Thick as Thieves

Eddiemon

So when and how do you start the final clear?

I crossed the 8 hour mark with a 300 point lead on 2nd, and I had been idle for at least 15 minutes, so I should get a round of everything.

But to clear everything might take say 3 hours, and more than 5 health packs.

And if most people kick off with 90 minutes to go they to to rubberband off me and I have spent my powder.

People have already crawled past me so I am now in fifth by 700 points. Should I be doing low value missions to stay just on their shoulder?

There are 4 resources to balance here: time, missions, rubberband points and health packs. And I want a 4* wolvie.

windfallstar

Phantron wrote:

I wonder if players with weak roster simply sees lower level enemies?

I believe there are some posters here that have said they only see low level enemies. But there are a lot a terrible implications if that's true. The major one would be that different players are playing in essentially different PvE events but still having the same amount of points given to them and are still competing against everyone else. You can probably tell why that situation would be extremely unfair. In previous PvE events, the only a few missions had the highest level enemies worth the most points. Granted, requiring characters for some of those missions is annoying, but at the very least they ensured that everyone has the same opportunity of higher difficulty, higher reward.

Unknown

And people say this game is unfair to new players.

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I've finally slaughtered my roster enough times to bring the missions back down to minimum level for the final push.

By god, that was mind-numbing torture. I think I've had to slay my roster 4 times completely to get to where I want to be.

I'd say the tanking was definitely made harder over the last two days. It took me 10ish retreats to drop the missions 1 tier in difficulty at first, but increased to 15-20 towards the lowest tier.

So glad this is the last time I have to tank for this event.

On the other hand, I'm loving the insanely overpowered 2* Wolv in the Best There Is tourney. I like him more than Patch at the moment

windfallstar

ihearthawthats wrote:

And people say this game is unfair to new players.

Who says that?

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windfallstar wrote:

ihearthawthats wrote:

And people say this game is unfair to new players.

Who says that?

New players. Ba-dum, tsss.

Unknown

Just biding my time for my final clear. Mostly regenerated. 5K back of first. I better retake my first place spot, otherwise I'll be annoyed.

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jozier wrote:

I better retake my first place spot, otherwise I'll be annoyed.

+1

Edit: My main bracket just broke 50k.

Unknown

Any spots you've lost in the last 5.5 hours are moot because those people just used their last refresh. I was in the top 5 or so at the 8 hour left mark, and I'm just hoping to hit top 10.

Unknown

Yeah I was top 5 at the eight 8 mark. Problem is I lead the whole tournament. Anything less than top 2 is a lot of wasted effort on my part.

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jozier wrote:

Yeah I was top 5 at the eight 8 mark. Problem is I lead the whole tournament. Anything less than top 2 is a lot of wasted effort on my part.

I feel like I pushed myself out of the top spot because there were a few refreshes I couldn't take full advantage of. I've also only been playing twice a day.

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gobstopper wrote:

Yeah seems like tanking has been hit with the nerf bat. Which makes these high-scoring people with beginner-level rosters really really suspicious

If you say so. Works fine for me.

Unknown

I'm not going to waste my time tanking this. I've played so many matches at level 230 that I doubt it'll do anything.

Unknown

It wont, it takes at least 8-10 retreats to adjust 1 match, it has been nerfed at least twice by D3. I just hope it doesn't rapidly scale up too fast once I start my run. Its doable just starts to get hectic...

LordWill

I think I did mine too early. Oh well. Maybe I'll be in the top 50 at least...

Good Luck jozier!

DirigiblePilot

Kikujiro, how desperate are you for 3 Daredevil instead of 2?
And 1337th post

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jozier wrote:

I'm not going to waste my time tanking this. I've played so many matches at level 230 that I doubt it'll do anything.

I finally gave in and attempted to "tank". I destroyed my entire roster less about 6 covers. Not even the easiest mission was lowered. Guess I kicked toooo much **** in the 1st 3-4 subs.

Unknown

Getting ready to start mine, I think I still have a good shot at the top of my main bracket, top score is 50,500 I've got 44,200 with two full clears in front of me...*fingers crossed*

Unknown

While the enemies are capped 230 your hidden scale rating may have very well have made them 580's. You need to tank away all those extra levels first before you will make a dent. If you haven't been doing it all along there is no point in starting now. D3 funbalanced it a few times so its really time consuming for very little benefit now. Thank god its over today.

Speaking of funbalancing, theres a guy 3 lvls lower on my roster named wolfenthor with an 85 of each, I bet hes crushed.

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Chimaera wrote:

While the enemies are capped 230 your hidden scale rating may have very well have made them 580's. You need to tank away all those extra levels first before you will make a dent. If you haven't been doing it all along there is no point in starting now. D3 funbalanced it a few times so its really time consuming for very little benefit now. Thank god its over today.

Speaking of funbalancing, theres a guy 3 lvls lower on my roster named wolfenthor with an 85 of each, I bet hes crushed.

I grinded like 50-80 1 pointers of lvl 230's along with 3-4 full rotations on each sub. Mine are probably like level 2000. Lol