Thoughts on Incursions Saga
willrun4adonut
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The new hacks are OP. I honestly didn’t know how well it was going to go carrying people for sector 7 before I knew that there were new hacks. My original plan was to take Sinister, and then, after the linked degen node took away most of my health, I would just use his stun/hold heavy to slowly heal back on the two fights before the next linked node boss. It was going to be a slog, but I would do it. The new hacks threw that plan out out window [thankfully].
There are so many champs that work well with the new healing hacks. I don’t know if they learned their mistake from last incursions saga where they introduced useless hacks that diluted the hack pool, but these ones are great. Also wonderful is that they seemed to take great care to make sure the new hacks worked with the champions in the saga. Toxic Siphon, for example, works well with many science champs, and the healing on heal block also does wonders for a lot of tech champs. Second Chance is OP and I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets removed. I’m hoping that the hacks remain like the other hacks from the previous saga incursions remained.
There are so many combinations that I can’t even list them all. For people who said their roster is limited, you actually probably have some good options. The best that I have seen [though this is not the definitive list]
Silk: Toxic Siphon, Tides of Fury, stun +50%
Sinister [ramped up]: almost any , but focusing on degen. Also, when second chance occurs, get smacked and regen to full health, stun +50%
Lady
Hack where you heal when opponent is heal blocked, hack where opponent gains armor breaks when inflicted with DOT
Ultron: Stun +50%
Luke Cage: Toxic Siphon
The health pools in zone 15 sector 7 are still pretty small compared to zone 25. I think the highest was a Sassy at 2.2 million, but many didn’t even top out above 1 million. A scorpion on zone 15 for the boss had ~931,000, which is fairly ‘easy’ to nuke in less than 30 seconds.
I tried to go on a run of zone 100, but even with the desired hacks [I got most of what I wanted], it’s too much. I only made it to zone 41. The randomness of nodes I just couldn’t overcome with the limited roster. For example, stun immune, tunnel vision, tenacity, whittle down. With a full roster, I could come up with something, but just couldn’t with only saga champs.
I must be playing NegaSonic Teen wrong, as a Crossbones fight in zone 36 took 7 minutes. Or maybe I’m not her damage just stinks.
I really miss buff cornucopia and most importantly the armor break on ten hits hacks. I hope that they make a return. I did a run with Angela on a non-sector 7 and she just doesn’t hit anywhere close to as hard. I use buff cornucopia to help heal her up and hope for regens when carrying.
I didn’t do a zone 25 carry, but I’d imagine Herc would be even more OP with the new healing hacks.
I also wonder what the average age of people I carried/wanted to help was. I probably sound like an old man [only 35], but I was called ‘bro’ but about every 3rd person, if not more.
Most people wanted to help when I carried them, but they actually created more work for me. For example, if they fought on the first 3 zones, I would have to wait for them to clear their fights while I was sitting at the end. Also, if they took down a linked node without me asking [which is fine], I was left with only one fight to choose from. If they didn’t select a node, I could choose from the more favorable defender and nodes. Since most fights could end before I died from the degen and I could heal in the next room [whether from node or hacks], it really didn’t matter if they took a degen node down or not.
Most people where great, but I encountered a few quite crafty MCOC. One person changed his name to someone very similar to a person on the forums [one letter off] that frequently posts. When I asked him why he even needed a carry, the person didn’t respond and his name got changed when I went to search for him again in-game. Another person tried to take another spot by having a name that was similar to a person who signed-up and sent a friend request. Again, this was only off by one letter.
A good chunk of people followed directions, but a good chunk did not. My favorite was someone who I restarted with 4 times before quitting out on them. They would move in front, cross my path, and take my hacks after defeating a boss. After telling them each time not to cross my path, they finally said “what does that mean?”. But it was too late as we had already wasted 30+ minutes.
I meet many people, and all spoke English. Normally, when I carry with random people with random matchmaking, I have to use google translate and screenshots to communicate. This was much easier. I met many people, including one of the people that we hold a dear debt to for Road to Necro. They said that, although they were Valiant, they could not get to zone 15. They were also one of the people who died ~1,000 plus times for the that event. They said that, while they could revive through that with Aegon, you can’t revive through incursions as the pots are more expensive, the champs are more limited [ie no Aegon]. And after thinking about that, I agreed with them and carried them. I won’t say who they are or if they were on the sign-up list as I carried random people too.
I'm guessing that the Incursions saga will be ending on Wednesday, even though the timer doesn't necessarily reflect that. Hope I'm wrong.
TLDR: I still have one battlerealm bestie title.
There are so many champs that work well with the new healing hacks. I don’t know if they learned their mistake from last incursions saga where they introduced useless hacks that diluted the hack pool, but these ones are great. Also wonderful is that they seemed to take great care to make sure the new hacks worked with the champions in the saga. Toxic Siphon, for example, works well with many science champs, and the healing on heal block also does wonders for a lot of tech champs. Second Chance is OP and I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets removed. I’m hoping that the hacks remain like the other hacks from the previous saga incursions remained.
There are so many combinations that I can’t even list them all. For people who said their roster is limited, you actually probably have some good options. The best that I have seen [though this is not the definitive list]
Silk: Toxic Siphon, Tides of Fury, stun +50%
Sinister [ramped up]: almost any , but focusing on degen. Also, when second chance occurs, get smacked and regen to full health, stun +50%
Lady
Hack where you heal when opponent is heal blocked, hack where opponent gains armor breaks when inflicted with DOTUltron: Stun +50%
Luke Cage: Toxic Siphon
The health pools in zone 15 sector 7 are still pretty small compared to zone 25. I think the highest was a Sassy at 2.2 million, but many didn’t even top out above 1 million. A scorpion on zone 15 for the boss had ~931,000, which is fairly ‘easy’ to nuke in less than 30 seconds.
I tried to go on a run of zone 100, but even with the desired hacks [I got most of what I wanted], it’s too much. I only made it to zone 41. The randomness of nodes I just couldn’t overcome with the limited roster. For example, stun immune, tunnel vision, tenacity, whittle down. With a full roster, I could come up with something, but just couldn’t with only saga champs.
I must be playing NegaSonic Teen wrong, as a Crossbones fight in zone 36 took 7 minutes. Or maybe I’m not her damage just stinks.
I really miss buff cornucopia and most importantly the armor break on ten hits hacks. I hope that they make a return. I did a run with Angela on a non-sector 7 and she just doesn’t hit anywhere close to as hard. I use buff cornucopia to help heal her up and hope for regens when carrying.
I didn’t do a zone 25 carry, but I’d imagine Herc would be even more OP with the new healing hacks.
I also wonder what the average age of people I carried/wanted to help was. I probably sound like an old man [only 35], but I was called ‘bro’ but about every 3rd person, if not more.
Most people wanted to help when I carried them, but they actually created more work for me. For example, if they fought on the first 3 zones, I would have to wait for them to clear their fights while I was sitting at the end. Also, if they took down a linked node without me asking [which is fine], I was left with only one fight to choose from. If they didn’t select a node, I could choose from the more favorable defender and nodes. Since most fights could end before I died from the degen and I could heal in the next room [whether from node or hacks], it really didn’t matter if they took a degen node down or not.
Most people where great, but I encountered a few quite crafty MCOC. One person changed his name to someone very similar to a person on the forums [one letter off] that frequently posts. When I asked him why he even needed a carry, the person didn’t respond and his name got changed when I went to search for him again in-game. Another person tried to take another spot by having a name that was similar to a person who signed-up and sent a friend request. Again, this was only off by one letter.
A good chunk of people followed directions, but a good chunk did not. My favorite was someone who I restarted with 4 times before quitting out on them. They would move in front, cross my path, and take my hacks after defeating a boss. After telling them each time not to cross my path, they finally said “what does that mean?”. But it was too late as we had already wasted 30+ minutes.
I meet many people, and all spoke English. Normally, when I carry with random people with random matchmaking, I have to use google translate and screenshots to communicate. This was much easier. I met many people, including one of the people that we hold a dear debt to for Road to Necro. They said that, although they were Valiant, they could not get to zone 15. They were also one of the people who died ~1,000 plus times for the that event. They said that, while they could revive through that with Aegon, you can’t revive through incursions as the pots are more expensive, the champs are more limited [ie no Aegon]. And after thinking about that, I agreed with them and carried them. I won’t say who they are or if they were on the sign-up list as I carried random people too.
I'm guessing that the Incursions saga will be ending on Wednesday, even though the timer doesn't necessarily reflect that. Hope I'm wrong.
TLDR: I still have one battlerealm bestie title.
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seriously, the Incursions community outreach runs, AND the informed opinions on how to (at least try to) do it ourselves, is massive. I hope you trip and fall into a pile of free puppies all holding unclaimed winning lotto tickets. o)
New hacks takes the place of older hacks
For example there is a high chance that you want buff cornopia hack but you will get regen hack in most of the boss hacks which is disappointed
For example out of 4 hacks 3 hacks could be regen hacks which is good but it can ruin your incursion plan especially when there is no specific hack selector in sec 6 like there is in sec 7 zone 1
This is the issue I have found the most occurring after the saga incursion over
So either let us select both hacks or atleast give us a selector in zone 1
And top of that rewards I have a good idea for the incursion store which I will share later on
Because i was not able to get them at all this season on any sector, so after couple dozen restarts i just gave up.
The degen takes off a percent of health, and you thus want a smaller health pool so you can heal more health.