NorthernPolarity wrote: Phantron wrote: The current (heroic DA) isn't really that time zone sensitive because it's so grindy that it's a lot more important whether you get your 15 cycles' worth of nodes in as opposed to doing them in the most optimal pattern. Yes missing the end of sub still sucks (I miss them both too) but if I was actually grinding like past events it wouldn't have mattered much because everyone gets very little from rubberband, even on the last cycle. Now I chose to not grind much for heroic DA and my place reflect that (started out #100 after first sub, went up to about 20 yesterday but probably fell back below 100 again since I had a block of 16 or so hours without playing). I'm at 80k points having grinded relatively sub-optimally for both subs, so to have a 20k lead over RIO who grinded optimally but missed the end of the sub because of EU times probably means that grinding the "end of the sub" matters a lot more than you think. I think for EU players, the end of the sub is like the last 8 hours of it since they need to sleep, so they're missing out on 2-3 clears at the end which probably accounts for that extra 10k I got per sub.
Phantron wrote: The current (heroic DA) isn't really that time zone sensitive because it's so grindy that it's a lot more important whether you get your 15 cycles' worth of nodes in as opposed to doing them in the most optimal pattern. Yes missing the end of sub still sucks (I miss them both too) but if I was actually grinding like past events it wouldn't have mattered much because everyone gets very little from rubberband, even on the last cycle. Now I chose to not grind much for heroic DA and my place reflect that (started out #100 after first sub, went up to about 20 yesterday but probably fell back below 100 again since I had a block of 16 or so hours without playing).