Insane difficulty ramp up pon Collector

Billybob1971

Ok that is me done

Thought the game was OK, reasonably progress difficulty.

Then I got to the Collector boss level. Never seen a more obvious, ridiculous, pathetic ramp up in difficulty in my life. From the start to then I have never finished a story fight with all 5 heroes dead. Here they were all done before he was at 65% heath, utterly ridiculous escalation in difficulty. He has 28000 health ffs my best character has 11000, What am I supposed to do play the game for another fucikign year before I try and do that level?

All bosses up to that point in the game have had challenges at times, some easy some tricky.

But this is a whole new level, it is crazy, lost all 5 heroes before he was 60%. Never even been close to losing 2 let alone all 5.

These are decent rank 2 and 3 6 star guys., utterly destroyed, he was 3 shotting two of them, so that is me done with MCOC I think, I am not good enough to play impossible stuff like that.

Is that really fair to ramp up to that degree?

I think not it is petty, very unfair and wholly out of context for the entire story mode up to that point, the increase in difficulty is hundreds of percent more than any other AI opponent in story mode to that point, very sad.

Comments

ahmynuts

Bro doesnt know about the pre nerf collector.

spiderknight616

Collector sucks to fight especially compared to the lead up but it's relatively smooth sailing beyond that. The big boss fights starting from Grandmaster (6.4) are pure skill checks and the most fun fights in the game.

Magrailothos

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2942231#Comment_2942231

My favourite part was "These are decent rank 2 and 3 6 star guys"

I mean, he's right… imagine having to do that fight with five-star champions...

Beewee

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2942238#Comment_2942238

Now do it with 3* and low leveled 4*

NARWH4L

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2942238#Comment_2942238

Or your biggest champs being 4* R2/3...

Perfect_jab

Collector is just a terrible boss fight in his defense. All rng , all bs and no fun. Basically try to do as much damage as you can before he kills you right away. Sometimes he goes unstoppable right away an dead. I hated fighting him more then anything else. Now doing these abyss runs...hate comes back even more.

SirGamesBond

I don't think whoever designed collector fight ingame are/were mentally stable. Same goes for abyss collector.

Both collectors wre abnormal for thier time.

DNA3000

I mean, kinda.

Historically the 5.2 Collector (to differentiate him from the Nameless Collector a lot of players are bashing their faces against at the moment) was a form of end game gate. He was the thing you had to defeat to become Uncollected. He still is, but once upon a time Uncollected was the Valiant of its time. Players were not expected to just roll past him like every other boss. You were meant to get stopped in your tracks until you could defeat him and become what we would today call an endgame player.

Today, 5.2 seems to be a nothing map in the middle of mediocre content, but compared to everything before him he is still a dramatic jump in difficulty. Is he unfair? I don't think so. If you can't get passed him, god help you getting through Act 6. But the Collector is really the first time players run into something that you can't just face roll or overpower with roster (to a point). You need to stop and figure out how he works, and use very specific tactics to beat him. If you know how he works and what tactics will work against him, he's not that bad. But for most players, this will be the first time they ever have to do that. Everything they've learned up to that point simply won't work.

My recommendation is to find guides or tutorials on Youtube. Once you understand him, he's not that bad. Learn to beat him. Don't spend, don't blow all your potions and revives on him. Take the time to do the research to learn him. Because that skill is a necessary skill to progress farther in the game. He's ten times harder than anything you've fought before, but MCOC is a game where learning how things work makes everything ten times easier. It will balance out over time.

XxLoOhNuTiCkxX

You're gonna learn today a big part of this game is Unit Man. Just revive your best champ until he goes down.

BattleWarriar

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2942266#Comment_2942266

I haven’t used unit man in a very long time. I wouldn’t say it’s a big part of today’s MCOC

Rayven5220

Welcome to the first real boss fight in MCOC.

PoPosts like this are EXACTLY why kabam shouldn't have nerfed the hell out of everything else, especially act 6 because guess what? If dude does play on and get past collector, he's gonna have the same issues the next time he faces a hard fight and he's gonna whine because now he can't beat that one.

Then it'll be "omg, BG's is too much". It never ends when you give out participation trophies.

Halley

Collector is much much more easier than before.

I also used tons of revives for him, but I admit that he's easier because he's nerfed, and we have 7* now. So we can finish Abyss much quicker than before.

Cap_Murica

I recall doing this with 5 star rank 3 and 4 champions.

Buttehrs

Mate when the collector first dropped, we had nothing but 5* and we couldnt even max them out yet. This is a skill check fight. Time to start using your brain and practicing and trying out new ways to fight and literally get good.

ItsClobberinTime

Yes, if you don't have the resources you're supposed to play a whole year before even attempting endgame content you donut lmfao what do you even want the 7* sigs for? You probably barely have any 7*

Graves_3

For carina challenge, I took him down with 3* pre buff cyclops. Since then I have lost a decent proportion of my hair 😒 collector is one of the most unfair fights in the game.

Krooks

TThe Collector was a nightmare fight even after the nerf if you are not familiar with his mechanics.