Battlegrounds Season 2 Begins October 17th!
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Hello Summoners!
During our first Battleground season, we listened to Summoner feedback and made adjustments for Season 2 to address major feedback. Here is what’s changing in Season 2!
Intention
We wanted to address 2 main themes from player feedback:
- The Rewards in the Victory Track, Gladiators’ Circuit and Events did not feel balanced
- Battlegrounds is a competitive mode, so players should feel most rewarded being the best; the initial reward structure did not reflect this
- Our initial tuning of Battlegrounds required a lot of activity which made the rewards feel less impactful
Season 2 Dates
Start
- October 17th, 2022
End
- November 14th, 2022
Changes
Updates to Alliance & Solo Event
- Players will be able to make progress in the events using PvE Energy
- Elders Marks have been retuned and will be used to accelerate progress towards milestones in these events
- By giving players the ability to use Quest energy to make progress in Solo and Alliance events, we needed to reassess the role of Elder’s Marks. We’ve made them a way to accelerate your progress, but not the only way to progress. However, it’s going to cost more Marks, but for a significant acceleration.
Elder’s Marks
- Elder’s Marks storage capacity is increasing from 4,000 to 9,000
- Elder’s Marks entry cost
- Increase cost from 15 → 90
- Elder’s Marks Unit cost
- 135 Units = 315 Elder’s Marks
- There will no longer be large bundles of Elder’s Marks for purchase
- Players will receive additional Elder’s Marks based on their remaining balance of Elder’s Marks against the new conversion rates
- Conversion rate will be 2.625x
Alliance Event Objective Points
- Energy:
- Select a #villain Champion during Draft Phase - 20
- Assign a #offensive burst Champion as a Defender in Battlegrounds - 40
- Assign a #defense utility Champion as an Attacker in Battlegrounds - 40
- Matches Won - 750
- Matches Complete - 375
- Elder’s Marks:
- Select a #villain Champion during Draft Phase - 120
- Assign a #offensive burst Champion as a Defender in Battlegrounds - 240
- Assign a #defense utility Champion as an Attacker in Battlegrounds - 240
- Matches Won - 4500
- Matches Complete - 2250
- Note*
- Points earned for Unit spend is the same for Elder’s Marks as it is for using Energy
- Elder’s Marks allow players to reduce the amount of matches required to hit Milestones, but the value is the same in terms of entry cost
Alliance Event Milestones
Alliance Event Ranked Rewards
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Solo Event Objective Points
- Energy:
- Matches Won - 750
- Matches Complete - 375
- Elder’s Marks:
- Matches Won - 4500
- Matches Complete - 2250
Solo Event Milestones
Solo Event Ranked Rewards
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Updates to Victory Track
- Added more Trophy Tokens in the Victory Track and made it less back-loaded to higher ranks
- Even distribution of Elder’s Marks throughout
Updates to Gladiators’ Circuit
- Greatly increased the amount of Trophy Tokens earned from ranking on the Gladiators’ Circuit
- In combination with the decreased costs in the BG store, amounts to much higher value than previous season
Season 2 Buffs
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Comments
I've purposely didn't spend them on first season due to how bad of a state BG where, so was saving them up for when it got fixed. Have close to 1100 of them, but the conversion will still cut close to 40% of it
What in the world is this cost increases !!
@Kabam Jax @Kabam Miike does this statement means that if i have elder marks from season 1 , they will get converted ? Or the ones that i will earn starting season 2 ?
For reference, I played roughly 150 matches last season. At 15 marks per entry this cost me 2250 marks. I bought the 3600 marks for 3100 units so the 2250 marks used over the season cost me ((3100/3600)*2250=) 1937.5 units.
Next season, the cost is slightly different so with 1937.5 units I can get ((1937.5/135)*315=) 4520.8 marks. However the cost of entry went up a ridiculous SIX TIMES to a cost of 90 per entry! So with this many marks I can only get roughly 50 matches.
This is a full TWO THIRDS LESS than what I was able to use last season with marks which means if I wanted to play the same number of matches but not spend units I am forced to use energy. Where was the logic in this? I could care less about marks being used to boost points towards objectives, I was using them as an alternate form of energy to keep playing a game mode I enjoyed without costing me from using resources I would use elsewhere in the game.
Please reduce the energy cost per entry to 30 marks and force down the point value towards objectives by 2/3 as well. All the current values promote is trying to force matches with friends in matchmaking to get more points using marks (and believe me plenty of collusion happens, especially at the top of the circuit) while at the same time limiting how many matches players who actually enjoy playing this game mode legitimately can do from grinding units.
So the elder marks I bought in round 1 are now worth only one-sixth of what I paid for?
If true, that's a (bad word) ripoff.
I am fine with Kabam monetizing this game, but for me they have ruined this game mode (starting with the last round), and now they are doing the same to Incursions. Sucks, because I loved Incursions and was really excited about BG. No more.
Before to reach the first milestone you needed to play 8 matches which cost you 8×15=120 ET which meant 135 units.
Now it is 3 matches which will cost you 3×90=270 ET which costs 115 units. It's cheaper.
Note that 3 matches give you 13500 points rather than just 10000