russreid91 wrote: My bracket 1) Red Panda 135943 2) marsupilamy31 135812 3) Russ91 132531 (me) 10) wildekarde18 122135 Amazeballs and DuffManOhYeah are in the top ten of mine as well. Can't see 11 at the moment
DuffManOhYeah wrote: russreid91 wrote: My bracket 1) Red Panda 135943 2) marsupilamy31 135812 3) Russ91 132531 (me) 10) wildekarde18 122135 Amazeballs and DuffManOhYeah are in the top ten of mine as well. Can't see 11 at the moment My ears are burning.
Fievel wrote: TINY. KITTY. I missed top 10 by 30 effing points. My final match finished right when it ended and I guess didn't count toward my score. Suuuuuuuucks.
xequalsy wrote: Sadly, I missed one too many refreshes yesterday when I was busy the whole afternoon - locked me just out of top10 by about 6/7k points. Ah well, grats lukewin for grinding to the win in my bracket! [I feel bad you did all that grinding for a blue IW (seems like you need one) but I'm sure you would have preferred X-Force or a Fury] Might as well do some PvP I guess.
SunCrusher wrote: Somehow got myself death-bracketed in this Event with all the big and fully-built 3-4* boys and girls (I'm only a 2* transitional and a VERY transitional one at that) while a newer player that I know who joined at the same time got a different and easier and more relaxed bracket despite the fact that we both joined somewhat early and at the same time. They snagged all their covers while I barely grabbed my last one + 50HP despite the fact that my end point total was significantly higher and I had long since passed the Final Progression Reward while they had barely grabbed it if they had managed to in the first place. The fact that my big boys and girls were also grinders and no-sleepers just made it worse because I ended up having to sacrifice sleep and spend on Health Packs myself just to grab the last cover while the newer player very much did not. The refreshes I missed were mostly sleep-related. I stopped looking at the point leaders when they sailed past 150K and kept right on going. Not sure if any of you were in my bracket or not as I didn't recognize any usernames this time around. I'm over this. Must be fantastic to be a newbie nowadays and have easy brackets handed to you on a silver platter every. single. tinykitty. time. Maybe that's not actually true (because I know someone's going to say it) but from where I'm standing and from what I'm seeing happen IRL over the last 6 or so months, it's true enough. This event was not only exhausting but also personally demoralizing. I don't mind falling behind the big guys and gals *waves at some of you whom I have seen before*, but seeing a newbie go tra-la-la to collect 3 covers yet again because somehow their bracketing was more favorable again despite joining at the same time just blows. Congrats to everyone else who made it, though.
SunCrusher wrote: No, it's not, and like I said - and will always say - I don't mind following behind the big guys and gals, either - I really don't. Though your #1 was someone who wasn't all 166s, at LEAST I can say that in my bracket, top 5 ALL went to people with huge and built rosters so congrats to them because that at least feels natural! What doesn't feel natural is the newbie waltzing away with the top rewards while barely skimming - if even touching - Final Progression Rewards because their bracket - regardless of when they joined is somehow more relaxed and easier and THAT is what I am having problems with. Said newbie was wondering why the hell I wasn't eating yet and when I told them my situation, they were all, "... OH. You mean you're not top 10 like me?" "... NOOOOO? I'm not even top 50!" "... Oh."
Phantron wrote: While I suspect a lot of the guys without anyone at 166 are just hardcore players who purposely didn't level anyone to 166 to take advantage of PvE scaling, that doesn't change the fact that weak rosters are perfectly competitive in current PvE. Right now I'd say the 3 dominant factors of PvE are: 1. Scaling (major) This would be say, Unstable Isotope where you see the 395s on day 3 which is the game telling you 'thanks for playing, but not this time' 2. Time 3. Scaling (minor) This would be say The Hunt where you're looking at a level 260 Ares and a 2* roster is looking at 150 Ares. It's not outright impossible, but it's certainly harder for you to win compared to the 2*. If the 2* can match you in time played he's likely to have an advantage just because that difference adds up.
In this event we don't have major scaling issues that completely prevents most 3* from competing, so if they can beat you in time played, they'll still comfortably beat you despite the scaling disadvantage. I got #3 at the end and held my place by just doing the essentials + easy track in the last 2 days, and since I doubt anyone in the top 10 was missing Captain Marvel, it's hard to imagine I have an edge in quality of the nodes cleared, so this means my time played was more than enough to hold off the 2*s (except the #1 guy, he played way more than I did, and the #2 guy was pretty much always 1K point ahead of me so we probably played nearly identical amount).
SunCrusher wrote: It's not the first time it's happened; this has happened - us joining at the same time, but getting bracketed separately with their bracket always being more relaxed with lower point requirements to place high - consistently for several months now which is why I'm getting frustrated. It's like the game is expecting me to be able to duke it out with people like you... but if you're a newbie, you get to play in a special kiddie pool bracket where less effort (compared to what I consistently put into my events) and being able to soundly sleep can still snag you 3 3* covers when your 2*s aren't even fully covered yet and you're still relying on 1*s.
Sumilea wrote: I know my top 10 finished with 3 Alliance members in it. The last 12 hours was nice and easy and if I was only interested in top 10 I could have skipped it totally - not that I needed IW but the chasers did not seem to want it either. SunCrusher wrote: It's not the first time it's happened; this has happened - us joining at the same time, but getting bracketed separately with their bracket always being more relaxed with lower point requirements to place high - consistently for several months now which is why I'm getting frustrated. It's like the game is expecting me to be able to duke it out with people like you... but if you're a newbie, you get to play in a special kiddie pool bracket where less effort (compared to what I consistently put into my events) and being able to soundly sleep can still snag you 3 3* covers when your 2*s aren't even fully covered yet and you're still relying on 1*s. My rubber band calculator account gets thrown in the kiddie pool brackets also and its bloodly painful to see the difference in scores between them. But the obvious fix of making the brackets bigger to reduce the variation between them is not going to happen since it would screw over all the people that cannot join close to the start and probably kill the D3 servers. The old guard will remember what happened when everyone was in one bracket talk about server lag...