Best mastery setup for battlegrounds

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• Average_Desi Member Posts: 1,082 ★★★★

  January 21

  First off, suicides are a no go for battlegrounds. It's simply not worth the trade off. There are few metas where it is even worth considering.
  
  You want limber at max rank. And if your roster is mystic heavy, then mystic dispersion is good.
  
  Stand your ground being maxed out is very good. So is despair. Aside from that, max precision, and the usual

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• Envi1 Member Posts: 55 ★

  January 21

  Max Inequity, Max Stand Your Ground

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• TotemCorruption Member Posts: 446 ★★

  January 21

  I do max 5/5 Assassin. I took it off once to prioritize other things and immediately missed it.
  60% attack boost when the opponent is below 18% health is really helpful to get the extra time bonus in BG.
  Especially if you use someone like Hulk and are trying to get them down from 80% to 0% health during the stun lock, Assassin will really help you get there.
  It also reduces defensive ability accuracy by 20%, so sometimes even the awakened Serpent doesn't trigger his death immunity. Can't rely on it, but it's nice when it happens.

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• Friendly001 Member Posts: 594 ★★★

  January 21

  Max out Wisdom and Intelligence, along with Pittance and Prosperity so you can get as much Gold and XP as you can from the match.

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• SirGamesBond Member Posts: 5,797 ★★★★★

  January 21

  It's secret

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• HassamaMama Member Posts: 292 ★★★

  January 21 edited January 21

  It’s gonna cost you a lot of units to get everything if you don’t have it unlocked - fair warning.
  
  Max out Despair, 3x Block Proficiency, max Stand Your Ground, max Willpower, max Inequity and max Limber - basically, set it up so you have the most toxic masteries when you place your defense, lol. Here’s what I run:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I also have max Collared Tech and 4x Mystic Dispersion for some extra juice on my Mystics and Techs on both Offense and Defense. I am admittedly considering taking off Collared Tech and one point from MD to throw into Assassin like suggested above, but not 100%.

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• TotemCorruption Member Posts: 446 ★★

  January 21

  Also, forgot to mention, maybe you already know, but you can customize your masteries for BG, save them to your deck, and then change your masteries for other content without it affecting what was saved for BG.
  So I definitely run two different sets of masteries for BG and non-BG, and I don't have to spend units to recustomize or activate and deactivate.
  
  BG masteries (with defensive acknowledgements):
  
  
  
  Masteries for other content (100% offense-focused):
  
  
  
  

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• Potatoslice500 Member Posts: 317 ★★

  January 22

  This is my bgs/war setup
  
  
  

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• captain_rogers Member Posts: 10,977 ★★★★★

  January 22

  Why everyone is saying max stand your ground? It's not like opponent is going to throw heavy on your defender lol. Or am I missing something

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• Ragnaruk5178 Member Posts: 64 ★

  January 22

  @captain_rogers its for trigger happy clowns such as mysterio

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• TotemCorruption Member Posts: 446 ★★

  January 22

  captain_rogers said:

  Why everyone is saying max stand your ground? It's not like opponent is going to throw heavy on your defender lol. Or am I missing something

  A lot of players use heavies to break through blocks I assume, and this will frustrate that. Also, if you look at the masteries map, you'll see that you need 15 points in defense to unlock WP and Inequity and some other things. So you have to invest the points somewhere and the options aren't great. Usually you're picking between Stand Your Ground or Perfect Block.
  I can't remember what my BG defensive layout is, but this is why I don't run WP and Inequity in my non-BG layout; I don't want to invest points in Stand Your Ground or Perfect Block just to unlock the other stuff.

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• Pikolu Member, Guardian Guardian › Posts: 8,131 Guardian

  January 22

  Have a point in unfazed just to heck with people who want to use count nefaria and Elsa. Besides that, it doesn't matter too much. Have willpower, and don't use the recoil tree masteries.
  
  I personally run 5/5 deep wounds and 5/5 MD because I use a lot of mystics and bleeders. I also only have my standard 2 points in stand your ground because realistically, how many people are actually throwing heavies through the opponents block in PvP? Maybe a lot, but I'm not one of them.
  
  If you run a decent amount of techs, then Collar tech is also a good mastery to invest in.

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• Glassback Member Posts: 758 ★★★

  January 22

  Pikolu said:

  Have a point in unfazed just to heck with people who want to use count nefaria and Elsa. Besides that, it doesn't matter too much. Have willpower, and don't use the recoil tree masteries.
  
  I personally run 5/5 deep wounds and 5/5 MD because I use a lot of mystics and bleeders. I also only have my standard 2 points in stand your ground because realistically, how many people are actually throwing heavies through the opponents block in PvP? Maybe a lot, but I'm not one of them.
  
  If you run a decent amount of techs, then Collar tech is also a good mastery to invest in.

  I really feel like switching from Mystic dispersion to collar tech. There are some really juicy tech attackers and defenders, I’ve now got five rank three techs who are all good attackers or defenders and only three rank three mystics, one of those being enchantress who I never really use anyway, she’s a pain because she’s a pain not because of Mystic dispersion.

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• TotemCorruption Member Posts: 446 ★★

  January 22

  Glassback said:

  Pikolu said:

  Have a point in unfazed just to heck with people who want to use count nefaria and Elsa. Besides that, it doesn't matter too much. Have willpower, and don't use the recoil tree masteries.
  
  I personally run 5/5 deep wounds and 5/5 MD because I use a lot of mystics and bleeders. I also only have my standard 2 points in stand your ground because realistically, how many people are actually throwing heavies through the opponents block in PvP? Maybe a lot, but I'm not one of them.
  
  If you run a decent amount of techs, then Collar tech is also a good mastery to invest in.

  I really feel like switching from Mystic dispersion to collar tech. There are some really juicy tech attackers and defenders, I’ve now got five rank three techs who are all good attackers or defenders and only three rank three mystics, one of those being enchantress who I never really use anyway, she’s a pain because she’s a pain not because of Mystic dispersion.

  I maxed out Collar Tech to try it out; I don't think it's worth it. Even at 5/5, it's only an 18% decrease in combat power rate. If this was a node, we'd pretty much ignore it. Sure, it can give that extra little edge to power drain Techs, but at such high cost for such relatively modest benefits?
  Whereas 5/5 MD can generate tremendous amounts of power gain.
  

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• Average_Desi Member Posts: 1,082 ★★★★

  January 22

  Does anyone know of the difference in 1/3 (.5) and 3/3(.7) in willpower makes much difference?

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• TotemCorruption Member Posts: 446 ★★

  January 22

  Average_Desi said:

  Does anyone know of the difference in 1/3 (.5) and 3/3(.7) in willpower makes much difference?

  It's 40% extra healing times the 15% max recovery if you have it (so 46% total).
  But the raw healing will scale with the number and duration of debuffs you're suffering from.
  So if you're taking a lot of debuffs (like if you run suicides), it will help.
  Otherwise, the difference will be less substantial.

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• Bungo Member Posts: 43 ★

  3:14AM

  Max stand your ground can save you more than you expect when you experience lag.
  3/4 for block prof is enough, you can estimate how it scales by checking stat focus of the champs.
  For stalling, max resonate paired with inequity is underrated if you have champs with easy access to debuffs or punish purify.
  Only 1/5 for deep wounds just because it's very easy to counter and you need it to get 1/5 for assassin.

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