**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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Quake, Mordo and DV dropped over a million
Yea, I was a bit surprised by the second cutoff, I thought the cutoff would of course be a bit lower, like 5.8m-6m, but I didn't expect such a huge drop. This is almost a 2 million drop in score.
I think you mentioned that pretty much the same number of people joined the arena, so that would mean the ban wave didn't impact the number of people who attended the arena. What it might have impacted were some of the account sharers who escaped the ban wave, since they would be on high alert of not sharing their account, and would thus grind by themselves, reducing the scores that were attained through account sharing.
Other factors include the usual, such as the fact it's in the middle of the week (weekends tend to be higher for obvious reasons), or the 6.2m cutoff score dissuading people from trying to get her.
That sucks dude, must be a big disappointment. That's why I never try for sky high desired champ. I did 1.7 and ended up same as you
I would be surprised if CapWWII crossed 4 million, much less 5. Prior to 14.0, I would have guessed Cap to be about 2.5-3 million leaning to the lower end of that range. With 14.0 speeding up arena, it could stay right there if people aim there, or the score could drift upward to 2.8-3.2 million if people spend the same amount of time grinding. This is the first lower scoring repeat basic since 14.0 we can use to see what the psychology is likely to be.
1st arena: 7.8mil
2nd arena: 7.0mil
No more arenas for a long, long time.
My own opinion is that several factors make the really highly desireable non-repeat basics score very high in round one and then much lower in round two. And it mostly comes down to how many people are willing to grind that high.
First of all, out of all the people grinding for a basic, some fraction already have the basic and are grinding to awaken. Because the basic only awards one sig level, it becomes far less desirable to grind for an awakened basic. So many people get the champ in round one and then drop out in round two.
Second, the first round includes a Saturday. That doesn't necessarily matter all the time, but if you are trying to grind the maximum amount for a highly desirable basic, for a high percentage of people Saturday offers more grinding hours which increases the total possible points you can earn in those three days.
Third, when the basic scores very high in the first round, exhaustion can set in in the second round. When the first round is lower and people put less effort into it, they may be more inclined to put out a similar effort in the second round. But when they have to push really hard in round one, even if they want the champ again they may not want to put that same level of effort twice in a row. Ghost Rider went for 4.3 in round one. That wasn't too bad, so a similar level of effort went into round two and he went for just under 4 million. But a lot of effort went into Voodoo in round one and it took 5.9 million to get him. That caused many to push less hard in round two and he dropped dramatically to only 4.2 in round 2.
Hyperion seems to be an exception to this phenomenon, but I think that is more associated with the unique nature of Hyperion: he was a highly desirable attacker and defender. That doesn't necessarily mean he was desired more strongly, but I think it meant that more people desired him due to his wider usage. So effects that would reduce the number of grinders that were grinding as strongly in round two were dampened by the fact that there was simply a lot more people who wanted him, and even after people dropped out after getting him in round one and even after some people slacked off after putting in that effort in round one, there were still plenty of people left that wanted to continue to push hard for him in round two.