Week 9 of PVP - Statistics and Discussions

[Patrice-1201]

Same old same old for me...

[Nicko]

Thanks for getting this started Patrice!

I'm hoping Jofer pipes in this week. Congrats on muscling up to number one sans Gimp! I know in the April update post he made some comments about his experience if anyone missed them. They echoed what friends have told me - when you don't have a Prisoner, Siege is a bigger obstacle than Passive Aggression from the Prisoner.

Jofer - did you find you lost more? Moved slower? Did you cherry pick at all? How were your Holds affected?

So much talk back and forth about how much of a difference he makes - very cool you accepted the challenge.

"Mid April" is right around the corner - so much of this may be changing anyway...

As far as stats, mine were:

Number of Attacks: 489

Number of times Attacked: 194

Ratio: 0.40

Since the update the number of attacks on me has really fallen - and what a difference it makes. It takes away that "two steps forward - three steps backward" feeling.

I still continue to champion a change in the way losses affect points because of players like Patrice above. It's grueling when you're heavily attacked. I posted that last week and in the update thread - there was very little discussion on it - so I may be in the minority on this.

Weather is getting nicer here in Chicago- gorgeous today - have tickets for the Cubs next Saturday - so staying PvP focused will be a bit more challenging . I'm actually looking forward to the update to shake things up a bit - they always renew my interest.

Thanks all!

[Thedarkness]

I have read a few people calling for losses not to cost you points.

I originally suggested that instead your holds should be rewarded differently back in beta before i had played pvp. After playing now i think that one sow per hold would be a great solution. Completely solves the issue of the game now rewarding you for receiving less attacks instead of a good hold rate.

Sparton has said he worries that their point tier system would become irrelevant, but it already is. The top 5-7 players completely dominate in terms if the share of points. They anticipated it would take around 2500 pts to get first place (they onviously didnt anticipate Jofer), a lot of players get to certain tiers now without placing high enough to get good rewards as is, so just give out rewards by simple rank number.

As a lowly top 100 regular it also feels pretty dissapointing to get back less ironite than you put in to pvp plus three worthless rare souls. Give me some skill shards.

Sid-2370

[Aristo4]

Benefited mainly from almost no attacks on me first 2-3 days (like 150 attacks/less than 50 defences), which allowed me to go up there on the 2300's and for the rest of the week just kept the ratio at 1:1 to stay where I was while attacks on me started to pick up very fast.

Defence naturally went down, and also maybe those I held were drunk/crashed...had celebrations when I had 1 hold :P

Made top 50 literally in the last minute, to enjoy 5 crappy souls

[rider]

My stats:
Attacks : 210/220 (95%)
Defenses: 44/310 (14%)
Ratio: 1.4
Finished 1272nd with 1850 points

The last updates works definitly, previosly got attacked only 35-55 times in the whole week, and now over 300
This made also the difference in the final score, previosly finished always in top 30 even with much worse win/def percentage

[Ezz]

Attacks: (198/211) 94%
Defends: (86/370) 23%
1996 points for 301st place

Pretty much like this for me every week. Have now accepted I will never compete with a defend/attack ratio of 1.75.

[slauki]

The Lists are broken as always, they are way to narrow and most people in the top 10 ranks should benefit from that, that's my theory at least. I was in the top 50 range the whole week and i NEVER saw one of the top 5 guys. No jofer no fallen angel no nicko and so on not sure about top 10 guys either. Mostly lowranks on every refresh list so they should widen the matchmaking range so that more player above you are shown. That makes me belive that the point difference is a bigger factor for matchmaking than the ranks. It would be great if some top 10 guys post at least the numer of attacks they suffered.

So for now rush early to the top and stay there easily could be the way to go. But i won't participate in that game, because i don't care that much for ranks and this sytem buggs me since day one..

I tried my best only one fucking crash vs. crown royal ruined my flawless victory...was really mad as it happened :P

[Silentknight]

The Lists are broken as always, they are way to narrow and most people in the top 10 ranks should benefit from that, that's my theory at least. I was in the top 50 range the whole week and i NEVER saw one of the top 5 guys. No jofer no fallen angel no nicko and so on not sure about top 10 guys either. Mostly lowranks on every refresh list so they should widen the matchmaking range so that more player above you are shown. That makes me belive that the point difference is a bigger factor for matchmaking than the ranks. It would be great if some top 10 guys post at least the numer of attacks they suffered.

So for now rush early to the top and stay there easily could be the way to go. But i won't participate in that game, because i don't care that much for ranks and this sytem buggs me since day one..

I tried my best only one fucking crash vs. crown royal ruined my flawless victory...was really mad as it happened :P

Ditto,except for the stats,lol

[RCarter]

155 attacks
209 defends

I knew last weeks 58 defends was too good to last...lol

[Tritium]

Attack: 204
Defense: 285
Ratio: 1.40%

Not as bad as last week I guess. I REALLY felt the pain of blue bat teams this week. Nearly all of my losses were to blue bat taunt teams. It's getting to the point where I almost get angry that people use such teams haha, but I know I can't truly blame them for picking a winning strategy. I still refuse to place my Mummy in my defense. That OP natural 3* toon can rot for all I care.

I'm still hoping the April update comes sooner rather than later. I can't wait to try out some strategies I've had in my head for a while now, but that Prisoner and blue bat would currently nullify.

Make PVP Require Strategy Again (instead of ridiculous luck-based teams that require no effort!).