RageFace wrote: They did a very good job of making this ultra competitive. 1100 is the new top ten. A month ago, the game was different. I can't imaging how brand new players are viewing these tourneys. It seems unlikely I will play long enough to be able to compete if it is this intense. I played for hours a couple times today to gain 100 more points and just never got it. Congrats to the devs for making people care so much. But the season has made getting covers crazy hard, and if seasons are the new norm I'm out. Top tier players being penalized for sitting out on covers they already have, so the people who actually want them are placed lower is pretty frustrating.
Xeonic-Ice wrote: That new scoreboard feature is pretty awesome...oh wait.
Arogntbastrd wrote: RageFace wrote: They did a very good job of making this ultra competitive. 1100 is the new top ten. A month ago, the game was different. I can't imaging how brand new players are viewing these tourneys. It seems unlikely I will play long enough to be able to compete if it is this intense. I played for hours a couple times today to gain 100 more points and just never got it. Congrats to the devs for making people care so much. But the season has made getting covers crazy hard, and if seasons are the new norm I'm out. Top tier players being penalized for sitting out on covers they already have, so the people who actually want them are placed lower is pretty frustrating. New people right now are saying "yeah! I won my bracket with 670! I'm awesome!"
colebavery21 wrote: I ended up winning my first ever PvP and it was sure a tough one. Kinda proud right now. Not gonna lie
hurcules wrote: This tourny was mofo tough. I thought I wanted to start early to aim for that 1100 prize, so joined on the first day morning. On the get go, already faced with 141s (LT, Patch, CMag, Spidey, Hulk, you name it). This could be due to finishing #1 in the prior event (got lucky with bracket, 1024 pts), or that I didn't do my usual tanking rituals (didn't tank much during the LR, and didn't do the SHIELD Sim retreat right after tournament, and join bracket on the last day). I wanted to not use shield until the final hours, so I used 0/1/1 Lazy Daken + 141 Patch + 141 Punisher from the get go. Man it was a slow climb without a support character. So picked juiciest opponents (30+ pts), and each game was long-ish if the board doesn't come out in your favour. Think I defeated WYP a couple of times (L77LD, Hood and LT) too. Managed to climb to 500+ pts at the end of first day, knocked down to 400+ overnight, then made gradual climb throughout the day. At T-6h, started playing to make the climb. Managed to get into 900+ at around T-3h, managed to top 1000 once but got knocked back again to low 900s. frustrated, I shielded at 970-ish at #9 and wanted to call it a night as I depleted healthpacks. Then I just randomly cycled through opponents since we have +30 iso bonus, turns out there were quite a few LD/Patch/OBW or LD/Patch/OBW teams worth high 30s or low 40s points. Decided to go for it once the dust settles (i.e. all the matches people have me queued up are finished). Then broke shield and went for the highest score / easiest to win first with max stockpile boosts. Man, Patch + OBW can finish a game in 30 seconds with stockpile boosts. Then re-shielded after max 2 matches. Did this a few more times and finally reached 1101 and shielded for the night at #6. Used 4 x 3h shields all in all and lots of boosts (had to buy a number of 200iso stockpile boosts to replenish). Still works out cheaper than 1250 Hero Points for a cover.
alexyeo2 wrote: I agree with that. I just bought the Diablo 3 expansion, and it's nice to know that for 40 bucks, I'm getting the entire game and do not have to "pay more" just to play the end game. Versus this game, which is now feeling like a never-ending HP sucking machine. I'll probably pull back the throttle for pvp in season 2 and stick to pve as it's burning me out.
DD-The-Mighty wrote: hurcules wrote: This tourny was mofo tough. I thought I wanted to start early to aim for that 1100 prize, so joined on the first day morning. On the get go, already faced with 141s (LT, Patch, CMag, Spidey, Hulk, you name it). This could be due to finishing #1 in the prior event (got lucky with bracket, 1024 pts), or that I didn't do my usual tanking rituals (didn't tank much during the LR, and didn't do the SHIELD Sim retreat right after tournament, and join bracket on the last day). I wanted to not use shield until the final hours, so I used 0/1/1 Lazy Daken + 141 Patch + 141 Punisher from the get go. Man it was a slow climb without a support character. So picked juiciest opponents (30+ pts), and each game was long-ish if the board doesn't come out in your favour. Think I defeated WYP a couple of times (L77LD, Hood and LT) too. Managed to climb to 500+ pts at the end of first day, knocked down to 400+ overnight, then made gradual climb throughout the day. At T-6h, started playing to make the climb. Managed to get into 900+ at around T-3h, managed to top 1000 once but got knocked back again to low 900s. frustrated, I shielded at 970-ish at #9 and wanted to call it a night as I depleted healthpacks. Then I just randomly cycled through opponents since we have +30 iso bonus, turns out there were quite a few LD/Patch/OBW or LD/Patch/OBW teams worth high 30s or low 40s points. Decided to go for it once the dust settles (i.e. all the matches people have me queued up are finished). Then broke shield and went for the highest score / easiest to win first with max stockpile boosts. Man, Patch + OBW can finish a game in 30 seconds with stockpile boosts. Then re-shielded after max 2 matches. Did this a few more times and finally reached 1101 and shielded for the night at #6. Used 4 x 3h shields all in all and lots of boosts (had to buy a number of 200iso stockpile boosts to replenish). Still works out cheaper than 1250 Hero Points for a cover. I'm going to assume you have your top ten placement + top 25 alliance free HP to make up the difference. Though even at 4x75hp your still spending 100hp to play their game per pvp event. But do you really want to have to do this for the rest of the duration of your playtime with this game? Shelling out 3 bucks a pvp for a mere shot, when --at best-- they only reimburse you 2 if you get lucky. As i said; not my cup of tea. I prefer enticement, over manufactured compulsion and indirect extortion.
Der_Lex wrote: This is the first time that scoring over 1100 points has not even gotten me in the top 10. Shame too, because I kinda needed that last Thor red to max him.