Is any one else receiving an error message?

Captsquee

I have an issue with the fact they are trying to level out the in game wealth distribution then start giving away specific cards to the wealthy players.  Which furthers the problem

THEMAGICkMAN

ElfNeedsFood said:

Phase said:

Starting to look like re-running Breaking Points should be a thing. I hope @Brigby will consider bringing up the event for another go for those who are getting screwed by untimely service outages.

Maybe next time don't put such a broken card as the event reward

Maybe if all participants get the new broken card we're all square?

This is actually very fair. I do hope this happens. 

ElfNeedsFood

shteev said:

ElfNeedsFood said:

Maybe if all participants get the new broken card we're all square?

I love that idea. We'd find out how balanced the card was pretty quickly then, wouldn't we?

Tipping the trend from OP blue to OP green?

Gunmix25

Captsquee said:

I have an issue with the fact they are trying to level out the in game wealth distribution then start giving away specific cards to the wealthy players.  Which furthers the problem

Or the already established players... those that hold the encyclopedia of mythics and rares. With the match up being against level 60 every time. They will win a lovely mythic yet again. D3 faces a difficult task as these guys are loaded to bear regardless the event. Unless they start bracketing events into groups of levels. Meaning level 60 players can duke it out among themselves for the coveted prize. While 1 to 10, 11 to 20, 21 to 30, 31 to 40, 41 to 50, 51 to 59 duke it out for theirs In their own events. 

ElfNeedsFood

Gunmix25 said:

Or the already established players... those that hold the encyclopedia of mythics and rares. With the match up being against level 60 every time. They will win a lovely mythic yet again. D3 faces a difficult task as these guys are loaded to bear regardless the event. Unless they start bracketing events into groups of levels. Meaning level 60 players can duke it out among themselves for the coveted prize. While 1 to 10, 11 to 20, 21 to 30, 31 to 40, 41 to 50, 51 to 59 duke it out for theirs In their own events. 

They already have people with massive Mythic libraries lurking with both lower prize tiers (gold instead of platinum) and lower level planeswalkers. 

There was talk about maybe tying mastery to flat wins and not to using a variety of cards at one point to try to address this. 

Gunmix25

ElfNeedsFood said:

Gunmix25 said:

Or the already established players... those that hold the encyclopedia of mythics and rares. With the match up being against level 60 every time. They will win a lovely mythic yet again. D3 faces a difficult task as these guys are loaded to bear regardless the event. Unless they start bracketing events into groups of levels. Meaning level 60 players can duke it out among themselves for the coveted prize. While 1 to 10, 11 to 20, 21 to 30, 31 to 40, 41 to 50, 51 to 59 duke it out for theirs In their own events. 

They already have people with massive Mythic libraries lurking with both lower prize tiers (gold instead of platinum) and lower level planeswalkers. 

There was talk about maybe tying mastery to flat wins and not to using a variety of cards at one point to try to address this. 

Am I correct in thinking that these lower teired players are actually level 60 behemoths using their new PW acquisitions and keeping them at lower levels with a premium built deck usually seen at higher levels? Forgive my ignorance as I'm still on the green side here

Muche

Gunmix25 said:

ElfNeedsFood said:

Gunmix25 said:

Or the already established players... those that hold the encyclopedia of mythics and rares. With the match up being against level 60 every time. They will win a lovely mythic yet again. D3 faces a difficult task as these guys are loaded to bear regardless the event. Unless they start bracketing events into groups of levels. Meaning level 60 players can duke it out among themselves for the coveted prize. While 1 to 10, 11 to 20, 21 to 30, 31 to 40, 41 to 50, 51 to 59 duke it out for theirs In their own events. 

They already have people with massive Mythic libraries lurking with both lower prize tiers (gold instead of platinum) and lower level planeswalkers. 

There was talk about maybe tying mastery to flat wins and not to using a variety of cards at one point to try to address this. 

Am I correct in thinking that these lower teired players are actually level 60 behemoths using their new PW acquisitions and keeping them at lower levels with a premium built deck usually seen at higher levels? Forgive my ignorance as I'm still on the green side here

It's all kinds of players - new, established, and seasoned players.
New players have no choice, they haven't leveled that PW yet.
Established players (myself included) have other PWs at level 60, but their card library is limited and can't compete with seasoned players (just yesterday I was matched against Dovin that played Startled Awake into Deploy the Gatewatch and Gisela, the Broken Blade two turns in a row; I just quit) so they keep their PWs at lower level to avoid being matched against seasoned players.
Seasoned players exploit the system and do the same, so they are matched against weaker decks of weaker decks.

Regarding mastery tiers, there are currently 47 colorless common cards, 53 colorless uncommon cards, around 55 colored common cards and 68 colored uncommon cards. This means 47+53*2+55*2+68*4 = 535 mastery points, which translates to 535-100-150-250=35 (platinum mastery tier, if I'm not mistaken).
So a player with all common and uncommon cards and no rare/mythic cards can reach platinum mastery tier (which they are encouraged to do by the game, so they can get better rewards), but have no chance against better decks of players who master only the best cards they use (which is the usual advice to new players on forums/etc.).