**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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This indicates that the current matchmaking system is working as Kabam intends.
Based on their numbers, they probably see that a 'correct' proportion of different Progression Levels make it through VT, a 'correct' proportion of different Progression Levels are distributed throughout the GC tiers.
They probably also see a good amount of money making from players purchasing Victory Shields, since that psychologically weaponizes loss aversion and fear of missing out.
This kind of makes me wonder what Kabam was seeing that made them act on Sandbagging. Probably players not spending money on victory shields since they could just freely change the composition of their deck to be weaker.
Another solution would be “kick starts” based on previous season placement to avoid the miss matches, but I can understand this is very hard to implement.
Others have made proposals too, including making another VT for lower accounts with lesser rewards, which I think will create more reactions than any other solution.
I personally believe no ones Paragon intention is to stomp repeatedly UC accounts at VT, but they aren’t going to sit and watch UC accounts placing higher in a competitive mode.
This shouldn’t happen and you know it 😉
It’s not a matter of getting good, because between two equal rosters/skills someone has to lose for the other to win.
And the one who wins, needs to do it consistently or keep a very high win ratio, in order to progress in a pace that will make it to GC before season ends.
Prestiege is the avg base rating (before masteries) of top 5 champs...how does that work on a deck of 30 champs?
I never told anybody to get good... I just said they might have hit a roof
Sandbagging against other Players in BGs is taking advantage of the system and other people.
Oh no I agree completely, smaller accounts shouldn't be getting to GC before the bigger ones. I have no issues with any of the changes you've proposed there and I'm sure most lower players wouldn't either.
You keep talking about not wanting favoritism with matching but what you actually seem to want is favoritism for one group but not the other. Random matching isn't favoritism for anyone regardless of whether it does give an advantage. That advantage is created by having multiple groups of people in the same competition. This nonsense some of you keep spouting about VT "being for everyone and the competition is GC" is just that, nonsense. The whole mode is for everyone to play but that doesn't mean everyone, or actually anyone, is guaranteed a certain amount of progress within it bc it is in its entirety a competitive mode. You just want to remove the competition from it to favor one group.
I'm all for separating the groups completely and having different reward brackets (good luck selling worse rewards to those you're feigning to be an advocate for), or the much easier sell of just staggering the starting position of different groups and then free for all matching.
But I've watched alliance mates struggle to get through. Which I understand.
being Paragon isnt about "skill". it is just natural progression. There is no "skill" gate. with enough patience, yo ucan get through content and rank up champs.
But having to face stiff opposition, incredibly tough rosters over and over, and failing to get the string of wins required to progress is incredibly frustating. Personally, i dont have my marathon sessions anymore since every match is quite intense.
While i dont have a problem with that, this is an exact throwback to the prestige war matchmaking. Different brackets for same rewards have NO PLACE in competition. Everyone faces the same opposition. thats how it should be.
It's impossible to take him serious when he so quickly gets into insults and name calling with anyone who disagrees with him. Not sure why someone would think hurling insults and names at those who disagree with them would help their argument.
Can you imagine running a marathon where the amateurs only had to run 13 miles and the pros had to do the full 26? Yeah, some of the best pros would end up beating the amateurs, but not all of them would.
In time more people start complaining bcos they will upgrade their prestige accidently and they will be punished for progression in game (sic!). Maybe after that something will be changed.
Untill that time all paragons matches in VT regardless of division will be as it should be in diamond and vibranium, all TB matches will be as it should be in platinium and gold and all cavs matches will be as in silver and bronze.
They're advancing period. Considering they're not going to get anywhere after that, that's not advancing faster than anyone. That's having SOME reason to play. I find it completely selfish that people are butthut about even Matches when they can't even stand to fight their own. That's neither here nor there. The fact that people who are advancing in the competition are crying about some new Players getting a few Shards is pathetic.
That's not what it's about. It's about not letting people who vastly overpower them trample them at the gate. If you're offended by that, then that's sad.
And no, I'm not trolling anyone here, I'm simply suggesting solutions to the problem (which other people have suggested as well). Keep telling yourself that though💀
Maybe, maybe not, who knows. Costs nothing to suggest a solution if you already had one in mind though.
You start making passive aggressive remarks but I can't call you any names cause then I'm in the wrong right? Lmao the joke writes itself.
BTW i win most of my fights so not sour grapes. Just facts