PvP Week 13 - Statistics and Discussion

[Nicko]

Big props to HomemLivre who led his Visions Eddie and team to the top! Led the pack all week and no one ever caught up. Well done!

Another wacky week - both on the forum and in the arena

1) An easy-as-pie crack in the system that Slauki exposed months ago in beta was actually executed in the arena and got everyone's attention - including the developers. A "spirited debate" ensued that I wasn't going to touch with a ten foot pole But just as the developers are revising the point system after the incentive not to play was exposed last week, they can no longer ignore this potential cheat. Attack limits - or some other means of preventing it from happening - have to be implemented. A player named Steve was propelled up right after reset - likely in the same fashion as the event last week.

2) With the awesome weekend we had here in Chicago I simply refreshed every half hour and manually about 20 times on Saturday (200 Ironite or $6.00) to attack top players (sorry guys - you know who you are) . Couldn't play last three hours before reset. Still was top 25 but fell 9 places in the last three hours of course. While the Saturday rush is exciting, here in the States I see life getting in the way of PvP achievements with the longer days and nicer weather. It will be interesting to see if the point system the developers come up with affect that because sun-beer-fresh air before Eddie (sorry Eddie).


Numbers this week:

Number of Attacks made: 144

Attacks against: 131

Rank: 18

It looks like the matchmaking has been working really well. With a point system overhaul this could be a really solid experience.

Thanks for posting and good luck in the arena!

[Chaosego888]

Attacks 234
Defenses 192

Arena was definitely more fun this week with more variety of teams but now I am having trouble finding time to play as much. I am not a fan of all the negativity, misunderstanding, trolling, jealousy, etc. so I don't know how much time I am going to be spending in these forums going forward

[Shaolin85london]

Attack 175
Defense 156

Final rank #29

[MrFreeze]

301/248

Congratulations Homemlivre. I'm glad you didn't get beat by that crap. I'm amazed it's still even possible. I thought in the 3 months I was gone they'd have plugged that hole already.

I must have been invisible to the matchmaking system last week. It was much tougher this week. I was getting hit constantly the last couple hours as I tried to climb. My defense only works if I get lucky so I barely held on to 50 by the end. Was shooting for top 25, but it just wasn't happening.

[Ringe666-7406]

My numbers are pretty much same as the last week, 2572 pts (2584 last week), rank 38 (32), attacks 239/242 (244/252) and def 30/211 (30/217). Funny how this week I pulled up 14 holds on Sunday and Monday only, and the rest 16 I got from then until reset. Seems like my def won't see any better days soon.

[PerthEddie]

Attacks: 42
Defence: 39

Work and life were way way more important than a game this last week for me

[surfingwithdje]

Congrats to homemlivre who was the leader during all the week, and to Gmac who did an awesome rush saturday!
I very enjoyed the arena this week, and saw how the battle can be furious to hold a top 5 or a top 10 rank!

I was attaqued so hard the last 3 hours, but i tried to keep my tier ranking without revenge my troopers and those just behind me who battled for the rank #10.
Well done to all!

The competition is more fair for everyone now with the 1:1 ratio system, nice that the game go in the right way with a future improvement for the point system and better rewards!

This week :
Rank #8,
atk/def: 279/243

[Eddie_PL]

The competition is more fair for everyone now

The competitions would be fairer if everyone will have acces to all characters. Without having Nomad, Pharaoh, Visions Eddie or yellow rescuer there is not even close to call it fair competition. And this new striking talizmans, fail of design imho.

[HomemLivre]

Big props to HomemLivre who led his Visions Eddie and team to the top! Led the pack all week and no one ever caught up. Well done!

Thanks Nicko!! I noticed all of your attacks this week hahaha, but this is part of the game and we need to know how to get through it

301/248

Congratulations Homemlivre. I'm glad you didn't get beat by that crap.

Thank you man and Im sorry about the number of attacks on you, seriously, your almost in all of the lists for me hahahah

Congrats to homemlivre who was the leader during all the week, and to Gmac who did an awesome rush saturday!
I very enjoyed the arena this week, and saw how the battle can be furious to hold a top 5 or a top 10 rank!

Yeah, that rush was really nice to watch! And tks man, was a little nice week in PvP.

All that aside, congrats HomemLivre, you seem like good people and a smart player that worked hard to develop his strategy. You deserve to be Eternal and after this weeks lame PvP trolling episode (close as I'm gonna get to it), just want to say that I'm glad NF made things right and would ask that folks not ruin things for everyone else just because they are unhappy with the way things are... but who would listen lol...

Cheers to all the true PvP warriors out there!

Wow man, I thought that PvP was ended for me when that thing happened in the arena, glad that NF team act fast and get the things back to normal and I could achiev the Eternal. Tks about your comments, Its good to see that people recognize the work to get a good defense hahah, tks man, you seems to be a nice guy to

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I want to share some thoghts with you guys about my experience this week.

First my numbers:
Att: 394 (rush last day)
Def: 264

During all the week I only used my free SoW, didn't buy any refill and yet I was able to stay in first place during all the week. That shows at least for me how important def is in this game, BUT in the last day my hold rate droped a little.

The current point system is really painfull to top tier players, loose 20 points and gain only 12 makes the game incredibly hard and imho unfair.
This need to be actualized asap.
Many had the idea to reward holds instead of punish losses and I fully agree with that, looks to be the most nice way.

About some chars and issues:
- Gunner Corrupt Rescuer: his titan shield is completly broken, recovering from nothing, even depleted it came back when you try to steal...
- Nomad: his first hits damage are insane and if you dont have a shell you can say goodbye to your char, even magus ones. I think that when BNW shows up will be easier to deal with it.
- Gunner Art Dog: face some art dogs during the week and only one dont work as it should immunizing everyone, but when I tried to freeze the whole team with 100% chance none were frozen what makes me think that the bug was only visual (in this single case).

Want to thank some guys that cheer for me and helped me this week in many ways, your the best.

Everyone who wants to try the Eternal must do It, at least for me this experience changed the way I saw the arena and makes me try to build dif teams and ways to face other teams (that is awesome).

Anyways, this week was the one that I saw MANY dif team combinations and ideas, thats showing the way to a good and improved place for everyone.

Good week everyone, that was really nice!

Cheers

[Nicko]

Interesting - your ratio was really good in this new 1:1 environment. Either the PvP gods were with you and the 1:1 matchmaking missed you or - much more likely - a high number of last day attacks outpaced the ability of the system to get you on attack lists.

This has been the case in the past - but good to know it's still present in the current PvP environment.

I was asking myself today if there is a need to continue these threads - other than the obvious "water cooler" benefit where players can chat about their experiences - but looking at your numbers - I think the answer is definitely "yes".

Congrats and thanks for posting! And agree with your observation - if you're going to take an early lead - a good defense is needed to keep you there with this point system.

Kudos!