This is straight up tinykitty. I’ve been highly engaged since day 1 and pre 5* land 900 was nearly impossible unless you join a battle chat (possibly not even then, I didn’t join one till I was in 5* land). It takes a lot more than just engagement. It takes:
Detailed knowledge of how the someone obtuse and not explained anywhere in game mechanics work.
The ability and willingness to spend a lot of HP.
Higher rosters (or certain ‘scarecrow’ characters) certainly help dramatically.
The major benifit of wins wins is that unlike points engagement is truly the largest driver and any roster can theoretically get to any number.
Hmm..I kind of agree with you but my experience definitely hasn’t been the same as what you’re describing.
I champed my first two 4*’s in January of this year (Gamora & CD). I have yet to miss a 900 since then and in fact it has gotten extremely easy now that I have close to 30 champed. I play slice 1, definitely don’t use battle chat, and I don’t think I spend an exorbitant amount on shields.
In most events I only shield once and that’s to finish the event for placement.
For me it was more about finding my float point and the best time to move up. It took a while and I won’t say it wasn’t frustrating but it wasn’t impossible by any means.
I have shared a link more than a few times going back years showing that getting prog, 1300 then, can be done without check rooms. I did for a long time and so did others.
Yes Wins now means that you can get full rewards if you want them but it seems by some comments that they are still not. We will see what the data shows at the end of the season again on how many players we had.
Don’t take my word for it. Listen to the actual experiences of people who are playing and posted their ACTUAL experiences
Did your roster get immediately more powerful today than yesterday? No.
Did other player roster get nerfed? No.
Was the points formula changed? No
Was match making changed? No
Did players become exceptionally astute at reading scores, tactics and strategies? No
Literally, What is the difference from today and last week? The number of matches.that people are willing to play. Please note, I’m not going to bother discussing a new strategy or tactic. Because, there isn’t any new magical insight that are being with held from you. There is no secret clearing order to max score. No secret scoring faq were written and distributed with out your knowledge
The only difference is that you now believe points are unimportant to your goals and that volume #wins matter.
God Bless you for that fact!!! Engaging in volume #wins guarantees more points in the shard and higher overall scores.
You talk about high levels of engagement. At the end of the day, the only engagement that matters is.
Are you playing more matches today than yesterday? That is more engagement.
Are you playing less matches today than yesterday? That is LESS engagement.
That is your perceived benefit, and I am super happy that your enjoying it. That actual benefit for everyone else is that more matches are being generated, which enables more players to reach higher scores.
In fact, the comp players would actually prefer it more players ignored the points and consistently went for 40 and 75 wins and stopped. It guarantees a nice base of high value matches, and signals an unwillingness to compete for the actual T5 prizes.
I go into an event with an open mind, happy to use either system for whatever my goal is for that event (normally driven by real life time available). I have yet to need Wins based to achieve my target, even when I was having a rough time with Valkyrie. I find I can hit 900 with more regularity now than in the past - possibly my roster is stronger but I do feel that reaching 900 now seems to have gotten easier (but can still be a struggle). I went as far as 1000 points in a couple of the PvP’s just because I could.