Auto scaling difficulty W or L?

## 🎢 Auto-Scaling EQ Difficulty – Fun Feature or Revive Drain Disguised in a Nice Shirt?

So Kabam might introduce **auto-scaling Event Quest difficulty**, where enemies adjust based on your roster strength. On paper? Sounds fair. In practice? Might be the EQ version of *"you thought you were safe? Think again."*

Here’s why some of us are nervously eyeing our revive stash:

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### 💪 1. Strong Roster? Great! Now Fight Thanos With a Jetpack

* You grinded Act content. You opened 7\*s. You maxed Herc, Hulkling, and Shuri.
* EQ: “Nice champs. Be a shame if... the defenders also scaled up.”
* In short, no matter how much you grow, EQ just grows with you—like an annoying sibling.

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### 💊 2. More Chip Damage, More Mistakes, More Revives

* Longer fights + buffed enemy stats = more chances to get clipped by an unblockable node you didn’t fully read.
* EQ becomes less “how clean can I play?” and more “how deep is my revive stash?”

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### 🧱 3. Progression Feels Like a Trap Card

* Kabam: "Build your roster!"
* Also Kabam: "The stronger your roster, the stronger the EQ enemies!"
* Wait… So the solution is to... not rank up? Is hoarding now meta?

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### 🧠 4. Strategic Planning? Yeah That’s Gone Now

* Old EQ: “This boss has 150k HP, here’s a node map. Bring counters.”
* Auto-scaling EQ: “HP? Who knows. Nodes? We’ll surprise you. Counters? Hope they scale too.”
* EQ turns into a monthly game of **node roulette**.

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### 💰 5. Revive Store = Open 24/7

* Players might feel pushed to farm more revives (hello again, 3.2.6) or look at those juicy revive bundles.
* Suddenly, EQ becomes less about progression and more about **resource management: the sequel**.

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### 🎮 6. Skill Matters... Until the AI Says Nope

* You dodge perfectly, bait specials, land intercepts…
* But the boss has 350k HP and aggressive AI, and one slip = KO.
* GG, try again—with a revive this time.

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### 🧪 7. Feels Like Lab Experiment: “Let’s See How Much They’ll Use”

* Instead of new mechanics or fresh ideas, EQ just gets harder based on who you are.
* It's like Kabam saying: *“You brought big champs to stomp this content? Let us gently punish you for that.”*

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## TL;DR

Auto-scaling EQ difficulty:

* Makes content harder the better your roster is
* Increases revive and potion use
* Undermines planning, progression, and skill
* Feels like a **revive sink wrapped in a balance update**

We love challenge, Kabam—but we also love rewards for progression and clean gameplay. Auto-scaling might be trying to fix something that wasn't broken.

Let us rank up without getting slapped for it🙏

Comments

TotemCorruption

Yup. As with most things in this game, the amount of resources required to earn the top rewards will make those rewards mostly meaningless.
So people can invest 500k radiance or 20k units or whatever into chasing prestige, but the payoff will be like 5% of that investment.

JK_47

Here's chadGPT enhanced rephrasing ... LOL

Just trying to wrap my head around how this new EQ auto-scaling might work.

From what’s been shared:
Defender stats and rewards scale with Prestige
Nodes and difficulty scale with progression
So all Valiant players will face the same node setups
But stronger rosters = higher defender health and better rewards

I’m just spitballin’ here, trying to guess whether it’ll be an upscale or downscale, and what kind of formula could be behind the scenes.
Assuming the current Valiant EQ (Event Quest) is the baseline, we can think of it like this:

Definitions:
Let’s define:
P = Your current Prestige
P₀ = Baseline Prestige used for EQ tuning (say ~17,000)
H₀ = Base defender health in EQ
A₀ = Base attack
R₀ = Base rewards (shards, frags, etc.)
Then we scale from there.

Possible Scaling Equations:
1. Defender Health:
H(P) = H₀ × (P / P₀)
2. Attack:
A(P) = A₀ × (P / P₀)
3. Rewards (less aggressive scaling):
R(P) = R₀ × √(P / P₀)

Rewards likely scale more gently (sub-linear), to avoid imbalance🤞

Marco81

Una cosa del genere,e sarà la morte del game

Aleor

From f2p perspective it's definitely bad. If before you would get same rewards as any whales, now you will get twice less compared to smbd with bigger account. I.e. it doesn't close the gap. Every other game mode is already like that, now eq will be as well. Also before you could hit above your ceiling of you had done skills, now it's pretty much fixed.
I expect it to turn out very sad for f2p

Buttehrs

Careful with that thinking. They'll increase the cost of units spend events.....again.

Buttehrs

This is probably the most important take away. Hopefully they give us some kind of information in game on what prestige is needed for each increase.

Will3808

What’s the reason you made 7 reasons to make 2 points?

ItsClobberinTime

You will catch up eventually, this argument that the gap never closes is just not true. You won't catch up with the whale spenders but you will catch up with f2p endgame players eventually.

BigBlueOx

They are gonna anyways lol

summerdeer

I’m really excited to see the type of rewards are there gonna be brackets?

JK_47

Yeah this system could work, but only if Kabam stopped selling catalysts and other upgrade materials, which is very unlikely. Selling champs and cosmetics is fine and understandable. But continuing to sell key progression items while scaling event quest rewards based on account strength just widens the gap even more.

For free-to-play players, it's a double hit: reduced rewards compared to bigger accounts and a progression ceiling that can’t be overcome by skill alone.

ItsClobberinTime

You realize whales fund the game that allow you to actually be f2p right? If those whales weren't buying those materials you claim are preventing you from catching up (fun fact they're not, I was f2p myself until four months ago when I started spending) you wouldn't be able to enjoy this game with no ads or straight up having to buy it from the store. Instead of complaining, keep pushing through all story content, grinding arenas so you can get endgame content done as well as buying stuff from sale events, and improving your skills in general.

BuggyDClown

Finally. those 7 R3's will be of some use

JK_47

I am no f2p and I am not advocating anyone to be f2p.
Not a whale but regular spender
I am not against when KABAM sell champs or cosmetics, when they sell straight up T7 cats that's questionable

PS: I am not complaining about spending mate, stating how the new scaling is gonna factor with catalyst sales, competitive modes and power gap between players

Gamer

No whales buying only for cosmetic reasons there trying to to grow as fast as possible as possible so Kabam selling tier 7b is fair i wouldn’t even buy in this game if it was just cosmetic.

JK_47

But everyone loves to buy champs, won't you agree that's better compared to selling cats after this new implementation

hungryhungrybbq

It's just funny how someone can find a downside to Kabam actually updating game modes like we've been asking for.. I'm pretty sure it's gonna be an improvement

JK_47

Mate, It's funny how someone doesn't understand downside is scaling with prestige not the update to game mode... LOL

Scaling with prestige also won't be a problem, if highest upgrades like T7 cats aren't being sold

ItsClobberinTime

Why is it questionable? That's how every online gacha game works, that's literally what you sign up for when you download the game.

Why would it scale badly? The nodes aren't going to get harder just bigger hps and the rewards will get better and better as your roster grows, eventually you will catch up once you have 30 r3s and start getting r4s, there will be no massive gap between f2p players and low to mid end spenders once you catch up. Just the gap between whales and everyone else which yes is pretty big after every major sale but it is what it is, they're part of the reason the game's still running, always been like that always will be like that. You'll understand how much it sucks to get a bunch of 6* shards doing EQ once you become Valiant and have a ton of 7* in your roster, EQ rewards are so useless at the moment, we need scaling rewards.