Shield cooldown v true healing

IlDuderino

I was opposed to the changes to true healing (i.e. OBW, spidey etc not permanently healing). I thought about quitting but I gave it a try, was wrong and the game stayed fresh.

I was opposed to shield cooldowns but have given it a try. A week or two into this I still feel I was right to be opposed. Rather than viewing the progression rewards as a challenge to be conquered over several days, I am now playing for brief periods at the end of the PvP largely to maintain season score. I probably play this game half as much as I did before they introduced shield cooldowns . I now feel encouraged to NOT play this game. Which is fine, my Apple gift card from Christmas will be spent on Telltale's Game of Thrones game rather than HP for shields.

tanis3303

Absolutely agree. I wasnt thrilled about true healing, but overall that change didn't affect me too much other than I no longer use OBW. But this shield thing? I'm playing a fraction of what I was before they made this change. I don't like being told when and how I can play video games, I'm an adult. I can make that decision for myself. I have started playing other games, going outside, talking to my wife and a myriad of other, non MPQ related activities. It's probably good for me as a person, but from a business perspective it is the tiniest of kitties...

orbitalint

Agreed, I don't play PVP much at all anymore. I find myself playing to 400 to start an event and then 600 for the HP and not bothering with shielding. I need to average 400 to get the 10 pack season progression. Other than that, what's the point in playing? They aren't releasing anyone decent (still reserving my judgement on Squirrel Girl) and you can't compete in the middle/high-end without XF/4hor. And I mean that as top 25 the way this all is going. It is getting really old.

I am starting to believe shield cooldown is making the time slice selection problems worse. Unless you want to duke it out with the Xmen in slice 4 or whatever one they are choosing now, there simply aren't enough people to match you with right now because the pool of people that are unshielded, in your mmr, with decent points is practically non-existent. So you are forced to shield or be hit for -200 from the same 6 people that can see you.

Shield cooldowns or time slices, I don't think both work together to allow for moderate attainment of progressions. I'm all for time slices but artificially cutting my PVP player pool of opponents by between 50 and 90% depending if you luck into an active slice is absurd.

wymtime

So when true healing came into play I was in the 2*-3* transition. I had 8 fully leveled 2* and the 3* I had had very little levels. I was hording ISO waiting for covers to drop. It was absolutly brutal because I had to completly change the way I played because I used OBW so much. Becuase I had a deep 2* roster and so many players took a break I was able to get good placements and transition to 3*.
Now with the shield cooldown I have not really had to change my style of play as I had stopped doing major shield hopping after the Sentry Nerf. Even after I got my X-Froce max covered I found that if I focused so much on hopping and trying to get to 1300 I was just getting exhausted. I went to using 1-2 shields per PVP and placing well enough to get 2 covers in PVE. Now with Shield cooldowns I have placed top 3 PVP's with only using 2 shields. By using an 8 hour shield it let me focus that time on PVE and I did not feel the stress of trying to keep my PVP score up while using health packs in PVE.
The person shield cool downs hurts the most is the person aiming for 1300+ in PVP and the person who is used to spending 500+HP each PVP. These people will still win PVP, or have very strong placement, but the gap from them to the player who will use 2 shields has dramaticly dropped.

I would still like to see a 3hr shield have a 3hr cool down or just fix the number of shields a player can use durring an event. I believe a player should be able to play shield and then come back a couple hours later make a push and not be penalized by having to spend extra HP to shield. If each player had 2-3 of each type of shield or just 6 shields overall it would give players the flexibility to play they way they like, while still shortening the gap between F2P and P2W. The other option would be to lower the 1100 reward to 900 and the 1300 reward to 1000 or 1100. This would also make it so you don't have to pay 1000+ HP to get the 4* cover.
A couple of tweeks to the cool down system and this can be very good for the game.

KrazyKeylime

still hate true healing change. All it did was forced me to split up my playing from a block 2-3 hours to 30 min spurts. i have 2 accounts one on my phone which is fine. My other is through steam and is on my desk top( i played on steam first then got on phone and linked phone to FB account) suffers as i can only play it at home for 30min every 2 hours if i'm free. Not into shield hopping so change didn't affect me at all. All the true healing change did was decrease total play time and switch hero diversity from healers like OBW and Spidey to regenerators like Daken and Wolverine and cause me to stop buying things on my steam acct. i would be fine if they didn't go nuts on true healing and limited true healing to 3 like beast would be so much more usefull if he had a true heal, i mean the 3 has to count for something

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KrazyKeylime wrote:

like beast would be so much more usefull if he had a true heal, i mean the 3 has to count for something

Beast would be better if they took him out of this game completely lol squirrel girl can go too.