Losing PVE Waves mid wave

Splurch
Splurch Posts: 23 Just Dropped In
in MPQ Events, Tournaments, and Missions
So through a combination of not bringing full characters into a wave and not knowing the wave was full of champions and not minions I lost a wave after the first round. Cleared it a second time and now the 24 hr cd is only replenishing 15% or so of the points rather then the full 33%.

If I do another wave and clear a single round is the timer going to increase or will it only increase if I push it past the 66%? Is my best plan here to simply let it refresh and accept that I've lost several hundred points for the event?

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  • Splurch
    Splurch Posts: 23 Just Dropped In
    Doesn't seem to be any information on how wave points work either here or on the wiki :(
  • Erndiese
    Erndiese Posts: 40 Just Dropped In
    Has happened to me as well. Anyone with any insight on this issue? Is this a display bug? Or a legit bug? Or...working as intended?
  • astrp3
    astrp3 Posts: 367 Mover and Shaker
    Not sure if this is your issue but if you clear a round of  a wave node, you get those points even if you don't complete the entire node. If you replay the node a second time, you will not get the points for the first round, since you already got them, but will get the points for the other rounds. For instance, if a wave node has three rounds and you complete round one then lose/quit, you get the points for round one. If you wait until the node fully refreshes, play it again, and complete it, you will only get points for rounds two and three.


  • Splurch
    Splurch Posts: 23 Just Dropped In
    astrp3 said:
    Not sure if this is your issue but if you clear a round of  a wave node, you get those points even if you don't complete the entire node. If you replay the node a second time, you will not get the points for the first round, since you already got them, but will get the points for the other rounds. For instance, if a wave node has three rounds and you complete round one then lose/quit, you get the points for round one. If you wait until the node fully refreshes, play it again, and complete it, you will only get points for rounds two and three.


    Good to know, but does doing a clear will you only get points for the uncompleted rounds increase the timer on the points refresh?
  • Starfury
    Starfury Posts: 719 Critical Contributor
    That's been an issue for as long as I remember. Any partial clear of a wave node will count as a full attempt and increase the timer.
  • jamesh
    jamesh Posts: 1,600 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited May 2017
    I assumed they were treating the waves as individual sets of points, with the timer just telling you when all waves will be back to full points.

    So if you completed a 2-wave node three times, and then completed only the first wave another time, the first wave would have 48 hours on the clock, and the second have 24 hours to recharge.  The timer would then show the maximum of these two.

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