Ok, we get the message: we should stop playing

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scottee wrote:

simonsez wrote:

Phantron wrote:

Grinding is absolutely reduced due to scaling.

Overall yes, but I'm talking about those who are looking for a high placing. It used to be you just needed to be willing to sacrifice sleep. Now you need to be willing to spend a ton of iso on boosts, and most likely spend hp on health packs and rainbow boosts.

And maybe we should define "grinding". Yes, I'm playing fewer nodes, but the ones I am playing require so much more thought and planning, each cycle is taking far longer than the typical PvE. So you might say I'm grinding less because I'm skipping some nodes, but from my perspective, it feels like way more of a grind.

I think you're fighting above your pay grade then. If you have to boost to beat PVE nodes, it's not worth it.

But yes, trying to achieve top rankings is pretty much always going to feel like a grind. It's the nature of competition. It's not about putting in a certain level of effort. It's about putting in more effort than the other 95% or 98%, whatever ranking you're trying to get.

Nah, it's that he's fighting other people that are above their pay grade. Scaling is why I had to cede top 2 to 2* teams in both of the 4* PvEs recently