Era Challenge difficulty alignment feedback
Hoping and praying feedback is received.
To set the frame of reference, I bought the Episode Pass and dropped crystals for Klaya on day 1 of marquee to take her to 5☆ and one currency pack with crystals to level up. I would not say that is whale spending but it is not F2P. My GAC and Fleet Rank payouts allowed me to bank all those crystals, so it is not necessarily representative of the majority of the player base.
Klayas Era Challenge is here, assessing difficulty tiers for the first run just don't seem to line up logically. I have spent and pushed up the pass rewards to level up to 19. The worst ive done in my shard is the 30-60 Tier but usually 11-30. I say that to reference the investment and that i am attempting to actually do decently. But I can't clear Tier 2. I am literally getting the same rewards as F2P. I understand that it runs like an Assault Battle and resets , and we will have more levels and strength next time. But the difficulty levels appear anecdotally from my guild sample size that Tier 1 should be more like level 10, and the second Tier should be level 20.
I see so much negativity early in both these Coliseum cycles. Yes a large portion of that is not growing fast enough to satisfy the sense of urgency. But the rewards early just dont inspire the drive for more engagement. You're dangling the FOMO carrot to far in front and its discouraging light spending in a climate that now costs more to get the same progress before Coliseum.
