After watching the latest Raid Shadow Legends video I could not believe that the empowerment is so strong. I thought that is way too strong and will have a huge negative impact for me.
In the meantime I changed my mind somehow about this empowerment system and the impact on my account progression or the lack of progression due this new system.
Honestly, I do not believe that this system will have any effect for my PVE progress. So in case I have struggles to beat I boss that I am not able to assemble an appropriate team to win the fight.
Even for the current PVP content I do not think that the impact will be that huge for me as initally thought. I once dared to push into higher Gold Tier IV during the weekend. The teams I faced their are unbeatable for me for more than one reason. It could be that the classic arena gets harder with the empowerment system in place especially in the Gold tier IV. However, even I drop out of Gold Tier IV a pretty confident that I will be able to stay at least in Gold tier I, which is okay for me. I really doubt that Silver and even Bronze tier will be flooded with empowered champions.
How many players are really aiming for platinum arena and Gold tiers in tag team arena? I believe that only minority of active players do so for various reasons.
If someone want to highlight that many players are aiming for Gold tier in tag team arena to get Ramantu Drakesblood and this empowerment system is now a roadblock for them I want to say the following. I knew from the beginning I will never be able to do that as I do not enjoy classic arena nor tag team arena. For me this mission is already a roadblock even without the empowerment system. Therefore, nothing changes for me.
To sum up that this empowerment system has a huge impact for players who would like to participate in platinum arena in classic arena and who are aiming to be in the highest tier in tag team arena. For players like me who enjoys the PVE content and do only the minimum for both arenas I really doubt that I feel any major impact by this system.
I am more concered that I need at least 3 teams for the upcoming Hydra clan boss. It took ages for me to build my clan boss teams and I can still not cover all afinities yet. This is for my the much bigger issue, because it takes so much time to assemble the right time and to speed tune it.