Elder difficulty

rdonohue833

So, I just hit elder. Do I need 16 high ranking techs right out of the gate to complete this?

Comments

M_A_D_D_Y

Noo, ONLY 15. The boss isn’t class restricted….

Furrymoosen

Yes and no. It can be done with as little as 6r3, so they don't need to all be "high" rank, but there are a couple things working against us.

First, there is no free healing in-between fights. So the lower rank champ you use, the more chip damage you take, and as a result the more items you will likely have to use.

Second, the nodes on all but the mutant chapter are incredibly limited to a fairly small percentage of each class. This means it is difficult to go in with only your top champs because some of them will just take a long time to get through fights.

The design still needs some work to become something really good. Unfortunately, you're going to need at least 90 different champs (15 of a class per chapter, plus a champ for each boss fight) and the content is more difficult than it needs to be because of the combination of different minor issues that need to be corrected.

Khellendros138

They just need to remove the champion swap feature from it. Or maybe the end of each line could have one and that's it.

GroundedWisdom

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2888767#Comment_2888767

I'd be happy with a full heal when you swap. It gets taxing on Pots and Revs at times.

djr17

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2888781#Comment_2888781

That'll never happen.

I'd bet the reason we have this version instead of similar to VEQ 2.0~2.1 is because more pots were used on the single path than fighting the boss 3 times per path.

WednesdayLength

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2888658#Comment_2888658

Iwould say the science one is about as free as the mutant one realistically

captain_rogers

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2888983#Comment_2888983

Not as much as mutant cuz even for 7* r1 science champs who are not poison immune, the chip damage is quite huge.

JoeFixotic

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2889029#Comment_2889029

Chip damage from what? The poison or the blocked attacks? Unless you are stacking more than 5 poisons you won't really feel the poison damage (assuming you have Willpower mastery). And if you are parrying and not just blocking attacks, there are barely any chip damage from that.

Khellendros138

Question. Do you have to explore classic and elder to reach max milestone?

PuppetMaster_18

Complete classic and finish elders for max.

captain_rogers

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2889038#Comment_2889038

Poison, they reduce healing as well. 4 poisons and my 7* r1 miles is ticking 0.5% health per second. Unlike biohazard node the frequency here is little high and sometimes the ai is not cooperative to get a dex or parry.

Perfect_jab

Agree, the poison definitely eats away at your life. Throw a combo an a few stacks of poison can do some damage before you purify them.

JoeFixotic

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2889071#Comment_2889071

I see that make sense since Miles have low HP. You will really feel those chip damage.

CheeseMaster482

They just need to add a secondary node that allows all champs of the given class to achieve the fury node requirements. I barely had 5 mystics that could get the fury