Are you happy with the new difficulty of this month's EQ (UC and below)?

As an older thread about the difficulty of this month's EQ was closed due to things getting fairly sidetracked, I thought it would be good to do a poll about the difficulty of this month's EQ.

Personally I found it (especially UC) a lot more difficult than previous times (even after the revised tuning) and I am a Cavalier who has been playing from the start of the game and previously used to 100% UC EQ and occasionally do a single run of completion of Cavalier EQ.

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Captainaiden

YES!!!

D_T

As an older thread about the difficulty of this month's EQ was closed due to things getting fairly sidetracked, I thought it would be good to do a poll about the difficulty of this month's EQ.

Personally I found it (especially UC) a lot more difficult than previous times (even after the revised tuning) and I am a Cavalier who has been playing from the start of the game and previously used to 100% UC EQ and occasionally do a single run of completion of Cavalier EQ.

I meant to edit the original post so it was more clear, but can't. So just to clarify, the poll is about the difficulty levels of the EQ's ranked of UC and below (i.e. Uncollected, Conqueror, Proven and Contender).

It's not about the new TB EQ (& to a lesser extent Cavalier) which I understand is meant to be challenging those people who are bored at Paragon etc...

Crine60

I struggled with losing multiple champs on some of the paths in 3.1 and 3.2 in UC when I also used to 100% it without too much trouble and could sometimes do a path in the first couple chapters of Cav without having to dip too far into overflow potions/revives. I am not liking this at all.

I don't play to feel stressed out. I avoid AW because of that and suffer through AQ only because I need to to be in an alliance and to get glory to advance my champs but didn't want to do the same with all the regular monthly quests too.

For some of us it isn't a matter of becoming more skilled with enough time or effort. Some players have disabilities and/or conditions that we may have been using higher rarity/rank champs to compensate for in lower content than we were "supposed to" previously and that is why we don't just advance to the next progression tier but apparently we are now out of luck. Kabam and most on the forums don't bother thinking about us when they make these decisions or just say to practice more.

I understand needing to progress the game and make higher difficulty content like new Story Quests and higher progressions and corresponding difficulties for monthly quests. I don't appreciate having worked to get to a certain level and not be able to continue to do the same content because they increased the difficulty of lower level quests too.

I got Cav and contented myself with doing UC monthly content and am trying to push for TB title since we start to get less rewards as they move progression forward. Monthly content was supposed to allow me to continue to advance my roster to hopefully help with Story content but now some of us are being prevented from doing that too, especially when you throw in all the bugs and input issues in combination with the drastic intentional difficulty increase.

I am not going to be able to advance if I have to drop down from UC 100% every month to maybe only certain months and just getting the rewards from Conqueror and below reliably.

I realize this is a slightly different take on the difficulty increase than applies to most players but given the size of the player base there has to be a decent amount of people with various disabilities playing, especially given the increased conversation in gaming in general towards accessibility and awareness. I never asked for things to be made easier than they were intended to be just to accommodate me before but also wasn't looking for the difficulty to spike without it being a new level of progression either.

A lot of games will allow you to make up for difficulty you have in content level by grinding more/over leveling which is what I did before. That has been undone now by rescaling everything. It would really have been nice if Kabam had given any kind of consideration to how changes like these might affect other types of players.

WayWorn2525

When input issues are a problem, it amplify the difficulty. Now there's no guarantee parry is going to work. Just the like opening crystals, it all RNG whether parry works right or not.

Dummy

I'm UC and struggling on Conqueror this month

(Barely get through the path with the 400% Global Attack & Health boost, let alone beat the Absorbing man boss... )

Giuliameij

Since I mostly only do a completion run of all difficulties I don`t really notice any difference.

Sundance_2099

I'm Conqueror and struggled with Contender, never mind Proven, which I'm also struggling on.

Fabricius

I still don't understand why all EQ levels have been increased instead of just adding EQ for the TBs...

Greekhit

Having to play more for the same rewards it’s never a good thing 😠
Especially in a game economy where rewards quickly wear off 😉

Marvelfan30

Haven't done it yet bc I'm trying to kick the gms ass but he keeps kicking mine

Spurgeon14

Mostly just chapter 3 bosses, but a little too hard. 100% TB EQ, but had to use some revives, some on Zemo first couple of fights and if/when I messed up vs Absorbing Man. He hit so hard through block I accidentally parried once or twice and died... 😕 I'm a Paragon player with 6 R4s and fairly wide 6* and 5* roster at this point in game. Average skill level, I would say.

hungry_er1

How true the above comments r n I to am disabled so to the other disabled guy I understand they should have just added the tb difficulty n left the rest alone

Sbeve_Boubemi

The recommended team rating is a complete lie, I unable to beat absorbing man on even the proven difficulty as i cannot do enough damage and he just regens, after some battles he has more health then he started with.
his rating alone is higher then the max recommended rating, and the team im using is almost 3 times the recommended, I prefer a little bit of a challenge but not as large as one where its almost impossible for m to beat.

Viking_St3v3

Haven't done it yet bc I'm trying to kick the gms ass but he keeps kicking mine

Same boat here. I will not spend any resources on anything until i get that GM fight done

Spaec

Bosses are way overtuned, uncollected difficulty absorbing man hits about as hard as act 7 bosses, so it's an easy choice to skip this.

Valroz

Absolutely not.

I used to autoplay until Uncollected 2.2 and actually start manually fighting in 3.1. Now I can only autoplay Proven.

I’ll be fine with the difficulty increase if the unit rewards will be quintupled at least.

TheBeast996

To be honest the only struggle for me are Baron Zemo and Absorption Man in UC. Those are way too OP for the difficulty level. Other than that I don't have any problems. Auto play is great but not a determinating factor for me.

My biggest surprise was how easy is Cav this month other than Baron Zemo and Absorption Man.

Jefechuta

I used to complete every difficulty and explore the hardest one, since you had to waste more time for the same rewards I just ignored this EQ completely, ill probably complete the hardest one and maybe explore if i have enough energy but nothing else

tusharNair

As an older thread about the difficulty of this month's EQ was closed due to things getting fairly sidetracked, I thought it would be good to do a poll about the difficulty of this month's EQ.

Personally I found it (especially UC) a lot more difficult than previous times (even after the revised tuning) and I am a Cavalier who has been playing from the start of the game and previously used to 100% UC EQ and occasionally do a single run of completion of Cavalier EQ.

keep same difficulties...bring back r4 rewards in cav eq objectives and update the rewards/difficulties every year as per ongoing meta

Lonewolf1974

Control issues, l am not the only person having this issue. People are having trouble blocking and parrying. People dashing forward fighting when your dashing back.
I read the forms. I've been playing this game for 9 years and Kabam is still having the same issues. Really,? Kabam Is multi million dollar game and you all can't fix these problems, why? You all need to fire some people..
I'm sure I'm not the only player that has spent a lot of money on this game, just to have the same issues every year, over and over.
This year you all decided to make it harder in the monthly quest because people are not spending enough units in the game play.
FIX YOUR ISSUES!!!
People are getting tired of the B.S. GREED is going to be the death of this game!! That's straight out of Seatin's mouth. I agree. I watch all YouTube channels on this game and all the top players are saying the same. I love this game but damn people, your issues make me want to walk away.
Get rid of the seven stars no reason to bring another problem into the game when you can't even fix the main issues. Just more issues in the future.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! TELL YOUR CEO TO GET OFF HIS ASS AND LIGHT SOME FIRE UNDER PEOPLE ass'es.

(LonewoIf1974)

Feeney234

Thronebreaker wasnt bad. In terms of difficulty, i only had issues with the Zemo and Absorbing Man, but thats mainly because i suck lol.

The paths were actually fun when you have counters (and if cross charges would work correctly). My only issue with Thronebreaker was that Kabam pretty much took the Cav exploration challenge (r4 mats) and rolled it into TB difficulty exploration which was kind of a dirty move. Kabam essentially rolled out an entirely ADDITIONAL difficulty to EQ (more time spent, more energy) for pretty much a smidge better than what we were getting in pre TB. I feel rewards definitely need to be tweaked up a bit.

Now, i truly feel bad for the newer players whom are still progressing and growing their rosters ect who got absolutely SLAPPED with this sudden spike in difficulty for practically nothing extra for them. Those are the ppl who really took the L with this.

And before everyone comes back like "BuT ThEy NerFeD iT"... yeah ok cool. It never should have been touched in the first place!!! Why fix something that aint broke?!

Carlyle

There is more stuff I really hate. It is so much time consuming now. I played a lot, but not have significant progress in finishing of EQ to 100%. And the rewards are the same for 3 times moreof work.
I also do not like that Uncoll and Conqueror are now class based quests and you must have specific class. I usually tried different champs with synergies and so. Now I am going with 4 champs of same class and one of other for boss.
I do not have problem with difficult boss fights but what is really annoying are path nodes. Like Combat Deja Vu - Weakness? Really? I do not have problem in war where it is about 2 fights. But there was 6 fights and if you don't want to play special combinations of combos, which will make the fight even longer, it will make one fight at least 150 hits long with class and path advantage with 5*R5.

To sum it all, it is first time in 4 years that I am thinking about quitting.

Darth_Stewie

Once again... Kabam messes up something the community enjoys. Basically the story of their mcoc lives

FrostGiantLord

Absolutely horrible. Just horrible. They messed up the whole EQ this month. We need to put up with a difficulty increase, and get no better rewards. Honestly, the only thing worse than this is adding Spider Punk to the game

csexton00

Terrible move on Kabam's part again. No one asked for lower difficulties to be harder. Who does that benefit? The rewards aren't better. Goes to show how out of touch with the player base they are again. Be like making Acts 1-4 harder because Act 8 was added. The "nerf" they did still isn't anywhere close to where it was before. Hopefully they learned and next month we go back to how it was.

marce2128

Hello, my experience with the new difficulty is bad.
Before the change to the difficulty that is now a conqueror i could complete 100% without problems and the uncollected i did with some difficulty at 100%.
Now with the change I am about to finish 100% conqueror with some difficulty and spending some revives, but it is absolutely impossible for me to finish uncollected, in chapter 3.1 I had to use several revives to finish it (only in one path), but 3.2 is impossible, when the boss fills a one power bar and throws the special, he regenerates more than what he loses, my damage is small so from there it is impossible, I looked for tutorials on how to beat him but until today i couldn't.
I really don't know if it's worth spending resources, I didn't even start the secondary mission, and I'm not going to do it.
I hope they change for February, because otherwise, as I put in the other post, I will have no choice but to leave the game, since I will not be able to progress in it and I will stagnate...

Sundance_2099

Hope to hell February has a 50% nerf on Contender and Proven because even nerfed they are still too high. If not, I think I will be doing Contender for the story and playing Incursions and arena the rest of the month.

PascalGambit

I began doing the Uncollected difficulty but gave up after doing a couple of paths in chapter one. It's taking much longer than the previous iteration and I refuse to put in more time for reduced rewards - why has the iso per completed path been reduced so substantially? I don't recall any announcements of a reduction and there's been no response to the queries raised.

Moreover, the game is regularly malfunctioning and is downright unplayable at times, compounding the frustration.

It was incredibly disrespectful to close down the other thread where players were airing their concerns. However, the move wasn't unexpected and is typical of the way Kabam has dealt with pressing issues over the years. In my view, Kabam takes advantage of the fact that the demographic playing the game is largely consisted of young people who lack the experience in how to demand better treatment and are genuinely unaware of their rights if and when things go horribly wrong as they often do with MCOC. I highly doubt Kabam would have the audacity to thumb their noses at their customers if for instance the game was populated with women in their 30s, who often will act as a collective and will confront companies to get them to apologise and change tact when they're shortchanging loyal customers..