Oh and to add. Since all Iām doing is complaining.
The new hero of the month looks real awesome. Iām sure there will soon be so many threads on how he will need to be āenhancedā that we will all look back at the telluria threads with quaint remembrances
Got ludwig and esme both 3* and two 4* as well, very happy
Sad to say, but exactly my thoughts the last few roundsā¦
These heroes are not even arrived for a second round of testing eitherā¦ Just the Quest.
And epic reward
Difficulty, still far easier than normal challenge events. Although it starts a little bit harder and the last levels are far easier. Overall still no real challenge. And once more, always take your antidotes with you, or you burn faster away as you would think.
Team used boldtusk, wilbur, falcon, Scarlett, colen c. All without emblems. Troops unleveled- lvl 5.
So itās not the complete joke rare was (only difficulty, the reward is ) but I would say still one of the easiest things in this game. Epic challenge events, even some epic seasonal events if you only use 4* heroes and many quest lvls(limit break, costume chamberā¦) with similar TP recommendation are harder.
Only thing, the riposte mobs (can they still be called mobs if they have a special skill?) can be dangerous, so either take a healer with you and just continue hitting them, a dispeller or kill them with items.
Lidenbrock is really strong in this challenge. Infinite turns of overheal
This disadvantage for small alliances is unacceptable!!!
The rankings are not showing. I know these are usually live and ongoing.
@PlayForFun is there a glitch that you are aware of?
Staff is aware of it.
Actually they have turn it off as per this post:
Once they have fixed what needs fixing they will turn back I suppose.
O donāt think so really, you need only 10 mid level players to unlock all 3 tiers really.
The stages of epic and rare are so easy, and I think it is to help smaller alliances to open all stages.
I thought he was Meh! but then saw your comments on Ferant location/profile and if it works with minions, it can be a great heroe. 10% each minion attack and/or normal attacks will be a lotā¦ and 5 turnsā¦ definitively I will test him.
My 10x was trying any 5* or Bertulf, he would replace my blind Ranvir
Initial thoughts on event:
Definitely one of the better new ones.
I like it and the idea there of.
End (ranking) rewards seems balanced and fair.
Bit frustrating to wait for the alliance to do their bit (i am just the eager beaver in the group).
Qol improvement:
I would like to see my alliance mates score per difficulty level, you know for bragging rights.
Popcorn viewing:
The avengers have been kings of Mythic titans and GGWP kings of monthly events and towers.
Who will come out on top?
If you speak about completion rewards, those are awful. Just compare a regular challenge event where you get six 3* non-farmable ascension mats plus 450 emblems upon completion (not even talking about the coins, letās say those are ok). Here you get three random āguaranteedā 3* ascension mats from three different chests, which in many cases turn out to be farmable ones. An immediate huge downgrade.
In addition, you have to stay in the same alliance for 120 hours to get your rewards. This means a ton of food lost from failed mercing. And as we know, food is a valuable commodity, even sold by SG for real $ash. This food loss doesnāt occur in a regular challenge event, where you are still free to merc as you wish while the event goes on.
There are other issues with the event of course, however I will not bother to account for each and every one of them.
I meant the ranking rewards (edited my original post) i do not merc at all so do not take that into consideration but can fully see the frustration on that.
You can share them the devs may not look at them but the community always values opinions
Since reading up about the OP 3* in this event I thought you know what, I wonāt ignore it with dignity, I will do a little light summoning. Hopefully I will get both and wouldnāt say no to a 4* or two.
First 10-summon: Esme and Wren (plus 2 x 4* and 6 x 3* food). Delighted to receive Wren, astonished to see Esme. I understand sheās not the most amazing legendary but I wonāt say no. She will queue behind Alexandrine and Frankās costume for my attention.
This is good, but I still didnāt have those tasty 3*. So I bought the offers (yes, all 6 of them, good thing my mortgage is paid off) and did the 6 token pulls. Elena (!), Ferant (!!!), Boril, Quenell (!!!), Scarlett and Bertulf (!!!). I will be finishing Phileas Fogg soon and think I may shuffle Quenell ahead of Elradir. Wren ahead of both I think, elbowing Anton out of the way (not quite decided on that).
That was even better, but I hoped for the dark healer. Fortunately with the gems from the offer I had enough for a second 10-pull. Richard (!), second Wren, and Aderyn, hurrah! with 7 x 3* food. Keeping the second Wren for now, see how the first one runs.
I would call that an extremely satisfactory outcome. Stopping right there and celebrating. Richard and Elena are unwanted dupes but it just made the whole thing feel a bit more successful somehow. I didnāt want a dupe Russell and I didnāt get one, so that was ok.
Now to have a go at actually playing the eventā¦!
Hereās my post from beta to show how much opinion matters to devs when they read it.
- So this is basically using same old event structure. Itās nothing new. Thereās no āteamā activity here. Literally - noneā¦ Even in a 4 year old wars we can at least finish a battle that someone else started etc. In titans we can pause so all the alliance members can have their hit etc. Itās really low level of cooperation, but itās there at leastā¦ and hereā¦ years and millions earned afterā¦ thereās no improvement to the experience at all. Same old event we just rank based on the sum of individualsā¦
- ā¦which leads me to my other point. There are alliances who are perfectly fine playing with less than 30/30 people. There are alliances who have low cup members because it is someoneās girlfriend/kid/friend. Mythic Titans already hindered competition of those alliances, but you could argue - the rolls and rewards there arenāt really all that much differentā¦ Who cares if some whales get 50 more emblems to bring their 50th hero up few nodes. Still, even in my alliance, we had bad atmosphere and players threatening to leave after we didnāt make it to top 100 alliance scores ONCE. In this event, on the other hand, the rewards are top tier - aethers make all the difference now, and will continue to do so for years to come. Imagine the frustration and disappointment after you lost your rolls for them because an alliance member underperformedā¦ and in the end, despite it being labelled as āalliance questā, no one could do nothing to give them a hand! In wars, our weaker teammates are the āfinishersā after someone failed attack and they may feel usefulā¦ hereā¦ only burdens.
- ā¦my end point here is - as for something thatās supposed to be āalliance questā, thereās practically nothing fun to do here with your alliance team matesā¦ but thereās plenty of reasons to get frustrated because of alliance team matesā¦ I donāt think this is what will help building team spirit, quite the opposite honestly.
- I liked one of the ideas above to have the rewards here tiered by score achieved, similar to how PoV works, but with Total Score instead of Valor Points. So gather more points to unlock better rewards, instead of having to compete with other alliancesā¦ it still wouldnāt add anything new to the gameplay but at least would be something new and would help addressing some of the frustrationā¦
- as for the difficulty level - I donāt know, I have mixed feelings. I understand why you want to make it easier so more people can complete, but on the other hand, I was able to finish most of the levels by using battle items only - didnāt even have to wait for a good board or care about my picks! So where is the field to compete and beat the score here?
- the trap effect is very underwhelming and I do not see any point of it, really, other than forcing player to waste 1 slot for antidotes. Itās 2021, we deserve better? With Circus and Slayers you showed thereās some creativity still to discoverā¦ I really expected a new special tile that I would have to get rid off in time etc.
- are the rewards for completing rare and epic expected in live game or placeholders? because even the good old events were FAR more generous than this ā¦ why are the rewards worse? our needs for all sort of crafting and ascension mats are actually increasingā¦
I really donāt want to be all complaining, usually try to find some positives even when others go full negative, but this one hereā¦ I really have a feeling that it should either be scrapped or GREATLY redesigned and improved before coming back. Many players, and definitely most of us end game players really only feel engaged on the alliance activities (titans, wars, mythic titans) - this is really no space to take shortcuts or deliver rushed content - it may turn into a great failure and disappointment.
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I wonāt bother posting my elaborates on hero balancing or family bonus. I feel like a fool for wasting time writing those, as itās pretty much obvious SG does not want to have balanced heroes in gameā¦ so why waste time with balancing suggestions. With next event heroes I may as well straight suggest increasing everyoneās damage to 1000% and add heal 750 HP per turn passive.
Really donāt like the rewards being random chance. There should be a set reward for each completed tier.
With the end of events being random as well you could bust a gut for your alliance and end up with a pile of trash.
Maybe it will be a little off but man, I love the character designs here. The circus event heroes wasnāt my favourites so Iām happy for there is a theme I love so much
At least I, extremely enjoyed reading your musing about the new event. So donāt call it a total waste of time
My conclusion is pretty similar, although overall maybe a little bit less negative, because the alliance part is not that pressuring for me. If we land top 1k great, if not we probably wonāt die. With myth Titan we score top 1k 4 out of 5 colors.