Burnout in pve as well?

emaker27

I'm the commander of my alliance and when a PvE doesn't offer new characters, I don't require people to play it. While I'm sitting at a whopping zero points (I'll start later) for Dark Avengers Heroic, everyone else in my alliance has played and about half appear to be grinding so the alliance rank hovers around 70. But I may just have a very different group that enjoys grinding PvE.

For the top ranked alliances for this PvE though, I'd imagine those players enjoy grinding it to a degree as well. If not, they would (and could), find a different alliance less focused on PvE.

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What do you mean "as well"

I had honestly planned to quit the game, not just an empty threat, was just waiting for my alliance to be able to replace me. I still wanted to give the alliance points while I was around, so I was playing really lazy, and really, it has ONLY been PvE that was causing my burnout. PvP is fine... Instead of pushing for 1100 and/or trying to grab a "last minute match" to make sure my 1st place is secure or for season scoring, I just played for an hour or so once or twice, another half hour three hours before the event ends, put up a shield, and leave it. And guess what? I've been getting top 10 just doing that.

PvE has been less kind. I haven't placed well in the past couple because playing on MY schedule meant I wasn't hitting more than a couple of refreshes, and I'm losing out on a lot of rubberbanding points. But if my alliance mates are ok with that, just by not pushing for top 20 in PvE anymore I'm avoiding 90% of the burnout-inducing grind and losing out on surprisingly few covers

Spoit

gamar wrote:

What do you mean "as well"

I had honestly planned to quit the game, not just an empty threat, was just waiting for my alliance to be able to replace me. I still wanted to give the alliance points while I was around, so I was playing really lazy, and really, it has ONLY been PvE that was causing my burnout. PvP is fine... Instead of pushing for 1100 and/or trying to grab a "last minute match" to make sure my 1st place is secure or for season scoring, I just played for an hour or so once or twice, another half hour three hours before the event ends, put up a shield, and leave it. And guess what? I've been getting top 10 just doing that.

PvE has been less kind. I haven't placed well in the past couple because playing on MY schedule meant I wasn't hitting more than a couple of refreshes, and I'm losing out on a lot of rubberbanding points. But if my alliance mates are ok with that, just by not pushing for top 20 in PvE anymore I'm avoiding 90% of the burnout-inducing grind and losing out on surprisingly few covers

Even 1100 is not too bad, since you're shield hopping anyway, you can chose when you want to do it.

PvE's time constrained refreshing/end times is really what leads to burn out.

_RiO_

DrUnpleasant wrote:

rooter wrote:

At least I am in the U.S. I can't imagine how people in Europe can even bother with this game.

We're lucky enough that Real Life events rarely take place between 3am and 5am in the morning so we're SUPER LUCKY that we can just get up in the middle of the night (trying not to wake the Mrs) and grind for the last hour or two without stuff like RL getting in the way. The fact that we then can't operate properly at work, or face relationship issues when the other half is awakened by our 4am alarm every other night is not a factor.

Honestly? I've considered doing this a few times, but each time I remind myself that I firmly draw the line at the point where the game would start to play me.
(In before Soviet Russia joke.)

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Spoit wrote:

gamar wrote:

What do you mean "as well"

I had honestly planned to quit the game, not just an empty threat, was just waiting for my alliance to be able to replace me. I still wanted to give the alliance points while I was around, so I was playing really lazy, and really, it has ONLY been PvE that was causing my burnout. PvP is fine... Instead of pushing for 1100 and/or trying to grab a "last minute match" to make sure my 1st place is secure or for season scoring, I just played for an hour or so once or twice, another half hour three hours before the event ends, put up a shield, and leave it. And guess what? I've been getting top 10 just doing that.

PvE has been less kind. I haven't placed well in the past couple because playing on MY schedule meant I wasn't hitting more than a couple of refreshes, and I'm losing out on a lot of rubberbanding points. But if my alliance mates are ok with that, just by not pushing for top 20 in PvE anymore I'm avoiding 90% of the burnout-inducing grind and losing out on surprisingly few covers

Even 1100 is not too bad, since you're shield hopping anyway, you can chose when you want to do it.

PvE's time constrained refreshing/end times is really what leads to burn out.

Eh, but then you have to time your shield hops, and if you want to minimize HP spent by using 3 hr shields you still have to do some focused intense pushing at a certain time of day, and it's stressful when you get a bad cascade or have to spend a half hour skipping, and blargh.

atomzed

gamar wrote:

Spoit wrote:

gamar wrote:

What do you mean "as well"

I had honestly planned to quit the game, not just an empty threat, was just waiting for my alliance to be able to replace me. I still wanted to give the alliance points while I was around, so I was playing really lazy, and really, it has ONLY been PvE that was causing my burnout. PvP is fine... Instead of pushing for 1100 and/or trying to grab a "last minute match" to make sure my 1st place is secure or for season scoring, I just played for an hour or so once or twice, another half hour three hours before the event ends, put up a shield, and leave it. And guess what? I've been getting top 10 just doing that.

PvE has been less kind. I haven't placed well in the past couple because playing on MY schedule meant I wasn't hitting more than a couple of refreshes, and I'm losing out on a lot of rubberbanding points. But if my alliance mates are ok with that, just by not pushing for top 20 in PvE anymore I'm avoiding 90% of the burnout-inducing grind and losing out on surprisingly few covers

Even 1100 is not too bad, since you're shield hopping anyway, you can chose when you want to do it.

PvE's time constrained refreshing/end times is really what leads to burn out.

Eh, but then you have to time your shield hops, and if you want to minimize HP spent by using 3 hr shields you still have to do some focused intense pushing at a certain time of day, and it's stressful when you get a bad cascade or have to spend a half hour skipping, and blargh.

Not as stressful as opening up the game every 2.5hrs, making sure you hit the nodes once, and repeating it 2.5hrs later.

For me, pve is the reason for my burn out. And since my alliance don't need me to play pve anymore... I am feeling refreshed. I don't even have to wake up in the middle of the night for that "1 refresh".

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The punishment for D3 side is something i will never get

- Packs have a **** rate to give you what you want as featured heroes, even less to get additional things, in 3 seasons I got practically nothing on 3 packs
How do you expect to promote something when we all know money on it its a waste?

- Why the top 20 for 3rd cover on pve when they change pvp to give one cover at 100? it feels all backwards

- But the worse thing is the quick punishment D3 handles, like having She Hulk as essencial hero for the next pve
"you didn't get She Hulk on our last pvp? screw you, you won't get Sentry either"

I really feel sorry for the teamates that couldn't get She Hulk, I face essencials with 50 lvl enemies, they have to grind 100 lvl enemies that give 3 times less score
It screws us all becuase now you will have to put a pve requirement for your members and do changes based on that if you expect to win

For me the best option in pve is to join 8h later on the sub, and remain top 50 and never higher, to time your rubberbanding to push top 20 in last second
And i almost feel bad for it, it doesnt' feel right to surpass ppl that maybe spent top 20 the whole week but lose it on the last minute