Dark Avengers: Heroic - Sept. 25 - Oct 1

GrumpySmurf1002

CrookedKnight wrote:

So it turns out that the bright side of having to wake up at 4:30 to give my wife a ride to the airport is that, between the lack of sleep and being alone at home afterward I got to play PvE pretty much optimally over an almost 48-hour stretch (except for skipping the two hardest nodes). So now I'm in second with a 13K buffer over third place. Hooray, I think?

I got back to 4th last night but I know I can't catch you and Ryz. Just doing enough to try and hold top 10 at this point.

CrookedKnight

I would like to point out for the record that Ryz is 31,000 points ahead of tenth place. As crazy as I am, I ain't touching that.

(I also landed in his bracket for the third sub. Numbers 2-5 are all pretty bunched together, with 3,000 points separating us, and another 3,000 separating 5 from 10. And then there's Ryz at the top, 5,000 points above second place.)

Unknown

CrookedKnight wrote:

I would like to point out for the record that Ryz is 31,000 points ahead of tenth place. As crazy as I am, I ain't touching that.

(I also landed in his bracket for the third sub. Numbers 2-5 are all pretty bunched together, with 3,000 points separating us, and another 3,000 separating 5 from 10. And then there's Ryz at the top, 5,000 points above second place.)

You do realize if you're in 2nd place you can still win Fury, you just have to stay ahead of 3rd place. If you are rubberbanding off of Ryz's lead in the sub that might help you maintain your lead.

CrookedKnight

Oh, I know - I'm hoarding HP for the roster spot already. I'm just marveling at the dedication.

Unknown

CrookedKnight wrote:

So it turns out that the bright side of having to wake up at 4:30 to give my wife a ride to the airport is that, between the lack of sleep and being alone at home afterward I got to play PvE pretty much optimally over an almost 48-hour stretch (except for skipping the two hardest nodes). So now I'm in second with a 13K buffer over third place. Hooray, I think?

*shakes a feeble fist*

I thought I'd have a chance at getting to the 2nd spot but, uh, no. I woke up and there you were, with a TON of points. Well, you definitely earned it - I'll be happy with a top 10 spot (hopefully!).

Vankysher

I hate "Unstoppable, Inedible"

Wasted my remaining health packs on that node. Now I have to wait.

Unknown

Vankysher wrote:

I hate "Unstoppable, Inedible"

Wasted my remaining health packs on that node. Now I have to wait.

I've only been able to beat it with the help of some lucky cascades at the beginning - taking out the analyst (or whatever it is) is key. Then focus on Juggy.

Help me, OBWan, you're my only hope - her purple has saved my **** quite a few times.

Unknown

RefinedBean wrote:

Vankysher wrote:

I hate "Unstoppable, Inedible"

Wasted my remaining health packs on that node. Now I have to wait.

I've only been able to beat it with the help of some lucky cascades at the beginning - taking out the analyst (or whatever it is) is key. Then focus on Juggy.

Help me, OBWan, you're my only hope - her purple has saved my **** quite a few times.

I can only attempt it when It I have full health pack after my run which happens some times. And the most recent one, completely got destroyed. so the next pass thru ( again with 4+ health packs) I try the ares/sentry/daken and my OBW was taken out early, while I was lucky enough to cause a major cascade and down everyone except Ares, sadly Sentry's sacrifice of 600+ dmg since the first few rounds is right smack in the corner and I couldnt touch it. despite I have a 5k dmg dino bite TU ready for trigger. Ares's 8k health along with my puny hawkeye with 600 hp left was not enough. I was just one turn away... dam it

Unknown

silverrex wrote:

I can only attempt it when It I have full health pack after my run which happens some times. And the most recent one, completely got destroyed. so the next pass thru ( again with 4+ health packs) I try the ares/sentry/daken and my OBW was taken out early, while I was lucky enough to cause a major cascade and down everyone except Ares, sadly Sentry's sacrifice of 600+ dmg since the first few rounds is right smack in the corner and I couldnt touch it. despite I have a 5k dmg dino bite TU ready for trigger. Ares's 8k health along with my puny hawkeye with 600 hp left was not enough. I was just one turn away... dam it

Ares is a big mean jerk. I hate him more than Sentry, honestly.

NotYou13

This last sub is making me hate this event. I'm somehow managing to get through them all once every 3 hours, but I'm not gaining any ground at all on the top 10, and losing SIGNIFICANT ground (to the tune of about 10K points just today) to the top 5 in the main bracket seemingly because rubberbanding is based entirely on the sub-event. That's just infuriating.

AgentCoulsonLMD

Do you think it's possible to get 120K points if one is at 54K points currently. Want the Psylocke

FierceKiwi

AgentCoulsonLMD wrote:

Do you think it's possible to get 120K points if one is at 54K points currently. Want the Psylocke

Probably not unless there are crazy points on the last 12 hrs. You needed something like 60-65K by the start of this sub to have a realistic chance.

Unknown

Hey guys, 24 hours left and in the main node the are some fights locked, a lot, aactuàly, is that normal?

Trisul

NotYou13 wrote:

This last sub is making me hate this event. I'm somehow managing to get through them all once every 3 hours, but I'm not gaining any ground at all on the top 10, and losing SIGNIFICANT ground (to the tune of about 10K points just today) to the top 5 in the main bracket seemingly because rubberbanding is based entirely on the sub-event. That's just infuriating.

That's how it has worked for a while now. It's probably better this way, since if rubberbanding was always based on main event leaders, the early subevents would be practically useless for scoring.

Unknown

FierceKiwi wrote:

AgentCoulsonLMD wrote:

Do you think it's possible to get 120K points if one is at 54K points currently. Want the Psylocke

Probably not unless there are crazy points on the last 12 hrs. You needed something like 60-65K by the start of this sub to have a realistic chance.

This seems about right.
Last time it ran, there were repeatable nodes with no rubberbanding. From looking over the thread from that last time, the top progression was 100k, and the nodes in the main gave 2.2k every 2:24 for a full clear. If they keep the same node values this time, it still likely won't be enough.
Assuming 5 full clears plus a grind, it would be tough to pick up much more than 13/14 k from the nodes in the main. Anyone who missed sub 1 will likely not get the 120k.

I'm at about 70k and joined during sub 2. I'll get the 80k, and maybe even hit 100k, but even for me (and I've been playing a good amount) 120k is out of reach. Someone who is just starting the sub now, and has 54k going into sub 3, may stand a chance with some extreme grinding at the end of the sub and the main, but it would still probably be really close.

_RiO_

Trisul wrote:

NotYou13 wrote:

This last sub is making me hate this event. I'm somehow managing to get through them all once every 3 hours, but I'm not gaining any ground at all on the top 10, and losing SIGNIFICANT ground (to the tune of about 10K points just today) to the top 5 in the main bracket seemingly because rubberbanding is based entirely on the sub-event. That's just infuriating.

That's how it has worked for a while now. It's probably better this way, since if rubberbanding was always based on main event leaders, the early subevents would be practically useless for scoring.

It's not better by a long shot. Having the rubberband based on the sub leader instead of the global leader means you can get **** for the main event simply by being sorted into the wrong sub-event brackets.

It makes it so that a large part of your scoring capacity in the main event will hinge on your chosen subs' leaders. It is perfectly possible for you to be sorted into sub-event brackets that are complete and utter **** performance wise, leading to a low point yield, while at the same time you can end up sorted into a main bracket with the sharks. (I know it can happen; I've had it happen a few times already.)

GrumpySmurf1002

_RiO_ wrote:

Trisul wrote:

NotYou13 wrote:

This last sub is making me hate this event. I'm somehow managing to get through them all once every 3 hours, but I'm not gaining any ground at all on the top 10, and losing SIGNIFICANT ground (to the tune of about 10K points just today) to the top 5 in the main bracket seemingly because rubberbanding is based entirely on the sub-event. That's just infuriating.

That's how it has worked for a while now. It's probably better this way, since if rubberbanding was always based on main event leaders, the early subevents would be practically useless for scoring.

It's not better by a long shot. Having the rubberband based on the sub leader instead of the global leader means you can get **** for the main event simply by being sorted into the wrong sub-event brackets.

It makes it so that a large part of your scoring capacity in the main event will hinge on your chosen subs' leaders. It is perfectly possible for you to be sorted into sub-event brackets that are complete and utter **** performance wise, leading to a low point yield, while at the same time you can end up sorted into a main bracket with the sharks. (I know it can happen; I've had it happen a few times already.)

Scaling is never on the individual bracket leaders. It might be based on the sub, but it would be based on the global sub leader.

Unknown

_RiO_ wrote:

Trisul wrote:

NotYou13 wrote:

This last sub is making me hate this event. I'm somehow managing to get through them all once every 3 hours, but I'm not gaining any ground at all on the top 10, and losing SIGNIFICANT ground (to the tune of about 10K points just today) to the top 5 in the main bracket seemingly because rubberbanding is based entirely on the sub-event. That's just infuriating.

That's how it has worked for a while now. It's probably better this way, since if rubberbanding was always based on main event leaders, the early subevents would be practically useless for scoring.

It's not better by a long shot. Having the rubberband based on the sub leader instead of the global leader means you can get **** for the main event simply by being sorted into the wrong sub-event brackets.

It makes it so that a large part of your scoring capacity in the main event will hinge on your chosen subs' leaders. It is perfectly possible for you to be sorted into sub-event brackets that are complete and utter **** performance wise, leading to a low point yield, while at the same time you can end up sorted into a main bracket with the sharks. (I know it can happen; I've had it happen a few times already.)

Rubberbanding for the subevents has always been off the global subevent leader. The better than comment was comparing to the possibility of rubberbanding off the overall event leader, which would make the early subs pointless

Trisul

_RiO_ wrote:

It's not better by a long shot. Having the rubberband based on the sub leader instead of the global leader means you can get **** for the main event simply by being sorted into the wrong sub-event brackets.

It makes it so that a large part of your scoring capacity in the main event will hinge on your chosen subs' leaders. It is perfectly possible for you to be sorted into sub-event brackets that are complete and utter **** performance wise, leading to a low point yield, while at the same time you can end up sorted into a main bracket with the sharks. (I know it can happen; I've had it happen a few times already.)

I'm not completely 100% on this, but I'm fairly sure you are mistaken on how the subevent rubberbanding works. There is a global subevent leader for each subevent, and that is what the rubberband is based on, not the leader of your local bracket.

Thus, you, me and the global leader all have the chance to maximize our subevent points each time, independent of our main score.

EDIT: You quick typers you.

lukewin

Whitequeen wrote:

Hey guys, 24 hours left and in the main node the are some fights locked, a lot, aactuàly, is that normal?

They probably won't open up until sub 3 is done, leaving about 12 hours to complete them.