Yeah. Elders difficulty still really sucks.

I really don't want to have to fight my way through an entire story chapter every month for way less rewards.
Go back to the drawing board kabam

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CandyCane2

and I really don’t want to go to work today but still have to go.

Herbal_Taxman

Agree OP, it somehow seems worse than last month. I hope it finally gets through to Kabam that yes, the attack and health values are part of it, but the nodes are even more of a factor. The final map (cosmic) is so tedious and frustrating to play because of the lack of champs who actually apply armor breaks. And then you add the “get an armor every x seconds node”

Lost____one

Can they at least release the story as a motion comic since they are making monthly content so restrictive.

Many customers (summoners) will choose to avoid dumping resources on this content.

People use time and resources in ways they feel give them the greatest return on investment. This does not give much of a return in either fun or rewards earned

GilbertoJunior

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887006#Comment_2887006

The nodes are more limited,a d they said they would change to add more recent champions but doesn't seem like it

TotemCorruption

Easy nerfed content but if they wanted to reduce the number of fights in each quest from 15 to like 10, that would be cool with me.

Asher1_1

its just more fights … for a month it's fine 🤷 I just i just nuked that on day 1 🤷

Chuck_Finley

That they didn’t update the nodes so that the entire class can benefit instead of niche and older champs can benefit just says it all.

There is no sea change to make EQ fun. They put in the work they wanted (prestige), made a tweak on defender values, promised we can skip classic next year some time… and that’s it. They are done with it. A long, boring, piece of monthly content with no thought behind it.

Sure glad we turned the page on September … 🙄

Tempest_024

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887039#Comment_2887039

"We admit September wasn't our best month." October is looking awfully similar.

baskinrobbinsknows

Personally I’m skipping these until I no longer have to do classic. I’m not in the 1% alliance, so I can keep my prestige where it’s at. Besides, new glory store and super daily give me enough of what I need to stay satisfied. Have fun with these event y'all

Chuck_Finley

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887042#Comment_2887042

Would literally be better if they just gave us the generic class boosts we got in old cavalier EQ.

GroundedWisdom

It's still too much of a slog. Classic is better, but Elder needs toned down. So does the Side Quest. This isn't anything I want to do every month.

Twist1298

My suggestion was to do Elder difficulty like the PG Gantlet, all boss fights nodes that are not annoying and solid rewards. Not too much to ask for

Suros_moon

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887004#Comment_2887004

You’re either the only one here being paid to play mcoc or need to become aquatinted with the definition of false equivalence

ahmynuts

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887119#Comment_2887119

You're agreeing with me on an issue which means I must actually be objectively correct.

But yeah. Still way way too much of a slog.

ahmynuts

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887036#Comment_2887036

See that would pretty much solve the issue but it would have been too easy to just go ahead and implement. So they need to pull data for a few months and then discover that this is a change they should make

HaverTime

I don't mind it to be honest. Mildly challenging content that feels like it will cost around 10-15 revives if I don't play perfectly and 15-20 health potions. Available for a month. In that time I can collect 60+ revives and similar amounts of health potions.

Doesn't take overly long to do unless you want to sit and beat it on the first day, but even then it's not crazy long.

Decent rewards as well in my opinion. 2x 7* Crystals, pretty much a full titan, all the 6* and 7* relics/shards. Chunk of a 7* awakening gem. Feels like a fair trade off to me.

CandyCane2

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887132#Comment_2887132

It’s true. Gotta pay the bills somehow 🤷‍♂️

BigBlueOx

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887036#Comment_2887036

yeah this is a really good idea. I truly don’t understand why no other incremental changes like this were made.

It almost seems like they went outta their way to find more limited node sets too… always wanted to comb through the dregs of my roster and be forced into using irrelevant champs.

SirGamesBond

Gonna stay silent till I enter eq.

The only thing I have to say just by reading commonets is.... Kabam give us some new damn nodes already.

Ita okay when some things are hard. But these nodes are just outdated.

(Me, im going to brute whole EQ on a later weekend and ignore the annoyances)

peixemacaco

Another whining thread 😭🤣

You just cant learn from your mistake to troll Kabam in every way pledging for free things and to them not openning sales as its their own game.

Now, she cry for the difficulty of Elder quest haha

Valiants there arent even 0,05% on Mcoc and are quite arrogants, always asked for everest content.

Now, that they have, they cry for a piece of cake, or a walk in the park, instead to do the challenge, they hope for charity.

Play classic mode if you cant do Elder.

All changes in the game are ok and perfect.

Thanks Kabam 🥳

Buttehrs

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887195#Comment_2887195

Complaining about people whining. Coming from the guy who cries about People pausing in bgs because he can't even beat a pauser.…the irony is off the charts on this one folks. Stay in school

Wozzle007

The problem Kabam has is this is a Monthly Event Quest, that a large portion of players have explored by the first weekend. I’ve just 100% Elders.

If they make it shorter with fewer fights it’ll be over too quickly. Once they’ve done away the need to complete classic difficulty I think it won’t feel as much of a slog.

I think they do need to either rethink the nodes to make them more universal to every class and also add some variety for us. Not every Skill champ does damage over time, not cosmic has armour break, so cannot benefit from the bonus of the nodes.

I also think elders would work better if we were allowed a full team of 5 attackers to do the 15 fights. Bring back the joy of ramp up champions. Bring back full synergy teams.

I still find OG Act 4 when it dropped back in the day as my favourite content. I don’t mind paths with ridiculous number of champions. Current act content is stale so I appreciate the aim at a different quest format. But the one fight and swap format is to restrictive. I think it should be saved for Crucible style content, not the MEQ which should be a bread and butter open and inclusive content for all.

SirGamesBond

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887203#Comment_2887203

Last 2 paragraphs: Part of it has to be blamed on community. Kabam tested VEQ and the first two months got overwhelmimg positive response. That's why elder EQ is designed like that.

Absolutley 0 differences when we compare first 2 VEQ vs new Elder.

WattoWatson97

I'll be reserving judgement til I try elder which should be this weekend, the first 2 classics I have done so far feel at least 30 percent easier since the tune down they implemented last month and manage to be at least shaved 50 percent off each fight time now it feels with most fights being about 30 seconds on the easy path so things are much easier now, if they haven't changed Elder since last month I expect to use Class Boosts & the others like Attack, Health and the combo one to be able to 'easily' do it.

OldManHop

It really feels like they're trying to make people walk away from the game.

Chuck_Finley

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887222#Comment_2887222

except, you know…. Bigger health and attack values so digging up 6 stars for obscure nodes isn’t exactly awesome…. And no healing on swaps. But other than that…

SirGamesBond

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887292#Comment_2887292

What's wrong in using the 6*s? They are sitting there doing nothing.

The nodes need update. The design is practically the same. The rewards are more than previous version.

No healing was part of first veq, again same as before.

BigBlueOx

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887222#Comment_2887222

Except people complained about the nodes then too. It’s also more time consuming.

I miss the old format. We really just needed revamped nodes not this cash grabby adaptive hot garbage of not fun

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SirGamesBond

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2887326#Comment_2887326

I too am fed up of the nodes, even before veq. Using one perfect counter to nuke a path in tb eq was how we coped.

I won't go to the limits of calling elder cash grabby. Its clearly linear with prestige. 26-27k is a perfect middle ground. The people who invested in the game before top 30 prestige came into existence are getting marginally better than others and it's not much in the bigger picture.

The revives and potions are expiring everyday. I haven't played this month's yet though. I'm sure it is manageable, but I know it's annoying due to outdated nodes.