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To fully participate in the upcoming Banquet's Alliance Event you will need to be in your alliance for 14 days prior to the event's start date on December 20th. That means, stay in your alliance from December 6th onwards to enjoy all there is to offer in the Banquet event.
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Reminder: This event is available to Paragon+ Summoners
This solo event has been fixed and will appear in game again on December 10th and will run through the 17th.
Reminder: This event is available to Paragon+ Summoners
BG Matchmaking Changes
ItsClobberinTime
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Before the change to prevent sandbagging goes live, does anyone have a guess on what it could be?
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I'm uncollected and facing TB + Paragon players with rank 3 6* champs.
I don't even have a rank 2 6*!
Yes they have to choose some 2* champs but they just re-roll their choice to change them.
I’ve not ironed out the kinks to make it sing for this meta yet but it’s what worked well last season - 24 R3s, 6 R4s.
The players I can up against were all around the same roster strength or higher, with the particular highlight being this fellow:
There’s also an unawakened R4 CGR and Rintrah under there.
I decided to switch all my deck to 5* to see what happened:
And these were the two matches I faced:
The difference is black and white, even taking into account that virtually all my my R5 5* are max sig. I’ve put my deck back together now and surprise surprise, it’s back to peers or better. Now I don’t mind fighting whales, I don’t mind fighting my equals, but I still find it a bit unfair that just like it was in AW a year ago, there’s a very clear delineation between two sets of players: those who take this mode seriously and have developed decks, and those who are not at that level.
There is essentially a high road and a low road for bg right now and that is not how it should be. When I reach Diamond I could just switch in my 5* and R2 6* and blitz a load of Thronebreakers and the odd Paragon to get to the circuit.
The first game I played was against this poor soul:
Needless to say I won.
I’ve decided to push this to see how far I can go. This is my shiny new 3* deck:
And my opponent - who has a 6* Platpool judging by the profile and I’d like to think is doing the same experiment as me but the cynic in me thinks otherwise- luckily he was not good at the game.
Can I make it through 2*? Stay tuned
This really needs fixing. It completely ruins the experience.
They are having way more fun for real lmao.
I took a bullet and did an experiment myself: Took my top 5 prestige champs (10.5k prestige) and filled the rest up with 1* and 2*…
I got paired with this guy:
Needless to say I lost… But as ist stands, it still seems to be based off of average prestige of the whole deck… So sandbagging should still be working…
Then again: Who knows whether Kabam‘s proposed changes to the matchmaking are even live? 🤷🏻♂️
I just play the game and don’t worry about the outcome. Made it to GC last month just playing casually and carefree. I’m not trying to be at the top.
I am fine facing sandbaggers because I have a good roster and sandbagging limits their options. I still think sandbagging is an pathetic admission that you’re not good enough to compete and have to exploit the matchmaking system, but I guess I’d rather face one of those knuckleheads instead of someone with a super stacked roster.
BUT: this was the case in last season, too, wasn’t it? So there are no changes to matchmaking, yet…