bonfire01 wrote: As far as the last pair of subs in the current PvE go I think it's more a case of them pretty much removing the rubber banding and making it a grind fest. When I first checked after the unlock nodes opened they were worth, IIRC, 191. By the time I started doing nodes for my last run through they had increased to 200 points. I then started clearing from the bottom scoring nodes and by the time I got round to the last of the new nodes it was worth 150. I hadn't reached first in my sub let alone neared a fictional, higher rated pacing player. I know people who were a fair way behind me in score and their nodes barely broke 200. I think, at least for those subs, they decided to replace having to be there at the end with having to be there every refresh and grind like hell. Not sure I see it as an improvement.
daveomite wrote: What I had noticed in Wakanda, at least towards the final 12 hours... was the change to how points are dealt with. In previous events, like the Hunt, etc. If you were to have 3 nodes, all three at 800, then play one of those nodes, the other two would reduce...say, both would then be 768. But, at least from what I was seeing, was that I had a node at 195, another at 195, and another at 209, for instance. I played the 209 one, then noticed the other two remained at 195 each. To test it, I then ground that 209 node all the way to 1. All of the other nodes were still at the same point value as before.
MikeyMan wrote: I thought D3 was gonna throw us a cookie to get Lazy Daken, but the last 4 sub-event proved otherwise. D3 just doesn't give **** about goodwill anymore.
pasa_ wrote: MikeyMan wrote: I thought D3 was gonna throw us a cookie to get Lazy Daken, but the last 4 sub-event proved otherwise. D3 just doesn't give **** about goodwill anymore. I saw people over 40k already, so daken can be taken alright. It's your call whether the grinding worth the cover or not.
Phantron wrote: In the no rubberband brackets persistence pays off a lot more than anything else. After all if you got 1 more refresh than other people while the points are flat, there's almost no way they'll catch up to you unless there's some unbelievable disparity in scaling. Usually the guys with the huge score in these sub events are the guys who started late to the event, so they have very little scaling to begin with and can just grind their way. In general, people have to remember it is possible for someone who joined the event 5 days later to be the leader of your sub bracket, and in fact that's a very easy way to win a sub bracket if you join an event 5 days late because your scaling is going to be way lower than anyone else's (but not exactly a good way to get any progression prizes and risky on main bracket placements).