Hey everyone,
I made a thread a while back (last UC) about how Ultimate Challenge is getting easier and easier. As time goes on, more monsters are being added to the game which can be used to create successful strategies for UC. This is resulting in a rising number of people getting hardly any losses and the distinction between the top leaderboard positions growing smaller. That’s a separate issue, but in a similar way the newer monsters being added to the game are now boasting far more aggressive movesets as well as there being fewer ways of dealing with them. Stronger passives, higher speed on aggressive monsters and immunities being more common are making events like Dungeon Challenge become a lot tougher.
In the past it seemed possible to create teams that could deal with the majority of the encounters you have. You sleep the enemies, stun the enemies or kill them before they get a chance to damage your team. Monsters like Shivadragon and Soulstealer were exceptional at surviving and getting through many floors without too much issue. There would be the occasional battle you come across that you really can’t handle, then lose a couple of monsters before you beat it. Now you can come across frequent battles where the enemy monsters kill yours through hold ground before they have a chance to attack or completely counter your line-up that you lose 4+ of your monsters in one battle.
Here’s a video I made of my 8th attempt at doing floors 90-100 this Dungeon Challenge:
I’d left DC until the last few days because I was focused on PvP and the other content. First attempt went well, I got to 95-96 with no issue then came across a battle with 2 Delugazar (one in 5th) and three other horrible monsters that worked well with it. That battle I lost 6-8 monsters and from there it was hopeless, I failed at floor 98. After that I wasn’t so lucky and spent 2-3 hours never getting past floor 95. Many times I was getting my team completely destroyed in the first 3 floors, coming up against battles where I couldn’t avoid losing anything.
Just take a look at my video above. My DC team is tried and tested, beating the last 4 DC. I’ve never failed to complete it since getting Shivadragon. Hell, I’ve 100% completed every event this year until now (even biweekly). In that run I didn’t do much wrong at all yet came up against situations where I could do nothing other than lose my monsters. This was the same experience I had on every attempt other than my first. Ironically I was recording my DC runs to show how to do it… as a guide video I was going to add commentary to haha!
Was anyone else struggling as much as I was this time? Do tell me if I was just being unlucky.
Devs, please consider toning down the difficulty of this event, especially on those last 10 floors where we have no torch, the buff is at its highest and it’s 10 floors rather than 7. There seems to be too much of a window for “bad luck”. Limiting the monsters to just the older ones, removing particularly cruel monsters or lowering the buff on the enemies should do it.
Just a few annoying battles I came across:
- Gyomurai + Mechaviathan + Tagosenshi + Saberzor (auto-protect)
- Tortogeist x2 (one in 5th)
- Delugazar x2 + Penguinator
- Gyomurai + Infernicorn + Delugazar
- Onigeist + Angelion + Malwing(5th)
You may think “okay yeah those are tough but that’s 5 in 10 attempts” but those battles were just from my final two attempts. I was coming across 1-2 of these kind of battles in each attempt.
