My take on the Wheel of Fate
Full disclaimer, before I give my take, I have a very well developed roster. I tend to rank up champs that I like over just being the best and…I have a high ranked Wong, this is very important for this challenge.
So, I there’s been a lot of ire towards this piece of content (I was not a fan either when it came out) but after completing it, I can say with confidence, I think it’s over hated. Now, that’s not the same as sayings it’s great but it is I think getting a bit to much hate. Here’s my quick break down of the good, the bad and a few tips.
First, the good:
If you look at the rewards as a complete thing, not as a path by path thing, they are actually quite good. It took me about 7-8 hours to do all of it and if you look at what you get in totality, it’s actually quit good relative to effort.
Also, after that first run, you really have those fights figured out and aside from a couple, they can be fun and doable by really anyone. I would recommend, if you do not have a champ that perfectly counters the given defender, just bring in the one with the highest damage. You may have to spend 5 or so revives but you’ll get them down.
The Bad:
Gorr, second path should not be there. I just don’t see how you can complete this quest without a high ranked Wong. Now, they did give him out for free in the December calendar but if you missed out for some reason and don’t have him, this content is basically a non starter.
The rewards for path one are so disproportionately bad. Again, I believe the way they designed this content was more like, path one is your practice path. Get to know the fights and go back in with more limited champs, but I will say, that just didn’t feel good after all that effort.
I personally don’t think Spiral was a well designed fight. There was just too much going there to really make it feel like you had control. Be warned, unless your MSD, that one is probably going to be a unit suck.
Tips:
The biggest tips I could share would be these three things:
1) Quickly take a look at all the champs you can use for each fight and ask yourself, do I have a good counter for this one, if yes, save that champ for that fight. If not, and here’s the tip, pick your strongest champ that’s not a counter down the road and just go all out in damage. You may loose some revives but you’ll get it down.
2) I believe many of us, myself included are just tired of reading paragraphs of nodes. We just jump in and hope for the best. Don’t, read the nodes, think about them. Most of these fights are actually pretty fair and solo-able. Take the time and understand the fights.
3) Rank your your Wong. Come one guys, he’s like the unsung hero of the last 2 years of content. This is no different. Do it (Shia Labeouf)!
So, again, I can’t say I loved this content, I didn’t but I didn’t hate it and I don’t think it’s deserving of the hate it’s getting. It’s not the best, not the worst but actually, pretty great rewards for the effort. No content has to be done, but, take a second look at this one if you have 20 or 30 revives in the overflow, these rewards are definitely better than them expiring, right?
