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There's nothing wrong with the math, the problem is most people don't have a good understanding of potency.

If you have 100% resistance to incinerate and something attacks you with an incinerate attack that does 1000 damage, that should ordinarily reduce that damage to zero. If the attacker has +100% fury buffs and increases that damage from 1000 to 2000, your resistance will still reduce that to zero. Resistance works the way most people would expect in that situation. "Increasing the damage" doesn't matter to resistance.

Potency is different. Good mental models that are simple are hard to find but algorithmically speaking, potency turns the same knob that resistance does. Resistance is a volume knob in the game engine that you can turn to reduce the volume of an effect. Potency turns the knob in the opposite direction, increasing the volume of that effect. It is a different knob than the knob fury effects turn. You can turn the fury knob as high as you want: if you turn the resistance knob to zero, there's no sound. But if someone turns the resistance knob to zero and someone else comes along and turns that same knob 340% in the other direction, the volume will get very loud.

Fury and resistance are, in effect turning two different knobs on two different amplifiers. No matter how high you turn the fury knob, if the resistance knob is set to zero, there will be no sound. That's how I think most people assume fury and resistance work - as two independent effects - and they are right. But they assume potency is just another kind of fury, and that's wrong. Potency and resistance fight over the same knob, one of them being the attacker and the other being the target. Potency and resistance are not independent effects. They do not take place one and then the other. They turn the same knob, and where ever that knob ends up, that's what you get.

The math is not wrong or weird. The problem is the assumption that if the resistance knob is turned all the way down to zero, that's it. You can't change anything else to make that zero no longer zero. But this presumes nothing else can come along and turn that same knob in the other direction.

They are talking about when you look at your profile and see your top champs and when someone else looks at it they see something different.

The answer is that some stuff is not calculated when others look at your profile. I don't remember what exactly it is. I'm thinking masteries and probably now collectives. But that is why there are different outcomes when viewing your profile.

This is the first I’ve seen that red banner as well. It certainly helps.

It's almost as if the system bugged out and thinks your alliance has around 4000 war rating. Or your alliance has been chosen by the system to be an extra, so every 4000 war rating ally can have a match, instead of choosing a new alliance each time.

The worst part is that Kabam themselves have signaled how pointless it is to ascend six stars, because ascension doesn’t count for six star collectives captains. I wouldn’t mind ascending silver centurion or some other six star ass clown if they at least gave collectives points.

That would have been another easy change they could’ve made. But of course they didn’t.

So is ghost rider being considered as an old champ for this Titan ? Because I am sure kabam said there will be 5 new champs and 1 old champ atleast that's the pattern they are going from a year last time it was 4 new champs and 2 old champs

So they changed the pattern for the Titan crystal again without telling the community?