Gargantos Heroic Boss Event Impressions

gamecat235

One more voice of concern. I’m on day 1768, and have everyone rostered, but was late with my transition to 5* land (nearly all 4*’s champed, more than a handful of 5*’s champed, but none of the ones for this event). 

This event is looking impossible. I’m the cheerleader in our alliance such that it is, and this one has me feeling a little hopeless. 

I was even semi-optimistic headed in, but this feels like we’ll need to be lucky to advance to later rounds, not skilled. 

kattiara

New-ish player, got into the game about a year and a half ago, and have been a daily player since then. I play all PVE events in scl9, and get full progression.

This just feels punishing. The tiny subset of characters we can use are ones that I only have a few covers each for. I don't have any of the 5* dark avengers, at all. Round 1 Gargantos smashed me, and the loaners are too weak to be viable.

I'm all for having a bit more strategy in general, but this is not fun. I went from excited about this event to planning to not play at all. What a letdown.

Bzhai

Restricted characters on side nodes make sense but on i think it's a error on boss fights. If you see the rest of your roster they are not greyed out like usual.

Zalasta

Ummm...  Yikes... 

No warning on this one at all, and not great characters to battle Gargantos.  

None of the essentials are actually essentials since you can play any of the allowed characters.

Boss events have needed an increase in difficulty, especially if they are now awarding 5-star covers, but I'm hoping a large part of this is a mistake.

If this is meant to be, I wonder if any devs played through it and got through round 8/personal progression.

dianetics

This boss event is ****.
There is no real synergy with the characters you are using.

Going to the higher levels of this event you will just get demolished. 

It is amazing your 3* and 4* characters are getting 1 shot on the first tier by gargantos blue.
I can’t imagine how impossible this will be at the higher levels.
 There ain’t **** else to do for the next 4 days besides puzzle gauntlet.
 What a waste

PorkBelly

I hate this.  Definitely the worst event that has been run in years.  

LakeStone

Appreciate the feedback here everyone, we will review these with the team.

A tip to help out in battle (that may have been shared elsewhere) - 

"Don't let Gargantos get Blue. Do everything you can to prevent this.
Bait out matches by leaving Black open to match. With this team, his Tentacle Teeth does nothing. So he just matches Black and can't use it. Hurts from match damage, but will be worth it.
Either match away his Tentacle Thrash or make sure you have at least a minor stock of whatever AP you can. It'll deal damage if you have zero AP in a pool when it goes off, but it'll do nothing (but move) if you have even 1 AP. Match 4s can work well for this from the splash AP gain from row/column destruction. Or you could run away from it using an AP boost and just make sure to refill."

statnut

Disregard the greyed out part of my complaint, I now see the 1-star Venom in the vault. However, I don't recall vaults having 1-stars, or is that just my memory playing tricks again?

MegaBee

statnut said:

Disregard the greyed out part of my complaint, I now see the 1-star Venom in the vault. However, I don't recall vaults having 1-stars, or is that just my memory playing tricks again?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's new.

SuperCarrot

I appreciate all of the positive work that has been done by the new team in such a short time. I also like things being different and don’t mind ramping up the challenge for better rewards. This event is just punishing though. 

doom_decrees_it

LakeStone said:

Appreciate the feedback here everyone, we will review these with the team.

A tip to help out in battle (that may have been shared elsewhere) - 

"Don't let Gargantos get Blue. Do everything you can to prevent this."

Great suggestion. Zero of the few **** chars we're allowed to play in this event USE blue so we're cutting our own throats here, but sure.

This is a terrible event that clearly none of you bothered to test out. It looks like it was a last minute addition, so it doesn't surprise me.

Y'all deserve all the complaining about this event that you're hearing.

LavaManLee

Three steps forward and four steps back by the developers since taking over MPQ.  Personally, I should be fine with this (heavily in 5* land).  But we have an Alliance supporting players with not as advanced a roster and this event really is a disincentive for them playing.  If this was the intent, it might have been nice to have announced it early so players could work on and roster the characters.  Springing it out there really makes no sense.  Surprised with all the good done recently that this event would occur with no warning.

Bowgentle

Yeah, way to kill the positive buzz.
I guess the beancounters didn't like giving out two full 5* covers again, so they had to implement a "challenge".

AngelAlyss

This event is the most disappointing rubbish the game devs have ever put forth. Unshackle us and let us use our whole, hard-earned roster. Our alliances are going to bleed good players and the game will suffer player loss with this sort of gatekeeping event. 

liminal_lad

I am inclined to think this was a lack of testing more than an intentional gotcha. I have the three 5 stars champed, and like others have said, they lack synergy and also a blue power between them.

Having said all that, overall things still seem to be moving in a more positive direction.

techgrunt

Tarelgeth said:

This is.. wretched.  I hate it already.

Agreed.  Garbage…

revskip

Definitely in the minority here but I like this.  Challenging,  and for those that don't have any of the characters there are at least loaners.   

Plus any chance to dust off 3*daken is great.   

ThaRoadWarrior

If you do have yelena champed, Top of the Class can help you with AP suppression. I've yet to have Gargantos actually do anything active into the beginning of round 2.

JSP869

LakeStone said:

Appreciate the feedback here everyone, we will review these with the team.

A tip to help out in battle (that may have been shared elsewhere) - 

"Don't let Gargantos get Blue. Do everything you can to prevent this..."

Obviously the key is to deny Blue. The problem is Gargantos' Blue is so cheap (6 AP? w/o checking) that he literally only needs two match 3s to get the Blue AP to use it, and when he does it hits like a truck even against the boosted 5s. We're also still in the early stages so in later stages his Blue is going to be more powerful than a locomotive. (Can I use that phrase here? It's not copyrighted, is it?)

Another part of the problem in denying Blue (and I may be mistaken) is that only Ragnarok and 2/3* Daken can use Blue. Rag's Blue merely heals him and creates charged Green tiles, and even though "Baby" Daken is boosted, his Blue attack does little more than tickle Gargantos.

I'm not complaining because "This is different, and we don't like different things. Waahhh!"

I'm complaining because I'm limited to using a mere 5% of my roster, the characters I'm allowed to use have almost no synergy (in spite apparently being a "team"), appear to compete for the same three colors, and IMO have not been boosted enough to warrant being the only characters we're restricted to using for an entire Boss event.

Stan_The_Man

WORST BOSS EVENT EVER!

Not even Demiurge was sadistic enough to increase the rewards and then make it completely impossible to reach them for 99% of the player base. Only way to finish this piece of **** seems to be by having Green Goblin champed, which hardly anyone has who hasn't been playing at least 6 years.

I represent an alliance family that consists of 13 alliances. Normally 10 would complete a boss event. I would be sincerely surprised if more than 2 of our alliances manage to finish this piece of ****.

The new dev team started off well, but they have gone completely off the rails here. I hope they are thinking of ways to somehow make up for this GIANT MISTAKE and NEVER EVER do something as monumentally idiotic as this again.