Are masteries locked in during AW defense placement?

DD2DD2 Member Posts: 309 ★★★
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If someone is running full suicides, and takes them off before placement, places their defense, and then puts suicides back on, will their defensive champs be affected with suicides during war or not?

If mods can confirm this that would be great.

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  • klobberintymeklobberintyme Member Posts: 1,585 ★★★★
    you don't need a mod to answer this, just successful use of the google or search in this forum. The answer is
  • winterthurwinterthur Member Posts: 8,060 ★★★★★
    Maybe can test it through monthly quest. Put on suicides, run two or three nodes. Take out suicides, run Arena and now go back to Quest to check if suicides is still on (it is off in settings).

  • LeNoirFaineantLeNoirFaineant Member Posts: 8,672 ★★★★★
    @DD2 your defenders are locked once you place. If you rank a champ, dupe a champ, or change masteries the change will not be reflected on the defender. I did a LOL run during the free mastery setup week and changed my masteries constantly. My defense was unaffected.
  • CoatHang3rCoatHang3r Member Posts: 4,965 ★★★★★
    LeNoirFaineant wrote: »
    @DD2 your defenders are locked once you place. If you rank a champ, dupe a champ, or change masteries the change will not be reflected on the defender. I did a LOL run during the free mastery setup week and changed my masteries constantly. My defense was unaffected.
    True story and you can verify this by noting the champion's/team's PI after you place, switch back to suicides and after war starts.
  • DD2DD2 Member Posts: 309 ★★★
    Thanks!
  • Star31Star31 Member Posts: 8
    It may be me, but without confirmation we know nothing. Well we know that visually/cosmetically the pi is locked. Who knows what happens in the background. So unless your opponent in war confirms your masteries are off, how can you be sure?

    Don't get me wrong: it seems very logical that they are locked after placement.

    Testing in a quest seems pointless, since as far as I know nothing is locked in quests.
  • DD2DD2 Member Posts: 309 ★★★
    Star31 wrote: »
    It may be me, but without confirmation we know nothing. Well we know that visually/cosmetically the pi is locked. Who knows what happens in the background. So unless your opponent in war confirms your masteries are off, how can you be sure?

    Don't get me wrong: it seems very logical that they are locked after placement.

    Testing in a quest seems pointless, since as far as I know nothing is locked in quests.

    You're right, maybe Pi number is locked, but the actual masteries change. Can a mod confirm this please?
  • MEŦAPħҰSMEŦAPħҰS Member Posts: 340 ★★
    just ask your opponent to let you know when they fight against you. 1 war isnt the end of the world. let your bg know your testing this out so theyvare aware, simple enough!

    its always been my understanding that the defense is locked with masteries used at the time of placement. changing them after has no affect.
  • DD2DD2 Member Posts: 309 ★★★
    MEŦAPħҰS wrote: »
    just ask your opponent to let you know when they fight against you.

    Yes, but official confirmation would be great as well.
  • Jon8299Jon8299 Member Posts: 1,067 ★★★
    edited August 2017
    I guess it won't help in saying that I have read in the old forum of people switching their mastsries for AW defense and/or attack then switch them for the arenas or questing.

    Also I have duled some champs to see what masteries they have only to be surprised they don't match in the AW.

    And finally I think mods have confirmed this in another way by saying the game takes a snap shot of your champs and abilities when you lock them into the AW and AQ so they won't change when you change your champs abilities in some way, for example when duping champs, giving sig stones, or changing masteries.
  • DD2DD2 Member Posts: 309 ★★★
    You guys make perfect sense and I frankly I believe you, but if a mod can put theses fears to rest that would be appreciated.
  • klobberintymeklobberintyme Member Posts: 1,585 ★★★★
    If enough people tell you the answer but want a moderator to give you the same answer then tag a moderator like @Kabam Miike
  • MEŦAPħҰSMEŦAPħҰS Member Posts: 340 ★★
    @DD2 pretty sure you can put your fears to rest by doing what you said and just asking the opponent to confirm.
  • Bear3Bear3 Member Posts: 996 ★★★
    An opponent confirming still isn’t guarenteed... like he said “official word” only comes form officials. They also didn’t tell us synergy’s didn’t work until they told us they didn’t work. So an official word would be appropriate.
  • Notcho59Notcho59 Member Posts: 116 ★
    Brian Grant might not be a moderator but he does go into AW against other alliances that he has close ties with and they have confirmed that masteries are locked at time of placement. He even redos his masteries on stream while placing defense.

    Side note: Synergies are NOT applicable for your defenders at all. Were they ever?
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