Any EU players Finish top 150 in Venom Heroic PvE

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  • Kolence
    Kolence Posts: 969 Critical Contributor
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    Finished at 142nd. I was watching tennis and doing clears every 2.5 hours last night. Third clear got me into top 10 at around 3:30 AM. I set the alarm at 5 AM but overslept, woke up at 5:55 ranked 150th. Just had time for an essential node to be safe.
  • Unknown
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    Out of curiosity, when do most European players start the events? I would assume that early morning starts would ensure that you're in a "mostly European" bracket as the Americas are still sleeping.

    I ask b/c I admittedly try to start an event during the overnight feedings for my twins to try and get into European brackets to take advantage of your poor end times. I'm already not getting sleep, might as well put it to good use. Didn't work terribly for the Venom heroic. Was in first for most of the day, but missed a couple of refreshes and ended up 8th.
  • Angjo
    Angjo Posts: 42 Just Dropped In
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    I was top of my bracket during waking hours for the whole event, dropping at least 100 places every time I contemplated sleep. Went to bed in 1st last night and "fortunately" had to get up for work at four when I found myself in 90 something. With 20 mins to go I was back in first but with hardly any points left to grind, finished the event in 13th. (end time was 6 am for me).

    At least this PvE didn't have subs that were only open in the middle of the night like the last one', when we Europeans couldn't have woken up to grind at stupid o'clock if we wanted to because we didn't even know the subs existed!

    Riggy in answer to your question I try to time my entry to a European bracket friendly time but it's obviously pure guess work
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    Riggy wrote:
    Out of curiosity, when do most European players start the events? I would assume that early morning starts would ensure that you're in a "mostly European" bracket as the Americas are still sleeping.

    I ask b/c I admittedly try to start an event during the overnight feedings for my twins to try and get into European brackets to take advantage of your poor end times. I'm already not getting sleep, might as well put it to good use. Didn't work terribly for the Venom heroic. Was in first for most of the day, but missed a couple of refreshes and ended up 8th.

    I have not seen much difference with respect to start times if your aiming for top 10. But recently I seem to be finding HairyDave in just about every one of my PvE brackets as of late. I finished 550 behind first but 680 ahead of third. Due to the finish time - 5am - I am only going to do the final hour instead of the last 90 minutes If it ended better. Some event with less nodes I cut this down to 40 minutes.

    It was an interesting contest for a change since only one of the final top ten did not have multiple lvl 166 of which nearly everyone had a max level patch.
  • _RiO_
    _RiO_ Posts: 1,047 Chairperson of the Boards
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    Riggy wrote:
    Out of curiosity, when do most European players start the events? I would assume that early morning starts would ensure that you're in a "mostly European" bracket as the Americas are still sleeping.

    Evening times. Forced. I'm playing the Steam/PC version and I don't have access to a PC without waking up more people in the house in the early morning before I have to leave for work. (For the record; I leave about 1hr before others wake up, so that's pretty significant sleep time.)

    Not that it really matters; it's all a gamble anyway as you aren't being bracketed solely on join time any longer.
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
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    If your computer is that loud RiO... I'd maybe get a specialist to look at it... o.0 icon_lol.gif
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    I am a Euro player, I took 4th...
  • HairyDave
    HairyDave Posts: 1,574
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    Sumilea wrote:
    But recently I seem to be finding HairyDave in just about every one of my PvE brackets as of late.
    Yeah it's been a bit weird knowing I'm lumped in with the PVE king icon_lol.gif

    I generally try to join mid-late afternoon my time (so 0300-0400 GMT) to try and find a reasonable deadzone when most of Europe are asleep and only the most sleep-averse in the US are still up. Seems to work pretty well but I do see Sumilea, Thugpatrol and WilsonFisk a lot.
  • _RiO_
    _RiO_ Posts: 1,047 Chairperson of the Boards
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    Twysta wrote:
    If your computer is that loud RiO... I'd maybe get a specialist to look at it... o.0 icon_lol.gif
    Has nothing to do with the system, Twysta. Thin walls, light sleepers and stumbling in the early morning is what wakes 'em up.
    (Believe me, I've tried. Doesn't work and not worth the argument thereafter..)
  • Polares
    Polares Posts: 2,643 Chairperson of the Boards
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    I went to sleep in the top 10 (I think I was in the 5 position ), I had been during all the event in the top10, and I finished 26 or so (wow I got one **** cover!! yeah, I am so lucky!!), but I had to woke up at 4:40 am to play for more than an hour (when I woke up I was in position 250 or so (!!!!!!))

    In this event rubberbanding was **** out of proportions, like in all one node events. THIS EVENTS HAVE TO END. They are terrible. A total disaster for the players that tried to play during all days as much as possible. And it is even more terrible to EU players.

    And I have to say ALL, and I say ALL the last events (maybe 5 or more) have finished in EU at 6-7am. This is ridiculous. I get that there are more american players, but this is really out of proportions.

    NO MORE RUBBERBANDING OR NO MORE ONE NODE EVENTS!!!
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    Yeah, so it's entirely possibly to finish top 10 if you're in the EU if you get up at 4am (GMT) or 5am (CET).

    BUT WHO THE **** WANTS TO DO THAT?

    I ended up 3rd but woke up at 1.30am to do a sweep of nodes and again at 4am to grind to the end. The 4am alarm woke up my wife (as I was so knackered I didn't notice the vibration alarm quickly enough) and the light from my phone kept her awake as well as me until 5:30am, so we had a nice argument about it.

    For months I have been nice to the Dev guys about this, polite on the forums, polite on facebook and even wrote a nice PM to IceIX asking for a response (which he ignored, and then posted about a bunch of other stuff). D3 / Demiurge don't give a toss, and worse than that, they aren't even acknowledging the issue.

    Some seriously dedicated EU players have quit over this issue (e.g. TheLadder) and I'm about to quit myself at the end of this season, despite having 8000 HP in the bank. I can't imagine how many other EU players have quit, or refused to recommend this to their friends, as a result of insane rubberbanding and terrible end times.

    JUST LET EVERYONE CHOOSE ONE OF THREE EVENT END TIMES - IT SOLVES THE ISSUE.
  • _RiO_
    _RiO_ Posts: 1,047 Chairperson of the Boards
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    DrUnpleasant wrote:
    Yeah, so it's entirely possibly to finish top 10 if you're in the EU if you get up at 4am (GMT) or 5am (CET).

    BUT WHO THE tinykitty WANTS TO DO THAT?

    That's pretty much the message, yes.
  • hurcules
    hurcules Posts: 519
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    LoreNYC wrote:
    Several Europeans in our alliance won their bracket.

    It's a matter of adjusting your sleep schedule occasionally if it means much to you. I live in the US and sometimes I have had to wake up middle of the night for stuff. Obviously it's harder if you live in Europe. It it worse to have to stay up and grind to 1am or to wake up early - say 5am, make your morning coffee and grind? It's all preference and it's always the wrong time for someone.
    Please try to wake up 4am (in the UK) or 5am (in Europe) for all PvEs and subs (where applicable) consistently for many weeks, then we will talk.
  • Unknown
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    UK player here. Placed 4th with 57k points. Joined on final day with 8hrs to go and then did a sweep every 2.5hrs. Went to bed at 12 and sadly set my alarm for 4am to get up and grind the **** out of the nodes for the last hour. If i had an early start in the morning for work and didnt get up at 4am no doubt I would have ended up at about 500.

    Really not sure why I bothered as beast doesn't look all that great. I guess its just my collector OCD kicking in.
  • Unknown
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    Tbh, I normally check whether the rewards are decent before putting the effort in... but I was too busy grinding to check. lolololol..sob..sob...
  • Killinstinct
    Killinstinct Posts: 99 Match Maker
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    Didn't play the last 7 hrs, but I still manage to finish top 150 (yay)
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    I'm in the U.K. And finished 12th in the event, just joined on the last day hit every node before work, and just did a sweep on each break and over lunch, did the same in the evening while watching a couple films and finally set an alarm 30 mins before the end to grind the last points.

    Same old story tho, however you do it you have to grind the last hour and I can't see it being changed
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    DrUnpleasant wrote:
    Yeah, so it's entirely possibly to finish top 10 if you're in the EU if you get up at 4am (GMT) or 5am (CET).

    BUT WHO THE tinykitty WANTS TO DO THAT?
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    In most events, if you want to be in the top ten you need to lose a significant portion of sleep to do so. I've always slept in short bursts, so I wake up every 2.5 hours anyway, and even with that insane amount of grind I end up in sixth or seventh a lot. The nature of this game is that you will lose out to the people who are crazier (and have less of a life) than you.

    In fact, this particular event was unique in that the rubberbanding was intense - first event in a while where very little sleep needed to be missed for top ten.

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