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Why I Have a Problem With the Current Relic Situation
JackTheSnack
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First off, sorry for the long post, but I wanted to be detailed, and I think it’s worth a read. I know that Kabam is aware of this issue as they have an update coming eventually for relics, but there’s still some issues to be addressed. I don’t think just simply adding more relics is going to fix said problem. Here’s why:
As you have probably noticed a lot of champions prefer to have the same relic on them to utilize their full potential. For example, Silk prefers the hulk relic as does hulk. This doesn’t seem like a big issue as there are 4 rarities of each relic. However, if you want to use those champs in the same quest, you’re now either forced to A., swap out the relics before each fight if the quest allows such or B., choose which champ gets the higher rarity relic. Now, this may not look like a problem as a ranked up relic can effectively help out a good bit, but the next problem is how dang expensive they are to rank up…so you’ve probably portioned off your relic rank up materials to your higher rarities and not so much the lower rarities. Now, to throw one more problem in the mix, let’s say you want to use that same hulk relic on Titania or Spiderman in a niche matchup. Well, theyre already bound to hulk and silk in this scenario. So not only are you forced to make a decision on which rarity relic benefits the most from being on which champ but now you’re forced to choose between a set number of rarities and there’s only 4 rarities to put on 10 champs that need that relic. There’s really no effective and streamlined way for relic swaps right now and it’s very time consuming. I’d love to be able to bind a relic to a champ and leave it there, or even bind a relic to multiple champs that it benefits - but this second idea probably wouldn’t work because you have people that have invested in 3 and 4 and 5 star relics and who would want to bind those three when you could just bind the 6 star to all. Also, after opening hundreds of relic crystals, I still don’t have some of the lower rarity relics, which thins out my options that much more. A valiant player should be able to open a couple of each rarity (3 and 4 star) relic crystals a week. I max them out every week in the BGs store. All this to say, there is a deficit problem with relics and rarity and availability right now with the champs that prefer said relics - a lot of my spidey 2099 relics go unbound as well as my wolverine relics. There’s already a lot to remember about which goes where and when you have to unbind them and re bind them to another champ in another quest every time bc there aren’t enough variants or rarities, everything becomes pretty confusing and time consuming. This is less of a rant/complaint and more of trying to figure out a solution to an in game problem I feel like most of the community deals with/would agree on.
As you have probably noticed a lot of champions prefer to have the same relic on them to utilize their full potential. For example, Silk prefers the hulk relic as does hulk. This doesn’t seem like a big issue as there are 4 rarities of each relic. However, if you want to use those champs in the same quest, you’re now either forced to A., swap out the relics before each fight if the quest allows such or B., choose which champ gets the higher rarity relic. Now, this may not look like a problem as a ranked up relic can effectively help out a good bit, but the next problem is how dang expensive they are to rank up…so you’ve probably portioned off your relic rank up materials to your higher rarities and not so much the lower rarities. Now, to throw one more problem in the mix, let’s say you want to use that same hulk relic on Titania or Spiderman in a niche matchup. Well, theyre already bound to hulk and silk in this scenario. So not only are you forced to make a decision on which rarity relic benefits the most from being on which champ but now you’re forced to choose between a set number of rarities and there’s only 4 rarities to put on 10 champs that need that relic. There’s really no effective and streamlined way for relic swaps right now and it’s very time consuming. I’d love to be able to bind a relic to a champ and leave it there, or even bind a relic to multiple champs that it benefits - but this second idea probably wouldn’t work because you have people that have invested in 3 and 4 and 5 star relics and who would want to bind those three when you could just bind the 6 star to all. Also, after opening hundreds of relic crystals, I still don’t have some of the lower rarity relics, which thins out my options that much more. A valiant player should be able to open a couple of each rarity (3 and 4 star) relic crystals a week. I max them out every week in the BGs store. All this to say, there is a deficit problem with relics and rarity and availability right now with the champs that prefer said relics - a lot of my spidey 2099 relics go unbound as well as my wolverine relics. There’s already a lot to remember about which goes where and when you have to unbind them and re bind them to another champ in another quest every time bc there aren’t enough variants or rarities, everything becomes pretty confusing and time consuming. This is less of a rant/complaint and more of trying to figure out a solution to an in game problem I feel like most of the community deals with/would agree on.
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For reference on how many overlaps there are concerning relic preference
I seriously don’t understand why if a relic isn’t bound to another champ that’s currently in whatever quest you’re doing why you still can’t bind relics after the quest has started. For example, I was doing a path in 9.2.4 and forgot to bind a relic to Howard. He was the perfect counter to killmonger but I often forget to use him. Now, granted, I should’ve read and thought about that and checked to make sure he had a relic so I admit my fault there, but it’s a bit silly that I had a green goblin relic unassigned and I can’t bind that relic mid quest. In fact, the path was reliant on striker to remove protection. I was at the end of the path so I just had to burn a revive - luckily had warlock to counter.
If you don't put a relic on your champ, that's on you.
Take that from somebody who recently did the Tigra/Jabari carinas challenge and forgot relics on not only both of my tigras, but also my Jabari.
Yes, I completely forgot relics on all 3 champs.
I figured that out part way through the 5th fight and said "oops, this sucks".
It is what it is.