**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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This new, more difficult map is coming in season 10.
How is that hard to understand?
We discussed the Reward Changes quite a bit, and the decision was made to hold back the Rewards update until Season 11, because we want that update to coincide with the addition of Defence Tactics.
While the Maps are new, and getting used to something new is never without Challenge, there isn't really an intended bump to difficulty with this Map update. There are more "mini-bosses", but not all of them have strong Buffs on them (nodes 15, 18, 20, 37, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47 don't have the big boosts found on other mini-boss nodes), and you will no longer be on your own to take them down.
Defence Tactics is the biggest update we've made to Alliance Wars since Seasons were introduced, and while we wanted to have them live for Season 10, the feedback we received that it was soon, and we needed to get these Maps out to everybody first.
I imagine my alliance isn't the only one who is already doing no item use wars, and I imagine much more will do the same when they again raise difficulty without touching the rewards.
18 minis? This map is ~40% bosses now. And then the tactics coming too. The rewards will need to be like 5x the current rewards to make AW relevant again IMO.
1. Roll out beta with 2 new changes, map and defense tactics, defense tactics being the grand new feature, map changes have happened before.
2. Beta players say its too much change too fast
3. Adjust release to consecutive seasons.
4. Increasing rewards, and then rolling out new feature later would be weird, and we'd like to just increase rewards once, so lets save that for season 11.
I think its a pretty reasonable thought process, but some token reward increase in season 10 would have made this gone over better.
2 extra war season crystals in each tier would make this a lot more palatable as a buffer between season 9 and season 11.
This coupled with the recent AQ announcement saying rewards changes to AW first it just looks like we have no increases coming anytime soon.
I bet an Odins, the unintentional bump in difficulty will happen!