Black Duke said:<snip>The developers have done a huge favor to all players with big rosters so that they not only dominate PVP but also PVE. It seems to me that 4*-players like us who'll cut off from much needed ISO, CP and covers don't matter.
ADChaos said: I'm not quite sure why people think they're so screwed for 4* development now. T10 finishes aren't actually necessary for it, in my experience.
Alsmir said:Without locking people to CLs and/or introducing CL9, 10 it's a bad change.
Considering the change to SCL7 was pretty minimal, I'm hoping that things won't be changing too much. Hopefully with scaling being dialed back to a reasonable amount for the 5* players, most will move up to 8, and we'll still have a shot at top 10. All I know is, last time this testing was in effect, whales were getting their 4 clears within 20 minutes, and I was still working on clearing the 3 essential nodes...It's going to be a mad dash to get those 4 clears even more than it used to be. 5* Thanos will be more important than ever if you even want a shot. With that said, I really am happy for the 5* guys and gals. The game should reward you for your time and money spent, not punish you with brutal scaling. When SCL 10 opens up and 5* covers start to be rewarded for placement (it's bound to happen, right?), I'm sure we'll all get to ride the gravy train together into the sunset.
Well, time to champ Black Panther and Dr. Strange.
shardwick said: Yeah, if I pretty much kill myself and play as optimally as possible I can maybe squeeze into the top 10 to get those sweet sweet 4s if I don't run out of time. Usually though I'm gonna finish probably at 13th or 14th. And that's still playing pretty optimally.
broll said: ADChaos said: I'm not quite sure why people think they're so screwed for 4* development now. T10 finishes aren't actually necessary for it, in my experience. Big second on this. I've only been playing for about 1.5 years and I've champed almost 50% of the 4* and have 4 waiting on ISO. I never hit T10 in PvE or PvP due to silly dev imposed play times that don't work for me.Alsmir said:Without locking people to CLs and/or introducing CL9, 10 it's a bad change.If they locked CLs this would be a horrible change. Thanks devs for not listening to silliness like this!
DarthDeVo said: broll said: ADChaos said: I'm not quite sure why people think they're so screwed for 4* development now. T10 finishes aren't actually necessary for it, in my experience. Big second on this. I've only been playing for about 1.5 years and I've champed almost 50% of the 4* and have 4 waiting on ISO. I never hit T10 in PvE or PvP due to silly dev imposed play times that don't work for me.Alsmir said:Without locking people to CLs and/or introducing CL9, 10 it's a bad change.If they locked CLs this would be a horrible change. Thanks devs for not listening to silliness like this! I'm curious, and I hope you don't mind me asking. From what I can figure, you're about 90 days ahead of me, which isn't much of a head start in this game, yet you've got about half the 4*s champed with another 4 waiting, and apparently none of that progress has come from placement. Meanwhile, I've got about a quarter of the 4*s champed with two waiting, and I've been doing decent when it comes to placement for probably the past six months or so. If I'm not mistaken, I think I've seen you mention you hoard CP and LTs, but I could be confusing you with someone else. I guess I'm trying to figure out where the majority of your progress comes from if it's not placement and you're (maybe) not pulling LTs and CP. I hoard off and on myself, and am in the middle of that process right now, so the main source of 4* progress for me right now is placement, since I'm not pulling LTs and CP. But I must be doing something wrong, because I doubt that I'll have twice as many champs as I do now in three months, even with placement. I had been averaging about two or three a month with placement, but that will likely be severely curtailed.And please don't take this in an accusatory manner. I'm genuinely curious if there's something I could be doing differently. You seem too have a better roster than I do, all from little to no placement. I would like to know how I can manage that, because that will likely be reality for me for the foreseeable future, and I would lunge to maintain the sense of progress I've felt up to this point.