The Colognoisseur Semi-Accurate Guide to ISO Mining LR's

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  • Unknown
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    The number of seed teams you see is totally random. I've gotten only enough to hit 100 rating when playing right away, and I've got to 250 off seed teams starting in the last half an hour (application was open at start so I can still get the seed teams). You are free to do whatever ritual you believe that will increase the chance of seeing more seed teams, though. It seems like there is always enough to hit 100 even if that means you've to fight BattleAngel, and anything more than that is a bonus.
  • wymtime
    wymtime Posts: 3,760 Chairperson of the Boards
    wymtime wrote:
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    I am accepting the LR challenge that Colognoisseur has placed here. I will track how much ISO I earn this week and my goal is to hit as many LR as possible. I already keep a spread sheet of how much ISO I need to soft cap my 3 and 4* characters so I will take what I earn this week and see how long it will take me to earn enough ISO to soft cap my current roster. My belief is ISO is still an issue in this game with all the new characters being released even at 2 a month. I will post the results here next week!!!

    So it has been a week since I took the PR challenge. Overalll I earned 107400 ISO through everything. I did 12 LR and earned about 1760 per round for 21120. This did not include tokens I earned from the LR. Overall LR was about 25% of my overall haul for the week. If I can continue to keep this pace up while doing PVE(this is the challenge) I will soft cap my current roster in 17 weeks. If I don't do LR It will take me 23 weeks to soft cap my roster. The issue is with a new character every other week, and I still have 15 characters not cover maxed what is the time frame to max out my roster? At 100k per week I am getting ahead 20k on my current roster which means I will be caught up in 88 weeks, maybe longer if they keep putting out 4* characters.
    My conclusion is that LR are really good at helping with ISO, but an injection in ISO is still needed to help the playerbase level characters. 17 weeks or 4+ months to soft cap a roster is just making characters unplayable.
  • GrimSkald
    GrimSkald Posts: 2,660 Chairperson of the Boards
    Your nodes in the LR are determined by when you open the event, how many players are in the event (including ones who use the event to tank, which I don't understand because it counts less for MMR,) and their relative point totals. This statistic has a bit of memory, so it actually keeps a fair bit of the stack even if you use skip. If you quit from the game it clears the stack below the top opponent - this is why if you quit and re-enter the game once you defeat one of the seed teams you get real teams. I use this intentionally when I want to get more points from my nodes - both in the LR and in normal PVP.

    How many seed teams you get will depend on the time of day - at peak times (around noon EST to around 10pm EST) you will sometimes not get the seed teams if you're even a minute or so after the hour. On off times (say, 6am EST) you can enter as late as 6:10 and still find the seed teams. The depth of the seed teams depends on this too - if it's a peak time and you enter 30 seconds after the hour you may only get one or two on each stack. Unfortunately since a lot of people tank in the LRs you wil frequently find real teams at 0 point value - if you're out of seed teams at this point you may as well quit and re-enter - hopefully at that point you'll get real points for completing your nodes.

    Finally, I try to use True Healers against the seed teams. I have a maxxed Daken and an under-covered Patch, theyr'e both amazing at clearing out the seed teams and costing me nothing. Non THers will get banged up at least a small amount.
  • TLCstormz
    TLCstormz Posts: 1,668
    I have been mining the ISO from all of the LRs, just like OP has said, for about the last 3 weeks. It has definitely made a big difference for me. I am now approaching getting three of my 2 star characters to level 94, BUT..............I am almost never ever ever ever ever available to get more than around 130 points in the in the lightning rounds

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    Is this normal for my roster? I feel as if I play the game A LOT, and actually waaaaaay too much at work, but I still feel as if I'm getting nowhere, fast.
  • TLCstormz
    TLCstormz Posts: 1,668
    BUT WAIT A SECOND.....in what universe is THIS possible?????
    FaustianDeal wrote:
    *I am able to get farther into the rounds much faster - at least 1 round / week I make a top-100 finish with a score earned only hitting seed teams.

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