Alliance Quest Season 6 - Discussion Thread

Hey Summoners,

Over the last year, Alliance Quests have changed a lot. We’ve had Sentinels added, a new Season, new Minibosses, and even a new Map among other big changes, like the addition of Tier 5 Basic Catalyst Fragments.

As we move closer to our next evolution, we wanted to give you an early look at Alliance Quests: Season 6. We’re currently working on this new update to Alliance Quests, and we are hoping to launch Season 6 alongside our 23.1 release next month.

We are still working on the exact date and the contents of this update, and we will have a formal announcement with more information closer to the launch, but wanted to bring you some of the information we do know as early as possible so you can prepare yourselves for the dawn of Season 6: Mad Titan’s Wrath.

Read all about it here: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/139441/early-look-alliance-quest-season-6

Remember, All of this information is subject to change.If you have feedback, please share it with us!

Comments

Bendy

Can we know what sig dormmamu will have as a mini boss as the degen if happen to get it will be crazy

Laffpaff

Kabam: AQ has changed a lot
Community:

BigPoppaCBONE

If you're going to keep cycling in the newest of the new good champs into every new bit of content, can you retire some of the old garbage champs from crystals at the same time? If they aren't good enough for you to put anywhere even node boosted to the moon, why do you think we would want them? Relegate them to arenas or special offers.

RagamugginGunner

Lionheart is gonna make OR soooo hard to beat.

johara84

While I understand buffing the rewards slightly for beginning/midgame players with t4b and t4cc you have created a bottleneck for the mid-to-end game players with t2a and t5b. A map 5 alliance (arguably the hardest to adequately fill) only gets access to these through glory. I think moving the t4b shards to t5b or t2a would go a long way to fixing that bottleneck without opening flodgates of r5 champions.

Robbietheox

Will tier 5 basic and t2a become more available for us middle tier endgame alliances that do map 5/6

Timone147

I’m completely losing faith. Just seems so much more tone deaf lately(and they’ve never been good to begin with). Nothing gets fixed content get harder and rewards stay relatively the same.

Nightwing2380

Adding changes no one asked for... ignoring bugs, lag, and your fan base... loosing interest in this game because of its flaws, not because I have run map 5 for years. Kabam developers are lagging us into oblivion!

Since they cant make any new content people like they make the existing content harder by giving us bad rewards. Thank god i stopped spending on this game at the begining of the year. Looks elsewhere to spend my hard earned money on a different game.

Kabam DK

Really displeased with the increase in difficulty, new nodes, etc and the fact that Map 5 and 6 receive no new rewards except T4B and T4CC, which players at that level have little need for. "Saving the big rewards update for later" is great, but I don't think it's right to increase difficulty and not ramp up rewards simultaneously.

We haven't revealed all the changes to Ranked Rewards, but every single rank will see an increase in rewards, with the exception of the 2 lowest ranks (below Rank 21001). If you're playing Map 5 or 6, you can expect a bump to the Tier 2 Alpha and Tier 5 Basic Fragments you receive. More details on how much of a bump that will be is something we'll talk about soon, but for this particular update, our focus is on getting mid to low level players the resources they need most, hence our focus on that in the post.

OnlyOneAboveAll

Since you're deciding to use all the children of Thanos as mini bosses, don't forget Gamora. I see you put Cull Obsidian on map 2. He should be a Map 5 mini and put Gamora on Map 2. 😁😁😁😁

Amino_89

Great changes for Map7 and maps1-5
What about map6 ?

Nojokejaym

Why are some of the minibosses still the same

RagamugginGunner

Will a parry stun heal OR and degen the attacker if you have the Despair mastery? How exactly does Lionheart work?

Nightwing2380

Really displeased with the increase in difficulty, new nodes, etc and the fact that Map 5 and 6 receive no new rewards except T4B and T4CC, which players at that level have little need for. "Saving the big rewards update for later" is great, but I don't think it's right to increase difficulty and not ramp up rewards simultaneously.
We haven't revealed all the changes to Ranked Rewards, but every single rank will see an increase in rewards, with the exception of the 2 lowest ranks (below Rank 21001). If you're playing Map 5 or 6, you can expect a bump to the Tier 2 Alpha and Tier 5 Basic Fragments you receive. More details on how much of a bump that will be is something we'll talk about soon, but for this particular update, our focus is on getting mid to low level players the resources they need most, hence our focus on that in the post.

Then give us all of the rewards when you make a post and tell us you are increasing the difficulty. I know a lot of the top 45 alliances are SUPER MAD with these changes.

RogerRabs

Secondly, have you guys even considered lessening the time commitment AQ requires? When AQ runs on the weekend you can’t spend a nice afternoon outdoors without having to move multiple times. What kind of culture do you want your game to foster?

I know people will say I should drop to lower maps if I don’t like the commitment, but then I will lose the most meaningful way of progressing at my state in the game. You shouldn’t have to pick between having a life and being able to play the game fairly competitively.

JosephPoerio

Really displeased with the increase in difficulty, new nodes, etc and the fact that Map 5 and 6 receive no new rewards except T4B and T4CC, which players at that level have little need for. "Saving the big rewards update for later" is great, but I don't think it's right to increase difficulty and not ramp up rewards simultaneously.

I agree. You are increasing the difficulty of Map 5 with no real increase in rewards. Many players depend heavily on a steady income of rewards from AQ and increasing difficulty disrupts that income. Without an increase in rewards you are only hurting the players.

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Kabam DK

Personally believe that keeping Morningstar as a Map 5 boss with the same nodes is really lazy. Loads of champions to choose from and I don’t understand why you have to keep the same one that we’ve had for the past year...
@Kabam Miike any answers for this?

For a multitude of reasons, we opted not to change every boss on every Map, so in all but Map 2, we changed 2/3 Bosses. Map 1 and 7 are a bit different in that regard though. Morningstar was kept instead of Nightcrawler or Green Goblin because of a few reasons. Namely, her mechanics are not particularly complicated but do require a broadly used Champion Archetype (Bleed Immune) to handle. She was/is, of the 3 minibosses, also the one we felt best exemplified the level of Challenge we feel is appropriate for Map 5.

V1PER1987

Really displeased with the increase in difficulty, new nodes, etc and the fact that Map 5 and 6 receive no new rewards except T4B and T4CC, which players at that level have little need for. "Saving the big rewards update for later" is great, but I don't think it's right to increase difficulty and not ramp up rewards simultaneously.
We haven't revealed all the changes to Ranked Rewards, but every single rank will see an increase in rewards, with the exception of the 2 lowest ranks (below Rank 21001). If you're playing Map 5 or 6, you can expect a bump to the Tier 2 Alpha and Tier 5 Basic Fragments you receive. More details on how much of a bump that will be is something we'll talk about soon, but for this particular update, our focus is on getting mid to low level players the resources they need most, hence our focus on that in the post.

If you’re focused on giving mid to low players the resources they need then do that. Don’t jack up the difficulty on everything else and don’t reward them for completing harder content. You guys do this way too much.

Kabam DK

What will dorm's sig level be?

40

EDIT: It's actually sig 1 - pardon the error!

RogerRabs

What will dorm's sig level be?
40

But his degen will scale with the boosted nodes right?

SummonerNR

Moderators... You should probably add a link to this Discussion Thread at the bottom of initial Sticky Announcement Post. Or make this Discussion Thread the one that is Stickied (for later on when this one may start to fall off of 1st page of posts). Thanks.

And PS, then you can please remove my reply here, so I won't forever be inundated with Notifications from here on out. Thanks also.

Gamer

What will dorm's sig level be?
40

Kind not like it at all. Get to complicated with all the new node is most new node for map6 or 7 only. Culd read thuget it all so migt hav miss it.

Kabam DK

What will dorm's sig level be?
40
But his degen will scale with the boosted nodes right?

It will, but my initial response was a mistake - sorry! His sig is actually 1

Kabam Miike

Really displeased with the increase in difficulty, new nodes, etc and the fact that Map 5 and 6 receive no new rewards except T4B and T4CC, which players at that level have little need for. "Saving the big rewards update for later" is great, but I don't think it's right to increase difficulty and not ramp up rewards simultaneously.
We haven't revealed all the changes to Ranked Rewards, but every single rank will see an increase in rewards, with the exception of the 2 lowest ranks (below Rank 21001). If you're playing Map 5 or 6, you can expect a bump to the Tier 2 Alpha and Tier 5 Basic Fragments you receive. More details on how much of a bump that will be is something we'll talk about soon, but for this particular update, our focus is on getting mid to low level players the resources they need most, hence our focus on that in the post.
Then give us all of the rewards when you make a post and tell us you are increasing the difficulty. I know a lot of the top 45 alliances are SUPER MAD with these changes.

Our choice here was either to get this information out early without all of the rewards information (because that information is still being finalized) or wait until it is finalized and include it all at once, which gives players a lot less notice. In this case, we decided that it's probably best to get as much information as we have out as soon as we could.

This is why this is an early look.

Commando

In Variation 2 Section 2 Path 10 you have added Color Blind. What exactly is this buff? @Kabam Miike

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V1PER1987

Really displeased with the increase in difficulty, new nodes, etc and the fact that Map 5 and 6 receive no new rewards except T4B and T4CC, which players at that level have little need for. "Saving the big rewards update for later" is great, but I don't think it's right to increase difficulty and not ramp up rewards simultaneously.
We haven't revealed all the changes to Ranked Rewards, but every single rank will see an increase in rewards, with the exception of the 2 lowest ranks (below Rank 21001). If you're playing Map 5 or 6, you can expect a bump to the Tier 2 Alpha and Tier 5 Basic Fragments you receive. More details on how much of a bump that will be is something we'll talk about soon, but for this particular update, our focus is on getting mid to low level players the resources they need most, hence our focus on that in the post.
Then give us all of the rewards when you make a post and tell us you are increasing the difficulty. I know a lot of the top 45 alliances are SUPER MAD with these changes.
Our choice here was either to get this information out early without all of the rewards information (because that information is still being finalized) or wait until it is finalized and include it all at once, which gives players a lot less notice. In this case, we decided that it's probably best to get as much information as we have out as soon as we could.

This is why this is an early look.

So then can you clarify the timing? Are we going to be playing the updated maps without updated rewards or is it simply that you’re waiting to finalize the updated rewards and the rewards will be added to the updated maps.

Spurgeon14

If you're going to keep cycling in the newest of the new good champs into every new bit of content, can you retire some of the old garbage champs from crystals at the same time? If they aren't good enough for you to put anywhere even node boosted to the moon, why do you think we would want them? Relegate them to arenas or special offers.

👍🙏

RRNY

Please Kabam we are at a point in the game where the timers should be 30mins. Myself and many others because of timing needed for map 6 or 7, just cant play it. Im stuck in retired or low level groups that only play map 5 or lower. I keep waiting and you guys just wont do it, which means time to leave the game, With all this extra content added whats the down side of shorter timers it will allow people to use those champs in those other quest earlier which means more health and revives pots and energy refills. There are so many groups on Line looking for map 6 players its unreal, myself and many others would be able to join these groups with the shorter timers, Please its time, Get it Done, thanks