Seasonal Tower is Insane

[ExTaZzY]

By insane, I mean Insanely bad

So I saw that the final reward for the Seasonal Tower is a Johnny Skin and of course, since he is my favorite character, I wanted to have that despite knowing that having to do invasions will be awfully boring. I know that probably 5% of the players will get it and so it will be an unique skin to see in competitive matches.

Anyways, I have thought that the seasonal tower will be the normal ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ towers like fight a few floors with enemies that have armor at will and stupid events on the map that ruin the fun but oh boy little did I know.

So apparently, to grind for this skin that MIND YOU, it is NOT new, it is a skin from the campaign which could have been given for free or as a reward for something else AND after having to do so much bs to get it, it also counts as a COMMON skin, you must get a specific set of upgrades, get a very super op talisman and do the Seasonal Tower GOD KNOWS HOW MANY TIMES to complete and get that common reward.

Why do I saw you must do it god knows how many times ? Because for the very first reward I had to do 10 floors of a tower. Basically a normal tower. Seems easy, yeah ?
Now for the second reward you must do that tower not once, not twice BUT 5 TIMES.

And if for the second skin you need to do it 5 times then who knows how many times you need to do for the next ones because there are other skins that come before Johnny's.

It's insanely boring and stupid how this works. I sincerely think that developers do NOT play their game because you cannot seriously go season after season after season repeating the whole invasion, repeating everything from zero, building everything up, fighting the same annoying bosses and towers and somehow not get bored and think this is good content.
And at the end of this season at least I'm greeted with a "common" skin like yeah, it's so common I'm sure everyone already has it and uses it, at least if it was something new and cool like come on, I've been waiting for an MK9 Skin for Johnny since they started to slowly pop old MK skins. Ok maybe you can't do 9 but something from a past game like they did with other characters. Thanks for rewarding me for playing the game with another campaign skin, the tower is a campaign skin and the shop bundle is also campaign skin (for Johnny); for Kitana they removed her mask and called it a skin (funny cause that can be considered a campaign skin too since she appeared for a while without the mask) and do mk95 skins which imo are ugly and they popped them one after one as if they aren't just a recolor.



Now, if anyone that has finished the Seasonal Tower is reading this, can you please tell me which Talisman you used and how you upgraded it if it even needed ?

[acowsik]

God ray talisman is your best bet... save it only for fights against Reiko, Nitara, Havik and Geras and fight through the rest normally using your preferred char and kameo. Use resistance capsules from the shops to counter the tower modifiers...

The Johnny skin is rewarded after completing lvl 80 of the seasonal tower so its the very last one.

[Wulf_McMau]

Use the Sub-Zero Kameo to be immune against projectiles while using a relic that either lets you block incoming damage or let you use the kameo more often.

Like the other Guy said, God ray talisman with increased damage or uses.

If you have played invasion use the charakter you played the most, as that one will have herbs and stuff which will push resistance and stats. If you didn't, kenshis b2 2 is very effective against Ai just as the f2 22. When fighting being stuck against Geras, you might want to use Reptile for that tower though.

There wiill be towers you rush through without any problem, there will be towers where you suffer for hours.

This is all I did to finish the tower (though i forgot to upgrade the uses of the talisman, leaving me with 2) - that being said, I still found the Towers not quite fun and hated it. Still don't know if it was worth it. So really, only do it if you really really need it and be prepared to be frustrated.

[acowsik]

Originally posted by Wulf_McMau:

Use the Sub-Zero Kameo to be immune against projectiles while using a relic that either lets you block incoming damage or let you use the kameo more often.

Like the other Guy said, God ray talisman with increased damage or uses.

If you have played invasion use the charakter you played the most, as that one will have herbs and stuff which will push resistance and stats. If you didn't, kenshis b2 2 is very effective against Ai just as the f2 22. When fighting being stuck against Geras, you might want to use Reptile for that tower though.

There wiill be towers you rush through without any problem, there will be towers where you suffer for hours.

This is all I did to finish the tower (though i forgot to upgrade the uses of the talisman, leaving me with 2) - that being said, I still found the Towers not quite fun and hated it. Still don't know if it was worth it. So really, only do it if you really really need it and be prepared to be frustrated.

God ray talisman is already a legendary tier talisman with 2600% damage and only 2 charges. For that sole reason I saved it only against the irritating characters and I was able to beat the rest using my regular combos with my main char which is Liu Kang.

[Wulf_McMau]

Originally posted by acowsik:

Originally posted by Wulf_McMau:

Use the Sub-Zero Kameo to be immune against projectiles while using a relic that either lets you block incoming damage or let you use the kameo more often.

Like the other Guy said, God ray talisman with increased damage or uses.

If you have played invasion use the charakter you played the most, as that one will have herbs and stuff which will push resistance and stats. If you didn't, kenshis b2 2 is very effective against Ai just as the f2 22. When fighting being stuck against Geras, you might want to use Reptile for that tower though.

There wiill be towers you rush through without any problem, there will be towers where you suffer for hours.

This is all I did to finish the tower (though i forgot to upgrade the uses of the talisman, leaving me with 2) - that being said, I still found the Towers not quite fun and hated it. Still don't know if it was worth it. So really, only do it if you really really need it and be prepared to be frustrated.

God ray talisman is already a legendary tier talisman with 2600% damage and only 2 charges. For that sole reason I saved it only against the irritating characters and I was able to beat the rest using my regular combos with my main char which is Liu Kang.

is there any similar talisman that I then confused it with? Idk tbh, but the rest I posted is still valid I guess. Thanks for clarification though!

Also probs for beating it with regular combos. I always get hit or drop mine because of the boss-enemies Armor

[acowsik]

Originally posted by Wulf_McMau:

is there any similar talisman that I then confused it with? Idk tbh, but the rest I posted is still valid I guess. Thanks for clarification though!

Also probs for beating it with regular combos. I always get hit or drop mine because of the boss-enemies Armor

There was no other better talisman that you could craft or buy that came close in terms of damage and the god ray one is a free talisman. Also you cannot even freely buy components to upgrade a talisman like last season where you bought the acid pool talisman and overpowered it to a point where it was downright broken and finished every fight in seconds so that option got nerfed big time.

Also I was always using a resistance consumable so that way even if I got hit by the modifier projectiles I wasnt getting hurt that bad and could still survive and win the fights where I didnt need to waste my talisman charges on the easier opponents and saved them only for the really irritating ones.

You just go to the first shop in every mesa and save your character at the shop at each mesa so that you can just visit the mesas to get the resistance consumable for the tower.

[ExTaZzY]

is it in shop or in a specific place ?

[Wulf_McMau]

Originally posted by acowsik:

There was no other better talisman that you could craft or buy that came close in terms of damage and the god ray one is a free talisman. Also you cannot even freely buy components to upgrade a talisman like last season where you bought the acid pool talisman and overpowered it to a point where it was downright broken and finished every fight in seconds so that option got nerfed big time.

Also I was always using a resistance consumable so that way even if I got hit by the modifier projectiles I wasnt getting hurt that bad and could still survive and win the fights where I didnt need to waste my talisman charges on the easier opponents and saved them only for the really irritating ones.

You just go to the first shop in every mesa and save your character at the shop at each mesa so that you can just visit the mesas to get the resistance consumable for the tower.

Yeah, I really did not like the changes to the shops or invasions in general (besides more xp i guess). Also I think I might have used another talisman then, because I remember upgrading and then being mad at myself for stupid decisions. However that one I only used for the opponents you mentioned, Geras, Nitara, Reiko or if I messed up and was about to die.

Also I played Takeda in Invasions, who therefore ate up all resistance herbs etc. and still he got Killed by the projectiles in 2-3 hits, which is why I used sub zero then. Also using takeda sucked as he can only reach mastery 20 which i did in Invasions and therefore I did not get much Xp from the towers themselves...

I guess we can only hope that they improve seasonal towers big time next season.

[acowsik]

Originally posted by Wulf_McMau:

Yeah, I really did not like the changes to the shops or invasions in general (besides more xp i guess). Also I think I might have used another talisman then, because I remember upgrading and then being mad at myself for stupid decisions. However that one I only used for the opponents you mentioned, Geras, Nitara, Reiko or if I messed up and was about to die.

Also I played Takeda in Invasions, who therefore ate up all resistance herbs etc. and still he got Killed by the projectiles in 2-3 hits, which is why I used sub zero then. Also using takeda sucked as he can only reach mastery 20 which i did in Invasions and therefore I did not get much Xp from the towers themselves...

I guess we can only hope that they improve seasonal towers big time next season.

Next season we will have 3 chars to work with right out of the gate so grinding invasions and the seasonal tower will have to be done to get Cyrax, Noob and Sektor fully maxed out.

Moreover the Wu Shi academy skins for Kenshi and Raiden still havent been given out so that might be one to work towards when leveling up these new Khaos Reigns DLC chars.

[Wulf_McMau]

Originally posted by acowsik:

Originally posted by Wulf_McMau:

Yeah, I really did not like the changes to the shops or invasions in general (besides more xp i guess). Also I think I might have used another talisman then, because I remember upgrading and then being mad at myself for stupid decisions. However that one I only used for the opponents you mentioned, Geras, Nitara, Reiko or if I messed up and was about to die.

Also I played Takeda in Invasions, who therefore ate up all resistance herbs etc. and still he got Killed by the projectiles in 2-3 hits, which is why I used sub zero then. Also using takeda sucked as he can only reach mastery 20 which i did in Invasions and therefore I did not get much Xp from the towers themselves...

I guess we can only hope that they improve seasonal towers big time next season.

Next season we will have 3 chars to work with right out of the gate so grinding invasions and the seasonal tower will have to be done to get Cyrax, Noob and Sektor fully maxed out.

Moreover the Wu Shi academy skins for Kenshi and Raiden still havent been given out so that might be one to work towards when leveling up these new Khaos Reigns DLC chars.

Heres hoping they have mastery 35 like the base roster. In generall I hope (with dozens of tons of copium) that the dlc chars will get more levels as well, with an alternate costume,,,

[acowsik]

Originally posted by Wulf_McMau:

Heres hoping they have mastery 35 like the base roster. In generall I hope (with dozens of tons of copium) that the dlc chars will get more levels as well, with an alternate costume,,,

Base roster chars need 3 times the XP as a DLC char (I had done a complete XP breakdown btw so u can search for that thread)... I am so glad I mastered all base roster chars way back in season 1 so the grind now is a lot less painful. The DLC chars in any case require most of invasions to get maxed out.

If they were all lvl 35, you will need like 3 seasons to get them done cos the seasonal tower isnt worth grinding once u get the last skin reward from it and you cannot farm XP anymore like season 3 and earlier.

[Wulf_McMau]

Originally posted by acowsik:

Base roster chars need 3 times the XP as a DLC char (I had done a complete XP breakdown btw so u can search for that thread)... I am so glad I mastered all base roster chars way back in season 1 so the grind now is a lot less painful. The DLC chars in any case require most of invasions to get maxed out.

If they were all lvl 35, you will need like 3 seasons to get them done cos the seasonal tower isnt worth grinding once u get the last skin reward from it and you cannot farm XP anymore like season 3 and earlier.

Guess the truth is Im just hoping for more costumes (also for the Dlc Charakters), brutalities and content without having to pay 5-10 Bucks for one skin ^^

[Many-Named]

just ignore it if you don't like it bro

[Kano]

I am pretty sure the new guest characters won’t go higher than level 20. The seasonal tower can be scripted with an Enter loop if you use the right tool. Just like old MK11 days…

[acowsik]

Originally posted by Kano:

I am pretty sure the new guest characters won’t go higher than level 20. The seasonal tower can be scripted with an Enter loop if you use the right tool. Just like old MK11 days…

Just playing through invasions and grinding the seasonal tower to lvl 80 is more than enough to get Cyrax, Noob and Sektor to lvl 20 without needing any script or tools.

Thats how players on console would do it and I would do the same despite being on PC.

[Kano]

Personal choice. The tower is really boring.