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Also, if you haven't done act 9 yet the you're way behind on progression to compete in battlegrounds. Concentrate on that for a bit

So unless I've fully completed act 9 I shouldn't be able to use battlegrounds?
The mode Kabam chose to be important enough that it's literally the main focus of how to progress in this Summoner fest event.
I wonder what percentage of players have fully completed act 9 and are worthy of playing in this game mode. Our perhaps we're just fish food for the whales to beat us and waste our time in unfair match ups so Kabam can make money?

P.S. I didn't really R2 War Machine. It was a joke as I was trying to emphasize that no game mode, especially not such an important one for your roster, should be dependant on who you pull in crystals. If it's a competitive game mode let it be competitive based on skill as everyone here keeps saying and not based on "I have 3 rows of R4 monsters, so you'll never win these match ups unless you go spend $10,000 and get a few rows of R4 champs yourself"

No, you can play battlegrounds, but you'll hit a wall due to roster size and strength at some point. That might be at vibranium, it might be at uru, it might be at gamma etc. That's how it works mate, you improve and come back again next season stronger.

Fair matchmaking complaints always boil down to wanting an easy ride to the rewards but that's not how the game mode works, everyone is in the same pot and you have to fight anyone in your tier at any time.

Kabam said they will release a little league version where accounts like yours and others can compete against each other. So you'll get your 'fairer' match ups there and it might be more fun for you, but don't come on here complaining when the rewards aren't very good.

Is the team radio silent right now? There have been some very good and relevant suggestions and discussions in forums recently and no communication. There’s also still unaddressed bugs. Here’s an overview from last 2 weeks to this week:

Taken Care Of:
- Valiant EQ swaps not working
- Raids bugged from start
- Showcase has random degen damage
- The class showcases say “requirements met” and then won’t let you enter - not sure if this is a PI issue or intended (figured this one out later with the “coda” tag not popping up)
- Incursions were bugged
- Rintrah bugged in raids
- Thing bugged in raids getting vigilance instead of grit (still uncompensated)
- New game mode was bugged for hours when it dropped
- Game went down unexpectedly
- Health resetting by 1-2% on first defender in raids (actually don’t think this one is taken care of)
- Forums were absolutely busted for days

Unaddressed:
- If you didn’t wait to claim the twitch drops until after the event started, you didn’t get the points
- Still no cumulative comp the team was “discussing”
- No news on Titania (wasted r3/r4s with the AI). Still whiffing hits on SP1 as well.
- AI is probably the worst it’s ever been (at least I can intercept now) by holding specials until debuffs fall off, etc. It’s almost as if they react to what’s in their kit/counters and it’s learning. But it should never be to the point of unregistered hits landing and then after the second one AI throws a special to the face…
- Lack of mysterium for first two weeks of crossover
- QOL request pertaining battle groups (they seem to be just suggestions at the moment)

Not asking for all the answers, but some insight/acknowledgement from the team would be nice. Even just a blanket statement saying “we hear you as a player base”.

Also, if you haven't done act 9 yet the you're way behind on progression to compete in battlegrounds. Concentrate on that for a bit

So unless I've fully completed act 9 I shouldn't be able to use battlegrounds?

One reason why doing story content is really good preparation for stuff like Battlegrounds is that it forces you to fight a lot of the new tough defenders. You can choose not to do story stuff, but then you have to compete in BG with people who have done it and who have, in doing so, learnt how to fight a lot of the toughest defenders in the game. If you think "there is no way I can beat champion X" and then you see people going "you just need to know how to fight champion X", chances are that those people have done either more story content or just endgame stuff in general.

The reason a lot of people know how to fight Onslaught is because he was one of the Summer of Suffering (or whichever season it was) bosses last year. Same with Photon. Enchantress was a boss in the recent Wheel of Fate quest where you had to fight her three times with different champions - same with Bullseye. When you're forced to fight these hard defenders over and over again, you start to learn how to counter them even with less-than-ideal attackers. However, if you refrain from doing story and endgame content, you will put yourself at a disadvantage compared to other players who choose to do those things. Simply because they'll pick up things from those fights that you miss out on.