First shield

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top players here is there a way to put your first shield on 1300 without using hood?

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Sure, but it depends a lot on luck, and how willing you are to be taking hits almost as fast as you can sentry bomb

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Yes it's possible. The basic idea is you tank, get to just below the MMR no longer mattering threshold, so about 650, nice and early then do nothing until approaching 8 hours to go. (assuming you want to get 1300 then use a single 8 hour shield, if you were hoping to get 1300 then use a single 3 hour shield then that's a lot more of a lottery since a lot more ppl are a lot more active approaching the 3 hour mark).

Then start climbing rapidly, firstly hitting any 2* teams that are availible, even if they're only worth 20 points since they won't retal, then skip liberally to only hit ppl who have significantly higher scores than you, so will have no point in retaliating at all and sentry bomb with boosts from 900 ish at, ideally, 45+ per match whilst thanking XMEN, 5DV, Rage, Sparta etc for their considerate over-scoring and generally point gaining assistance. If you get the 400 ish points quickly enough you can generally avoid getting hit because the ever so slowly updating D3 servers won't be telling people your score in real time... so you don't look like a juicy target right away.

If, during the final climb you start getting hit then probably drop a 3 hour shield and wait a bit before doing a hop whilst cursing your luck .