**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.
Matchmaking Discussion [Merged Threads]
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Alliances shouldn’t receive uncalibrated rewards they aren’t deserving of due to a broken matchmaking system. A competitive mode needs to be reflective of roster and skill. What other options are there to fix the issue than adjusting and letting the dust settle.
If your war rating is currently 1017 and you lose the next 4 wars and say drop 200 in your war rating you'll probably be facing other alliances that should be around 800 war rating at that time while other who were winning easy will have gone up and now be either facing other alliances at their level or reaching closer to that level.
Everything balances out even for the alliances that are currently getting easy wins.
If you are unfortunately on the losing side of this balancing of AW matchmaking that WILL be for the best in the long run, and are just throwing a tantrum because it's not currently working in your favour then that is just being extremely selfish.
I can gaurantee if the roles were reversed for your alliance and you were matched up with an easy win you'd be going off non stop that kabam is doing the right thing and that this is for the best in the long run and that matching alliances purely on war rating is how it should be.
Grow up for once.
I do think that at a minimum, someone who plays a full AW season should get 10k 5* shards (or something roughly equivalent).
We got paired with an alliance with four players above 200k rating. We’re low tier/no items, but those guys placed a map full of 4-stars, many of whom weren’t rank 5. What possible use would they have for T5b, much less t5cc?
Everyone is talking about featherweights who’ll get slaughtered for two weeks, but no one is acknowledging that all the 25m plus alliances have been cannibalizing each other for months (years?), forced to spend items to compete against each other while relative newbies coast against lighter competition, or to abandon the chase altogether.
The second thing I would do is devise a way to reintroduce War Rating in a way that it doesn't affect the most competitive time for everyone in War. That could be anything from making general adjustments to Rating that counter the inflation (not just everyone equally because as we see, that doesn't prevent this), allowing the system to balance itself in a prolonged Off-Season period, reintroducing War Rating gradually by using both for a time, anything at all really. They could have even introduced a Qualifying period before the Season. There are a number of possibilities that could have come about.
Instead, we have a Season dedicated to the Top relishing people being slaughtered.
Guess the alternative thing Kabam could have done is just basically “reset” every alliance's War Rating. Or more precisely, assign you a NEW-STARTING W.R. (based on JUST your Ally Prestige), and then start the Season that way.
That way, would NOT be any of these lopsided matchups. And the only rebalancing that would go on during the first season or 2 would be as Alliances settle down into basically their natural “how badly do we want to commit and spend items, etc, in wars” mentality.
So Casual (but Strong) Alliances that just play AW for fun would at least be facing similar “Strength” alliances as they gravitate downward to a natural lower Tier they are comfortable with.
So at least all these matches “during the initial rebalance season or 2) wouldn’t have been such lopsided prestige/strength matches.
**of course, if they had done this, there still would have been complaints like “not fair that we got moved so far away from where we finished previous seasons”. But actually “would have been” fairer.
War is meant to be a competitive mode, not a "Everyone gets a trophy" farce. There will be winners and there will be losers.
"Why play at all?" You asked. If you think losing is unfair, then yes, you are definitely playing the wrong game mode, pal.
A small portion is absolutely not accurate. The small portion is the demographic who aren't going to be negatively affected by this because they're in Alliances that outrank everyone else. The majority number is the portion who are going to be overpowered beyond what they can win against.
I'm not complaining about my own Match. I'm saying that whole "can't beat them" only applies when both sides have an actual chance of winning. If one side plays better, then they win. That's all fair. When we have Matches where one side can't win no matter how skillful they play, that's a broken system. Doesn't matter if you call the old way broken. They're both broken.
We just got our first matchup. Enemy alliance was G2 last season, and are @ 34 million. At the time of writing, they've cleared our BG1 with one death, and are down to 2 minibosses and boss in our BG2, with 4 deaths.
How exactly is this an even remotely *fun* war to fight? According to war rating, there's 2 (!) points difference between an alliance that has about 50% Abyss completions and the rest cavaliers.
Yes, I'm whining. I'm whining because trying to get your alliance all pumped up for the new season, ready to go, practicing these new horrible nodes (Powerful from Afar + Duped 5/65 OR, funfun...), and we basically run into an alliance that we have no chance at all against.