Side Quest Objectives - Week 3 [Merged Threads]

Sorry Kabam, time for another rant post.

So from listening to the community of hating the ‘end 100 fights with a special’ objective. You’re now asking TB players to complete fights in act 6.2 (or later)? Why on earth would anyone want to go back into arguably the worst content you’ve created to complete objectives? Let alone being TB, I personally have no intention of touching act 6 again until it’s either significantly nerfed or when I have 6* R5 champs.

This is not what we want Kabam. Please do better.

Edit: I’ve fully explored 7.1 and 7.2 so that’s why this doesn’t sit well with me.

Comments

BitterSteel

Regardless of what?

If you mean regardless of grindy objectives meaning the same dull, boring thing over and over? Then yes, people will complain. Again, can you really blame someone for not liking having to do the equivalent of a homework booklet in MCOC? People play this game to relax.

I agree, there's not much Kabam can do now that the remaining weeks will likely also be the same, grindy formula they seem to be sticking to. They can't change the objectives themselves into something more fun, but they can immensely reduce the number and time spent.

If it were me, I'd change the objectives to something each player can do in 10 minutes a week if they're all going to be this repetitive and dull. And after this event, I'd ensure no other objective events ended up as grindy as this.

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KnightZero

You're missing the point of what they listened to. Objectives can be made interesting. Lower the number of fights and add something else.
You were complaining about boring fights being worse than these types of objective last week. Well this is the type of fight you hate. Because even your solution is to just do the same fight 50 times.

benshb

So it's an auto complete for those who have completed all story quest above 6.2 right?

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Mobile_P0tat0

If you want a fast solution, 6.2.3 starts you 3 energy from a fight and you have icarus to speed up the fight

Monk1

The very fact people are talking about entering quest.. doing 1 fight, restarting and doing sane fight again….50!!!!!! Times just reflects what complete nonsense this is

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Sundance_2099

Even for a Proven this is a suck-ass set of objectives: 35 fights in Acts 1-4. Okay, sure, I can redo Act 1 to minimise energy and use my 5*s to minimise fight times, but JFC, this is sucky.

Bugmat78

Dem objectives.... Looks like the easiest thing is just rerun act 7 path

edit: which I'll admit is a waste of energy but I didn't really enjoy act 6 before or after nerf. Objectives should be fun.

GroundedWisdom

The fact that people are offended by something so simple to complete is equally nonsense.

ZeiramMR

I don't believe I have seen anyone mention this: You can knock out two of the lower difficulties by Revive Grinding in 4.1.6 and 5.3.6. You'll still probably spend a fair amount of energy in the earlier quest since it doesn't seem to generate (full) Energy Refills as frequently as 5.3.6.

It's too bad that I made a few runs in the last day to use up expiring energy refills before I knew about these objectives.

DrZola

I clocked a disagree on this and it’s my policy to give a reason why:

This may not be a terrible format to you, but to the majority of players (not just here, but in a variety of chats), this is just more mindless, uncreative grindy stuff. You are perhaps the only person I’ve seen defend it.

You’ve made your point, and it’s not unreasonable. I will probably do the fights to get the objective as well.

But it’s time to let it go. Don’t be everyone’s punching bag.

The cumulative frustration over the past couple of months needs a firebreak, and this isn’t it.

Dr. Zola

ScarletDolphin

Those objectives with all the bugs that the game has, they really do sound insane!
Also, the rewards are not that spicy to completely worth our time.

Odachi

2 energy refils and a few small ones and it's done on the icarus path in 6.2 - fights over before you can blink with r4 killmonger. First fight is 3 energy away so if you just restart after that thats 23 fights per refil if you wanted.

Captain_Montica

Objectives are really bad and boring
But if you gonna do it , I recommend do it in 6.2.3 icarus
Just use ghost or anyone who can shrugg of debunks
Fights go really fast but energy cost still sucks
It's like 150 energy for all of Objectives

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GroundedWisdom

I don't believe in compounding frustrations onto inappropriate issues. This is about the Objectives. Not about "Parry and Dex and Y and X". There is no competing with that mentality. Building a list of grievances ensures with near-certainty that whatever is done will not be enough. The gravity becomes disproportionate to what is being looked at.
In terms of creativity, what is the reasonable expectation? The game itself involves some sort of repetition in one form or another. So what is it that people have in mind? I'm all for keeping things creative and encouraging using decision-making skills, but it seems to me that the largest issue is the Objectives in general. The first week was simple, perhaps too simple. Grab a Storm or Bishop, and do it on Auto.

ZeiramMR

Now that my helpful post is out-of-the-way:

I thought the first two weeks were grindy but doable... albeit the first week was certainly harder for people with unlucky RNG for those specific champs. I do light to moderate Arena play, so between arena, catalyst refills in the Dailies, and some exploration in Shang-Chi CQC, I was fine for Week 1 and on part 5 of the Week 2 difficulties within 48 hours. This Week... I'm not sure what Kabam was thinking.

The one bit of credit I will give them is that this takes me out of my comfort zone; I'm a Baby Thronebreaker who never explored Chapter 6, and has been focusing on exploring Variants first before starting Book 2 or Act 6 exploration. This gives me some incentive to switch my current plan, even if the objective rewards are not outstanding. But the harder objectives of this week are still pretty costly on Energy if you are not just doing the "do 1 fight and restart".

Madman_marvin

Are these objectives plus the Summoner Camp objectives just some horrible psychological experiment on the player base?

Kerneas

For the first time, I can use the 8 years of studying german language. Great.

Crine60

There is an easy design fix (I can't speak to the difficulty of implementing the code change but you have used this method before so it shouldn't be too hard....?) for part of our annoyance with this. Just make the lower tier objectives complete when you complete a higher tier. You did this before with another set of objectives but I can't remember exactly what it was. I think it was something like using a certain rarity specific champ for kills or killing a certain rarity of a specific enemy which when completed unlocked the rewards for the objectives for the lower rarity difficulties as well. Please consider updating this set of objectives to work that way.

slacker

Smh, there are EQ is going and their choose the story one....

DrZola

Nothing happens in a vacuum.

There’s frustration with the objectives and there’s concern over the health of the game. Those things aren’t unrelated.

But I’m just trying to spare you some grief and suggest there are better uses of time—feel free to disregard and defend, engage, whatever.

Dr. Zola

KnightZero

Just a side note not related to this week objective, but the event as a whole. In general side events, if the event is boring, you can skip it. But this month, you can't. Since you need it to get to next month which has all the major rewards. Which relates to the next issue. This month has a lot of work comparatively for not much in terms of general rewards. While all the rewards are piled next month which you also have to do 28 runs of.
Why not split it up? So that even if you're grinding these objectives out, atleast you're getting some rewards now? Instead of waiting till next .onth to get something useful.

krystolix

That's a "NO" from me dawg. Chapter 6 can meet me in hell. Course it is hell...

LibertyPrimeV1

It's still only been about 2 Hours, you could still cut your losses and replace the Objective Chain with one that's less Flat Out Ridiculous to be blunt.

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GroundedWisdom

I understand. I see it. I prefer to stick to the topic at hand. There is no reasoning with a list a mile long of everything going wrong.

tioguilling

this is not fair por players who don't pass act 6