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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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How is it semantics? lol. Actually don't answer that. Step out by all means.
They removed them because there were issues, and as evidence of the issues is the fact that they removed them? Um... Circular reasoning?
It's semantics. My interpretation, someone else's interpretation, why they were removed, why they shouldn't be removed, semantics. It's been months. They're gone.
@Anonymous he wins like 90% of his wars. Surely he's at the top...
Please step out. You keep saying you will but don’t. Half of this thread is you spamming non sense.
All forum posts are semantics. But no one is arguing semantic quibbling in the thread. One person does not make an argument.
It is important to note here that I don't think everyone understands how the alliance war situation has seesawed around between 14.0 and 16.0. Some people are complaining about 16.0 as if it is 15.0. It is *sometimes* true that wars are lost because of defender rating or because defender kills no longer count. But this was an unavoidable mess in 15.0. It is not entirely an avoidable mess in 16.0. In 16.0 the nodes are now strong enough that many alliances in many tiers have a choice: place maximum diversity or place strongest defense.
If you place the maximum diversity, you are probably placing a weaker defense than you could. If both sides place max diversity and you then lose because both sides 100% and they win on defender rating while you generated the most defender kills, that suggests that had you placed a stronger defense you might have been able to block their attackers, since they died a lot to a diverse defense. A blockade defense or a max strength defense might have won.
Because every alliance is different and every tier is collectively different, I don't think everyone knows yet what the optimum strategy is for every situation. That meta gameplay is still being worked out, and it takes days to try anything and see what it does. But while the current version of war still has problems, and it still has really bad corner cases, it is important to not give up trying alternate strategies under the new system. It may be flawed, but it isn't the same monochrome trap that 15.0 was.
If you're tier 1 and you're in a highly competitive environment, my understanding is that there seems to be some back and forth between whether max diversity or strong defense is the best strategy. If you are in a lower tier, then below tier 2 I don't think everyone is 100% completing anymore.
Quoting myself to bring this to the front of all
@LeNoirFaineant this was the post I mentioned
When we're debating our interpretation on a comment made about the removal of DKs, it's semantics because regardless, they've been removed, and have continued to be removed.
I don't feel guilty about anything that happens to our opponents. Kabam has, intentionally or otherwise: it is irrelevant, created an evil metagame. They've established the premise that if players complain about war being "unfun" because the other side is too hard, they will change it to prevent those players from disengaging.
They have thus created a situation where if you want to affect change in AW, the most effective thing you can do might be not post about it, but instead torture your opponents with the cruelest possible defenses imaginable. Make the players that complained about the hard nodes in 14.0 cry tears of misery at the hard nodes in 16.0.
Don't hate the defender: hate the game. Maybe that's the only way Kabam changes the game.
I would still like to see defender kills come back even as a pure tie breaker the way they said defender rating would be when in another thread we see that isn't the case.
When people say we are arguing over semantics they mean terminology rather than substance, like the argument over whether defensive rating is a tie breaker. You might say it's irrelevant or its academic or a host of other things because they have been removed, but having been removed doesn't make the debate a debate over semantics.
We get more of those shards from opening premium hero crystals duplicating 2* champions playing couple rounds in basic champion 4* arenas achieving 1.5 m milestone rewards!!! Plus those rank rewards. Really??? Does that look like more fun?
Go screw yourselves!
How many r4 5*s do you have?
The details of my Account and Roster have nothing to do with the topic of Wars.
Nothings changed
btw, with the amount of flagging in GW posts, doesn't anything need to be done about it?
I disagree, if you don't have a r4 5* or a bunch of r5 4*s then you can't really compare or relate to high level players. I have 8 r4 5*s and am in the top 100 of total pi. Does that information give out anything useful....nope but now people know I've been playing a long time and have completed all content so they know that I know what I'm talking about. You claim to barely ever lose wars which is impossible unless you are in a top 10 alliance so right now I don't think anyone can take your posts seriously. Providing how many r4 5*s you have lets everyone know what level you are at in the game. Im assuming you dont have any which explains a lot.
This is exactly why I'm not having the discussion. For one thing, it has nothing to do with the topic of Wars. This is a discussion for all Players. There is no requirement to participate. Secondly, your only purpose in asking is to try and discredit any point I make using the details of my Account. Shaming Players about where they are in the game is against the rules of the Forum. Have a look. It has nothing to do with the War system overall. It's a discussion on Wars in general. Sorry, but you're not bullying me out of the conversation using Tiers and Ranking. Perhaps it would be more productive to address the points I make.
He said you can't really compare or relate to high tier players. It wasn't an attack on your level, but when you come here saying what's better for war like you know better than anyone, your credibility is questioned.