CL 10 Is the Progression Only PvE we asked for + Gauntlet

I agree that SCL10 is one of the best changes they have made in terms of advancing an existing feature (SCL selection was a more radical change and, I still contend, the best change they made to the game to date in terms of QOL and a feeling of roster advancement).

It is great to see them doing something that we have asked for - for years - instead of more Supports or Costumes or some other new chase item. The timing is interesting (were they waiting for some X number of characters in game?) and of course dilution remains a big issue when it comes to token pulls (and presumably will never be addressed now that we have all these character-specific rewards and a fairly high number of high-end covers available from each event).

A small quibble/clarification: You do not need to clear nodes 6X to hit event progression, as I assume @Colognoisseur knows, even under the new scoring and higher progression target. Maybe everyone who qualifies for SCL10 knows that...... lol.

I think they re-injected some life and interest in the game for endgame people when it was teetering close to the edge for a lot of vets. That was a good call. I am curious how lower-tier rosters feel about the recent changes, but maybe that's best addressed in a different thread.

I definitely wanted a gauntlet style play at your own pace event. Taking regular story mode and making it that mode at the highest scl is not how I wanted done.

I will still press for a change to the prologue tab. Have a feature that each time you fully green check the missions you can then use resources to clear all checks raise the difficulty and go again for new rewards. Let that go till it hits a point where it's silly how strong the opponents are 700+ on levels. It can scale into your true test your limits endgame content. Vary up the opponents in the missions as well. Even if it brings in some of the story events as chapters in the story.

If they do bring back the Gauntlet, they need to put them in CL and not roster based like before.

Rewards need to be much better than a 2, 3 and 4 star cover for higher CL, something like:

CL 10: 4, 5, 5

CL 9: 4, 4, 5

CL 8: 4, 4, 4

CL 7: 3, 4, 4

CL 6: 3, 3, 4

CL 5: 3, 3, 3

CL 4: 2, 3, 3

CL 3: 2, 2, 3

CL 2: 2, 2, 2

CL 1: 1, 2, 2

I’ve never been one for much of placement, never really got good at getting high placement before and honestly top 100 in the cl 10 pve or pvp garners good enough rewards for me that focusing on progression works fine, even top 200 in pve isn’t too bad. Getting 3 4* covers of a character every event and half of a 5* is pretty good by me.

But they are only giving 175 shards for first place finish, coupled with 250 in next event still isn't a cover.

Add in 175 for first in PvP you can get a cover so yeah there probably will be a rush and a lot of disappointed players afterwards

Daredevil217 said:

My biggest concern with 10 is with something a bit more insidious; and I’ve held back mostly because I want to see how things play out before jumping to any conclusions. But I highly suspect that these increased rewards are going to come with an accelerated 5* release pattern. If that’s the case, then playing down isn’t an option if you want to keep up with new releases. And even then it might no longer be possible for some players to keep up in the same ways they used to without spending (devs’ goal) even if they play up. If working harder, spending more time, and playing at a harder difficulty ultimately sees me treading water and progressing at the exact same rate I was before the change, that’d be an extremely hard pill to swallow. If, however, I’m working harder and actually no longer able to keep up with new releases like I was before, that of all things would be the thing to push me away as a player. I know some only care about the meta, but I literally play to get new characters regardless of their strength or meta potential. I scratched, clawed and paid dues for 6 years to get my roster to a place where I could keep up. And without that... if the accelerated release makes the game P2W, that’d be it for me as I’d grow extremely bored playing the same characters. And refuse to work longer hours at my second job and pay them money. Game would be dead to me.

Right now, I’m in the “all good” camp with you, but am also sort of bookmarking this post because I feel I know this company so well that I’ve learned to look past the shiny object they hold in front of me and try to find “the catch”. We all think the trade-off is greater difficulty for greater rewards. I would be more than happy to be wrong and right now it’s just a theory. But, something that I think is at least worth keeping in the back of one’s mind. The next few releases will be interesting.

Colognoisseur said:

For the rest of us we have 24 h to green check everything. That is the mindset change which can be helpful to seeing CL 10 as progression only. If placement is out of reach what is left is PvE at your own pace to achieve full progression. Voila! Progression only PvE.