**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.
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If you think platinum 4 is medium, that's on you. Make sure you understand we go for shards, all shards, not just 5*. You go about war your way and I'll go about it mine. Others will choose for themselves what war means to them.
The rewards were recently buffed, significantly. I don't see them getting increased again anytime soon. The rewards are one reason why so many more alliances started taking wars little more serious, which is part of the reason for all the complaints about matchmaking and the added stress. Everyone is in 100% control of what stress level they want when it comes to war. There's an alliance out there for every level of war, so you just have to find the one that works for you.
The rewards, for catalyst, aq give more than aw. Yeah we got shards, but imagine after grinding hard and spend alot resources, open crystal 6* or 5*, then got meme tier or champ that you wont gonna rank up
Effort vs reward then no - operate at a tier that you can clear the map pretty much item free.
If you want the challenge which you can’t get in AQ, then yes it is well worth it. I’m in the situation where I can’t really afford to grind the donations to do 6x5 or 7x5 every week without spending a couple of hours in the arena every day, so I just play M5 and we push AW.
Fights are different each day - ok Flow is 1000% BS, but AW does add that bit of spice that AQ is lacking.
In terms of where I am in the game - 6.4 completed, 6.1 explored and most of 6.4 explored so I’m getting on now, with 15 R5 equivalents and the ability to take up 2 more, but even if I got more T2A etc. I’d still be lacking the gold to level up so Map5 is suiting my needs in terms of keeping my resources ticking over and matching my desired level of arena (minimal).
If Glory potions were buffed then I think AW would be a lot more viable than it is now.
For example I have 6 5* R5 champions and my prestige is around 10 K. But half of players in my alliance doesnot have even one R5 champions and don't play well. As a result we are in Silver 1 now. When I was a leader I have to invest lot of time in managing other players defense, monitoring them continuously and helping/asking them not to give away the deaths. That was really frustrating job for nothing special.
Recently I demoted my self. For the champions that I have, I could get a place with the alliance atleast at G1 for my skills and Beyond god tier R5 champions. But I don't want to go because being in such high rated alliance require more time, more efforts and need to deal with more frustration.
After all this is a game and should be played for enjoyment and not for frustration. Also I can spend the glory towards rankup materials to 5R5 or 6R2 my champs. And clear the story quests /variants and Big contents for better R5 shots
Thanks for your indepth analysis Ebony_Naw;
With the word seriously I mean tier5 and below or p4 or above. As you know you can easily get rewards close to p4 in gold 2 / gold 1 without spending almost no glory and have no stress at all. The real problem is when your alliance takes war so seriously they keep an eye on everything(items you used, kills and etc), which puts a lot of stress on you and you eventually get scared and do mistakes and have no fun.It basically becomes your second job not a leisure time activity.
After the season I am planing to move to a gold 2/gold 1 alliance whose main focus is AQ. Top 300 in AQ is enough for me
This allows me to be in a plat 4 alliance when we are trying and gold 1 when we are not. I can play comfortably with almost no items in T5-T4
I could play higher if the rewards justified the higher item use and stress but for me war is literally the least fun game mode. Seasons suck and are to unforgiving and war needs an AQ style model so it isn’t as stressful imo.
I think it worth it to play at a level you and your alliance are comfortable at and don’t need to sink items into that outweighs the rewards. Needs to be a balance. The difference in 1 tier to another really isn’t super drastic in the long term. It’s multiple tier changes that can be more substantial and even then you can live without there with how much the reward is for 6 weeks of work and items usage.
Truth is if everyone kept their top and pushed the harder content over those 6 weeks there is a chance you would end with more rewards by the end.
Feels like there should be an option to try and make aw less of a stress-inducer (regardless of it being done by the alliance, self, or BS nodes) and more enjoyable
Every time I look at the upper level season rewards, I get a touch of resource envy. Then I remember the cost of navigating 3 BGs at that level—envy gone.
Dr. Zola