Act 9 rewards mid?

Does anyone else feel like the act 9 completion and exploration rewards are just mid? For a whole act, years of work? The 4 to 5 gem is very nice of course, but other than that, the rewards don't feel very good for the amount of work put in? How is there not even one titan crystal for completion? Not even any awakening gem? Still 1-2 gems? 2-3 gem for completion?

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ahmynuts

They were okay. Personally I would have liked for those ascension crystals to be nexus crystals. Ascension is so money grab rng heavy that nexus crystals would have helped eased the sting on the community.

And it wouldn't even be like we'd be getting more rewards. Just more agency and choice which kabam seems to love taking away lately

DONZALOOG1234

its just mostly relic and ascension slop

Buttehrs

Where else you gonna get a full r5 for basically free atm? Ill wait.

DONZALOOG1234

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2943152#Comment_2943152

carina challenges

Buttehrs

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2943153#Comment_2943153

Which for most people will be alot more difficult than a few runs through a story quest.

DONZALOOG1234

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2943154#Comment_2943154

you asked i answered brotato

Buttehrs

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2943155#Comment_2943155

I wouldn't call carinas free. Maybe for a few people. Most will use alot of revives/units by the time its all said and done.

Wakandas_Finest

definitely mid should’ve been much better

ItsClobberinTime

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2943159#Comment_2943159

To be fair a lot of people will use revives in Act 9 too, we literally have people spending 1200 units in Abyss in 2026 with full 7* champ teams so item usage really doesn't matter here, skill is subjective. When you say "free" or "it costs" to make a distinction it either means no actual money spent, or actual money spent.

ItsClobberinTime

Also I agree, rewards look very underwhelming... 1-2 gems in 2026? **** please that's a week's worth of radiance right there it has almost no value whatsoever.

summerdeer

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2943164#Comment_2943164

also not even a generic 2-3 is crazy

domz56

If u js take the completion rewards, solo coliseum gives u far far better rewards. A titan and a half, full t5 alpha, r4 gem, few t7 basic, awakening gem shards? For something that is a month long event. And then act 9, which has been built for years has absolutely none of that? This js feels like utter bs, carinas rewards are far more inline with what I expected for these rewards. I seriously don't understand why awakening gem crystals are so rare to get for entirely no reason? All of the rewards are ascension based, at least give us a selector?

WednesdayLength

Story content is honestly pretty piss easy now, with a good enough roster. Its not necropolis so the rewards are good for the level of difficulty thats expected

domz56

I get what your saying for people who beat and explore the story content on the day it releases. But for someone who is pushing through story content, say someone who js beat 9.3 now, and want to go for elder or build out their roster, the rewards are underwhelming.

GroundedWisdom

They're fine for what the content is.

Rayven5220

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2943179#Comment_2943179

What? Let me get this straight.

For people that may have just pushed through story quest, say 9.3, today, they're underwhelming, but for people that are gonna do it the day it drops it's somehow less underwhelming? 🤣

What's as backwards as it gets, my dude.

Dude, minus that 4-5 gem, the rewards are even MORE underwhelming for those of us who did 9.3 the week it dropped, because we clearly have even more developed accounts than the guy who just did 9.3 today.

Fireatwill

This is going to end in a reward budget conversation from Kabam. Where they say something to the degree of " We couldn't make the rewards good, because you're already getting so many good rewards from Carina's challenges this month." It's either A. poor budget management on their part, or B. Just a BS talking point.

They are giving out a free awakening gem crystal this month, which if included in the rewards would have made the rewards appear a bit better, but the RNG in the game is dialed to an 11 right now. I personally out of 50 awakening gems have never gotten a single mystic gem, so I was hoping for a generic gem from the rewards as they are still far too uncommon this far into 7 star progression.

The one glaring problem that needs to be addressed is that there isn't a launch pool selector in the Challenges or Act content now, which we had with the 7 star champs. I understand that it was originally done so that you were guaranteed to have a champion that you could rank up for the new title, but considering everyone despises the layers of RNG on ascension it seems like a major oversight. It would have taken a chunk of the bad taste from ascension out of my mouth if I could have chosen one while we wait for the system to be made into something fair.