Elder Valiant Event Quest Difficulty Feedback

For those who haven't seen, the "elder" difficulty in the new event quest is a similar format to the crucible quests. This means it includes every fight from each path in the corresponding "classic" difficulty, but now combined into one path, with champion swap nodes between each fights.

However, unlike the crucible swap nodes, these ones DO NOT heal your champions. For the first quest alone, you must have 15 mutant champions able to counter the node & another champion for the boss. Being forced to use health potions after most/all fights if not played perfectly is very unforgiving, compared to how Event Quests & the guantlets in the past have worked.

This worries me because if the later chapters follow the same format, chapter 3 quests will be 25 continuous fights (26 incl. the boss) that all must be taken with champions of the same class. With no healing nodes sprinkled in!

In my opinion, these quests are far too long & resource demanding to occur on a monthly basis. For me, this is missing the mark of what a monthly event quest should be, and a step down from progress made with the valiant gauntlets recently.

Comments

Bamajd

this is the most absurd thing this game has seen. Really thinking of just completely walking away. I have a top 300 roster in the world and have no desire to do act 9 level fights every month for event quest. What a complete joke.

TrongNov

Lol really I thought it was just a boss rush featuring 6 bosses from 6 quests. Why are they trying to turn an EQ into such a chore and Everest content for almost the same tedious rewards as the old version EQ.

Jskiffy

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2871083#Comment_2871083

I just returned to the game last month after 2 years of Marvel Snap. I came back Cavalier, and I made the push to Thronebreaker last week after a tough fight against the Grandmaster. This new event quest is extremely disheartening to me, since I can't even walk back the difficulty to a more casual experience. I would rather play against Cavalier level enemies, and take the lesser rewards, than to struggle against +40,000 hero rating opponents. I beat the first path on the first quest, and I earned 1 point towards the event (which I still don't even understand how the reward system works), but I will probably just skip this monthly event quest. I really prefer the previous months format of having multiple difficulties to explore. Just from my POV as a returning player, this is kind of a bummer to say the least. I actually came here from Googling "mcoc new event quest," hoping to find some guidance or maybe thought I was doing something wrong. sadge

GrimXYZ

The health pool and attack values are tuned way too high. Even "perfect" fight with r5 6* ascended will take over 130 hits and I lose 10% health from only parries. If I had to block bait, I can easily lose 20% health just from block damage. Dying from full health in 1 combo is not unheard of.

D0ctor_S

In theory, this could have been good, but it feelsl ike this was designed before Valiant Gauntlet, and the implementation has been woeful. Combining it with top 30 prestige has left a real stink on the whole thing, and that has not been helped by the shambolic issues of last night. Main issues being:

Top 30 prestige has resulted in a nerf to the rewards that most were getting last month. Less T7B, less T6CC, less Titan shards etc. Unless you have 15+ r4s/29k prestige, you are worse off with this change. Slightly longer grind for lesser rewards is an L.
The rewards are padded out with items of little value and seem based on around the time we were getting a 6* AG from doing objectives from 6 months ago. Unless we are going to get the opportunity to sell 6* AGs for shards, the two included are not going to be worth much. Likewise, mythic crystals, which have never really been great, and to a certain point ascension dust (4* for arena maybe, but I'm running out of 6* to ascend, and I won't be ranking any up past r3 due to Top 30 prestige)
A lot of relic resources for the old relics but no shards for statcast relics.
Daily Event changes being out of synch with the EQ dropping.

With 2, the obvious answer is that you are getting everything from the lower tiers, but it has not really been well thought out, and some stuff like AG's/Ascension will need to have some use for 39k prestige at some point (selling AGs or ascending 7*)

Overall, this should have been far better, and the prestige banding should have been lower. If you've managed to get every r4 available through content and a BGs deck of r3's you shouldn't be getting less rewards from EQ than last month.

ABKillx

Absolutely right, I am a new paragon player and I need resources for upgrading which I should be getting from monthly eq but instead I am throwing away revives and heals. I'm f2p and I possibly cannot get enough champs upgraded to play elder difficulty, which has many good rewards. I hate kabam for doing these and messing up already good quests. Good going kabam.