One thing I’ve noticed about the new battlepass system is it is very much showing us who’s actively playing and who isn’t.

I have seen one unique complaint about the new battlepass. And that issue is NEVER brought up in these discussions. Everyone else is going on similarly to how the OP has.
The previous Battlepass took about 80 Challenges to complete. And would take around 14-15 days to complete if someone only used their 10x bonuses, taking about 2-3 hours on average total. Those that didn’t could complete it around 650 challenges and if using mods and admin panel, could do it in about 2-3 days, and this would take significantly more time total played to do (but at a minute a challenge, that’s a minimum 11 hours of play).
Regular casual play would take significantly longer, especially if no mods or admin commands were present.
The current one takes a minimum 7 days to complete, 6 if you do one set of the challenges. Total time played is about 30-45 minutes if done using an efficient method. Not much longer if done through casual ‘average’ play and admin commands and mods are not required for either to complete quickly.
I did quite a bit of testing and trial and error on the battlepass when this patch went live. What I found is for the player who wishes to finish the battlepass and plays the game in a normal average and casual way, it is vastly superior in what you can do to complete the battlepass, as well as the time spent total.
There can be challenges that are a struggle to complete. And some players (I know a few) who wouldn’t even be capable of completing some of them (such as killing 3 demonic wolves) due to their own abilities. But that only adds a day to the wait time to complete the whole thing.
The ones who have a complete detriment compared to before are the ones willing to complete several hundred challenges in a single sitting. Can’t do that due to the time gate of 8,000xp per day. The OP doesn’t seem like he is someone willing to do nearly 700 challenges in a single day. When you’re doing that many challenges, 3 rerolls are kinda insubstantial.
One major issue I have with the challenges is it will give you map specific ones. That probably should be removed. I think Challenges should be map agnostic. Not everyone plays or has Isle of Siptah and not everyone even plays Isle of Siptah or Exiled Lands.
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