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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.
Mind Stone Path - Enemies and Nodes Directly Counter The Intended Champion and Playstyle
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Posts: 412 ★★★
After reading the abilities the mind stone grants Iron Man you'll see the intended design is for you to use charged up heavy attacks while the opponent is stunned in order to cause shock damage. In addition, on Epic difficulty his boosted Arc Overload is supposed to be able to sustain him through the spiked armor thorns damage you will end up taking.
The problem is that these abilities are directly countered by the second and third champions you face, Domino and Havok.
Domino:
- Limber Node prevents charged heavy attacks
- Already difficult to Parry (medium dash only)
- Critical failure stops even successful parries some of the time
- Critical failure can stop Arc Overload from triggering
- Critical failure and spiked armor do more damage than Arc Overload can heal if it does activate
- Various lingering bugs make this fight extra difficult (block break, fight lag, etc.)
Havok:
- Can't parry most of his attacks
- Energy resistance
- Power start 3 (bugged)
As it stands even a highly ranked Iron Man, which most people don't have cause he's outdated, can't complete this quest without an absurd amount of items. The stone along with the right playstyle should be the solution to these paths but that's just not the case here.
Proposed Solution:
- Replace Domino with another champion OR make the mind stone give immunity to ability accuracy reduction
- Make Domino Un-Duped to remove critical failure damage
- Fix the power start 3 bug with Havok
- Replace Havok with a more easily parry-able opponent.
The problem is that these abilities are directly countered by the second and third champions you face, Domino and Havok.
Domino:
- Limber Node prevents charged heavy attacks
- Already difficult to Parry (medium dash only)
- Critical failure stops even successful parries some of the time
- Critical failure can stop Arc Overload from triggering
- Critical failure and spiked armor do more damage than Arc Overload can heal if it does activate
- Various lingering bugs make this fight extra difficult (block break, fight lag, etc.)
Havok:
- Can't parry most of his attacks
- Energy resistance
- Power start 3 (bugged)
As it stands even a highly ranked Iron Man, which most people don't have cause he's outdated, can't complete this quest without an absurd amount of items. The stone along with the right playstyle should be the solution to these paths but that's just not the case here.
Proposed Solution:
- Replace Domino with another champion OR make the mind stone give immunity to ability accuracy reduction
- Make Domino Un-Duped to remove critical failure damage
- Fix the power start 3 bug with Havok
- Replace Havok with a more easily parry-able opponent.
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Comments
Can't agree enough man. No one in their right mind nowadays to rank up their Iron Man more than R3/30 or R1/25 for 4* and 5* respectively.
What a joke side quest that is
The design on this quest is absolutely awful. Kind of a neat concept, but so incredibly poorly executed and the rewards are just trash. I think I'll just skip out on the equivalent 5* shards that we got from 2 days of bounty quests and the 4* sig stones and low amounts of gold I get from those trash RNG crystals they throw in.
Save yourself the headache and just skip this one.
But for this "Mind path", it's horrible, even if you're skilled enough against Sabretooth, Domino or Havok, you die at the hand of the thorn node simply by doing too much critical damage
I tried with my IM 2/35 and died on Sabretooth even if he did'nt touched me. he didn't have to, the node made the job for him against an infinity stone, the supposed most powerful artifact of the universe....
Let's see what will happen when all stones are released at the end of the month.
Could the power of all the stones are combined thus making that side quest beatable without using items? Who knows.
Cause in there comic, when all Infinity Stones are in one place something big is gonna happen.
Probably Kabam just didn't announce it on purpose. I don't know
Dr. Zola
Even with the removal of “start with two bars”. Domino with limber and havoc can’t be parry’d From medium dash. Counters the stone completely smh
My opinion. Worst quests in a year. Even Master on the monthly. Many good players can’t finish it.
actually in the camp that thinks the Thanos EQ fight was a good change but the overly complicated, poorly thought out mess of quests and stone collection and amount of energy required to run everything just feels like an absolute cash grab. Not to mention the bugs, lack of testing and general state of the game just now.
I’m honestly not trying to be overly negative but it just feels like a missed opportunity. You guys could have really done something awesome to tie in with the movie and renewed everyone’s appetite moving into the next phase.
It feels like when you get it right you really get it right, but more often than not you’re getting it wrong.