Events that lock all character abilities aren't fun

DrDoMe

These quandary puzzles are awful, mostly because they lock all character abilities, so my entire roster is just a bag of hit points. I hate it and it invalidates the only reason I play this game, which is to engage with the characters and their abilities. If I wanted a boring match-three puzzle game, I'd play one of the millions out there. I'm playing this because I like the roster of interesting characters with their complex interplay of abilities.

And in so many of the puzzles, the limitation on powers feels downright mean and pointless. You've already set a precedent of making bosses immune to damage except by specific means in the Puzzle Gauntlet (and Kaecilius) and that's fine. With that in place, we should be able to play with characters that can bring some board shake, some damage mitigation, some special tile protection... some way for this giant roster of characters with interesting abilities to engage with the puzzles at all.

As it stands, you might as well just have a puzzle event that's just "do a sudoku and every wrong answer does damage to your team".

On top of all of that, you're inconsistent about what works and what doesn't. Quake's passive team damage reduction works, but Morbius' passive special tile elimination doesn't. Some powers can actually be fired for no effect while most simply can't be fired.

You should be able to make a challenging puzzle that still engages with the core mechanics of the game - matches, AP, damage, and character powers. I don't mind hard fights. I actually like interesting puzzles. I very much mind challenges that take away my ability to solve problems with the tools in my roster, where a bunch of my characters' abilities are off the table and my characters just have to absorb damage and I have to match tiles endlessly until I happen to get 3 black tiles into the same area of the board needed to clear that last critical special tile I have no other way to deal with.

Please do better.

Lsavage999

Absolutely agree. This whole quandry event has been garbage.