Have they changed how PVP works

slidecage

I messed up and joined a league before the start times (usually try to jump in the few last hours) and i was like **** i messed up big time cause i been getting high jumping late.. So the bracket starts and i notice right now the top is only like 341 pts. I know there was some talk about starting to put people into bracket with the same roaster line up. Has that started or am i just seeing low scores in the first 24 hours or got into a very easy bracket

Unknown

People, except for the people who 8-3-8-3-8 shield throughout the PVP, pretty much stay below 700 until about 16 hours remaining in the PVP.

With the shield cooldowns severely gating the max scores possible (no more 8k scores in PVP), it has severely reduced the urgency in PVP.

I used to do the same thing as you, start really late and just get as high as I could, and being in a low scoring bracket because of my join time.

But now that progression rewards have been dropped to 1k, and the cooldowns have made it more difficult to climb quickly in a short amount of time, I start with about a day left.

That gives me plenty of time to get to 1k and more than enough time to take it easy without having to do a 0 to 900 rush all at once. Those kind of rushes always took 2 hours, which is not ideal for my schedule anyway.

I think PVP is much better this way.
It sucked joining a bracket, seeing the top 5 have 1500 or more with 24 hours left, and know that you definitely won't place top 5 this PVP, regardless of what you do.

TheViceroy

Something is different, and it's not just the Shield Cooldowns.
My strategy was to join a bracket when it had about 4 or so hours left, get my 500-600 points, and secure a top 100 cover.

That is now impossible.

Starting with the season Simulator, after I cleared out the starter nodes, EVERY node was max xforce max 4hor <someone else>.
I was hoping this was just an abnormality with that simulator thing, but it continued into PVP.
The Sentry PVP, same thing. I get hit with an instant wall of max xforce max 4hor <featured> after the starter nodes.
The Mystique PVP was the same.
I couldn't get higher than like 200 points in either PVP, which in previous ones I had no problems at all obtaining about 550 points in around 2 hours near the end.
The first several PVP's after the cooldowns were introduced had no effect on my previous sessions.
They must have changed something in between seasons.

My X force is lv 175 1 3 5, so not usable. I don't have any 4hor covers at all.
Who cares that I have 9 or so max 3 star heroes (even the good ones like Hood, Lazy Thor, etc.).
So yeah, I'm in the non-existent 3 to 4 star transition like many others.
Would be nice if that Deadpool Daily PVE thing had a way to get 4 stars as well, maybe like once a month there's a 4 star available or something.

slidecage

i jumped into one yesterday and say **** when i seen i was 429th when i joined with hour left. I then noticed top only had 332 pts. That is why i was asking. Even with almost a filled bracket leader still had less then 400 pts

looks at the team im in now

maybe now cause top is now 700 in my bracket...o well didnt need patch anyways