I agree. The great thing about meeting Rocket & Groot is the linear path the nodes take in each sub, all connected by an easy to follow line. It makes doing optimal clears, where you have to jump around a bit between nodes, much easier to do.
Coming off The Hunt: Florida makes me truly appreciate this. What an impossible mess that sub is.
The problem with any new event is that it will become old hat very quickly. Something about replaying every node 4-6 times makes the novelty of a new event wear out…
As much as I want there to be a purpose and reason to use my roster I spent all that HP on, I’ve been spoiled by Gritty.
So, if a heroic popped up, I’d be excited for a bit… then my high would wear off as I realize that I cant just waltz through because Gritty wouldnt be available.
That’s pretty easily fixable by them just making Heroics require fewer clears. I’d happily accept fights that take twice as long if they halve the number of battles necessary to start the countdown timers or grind them to nothing at the end. Or just make it an either/or choice at the start of the event - have a normal version and a Heroic version, and let people choose which one they want to participate in.
The novelty of Heroics were limited rosters, which a majority of players disliked. Running them without the limited rosters makes them nothing more than a slog of nodes full of Dark Avengers and no different than The Hunt.
So I fail to see the upside to the return of Heroic events in either form. They’d either be annoying a large portion of the players by running them with limited rosters, and/or simply adding a ton more Daken, Rags, Ares, Bullseye, and Moonstone into the PvE rotations, which we’d all complain about.
Just use your roster. You can get your fix then switch back to your fastest team and be glad they didn’t reinstate heroics.
Prof X is one of my favorite characters to play, and he’s boosted so I used him just now. It was Prof X, Hawkguy (also my fave, and also boosted) and 4* Wasp. The idea was to have Hawkguy spam his cheap blue, prof x makes and buffs protect tiles since he tanks almost all colors, and Wasp swaps the protects to strikes. 20 something turns later I end with 17683 strike and 7282 protect strength. I had fun for a bit, but I have 7 more nodes I haven’t touched yet, so its back to Thor.
He said fresh content, not pve. My guess is that they will run a bunch of related pvp and the new content will be a very expensive bundle for purchase.
No. I rostered and champed 5-stars for several reasons. One of those reasons was to make PvE take less time.
Also, why should a 4-star player be able to get increased progression rewards at no penalty, while to do the same thing I’d have to take my best characters out of play?