Dev Diary: Cavalier Difficulty in 2021 and Beyond - New Buffs for February!

MCOC Team · January 25

Summoners!

Everybody's favourite Balance Designer and sick beast of a gamer, Kabam John, has taken some time to jot down some thoughts on Cavalier Difficulty, what we've seen so far, and what's to come in the future! There's also a sneak peek at the new Buffs coming in the Cavalier Difficulty Event quest in February!

Read the post here!

Wiredawg1 · January 25

How does this even make sense. You want to make it less time consuming but add harder nodes in? Explain the logic in that.

odishika123 · January 25

Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again

Crcrcrc · January 25

I prefer the original cav nodes by a lot. These new ones do not have nearly as many counters.

Masterpuff · January 25

Meh, something no one really needed. Itll make it slightly less boring and monotonous, but rewards are still barely worth the time for endgame players.

TheBair123 · January 25

I mean it doesn't directly affect me that much, but the Tech one is super annoying. I mean the only tech champs that i can think of that inflict Armor Break in their normal kit are IMIW, Iron Man, Iron Patriot, War Machine, and Hulkbuster. And I would really only use Hulkbuster in the Cav EQ

BlackTuran · January 25

TheBair123 said:
I mean it doesn't directly affect me that much, but the Tech one is super annoying. I mean the only tech champs that i can think of that inflict Armor Break in their normal kit are IMIW, Iron Man, Iron Patriot, War Machine, and Hulkbuster. And I would really only use Hulkbuster in the Cav EQ

Warlock sp2 as well

Kabam Miike · January 25

TheBair123 said:
I mean it doesn't directly affect me that much, but the Tech one is super annoying. I mean the only tech champs that i can think of that inflict Armor Break in their normal kit are IMIW, Iron Man, Iron Patriot, War Machine, and Hulkbuster. And I would really only use Hulkbuster in the Cav EQ

You don't need to bring an Armor Break Champion. There are also quite a few Tech Champions that have access to Heal Block, and the Armor Break Node only extends the benefit to Champions that Armor Break and don't have access to Heal Block.

Faseeh · January 25

Bruh they massacred the use of my guardian for tech chapter ffs. Was just beginning to enjoy those nice quick numbers

Kabam Miike · January 25

odishika123 said:
Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again

The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.

Faseeh · January 25

Welp at least dragon man will hv some use for mystic chapter

Raganator · January 25

Basically. If you have been using otherwise expiring resources on champs to get through Cav faster. Stop.

Faseeh · January 25

Kabam Miike said:

odishika123 said:
Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again
The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.

Truthfully tell whether you guys gonna place an apocalypse there? Just curious

tafre · January 25

Believe it or not, nobody cares about these unless they have something regarding an update to the rewards. Facts.

Malinmad · January 25

This is very nice for the EndGame players with very deep rosters that were getting bored with the same nodes every months... However, unfortunately for me, I think it means the end of my exploration runs in Cav EQ

I did some rankups to be able to do those exploration runs...

Well... It was fun for a while...

ThēMandalorian · January 25

I read the responses but they don't address the concerns we have and gimped our champs we have ranked for this content already.

slacker · January 25

Bruh, that science node gonna hurt iAbom than help him, hope i'm wrong

Faseeh · January 25

TheBair123 said:
I mean it doesn't directly affect me that much, but the Tech one is super annoying. I mean the only tech champs that i can think of that inflict Armor Break in their normal kit are IMIW, Iron Man, Iron Patriot, War Machine, and Hulkbuster. And I would really only use Hulkbuster in the Cav EQ

You'd use iron man and iron patriot? No one ranks up war machine either. Basically sentinel,darkhawk and mysterio benefited from this (im listing champs ppl would use). Guilly 2099 and guardian got massacred

Rotelly · January 25

Kabam Miike said:

odishika123 said:
Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again
The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.

This is a horrible idea, lets talk about the number of skill champs that can cause Disorient, Incinerate or Shock effect.
- Disorient (Fury[SP1], Night Thrasher[Synergy], Ronin [SP1])
- Incinerate (Agent Venom [SP2], Cross Bones[SP2], Gwenpool [SP1], Winter Soldier [SP1/SP2]
- Shock (Black Widow DO [Basic], Night Thrasher[SP1], Thor Rag [SP3]

Okay based on that only 8 out of 32 skill champs are useful for this buff and only one of the champs can inflict the debuff without having to rely on a special attack

Renaxqq · January 25

I had counters for cavalier difficulty but now that's it... I will not be able to do cavalier difficulty anymore.

Sarvanga1_ · January 25

Rotelly said:

Kabam Miike said:

odishika123 said:
Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again
The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.
This is a horrible idea, lets talk about the number of skill champs that can cause Disorient, Incinerate or Shock effect.
- Disorient (Fury[SP1], Night Thrasher[Synergy], Ronin [SP1])
- Incinerate (Agent Venom [SP2], Cross Bones[SP2], Gwenpool [SP1], Winter Soldier [SP1/SP2]
- Shock (Black Widow DO [Basic], Night Thrasher[SP1], Thor Rag [SP3]

Okay based on that only 8 out of 32 skill champs are useful for this buff and only one of the champs can inflict the debuff without having to rely on a special attack

You are forgetting masacre and fury.

Faseeh · January 25

slacker said:
Bruh, that science node gonna hurt iAbom than help him, hope i'm wrong

Yeah if u dex or parry all the poisons get removed ffs. I liked they removed diss track but parrying and getting 10 furies is way more fun than having to keep a non dmging debuff and having to remove poisons by dexing , etc.
Less complicated

Gogeta91199 · January 25

@Kabam Miike can you plz atleast change the 10% t5cc crystals to a selector. Its frustrating getting troll rolled when you are so close to forming a t5cc and achieving thronebreaker. Please consider adding a selector.

Rotelly · January 25

Sarvanga1_ said:

Rotelly said:

Kabam Miike said:

odishika123 said:
Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again
The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.
This is a horrible idea, lets talk about the number of skill champs that can cause Disorient, Incinerate or Shock effect.
- Disorient (Fury[SP1], Night Thrasher[Synergy], Ronin [SP1])
- Incinerate (Agent Venom [SP2], Cross Bones[SP2], Gwenpool [SP1], Winter Soldier [SP1/SP2]
- Shock (Black Widow DO [Basic], Night Thrasher[SP1], Thor Rag [SP3]

Okay based on that only 8 out of 32 skill champs are useful for this buff and only one of the champs can inflict the debuff without having to rely on a special attack
You are forgetting masacre and fury.

Good catch with Masacre, i have fury on the list but he requires an SP1 to trigger disorient

Faseeh · January 25

Ace_03 said:

Rotelly said:

Kabam Miike said:

odishika123 said:
Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again
The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.
This is a horrible idea, lets talk about the number of skill champs that can cause Disorient, Incinerate or Shock effect.
- Disorient (Fury[SP1], Night Thrasher[Synergy], Ronin [SP1])
- Incinerate (Agent Venom [SP2], Cross Bones[SP2], Gwenpool [SP1], Winter Soldier [SP1/SP2]
- Shock (Black Widow DO [Basic], Night Thrasher[SP1], Thor Rag [SP3]

Okay based on that only 8 out of 32 skill champs are useful for this buff and only one of the champs can inflict the debuff without having to rely on a special attack
Daredevil (Hell Kitchen) has a synergy that gives him disorient on his heavies and it's a 12 sec one. Massacre can incinerate very consistently. Those 2 will be MVP's for that skill node.

Good one!!! Before you can get an incinerate they'll have evaded and retaliated with 5 hit combo

Edit:- Maybe if ur sneaky it works

ThēMandalorian · January 25

Rotelly said:

Sarvanga1_ said:

Rotelly said:

Kabam Miike said:

odishika123 said:
Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again
The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.
This is a horrible idea, lets talk about the number of skill champs that can cause Disorient, Incinerate or Shock effect.
- Disorient (Fury[SP1], Night Thrasher[Synergy], Ronin [SP1])
- Incinerate (Agent Venom [SP2], Cross Bones[SP2], Gwenpool [SP1], Winter Soldier [SP1/SP2]
- Shock (Black Widow DO [Basic], Night Thrasher[SP1], Thor Rag [SP3]

Okay based on that only 8 out of 32 skill champs are useful for this buff and only one of the champs can inflict the debuff without having to rely on a special attack
You are forgetting masacre and fury.
Good catch with Masacre, i have fury on the list but he requires an SP1 to trigger disorient

Elsa Bloodstone was also missed as Incinerate.

Kabam Miike · January 25

Rotelly said:

Kabam Miike said:

odishika123 said:
Why 50% chance to evade
It's mix masher korg and doom all over again
The idea here is to encourage Evade encounters, and combined with the Skillful Distraction buff, this gives more Skill Champions access to the kit necessary to prevent Evasion.
This is a horrible idea, lets talk about the number of skill champs that can cause Disorient, Incinerate or Shock effect.
- Disorient (Fury[SP1], Night Thrasher[Synergy], Ronin [SP1])
- Incinerate (Agent Venom [SP2], Cross Bones[SP2], Gwenpool [SP1], Winter Soldier [SP1/SP2]
- Shock (Black Widow DO [Basic], Night Thrasher[SP1], Thor Rag [SP3]

Okay based on that only 8 out of 32 skill champs are useful for this buff and only one of the champs can inflict the debuff without having to rely on a special attack

That's not Counting Champions that suppress Evade with their natural Kits. True Accuracy/Strike, and Ability Accuracy reduction. Those aren't limited to the Skill class either. Remember that you do not have to use the Class that gets the bonus from the buffs, but you get a nice bonus for doing so.

Andyball270 · January 25

How about a thronebreaker difficulty? I want better rewards and i dont mind the extra effort.

Dev Diary: Cavalier Difficulty in 2021 and Beyond - New Buffs for February!

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