**UPDATES TO ENLISTMENT GIFTING EVENT:**
To prevent exploitation, we will prevent new Accounts from being able to Gift enlistment crystals. We will also be taking action on those who are using 3rd Party Sellers, Bots and other farms to gift themselves mass amounts of Enlistment Crystals. Lastly, we will be adding an expiration timer to Enlistment Crystals. All unopened Enlistment Crystals will expire on Oct 18 @ 17:00 UTC. For more information, please see this post: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/346104/updates-to-enlistment-gifting-event
To prevent exploitation, we will prevent new Accounts from being able to Gift enlistment crystals. We will also be taking action on those who are using 3rd Party Sellers, Bots and other farms to gift themselves mass amounts of Enlistment Crystals. Lastly, we will be adding an expiration timer to Enlistment Crystals. All unopened Enlistment Crystals will expire on Oct 18 @ 17:00 UTC. For more information, please see this post: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/346104/updates-to-enlistment-gifting-event
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You could you all champs, but if you took a team of 4500 (all 1500 champs), you would face the 60,000 death squad. With no real chance to win, especially with the holding of the sp to Sp3.
There were tons of complaints when there was a huge shift in R3 6*’s and the teams of r1 5* and r2 5*... even 4*’s couldn’t be used without including a r3 5* unless you would get a death squad. What Kabam was trying to do was address that issue.
Many grinders, Ilacskillz included, would use 4*’s until their 5*’s refreshed. This change allowed them to continue grinding. It would also allow people without huge rosters, or lost of ranked up champs to grind without fearing a huge 3-4x difference in PI.
Personally, I think Kabam should have been a little more upfront on the changes and explained how they would work. The 2x limit allowed them to remove the old system... what changed as a part of that is that r4 5*s roughly come in at 8-11k pi... so grouped together, many meet the 2x limit and would match to all R3 6*, which looks like a death squad, but a win is possible.
Honestly, after match 25, any team of a pi over 30k would allow for the infinite streak. Once there, if you just mixed you r4 and r5’s it was quite manageable. R3’s and less were a much easier fight at 2x. But the higher the PI or the larger difference between you champs could spell a hard match. I saw were some would put 2 R3 5* and a r1 4* to get a better match. However. If you are a serious grinder for the champ, every win helps.
I believe the biggest issue is that most players that have 3+ R3 6*s, have top (God Tier and up) champs... so you were fighting a NF, HT, SS, Corvus, etc... a really top tier champ. I kept getting the same 6-10 players in my rotation.
It could have been managed, but players would need to adapt... there was still an infinite streak, it is just a different route to continue it. I am not really sure there is a middle road on this... people like the infinite streak, and any time it changes (manually like this time or systematically through the availability of more higher ranked champs) there is a large out cry.
I honestly think this was the best chance of fixing arenas, but people like the old system better. Just remember this when R4 6*’s are available and shift the infinite streak again. Then all R3 5*’s will cause a death squads... just my opinion. I frequent ally grind for top 1-10% (now 1-5%), and I would grind for new champs at 70-90 million.
It got harder without spending units when R1-R2 5*’s and 4*’s became virtually unusable without facing 54-60k matches.
Again, thank you for the spelling correction.
Non-F2P will boost and spend units... F2P have to rely on 4*’s between refreshes. Have you ever watched an Ilacskillz stream?
@GroundedWisdom For your viewing pleasure... I bring you were Ilacskillz spoke about not being able to us 4*’s anymore and how he and F2P used them to grind for featured 5*s.
I do have enough collection to get a champion from 5* featured arena. it's just that i'm limited because of the damned streak formula that Kabam said it was an unintentionally bug as well as everyone else that have trouble to get other materials to rank up and level up.
Even players that don’t have those r5 or anything close to it could still effectively use their collection and still call those lower ranked AI as Deathsquad, but still benefitted from it as they firing their special powers non-stop.