Thick As Thieves: Jan 26 - Feb 3

fmftint

Ringy wrote:

I'm really sorry about the noobish question (and I AM aware it's noobish), but how the hell is it possible that a guy with his characters no higher than lvl 70 already has 65+k points, while I, playing just about whenever node timers reset (minus nights) have barely hit 20k (with quite a few of my 3* chars nearing their caps or at least being well above lvl 100)?

1: he has hit EVERY node refresh
2: he has essential character
3: he ground down Scotland Yard while it was mistakenly open

Spoit

^ you were likely death sharded into a bracket that's been going on for daaaaaaaays. With the RB being so low now, you basically have no chance at a cover if you're not in the first couple hundred people in a later bracket

Koko81 wrote:

Can anyone hook me up with the alliance score for T50? Of course if you can see that board.

Much appreciated

lowest I can see is 45, which is lost ghosts @ 693,096

Unknown

Ringy wrote:

I'm really sorry about the noobish question (and I AM aware it's noobish), but how the hell is it possible that a guy with his characters no higher than lvl 70 already has 65+k points, while I, playing just about whenever node timers reset (minus nights) have barely hit 20k (with quite a few of my 3* chars nearing their caps or at least being well above lvl 100)?

Anderson 4 is currently at 196 for me. My highest level is 135. For someone who has nothing over 70, it is likely around 105. When you factor in the 40 level bump that featured 2 stars get, it is easy for a lower roster to keep pace and beat a more developed roster.

In fact, many people have fully covered 3stars at level 94 to take advantage of this fact and excel at PvE.

I started with 8 hours left in Sub1 and have played relatively optimally (every 3 hours but skipping Anderson5, with triple clears before bed) and am at 26K with my leader at 47K. With the extra 28hours, I am sure our leader would be around 65K as well and I would be closer to 40. If you haven't been triple clearing at night, you have missed a lot of points

Trisul

Spoit wrote:

Maaan, you're totally going to pass me at that rate. I'm at 333, and rising about 5 every single sub, no matter how badly I lose health while beating nodes

Ha, we'll see. My goal is really only T50 for next PvE's essential, but ever since I started I've kept pace with the top 5 so we'll see how far I go with near-optimal clears for the next few before I get tired of it and coast to the finish.

Our bracket is interesting because we have 6 players really pushing for T5. I think T1 is out of my reach already.

Spoit

Trisul wrote:

Spoit wrote:

Maaan, you're totally going to pass me at that rate. I'm at 333, and rising about 5 every single sub, no matter how badly I lose health while beating nodes

Ha, we'll see. My goal is really only T50 for next PvE's essential, but ever since I started I've kept pace with the top 5 so we'll see how far I go with near-optimal clears for the next few before I get tired of it and coast to the finish.

Our bracket is interesting because we have 6 players really pushing for T5. I think T1 is out of my reach already.

Top 1 was out of reach when we joined. Mini hasn't been sleeping, and he must have started with an extra refresh on us too

Unknown

Spoit wrote:

Trisul wrote:

Spoit wrote:

Maaan, you're totally going to pass me at that rate. I'm at 333, and rising about 5 every single sub, no matter how badly I lose health while beating nodes

Ha, we'll see. My goal is really only T50 for next PvE's essential, but ever since I started I've kept pace with the top 5 so we'll see how far I go with near-optimal clears for the next few before I get tired of it and coast to the finish.

Our bracket is interesting because we have 6 players really pushing for T5. I think T1 is out of my reach already.

Top 1 was out of reach when we joined. Mini hasn't been sleeping, and he must have started with an extra refresh on us too

If you guys do decide to back off, it is very soft down here. I did a triple before bed last night and got up to 17th. 7 hours later I was 21st. Plus the gap from 10th to 12th is almost 10K

simonsez

papa07 wrote:

Plus the gap from 10th to 12th is almost 10K

This is what they get when they make 11th the same as 50th.

Trisul

I'm totally on board the Loki train.

I've been going for an AP steal control team of 114 LThor, 114 Hood, 53 Loki that just chokes the other team. They are completely dominant against the difficult nodes so far. The boost to 204 means Thor isn't too bothered by match damage, and I just deny RGY while setting up BPK match-4s.

Unknown

I'm going to miss Star Lord because I keep wiping to bad cascades on level 395 Anderson 5

Unknown

Sorry for increasing everyone's community scaling.

Turn 1 kill Anderson V - level 338.

Unknown

The frustrating things for me on this event.

3 hour refreshes - all my nodes in Anderson went green check in the first 24 hours. Hello 20 iso, glad to see you, make yourself at home.

Progression rewards - To get to Thor in the 3 subs, you would need 12 in the first, 21 in the second, and 28 in the third. Usually my casual hardcore play gets me there in about half the event. So far, I am barely on pace, despite being 16th in my bracket. Now, there may be a massive influx of points from the main nodes in the last 24 hours, but definitely tighter than usual.

Speaking of the main nodes - Can't wait for the 150% Hood/Mags combo. I believe this is the first time we have played it since Hood started dealing damage.

R70 - While I have yet to update, such a PITA to drop into the game. And, while I feel bad about it, I will be holding off on this update as long as possible.

Unknown

Ugh, can't wait for 8 hour refreshes....I sleep for 8 hours then work for 8 hours, which hurts my score majorly. I've been trying to take this whole 'grinding' thing more seriously, but I have to grind until refresh is 18 hrs/0 pts. dunno how y'all do it lol.

It's also a bit depressing that there doesn't seem to be much rubberbanding - I've been rank 100~ and my score hasn't actually improved much...grrr

Wobby

Sumilea:
I don't know how you do it.
You were down at least 6,000 points to our sub-event leader and now you're on pace with the overall bracket leader.

Are you ...not sleeping? Pulling a locked?

squirrel1120

I'd like this event to be done plz. Kthnxbai. 3hr grindfest...

The reminder of boosted hood... erg. I may let some of my 15k lead go in favor of skipping that tinykitty node. Ares/ empirist has nothing on that If I recall

Unknown

Wobby wrote:

Sumilea:
I don't know how you do it.
You were down at least 6,000 points to our sub-event leader and now you're on pace with the overall bracket leader.

Are you ...not sleeping? Pulling a locked?

I was down 10K on Adamical in the 3rd sub as I only had 167 Points. I tend to do double clears at night so sleep for around 5 hours. I am doing it by basically ignoring PvP just about every health pack going into PvE to keep my personal scaling under control since the global on is bad enough. I flopped into top 25 and 856 in High Stakes where I would normally had gone to 1K to get the Elektra cover. Going to have to do the same in the current PvP also but at least I do not need IW cover.

lukewin

Just thought I'd post these numbers since I'm bored. Gives us indication of how much the Scotland Yard premature release has effected our Slice 1 bracket. Going off of screenshots I took when Scotland Yard opened earlier today (with the points that people were allowed to keep) and just now.

Scotland Yard rank/score (Current rank/score)

1 Adamical 10378 (5 80519)
2 Kastanaf Viper 9057 (13 60317)
3 pmg888 5159 (9 69498)
8 Wobby 4198 (3 85735)
10 hsche 4198 (10 68613)
23 BanishingBlade 3781 (16 56535)
28 lukewin 3165 (12 64546)
29 Terr 3015 (11 68115)

Don't know Current rank/score
4 LamLam 4671
5 Madinho 4345
6 Aznlyte 4198
7 HomyCid 4198
9 Congz14 4198
24 AranThule 3781
25 STORMYHAVOK 3582
26 Rat22 3514
27 divine 7942 3514
30 theZeppo 3015
31 Marvel 90 2958
32 StarSaber 2681

So these players in our current bracket got less than 2681 pts, or they didn't get any from Scotland Yard premature release

1 Worri 87777
2 Sumilea 86182
4 Mike 30 84484
6 win2spu7rr 76335
7 Russ91 71873
8 vankysher 69848
14 Nogard 59416
15 Phaseetious4me 57878

Combined
Current rank (Scotland Yard points gained from SY pr)

1 Worri 87777
2 Sumilea 86182
3 Wobby 85735 (4198)
4 Mike 30 84484
5 Adamical 80519 (10378)
6 win2spu7rr 76335
7 Russ91 71873
8 vankysher 69848
9 pmg888 69498 (5159)
10 hsche 68613 (4198)
11 Terr 68115 (3015)
12 lukewin 64546 (3165)
13 Kastanaf Viper 60317 (9057)
14 Nogard 59416
15 Phaseetious4me 57878
16 BanishingBlade 56535 (3781)

Makes the achievement of the guys that didn't get any points or less points from SY, even greater. Trying to break into Top 10 is tough.

Unknown

3 words to sum up this PvE in my own personal experience: I HATE IT.

Unknown

Whaaat? Scotland yard opened earlier than intended? This is Huge! I was constantly Top5, even Top2 in First sub. I woke up today to See that i am 8th overall and 77th after One clear in scotland yard... Silver88, i never saw him in the Top10, is now First with over 10k advantage... This is not ok

lukewin

curlymustache wrote:

Whaaat? Scotland yard opened earlier than intended? This is Huge! I was constantly Top5, even Top2 in First sub. I woke up today to See that i am 8th overall and 77th after One clear in scotland yard... Silver88, i never saw him in the Top10, is now First with over 10k advantage... This is not ok

It was only for Slice 1. It was open for roughly 3 hours before they pulled it.

Unknown

I don't know how T1 ppl do it. I was on track to get Top 1 this event but this other guy just does not sleep. I was so burnt out from 3 days of this **** during work week that I crashed last night and missed a clear.

That feel when you just do not want to open this game anymore.