Was Canadian difficulty suitable for a cavalier difficulty?

We’ve now seen all 4 weeks of Canadian difficulty. Personally I think the difficulty level was not nearly engaging enough for a permanent “endgame event quest” going forward. What does everyone else think, and what are your thoughts about the rewards as well?

Comments

TP33

It wasn’t too hard for a new cavalier player to complete but the nodes provided endgame players with some fun and interactive fights (from what I’ve seen). Also the rewards weren't too shabby. Only change I’d make is I’d introduce an extra optional path/quest that’s super difficulty, 6.4/7.1 difficulty but it gives 1/2 of a T5CC etc. Meaning super top tier players have a good challenge but those who are not hardcore whales don’t miss out on exploration rewards and the likes.

Masterpuff

This is not an Endgame event. The rewards were pretty good, proportionate to the effort needed to clear. But you don’t see things like resistor, powershield, breakthrough, etc in late act 6. In my opinion, it was too easy. I feel that it should be able to be completed by cavalier players, and explored by people who have completed act 6.

dot_ditto

It was too easy if you didn't get ambushes.

It was too hard if you did - and didn't bring a counter.

Ambush mechanics are bad design in general .. and should be avoided in future.

An Ambush should never been higher PI than the final boss ..

Ignoring the Ambush mechanic ... I like what they did with the path nodes .. clever planning required to work around them .. plenty of counters for each .. which does punish a narrow roster .. but that's not a bad thing.

Considering it is supposed to be "Cavalier" .. I would have expected the individual fights and final boss to be a bit higher PI ... bit more attack, bit more health .. I found I dropped them too quick (and I'm a "low level" Cavalier .. so I feel this difficulty should be VERY challenging for me .. but only thing that was, was the Ambushes .. LOL )

Anonymous346

Was expecting it to be harder but can’t really complain about it being easier than expected. Nodes were quite easy too

Hieitaku

'Too easy' and 'Rewards sucked' shouldn't really go together, right?

If it was too easy for a summoner, then they shouldn't expect rewards that are too good for the perceived level of difficulty. Rewards should generally be evaluated relative to the diffculty of attaining then.

GinjabredMonsta

For a cav difficulty, it was good for what we may see for what the roadmap said would be where newly cav could be able to see a completion but not 100%. It wasn't all to challenging and the rewards were nice, but that's why this one wasn't labeled as cav difficulty yet.

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ItsDamien

It was too easy. The rewards were fine, if anything too good for the difficulty. This was Epic difficulty with one encounter that people struggled with for some reason.

AzKicker316

For new cavs, I could see a potential need for items. But for long term cavs, it was a bit easy. I was able to one shot sasquatch most of the time with warlock and claire. Captain Canada was more difficult than I expected, but nothing I'd call overwhelming

IKON

On one hand, it made me think about the team I was bringing, on the other hand, i still went through it no problem.

It's probably about the right difficulty for the side event, but once it hits the main EQ, I'd expect a bit harder.

Soyheyor123

I'm a new cavalier player, I was expecting a challenge but it was really easy, obviously the difficulty will increase over time, but for now it was a bit disappointing. The ratio between difficulty/rewards was good.

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YEETguy

Easy as heck for the rewards we got, but more challenge and more rewards seems like the best way to go.

BigManOnCampus

More difficulty please !! was this the easy lane kabam was talking about?

GOTG

I do not accept this difficulty as cavalier difficulty personally.

TyEdge

I don’t want variant-level difficulty. This is fine, but I wish it wasn’t a full 30 paths. I wish they decided to make it an add-on or one with minimal exploration.

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Timone147

For an easier side quest with a lot of paths I think this was about right. I would expect some months the side quest to be harder like modok labs but with slight bumps in rewards those months and less paths.

Also I would expect cav difficulty to be harder in the final chapters but expect that to have more rewards than the side event too.

Qfury

It wasn’t too hard for a new cavalier player to complete but the nodes provided endgame players with some fun and interactive fights (from what I’ve seen). Also the rewards weren't too shabby. Only change I’d make is I’d introduce an extra optional path/quest that’s super difficulty, 6.4/7.1 difficulty but it gives 1/2 of a T5CC etc. Meaning super top tier players have a good challenge but those who are not hardcore whales don’t miss out on exploration rewards and the likes.

I'd say I'm like mid end game (completion of act 6 with some parts of 6.1 explored) and I'd take that path and unit man my way through it lul

Masterpuff

It wasn’t too hard for a new cavalier player to complete but the nodes provided endgame players with some fun and interactive fights (from what I’ve seen). Also the rewards weren't too shabby. Only change I’d make is I’d introduce an extra optional path/quest that’s super difficulty, 6.4/7.1 difficulty but it gives 1/2 of a T5CC etc. Meaning super top tier players have a good challenge but those who are not hardcore whales don’t miss out on exploration rewards and the likes.
I'd say I'm like mid end game (completion of act 6 with some parts of 6.1 explored) and I'd take that path and unit man my way through it lul

Edit:Same. I misread your post sorry.

Oesername123

Didn't have a problem with beating the Sasquatch ambush in Canadian difficulty, but the repetitiveness of having to beat him is just mind numbing. I thought Kabam were trying to reduce the "pain points" in the game? The ambush made the quest a few hours longer (accumulative) than it should have.

I'm a midgame player, Cavalier but haven't touched 6.2.6 Champion.

CreatorZuko

I would say that from an exploration standpoint, it's definitely on Cavalier level. From what we've seen with Epic and Uncollected difficulty, it's like on par with Act 5 while not being like completely impossible. Seems like what they went for here. Just like in Act 6, Canadian difficulty has lots of nodes (for exploration) that require a diverse roster. I think the difficulty and rewards were perfectly fine, minus the excessive Sasquatch ambushes.

Nojokejaym

I was satisfied with the difficulty but the rewards they need to be buffed

ImGodMF

It was a solid first experiment for cavalier difficulty. Great rewards and fun, interactive and some challenging fights. I think people need to wait for the first Cavalier EQ rather than judging from side events which are intended to be for testing the waters and adjusting. Clearly they wont hit a home run first try like people seem to.expect, however I think they did a good job.

M1k0rin

Im cavalier yet no endgame player. I wont 100% clear canadian since path like "need 3 buff to damage thing i dunno what it names", i dont have counter for it. But yeah, i think i satisfied though. Still playable

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ChriissR

Was way to easy. Besides the ambushes, the fights felt like 6.1 fights.

They need to add more challenging lanes. Fresh Cavalier players should be struggling with it and not burning right through it.

Mr_Platypus

The difficulty needs to be ramped up big time, even the Sasquatch ambush was fine once I learned to fight Sasquatch. Cavalier difficulty needs to be difficult to explore for everyone for the first few months at the very least, like uncollected was when it came out. I’ve not explored act 6, but if this is the difficulty they were thinking of for cavalier difficulty, I could easily explore it every month which means it doesn’t hit the target of being challenging to explore even for those that explored act 6.

Reference

Finished all level ytd. I think the gold from this side quest can satisfy some players who are in need of gold. Rewards from all levels are deemed good too. Besides, there is no daily completion requirement and zero energy, which offers flexibility to players.

The only defect I’d say is overly repetitive path and fights. Canadian Difficulty is more testing my patience and concentration rather than skill. Yes the energy level for Guardian and Sasquatch are high, but they are not difficult to fight, just bait their SPs and dexterity. That’s it. So far I only use one revive on Mojo because I need to use Sunspot to kill him.

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