**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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But just because you chose to progress slowly doesn’t mean everybody else needs to hold the door open for you. You’ve still got about three weeks before missing an objective. Go get Thronebreaker now if you’ve got such wild skill. What’s holding you back?
You don't need a million dollars or a month's vacation to get to TB. You also don't have to be the best at the game to get get TB.
Like what kind of dumb mentality are you trying to pull?
Cavalier players *are not* barred from the Summer of Pain. They will have access to EVERY FIGHT over the course of the event and eligible to collect points from them. They can collect nine points throughout the summer, allowing those that complete all nine to collect a nexus 6* class crystal and three 25% t5cc selectors. Cavs are only barred from collecting additional points from the secondary objectives that will be available in weeks 4-9.
If a Cav player does this and they have already beaten the Grandmaster (the other requirement to become Thronebreaker), they will have collected 4 25% t5cc selectors. They will have AT LEAST one t5cc of their choice.
If those rewards are somehow not enough for you, then you have just under three weeks to become Thronebreaker and complete that week’s objective before you actually miss anything. There’s plenty of content you can do to get you there.
There’s the other factor that access to not one but two T5CC selectors and the host of other rewards would completely bypass what was previously a year’s worth of progression for top tier players. The forum was littered with posts from players about how the Gauntlet was too hard and a cash grab, most of these came from players who bit off more than they could chew because they liked the look of the rewards. Opening these special objectives up to less skilled players will reduce the forums to a bigger farce than they usually are anyway.
When will it stop?
I guess there are people who think this happens in reverse. First Kabam makes the content, then they decide what rewards would be appropriate for that level of difficulty, then they decide who's allowed to do it. That's completely false. In any discussion about rewards, the first question the game designers ask is "who are these rewards targeting?" not "how hard is the content?" Before you design the fights, before you design the rewards, *first* you decide on the target audience. Then everything is made appropriate to that group.
The reason why you don't see any harm in allowing Cavalier players to run the Thronebreaker objectives is because you think there's any chance at all Cavalier players would be allowed to get those rewards. They wouldn't. If Cavs were allowed to do it, the rewards would be scaled to them. If you want to take rewards away from Thronebreakers to allow Cavs to do the TB objectives, fair enough. Good luck explaining to them why their TB-caliber rewards were reduced to Cav-caliber rewards just because Cavalier players feel they deserve to do everything Thronebreaker players are allowed to do.
You don't need money to become Thronebreaker. Lots of F2P players have become Thronebreaker. You don't need huge amounts of time to become Thronebreaker either: lots of players who do not spent huge amounts of time in the game have become Thronebreaker. But you do need skill: I don't know of any Thronebreakers who got there without using skill. Maybe someone merced their way there, but that's an exception.
If you had enough skill, you wouldn't need money to become TB, and it would only take a small amount of time. A sufficiently skilled player can become Cavalier in about 80 hours of game play starting from zero. I'll bet Thronebreaker is theoretically possible in (much) less than 300 starting today. That's an hour a day for less than a year. *Most* people can't do that, but anyone throwing around the accusation that the game isn't about skill should possess the level of skill necessary to do that.
This game is not about skill, or play time, or money spent. This game is about skill AND play time AND money spent. It is about the game progress you achieve using all the tools at your disposal. If you excel at all three you'll go far. Players who only do well at two of those still get places. Players who only are great at one of those will struggle. Players who don't excel at any of those have to accept that they will fall behind the players who do.
You may have a point from "skill" perspectives, however the majority of players hitting disagree button (not me) on you are talking about progression based system that motivating players to get TB title. This is a gate to secure a group of stakeholders.
Since you mention something about reality, I can relate this to education system. There are junior, senior high school, bachelor and grad school, each of them receiving ascending level of national funding grant. Periodically there are some talented kids at 8 or 10 who can handle bachelor level subjects. Few of them can break the "rule" and got special approval to skip high school, or even bachelor degree, and thus obtaining PhD at the age 17. That's from "skill" perspective in reality. Now those Grad school students against your thought because they follow the normal route to progress to Grad School, that's a progression base system. How come allowing a kid with talent joining us??? That's from traditional social hierarchy perspective.