Mastery Challenge & rewards

[violet sentinel]

Personal feedback on the Mastery Challenge

The concept itself is very good—a quest system linked to the event with 1 to 4 optional and selectable restrictions and a reward based on the level achieved and the number of restrictions chosen—it's interesting and offers a challenge to both novice and experienced players, who can adjust the difficulty.

The big disappointment is the reward itself, or rather what it allows you to buy: 'Card Sleeves' a kind of skins just to make them look cooler !? Honestly, I don't see why anyone would waste their time trying to complete this type of challenge for such a ridiculous reward.

If you set up a real marketplace with mastery gems that can be used to buy useful items (like corrupted gems), such as pigments, golden epic equipment, familiars, feats, ... or rare & valuable potion like gem hunter, golen epic potion...or even convert mastery gems into Tiamat scales, then yes, it would become really interesting and attractive....

[shadow plover]

It feels like it was just a test of the new system. Rewards are really very meh.

Could be interesting to have some kind of blessing at least for the card sleeves you have.

[trim patrol]

Personally I'm fine with the card sleeves. The Mastery challenge is intended to be difficult and is scaled to a quite high level of account power (personally I was not able to complete it but I did get a bit over 9K gems). Tying that sort of content to things that increase account power just leads to a "rich get richer" scenario where the people who get the rewards are the ones who don't need them.

So from my perspective it was a neat challenge that gave a minor cosmetic reward for making progress in it making it feel optional rather than mandatory