What is Considered Grindy?

Evaluating the new objectives and Bewhiskered and Worlds End solo events….

…would you consider these grindy? One event requires 500 arena fights, the other 200 fights with a bewhiskered champ. Objectives require a mish-mash of fights with the 3* Eternals champs and some require finishing the SQ lanes (which in turn require players to bring the 3* Eternals as a ride along).

I’m curious what the forums community thinks here.

Dr. Zola

Comments

Total_Domin01

*50 arena fights

Maratox

*50 arena fights

No he’s right. 5000 points divided by 10 points a fight is 500 fights

Ace2319

I don’t think they’re that grindy because we have the whole month to complete them

SpideyFunko

the Eternals ones are rather easy, I’ve been smashing out normal difficulty on both the eq and the side quest and I’ve already cleared two objectives in like 20 fights

The arena ones will vary, but it’s like 18 arena fights (or 6 perfect rounds) a day. I’ll bring grinding for a lot of units since I’m going for gm very soon but for others it’ll be a slog they may pass up on.

The bearded champs I feel as if it’s too hard to tell considering everyone uses different champs in their day-to-day questing but I think if I’m not there with a week to go I’ll start pushing for it

DrZola

To be clear: I’m not sure I think they are grindy. The requirement to do arena feels a little high, but if we are running a PlatPool arena or any other special arenas it’s probably reachable without a ton of extra effort. Have to see how the months shakes out.

All in all, it doesn’t feel super-grindy. If there’s a sense that this is relatively reasonable, that’s a solid comparison point to the past couple of months—both for the community and the team.

Dr. Zola

DNA3000

I don’t think they’re that grindy because we have the whole month to complete them

It depends. For players who play daily they don't seem grindy at all. For players who only play very intermittently and try to get as much done in just a few days of concentrated play, they probably seem like very high hurdles.

It is kind of a difficult question to answer because it is not like there's an "average" answer. There are no average players it would apply to. I would describe them as being targeted at high engagement players - in terms of trying to complete them all. Casual players that don't *need* to complete everything are also fine with objectives they can't fully complete, because they don't complete everything anyway - in fact content that can't be completed can be a positive for those players, because from their perspective they always get rewarded. If they play two hours they get rewarded, if they play six hours they get rewarded more. Completists in a sense stop getting rewards past a certain point.

For players that want to be completists but struggle to do so, this kind of thing is probably not the best.

firemoon712

When I gotta bust out the music and the soda with insane amounts of motivation.
And after two hours, I am doing the exact same thing I was doing to start.
Aka, every time I play the arena.

Werewrym

It’s arena… So yeah, a bit grindy.

GroundedWisdom

Not really grindy to me, but I play everyday so...there's that.

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Jaded

Auto fight normal easy 50 fights

You can’t think that’s all we have to do…

I’m under the “do as much content in 2 days as possible then coast the rest of the month” type of player. So it’s a grind fest for me atm. Also adding in arenas that I don’t usually do 😫

MrSakuragi

If I didn’t normally do arenas I’d say it’s a grind. But I do, so I’m not bothered.

Toasty

Not the most Grindy but after the last two months… not what I was hoping for

Aburaees

For me, something is a grind when it’s excessively repetitive.
Arena is a grind by nature, and 200 fights with a bewhiskered champ is probably something I’ll end up doing with autoplay.

Pikolu

The arena one seems like a grind, but I'm just going to go for the 4* champs from the arena and I'll probably get the objectives done that I want to, and the bewhiskered one is easy because you can just autofight the normal difficulty on the side quest with a bewhiskered champ, and the only cost is time there. Even then, you can do something else while the game does the grinding for you.

GroundedWisdom

Meh. It's a good opportunity to replenish some Gold and Units.

Grootman1294

Anything arena involved.

I'm a lazy player lol

SHIELD4AGENT

Not grindy at all, September and October objectives were like a walk in the park.
I can even do this month's objectives during my nap time.

Ace2319

I don’t think they’re that grindy because we have the whole month to complete them
It depends. For players who play daily they don't seem grindy at all. For players who only play very intermittently and try to get as much done in just a few days of concentrated play, they probably seem like very high hurdles.

It is kind of a difficult question to answer because it is not like there's an "average" answer. There are no average players it would apply to. I would describe them as being targeted at high engagement players - in terms of trying to complete them all. Casual players that don't *need* to complete everything are also fine with objectives they can't fully complete, because they don't complete everything anyway - in fact content that can't be completed can be a positive for those players, because from their perspective they always get rewarded. If they play two hours they get rewarded, if they play six hours they get rewarded more. Completists in a sense stop getting rewards past a certain point.

For players that want to be completists but struggle to do so, this kind of thing is probably not the best.

Yeah absolutely, I just meant personally these are not super grindy especially compared to the last few months. I do play everyday and some of my favorite champs happen to rock some wonderful facial hair so that will be very easy for me. I don’t play arena but I don’t mind doing a little a day for a month so overall it’s not too bad.

Decksie

I think it’s grindy in the sense it’s going to force me to do content I wouldn’t otherwise do. Given we only have 3 stars to complete the Ikaris/Sersi objectives, I’m going to have to do normal EQ which I don’t normally bother with. Or grind for a 4 star version of them when their arena comes around.

SkyLord7000

your sister 😏

Crusaderjr

grindy is being forced to do content that requires too much time for the chance at 3* champs in a crystal lol, thats not including the monthly content that still needs to be run. and if you do aq/aw as well it just doesnt add up time wise.
just thinking of doing 500 fights makes me want to quit the game, who finds that kind of repetitiveness fun? i guess you can argue the repetitive game bugs seem somewhat addictive xD, i guess this event favors the arena peeps who already invest their personal time for the free units and BC BUT that is such a small amount of people of the community.

LibertyPrimeV1

your sister 😏

There's Too Many Of Them!!!

GroundedWisdom

grindy is being forced to do content that requires too much time for the chance at 3* champs in a crystal lol, thats not including the monthly content that still needs to be run. and if you do aq/aw as well it just doesnt add up time wise.
just thinking of doing 500 fights makes me want to quit the game, who finds that kind of repetitiveness fun? i guess you can argue the repetitive game bugs seem somewhat addictive xD, i guess this event favors the arena peeps who already invest their personal time for the free units and BC BUT that is such a small amount of people of the community.

I'm going to have to disagree with that. The majority are people Grinding the Arena for those Units.

GroundedWisdom

Especially with BF/CM coming up.

Crusaderjr

grindy is being forced to do content that requires too much time for the chance at 3* champs in a crystal lol, thats not including the monthly content that still needs to be run. and if you do aq/aw as well it just doesnt add up time wise.
just thinking of doing 500 fights makes me want to quit the game, who finds that kind of repetitiveness fun? i guess you can argue the repetitive game bugs seem somewhat addictive xD, i guess this event favors the arena peeps who already invest their personal time for the free units and BC BUT that is such a small amount of people of the community.
I'm going to have to disagree with that. The majority are people Grinding the Arena for those Units.

thats kinda what i said tho... last sentence. people grinding are investing their own time for those units.. which is a small portion of the over all community? what exactly are you disagreeing with lol

2StarKing

I'll drop a hundred rounds in arena daily. 500 fights spread across 28 days is not much to me.

Procrastination will make it feel grindy. Git er dun.

Polygon

Especially with BF/CM coming up.

And what if we already grinded nonstop on the months before to reach the goal? And now are burned out? 500 fights seems grindy for those that mainly only have time to play on the weekends

GroundedWisdom

Especially with BF/CM coming up.
And what if we already grinded nonstop on the months before to reach the goal? And now are burned out? 500 fights seems grindy for those that mainly only have time to play on the weekends

People can play as much as they want. That doesn't mean they are owed the same amount of Rewards that others get for playing more. That much is logical. More time invested means more Rewards.

grindy is being forced to do content that requires too much time for the chance at 3* champs in a crystal lol, thats not including the monthly content that still needs to be run. and if you do aq/aw as well it just doesnt add up time wise.
just thinking of doing 500 fights makes me want to quit the game, who finds that kind of repetitiveness fun? i guess you can argue the repetitive game bugs seem somewhat addictive xD, i guess this event favors the arena peeps who already invest their personal time for the free units and BC BUT that is such a small amount of people of the community.
I'm going to have to disagree with that. The majority are people Grinding the Arena for those Units.
thats kinda what i said tho... last sentence. people grinding are investing their own time for those units.. which is a small portion of the over all community? what exactly are you disagreeing with lol

I was disputing the comment that it's a small portion of the community. We don't have the information to say either way, but I'd venture that the larger portion of the community run Arenas for Units, and the smaller portion are Grinding to Rank.

Crusaderjr

Especially with BF/CM coming up.
And what if we already grinded nonstop on the months before to reach the goal? And now are burned out? 500 fights seems grindy for those that mainly only have time to play on the weekends
People can play as much as they want. That doesn't mean they are owed the same amount of Rewards that others get for playing more. That much is logical. More time invested means more Rewards.
grindy is being forced to do content that requires too much time for the chance at 3* champs in a crystal lol, thats not including the monthly content that still needs to be run. and if you do aq/aw as well it just doesnt add up time wise.
just thinking of doing 500 fights makes me want to quit the game, who finds that kind of repetitiveness fun? i guess you can argue the repetitive game bugs seem somewhat addictive xD, i guess this event favors the arena peeps who already invest their personal time for the free units and BC BUT that is such a small amount of people of the community.
I'm going to have to disagree with that. The majority are people Grinding the Arena for those Units.
thats kinda what i said tho... last sentence. people grinding are investing their own time for those units.. which is a small portion of the over all community? what exactly are you disagreeing with lol
I was disputing the comment that it's a small portion of the community. We don't have the information to say either way, but I'd venture that the larger portion of the community run Arenas for Units, and the smaller portion are Grinding to Rank.

"I'd venture that the larger portion of the community run Arenas for Units, and the smaller portion are Grinding to Rank" this part i can agree for sure.
i think its safe to say kabam has those numbers tho. Of actual active players uncollected and above that sign in at least once a week. but i think its also safe to say a huge number of people dont have the time to run arena just for units that they might not even need while still needing to run other content. especially cav-TB, tend to run monthly and side content for shards and rank up material, while unit grinders is a higher form of investment time wise. i wouldnt find it logical to say there are more unit grinders than over all regular content players.