Is the new Event Quest actually worth doing? 👍🏽👎🏽

All i’m seeing is hate for it and video saying how bad it is. I don’t know much about it. Is it so bad that it’s not worth doing… or is it still alright enough to do? Apparently it takes hourssss to get to the good rewards. If that’s the case then it sounds like a hard no.

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Aleor

The rewards are given out through some milestones instead of completion-exploration. You first have to do classic difficulty once, which is long and boring, and then you can do like gauntlet, wich is long and has like 15-20 fights with more or less same outdated nodes. For example, in mutant quest you need bleed immune champs, and for mystic you want to nullify buffs. The problem is most new champs don't do that, so you may end up using 5* champs vs huge attack opponents, and block damage eats away your health pretty fast.

I'd say the biggest issues are how they push prestige thing that's not even visible in game and that you can't estimate for champs you haven't ranked up yet; how outdated, long and tedious it is; how they removed units to bs daily quests; how daily quests don't have complete button; that rewards are tied to prestige, although the content is the same, so I'd say the effort is less for people with more ranked champs, but the rewards are bigger, and the gap is only to grow.

Is it worth doing? Most likely yes, if you did eq before, although it looks like you might get less rewards now. Is it better now? Definitely no

Chuck_Finley

if you don’t mind using the equivalent amount of resources as you do in Everest content (more if you don’t have an expansive ranked up mutant roster) and you have 6 hours to waste… for slightly bumped EQ rewards.

dukedevill4412

I’m currently exploring classic difficulty because even at an eight million roster, I still don’t have the mutants that are bleed immune, mystics to nullify, techs to armor up, cosmics to gain specific buffs, or science to debuff for 15-20 fights. EQ used to be a spot to collect a few cheap easy rewards but now it seems they lowered the floor and increased the ceiling and to get the same rewards I used to get I have to explore content that will take hours or unit dump in a new difficulty mode, new AI they are testing out. Hard no from me

Ercarret

Honestly, no. In my opinion, this is the biggest miss from Kabam in a long while. What I liked about this format when they first introduced it a couple of months ago, was that it forced me to not rely only on my top attackers. I really liked that. It made me really explore my own roster and even use some champs that I hadn't really ranked up, which was a ton of fun.

However, they've cranked up both the attack and health values of the defenders to such ridiculous amounts that it's not really viable to go in with r1 (and barely even r2) 7*s. There are some god-tier 6*s that you could use, but those are severely outmatched by those defender stat values as well. The problem with this is that a gauntlet of 15 fights where you can't use the same champion twice takes an enormous toll on your roster, especially since you need the champions you bring to have specific pieces of utility. For example, the attack values are so high in the mutant quest so that the usual 90% bleed potency reduction does basically nothing to shield you from any damage if you bring a champion that isn't bleed immune/resistant.

Case in point. While I'm a bit rusty playing with Kitty, this is nonetheless the type of node that she would normally be able to handle. But nah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfL_z6CoQr4

But even if the node doesn't screw you over, the health pools (up to around a million health in the later chapters) just makes everything a slog to get through. If you've got a perfect r3 champion to deal with a defender in a way that grants you the fury passives or whatever the nodes give you, of course you can take them down in a somewhat timely fashion. But if you're bringing in a lower-ranked champion who can't gain those benefits, suddenly you're looking at a huge challenge.

It's just the revive-hungriest EQ I've seen since I became Uncollected back in the day. Slip up once and it's bye-bye for you, because the attack ratings are insane. If you look at 9.2, the attack ratings there among the path defenders are around 10K. In Elder difficulty, every defender on every path has an attack rating around 24K.

And the rewards are…okay. I would be happy with them if I was required to put in an average EQ effort. But if I'm required to put in some kind of BS endgame-type effort, I really don't think they measure up.

So, no, I don't recommend anyone going for full completion. It might be worthwhile to try it out just so that you have some meat on your bones if you want to tell Kabam how much it sucks (that's why I eventually powered through it all), but that's about it.

jcphillips7

So, I haven't touched the EQ yet (Classic or Elder), as I'm waiting for Tuesday Titan opening/rankings and 9.3 exploration, but…what exactly are we looking at here?

15-20 fights PER quest (or chapter?) with Act 9 health/attack pools, along with the requirement to swap champs between fights, and whatever health you had carries over to the new champ selection?

I have 16 R4s and 70 R3s, so I'd imagine this wouldn't be too bad….but, now I'm not so sure as all I'm seeing is hate on it.

Is this the equivalent to how Back Issues Variant 1 was received at that point in the game? Or that Maze quest?

Tairique_turay0

Oh thanks for all the insightful replies. Sounds like a hard “no thankyou” when it comes to this content. Good to know. I’ll pass lol.

WhoDaPoo

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2872355#Comment_2872355

Throw your specials and it converts all those bleeds into Fury buffs. It's the only way to play non bleed immune champs and possibly survive. Got to play it slow and spam the sp1.

phillgreen

Classic seems ok, ignore the rewards nerf.

OldManHop

I'm not even sure if it's worth playing the game anymore.

BeastDad

For six hours worth of time, no it is probably not worth doing.

Herbal_Taxman

rationally speaking, no, it’s not worth doing. The investment of time required combined with the limited fun factor and mediocre rewards do not provide an incentive for anyone to do this.

skylight03

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2872357#Comment_2872357

If you have 16 R4s and 70 R3s…you would be probably be fine

Trafalgarwar96

I ll pass the elder event

Beerus2Strong

Nah! I've now come to my senses and realized that the elder difficulty is just that way for no good reason. Champ swaps don't restore health to full and these defenders hit harder than it is necessary. One shouldn't even parry.

Bosley

Not at all worth doing. I'm getting what was previously Valiant level defenders and only eligible for level 1/15 rewards. 🤔

I have 18k prestige. An absolutely horrible change. I'm never touching it again in this form…. Dont even mention Elder difficulty hahaha 😂

Bosley

Not at all worth doing. I'm getting what was previously Valiant level defenders and only eligible for level 1/15 rewards. 🤔

I have 18k prestige. An absolutely horrible change. I'm never touching it again in this form…. Dont even mention Elder difficulty hahaha 😂

benshb

You would have never guessee: YES, the EQ is bugged! Such a revelation huh?

It did not explore one chapter in classic after maxing out elder.

This. Is. A. Joke

PT_99

Kabam wants players to play more,

They want the same engagement players had during Necro first time release, that content was challenging but fun and doable, hell even Ares was fun, some path fights were questionable but whatever.

Someone in team probably wants to replicate it, not the Necro format but the engagement time, what they do? Make one of the MOST hated everest content ever, WoF, goddamn, I can't believe it still but whatever it's one time thing, so players did it.

Now KEBEM expects us to do that same shity WoF format EQ every single month but what's stupid is that HP and halth doesn't even 100% after hero swap, who tf approved it with 1-1.5 mil healthpools? With less hero options, more demanding interactions and also expects to use 6* ( some even had to use 5* because something something EQ is adaptive difficulty)

Big L,

Killed off another mode.

Tairique_turay0

@OldManHop Realest comment out here. The answer would be no… but i’m pretty sure the only reason most of us stick around is because of all the time and effort we’ve put into this game in the first place. We are waiting for a satisfying payoff before leaving the game but it’s never coming 😬

Buttehrs

Classic is fine. Elder is a hard no.

Jkw634

Def not worth it. I did classic. Went in to start elder this morning. I have a pretty big and ranked up roster. First fight did not get hit once. Accidentally hit block once. Ended fight with 25% health. Exit and will not go back into it.

Vance2_jr

I tried a few paths of Elder. It made me want to play Wheel of Fate just do something easier/more enjoyable/relaxing.

Azdef

I actually did wheel of fate 3 which I have been putting off since forever...Thanks I guess

TotemCorruption

I did it, but I will say the rewards aren't worth doing it unless you just are one of those people who has to do everything (me) or has a weird interest in trying annoying quests (me).

People are saying the difficulty is WoF level; no that's idiotic.

I would say the difficulty is Act 8 Crucible level but with easy final bosses.

If you skip this, it won't be the end of the world. Heck, if someone can't do this comfortably, they're also probably missing out on all sorts of better rewards elsewhere in the game (everest content, high rank BG rewards, etc.).

And Kabam said they're going to make it easier next month so this is a moot issue at this point I think.

JESUSCHRIST

It's definitely worth to try and see if you can do it, if you got revives and potions in the stash, it's better to use them anyway, see what champions you are lacking in your roster

I don't recommend anyone stressing about not being able to 100% both classic and elder difficulty

Solvseus

Not if you're a casual player. I'm hoping there's such a backlash to this, they fix it and/or give us a lower difficulty just to read the story, or at least tune it down next month. If you have the resources and the time, and don't care about rewards, go for it. If you just wanted to have fun, skip.