Battlegrounds for paragons.
Theruneking
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First of all I know there are thousands of post regarding battlegrounds and unfair matchups, but I want to throw some light on more concerning areas regarding bg.
I am paragon with 16k prestige and 2.1million acc, which I think is decent.
I reach gladiators circuit every season I play and bg was my favourite game mode cause strategy matters a lot in bg, until recently it has become too frustrating, and many factors are completely obliterating the strategy part of bg.
I am currently at d1 and almost all matches are with double my acc rating with 18k 19k even 20k prestiges.
I am surely frustrated by this, cause being at the highest progression level is supposed to make things easier not harder right?.
Let me summarise the drawbacks I would like to see get resolve in the current Bg-
1. The most frustrating of all- Who picks the 1st defender system
For like 10 15 matches I got to pick 2nd only 3 4 times, and facing rosters double your acc with you picking first completely nullifies the concept of so called strategy in bg.
System should be such that 50% of the time you should pick first and rest 50 them. Don't ask me how, that's not my job to answer.
2.Effort to reward ratio
I personally don't have problem facing double my roster in bg, unless the rewards are not worth the effort which is the current scenario.
I would like to see increase 7 star shards t6b,t3a,and 6 star sig stones by many folds in bg, and addition of t6cc.
Competing against hundreds of players with 7 star r2s and 6r5 filled rosters for what?
You get 18.5k bg tokens and have 1.5k 7 star shards?ie 1/10th of a 7 star?
And why still 6 star sig stone a rare thing?
18k token for 50 6 star sig stones ? Specially when so many characters need max sig and when 7 stars r2 are dominating.
If one finds matching 16k with 20k is fair, then rewards should be that high too. Not fractions of 7 stars.
3. AI behaviour-
I don't know how many times this has been addressed, but I will request you guys to make ai not hold block and bait when they fill up 2 bars of power. As time is one of the major bg factor, this behaviour of ai costs so many matches, not only matches our time to play bg( which is min 10min for a match), elder marks, and that medal required for progressing to next tier.
And the sad thing is that you don't get any compensation, any resolution of this problem, just frustration.
And It's unfortunate to know that as a paragon I never met a cav and thronebreaker this last 2 seasons, only paragons. I have a small acc too which is thronebreaker and it feels much satisfying and easier there to face thronebreakers and cavs than my main. In a current state of the bg apparently progressing just makes things worse.
To conclude let me just show you guys a glimpse of what paragons like me have to go through-
Where 45k+ points are not enough to win a round.
I am paragon with 16k prestige and 2.1million acc, which I think is decent.
I reach gladiators circuit every season I play and bg was my favourite game mode cause strategy matters a lot in bg, until recently it has become too frustrating, and many factors are completely obliterating the strategy part of bg.
I am currently at d1 and almost all matches are with double my acc rating with 18k 19k even 20k prestiges.
I am surely frustrated by this, cause being at the highest progression level is supposed to make things easier not harder right?.
Let me summarise the drawbacks I would like to see get resolve in the current Bg-
1. The most frustrating of all- Who picks the 1st defender system
For like 10 15 matches I got to pick 2nd only 3 4 times, and facing rosters double your acc with you picking first completely nullifies the concept of so called strategy in bg.
System should be such that 50% of the time you should pick first and rest 50 them. Don't ask me how, that's not my job to answer.
2.Effort to reward ratio
I personally don't have problem facing double my roster in bg, unless the rewards are not worth the effort which is the current scenario.
I would like to see increase 7 star shards t6b,t3a,and 6 star sig stones by many folds in bg, and addition of t6cc.
Competing against hundreds of players with 7 star r2s and 6r5 filled rosters for what?
You get 18.5k bg tokens and have 1.5k 7 star shards?ie 1/10th of a 7 star?
And why still 6 star sig stone a rare thing?
18k token for 50 6 star sig stones ? Specially when so many characters need max sig and when 7 stars r2 are dominating.
If one finds matching 16k with 20k is fair, then rewards should be that high too. Not fractions of 7 stars.
3. AI behaviour-
I don't know how many times this has been addressed, but I will request you guys to make ai not hold block and bait when they fill up 2 bars of power. As time is one of the major bg factor, this behaviour of ai costs so many matches, not only matches our time to play bg( which is min 10min for a match), elder marks, and that medal required for progressing to next tier.
And the sad thing is that you don't get any compensation, any resolution of this problem, just frustration.
And It's unfortunate to know that as a paragon I never met a cav and thronebreaker this last 2 seasons, only paragons. I have a small acc too which is thronebreaker and it feels much satisfying and easier there to face thronebreakers and cavs than my main. In a current state of the bg apparently progressing just makes things worse.
To conclude let me just show you guys a glimpse of what paragons like me have to go through-
Where 45k+ points are not enough to win a round.
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Comments
" facing rosters double your acc with you picking first completely nullifies the concept of so called strategy in bg. "
- If anything it enhances the concept of strategy because now you need to think more
"System should be such that 50% of the time you should pick first and rest 50 them. Don't ask me how, that's not my job to answer."
- This cant work because it would need to make sure everybody would have to be picking first 50% of the time which is impossible and would destroy the matchmaking
"I would like to see increase 7 star shards t6b,t3a,and 6 star sig stones by many folds in bg, and addition of t6cc.
Competing against hundreds of players with 7 star r2s and 6r5 filled rosters for what?
You get 18.5k bg tokens and have 1.5k 7 star shards?ie 1/10th of a 7 star?
And why still 6 star sig stone a rare thing?
18k token for 50 6 star sig stones ? Specially when so many characters need max sig and when 7 stars r2 are dominating."
- I honestly agree. They need to buff the store a little bit. Especially after cyber weekend. I just know that'll be a mess
Hopefully the new AI next month fixes the inconsistency I’ve been facing, not sure how similar everyone else’s experience has been.
I’m diamond 1 atm and have two r5 6 stars and 1 r2 7star and I’m facing people with more than double of both and it just feels so rough because regardless of how I play the get the time advantage due to rank difference.
Edit: when I say draft in the first paragraph I mean like placement phase
But again, it's a competition and you aren't meant to get first place along with everyone else.
Yes there are many above my prestige and rating, so what's your suggestion? When I will be 20k prestige they will be 25k, someone will always be above.
The way there are thousands of players above my rating in the same way there are lakhs below mine, I always meet 19k prestige acc, why not I never meet 12k prestige players with 1 million acct?
@Jack2634
lol , if you have made it to Gc, you should have known that 45k is considered pretty bad in VT most of the seasons ( except the power burn one)
I know 45k is good enough to give you win even on battlerealm brawl, ever heard of it? Where the top gc players go?
You somehow think it's supposed to be easier as a Paragon.
Where I put the effort in why should not i expect things to get easier?
its an unfair system that obviously benefits the overly powered rosters, everyone is decently skilled at this point in the game, so its not about skill as much as your roster.
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In life progressing to a higher level makes it easier, for example advancement in science is to make life easier, no one would value science if it made life harder. But my bad I confused science and life with game.
And If progression makes things difficult it's better not to then.
And There are plenty of 12k 13k 14k paragons fyi, I think 12k prestige is the lowest level then.
And competiton doesn't mean always facing higher than yourself, it's a mix of both. In bg I never faced any 12k 13k or even 14k prestige players last 2 season.
It's so fun knowing money can buy overpowered teams to nuke rosters, but it can't buy skill. I absolutely savour those moments.
Why, exactly, do you deserve to avoid them win D1?
So Battlegrounds is not fair at all. It does not always test skill. I think this is by design. Battlegrounds is a competition where you have little control over your destiny, the deck is stacked against you, with alot of chaos and luck. That is why it has the best rewards! That is why the highs are so intoxicating and the lows are so devastating!
Guess what these are my comments from this thread only! Surprising right?
This is a mobile video game. This isn't real life. Progression in video games generally means you're unlocking harder content. You're playing Battelgrounds. This is a competitive mode which means you're going to face competition that you can either win against or lose against. Just because you're Paragon, it doesn't mean you're only going to cruise to the top of the charts with easy. I am also Paragon-
We're the same progression level. It's possible for us to match against each other in battlegrounds because we're both trying to reach the same goals and we're playing the same game mode. There isn't anything that makes anything easier in this game because we're Paragon.
Progression in a video game is not the same as making a breakthrough in science to "progress" easier in life.
Complaining on the forums isn't going to make it easier.