I skipped Rocket and Groot, figuring I’d play the next one with clearance levels. Dissapointed. 
I disagree. I think a committee is definitely what is needed. Everyone, please register for the Clearance Level Disappearance Committee with me. I will act as chairperson until a quorum can be met and a proper election process can be executed.
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If anything, it would probably help them. One cover is basically unusable, but how many people wouldn’t have 1000 HP and would throw them a couple bucks to roster the new Luke Cage, I wonder.
FWIW I’m not Mad, just disappointed. Not really about Cage though - I want the Elite tokens as alliance sub rewards instead of standard tokens. Now it’s a whole week without them.
I agree. I’m not much for chasing new character releases. Truthfully, most of the time lately I’ve been intentionally trying to finish in the top 200 to get the three star cover as I’d rather have that then have to give up a roster spot for one cover, as I’ve never done better than about top 75 in a new release and even that takes more grinding than I’d like to do. But the extra elite tokens would have been nice for farming, and the extra fist cover would have been really nice as he’s one of my most used characters.
One step forward…two steps back 
First you gave us a glance of what we were asking for months (more iso, awards on progression basis)
…then you suddenly took it away :
are you happy Devs? WE ARE NOT 
don’t care - the fact 90% of my roster is locked out is enough to skip.
no clearance levels and hilarious rewards are just a bonus
Of all the events to do this, the Heroic I would think would be the one where they introduce the progression award for new release and then observe how many of us have enough self hate to fight for it.
For the record, no shame here, I would do it - especially given that x23/thora are boosted, but now it is far more tempting to just bracket snipe and forget the agony altogether.
Going back to old reward system is harsh. On top of the 4* cover thing is is the Player rating system where you go from getting multiple elites to getting a 2* cover. “OH hit me again.” I’d rather see it removed than see that.
One hopes this is either a mistake or due to issues with the release. You can’t roll back that big a change without backlash. This isn’t like Bagvenom, where they nerfed Venom so hard he is now immune to Penance Stare because it only effects character who do damage. This effects one whole side of the game. We at least need some word on what is going on.
I am guessing Devs have to pass everything they say past management and marketing before posting but they had the whole last event to work on that.
My main issue is that the R&G event was stated to be non clearance because they were looking at the scores needed for maximum progression.
What I don’t like is that this clearly wasn’t the case, and that it was serupticiously to prevent to many covers for a new four star being given away. That’s how it looks anyway
I am on target to get a cage cover, but losing the extra hp, 3* covers and iso from clearance level 7 is shame, and a bigger loss than the cage cover alone.
Don’t introduce a new feature if you’re not going to stick to it. Lack of communication is not an acceptable excuse.
You could sort of understand there being unexpected consequences with a new release that merited delaying SCL for a new release, but it does seem so silly for them to do it for the subsequent pve too.
The Heroic events are annoying enough without also having CL’s taken away too.
Moving forward, it should be:
- New Release has SCL
- Next Event has SCL, features the 4* from the New Release PVE (ie not the new 4* but the one rewarded for that PVE itself, ie Mr. Fantastic in this particular case).
For me, I had given up on PVE before SCL, due to the lack of sufficient rewards for my effort. I absolutely love SCL, but when it’s removed, I see little reason to play.
So it’s not that I’m stopping playing due to SCL being removed, it’s that I had already stopped before SCL was added, and now I’m only playing when SCL is added in.
This was greatly disappointing to see, but not overly surprising. Don’t forget, T minus 1 week to “you are supposed to lose”
Honestly I’m not even bothered about the cover…I want the iso/hp/tokens from CL7. Playing this new release pve reminded me how utterly inadequate to my needs the old reward structure is..
I’d have been happy if it was told in advance. No more than the PVE scaling change quitely dissapearing into the sunset this has quietly dissapeared.
Exactly! I don’t need to win a brand new 4* character through progression. But I do need to feel like the rewards are in line with the amount of ISO/hp/tokens I need, based on the fact that I’ve been grinding for well over 2 years, and my enemy scaling is off the charts.
I would like to formally announce my desire to join the Clearance Level Disappearance Committee. As a first order of business I motion that we form a subcommittee, in charge of Obtaining a Response from D3/Demiurge. Once a response is obtained (whether it’s “We forgot to turn on SCL for this event and it auto-started over the weekend”, “We weren’t ready to do SCL for a Heroic” or “We aren’t going to do SCL after new character releases”) then that response will be communicated from the subcommittee to the main committee.
Then the Clearance Level Disappearance Committee can vote on their response to D3/Demiurge. I propose that some possible responses would include “Oh OK; can we have some compensation?” and “Can you just give everyone who plays this Heroic to full progression a 4* Luke Cage cover?”
Pretty much this. I was planning to go CL6 if the new cover was in this event because I don’t want to buy HP. I assumed they were aggressively throwing new characters at us to sell HP, but if you make them hard to get when they first come out that kinda makes that business plan less effective.
I originally was going to skip Rocket and Groot, but ultimately ended up doing this strategy cause i couldn’t pass up an IF cover.