Timer strategy officialy validated ?

I specify in advance it is not a post about victory or defeat. Just state of mind. you recognized on this forum that using the pause mode was not fair and not intented as a strategy that you wanted to trivialize in battleground. But you haven't done anything to fix it. And this month's node will encourage summoners to use it consistently. Dissapointed

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GroundedWisdom

No one is "encouraged" to use this.

LeNoirFaineant

No one is "encouraged" to use this.

That's just a platitude ignoring the actual point.

Yodabolt21

Everyone assumes these are pause situations. The reality is that it very well most likely that his game crashed mid fight. It’s happens to me and I know it’s happened to ally mates as well. When this happens you reopen the game and the fight starts over with the missing time, so the fight will start with 50 seconds or whatever.

GroundedWisdom

No one is "encouraged" to use this.
That's just a platitude ignoring the actual point.

I know what the point is. People can't blame the Nodes for their own choice to try and cheat the system. Leaving the alarm off in a bank doesn't encourage people to rob it. That's a choice.

TheOriginalMook

Everyone assumes these are pause situations. The reality is that it very well most likely that his game crashed mid fight. It’s happens to me and I know it’s happened to ally mates as well. When this happens you reopen the game and the fight starts over with the missing time, so the fight will start with 50 seconds or whatever.

My game crashed at the pre fight screen and I reloaded in time with 47 seconds left to do the fight, the result screen showed 113 seconds. So I don't think it's the crash scenario you suggest.

Kasnow1

Everyone assumes these are pause situations. The reality is that it very well most likely that his game crashed mid fight. It’s happens to me and I know it’s happened to ally mates as well. When this happens you reopen the game and the fight starts over with the missing time, so the fight will start with 50 seconds or whatever.
My game crashed at the pre fight screen and I reloaded in time with 47 seconds left to do the fight, the result screen showed 113 seconds. So I don't think it's the crash scenario you suggest.

Thanks for telling the truth. Too many summoners are constantly making up excuses to keep using these nasty methods. They never want improvement game.

Gogeta91199

They will probably remove the option of pause in the upcoming update

TyEdge

Here’s the reality of this node set -

You get 15,000 points for doing nothing.

You can do 9 hits worth of damage before an armor up procs on a non-armor defender, so if you have a 1-2 hit heavy, great.

If the other person has a bad matchup and you know it, playing conservative and taking those points is the safest way to a win, assuming there’s a problem with your matchup too.

It’s poorly designed because it’s so restrictive that “not playing” is a reasonably effective strategy. Every node set will have an average score and standard deviation. The lower the average gets, the more viable timing out becomes. By the same token, if there is a node that inflicts massive damage at identifiable points, whether it’s special 3 or something else, pausing is more viable.

Things that would’ve been better to me (pick one…not all):

Halving the power burn (5% of a bar of power and less damage)

Reducing the attack of the opponent to make the power burn slightly less punishing

Reducing the HP pool so that players can get some damage in before armor ups proc, and players who play the node nab a quicker KO.

I liken it a little bit to the original cavalier EQ - they had nodes that required buffs and debuffs or no damage was done. It was changed to 60% damage reduction and each buff/debuff reduced the reduction by 20. Matchups, for the most part, shouldn’t be impossible. This set of nodes seems to put a lot more of winning and losing on the cards that are drawn rather than quality of play. Both are important but this isn’t the balance I’d prefer.

Colinwhitworth69

People who pause should just quit the game and do something else. If you have to do that to win, you don’t deserve it.

Mackey

I specify in advance it is not a post about victory or defeat. Just state of mind. you recognized on this forum that using the pause mode was not fair and not intented as a strategy that you wanted to trivialize in battleground. But you haven't done anything to fix it. And this month's node will encourage summoners to use it consistently. Dissapointed

Might as well be

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Yodabolt21

Everyone assumes these are pause situations. The reality is that it very well most likely that his game crashed mid fight. It’s happens to me and I know it’s happened to ally mates as well. When this happens you reopen the game and the fight starts over with the missing time, so the fight will start with 50 seconds or whatever.
My game crashed at the pre fight screen and I reloaded in time with 47 seconds left to do the fight, the result screen showed 113 seconds. So I don't think it's the crash scenario you suggest.
Thanks for telling the truth. Too many summoners are constantly making up excuses to keep using these nasty methods. They never want improvement game.

This is not accurate. When my game crashes and reloads, it shows the actual fight time, not the full time.

I also never said I think the pause cheat should be allowed. There are other posts where it’s obvious someone paused, and it shows the fight time of 8 seconds. I think everyone assumes if it says less than 113-116 that they paused the game. It doesn’t mean that everytime.

Skunkcabbage

No one is "encouraged" to use this.

You should use it, if you pause and don't fight the opponent there's a great chance of winning, 15k is a ton of points!

GroundedWisdom

No one is "encouraged" to use this.
You should use it, if you pause and don't fight the opponent there's a great chance of winning, 15k is a ton of points!

We are supposed to be awarded for our efforts. Not defaulting.

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