Why oh why did they lower the amount of XP you can gain from weekly challenges. Also, please revert the number of weekly challenges to what it was previously. I don’t play comp, I’m a quick play/mystery heroes type player and it’s sad to see how little XP you can get from these challenges now and that’s WITH the premium battle pass. XP from games alone is sooooo low this will take forever to complete.
General thought that I’ve seen many YouTubers suggest is to all players to resume a battle pass at any point. I think this is a no-brainer. I don’t want to miss out of battle pass items just because I have hefty summer travel plans.
Blizz is trying to stretch out the battle pass completion time required. Of course, some OW2 player live in front of their hardware, so this reduced XP means nothing to them.
I break it down in a thread on this same exact topic from just a few days ago. I noticed it within moments of the season starting and seeing the like 3 challenges i purposely left unfinished last season being no longer an option this season.
Yeah you got 5000 XP for each individual challenge (which there were way more of which was ~50000 max) and then they had the coin rewards on the right side. Now it’s only XP rewards on the right with a 25000 max.
Plus the 25k for the 3 tiers of bonus that used to be coins. Read my linked post and you’ll see its 5k less in the grand scheme of things.
Doesn’t make it any less acceptable that they are slowing BP progression rates to artificially inflate the amount of time needed to finish the BP so that people are less likely to get all the OW2 Coins from the BP.
It also doesn’t make things appealing as a player that the BP is progressed slower now AND 1/4 of the tiers are just Coins, Credits, and Prisms now.
Currency no joke is accounting for 18 of the 80 tiers with NO other BP drop attached to any of those 18 tiers.
AND to wrap it all up in a blanket of BS, you can now be strategic and get any Mythic Skin for 50 Prisms out of the 80 for the season, BUT they largely made the worst customization options available in Tier 1 (probably based on usage statistics they gathered from those playing with the skins since they released)!
Out of the 2 or 3 Mythics I would be interested in getting retroactively, I literally cannot get a version of the skins without spending the full 80 to max the tiers out as they put all the better options in Tiers 3 and 4 EVEN though some of those options were the FIRST to unlock originally.
I fully agree that each match played/won should grant more XP than it currently does. I do appreciate that the now give you a chance to earn previous mythical, but yes, they are insanely expensive should you opt to spend actual money to get them.
My primary issue is guess is the inaccessibility of old battle passes or even ones you started but didn’t get a chance to finish. I would hate to miss out on some battle pass specific skins because of traveling or things like that which would limit my time available to play.