Scl 10 experiences and questions.

Update: i won the 4th clear with J4ggs/Sw/DP whales.

Figured i should tell y'all the outcome.  Its rough, but just suffered the storm behind Juggs, matched green when i could, used Hex Bolt to collect more purple.  Whales arrived whether Carnage liked it or not.

DeNappa said:

Re: PVE SCL10 experience.

I have 5 championed 5*s in the 450-460 range.

I have to say, I'm not really a fan of the gameplay in this tier so far. First of all, the amount of hit points enemies have is just insane, making playing through the nodes take much longer. This will also give the enemy ample time to collect AP for their powers, which leads into the next point: the scaling of powers feels overpowered too, even for overleveled 3-stars.

For example, look at 3* Dr. Doom scaled to 605, his purple doing 15K+15K per trap tile, or Mystique doing 40K (or 55K when shapeshifted). That's enough to instantly (or nearly instantly) one-shot most 5* in the 450-460 range. And stunning/AP denial will not always work or keep working. Especially if they also throw in AP feeding goons.

In summary, the difficulty just kinda feels artificial and unfair. 

I was thinking about this some more, and came to this realization: this way of bumping up difficulty just stops working when boosting to ridiculous levels. It simply makes things broken. What would happen if they'd ever make a SCL11, just make enemies of level 1000?

They should really come up with a better system for increasing difficulty without breaking the game, although I have to admit that no ideas immediately spring to mind. I don't really like the 'no stun 1 on 1 nodes' they have introduced in some events either, because this breaks character design.

90 minutes. Christ, its like being back in 3* land. I'm glad I have no part of that anymore. 

I’m doing so much better in pvp scl 10 than I used to do with scl 9, I don’t know if I ever broke 1000 points in scl 9 but now I’m regularly at 1000 or even 1200, pve is fine, managing to get full progression even if I can’t get more than 1 or 2 of the challenge, but the thing that’s getting me is that between reasonable (top 100 in pvp or top 200 in pve) I don’t think I’m going to have any issues with getting 8 covers for Karnak by the time his intro is through, Which means there won’t be a need to focus on shards for new characters just to get them to 10 levels for shield training even if they put a new character out right out of the gate. I can focus my 4* shards on characters I want to improve or who feed 5*s I’m close to champing. I’ve always been in the “shards are good” camp, but now I’m definitely on board with the way they’re working with scl 10

MegaBee said:

ThaRoadWarrior said:

I 4x cleared all the subs in Honor Among Thieves (though I only 2x'd the challenge node on sub 2), and then green checked the easy nodes on sub 1 and 3, and finished 179|845. SCL 10 is definitely a ghost town right now. My slice of Venom bomb only has ~550 people in it.

How can you tell how many people are in your slice?

When you look at the Story mode panels, the main one for the event (Venom Bomb) says how many players are in it.  PVE maxes out at 1000, then a new bracket begins to be filled (usually, one in a great while two brackets are filled concurrently which seems unintentional).

I like cl10 for PVP. For PVE one small change would make me like it too. If some progression rewards (e.g. some of the 5* shards) were shifted as node reward for the challenge node, it was set to 0 or 1 point value and other node points were increased to be in sum the same as CL9 nodes are. In such a case those who clear everything would have the same amout of progression rewards as they have now. And people who are not able to clear challenge node 7 times would lose some of the rewards, but still have a chance for placement and (for me maybe even more important) not harm aliance score. Moreover, in such a case it would be time independend when the challenge node is done so people can try 5-7th clear more times during a day. 

In 1st sub of venom bomb I was able to do 5 clears of challenge node, but then I was several times wiped (once an unlucky cascade on 2nd turn was enough to instakill my lvl 463 Okoye, once my last hero was killed when there was last living enemy with only 4k health remaining etc.). I then had to use 2x deadpool whales because end of sub was near and I had yet to clear other nodes. If there were no points on this node, I would try more attempts during the day. I finished the sub in top 10 but I can't use whales 2x a day for a long time to ensure good points. 

What if Deadpool is the one sponsoring the organization and D3 gets to keep the money? Whales may be the only thing left in the game without any monetization.