**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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It is much, much, much easier for players to progress now than in the past. You're comparing your progression to other players, when you should be comparing it to the content. When I did RoL I did it with a roster of 4/40s, and that was just prior to 12.0, over a year and a half after starting to play.
If you want to progress quickly in the game, you have to work on both broadening your roster as well as ranking them upward. You say you put up 1.6 million for MODOK, that implies a relatively small roster of champions at low rank. Instead of focusing on ranking up to 5/50, you should be working towards building up a stronger roster of 3/30s and especially 4/40s. You should be going for what you can rather than what's out of reach, until it becomes in reach. For example, T4Bs used to be very hard to get, now they are much easier to get. On top of things like the glory store and other content, you can get at least one every nine days in the T4B arena. That takes only 1.1 million points. And if you keep accumulating those and using them to rank up your roster, you will eventually be able to increase your point score from ~1.5 million towards 2.0 million. At that point more 4* basic champions become within reach, and you can double up your T4B cats in the T4B arena as well. It is about ratcheting upward in small steps, not jumping straight to the top in large leaps.
But even doing things as efficiently as possible, the game isn't designed for rapid progress. Progress keeps getting incrementally better, but it isn't ever going to dramatically jump upward and it will never simply erase the progress advantage that veteran players have. The game does a lot to ensure that no matter how much advantage veteran players have, they will still have to continuously push to maintain it, or newer players will eventually overtake them. But newer players aren't ever going to have those advantages radically neutralized.
Arena brackets base on rating? Lol. I’ll sell my 2*s and 3*s.
T4CC IS much easier to get. Heck I was stuck at 4/40 4*s for a year or more and you’re complaining about starting the game for 3 months and being unable to compete? Seriously?
By no means, scoring 1.6m for basic, even for a 90k account, “ungodly” time is needed.
With regards to obsolete content, I’ve given this suggestion before, where next rank ups are locked until the exploration of the act that grants its rank up materials is achieved.
Eg, players can’t r4 a 5* until A4 is explored. Similarly, they can’t r5 a 5* or r2 a 6* until a5 is explored.
This prevents contents from being obsolete and steamrolled by higher ranked attackers with mats sourced from AQ and AW. The mats can be acquired though, just stored in stash with the rank up option of the champ locked.
Many MMOs do something like this, where in this case you would be an "Act 1" player or an "Act 4 player" and that would gate how high you could rank champions, rather than using "level" to mark stages of progress. It is theoretically possible to do.
You would probably no longer have a shortage of lit pitchforks if you did this, however.
while i get your standpoint there, i can tell you that those changes where demanded 2 years ago from guys starting with me and many times over since then.
how would you do account rating?
pi? guys would just sell the 1-3*, drop down one or two tiers and make your life hell.
or they do it by prestige? then youll get wrecked by the big guys as soon as you catch up even a little and your top 5 starts to get even slightly bigger.
both scenarios assuming that kabam would narrow the prizepool because of more brackets.
for the t4cc part, they are way easier to get nowadays, you get (assuming heroic-uncollected exploration) 2 a month now (1 full and one over the fragments), on top you can earn them via map4+ aq (3x5 t4ccfrag a week) so another one there, you can top that of with glory, mapcrystals, special events, arena, uncollected daylies and now the quest (sure its expensive, but at least there is a way).
when i started 2 years ago a r5 4* in under 3 months was utopic, i got my first one (rogue) when i was 7 or 8 months in due to rng of the pulls. yes t4cc (like all higher tier cats) are a pain to get still, but they do increase it a little every few months.
keep at it, find a ally that grows with you (look for an aq focused one) and r4 a few of your better 4* (most lower-mid tier allys do accept r4 defenders for aw) and remember that the way is way more fun then the finish.
you might not see it yet but the limiting of higher tier cats does benefit both sides, while you dont catch up in a few weeks to the big guys, imagine arena cutoffs when every veteran could r5 all his 4* or r3+ all his 5* (i myself have over 70 4* at r3 waiting for that day while i usually only grind with the 40 r4+)
Just when i think Kabam listen to us players and be generous about something new, i get to be let down in a way or another. A post of update the rewards from 1550 frags to 2050 frags would be appreciated. Doesn't change much, but it will be great.
Yeah I'll stick to saving the t4cc fragment crystals I get from AQ. Last time I opened them I managed to make 1 for mutant, 3 for skill, science, tech, mystic and 4 for cosmic.
Of course it equates to money. Everything in this game does. It's basic math.
Yes it's 136 energy and yes that is 2 refills, but that's 16 hours of energy. So what are you going to cut out? Because even if we assume that you never let your energy cap and you get energy help every time you request it, and you're level 60. That only gives you 270 energy a day. Take away the 136 for running the T4CC, that leaves 134 energy for everything else per day.
You 4154 for every thing else. To complete all the levels of the Monthly Event it costs on average 4250 energy. So that's it. Energy's gone.
Now if you want to do Story quest, Monthly sub-quests (Modok labs, Dim rifts, ETC) or any other of the Daily shard quests for Basic or Class Cat shards or anything else that month, that's more energy. Energy refills you will then need to purchase for units. So no you cannot do it with your daily energy. So like I said it's the equivalent of $50 per 1 T4CC. No thanks.
First of all, I highly doubt anyone will cut anything out to do it. I'm not entertaining the theory.
Secondly, I've been doing it because I'm finished EQ and not doing Story at the moment. When I do another Story run, I'll make that a priority. Just like anything else in the game, we choose what we focus our energy on.
I'm willing to bet you have a steady flow of Cats, judging by your response. Which is why it's probably not geared towards you.
I'm running to get a couple Science and Mystic. Add that to the Frags I get from other sources, and it makes the wait shorter. Unless I roll them. 16 hours of Energy implies that you're on the game that long, waiting with baited breath. Not the case.
I do a Path, hit Help, Grind the Arena, do my business, and come back to it in 5 hours or so. Zero Units spent. You just need to wait. It does not equal $50. It's also not a source for farming full Cats, or a lone source. Unless you want to do that. By all means. After that, you can take a 1* into Act 5.
What really doesn't make sense to me is people know it's not for them. They have all the Cats they need, and then some. Yet they feel it's a personal insult to them that it's offered. Which they're not the target, and have no real need. Some people do have a use for it. If people don't, they don't have to run it. It's certainly not some kind of insult. It's not a money grab. It's a Quest to help people form Cats that much faster. Somehow everything becomes a podium on here. Whether it even affects them or not.
It has to come with a cost of Energy, and that Energy has to be more than T3. They also still have a value, and the amount can't cause an imbalance or take away from the relative value in the other ways of obtaining them. It's not a main source for Cats. That was the intent, from what I see.