I'm one of those players that used to love the challenge new ninja exams gave to us players.

I always saw them as a good way to make good use of brain and underused ninjas/main skills because so far they fullfilled this exact purpose: give us a challenge that was possible to ovecome with decent playing skills, good free lineups setup and a bit of rng luck.

this time this is no more true.

I came to this conclusion by talking with some chinese friends that play in CN and with Hally (IamScrub in the forum) when i hit the first wall, exam 350.

They told me basically: stop bothering about them because is absolutely impossible at your power (360k) to go past exam 369 even if you owned all the ninjas available in game and even furthermore stop bothering because without Ronin Naruto + GNW madara setup that exam cannot be beaten not even with 100k more power than i own.

And infact i open the ninja heroes list and what i see is this:

their power is 540k and 510k and they both own ronin naruto. People with higher power than them in my server that don't own ronin naruto are struck there, ICEx included.

So i ask to myself what is the road this game is following lately.

Exams 350-368 are basically impossible to be beaten without owning both edo deidara full skillbroken/trialed and kakuzu eg full skill broken/trialed at my power (360k).

Both those heroes are basically free to skillbreak in CN once you recruit them and the average power of the players in CN when these exams were added was around 450k.

Here those ninjas cost 100k coupons summed just to own both of them and get a bunch of trials and i'm way way over the average power currently established in the rankings (i'm quite sure i'm in the top 10% of the population by being at 360k power, means 90% of the playing players are under my power).

So what do i have to think was the purpose of those exams added at least 1 year before without implementing a very severe reduction in their difficulty and bp requirements to adjust to the current situation we have in comparison with the situation CN had when they were added?

I want to hear your opinion about them too.