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

Kabam Miike

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?

Sentinels will not have their Special 3 active

R4GE

After the start of AW 2.0 and all the grief that caused you would think someone would learn NOT to create incomplete content or changes until a full working product was ready to be presented.

BitterSteel

Which will come first? The day kabam find a way to release better content that finally pleases the community without being a cash grab or the eventual heat death of the universe?

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Ajm74

When you guys have a meeting to discuss reasons why spending is down of late, put this decision at the top of your list. You “refresh” the bosses to milk people out of items and units but punt on changing rewards. Plus the alliance quest related events all contain rewards that are basically useless to even beginner players at this point, same rewards for years yet you refuse to address the issue. You want balance? Balance the events and rewards as well.

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Marco10g

At least change now the background, there is still the face of ultron at the boss place since first AQ season

Mmx1991

The game is a buggy mess, every mechanic is being sabotaged for players and buffed for the AI, most rewards are outdated, AQ is already boring and unmotivating, and now they make it HARDER without improving the already dreadful rewards. Is this some kind of sick experiment to test how much abuse people put up with? I'm reaching the breaking point for quitting this mess.

tutyimutyi

Most of the players that i know are already fed up with this game.me too.not enjoyable at all,not like a year ago and earlier.i think,if kabam makes the things worse and more difficult,that is not a solution.

Kabam DK

VirtuaNovak wrote: »

Will the Nightcrawler mini-boss be awakened?

Yes. He also has the defensive buff which makes him dash back/block more than normal. This is there to make it much easier to switch his mode.

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CoatHang3r

Thanks for changing it up! AQ has been stale for a long time.

Hoping this is something that will be done more regularly in the future.

Sighsohard

Kabam this is why none of us believe you play this game yourselves. How can you say that Fighting against the current minis we have is not easier than the ones you’re changing to.

I will still beat them all regardless. But, I will need to put forth more effort against NC and GG than I would a cable, mordo or rhino.

The things you say perplex at times.

Batty_Numppo

What is Morningstar’s curse buff?

DTMelodicMetal

Anurag1606 wrote: »

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.

jrkst34

This seems very biased against Mutant champs, since Sentinels have an advantage against them. Why single out one class??

Kabam DK

Batty_Numppo wrote: »

What is Morningstar’s curse buff?

When you block one of her hits, she will gain a soul (her persistent charges)

ZombiePriest1

I don’t care about the difficulty change. The problem is risk to reward is not even. You r out of touch with your player base who actually plays your harder maps. We can’t open map crystals or t4ccc because of inventory cap and t4cc expiring in stash bc of no gold increases to rank champs. AQ is boring and not worth playing when u can’t use anything in the rewards. Therefore rewards need brought in-line for wasting my time keeping champs locked in outdated reward system! You r wasting your time and everyone else’s changing champs in AQ without changing rewards

Blaargo

jrkst34 wrote: »

This seems very biased against Mutant champs, since Sentinels have an advantage against them. Why single out one class??

I assume you haven't played the monthly.

Mike18211

Don’t mind this... been looking for a resson to take a break ha

Firethumb_1

Lol oh great so after you block her 5 times she starts 50% health steal..... Yup not harder at all and sentinels being being bleed immune is just starting stop people grinding aq with Wolvie and not using potions

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WalshyB

Kabam Miike wrote: »

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Ascoop24 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.

If you aren't at a place or time to refresh the rewards then you shouldn't be at a place or time to refresh the difficulty. One should not go without the other. This is a great example of pure laziness

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!

This is priceless, will always change the game in ways that will benefit your wallet and leave stuff that benefits us to the last minute (bug fixe...LOOOOL, rewards increase, gold...LOL). Getting real tired of the same old **** coming from you guys.

RehctansBew

So glad to see wolvie will be useless against syms now. Well played, take the three biggest regen champions and make them have **** attack. Awesome!!!

Firethumb_1

I'm sure a significant % of the player base use a5/50 Wolvie in aq to limit the items they use and so they should. Now low and behold sentinels arrive they're bleed immune and gain extra charges over mutant class... Funny that

Thawnim

Kabam DK wrote: »

Batty_Numppo wrote: »

What is Morningstar’s curse buff?

When you block one of her hits, she will gain a soul (her persistent charges)

So, basically we have to be able to intercept and evade now?

Merovegian

SpiritOfVengeance wrote: »

I personally think you should make the changes at the same time as reward buffs are decided what is the rush anyway?

To keep everyone playing.

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