two 7R3s, and you can get one R3 from Act 8 exploration itself. You can get more from the Necropolis, although these days there are easier ways.

If you’re thinking Battlegrounds, it’s a lot easier to climb into GC since season 19, and the BG rewards would be helpful to grow roster at your current level. If you’re thinking about getting back to competitive high tier AQ, then you should start investigating AQ raids which were introduced last year. Raids are optional enhanced versions of AQ that run parallel to AQ, but for all intents and purposes if you’re looking to get back to competitive AQ that’s where all the action is. It’ll be mandatory for any top tier AQ alliance.

TheTalents

Thanks for your insight. I have no clue what necropholis, Epoch, Valiant, or act 8 even looks like. Not sure I finished act 7. It'll be fun to explore and then I'll decide if I can be truly competitive again. Appreciate yall. I forgot how great the community can be when there's no trolling involved.