scottee wrote: Once you realize the season heroic packs are all not really worth that much, it becomes much easier. Is 5 heroic tokens that different from 20 after a month? You're going to get maybe one useful cover out of them. In PVE, I only play for 1 cover of new characters. That's all that's needed for the next PVE, and it's usually enough to help the alliance make top 100. If a new character I need is in the progressions, I'll play til around then and stop. For PVP, play casually up to 800-900 with no shields. Push hard if there's covers you want. Lately, that's only really 4* Thor for me. No one else really excites me.
russreid91 wrote: What I'm wondering is for those of you that have stepped back how did it work for you? Did you actually step back or have you started playing at the same competitive levels again after a little break. How have you managed PvE's, are you still pushing for the new covers or do you just not care anymore? How did you get your self to accept that you didn't need top 10 in everything and settle for top 100?
russreid91 wrote: Hi everybody, As many members of the MPQ community are finding, the last few weeks have just burned them out. You can now count me into that group as well, this game is taking up too much of my time and the stress involved is making it not enjoyable at all. I do however think that MPQ is moving in the right direction (aside from the speed of new character releases) so I don't want to quit completely. To begin with I am stepping away from the Dark Saviors the top 50 Alliance I have been a part of since season 2, as we have accomplished so much together I don't want to drag their scores down. I am also planning on taking next week completely off and putting the game down completely. Hopefully I will pick it up again after that but we'll see. I am also planning on only playing for the covers that I really want and becoming a merc for an alliance that needs that last little push for those same covers. What I'm wondering is for those of you that have stepped back how did it work for you? Did you actually step back or have you started playing at the same competitive levels again after a little break. How have you managed PvE's, are you still pushing for the new covers or do you just not care anymore? How did you get your self to accept that you didn't need top 10 in everything and settle for top 100? Any advice for how to make the transition and then keep the game in perspective moving forward would be greatly appreciated. Maybe we could get NorthernPolarity to write a post on the 3/4* to semi retired transition Thank you in advance for your help, Russ91
russreid91 wrote: I wasn't worried about the Heroic tokens from the end of the season, I think I realized after season 3 that they really weren't giving me much if anything at all. I was always just putting up the points for the alliance season reward. Thank you for the input on PvE, that makes sense as most of those characters haven't been that great anyways. With the more casual alliances that you guys are in where are they normally finishing. Still in the top 100?
Phantron wrote: You can't be casual and still be worried about alliance top 100 unless you're just so cool that people are willing to let you in while you're doing nothing useful. With the advantage of the 20 man alliance gone, there's just no way you can play casually and still contribute meaningfully in PvE. PvP you might be able to get away with it if you shield a lot (play to 800-900 casually and then shield for the rest of the event), but you'd likely be losing a lot of HP. Yes every top 100 alliance you can find a guy with inexplicably low score and say "My score was better than that guy" but that guy probably scores much higher normally, or he wouldn't be around for much longer.
GothicKratos wrote: What I would offer is some advice based on my own experiences; do just play when you want to and how you want to. I quit playing for about three months after the initial DPvMPQ event after not placing well enough to get covers, but my girlfriend whom had been playing for about three weeks at the time, got two. Infuriated would not even capture my feelings. The feeling of wasted time and frustration was only exasperated by the fact Deadpool is easily my favorite comic book character. After a little while, while Kyla was still playing and talking about it a lot with her and helping her, I found myself wanting to play again, but I didn't want to fall into the trap again. So, basically, I started gaming the system. I know that 500 is my peak in PvP, so, when a PvP starts that is giving away something I want in 3* land, I just join as late as humanly possible (one hour seems to be the magic number), but if it's a 2* prize I need, I just play casually whenever I want and as long as I get a decent amount of matches in each day, I snag the cover. I've gotten ranked for two 3* cover rewards four times now (just got two 3* Thor covers today, even, by playing for an hour with Daken and Wolverine) and one cover rewards endless times. For PvE, if I need something in the high end of the Progression Rewards, you need to be able to play, at least each node once, and each Essential Node down to around 500 point value (usually three plays) every three hours. If you only need rank rewards, then join each sub six hours before the node ends and play each node once and each Essential down as far as you can for both refreshes. You'll need to do this for each sub, though. This seems to maximize banding and bracketing. It's slow, of course, but it's a good reward versus effort.
Spoit wrote: Unless you're in a complete desert slice, 800 isn't that hard to hit in pvp without shielding (or just shielding once), and you can use up to 4 3 hour shields (or 2 8 hour ones) before you start losing HP
lukewin wrote: Spoit wrote: Unless you're in a complete desert slice, 800 isn't that hard to hit in pvp without shielding (or just shielding once), and you can use up to 4 3 hour shields (or 2 8 hour ones) before you start losing HP Clarify, if you have a strong roster. I don't have any max 3*s, so 800 isn't getting hit at all. 600 without shielding is possible, if not for last min attacks. 500 without shielding is more realistic to finish if you have max 2*s.
Spoit wrote: Phantron wrote: You can't be casual and still be worried about alliance top 100 unless you're just so cool that people are willing to let you in while you're doing nothing useful. With the advantage of the 20 man alliance gone, there's just no way you can play casually and still contribute meaningfully in PvE. PvP you might be able to get away with it if you shield a lot (play to 800-900 casually and then shield for the rest of the event), but you'd likely be losing a lot of HP. Yes every top 100 alliance you can find a guy with inexplicably low score and say "My score was better than that guy" but that guy probably scores much higher normally, or he wouldn't be around for much longer. Unless you're in a complete desert slice, 800 isn't that hard to hit in pvp without shielding (or just shielding once), and you can use up to 4 3 hour shields (or 2 8 hour ones) before you start losing HP
tobi69 wrote: Spoit wrote: Phantron wrote: You can't be casual and still be worried about alliance top 100 unless you're just so cool that people are willing to let you in while you're doing nothing useful. With the advantage of the 20 man alliance gone, there's just no way you can play casually and still contribute meaningfully in PvE. PvP you might be able to get away with it if you shield a lot (play to 800-900 casually and then shield for the rest of the event), but you'd likely be losing a lot of HP. Yes every top 100 alliance you can find a guy with inexplicably low score and say "My score was better than that guy" but that guy probably scores much higher normally, or he wouldn't be around for much longer. Unless you're in a complete desert slice, 800 isn't that hard to hit in pvp without shielding (or just shielding once), and you can use up to 4 3 hour shields (or 2 8 hour ones) before you start losing HP True, on slice #1 and #2, 700-900 is actually top 10 on several pvp i attend (depends on x-factor tho) and lot of players practicing "last hour push and shield once" or i would say "smart casual top 10 gameplay". Sometimes not shielding at all (of course supported with scarecrows char) by maintaining score range and retaliations in the last 30 mins. Shield for the rest of the event is a bad idea (except ur not able to play on last 3 hour), never climb up to 700 or more when ur not ready to shield.
Spoit wrote: Nah, you can climb higher, as long as you're willing to climb back up from like 500 or so. Usually there are at least a few high value targets in your retal nodes, which makes it easier than the inital climb
Phantron wrote: Spoit wrote: Phantron wrote: You can't be casual and still be worried about alliance top 100 unless you're just so cool that people are willing to let you in while you're doing nothing useful. With the advantage of the 20 man alliance gone, there's just no way you can play casually and still contribute meaningfully in PvE. PvP you might be able to get away with it if you shield a lot (play to 800-900 casually and then shield for the rest of the event), but you'd likely be losing a lot of HP. Yes every top 100 alliance you can find a guy with inexplicably low score and say "My score was better than that guy" but that guy probably scores much higher normally, or he wouldn't be around for much longer. Unless you're in a complete desert slice, 800 isn't that hard to hit in pvp without shielding (or just shielding once), and you can use up to 4 3 hour shields (or 2 8 hour ones) before you start losing HP No what I mean is I assume if you're going casual you're not going to make arrangement to have an 8 hour block of time before some event ends. If you hit 800 a day before the event ends, well that's 300 HP to preserve that score until the end. Of course if you're still able to make schedule arrangement to play toward the end of the event that's no problem, but that doesn't strike me as very casual.