**WINTER OF WOE - BONUS OBJECTIVE POINT**
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
There is currently an issue where some Alliances are are unable to find a match in Alliance Wars, or are receiving Byes without getting the benefits of the Win. We will be adjusting the Season Points of the Alliances that are affected within the coming weeks, and will be working to compensate them for their missed Per War rewards as well.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
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Not sure where you got Agent Venom on the "don't really want" list from. He's got some good utility with 50% evasion reduction (+30% on L1) and 70% chance to shrug off debuffs. He's a bit of a niche champ, but I use my 5/50 AV once in awhile. He was great vs Uncollected Void in this month's event quest to shrug off the degen debuff and took off about 40-50% health off Void. I've used AV on my AW tier 1 attack "B" team when my top team was tied up in map 6 vs a stun immune Spidey mini-boss.
can you confirm this please with the team? i don't want to get excited too soon
if one of the old champ is in the "feature crystal" pool, for example AntMan, he will temporary be removed from the "basic crystal" pool? meaning 0% chance to pull him as basic from a 10k crystal?
How about Medusa and Memphisto reruns? Are they coming back in reruns or they will be cancelled?
Thanks
I personally do not think changing the featured crystals to this system will help any serious or end game players progress any faster. The point of the featured crystal was to spend the extra 5k shards in hopes of getting that SPECIFIC featured champion. Yes it was always a gamble with risks of getting an IP or colossus but it gave us roughly 20-25% chance to get the champion that we the players feel would make a huge impact or change in our accounts. Now with this change you guys are making it is no longer, what we guessed, to be around 20-25% chance but about a 4.2% chance at getting the champ.
Granted the "sub-featured" champions you're putting into this new system are decent compared to the rest of the 18 basic champions but IMO none of those 18 are amazing anyways (except for Doc Oc)! I feel the reason why your team feels that those champions selected were "selected Champions are based on empirical data showing their effectiveness as 5-Star Champions in both Alliance Quests and Alliance Wars" is because of the horrible RNG luck to begin with. It seems like every time someone opens up a basic/featured 5* crystal they complaining because it ends up being a useless or meme champion and they are forced to rank them up to use the resources that are about to expire because they have no one else better to use them on. My last 8 basic 5* pulls have been champions I would not even rank up past R1 because of their uselessness in AQ/AW or questing in general.
I think a more effective way to implement a change to the 5* featured crystals is to:
1. keep it featured to that specific champion and keep the "increased" chance at obtaining that champion (~20%)
2. introduce the 5 new champions with a slightly reduced chance with obtaining (~2% per new champ)
3. reduce the new basic pool to 15 champions (~4.67% per basic champ)
I think this will still get the desired results on your end while keeping the player base happy @Kabam Miike
I think that what the very top tier players are doing is more skewed from everyone else than it is that everyone except the very bottom is doing something different.
@Kabam Miike stated:
He didn't say Kabam was going to put the top champs in the crystal, he said they were going to curate the eighteen to avoid putting in the poorest performing champions. I'm not sure why the conversation shifted to how Kabam completely failed to understand which champs are the best, when they never said they intended to put the absolute best in there. They are probably trying to put in a variety of different "not-worst" in there, because they have to pick a different list every three months. I see a few champs known mostly for defense, some known more for attack, some might even be there for prestige.
@Kabam Miike even said they were not top champs, just that players were effective with them. As in the opposite of ineffective with them. I'm going to be curious to see who *doesn't* show up after a year. And I wonder if this data also went towards that beta test we're probably not supposed to talk about (I didn't get the beta offer, so I'm free to mention not talking about it).
@Grimmbear
(I get you in fact if I keep saying how much we are against it i will be gone)
I know you may say that we have an equal chance of pulling every champ but it seems like the "trash" champions are more likely to drop. Yesterday 2 of my alliance members pulled a 5* spider-gwen ON THE SAME DAY, both from basic crystals. Please explain to me how the chances are equal when the only 5* crystals opened that day both yielded spider-gwens? @Kabam Miike
This is absolutely and unambiguously objectively false. They've always said that the odds of pulling any particular champion from the basic crystal were identical, that the odds of pulling any particular champion from the basic pool from the featured crystal is identical, and that in general the odds of pulling any particular champion of the same type from a crystal is identical. They are saying the exact same thing here: the odds of pulling any particular champion from the new featured crystal is identical. Because the number of champions in the new crystal is fixed at 24, that means the odds are approximately 4.2%. They can't quote a number like that in most other crystals because the number of champions is different at different times, but that number is zero additional information for anyone capable of doing basic elementary school math.
Thanks for this very helpful and constructive post champ!
It isn’t better, it is more of a money-making change because if u want a new champ as a 5* u now have to spend units on featured grand master crystals which are 300 units each.
Oh I get it, the Kabam team uses these champs and you guys really think ur good at using these champs. Show me any alliance in the higher tiers running these champs for aq or aw. out of mutant, only cable has utility but not even the best offensive mutant. out of skill it is fine except thor ragnorak, he's more of a defender. in science, you can't even honestly say ant man and sentry deserve to be there over the other science defenders like the spidermans or hulk or quake for offense. in mystic don't you dare tell me people are effectively using any of those on offense, or loki and jane foster for defense. in cosmic, phoenix and ronan are not very good on offense or defense compared to angela drax hyperion. and for tech civil warrior is not an attacker and not even a good defender, punisher 2099 is barely a good defender, and nebula and doc ock are fine. for more than half of this list you just failed completely.
why are you charging 15K shards for this crystal?? no increased chance and still about 20 **** champs in there.
Please be a bit more respectful. I am a real-life human being.
My point is you have to put more attention to the 6 new champions. So the rest are there to make sure the chances are balanced. So the other 18 champions, shouldn't be more exciting to get than the "featured" ones. In that way, they make sure you keep trying to get the champions.
Now given that only 6 of 24 are new, I can understand the disagreement with the chances.
I think people are overreacting to these news. How many players actually buy the featured crystal anyway?
That's not what he said. The list of 18 in the first featured crystal will not be in the 2nd featured crystal. All will still be in the basic crystal.
Reason being cyclops, ronan, juggs and antman is one of the most effective champs use in aq and aw is because they exist years ago before all the god tier comes in, all the god champs is rare and thats why they are not the most effective champs in aq and aw as they meant to be rare, all the meh tiers we get from the garbage bin had suddenly became the most effective champs, i wonder they gather the data since the game start, well, if u get the data since the game start (example like cyclops) compare to a green goblin, ofcuz the data will show more ppl use him on aw def instead of GG...its juz **** and bs explanation they gave...