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Re: Explainer: Why it's harder over time to get into GC despite having done so previously
1 solution is to have big accounts who previously are in GC for consecutive seasons to start higher up in VT like Vibranium 5,4,3,2 for example
This will stop the traffic jam that we see every season at Diamond 5 when every GC players are lumped together in Diamond 5 at season start
Kabam has not adopted this feedback for many months since it was suggested by many players including me many months ago
Re: Explainer: Why it's harder over time to get into GC despite having done so previously
The flipside to the OPs suggestion is that a lot of lower prestige valiants have progressed significantly since banquet and because of banquet and the other changes.
There’s now a much bigger player base that can put together a full rank 4 deck and because 30 is the BG deck limit, higher prestige valiants/elders aren’t seeing the advantages they saw a few months ago.
I’ll put my hand up as being a classic example of this. I’ve gone from 10 rank 3 plus assorted others in October 25 to 3 rank 5, 29 rank 4 plus a big pile of rank 3 sitting under that. All in the space of about 7 months. I’ve spent some money but not whale standards money and I don’t think my progression is unusual.
Explainer: Why it's harder over time to get into GC despite having done so previously
When the bottom players don't get the rewards, they may stop playing which means the second bottom players find it harder to get into GC and get the rewards bcos they are now the bottom players
There is a recorded power creep over time that I see bcos I constantly get into GC with different Prestige 30 since Prestige 30 was launched last year
It wasn't possible to record such power creep based on the previous Prestige 5 as Prestige 5 doesn't record the true strength of a player's battlegrounds deck
Power creep is the most obvious after Banquet when Banquet participants Prestige jump by a huge amount in December, early January
So when Prestige 30 was launched last year, I got into GC without problems with 22k Prestige 30
In the latest season I got into GC with 32k Prestige 30 but players right now with 22k Prestige will find it very hard to get into GC
So this is what I call Power Creep, basically the same exact mode every season but you need to improve on your deck relative to your opponents or you will fall behind and find it hard to get into GC
You can get a general idea of what minimum Prestige is necessary by looking at those players who are in GC leaderboard, the lowest tier players have an average prestige of 34k +/- bcos most players with high Prestige stop playing after a few matches in GC and start camping in Gamma tier, so the Prestige is much higher due to less participation
It is still possible to get into GC with 32k Prestige or 30k Prestige depending on your Skill and your champions
Prestige is a numerical rouge gauge of a battlegrounds deck, what champions you rank up is also important, if you don't have sufficient defenders, you will also lose in battlegrounds
As rank 5 and Ascension 2 become more common, power creep will again start to show over time as players have higher and higher Prestige
JESUSCHRIST
Re: Explainer: Why it's harder over time to get into GC despite having done so previously
True and very sad.
Re: Am I the only one who has all his T2 Primordial Dust placed back in my store and expiring?
Although, what Kabam could have maybe done is temporarily increased the limit in Inventory, and even if then lowered it back down it would have allowed you to keep them (past the Max) in Inventory.
Just like having expanded limit of Cats while on Sigil, and then after ending Sigil any that were in excess of normal limit would still remain in Inventory (they don't get moved to Stash just because the Limit changes, as in those Cat cases).
But that would have let people keep them in Inventory until however long of time until they had new champs available to use them to go Asc.2 or 3.
Having the “Trade BACK to Dust” could have been at least another month longer. Odd that both the Trade and the Trade-Back would have both ended together (but really, the initial Trade portion was done by people 3-4 weeks ago as the original deadline was coming, so just the Trade-Back time was relevant right now)
SummonerNR
Re: Ebony Maw Coliseum
I've been putting off learning Lizard's rotation, so this looks like a great opportunity. What do you recommend for the rotation against Maw?
WhoDaPoo
Re: Catalyst fragment selection
You guys remember some years ago there was a guy Kabam Zero or Kabam Hero.
The QoL updates that person brought was so good.
Miss him.
Amanda_Cruze
Re: Ebony Maw Coliseum
Main thing I try to do is take advantage of unblockable + unstoppable you get from being buff immune or when Maw nullifies a buff. When Maw finishes Sp1 I use the unstoppable + unblockable to hit once then heavy to keep his focus off. Feels like that is a big part of the fight—heavy kills the focus and punishing the special places a tracking on Maw.
Parry + heavy whenever you get a clean stun on Maw and use striker to keep Maw unfocused. If timing falls off and you get faltered, just let the falter heal you. I tend to drop the Sp2 a lot, but honestly the natural openings Lizard creates to heavy plus the tracking does a lot to keep the fight rolling.
It’s been a reliable 12-13 bars each time for me.
Dr. Zola
DrZola
