**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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So far, I've completed Epic successfully every day, but there have been days when I've been on my last entry pass and burning a lot of extra randomizers to guarantee I pull a good combo. But other days have been easier, and I've barely used any randomizers so it evens out. For those that aren't short of gold, I would recommend buying randomizers every day, whether you need them or not, so your stash is constantly full of them. So if you get that really horrible luck day, you have like fifty of them in reserve. Because they expire in only seven days if you wait until you need them to buy them, you'll have much less to work with.
I’d venture to say the actual amount of players out there who enjoy that grind would be a pretty small %. Think it’s smarter from a business perspective when designing content to have it appeal to a more broader variety of player but hey what would I know, I’m not pretending to be an expert in these types of decisions, I’m just genuinely interested in who the devs are targeting with the epic labs.
As I said in another post the loot for the epic labs in particular (leaving out the 5* shards which given RNG their worth is determined by what you pull or need) is defiantly underwhelming. If it was targeted at a cav level player then I’d say the difficulty of them is around about right, but are the rewards enough to keep the majority of people interested over a 30 day journey considering the time sink and monotony? 10th of a T5B and 10th of a 6* RNG put crystal? No thanks.
So for me personally it’s both failed to engage me to complete it with how hard/fun it is and also failed to engage me with the reward on offer for how much time I’d be putting into it over the cycle of the event, again I’m not talking for everyone just an opinion.
I couldn't care less to do them as they stand
Bring back trials!!!
But I just don't enjoy the Labs events enough to really care about doing it.
The rest aren’t worth ones time
The rest of my team are R5 5*s. So far I’ve been able to do all Epic and Master runs with no items used but has to exit game if the opponents are difficult. Also occasionally used the boosts.
No energy is also a major plus.
If I don’t complete all of Epic, who cares? I’ve used perhaps one L1 revive and then only because I screwed up on a boss with 1% health remaining. The rewards are so-so at that level for upper-level players and not worth burning items.
Master for the upper-level Summoner is pretty straightforward. But I can see how it would be challenging for a smaller roster in a way similar to Epic for me.
The boosts are curious items. In Trials of the King, there were obvious uses for them. I don’t think I’ve used more than 1-2 the entire time these Labs have been up, and in many cases I don’t see how they are helpful. That’s kind of a missed opportunity.
Where these Labs disappoint most is the number of fights, especially when you run Epic. I don’t have Ghost or some of the uber damage champs, which means they become a time-suck. Six fights at as much as 5 minutes a fight is simply too long. And if you keep rolling terrible node combos at fight 5 or 6, you’ve invested 20+ minutes for zilch.
All in all, the ten unrestricted entries help a lot. But the number of fights and node combos mean these Labs can still be a total slog. Not a complete miss, but needs tweaking for the next iteration.
Dr. Zola
Edit: Poll options are an absolute joke. There should be a “Meh they are allright” choice, which is what I would have preferred.
What I think should have happened is boosts that counter some of the general difficult themes we see in nodes. There's a lot of nodes that cause thorns damage on contact with the opponent. A boost that say gave an indestructible buff for X seconds after taking thorns damage and has a cooldown of Y seconds. Not OP but definitely more useful than most of the boosts we got with this event.
Shrugged and decided to get another cup of coffee and wait to see what rolls out after 1PM today.
I’ve got 6 more entries left, but that’s 20+ minutes gone already on top of hitting AQ, situating AW D, running a quest for Completion and dropping 6* into a few arena rounds.
Dr. Zola
A majority of this community seems to not want a challenge, or even a decent game. They want Gwen goes to the movies. An utterly mind-numbing event that gave you a 5* crystal. They just want mindless garbage to open more garbage more frequently, and then complain about said garbage as much as possible. I fail to see the point in that, but I am certainly in the minority.
Every little thing must cater to the fragile masses....