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Reaching 450k was SO difficult starting from P1
Jeancrb
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I am bitter about the milestone this season, I spent much more time than usual this month, it felt like a massive grind, and ultimately I only scored 420k points from thousands and thousands of tokens used.
Reaching GC was quite easy, I made it in 2 weeks losing barely 5-6 games (especially with the classic bug P1-D4 where the matchmaking gives you free win - don’t understand why this is still not fixed but this is another topic), but then from GC it was a total nightmare.
I reached GC with 180k - 200k points, and from that moment I literally threw away 6000 tokens to get extra 220.000 points, as losing is REALLY not rewarding.
So you will tell me that it is the game and it happens, I agree, but I want to point out that I feel this is unfair that most of the people in my team who started in much lower divisions made these 450k, as the nodes were very easy in comparison of the GC.
So I think next time there is such a high milestone, maybe we should start from maximum P3, or make the loosing a bit more rewarding.
It was a fun ride tho to play that much, but I am extremely frustrated at the moment
Anyone else feeling the same?
Reaching GC was quite easy, I made it in 2 weeks losing barely 5-6 games (especially with the classic bug P1-D4 where the matchmaking gives you free win - don’t understand why this is still not fixed but this is another topic), but then from GC it was a total nightmare.
I reached GC with 180k - 200k points, and from that moment I literally threw away 6000 tokens to get extra 220.000 points, as losing is REALLY not rewarding.
So you will tell me that it is the game and it happens, I agree, but I want to point out that I feel this is unfair that most of the people in my team who started in much lower divisions made these 450k, as the nodes were very easy in comparison of the GC.
So I think next time there is such a high milestone, maybe we should start from maximum P3, or make the loosing a bit more rewarding.
It was a fun ride tho to play that much, but I am extremely frustrated at the moment
Anyone else feeling the same?
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Double frustration as it feels that being honest and follow the rules didn't pay
I didn’t play much last season so I started in Bronze. I think I’ll probably take next season off to drop back down so I can have an easier go next time they add extra rewards. I’m also out of elder marks so I need to take some time for those to build back up.
It wasn't very hard.
I had 9k elder marks, I still have about 1500 left.
My account rating is 2.2 mil, I dont have any 6*r5 or 7*r2, only 7 6*r4.
I pushed in last 4 days, that's why I mostly faced accounts on my level.
Before the second anniversary I will definitely stay out of GC aswell, just to be sure that I don’t get tricked twice.
I started in P1 and had something like a 65% win rate up to D1, then hit a brick wall dropping to about 50%-ish and getting stuck in P1 for 33 matches and V3 for 43 matches. I used elder marks for my first 96 matches, then coasted to 450k using energy up to match 108. All of those matches were in VT but even had I gotten to GC earlier, my record in GC was also close to 50/50, so for me that wouldn't have mattered much. The most important thing is to keep your marks near full. Knowing this season was going to have extra milestones, I filled up on marks the previous season, only spending to prevent overflow. With 9000 marks you have one hundred matches, plus what you earn in-season from VT promotions and alliance milestones. 450k points requires about 67 matches if you always win and 200 matches if you always lose. At about 50% win rate it is about 100 matches. If you start the season with full marks (or technically around 6800 because the first five matches reward basket will give you 2200, and the cap is 9000) that's doable in either VT or GC or both. Factoring in additional marks you can earn as you go, even a 40% win rate is still doable (112 matches or 10080 marks, 9000 plus 1080 more earned during the season).
Basically, save marks during seasons without bonus milestones, and burn them during the seasons that have them. If you can maintain something between 40% and 60% win rate overall, expect it to take on the order of 9k to 10k marks, which is approximately the elder mark cap (9k).
Given the way the match maker works in the lower tiers, I really don't see the benefit of deliberately dumping in the previous season before enhanced reward milestone seasons. But if large numbers of players that normally are strong enough to get to GC decide to take those seasons off, I'm not going to lose sleep over that. It'll just increase my win percentage during those seasons. I don't recommend it, but I also won't complain about it.
MM set up to try to force shield use and even more elder marks than what should be needed. No thank you. The gamemode is now just an obvious unit/$ scam.
The game putting hidden tiers within the tiers makes a joke out of the game mode. So they plop some juicy rewards to entice summoners. What I thought was going to be amazing game mode, has just turned into a grind by design.
Dropped a bit to like 65-70% in GC but still not too bad, just had not enough Elder Marks saved (because I burned them all last Season and I‘m in a casual Alliance which only reached like 3.5 millions in Alli Event … so had to spend like 1000+ Units.
I actually found it easier to win in GC than in Vibranium 1. I faced extemely tough opponents in Vibranium 1 and almost gave up. In GC, i faced a lot of people who just didnt bother with the node and went with the same common defenders and attackers. I used exclusively decay attackers and sugar pill defenders, sticking to basics and taking my time with the fights. My average fight length was 70 seconds but i was winning 70% of the time and easily got 200k points in GC alone.
200k to reach GC from plat 1 and 200k in GC was very possible.
the VT in comparison was surprinsigly easy for me, 2 loss only between V3 and V1.