No, I'm not going to be doing daily updates. My plan is to do weekly ones, unless there's something interesting to report. Today, there's three interesting things to report. Also, technically it's Day Three, but I'm giving an update as of the end of Day Two. Well, there's also Day three stuff in here, but whatever.
First off, our score at the end of day two was sitting at about 1,611,197,160. We're all but certain to reach the 1.75 billion total that exceeds the pace we need to sustain to reach the top milestone (1.75 billion points per week x 3 weeks =5.25 billion points). Our pace was slowing down by the end of day two to around 9-10 million points per hour, which is still plenty fast enough, but then it jumped up to above 20 million points per hour in the late morning.
Part of the reason might be because of the Twitch Drops. One of the twitch drops for this week is a bundle of Tower of Power points. How many?
It is progression-based, but Paragons and higher get 17 stacks of 200 points, or 3400 points.
That's a lot. If this pops up all three weeks, that would be 10200 points total. It takes 35000 points to qualify for the top milestone, and this would reduce the points required from Towers itself down to 24800 points. In a previous update, I mentioned that it would take getting to about block 76 in all six class towers to reach 35000 points, which is a pretty high block (this assumes you reach the same point in all towers which is unlikely, but its just an estimate for discussion purposes). Lowering the points required to 24800 drops that requirement down to somewhere in block 62. For reference, I was placed in Block 61 at the start, which means I was practically there before I fought my first fight. Anyone starting higher can skate there easily - assuming they watch twitch streams.
So I would recommend watching twitch streams and getting those rewards. They are good without the points, and really good with the points.
On the participation front, Kabam has once again torpedoed my attempts to game leaderboards. In theory you could get a decent estimate for how many players are playing if you happen to have a low account you can score one point in. The one point trick has worked for me in the past, but more recently Kabam has done things to leaderboards that make that impractical. Because they
hate me love challenging me. My low alt with one point is in about 25,000th place on the leaderboard. Because apparently there are at least two leaderboards: one for players below some level, I'm guessing maybe Thronebreaker and below or something, and one for the rest of us Paragon and higher. So that's not going to work.
My Paragon alt currently sits in 134,726th place on the leaderboards with 653 points. I should have just entered one tower, but oh well. Also, overnight that account dropped about 9000 places. Which suggests it has a ways to go to drop further. My guess is, factoring in the leaderboard bifurcation, we have at least 200,000 players participating at the moment, maybe as much as 300,000. We'll see how those numbers continue to evolve. The higher participation is, the more of us get 1%, 2%, and other percentage rank rewards.
And finally, shout out to Seatin who has been pounding his face against towers since it released and from whose streams I've been collecting data on things like points per block. He's discovered the hard ceiling of towers. Your damage increases dramatically with CR differential - if your CR is higher than the defenders, your damage goes up a lot. But the reverse is true: if your CR is lower than the defender, your damage drops. At -50 CR, your damage drops essentially to zero. So depending on the strength of your roster as measured by CR rating there is a maximum CR defender you can fight. Practically speaking, you'll likely top out before that, but that is the absolute cap. Seatin ran into the wall fighting CR 280 defenders in Block 92 in both the Skill and Mutant towers, and I think he's currently sitting at 1722 points (I'm pulling that from memory, for those interesting I encourage watching his streams as they have a lot of good info in there).
