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Omega Prestige System Detailed, Launching August 31st - Marvel Heroes Omega - MMORPG.com
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Omega Prestige System Detailed, Launching August 31st - Marvel Heroes Omega - MMORPG.com
Marvel Heroes Omega News - The Marvel Heroes Omega site has been updated with a look at the forthcoming Omega Prestige system, a way to "unlock the true potential of a hero" and to get players prepped for upcoming "challenging end-game content". According to the post, this is an extension of the current Prestige system but will be limited to select heroes, at least for the time being. The first hero eligible for Omega Prestige will be Spider-Man.
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Prestiging 70 times to complete it means running the same leveling content 70 times. Which means you gain infinity points more slowly and aren't actually farming at end game and this not getting any useful rewards.
The game needs new content not incentives to keep leveling the same character over and over and over and over and over ...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Prestiges are a substitute for seasonal play. The philosophy was that you could voluntarily relevel your character 6 times, with the final time taking 25 times longer through reduced xp. You would get cosmetic name colors and various other cosmetic rewards with each prestige.
The Omega Prestige essentially kicks the "voluntarily" part of that out of the window, thanks to the added traits, reduced ult cooldown, exclusive legendary items, and doubled hero synergy bonuses. Now, if you want to maximize your hero's effectiveness, you essentially have to level them to level 60 an obnoxious number of times. And that's ignoring the large eternity splinter cost of omega prestiging.
--Really?
So there is a definite reward for omega prestiging, but charging eternity splinters, that could be spent on unowned heroes, is a pretty lame idea. Add in that they sell XP potions to help you level faster and you can see the problems this system creates. Forcing players to level from 1-60 seventy times is just the cherry on top.
So it's good that they are thinking about ways to address the lack of endgame. But making people level over and over kind of works against that.
Oh and console players can pay $40 to get a head start on the prestiging. (What's funny is quite a few players have said they wouldn't level a hero 70 times even if Gaz paid them $40).
But it would be tough not to. The vast majority likely won't ever finish Omega Prestige...
If you max OP and Infinity points, you're looking at 680% base damage increases, with an additional 300% for every brutal strike, nearing nearly 1000% of an increase. It's tough to balance any content on that when the vast majority of players only have a +100 - 130% to base damage.
They claim on the forums that omega difficulty will not require the buffs from omega prestige, but who is going to do the hardest content with a hero that does at least 540% less damage and has less health as well?
These are the kind of knee jerk design decisions gazillion makes. They don't think things out beyond "I think this can earn us some money and get people to spend their splinters". The ramifications of their design decisions aren't considered or they simply don't care.
Now if I was loving the game I'd probably consider trying the system out. but the fact that it's only available on spidey means you have to use that hero when min maxing. And who knows how long it will take to get them to implement it for your favorite hero.
They could have opened it up to all heroes from the start and stated that the new uniques would be delivered once they became available. But they aren't good at coming up with tech like that so yeah, have fun waiting forever for your hero to get added. And when this system goes to the PC, you can be sure that if your favorite hero is in the FF or is silver surfer, they will be last to get it. I doubt they'll even bother doing it for them.
Oh and apparently, the new unique for spidey is only good for one of his builds. So again they are just half assing their designs as usual.
I used to give them a little leeway and assumed they were always rushed. but time after time they keep screwing up systems they add.
To put this in perspective, imagine the reaction if Blizzard did this for say Crusaders only or GGG for just scions. Gazillion is basically a shady mobile developer on better platforms.
Enjoy the drama unfold in the official thread on the console forums:
https://forums.marvelheroesomega.com/discussion/8021/introducing-omega-prestige-system
https://forums.marvelheroesomega.com/discussion/8050/do-you-approve-of-the-new-omega-prestige-system