That's where I'm trying to get to.  I get the feeling G3 Live will be like G5 classic.  Except one man's its people throwing fights to stay low. 

I've been preaching that forever... people don't get it.  The inflationary design makes it inevitable.  And even without people throwing fights, which happens more frequently daily, the quality of teams at each level continues to decrease. 

Yup.  Can't continually grow the points and not eventually end up with everyone in the same spot.  Id say right now 20-30% of my fights are people quitting out the gate.

The quartz being capped is a huge detriment to me caring as well.  Once I get above 300/400 I'm not wasting a chest on less than 100 quartz so I'm just gonna throw all my fights, or not play, to stay in a tier not populated by mega krakens.

I'm not bothered too much by the cap. No way I'd get more than 5 (maybe 6) a month.... and no way I'd do that without moving up out of g3.

It's worth the extra chest just for the gear.  You are gonna cap at 4 regardless.  

On that note with zeal/impulse.  Hope everyone has a full set of 6...

Out of curiosity, are the majority 3600+? Looking to support my anecdotal matchmaking conclusions with more anecdotal evidence.  With or without confirmation bias 😀

Wow. I am not seeing anything like that. I have had only two opponents throw a fight in the 5 weeks that I have actually been pushing.  As I have said in other threads, I am enjoying the Armanz/Anti-Armanz Meta far more than the Tarichka & Wights Meta...enough that I am finding the time to do 5-10 fights most days.    

I was at about 3500 on 4/1 and am up to 3936 as of last night.  

April-into-May was the first time I have ever had to even think about the quartz.  😂  I was at 365 after three chests and was getting close to a 4th, so I slowed down my play and sat at 34/35 wins until the month clicked over.  Of course, that means I claimed a chest on 5/1, so my quartz quota will be full quickly this month.   

so other than the live arena ot, update has been out for a few hours. Has anyone started empowering their epics?

I started right away but only could make a single +4 so far which was allure who I dont even use anywhere anymore except maybe darkfae but cant remember. 

It is going to feel good again opening shards and getting some champs to use for this instead of just yay another chicken.

I am guessing that the throwing of fights must really start once you hit G3 and claim the Quintus frags, becasue I have not been having people throw fights at all as I have been climbing the second half of G2 the last 5 weeks.  

If anything, the fights seem like they are actually getting tougher the closer I get to 4000.  I really can't say that I have noticed a pattern that supports your theory of matchmaking within the halves of the Tier.  I did 10 fights last night and there was a good spread, and these 10 opponent ranks average to 3621. 

3372

3387

3498

3544

3572

3630

3701

3706

3892

3910 

Some whales in my cluster posted ss of a plethora of +4... so much for the benefit being for early/midgamers 😆 

Guess it makes sense that nobody will be quiting out until after quintus in g2. 

Not sure whether your data supports my hypothesis or not. I'm thinking it had to do with ranking. And that 330x is significantly high.  

No data to support anything of course. 

I have not really kept any extra copies for a long time.  I looked, but I have only a few that I could take to +1, so I did not bother.  

Pulling dupe Epics will definitely be more fun for a while!

Every now and then I troll G5 with a pretty solid all-epic team that wins a lot of battles against unsuspecting peeps who casually stroll in with their Arbiter teams only to get spanked by a Jingle-Hunter squad.  Just wait till the whole team is +4!  😁

Yes.  I think that G2 Live could very well become the same sort of barrier that S4 3v3 is, especially as more people climb and the OP teams that are still down in Silver actually make it to Gold.

Then, as people pass into G3, the peeps that don't have aspirations of taking on the Big Dogs at the top chill out a bit and farm each other for gear & quartz.

G2 won't be a difficult barrier like 3v3.  No hard cap on admittance plus the inflation factor will eventually push the treading water line up to g3.

I am definitely not mad about it.  Though I suspect there's some matchmaking screwery when you start throwing fights yourself.

I could certainly lay claim to "pure obstinancy" in the way I choose to play RAID.  I wouldn't deny "stubborn old fool" some days either.  

However, I prefer to solve it all myself in my own way and in my own time.....even though that sometimes means it takes a LOT Longer.

Shogun 25 was my last Dungeon to be able to farm on Auto.  This team isn't exactly fast, but it is stable and it is my own design.

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I wasn't going to post V2 of my Shogun 25 team, but since this thread got pulled back to the top, why not? I experimented with a few other combos after I got it sorted with the team above, and landed on this one. 

It is fair bit quicker and with Padraig in the lead (350 speed plus his aura) and opening with his A3, I am getting the taunt from Emic & the Debuffs from Riho up before Shogun takes a turn, instead of after the first turn.

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, I want to be a Raid shadow Moderator

I am not quite certain what that has to do with epic empowerment, but as of now Plarium isn't looking for more moderators.