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Hey all. I understand the risk aversion from the group of players currently playing high tier war. I would just ask you all to give it a chance. Right now we only have it planned for one season, we don't have it penciled in for any future seasons at this time. Let's give it a try and see how it goes.

You say nobody is asking for changes to AW, but actually lots of players are asking for changes to AW. The people playing in T1 are the survivors of the current system, which is a very small part of the player base. As someone else in this thread mentioned, this might be better for lower tier alliances. If that's the case, we might end up in a future where top tiers play the existing format and lower tiers play this one. This is just an example, but nothing is set in stone yet.

So again, give it a chance and if it doesn't work, we won't bring it back. Part of trying to make the game more exciting means we have to be able to experiment now and then.

I did "give it a try" and it sucked. I took a 9 million health defender in 1 minute because the interactions between defender, node, attacker, were giving me super easy access to crazy damage boost. Just from a first glance I can see a few interactions where the attacker can't gain access to damage boost, making the fight a roadblock. I don't understand how this could not be foreseen. I also don't understand how this would encourage less experienced and less knowledgeable players to be more engaged in this mode. I can see players getting roadblocked because they failed to see an interaction or didn't understand the phrasing of the node. With "normal" health pools like usual aw map where a path fight has maybe 250-350k health in most cases you can somehow get the defender down even if you don't have a good counter, even if you have to spam revives. You can at least clear. With 9-12 million health pool range, I can see some cases where defender just won't go down. At the same time, when you do have the right counter for that placement, the fight is so trivial it's almost as fast as an arena fight. My average fight time on my aq lane is 1 min-1,5 mins. And I have to take maybe 15-18 fights dunno exactly. How does that make sense? I think you guys should take this idea of yours and apply this to aq. Place a defender of your choice on a node of your choice and then give us a pool of attackers to pick from. And we take that one fight down and that's aq done. Can definitely make it a longer fight than 1 minute fight. That's awesome improvement for aq. And while you're working on this, give us back real aw please and thank you!!!