First, please consider a Galactric Boogaloo event card. I think we can all agree that would be an excellent use of the art department’s time and energy.
On to the real suggestions, which I tried to keep reasonable and practical, given the short timeframe for revisions before the next run:
- Please reset the Galactus boss pin along with the 8-hour refresh of the minion pins. This change would mean that everyone would get the full six attempts every refresh, no matter when they do their clear during that 8 hour period. These boss fights give us an opportunity to get away from needing optimal spacing between clears, and would let us clear at our leisure over the entire 8 hour period. That’s a big quality of life change.
One of the Galactus features that I liked was that the boss pin didn’t reset when a stage was completed. That meant that server problems during the first 8 hours didn’t put some people behind the curve right from the beginning of the event. This would do something similar for every round, and let us plan around PvP and real life without negatively impacting our alliance. Target points can be adjusted to compensate, but most of our clears were timed to get the full six attempts anyway. It shouldn’t affect the total possible score too much, it just makes it less painful to achieve that.
- Please consider some way of letting us know who the enemies are in a wave pin, or remove wave pins from the minion fights, at least once the scaling gets cranked up to 11. Losing three healthpacks because of a surprise team composition doesn’t play well with a boss node where you’re supposed to lose repeatedly. It’s one thing to have a surprise wave composition in a regular pve where you’re likely to complete it at least three other times. It’s another to have a surprise and possible wipe on a node you’re only going to be playing once.
I like wave nodes, and don’t normally mind their surprise nature (it’s half the fun), but with the scaling we were seeing on the minion pins in the latter rounds, the health pack requirements on the main mode, and the pressure not to let down your alliance, it’s not a good combination, and certainly not a fun one.
- Generally, please tune the fight on the easier side. A lot can go wrong when you’re coordinating an alliance full of players and a multi-day event. Just getting people working together over a multi-day event should count for something. Look at all the stories of alliances who don’t normally get concerted engagement, who ended up disappointed by the first run.
Even if you want to keep a Round 8 clear blisteringly tough, making Round 6 easier to clear, or dropping the first cover down to Round 5, would give coordinated alliances something to shoot for (and would sell some roster slots), even if their rosters aren’t to a level where they’d be able to get results like that in an ordinary PvE. It’ll feel special, and earned. Which seems perfect for an event like this.
You’ve still got a chance to end this on a high note. Please, loosen things up a bit, have a little fun, and don’t worry too much if, just this once, a couple too many people get a cover (that they’ll have to buy a roster slot to use). It’s a party.
