Do you think Balance of Power is a poorly designed event

Kelbris

Cute that the thread title was renamed, but this isn't what I asked. The event's design has nothing to do with why it sucked. It sucked because you put everyone on equal footing and kept MMR the same.

If everybody has the same roster, everyone is equal and MMR hell shouldn't happen because EVERYONE HAS A 270 CHARACTER AND EVERYBODY SHOULD FIGHT EVERYBODY

Think, please. As a concept, BOP is fine. You put a good engine in a **** car and the car still sucks.

Stop forcing me to fight the same 4 people when everybody can win a retaliation. It's **** rude to hit the same person twice in a row, so I don't do it. Therefore I have to put the game down for a while until my list of targets shuffles, or waste ~3000 iso to force the game to find new targets.

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But everyone doesn't have the same. You need to take the time to check people's rosters. Though every character was level 270 I came across many people who were playing with heroes who only had one or two covers which made them much easier to beat and much less likely to retaliate.

Kelbris

Kiya-Elle wrote:

But everyone doesn't have the same. You need to take the time to check people's rosters. Though every character was level 270 I came across many people who were playing with heroes who only had one or two covers which made them much easier to beat and much less likely to retaliate.

Some of the best teams involved one and two star characters.

IM35/OBW/Juggs was freaking deadly. Hell, you didn't even need Juggs. Throw Venom in there and you're all set.

I had 7 maxed characters and I still used Venom in both BOP and CA. Honestly, my Daken/Ares/Venom team was INSANE.

If they preferred to use a 0/2/2 sentry, that's a lack of foresight on their part. Still shouldn't be MMR hell in an all 270 tournament

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I have a completely ridiculous MMR that regularly pitches me against full walls of 166s with my 2* -> 3* roster.

Same here. Usually around 600 to 700 points. And I get put into brackets that mean those points rarely good enough for top 25.

I enjoyed the event. It was fun. I've got a fifty slot roster that is all I invested gold in for a long. So it works for me. However mmr meant low point matches and because of all the winning, the next pvp I was ****.

I'd love it if they could reset the mmr every now and then, grouping by roster levels instead and starting the mmr once.

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Kelbris wrote:

Kiya-Elle wrote:

But everyone doesn't have the same. You need to take the time to check people's rosters. Though every character was level 270 I came across many people who were playing with heroes who only had one or two covers which made them much easier to beat and much less likely to retaliate.

Some of the best teams involved one and two star characters.

Yeah, but a 1 or 2 star character with only one or two covers doesn't stand the same chances against a 1 or 2 star character with all 10/13 covers when both of them are boosted to 270. You don't have the same depth of colour coverage for powers or the same intensity of power effect. This is especially true of the 3-Stars who's powers only really get going when they hit 3-4 covers, but as a relative newb, when you see your 1-cover Lthor or Panther boosted to Level 270 the temptation is to use him over your fully covered Juggs or Iron Man because you've had him mothballed for weeks.

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nunberry wrote:

Kelbris wrote:

Kiya-Elle wrote:

But everyone doesn't have the same. You need to take the time to check people's rosters. Though every character was level 270 I came across many people who were playing with heroes who only had one or two covers which made them much easier to beat and much less likely to retaliate.

Some of the best teams involved one and two star characters.

Yeah, but a 1 or 2 star character with only one or two covers doesn't stand the same chances against a 1 or 2 star character with all 10/13 covers when both of them are boosted to 270. You don't have the same depth of colour coverage for powers or the same intensity of power effect. This is especially true of the 3-Stars who's powers only really get going when they hit 3-4 covers, but as a relative newb, when you see your 1-cover Lthor or Panther boosted to Level 270 the temptation is to use him over your fully covered Juggs or Iron Man because you've had him mothballed for weeks.

There are reasons to keep around several one star level 1 characters around even if you have a three star roster