**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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Hero Use occurs when you use Champs, either in the Arena or Quests.
All Players are automatically competing by using their Champs.
People at earlier stages of the game can't compete with people that have 6*s when you give more Points for 6*s. Yet they're all in the same Ranking system.
Get it now, or are you still looking at a comparison?
I generally average between two and 2.5 minutes per round. Using the higher value, that's 4500 points every 150 seconds or 30 points per second during arena grinding. 275000 points would then take about 9167 seconds, or a little over two and a half hours.
To put it another way, 275000 points is about 61 rounds of arena (4* or higher). 30 rounds per hour is a very good speed, and that's about two hours at that rate. 25 rounds per hour is a decent rate, and that's about two and a half hours at that rate (I'm generally around here). 20 rounds per hour is anemic, and that's three hours of effort (this is how fast I grind when I'm watching TV while grinding). You're suggesting it takes over four and a half hours for someone to do that, which is less than 14 rounds per hour. I would have to reboot my phone between every round to reach that low of a grind rate.
61 arena rounds might be a lot of grind for some players, especially the more casual effort ones, but I think it is a very reasonable level of effort to reach the top milestone for an all day (22 hour) event.
PHCs are remarkably valuable for this purpose, specifically the fully formed ones. It takes only 32 of them to max out a 7 hour event all by themselves, and players get tons of them during the normal course of gameplay.
Because there is this need to maintain some balance between when players get and don't get advantages over other players if they decided to change the events they'd have to look very carefully at whether awarding more points creates too much of an imbalance in one direction, which means that kind of change isn't trivial: it would take up a lot of time to consider whether it was a good idea to do. Since it would take a lot of time and wouldn't generate as much benefit as other things, being a low priority part of the game at the moment probably puts it deep into the pile of things to review.
Sort of nice that they make it a mixture, so that nobody could say it always is skewed towards one set of players over another. (although it does prompt some questions about it from time to time)
Hero Use would favor those that put in more time (even if only with 4*). While other Events would favor those with more 5* and 6* (even if they aren’t putting in as much time). Sort of balances out.
It isn't a huge benefit, but the point was that if you want to do it, those events can be done without a large cost in time. If you don't need the rewards, then of course it doesn't matter how long it takes because you can just skip them entirely.
Lesser and Greater Solo Crystals?
What DNA suggested above made me think. Maybe it is because hero use events are causing players to log in say xx hours, and player engagement metrics is always crucial. So kabam doesn’t want to make it easier for players to hit those milestones so they chose not to update. Perhaps there are comparatively less player engagement stakes for the other solo use events like level up, class combat, arena wins.
All my speculation. But I just don’t buy the argument of kabam trying to balance things for players without 5*/6* champs. The effort for such players to hit all milestones don’t change regardless. Would kabam be concerned that they are giving players with 5*/6* an “unfair advantage” just because they can finish the milestones quicker? The only unfairness is in the ranked rewards, but I will be surprised if these aren’t already dominated by players with 5*/6* champs simply because they have a bigger roster to begin with.