Alliance Quest Miniboss and Sentinel Refresh - April 2018 - Discussion Thread [Updated April 13]

Summoners,

We've just announced a small refresh of Alliance Quests that will start April 2nd. This will include new Minibosses, and a farewell to our Symbioid friends!

Read all about it, then ask your questions!

UPDATE:
We've just posted an update in regards to your feedback on Alliance Quests. This post includes some adjustments to Sentinels and Alliance Quests that will be coming with the next series (Starting April 18th). Take a look right here: http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/62626/upcoming-adjustments-to-alliance-quests-april-18th-2018

Comments

TKal

FPC3 wrote: »

Kabam Miike wrote: »

But how are you so sure that the difficulty has gotten worse?

Granted, Bleed and Poison champions may not be as effective in Alliance Quests as they were before, but Sentinels melt at the power of a Armor Break Champion, and a lot of the new Mini-Bosses have very common counters!

You know there's Sentinels on the Bleed and Poison paths, right? Do you have any champions who Armor Break AND are Bleed or Poison Immune?

Médusa ? Nebula counter the sentinels also with 5 charges

Acanthus

Who wants to bet that the Nightcrawler switch trick will get fixed by the time this goes live? Lolol

Kyndranna

Please dont make it easier because people cry before they even see it played out like you did dorm..

Some people here enjoy the challenge don't punish us for their inability to adapt

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Codornas

Dormammu will still be the boss? Or he will change along with miniboss?

KevinFF1961

This is just a shameless cash grab. This is significantly harder without an increase in rewards. Don't even try to rationalize this, Mike, no one is going to believe this was meant for any reason other than to increase the difficulty and gouge more cash from us.

Thatweirdguy

Acanthus wrote: »

Who wants to bet that the Nightcrawler switch trick will get fixed by the time this goes live? Lolol

98.9% chance I'd bet.

Excelsior1316

Nabz034 wrote: »

Kabam Miike wrote: »

420sam wrote: »

So, you are making it more difficult yet not adjusting anything like rewards or even glory? Can I ask why? How does this benefit the players?

As we said in that post, we are working on a full refresh. We are not at a place or time where we can increase the rewards or fully refresh the mode right now.

It’s not a “small” change though...Sentinels are far more difficult to fight against, and since they don’t bleed or can’t be poisoned it’s even more difficult.

Not to mention, Morningstar, Void, Goblin and Nightcrawler are way tougher to fight against then what’s there now.

420sam is 100% right in asking for more rewards. Why make the content harder that 100% will require more resources to beat, but not even meet the players half way on the rewards?

I think 95% of the players would rather you leave everything unchanged if there’s no added benefit. Don’t believe me? Poll the question in that exact honest way, and see if the players would rather wait til the next season to get the refresh or play tougher map with no extra benefits

Exactly. Another one of the little things they do to show "appreciation".

Nabz034

VirtuaNovak wrote: »

Will the Nightcrawler mini-boss be awakened?

Does it matter? His evade isn’t going to change either way

FPC3

TKal wrote: »

Médusa ? Nebula counter the sentinels also with 5 charges

Great if you've got either of those. Pretty sucky if you don't.

Lord_Shaedow

Kenshio wrote: »

nc with evade bug as mini boss ... tanku

Let's hope they are as slow to fix that as they are to fix the auto evade brokenness...

DTMelodicMetal

Rewards will probably be changed, hopefully increased with the increase in miniboss difficulty and Sentinels replacing Symbiods. No announcement doesn't mean that the new AQ Season will have the same rewards. It would be legit if we got new maps too.

Sanvondes

Syms had no SP3... does that mean Sentinels wont have one either right? 🤨

Ærroneous

This is total bs replacing the syms with sentinels! You just screwed over so many of your player base. I know my entire aq team is now garbage with the bleed and poison immunity.

Lord_Shaedow

Thatweirdguy wrote: »

Acanthus wrote: »

Who wants to bet that the Nightcrawler switch trick will get fixed by the time this goes live? Lolol

98.9% chance I'd bet.

And don't forget, auto evade will remain broken in their favor. Attack while evading? Check. Evade in the middle of an attack? Check.

TKal

FPC3 wrote: »

TKal wrote: »

Médusa ? Nebula counter the sentinels also with 5 charges

Great if you've got either of those. Pretty sucky if you don't.

You were asking for champs that can do that, I gave you two. Hyperion also, armor break and poison immune, pretty sure there is more

Dawgballs

Why not coincide these change with the end of this AW season. These new additions will effect people’s champs for both AW & AQ. Especially since they will fall within a few days of each other.

Forethought = lacking

tutyimutyi

It will be much more difficult,the game is full of "bugs",the speed of the ai is uneccaptable,but the rewards are the same.i guess?kabam wants more players to quit?congratulation!

Anurag1606

Let's think of reverse situation. Buff the rewards 1st as the community has been longing since like few months and then introduce whatever full changes you want. And by that keeping the community happy for once? You say how do we know difficulty has been increased? Taking away reliance on bleed and poison inflicting damage over time champs and needing bleed immune champs absolutely, isn't that an increase in difficult already? You just made Wolverine, one of the best champ literally useless. Already he's not available as 5 star, now no 1 would like to have him as 4 star too. Requiring specific champs for aq is not cool. It has to be decided by us and not by the game.

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Dayhvac

Update rewards. It’s absurd how long an aq season is without updating rewards.

HENRIQUE_FORTE

My usual team for AQ is Wolverine, Gwenpool and Voodoo...

Onmix

TKal wrote: »

FPC3 wrote: »

TKal wrote: »

Médusa ? Nebula counter the sentinels also with 5 charges

Great if you've got either of those. Pretty sucky if you don't.

You were asking for champs that can do that, I gave you two. Hyperion also, armor break and poison immune, pretty sure there is more

You sure will find some of them. They exist. But I think the point is you're gonna need some specific champs to successfully play in AQ. I don't think that's fair. Just because this game is based on your luck when pulling champs you can' make something like AQ champ specific. Some higher level material like LOL or Act 5 is fine. Either you're ready or not. But AQ is for everyone and is a most to progress and get you're 5/50 champs. Not an endgame content. So IMO is not really thought out.

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Blaargo

Medusa is gonna wreck.

Jaded

See what they are doing?
Make people think where they want to put their blade/gr/starky. Aq or aw...?
But valid point @Kabam Miike will sentinels have 3rd specials activated?

Nickerdoodle93

Well of course they'll change up the difficulty without updating the rewards; how else can they hope to milk players for more money.

This should've been saved for an entirely new season of AQ when you were ready to have updated rewards. If it's such a chore to balance that, don't put the more annoying part of the deal out first and hope the community would roll over and show their bellies.

Zuko_ILC

Jaded wrote: »

See what they are doing?
Make people think where they want to put their blade/gr/starky. Aq or aw...?
But valid point @Kabam Miike will sentinels have 3rd specials activated?

I'm glad I have the holy trinity in 4 & 5* sets

Tensio

So you will delay the end of this aq season? When will come the refresh of all (rewards included)?

GbSarkar

@Kabam Miike has abandoned the thread