It's variant and not Summer of Pain

Variant 5 August 2020
Variant 6 December 2020

Assuming Kabam follows their announced four month pattern it's variant 7.

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H3t3r

it will be variant 7, and it will be super easy
And it’ll be another relatively boring month
Nah, a variant will help a ton. Sure, it is easy, but it has nice rewards and gives buffs to parts of your roster which is fun. They cant make permanent content every month. So ill take whatever we get with open arms no matter how easy it is.
It’s just not gonna fill the content void enough for me, it’s been too long since actual difficult content came out, variant occupies me for maybe 6-8 hours, even if I split it up it’s only that much game time, and to be honest rewards for them aren’t too appealing for me
You have the Mythic title and a bunch of r3s.

Chances are, the only thing filling the void is the Summer of Pain.

Even then if the rewards are good enough most endgame players will blitz through it in a week or so.

TitoBandito187

The rewards just need to reflect the effort. If it's the same rewards as v6 or act 7.1 (or on the same level), then the difficulty should remain the same too. They set that standard already. The majority of the player base (other than the best of the best) don't want harder difficulty for the same reward level.

But, If they up the rewards to a 50% t5cc selector instead of 25%, bring on the increased difficulty. Everything should scale accordingly; harder content should equal better rewards / same rewards should equal same difficulty of content.

Now, If summer of pain is going to be as hard as the dev diaries say, then the rewards should scale too. Give a full t5cc (and then some) nexus 6* and some goodies that are better than abyss rewards if it's really that big of a leap from abyss.

H3t3r

Wait. Was it confirmed to be a permanent piece of content? Or is it a timed piece?