I understood releasing a new character and having iron fist be a required character before many had a chance unless they were a top 150 performer or gambled, cause hey… top 150 isn’t that hard.
Any 4* Required character would suck, even if not all the required character nodes are the 4*. If it were 4* Xforce… many have had the opportunity to get at least one char and could participate.
Xavier though? Really? I get he’s the new shiny, but only top 50 in the last tourney got one. Very little opportunity elsewhere was available to get one.
No I’m not quitting because of this. I love the game and defend most your actions.
He is one of three essential nodes. It could be much worst. You are also overlooking that only about 5% of the player base has him. Therefore, if you are in the same position as 95% of players, you are not at that much of a disadvantage.
With so few people having him, it’s not like your ability to score well is crippled. You’ll still be able to score around the same if you roll up on full clears roughly optimally. Wheel see what happens at the end of course, as his essentials shouldn’t ramp up in difficulty as much, and easy points will be much more accessible. Just be prepared to grind hard at the end and have some solid TUs handy. Cap is good for that.
It’s true that because it’s only one out I three essential nodes and only 5% of the population has him, that it is still possible to do quite well in the PvE, as in a top-150 placement. However, there is an average of at least 50 people per bracket that do have Xavier, and they all have a distinct advantage on making top-50 again because of it, the new Ragnarok cover is top-20 though, which means it is even less likely that a non-Xavier owner can expect to do well enough to get one.
While it is not a great ability, they wedged it in between Rags’ red and green abilities, making it somewhat important for his continued use, unless you want to just use him as a third for post-nerf MagStorm’n
It’s lame, but when you consider how this heroic is for one of the worst characters in the game and is probably the most skippable event we’ve ever seen, it gets less lame.
As a player who managed to get top 50 for the purple Xavier cover, plus getting lucky in tokens to get the other two colors, I have to say just having 1 cover for him isn’t enough to beat his essential nodes, especially considering the lack of choice of characters to go along w/ Xavier in a team up. If you only have his purple cover, he’ll just be a few hits meat shield per node.
As far as the separation is concerned, it depends on how hard the folks in your shard decide to push. I suspect most players would be content w/ getting just the blue cover and nothing higher in terms of placement, assuming they bother to participate in the event at all.
Sooner or later, anyone who wants the Rag blue cover will get one, whether as a token pull or via a reward from an event. As someone here mentioned as an example, Cyclops red was the most difficult cover to obtain out of his 3 colors. And yet it was a Daily Deadpool reward. I wouldn’t be surprised if D3 does something similar w/ Rag blue cover within the next few weeks.
