How terrified are you of the "new leveling system"?

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  • StanleyBurrell
    StanleyBurrell Posts: 143 Tile Toppler
    SO terrified. Beyond terrified. Afraid. Don't destroy my game!

    Yep. As I feared. Not sure I’ll see how it plays out.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    Let's just calm down, Chicken Little, and see what it's about before we break out the pitchforks.

    Well guys, I think this is option 3 from my post.

    Looking forward to figuring out what this breaks!

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:
    Well guys, I think this is option 3 from my post.

    Looking forward to figuring out what this breaks!

    The answer is: everything, starting with PVP MMR.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    This all seems destined for disaster + roster slots. The 5/3 ended up eating my dupes so basically I am staring down the barrel here. Great.

  • Blackstone
    Blackstone Posts: 603 Critical Contributor
    SO terrified. Beyond terrified. Afraid. Don't destroy my game!

    I'm less terrified seeing the notice... They seem to have our thought into it... With each tier being their own thing they can be adjusted.

    Roster slots will be an issue though I usually sell a maxxed character as I'm rostering the new for building.... This seems like it'll require multiple dupes going at once.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,470 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited September 2023

    Unless you already have multiple sets of max-champed 4* sitting in the wings, it is going to take a LONG time to 550 a 4* at a 4:1 level ratio. I think we'll see some jumped up 1* juggernauts relatively soon though. If those dirty "ascended N* " required nodes ever go live there'll be a ton of sad players locked out for sure. I guess I'd like to see an Ascended reward tree to understand if it's worth it to lose out on the swap ratio. 5* rewards are pretty good, but missing out on lower tier feeder rewards seems impactful.

  • NMANOZ1
    NMANOZ1 Posts: 130 Tile Toppler

    @DAZ0273 said:
    I just can't see them doing it - it would compromise the entire point of DDQ. If they do then cool but it seems unlikely - unless DDQ is for the chop.

    They did it. ;)

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    @NMANOZ1 said:

    @DAZ0273 said:
    I just can't see them doing it - it would compromise the entire point of DDQ. If they do then cool but it seems unlikely - unless DDQ is for the chop.

    They did it. ;)

    They did indeed! Honestly I have no idea what is going on except this is going to break so much in very different ways.

  • Nero
    Nero Posts: 35 Just Dropped In
    SO terrified. Beyond terrified. Afraid. Don't destroy my game!

    And why not for 5* players a "overpower system" from 550 to "i dont know". The health bar and base damage is the same but the powers increases with the levels adition.

    For me no rebalance in needed, good charachters have their own mutiples nemesis. Al this people go to 5* so no problem with that. If a problem exist with a to strong character, create multiples heavy counter to him.

    My wish is the developpers upgrade the current 5* charachters to another level with a stronger match damage and more powerfull and usefull ability.

  • trewiltrewil
    trewiltrewil Posts: 76 Match Maker

    @ThaRoadWarrior said:
    I think we'll see some jumped up 1* juggernauts relatively soon though.

    You won't see 1juggs5* though, because he isn't on the launch list... and I think there is a reason for that, he needs a rework.

    If you look at that list almost all the problematic characters aren't on it (3DS, Thanos, 3Gambit, 1Juggs...) they have to either really fine tune those by tier or rework them in some way to make them make sense, and I think the locked list is an implicit recognition of that.

    The only characters that looks problematic right away are Valk (because she gets worse as she levels), and Rouge. The later I am really surprised to see her on that list. She is going to be a beast, but like you said it will be a while before we see her.

    1* spiderman might be a challenge, as he is powerful when boosted, but I think that is in the "wait and see" what his 5* scaling is category. They are 100% going to need to do some tweaks to some toons, but I'm glad that they can tweak by num *s per each toon.

  • DrClever
    DrClever Posts: 584 Critical Contributor

    Not sure I'd ever pick 1* Spider Man over Shang Chi.

    Doubt boosting Dr Strange all that way would be worth the effort either even though he'd probably be better than his natural five star incarnation.

    Still waiting for the real destroyer to emerge from this - I'm sure there will be one (or more) and I'm quite looking forward to it.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    Karnak is on the launch list - he will be one to watch.

  • captainheath
    captainheath Posts: 256 Mover and Shaker

    The only one I can ascend right away is Medusa. She might be fun with Okoye.

  • MoosePrime
    MoosePrime Posts: 969 Critical Contributor
    Let's just calm down, Chicken Little, and see what it's about before we break out the pitchforks.

    @trewiltrewil said:

    @ThaRoadWarrior said:
    I think we'll see some jumped up 1* juggernauts relatively soon though.

    You won't see 1juggs5* though, because he isn't on the launch list... and I think there is a reason for that, he needs a rework.

    The 1*s on the list are the ones with three powers, and thus can be raised to level 50.

    In the Search Roster QOL thread, we see that they are testing adding a third power, perhaps there is some difficulty getting the ascend feature to work on two-power characters at level 40.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    I saw that it seems the 1* who don't have three powers might be getting an extra one. Makes sense I guess otherwise they have a massive advantage cover collection wise.

    Ice@Home from Discord

    2 power 1-Stars can still get to 550. But yes, we would like to update all of the 1s with extra powers.

  • IrisRyu
    IrisRyu Posts: 174 Tile Toppler
    CAN'T WAIT SO PSYCHED WHATEVER IT IS I'M FOR IT

    Fighting a 550 Lokigator should be fun.

  • Wyntre
    Wyntre Posts: 49 Just Dropped In
    SO terrified. Beyond terrified. Afraid. Don't destroy my game!

    So far it's a big nothingburger for us PvE players at least (thank goodness). Mostly just a disappointment that you can't take ascended characters to speed up the DDQ

  • DrClever
    DrClever Posts: 584 Critical Contributor

    Has anyone changed their opinion on this now that we're into the second batch of ascendable characters?

    Have to say that for me it has breathed a bit of new life into the game with most tokens and covers now having some added meaning, and some medium / long term goals to aim for.

  • Gymp28
    Gymp28 Posts: 127 Tile Toppler
    Let's just calm down, Chicken Little, and see what it's about before we break out the pitchforks.

    I’ve only been able to ascend a handful of 1 and 2 stars, so I can’t say it’s had any immediate impact other than adding long term goals to work towards.
    My highest 4 stars are ~330, so picking one or two to focus and aim to ascend has been pretty fun :)

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    Let's just calm down, Chicken Little, and see what it's about before we break out the pitchforks.

    I was wrong. It's totally transformed the game and hasn't been a disaster at all. There are some bugs and weirdness, and the rollout is slow for reasons that are unclear, but overall it's been great.

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