Man it was going so well... (Canadian Difficulty Week 3 Feedback)

(*TL;DR at the bottom)
I was Really Enjoying the Fun Node Combos Kabam was coming up with in the Northern Expadition's Canadian Difficulty during Week 1 and 2, , but now in Week 3 it just looks like they went back to the usual Annoying Node Combos... All Or Nothing+Improved Power Gain for example being such a Tired and Overused Node Combo...
Why couldn't we keep going in the direction of the "Toxicant? Toxi-can!"+Poison Vulnerability+60 Seconds Bleed Path, it gave us options like using a Team of Robots or any Bleed Immune Champion that can't normally Apply Poison.
Simple idea on the Caustic Temper Path swap Chaos for a Node along the lines of "Completing - Actions without Fail earns the Attacker a 10 Second Fury increasing Attack by -, if the Actions Required are Failed the Attacker will be Drain 100% of their Current Power." sort of like Mojo's Prompts but with multiple inputs required, just a Fun Node Combo that would let you use certain Poison Immune Champions you wouldn't normally use on Caustic Temper simply by preforming a set of Commands given by the Node and gives you a Challenge by needing to Fulfill this set of Commands or else you'll be Penalised but not instantly Ko'ed or something. So it's not the easiest thing ever but making a mistake won't slam you into the ground you know?

*All I'm trying to say is I was really enjoying the direction they were going in (and hope they continue the direction) with Node Combos that instead of just making the Fights Harder, it gave Counters you wouldn't normally use with Fun Interactions but not making the fights so easy you could do them blind. (The Power Shield+Power Reserve Path in Week 2 for example, had those Big Fun Numbers but it was so easy and the enemies went down so quickly...)

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odishika123

I like all or nothing
Gully 2099 was made for it

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ChriissR

There's a reason it's the Cavalier difficulty...it's supposed to get harder every week.

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Colinwhitworth69

I like all or nothing
Gully 2099 was made for it

Agreed, she rocked those paths.

Greekhit

I like all or nothing
Gully 2099 was made for it

Seems like you haven’t tried og Vision. Absolute domination. Had both Vision Guilly99 on team and Vision was a safer choice. With Vision you keep the opponent between 0 to 1 power bar while with guilly between 2 to 3, balancing on the edge.

Bawa69

cmm was good counter for most paths...she interacted with all or nothing in a way one wouldn't normally expect...building upto minimum 15 binary charges and activate sp 3 right when the opponent gets 3 bars of power or is very near to 3 bars of power....sp3 gives CMM 10 more charges taking her to 25 charges and activates binary mode and gives you indestructible...opponent will throw a sp3 while you are indestructible and u dont take damage and once their sp3 is over u still have enough binary charges to beat the living daylights out of them in abt 3-4 combos.....as for caustic temper same method get to 25 charges or close to 25 charges in the first fight which does not have any local or linked node...for the next 2 fights with caustic temper activate binary engine and voila not 1 but 4/5 furies and quick finish to the fight....for the path with toxican't and bleed and poison vulnerability...cmm is poison immune get to abt 10 charges and dash back activate binary shrug off the bleed....plus at some oint ull inflict poison due to toxican't node and increase your attack by 200% dealing insane damage...

Epistriatus

I just really dislike the breakthrough global node. It makes the fight unnecessarily long even if you bring perfect counters to the other nodes.

_colo

I didn't feel the difficulty and the nodes were bad. But all the freaking paths. It gets tedious and BORING. Please just stop it. Its seems like Kabam has a goal to make side quests feel like ground hogs day. Either in the excessive amount of paths to run or constant recycling of the same quests. On both fronts, please stop it. Put that on your roadmap.

Timone147

The difficulty and node combinations are fine. This is when if your roster is not more developed you may need to go in with some lower level characters to overcome. That’s why it’s higher level difficulty and not for everyone.

Plenty of solutions still to these node combinations.

Deacon

is this why Mysterio was able to heavy attack me into oblivion?? LOL ..i mean he LITERALLY just spammed heavies on me .. heavy after special, heavy after intercept .. heavy, heavy, heavy ... almost non stop .. I was like WTF. i can never do that when i'm playing as Mysterio.

Lvernon15

I’m going to be honest, cav eq needs to be harder than this to have any longevity, if the difficulty of cav eq is like this now it’s not going to satisfy players who have been cav for a few months, and it also needs better rewards so it lasts longer relatively. As for the nodes they’re fine, all or nothing can be done with literally any power controller, bleed and toxicant is even easier than a generic fight because the nodes let you apply poison, yes caustic temper is annoying but the fights aren’t that strong, and the unstoppable path is super basic, if you’re not able to do this then you simply aren’t ready, there isn’t any cheap bs in this, it’s simply very long and boring

Lvernon15

I like all or nothing
Gully 2099 was made for it
Seems like you haven’t tried og Vision. Absolute domination. Had both Vision Guilly99 on team and Vision was a safer choice. With Vision you keep the opponent between 0 to 1 power bar while with guilly between 2 to 3, balancing on the edge.

OR you could bring guilly who gets the fights done 10x faster even if it is a little riskier

RakeYoung

I didn't feel the difficulty and the nodes were bad. But all the freaking paths. It gets tedious and BORING. Please just stop it. Its seems like Kabam has a goal to make side quests feel like ground hogs day. Either in the excessive amount of paths to run or constant recycling of the same quests. On both fronts, please stop it. Put that on your roadmap.

Kabam did say this Canadian difficulty would be a testing ground for future Cavalier difficulties, so I imagine all the node combos are what we'll see rotating with every EQ.

the defenders with those node combos haven't been bad at all if you have a proper counter, even a 4* could pull it off.

the real challenge will be when they attach some of these nodes to Annihilus, Mojo, Korg, Doom, etc..

Personally I've enjoyed it so far, I was able to put my r5 ManThing to work on that poison vulnerability path.

Hera1d_of_Ga1actus

Finally some more difficult content, nodes are interesting like poison vulnerability with the one where you inflict poison on hits. Can try the paths infinite times but I’ve actually died a few times which I hadn’t come close to in the last two weeks. I like the difficulty

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Etjama

I did Caustic Temper with my 5/50 Medusa and All-Or-Nothing with 4/55 Magik and 5/50 Warlock for that Havok. I've found this week to be really fun personally. I liked the node combos. It makes you bring in champs you may not have ranked up that high, but not all is lost because of the breakthrough node.

SparkAlot

I’m going to be honest, cav eq needs to be harder than this to have any longevity, if the difficulty of cav eq is like this now it’s not going to satisfy players who have been cav for a few months, and it also needs better rewards so it lasts longer relatively. As for the nodes they’re fine, all or nothing can be done with literally any power controller, bleed and toxicant is even easier than a generic fight because the nodes let you apply poison, yes caustic temper is annoying but the fights aren’t that strong, and the unstoppable path is super basic, if you’re not able to do this then you simply aren’t ready, there isn’t any cheap bs in this, it’s simply very long and boring

That is the point, if you got the correct champs, you won't have any issues.

So, the "needs to be harder" is all relative to what you have.

Kabam could make 12 paths, have the first 3 for those that just turned Cav, then next 3 would be harder, next 3 is final Act 6 level difficulty, and the last 3 would be gated to only use 3* champs to make it harder, otherwise, no matter what they do, there are people now with R3 6*s that can beat ANY content they want.

Bidzy7

Emma frost, Sparky, Doom, Ghost with Hood synergy, Guilly 2099, Vision, Quake, Mr Fantastic to name a few options that are viable for all or nothing.

If you are finding it difficult , then that means you need to work on your roster.

Seraphion

I just really dislike the breakthrough global node. It makes the fight unnecessarily long even if you bring perfect counters to the other nodes.

It makes even 4* viable if you are good. Like it a lot.
And if you use multi hit specials like Nick SP1 or Warlock SP2 the fights are over very fast.

Etjama

I like all or nothing
Gully 2099 was made for it
Seems like you haven’t tried og Vision. Absolute domination. Had both Vision Guilly99 on team and Vision was a safer choice. With Vision you keep the opponent between 0 to 1 power bar while with guilly between 2 to 3, balancing on the edge.

Maybe you're thinking of Sp1 spam with G99. If you ramp her up in the first fight, you can turn on her power drain pre-fight. Every time you finish a combo, they lose a bit of power which means no one ever reaches a Sp3 on that path. Plus the healthpools were kinda built for her to finish the fight fast AND be able to throw that Sp3. Way better than Vision.

Masterpuff

I’m going to be honest, cav eq needs to be harder than this to have any longevity, if the difficulty of cav eq is like this now it’s not going to satisfy players who have been cav for a few months, and it also needs better rewards so it lasts longer relatively. As for the nodes they’re fine, all or nothing can be done with literally any power controller, bleed and toxicant is even easier than a generic fight because the nodes let you apply poison, yes caustic temper is annoying but the fights aren’t that strong, and the unstoppable path is super basic, if you’re not able to do this then you simply aren’t ready, there isn’t any cheap bs in this, it’s simply very long and boring

Yeah I agree, it’s pretty easy.

Ciciliato

is this why Mysterio was able to heavy attack me into oblivion?? LOL ..i mean he LITERALLY just spammed heavies on me .. heavy after special, heavy after intercept .. heavy, heavy, heavy ... almost non stop .. I was like WTF. i can never do that when i'm playing as Mysterio.

Well, after sp2 you can do it, all incoming attacks gonna miss when you charge heavy

LOThunder

I like all or nothing
Gully 2099 was made for it
Seems like you haven’t tried og Vision. Absolute domination. Had both Vision Guilly99 on team and Vision was a safer choice. With Vision you keep the opponent between 0 to 1 power bar while with guilly between 2 to 3, balancing on the edge.

Whoever disagreed with this post should show their video footage of them kill that havok with guilly2099.
I know I don't have her, but the power she drains is pretty little. Havok generates power passively, I would like to see how she works around that.

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LibertyPrimeV1

What the hell people did you even read the post... I didn't say anything about the Difficulty, besides the easiness of that Power Shield Path, I'm talking about the Node Combos being Different and Actually Fun instead of the same old same old. All or Nothing+Power Gain Increase is freaking everywhere and you always use the same usual Counters, meanwhile ToxicantToxican+Poison Vulnerability+60 Second Bleed was Different and allowed someone like Ultron (aou) to have Increased Damage.

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LibertyPrimeV1

so op is the complaint more about lack of creativity or difficulty

Starting with Increased Creativity in Week 1 and 2, then lack of Creativity in Week 3.