Reunions was a bad event,

whitecat31

I feel that Reunions was a terrible event, because it excluded way too many characters, and than boosted all the other characters people were allowed to play.  
In five star land, you could have named it  "if you have scarlet witch and Colossus, you dominate" event.
I understanding boosting characters, but boosting and exclusion amplifies inequality.
Please don't do boosting and exclusion events during any type of season. 
I heard that four star land  was all about Polaris and Medusa and was painful for people as well. 

Timemachinego

4* was a real slog, your only real option was a pick-3 of Juggernaut, Sabertooth or Carnage for the third slot, totally ruining the usual rock/paper/scissor that makes that tier fun. I tried running some "clever" teams (had a neat idea for Shuri-Odin-BP, but jump in front scaling ruined that) but it was more efficient to just play the mirror match, boost blue and lose a health pack or two every other fight or so. I would not miss this event if it never appeared again.

ammenell

where's the problem, boosted switch and colossus mirrors are fun.

excluding shang chi is... well, I usually play to at least the CP progression or 40 wins, sometimes 70.
I think this pvp I played no more than 5 matches.

Aweberman

I had fun with Carnage/Medusa/Mr. Fantastic and was able to climb to 1000 points (though not the 1200 I would have preferred). 

That said, if Wanda and Colossus could have not been boosted, that would have been great.

I do have some hope for 5* Gamora being useful against them, and she was available (I think).

Cataliban

"it never rains to everyone's liking"

I enjoyed it just because Kitty, BRB, Apoc and the other everytime easypicks as usuals if boosted were excluded.

(And I only have 1 5* champed...)

Maybe the Reunions PVP should have a family decission node: You choose what family to play with ALL the event, then is the player who decides wich characters are boosted for (or elegibles for) him/her and wich ones not. Something like PVE 12 Days of Marvel but with a bit strategy and a certain degree of decission.

HoundofShadow

I don't think Wanda/Colossus is that big of a threat because mine got beaten down multiple times by the likes of Carbage or Polaris teams. 

I'm curious why certain pvps can't be runned during seasons and I find this a weird request.

fractalvisions

Weren't the 5* only boosted by about 10 levels? Whereas the 3* and 4* characters get a much bigger boost, making them competitive. This makes it much more manageable than the typical god boosts.

Personally I found Wanda, Nightcrawler and Quicksilver to be a fun team, particularly against all the Juggernauts. I actually didn't see that many Colossi, but then I was a bit too busy to get very high anyway.

Phumade

It’s true Wanda colossus Polaris Medusa were the overwhelming bulk 90%> of teams.  But those 4 are also very straight forward to beat with your own mirror matched combo.  I do think the complaint is more based in the fact that you couldn’t make your own meta combo that didn’t involve those 4 chars.  I personally used my Wanda colossus with a variety of 3rds and thought the event easy.  But I would admit, the event would have been a lot harder if I didn’t use that pair.  One combo that was useable was Odin Shuri.  Maybe others could have been found.

entrailbucket

HoundofShadow said:

I don't think Wanda/Colossus is that big of a threat because mine got beaten down multiple times by the likes of Carbage or Polaris teams. 

I'm curious why certain pvps can't be runned during seasons and I find this a weird request.

I think some of the top PvP alliances suspend their minimum scores during the offseason.

Hellblazer666

This and festival of fights are my least favorite Xmas PVP's.   I did Polaris 4 Star Panther and Juggs for a good chunk of Reunions  managed to survive ok.

HoundofShadow

I heard about that before but that's the reason? Wouldn't such events strengthen alliances ranking instead?

Sekilicious

HoundofShadow said:

I heard about that before but that's the reason? Wouldn't such events strengthen alliances ranking instead?

Ok here is my interpretation. Let me know where I got it wrong. 

There are no Infinity Stones for the off-season. The most competitive tiers of PvP is less about individual competition and more about gaming the system to get a rotating selection of a few players the distinction of having the rarest trophies in the game. To do that you need to be in a good team of active players dedicated to that goal. That involves pushing to a certain point total and shielding, so that more points can be added to the slice through retaliation nodes, so that members of your team can find higher point offers to push to higher point totals. Rinse, repeat. Eventually they will have to coordinate on Line to leapfrog off each other. 

Part of gaming the system is building your roster around enormous meta characters and little else. Changing the rules to remove some characters from play completely in season means that you as a player may not be able to push to the minimum to allow the members of your team to push off your account. That is fine when the trophies are not at stake.

entrailbucket

It's not that complicated.  If you're in a "Top X" alliance, that means your alliance finishes in the top X for the season (top 5, 10, 25, etc). 

Generally these alliances will have minimum scores for each member, for each event during the season, so they can maintain their alliance ranking.  I don't know what the number is for top 10 now, but it's probably something crazy like 5000 or 8000 per person or whatever.

The offseason events generally have minimums suspended because they don't have a season ranking, so the players use them to take a break.

DyingLegend

Hated every second of that pvp event. I hit 650 then stopped. Too much of a slog, all I kept seeing is Colossus and Wanda.

Ya know, the team combo I see in pretty much every single pvp mode.

HoundofShadow

If the members of top alliances who can't do well in such events can't make the minimum scores, wouldn't it be an advantage to those top alliances who can do well? Unless you are telling me that all the top alliances can't do well in such events?

Phumade

HoundofShadow said:

If the members of top alliances who can't do well in such events can't make the minimum scores, wouldn't it be an advantage to those top alliances who can do well? Unless you are telling me that all the top alliances can't do well in such events?

lol What you guys even arguing about?  The people in top 10 alliances have such OP rosters that they can easily make 1200 on even their first shield.  They are also part of large multi-alliance families that can easily shuffle membership around to maintain a top 10 alliance.   At that tier, when people miss alliance minimums its because of real life issues or simple burnout.  Alliance commanders have long understood this issue and have long since moved beyond hard minimums, just like the check rooms have long understood that every alliance has non checking members and alliance wide truces.

But lets be honest, the devs haven't come out with any new trophies worth fighting for in well over 2+ YEARS.  Stones have been around for what 2 or 3 years now, and overall scores are down as a result.  It sorta reminds me of events before the dawn of seasons, when the top prize was either 4* Sue Storm or X-force Wolverine.  The top players with the resources to fight for Stones have long since completed their gauntlet quests and there really isn't a compelling reason to compete for event placements when farming alone can generate enough cp to maintain 5* rosters.

Its also well worth saying that you don't get to that tier of play without devoting years of consistent effort and line communication.  Its usually well understood and know in advance if someone is taking a break and other members will be promoted to replace them.  

In any case, this is part of "Holliday" season and people are playing for 5* penny parker.  Granted thats not as Prestigous as a stone, but its also probably a rarer trophy to be honest.

HoundofShadow

The top prizes are controlled by the 0.1%. 
 I'll would like to see a 2*only pvp to see how it affects the 0.1%.

MegaBee

HoundofShadow said:

The top prizes are controlled by the 0.1%. 
 I'll would like to see a 2*only pvp to see how it affects the 0.1%.

Ares, Daken, and Black Widow are interested in this...

entrailbucket

I guess you can tell how long it's been since I had any idea what the competitive players were doing!

It sounds like what they do has become *even less fun* over those years, which I didn't even think was possible.  How can they keep it up?

Phumade

entrailbucket said:

I guess you can tell how long it's been since I had any idea what the competitive players were doing!

It sounds like what they do has become *even less fun* over those years, which I didn't even think was possible.  How can they keep it up?

It really is just like working from home during the pandemic.  You have a weekly status check over zoom (i mean Line) meeting (i.e. check alliance chat for move requests, let people know if you need to take event off, etc...)  but 90% of the time, your just following your own personal routine.

The real problem is when something spontaneous happens in life, then you gotta reach out to the coworkers/alliance members, arrange coverage, blah, blah, blah.  People know not to call me during s3 PVE.  Thats been blocked out on my google calendar for years.

entrailbucket

The logistics I can understand, that's just like a second job and it's pretty much always been that way.

I meant, how can they find the motivation to keep doing that much work for such an insignificant (to them) reward?