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  • Unknown
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    Top 10 was worth working for in the 4Thor event, but not for Elektra by the looks of it.

    Considering the majority of Alliances will finish outside the top 50, having just 1 cover to show for what is likely to be a LOT of work to ensure top 50 individual is just poor. It's also nailed on that she'll be essential in the new PvE, so you can't NOT get top 50.

    The people it hits hardest are those who finish 11-20. To get into that area you need to play pretty much optimally, with a small amount of slippage during the week outside of the 3 hour refresh. The possibility of 1 cover for what probably amounts to around 40-50 clears isn't fair at all.
  • Tattie Bogle
    Tattie Bogle Posts: 5
    Nivrax wrote:
    Anyone in second shard can say if scaling is borked too?

    Yeah, the nodes are trivial there.
  • fmftint
    fmftint Posts: 3,653 Chairperson of the Boards
    Tattie Bogle wrote:
    Nivrax wrote:
    Anyone in second shard can say if scaling is borked too?

    Yeah, the nodes are trivial there.
    What are the levels for Maggia Assault, shard 1 they are 9/9/9
  • loroku
    loroku Posts: 1,014 Chairperson of the Boards
    ark123 wrote:
    Progression Rewards:
    90000. 500 iso8.png
    105000. star.pngstar.pngstar.pngicon_loki.pngpurpleflag.png
    These two are wrong; they should be 80k and 100k, even. Not sure why they lowered it a bit but yay.
  • loroku
    loroku Posts: 1,014 Chairperson of the Boards
    fmftint wrote:
    Tattie Bogle wrote:
    Nivrax wrote:
    Anyone in second shard can say if scaling is borked too?

    Yeah, the nodes are trivial there.
    What are the levels for Maggia Assault, shard 1 they are 9/9/9
    In shard 2 mine are also 9/9/9 but personal level may play into this. My highest character is now 80.
  • loroku
    loroku Posts: 1,014 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited December 2014
    This event is definitely weird. As much as I enjoy destroying Muscles at level 9, it also means that EVERYONE is destroying those Muscles - which means that whoever plays the most will win. Not sure how I feel about that. I'm also afraid they will make an adjustment at some point and those Muscles will go up to 100+ or something insane and be impossible to kill.

    Right now there's basically no rubberbanding, but that's because the event is hours old. I'm guessing others are right and the reason the Muscles are level 9 is because community scaling is off. Personal scaling may be off as well, if someone with a 166 roster is also getting node 1 at level 9/9/9.

    In any case, I ended up joining early because I remember the last time this event ran the community scaling made the last few nodes like end-level gauntlet nodes: insane jokes that required luck and boosts to win. Hopefully this time around it won't be so terrible thanks to the weird scaling.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    DrUnpleasant wrote:
    It's also nailed on that she'll be essential in the new PvE, so you can't NOT get top 50.

    Unless they lied, there are no more new characters coming this year, so therefore, no new character for her essential PvE. You just have to hope the older covers offered next are not ones you really want.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I think they just fixed scaling. I'm in 3rd shard and scaling was low (max level goons 15). Now they are levels 130-150.
  • unimatrix
    unimatrix Posts: 228
    nadarath wrote:
    I think they just fixed scaling. I'm in 3rd shard and scaling was low (max level goons 15). Now they are levels 130-150.
    i can confirm this. 1st shard.

    those people in top 100 places must be laughing their bums now.. I should've entered earlier.. but you know.. real life gets in the way. icon_rolleyes.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    unimatrix wrote:
    nadarath wrote:
    I think they just fixed scaling. I'm in 3rd shard and scaling was low (max level goons 15). Now they are levels 130-150.
    i can confirm this. 1st shard.

    those people in top 100 places must be laughing their bums now.. I should've entered earlier.. but you know.. real life gets in the way. icon_rolleyes.gif

    It doesn't change a thing. They will have to wait and clear high levels as well in max 6-7h. It just went back to old pve.
  • unimatrix
    unimatrix Posts: 228
    nadarath wrote:
    unimatrix wrote:
    nadarath wrote:
    I think they just fixed scaling. I'm in 3rd shard and scaling was low (max level goons 15). Now they are levels 130-150.
    i can confirm this. 1st shard.

    those people in top 100 places must be laughing their bums now.. I should've entered earlier.. but you know.. real life gets in the way. icon_rolleyes.gif

    It doesn't change a thing. They will have to wait and clear high levels as well in max 6-7h. It just went back to old pve.

    I mean, they have gained easy points beating level 10 minions.
    but you're right.. at least now it's back to old PVE.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Levels are back to normal, at least for me in the first time shard. Was kinda liking not having to try to clear the nodes, now I have to try a little.
  • fmftint
    fmftint Posts: 3,653 Chairperson of the Boards
    Scaling being fixed is for the better. You need a potential for failure to separate from the pack
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I haven't started yet and I hate that they're using 36 hour subs. What's the point of picking your end time if it only applies half the time? I'd choose the 6 PM (eastern) in a heartbeat if all the subs ended then; but I have to choose the midnight because I can't do 6 am subs.
  • sc0ville
    sc0ville Posts: 115 Tile Toppler
    itwasafridaynight wrote:
    Levels are back to normal, at least for me in the first time shard. Was kinda liking not having to try to clear the nodes, now I have to try a little.

    Damn, In light of the holidays approaching, I was liking the idea of having easy nodes. I realize it makes it impossible to separate, but not wasting a ton of time was really appealing to me (especially since I have a 1/1/1 loki for the essentials ><)
  • SnowcaTT
    SnowcaTT Posts: 3,486 Chairperson of the Boards
    One or the other scaling, not both. At least they fixed it early rather than right in the middle I guess.

    I agree that scaling is good to separate the rosters, otherwise all you are doing is rewarding grinding.

    However, I'll also mention as I have before that scaling sucks when you have characters leveled but not covered well, or when the buffed characters are those like icon_doctoroctopus.pngicon_moonstone.pngicon_loki.png

    It's a bummer when I can't read the full story, and it will be a bummer when the node giving away Sentry at the end (if it's there again) will be practically unobtainable. I really prefer letting everyone grind (have access to every node) over locking folks out of some of the nodes.
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    fmftint wrote:
    Scaling being fixed is for the better. You need a potential for failure to separate from the pack
    I thought it was the potential for falling asleep that separated the pack
  • fmftint
    fmftint Posts: 3,653 Chairperson of the Boards
    Community scaling has kicked in as well. Maggia Assault has leveled twice while Im waiting for points to refresh.
    I wonder if later slices will have the same issues as Iso-8 where they had horrible scaling right from the start
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    looks like i ll be skipping this event as well
    Dont have loki or any of the other heroes that are given as reward.
    Dont have hero slots either for them, so even if i play, all i get will be sold for ISO
    great job.....
    see you next month for next event.
  • Vankysher
    Vankysher Posts: 324 Mover and Shaker
    fmftint wrote:
    Community scaling has kicked in as well. Maggia Assault has leveled twice while Im waiting for points to refresh.
    I wonder if later slices will have the same issues as Iso-8 where they had horrible scaling right from the start

    If that is the case, then that's one of the first things that needs to be fixed. If I'm close to being scaled out of a PvE right off the bat, why should I even bother playing?

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