Double track Paragon snub
ChrisPowell
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So I understand valiant gets better offers, that's fine. What sucks is that the Paragon offer was downgraded. The platinum pool crystal is a thing of the past, I want my third rate booster pack back.
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This used to be the same b/w Paragon and TB.
I get that exploring necropolis is quite annoying these days.. because revive farming got nerfed. But it means kabam is doing wrong with Paragons.
Luckily I did revive farming before it got nerfed and became the valiant in January itself. And after BG store so many Paragons are trying to be valient.
I hope kabam will launch 8.4 soon. So that all Paragons will be the valiant.
I'm saying this as a Valiant myself, bg store and now this, Paragons deserve better.
It’s been the game teams MO. Once a higher title is released, the previous highest title only gets second rated rewards. At least with valiant, it took them 4months to get there. With Paragon, it was almost instantaneous.
Valiants being raised up is totally fine and should be done, but Paragons shouldn’t be lowered down from where they previously were. If Kabam wants to differentiate between the two, it should be Third Rate Booster Packs for both, and then something additional for Valiant.
No one here is complaining that valiants deservedly get more, it's the fact the paragon rewards are not at the level they have been for the last few months.
This point is so simple it defies logic to miss. If you got to this point in the thread and haven’t read Wickets comment please stop and do so.
Im gonna go ahead and try offer up the only possible counter argument I could think of (and even then its a really bad one). If it is the case that the large proportion of “Mature” paragons have moved to valiant already and only “Baby” paragons are left it may make sense to have downgraded the rewards as they were tuned more for the “Mature” group. This fails on two points though:
1) We can pretty comfortably say that the vast majority of paragons who were paragon right before necro are still paragons now today. Id be willing to bet money on the range of 85%.
2) Why on earth would a progression guarantee you less the longer its existed (in terms of the rarity of materials you can aquire). Does that mean eventually paragons are only getting T4CC once the newer titles come out? Then T4B? Absurdity. The trend has always been that rare materials become more available down the whole spectrum as more titles get introduced. You need to be at the highest tier to get the newest material but at no point has it ever been precedent to cut off access to previously attainable resources
Most progression tiers are bounded above and below by other tiers. There's a sense in which there is an average Conqueror or average Uncollected player. The range of players in those progression tiers can't really grow much, because they are bounded above - a strong enough player is likely to promote out of it.
However, the highest progression tier is different, because there is no tier above it. As a result, the rewards targeting the highest progression tier at any one time have two separate demands on them. They must target the average player in that tier, just like with any other tier. But unlike any other tier, there are also special demands due to the fact that a chunk of those players at the upper edge of that tier are the end game players that have different psychological reward incentive demands. Rewards targeting the highest progression tier have always been a little larger than you would expect if you just extrapolated the rewards from lower tiers for that reason. In effect, the highest progression tier gets a kind of pseudo "end game bonus."
This doesn't just affect rewards. It can also affect difficulty. When Master tier difficulty was supplanted by Uncollected, Master's content difficulty dropped dramatically. That was due to the fact that Master difficulty no longer needed to have that "end game bonus."
This special handling only lasts so long as a progression tier is the top tier. When Master was no longer top tier, its difficulty dropped. When Paragon was no longer the top tier, the rewards that specifically target it no longer have that need to carry that extra bonus. It seems that in this case, this affected the design of the double track rewards.
You could just put it in an in game message and save everyone some time.