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The Stagnation of Masteries

Toproller

Is it just me, or do others think that Kabam has some audacity in expecting summoners to part with thousands of units to purchase more loadouts to be competitive in the new game mode they are bringing, when the mastery skill trees have not been touched in 10 years?

I just can't get my head around it, I feel they should have made SOME effort to bring new masteries into this game.

I could also be overlooking technical aspects and maybe it's just too hard of a thing to do, just wanted to know what the feels were among the community.

Comments

horrendous_too

It will very much depend on how towers is set up and how the rewards are paid out. If the mastery optimization is just required so MSD, karatemike and the like can show off that they got to floor 600 or whatever, but us mortals can get all rewards at a reasonable level, then its fine.

But if actually getting the rewards will require constant mastery switches between 3 or 4 different load outs then yeah 4k units to get rewards from a mode sounds a little predatory. Especially with no new masteries in years at this point.

ahmynuts

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2960817#Comment_2960817

Mastery switches are free in towers mode. You just need to pay to unlock the loadouts if you want

Chuck_Finley

I think you are asking a lot.

how many new champs just shut off masteries? How many mystics don’t even look at MD anymore? If anything they are becoming more and more irrelevant.

But still you will be fined 35 units everytime you want to nuke some stuff in a casual mode with recoils. And 35 units to switch back. Even though you used units to unlock all that stuff.

And they will let you bypass that on the new mode, but no where else. Because reasons…

lucianxvs

i wish switching between mastery setups would be free at least in PvE content like Arena or Story/everest content, weirdly enough in PVP content like battlegrounds its free already.

also we do need some new masteries added to the game, maybe something like deep wounds but for other debuffs , because lots of champions nowadays rely on a different type of DOT, it wouldnt be that hard to implement, and some of the class masteries (science, skill, mutant, cosmic) do need to be overhauled to add some different boost to the certain class, not just very small stat increase.

overall there isnt that much that they would need to do to make masteries feel fresh again, just some small tweaks they could do in 1 month of work, but they just ignore masteries and charge thousands of units to unlock extra setup slots, which feels lazy and a bit greedy

DONZALOOG1234

my theory is collectives is the mastery updates and it's more along the lines of how i wanted it to be which is class based. We got bonus damage which is a new ability, increased attack and health and increased potency/(duration?) of specific class abilities.

SirGamesBond

I'll buy 1 load out after j4th. Too poor atm.

Herbal_Taxman

I bet they can’t manage the complexity of adding g new masteries at this point. Battlecasts were too much, masteries are an order of magnitude more complex.

BringPopcorn

I am curious on how important this new content will be to even think about having 5 sets of load outs...

JESUSCHRIST

The entire game is outdated so masteries isn’t alone

horrendous_too

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2960818#Comment_2960818

Sure once you have it set up. But first you gotta drop the units to get another load out. then spend units to switch to it so you can set it up. then spend units to actually set it up. and then spend units to switch back to your normal setup. And then sure you are set as long as you don't need to change that load out. But by then you are already 2k units in the hole.

BigPoppaCBONE

Masteries need to be brought into the (sheesh. I was going to say "the now", but it would be a huge win with them being brought into the 3 or 4 years ago). They're from a time when basically all there was was Fury, Bleed, and Poison. It's pretty sad.

Bigurlshrooms

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2960860#Comment_2960860

💯💯💯

lucianxvs

masteries should just be free to swap, at least give us a cooldown and we pay only if we don’t want to wait , but do something, I want to run recoils in arena and disable them in other content