Why does Alliance Wars Feel Harder than other Content?

If u take a look at the other games mode like the story quest, eq and sq, incursion and aq, Alliance wars are generally one of the hardest (unless u r a quaker). Why is it so? Is this because of the nodes? Or is it because the AI works differently in AW?

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Daddrieda

Sir, it’s war and it’s supposed to be hard. It’s mostly because of the nodes itself. If you understand how to defeat it then understand how to defeat the AI that interact the nodes of just makes the nodes more difficult then you can kill it.

My alliance is doing stress free war environment during on-season and off-season. We realized that in a long run it’s better to do everything stress-free because it takes some time to get used to the war fight pressure and learn to harmonize with it. If you died in war then ok, accept it, move on and adapt from that mistake over and over again and again until things suddenly got more easier with soloing most of the nodes and AI defenders. We have been doing this for a month now and it has given great result and now we barely need to use any items at all in gold 2 position because we learned to harmonize with our pressure and now we excels under pressure. You can tell that to your leader as it’s an suggestion.

Karuseus

Gotta choose only 3 champs instead of 5

3-5 min timer

Limited amount of potions allowed

Boosted stats of defenders

Players deciding nodes-champs combination

I think these all adds up to the difficulty of AW

Daddrieda

It’s like doing map5 for the first time and it takes two weeks or weeks before every members can get used to it.

GOTG

Mostly because of mentality. You know you can't die, you do everything to not die and it breaks your mentality even in easy match up.

I always feel more pressure in AW then AQ because of mental problems not because of the nodes itself.

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Daddrieda

It’s like doing map5 for the first time and it takes two weeks or weeks before every members can get used to it.
LOL map 5 really?

No idea why you would view it as LOL. You can’t really expect a map4 players to excel in map5 in day one?

Kerneas

Bcs AW combines:

The most annoying defenders
The most difficult nodes
3 member teams
Limited time

Also Kabam has at least some mercy with the nodes they put characters on. They design content to be doable.

AW is decided by people who have no such mercy. If there was a node-champ that was undefeatable, I guarantee you that everyone would use it. It is just meant to be cruel

Seraphion

I feels harder bc it is do or die.

You can't whale your way through war.

It is the content where skill is tested the most. Also the pressure is high bc you don't want to disappoint 29 other allinace members. On top of that items costs ridiculous amout of glory so even a tiny mistake can costs you 6 lvl 4 heals which is over 1.500 glory.

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xNig

Because players want opponents to fail, Kabam doesn’t.

BuggyDClown

TBH Aw AI better than whole game modes. I enjoy it. It feels like real fight. Especially the parry or reparry fear. Nodes are good to play around. It takes good judgment and plan to take path and play. I just want Aw timer to be reduced to 45 min too.

World Eater

I also wanted to add that in AW, you’re going up against champs with various mastery setups. Fighting vs a story quest champ is different than fighting the same champ who has parry, assassin, willpower , despair, etc….

TrashyPanda

Because it's meant to be; it's PvP. It's about the only content that challenges the biggest accounts, though those people seem to be getting real tired of AW by now. It's just really stale.

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LuisBvv

Node 25 with thing is a trash fight there no reason to have footloose and power gain withno ability accuracy reduction allowed to combat it. It’s a cash grab scam. Path 8 heal block with the defender getting a massive fury is OP and unnecessary and item costs on that path are cruel for no good reason. Redoubled determination needs to be taken out of war with all the immortal ibombs taking advantage of it. It’s a cash grab and I’m glad people are waking up to the scam that is war. Kabam’s profits are tanking from all the shady **** they do to there players in war and champ nerfing .

Ironman3000

AW is just the worst

Lvernon15

Node 25 with thing is a trash fight there no reason to have footloose and power gain withno ability accuracy reduction allowed to combat it. It’s a cash grab scam. Path 8 heal block with the defender getting a massive fury is OP and unnecessary and item costs on that path are cruel for no good reason. Redoubled determination needs to be taken out of war with all the immortal ibombs taking advantage of it. It’s a cash grab and I’m glad people are waking up to the scam that is war. Kabam’s profits are tanking from all the shady **** they do to there players in war and champ nerfing .

Node 25 thing is as easy a quake fight as it gets, heal block is a nothing node, redoubled ibom can be quaked/ghosted/warlocked depending which node

Fear_of_Clowns2099

I think Alliance Wars seem harder because of the amount of pressure it puts on you. Let's say you are on a higher tier alliance. You face the pressure to not screw up once, not lose your attack bonus, etc. Next, it's the nodes. There can be some horrible node combinations that are just too screwed up to defeat sometimes. All the accumulating pressure makes you feel that AW is harder than the rest of content.

TyEdge

Honestly masteries play an underrated role in this. I’ve had several deaths lately when the opponent’s assassin mastery caused a parry to fail at low health. I’ve been running resonate, and when I use someone besides Void, it’s staggering just how much the opponent can regen.

A buddy got hit by the back of Doom’s sp1 and because of mystic dispersion and boosted power gain effects, doom went to sp3 and killed him.

And all of these things are hidden from you so you can’t prep before the fight, and most don’t give an indication during the fight. If Nick Fury is above 5 charges, I can see “evade failed.” I don’t get “parry failed” for assassin.

swmcsw

Masteries for sure play a role. I run cable and apoc and it always sucks running into someone with full limber mastery.

Shadowstrike

Sounds like you might be in a harder map due to your recent successes in previous Wars

DNA3000

Because players want opponents to fail, Kabam doesn’t.

That's true, but in a certain sense it is also the opposite. In every other game mode, the players voluntarily decide to opt-in to a difficulty level. The difficulty you do in EQ is 100% voluntary. The difficulty you do in AQ is decided by the officers, but they generally decide to do maps that they know the alliance can actually do.

Players have no choice on AW difficulty. Every time you win a war, your war rating gets higher, and you will face stronger opponents. You will keep getting harder matches until you lose. The nature of war is to try to get similar strength alliance to face each other, and when that happens there's about a 50/50 chance of winning or losing. In other words, unlike in every other game mode where the players decide to play things they are likely to beat, in alliance war the game mode compels players to run content they are just as likely to lose.

Most of us wouldn't voluntarily play a game mode at a difficulty level where we were failing half the time, but alliance war pretty much guarantees that. As a result, Alliance War generally seems harder. It isn't the game mode itself that is harder: tier 14 war is easier than Cavalier EQ. The problem is most people pick content they can beat 90% of the time, but alliance war forces players into 50% match ups. That's always going to seem relatively harder as a result.

KnightZero

A lot of it is on the pressure war puts on a player unless you're in an alliance that doesn't care about war.
If you do, every death counts. That does put pressure on the player to make sure they don't die. And if you do survive but win, the potions that you keep using also contribute since there is a limited usage. That pressure doesn't exist anywhere in the game. You do have to clear your lanes in AQ, but you know the fights and a win or loss doesn't depend on it. And for other content, you can always quit out and restart if you want.

Agent_X_zzz

its mainly the pressure for me lol, nothing else.

DarkQuake

Your going to face the hard defenders which arnt easy to kill and also champ that power gain crazy. Also tricky nodes. You need a counter for every champ just to clear your entire path.

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Speeds80

Cos it is harder, but the rewards are... oh wait worse

Aleor

I guess it's because of how when you become a better player (skills, roster, now units available, etc), any other content stays as hard as it was before, while in aw you move up in tears until face opponents of similar level