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Huge Drop Off in T2A and T5B rewards in AW between brackets

ian5555ian5555 Posts: 19 ★
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I haven't seen this discussed much but why the huge drop off in T2A and T5B in AW when compared to other rewards? This is the main rank up item needed for others to compete and it's a huge drop off between Master on down to Gold 1. For example Master gets 3000 6* and 7000 5* compared to 1000 6* and 3000 5* but then get a full T2A and Gold gets 4000 shards?? Come on, ridiculous. At the very least it should be 1/3 of a T2A for Gold 1. 4000 shards is a joke and is equivalent to 9 wars to get 1 T2A.

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    DemitriMDemitriM Posts: 303 ★★
    Shrimkins wrote: »
    Gold 1 is easy to achieve. Master is incredibly difficult and requires much more skill and resources to compete at that level.

    very well said...Unless the alliance is formed by the best of best,w/o constant boost use its not possibe to finish in any platin bracket
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    ShrimkinsShrimkins Posts: 1,479 ★★★★
    DemitriM wrote: »
    Shrimkins wrote: »
    Gold 1 is easy to achieve. Master is incredibly difficult and requires much more skill and resources to compete at that level.

    very well said...Unless the alliance is formed by the best of best,w/o constant boost use its not possibe to finish in any platin bracket

    If anything, platinum rewards need increased. To reach platinum you have to be in tier 3 or higher. The tier 3 map is about 100x harder than the tier 4 map.
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    Mirage_TurtleMirage_Turtle Posts: 1,868 ★★★★
    ian5555 wrote: »
    I haven't seen this discussed much but why the huge drop off in T2A and T5B in AW when compared to other rewards? This is the main rank up item needed for others to compete and it's a huge drop off between Master on down to Gold 1. For example Master gets 3000 6* and 7000 5* compared to 1000 6* and 3000 5* but then get a full T2A and Gold gets 4000 shards?? Come on, ridiculous. At the very least it should be 1/3 of a T2A for Gold 1. 4000 shards is a joke and is equivalent to 9 wars to get 1 T2A.

    Kabam stated that Alliance Wars were going to be the main game mode for obtaining T5 Basic catalysts while Alliance Quest was going to be the main game mode for gaining T2 Alphas. They stated this when they restructured AQ rewards.

    In other words, it's not really prudent to talk about the lack of T2 Alpha fragments in AW as that's not intended to be your main source of obtaining them. On the other hand, if you're pushing hard in AQ, you're receiving T2 Alpha Fragments from daily rewards, from milestone rewards, from map crystals, and from the glory store.
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    ButtehrsButtehrs Posts: 4,780 ★★★★★
    So what do they plan on doing when t5cc, t3a, and t6b come into play later?
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    RogerRabsRogerRabs Posts: 548 ★★★★
    edited January 2019
    They have a drastic drop between brackets to make sure the mode is highly competitive.

    They're trying to encourage big spending at the top. If the rewards structure was more flat people may not feel the need to boost as much because it wouldn't be that big of a deal which bracket you got.
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    RagamugginGunnerRagamugginGunner Posts: 2,210 ★★★★★
    To incentivise people to spend to get into higher tiers.
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    johara84johara84 Posts: 145 ★
    RogerRabs wrote: »
    They have a drastic drop between brackets to make sure the mode is highly competitive.

    They're trying to encourage big spending at the top.

    Not to mention cheating.
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    ian5555ian5555 Posts: 19 ★
    I didn't say anything about the difference between the brackets as for as competition only that the rewards don't scale the way they should. As someone pointed out AW is for T5B well ok then why does master level get what is it over 18,000 T5B shards and Plat 3 get 2,250?? Gold 1 is even worse at 1,125 so they get 18x the T5B?? GTFO here if you think that the level of competition is THAT much greater to reward 18x the amount. About 1/3 like 6000 for gold 1 would be way more reasonable to scale with the other rewards.
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    DNA3000DNA3000 Posts: 18,686 Guardian
    ian5555 wrote: »
    As someone pointed out AW is for T5B well ok then why does master level get what is it over 18,000 T5B shards and Plat 3 get 2,250?? Gold 1 is even worse at 1,125 so they get 18x the T5B?? GTFO here if you think that the level of competition is THAT much greater to reward 18x the amount.

    There are twenty Master bracket alliances at the end of the season. There are 1200 Gold 1 bracket alliances, actually encompassing the top 1500 minus the platinum and master alliances. In other words, out of all alliances that finish Gold 1 or higher, the master bracket alliances represent the top 1.3%, or alternatively the top 1/75th of all of them. It is a radically oversimplified statement to make that they get eighteen times the rewards, but even so they are finishing in the top one seventy-fifth of all alliances Gold 1 or higher. That isn't remotely weird.
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