**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.
Options
Any logical reason for prestige ?
Knightarthus
Posts: 419 ★★★
First of all why is prestige not displayed when you click on a player ? Second, why is it being used instead of a more logical and relevant method like top team rating ( the total rating for the player highest ranked 5 champions)? Why all the confusion and unnecessary restrictions on who to rank ? It takes away from the game fun plus it’s not practical.
7
Comments
1. "Unnecessary restrictions on who to rank" come from the player base, not Kabam. Prestige doesn't dictate who you rank. If you're in a competitive (top tier/expert tier) alliance, it's in play so you can maximize your AQ points, but there's no other in-game mode/aspect that relies on it, and no restrictions on whom you can rank.
2. "Why is it being used instead of a more logical and relevant method like top team rating" - well, top team rating is easily manipulated by masteries, whereas prestige is not. It's a hard number that eliminates variables, making it useful to compare players with different set ups. Kabam has set the game up to encourage people to alter their masteries for different game modes - using prestige instead of PI means players are free to alter their masteries without penalizing their alliance.
3. General observation - because prestige is important to a core game mode like AQ, it makes new champs desirable and necessary, which creates predictable spending (and therefore stabilizes revenue), which is important for a cash-hungry business like video game production.
I agree it's imperfect - I don't agree it makes the game less fun or is impractical. I do think it should be easier to access (like displayed on the champ or player) if it's going to be used as a gating factor.
Wolverine is one of the most useful and powerful champs, wonderful for lane clearing and even timing out on bosses, then regening up to full health for further lane clearing. Considered so powerful that they don't even have him as a 5*.
...yet he has one of the lowest PI.
I agree with the rest of what you said.
assuming you're talking about sans masteries, what's the difference between that and prestige? it's just a different way to calculate the same thing.
Efficient kills with the least amount of KO's taken.
Then rank by who did it the fastest, etc...
The difficulty of AQ fights will take into account how strong the alliances attackers are.
Ranking champions are then done by who's the best attacker instead of who has the most prestige.
Bad idea? I'm all ears. Maybe it'll create a giant divide between players who have the best champs and players that don't...
And of course this isn't taking into account the business side of things, after all Kabam wants to make money.
Unfortunately there isn't a great way to throw out the prestige system at this point.
would be great if we didn't have kabam servers that were powered by a potato.
Doesn't make sense to include synergies in Their scoring method and thus you may have answered your own question, it's not a perfect system but we do need one, but yes I completely agree since it's He system they use, they should have an in game display of it ( as simple as the top team button)