Honestly i don't think it's that bad if you carefully activate your pre-fights: I have done the first three paths and I've used items only for errors on my side (and because the third AV didn't want to throw heavies :grr: ) and only for my third run with a rank 3 symbiote, so a R4 might be enough for the fourth path and a R5 maybe even overpowered, it depends how he will scale. The regen is incredibly good and you have three champions to heal against: Venom, VP and Symbiote Supreme; the damage is here, with 15 furies he is hitting really hard for a champion with the base strength of a maxed four star, he looked like my 5* R5 venom; power control and tenacity are really good once you understand how to use them to your advantage; not to mention that there are two more ranks available with two more abilities to unlock. I will surely go for the fourth path, even though it seems really scary right now ^_^
I agree with this one as I also completed path 3 with r3 Symbioid, you just have to manage your pre-fights carefully in the early fights and adjust your combos depending on who you are facing. Cause with 3x Leech, 1 sp1 and it is all in your control. Just dash back after every sp to power steal. MM for Furies, LLLL for Nullify and Heal. Heavies for Poison to shutdown evade. It's all in there, just have to read and plan ahead. Will try path 4 once Symbioid is r5.
The prefights last the whole quest after activated y’know. You don’t need to manage them very much
I'm just going to see. If I can go for the T5cc, fine, but if not, the free 5* and 5* awakening gem is fine by me. This whole event has been a pain for months now.
Not sure if m gonna do that side quest myself, for this month, m choosing catalyst over shards ! So going for t5 basics one (symbiote supreme) easiest of them all if u have doom n torch!! . It would have been better if other side quest(only with symbioid) had different path selector [just 6 fights & then knull boss, for each path] would have make more sense than this circus grind..
Just out of curiosity, why are people burning resources to complete 1 or 2 or even 3 paths when Symbiote is still only at r3? You will have to repeat those paths again. Might as well wait till he is r5 before seeing how far you can go.
I can't get past that second run Knull. I can just waste all of my units for it but that would just make me feel worse. So I might have to say goodbye to those gem, 5 star & 6 star. I guess I can't awaken my 5* Hyperion yet.
If I don't have to do the whole path over and over again, I might push myself through the quest.
Just out of curiosity, why are people burning resources to complete 1 or 2 or even 3 paths when Symbiote is still only at r3? You will have to repeat those paths again. Might as well wait till he is r5 before seeing how far you can go.
You cant do it all in one run if you want all the rewards. You have to do a separate run for every reward/Kull boss island. Ive just done the 1st couple easy paths. Useful to get the hang of it and how to properly manage your pre-fights.
I will see how it goes. So far I haven't tried much, but it looks hard and annoying, especially the prefight limits are a bit of a pain. I have solid revive+units stash, so it is up to me to decide whether to go for this, or save for 7.3 (which I plan to do when my job duties fall off a bit)
The prefights last the whole quest after activated y’know. You don’t need to manage them very much
You really do, though. You can only activate 1 of every type of prefight per fight. So if you want 3x devour (for example) before getting to a certain matchup, you have to make sure to activate 1 per fight. Plus you get 2 charges for every Venom, so you have to choose which other prefight you will need next going forward, or if you want to build up charges for prefights that cost 3 charges like leech.
It's disappointing that we have to get through hell to get him to r5, something that I stopped hoping for, and doing only the Epic paths in SQ. And the result is, a 5* crystal? Since I don't think I ll be able to complete the horror's last path with a r4 Steve..
Would have been awesome if I had known not to complete a few runs on epic instead of legendary and now have no hope of r5ing him.
This type of stupid design is exactly what people point out that is wrong with the game frequently.
Uhhh the number of catalysts required to rank up the summoned Symbiod has been discussed often here. You are quite active on the forums. The number of klyntar catalysts you get from each difficulty is also clearly visibly. You can still get your symbiod to rank 5 as long as you haven't done more 10 runs of epic. Else, that's not a "few."
There's been a ton of stupid and frustrating design with this side-quest but this ain't it.
Just out of curiosity, why are people burning resources to complete 1 or 2 or even 3 paths when Symbiote is still only at r3? You will have to repeat those paths again. Might as well wait till he is r5 before seeing how far you can go.
You cant do it all in one run if you want all the rewards. You have to do a separate run for every reward/Kull boss island. Ive just done the 1st couple easy paths. Useful to get the hang of it and how to properly manage your pre-fights.
Makes sense if you need to do multiple runs anyways. But you can still wait until the Symbiote is stronger. No point spending resources to get a 3* awakening gem/4* awakening gem which you can easily get with a stronger Symbiote without spending resources.
Just out of curiosity, why are people burning resources to complete 1 or 2 or even 3 paths when Symbiote is still only at r3? You will have to repeat those paths again. Might as well wait till he is r5 before seeing how far you can go.
You cant do it all in one run if you want all the rewards. You have to do a separate run for every reward/Kull boss island. Ive just done the 1st couple easy paths. Useful to get the hang of it and how to properly manage your pre-fights.
Makes sense if you need to do multiple runs anyways. But you can still wait until the Symbiote is stronger. No point spending resources to get a 3* awakening gem/4* awakening gem which you can easily get with a stronger Symbiote without spending resources.
Just out of curiosity, why are people burning resources to complete 1 or 2 or even 3 paths when Symbiote is still only at r3? You will have to repeat those paths again. Might as well wait till he is r5 before seeing how far you can go.
You cant do it all in one run if you want all the rewards. You have to do a separate run for every reward/Kull boss island. Ive just done the 1st couple easy paths. Useful to get the hang of it and how to properly manage your pre-fights.
Makes sense if you need to do multiple runs anyways. But you can still wait until the Symbiote is stronger. No point spending resources to get a 3* awakening gem/4* awakening gem which you can easily get with a stronger Symbiote without spending resources.
Yeah, if you have to use resources, sure. But the 1st 3 paths got pretty easy after I did a few practice runs to get the hang of it. And I just thought it was fun figuring out how to use the pre-fights and see how far I could get.
The prefights last the whole quest after activated y’know. You don’t need to manage them very much
You really do, though. You can only activate 1 of every type of prefight per fight. So if you want 3x devour (for example) before getting to a certain matchup, you have to make sure to activate 1 per fight. Plus you get 2 charges for every Venom, so you have to choose which other prefight you will need next going forward, or if you want to build up charges for prefights that cost 3 charges like leech.
Finding that getting the furies up first is a huge plus for dropping health pools. Then the nullify ones. Get some base up and then focus on the items that need 3 charges. Now that I'm going this route, the paths are becoming manageable. Still working out the kinks, bit those stacked furies make a huge difference. Of course, you need to be able to throw MM so before the mixmaster nodes, need to unlock the one that reduces evade to be able to stack the furies.
My order has been 1x Devour, 1x Leech, and maxed Adept for the 2nd Venom. Then I max Devour (using mostly light attacks on VP to heal up on this path and the next), 2x Infect, and 2x Leech before fighting the 3rd Venom. On the 3rd path, I max Infect & Leech before fighting Sym Spidey and now as of today adding a single Enrage for the 3rd Kull boss.
Would have been awesome if I had known not to complete a few runs on epic instead of legendary and now have no hope of r5ing him.
This type of stupid design is exactly what people point out that is wrong with the game frequently.
my god, do you have to be spoon fed all the info? just take a fraction of the time you spend complaining here and try go read and use basic logic to understand the SQ. smfh
Use basic logic to automatically know it would take almost all legendary runs to max him out? Ok pumpkin, thanks for the helpful advice.
first off, don’t call me pumpkin cuz that’s really weird. second, this really does prove your lack of common sense. never said to automatically know, but there’s a reason people know how many runs it’ll take to max him out.
When you pull a condescending tone, you get one back. Common sense and all.
I read the initial announcement on the event and then it was updated days later with the resources it would take to rank him up. I never checked back.
Not everyone spends their life on this forum reading every single thread.
You have visited the forums every single day this month barring a couple. You had plenty of time to check the amount of catalysts
Same . It’s a really badly designed quest . I get that Kabam wants to hook the no lifers with this stuff but they seem to forget that most of their players come to have fun and they are just as valuable even if they don’t spend as much cash as the no lifers . Here is to hoping next month gets better and they stop trying to be original
The other day I came across a player having 3 r3 6-stars. Yet this player is not a throne breaker. Perhaps the pace players progress exceeds their roster and ability to complete certain content.
I'm fortunate the only rewards I desire, I have the perfect counters. The number of champions in the game and the complexities of these champions are perhaps overwhelming. The community taught me I had the right pieces for the puzzle.
I have not attempted 5 of the 6 chapters. Based on reviewing threads, websites and videos, I believe Kabam should revisit the complexity of their puzzles. This is a bit hard to accomplish.
One entry, I believe is a problem. It doesn't account for player unfamiliarity with a situation. I think the completion timer option is better. Players have an hour to complete the task. This allows players to regroup, rethink, call-a-friend, ask the audience, for help. It increase the opportunity for success. Success is why we play the game.
How do you feel about the Cosmic Horror part of this month's sidequest? I completed my first run a while back, but now that my Lil Steve is A Bit Bigger Steve I figured I'd go in and try my hands at a second run. It all went fairly well until the second Agent Venom where I took some hits. I survived and managed to heal back some on Symbiote Supreme, but then I died against Knull and I just felt...nah. I'm not doing this again, and especially not again and again and again. I'm not enjoying having to run a gauntlet of the same exact fights, especially not since I've already fought these guys countless times in Cosmic Eclipse.
What do you guys think? How far are you going to take it? Will you go for the last run for those 10K 6* shards? Because right now, I just really don't feel like it.
Due to my lack of interest in doing the side quests for last month, I checked out before it even started. Honestly I'm enjoying not doing anything "extra" these last 2 months while I watch others struggle with control issues, "visual glitches", and terrible rewards for the effort.
Now I hope that we have to complete, Sept, and Oct in order to take part in Nov because that would solidify things for me.
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It would have been better if other side quest(only with symbioid) had different path selector [just 6 fights & then knull boss, for each path] would have make more sense than this circus grind..
This type of stupid design is exactly what people point out that is wrong with the game frequently.
If I don't have to do the whole path over and over again, I might push myself through the quest.
There's been a ton of stupid and frustrating design with this side-quest but this ain't it.
This is the true face of Cosmic Horror. All that work my Sym did and this is what he has to show for it. Plus part of a science T5.
Sorry little buddy. The game should treat you much better.
Dr. Zola
Big Knull actually the easiest part of it all.
Dr. Zola
I'm fortunate the only rewards I desire, I have the perfect counters. The number of champions in the game and the complexities of these champions are perhaps overwhelming. The community taught me I had the right pieces for the puzzle.
I have not attempted 5 of the 6 chapters. Based on reviewing threads, websites and videos, I believe Kabam should revisit the complexity of their puzzles. This is a bit hard to accomplish.
One entry, I believe is a problem. It doesn't account for player unfamiliarity with a situation. I think the completion timer option is better. Players have an hour to complete the task. This allows players to regroup, rethink, call-a-friend, ask the audience, for help. It increase the opportunity for success. Success is why we play the game.
Now I hope that we have to complete, Sept, and Oct in order to take part in Nov because that would solidify things for me.