Seems... interesting. My only real complaint is - really not much new content. One new boss? That's it? We'll solve that in a few weeks and then be back to waiting for new content. Probably. 

As a new player (only 2 months playing), I am completely overwhelmed by the preview of the new "Awakening" expansion. More end-game content with complex new currency and ascension systems with long grind and farming times geared only for the uber-ascended Legendary champions, simply does not appeal to me. It's time consuming to complete all the daily quests, missions, etc. in "vanilla" Raid. Now, the devs add another game within the game? What about players like me who don't have 24/7 to become "Awaken?" How about fixing issues in the current game first? Like offering tome and chicken farming? Revamp the Mastery scroll system in Minotaur Dungeon - too few scroll drops for the energy expended. Only viable option is to buy scrolls via gems. Help us ascend / skill-up those champions we have worked hard on leveling! How about lowering the energy levels to run in Campaign? Quit giving us free crap champions like Yaga! What happens when "Awaken" champions come to duel in arena - it will be a bloodbath! Come on devs, please show some love to us newbies and casual players.      

Wow, that is pretty full on.  I think it'll take awhile to digest the whole new awakening thing.  I did see in the video that one awakening might have given the champion +500 attack, +1000 HP and some other stuff, so this will add an entire new element of variables to the game, and I wonder if the same people who didn't like the empower system will also have issues with this

In any event, it looks like a lot of good content.  I'm not sure how I feel about it yet until I delve more into it. 

UMy opinion on this new content can be expressed in a single word:

BAAAAAAAAAAA!

The sheep cracks me up! 😂

Very, very intrigued. Looks as though it's going to change a great deal in the game...

I'm very interested in something that lets us customize champions further, perhaps offer answers to questions we don't have champions for currently. 

I agree with all of this. I might have also seen a x3 speed, so I wonder if that's being tested to see if they can make it work.

That's a whole lot of new customizations. All those who have duplicates of great champions can now build them in totally different directions. Having 2 of the same champion on the same team will no longer be just having 2 twins doing the same thing. I wonder what that's gonna look like. Especially for end-gamers, because of course, they're the ones who have vaults full of unused dupes.

Here i thought my end game of end game was +1-4 a champ with dupes ...

Idk if im happy or not , wil wait till its out to judge ... but this feels like an extra layer of rng ontop of the current one and calling it content ..

Deck of fate though ... thats 100% in the right way for a gache rpg game !!

Nice update. Thats what we waiting long time ago. This will change many things, new metas coming. Needs rethinking and re-evaulate the new possibilities in the game.

Looks complicated, but that'll be figured out - what I don't understand is why they think we need more and more overpowered champions and skills, end gamers can complete all PVE with existing champs, if it's for PVP I think it will start in Plat then filter down levels and we'll get to the place we were at a while ago where nobody could progress

TAG will also be affected, it will be easier to stay in the higher levels and the players blocked from G1 for the mission will find it even harder to progress

Someone on Reddit posted this but at the 1:08 mark in the video, there is a x3 button seen in the doom tower fight.  I really hope this isn't a dev only feature, but rather something that will be added to the game.  With the introduction of yet more farming requirements, we need to speed this entire process up

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I'm game for all of this time for my main man septimus to get a soul charge 

From what I've heard, this is a dev-only feature, and not a new one either.

Dev only feature ? So, for devs, the 3x feature dont generate game problems what they wrote before ??? :DDD They told thats why they wont make it this feature. LOL

From Plarium:

"Let us remove a painful bandage immediately – there will be no x3 speed in this update or in the near future. We know that time consumption is a concern for a lot of players, so we are focusing on gameplay solutions such as superraids or recently implemented instant gear upgrades to improve this aspect of the game. In the video, you can see footage from the test server with no other players. While some red flags with performance and visual issues are nearly unnoticed there, they would be a much larger problem in the actual play server should this speed be introduced at this stage."

It would help players if they didn't pick dungeons for super raids and just made them available on them all always,  and what would be even better timewise would be super raids x2, x3, x4 or x5 that we could pick from

Just a word for Superraid. I did in Forge Pass a weekly quest "Win 50 dungeon battles using 5 Champions of the same Affinity". Superraid work in there ? No, its not. So i need another 25 run to completition. 

Can you someone tell it, how many minutes with Brogni team with infinite shield CB run 4 times/day? How many minutes 1 Hydra key for good teams ? Give us a solution, which is reduce the dasly gametimes. Forget new champs,try to fix first this problem. We have enough champs at the moment, and the new update  and that newness give enough times for developers to think about a solution.

Unfortunately, anything Plarium does to make the game take less time to play, will run directly contradictory to their business model. If we spend half the time we currently need to every day, then that's half the time we're presented with opportunities to spend money.

I see this, but 24/24 gameplaytime is not normal, everyone have family, mostly players go to work etc. Can you tell me, when a 50 minutes long CB run, you can do it something else ? You can go to Main Screen to pay something ? 

I'm not suggesting I enjoy this. I'm just saying the reality is, anything that results in players spending less time in the game, will result in players spending less money. That's pretty undeniable.