Mykan
Oh Wise One
AJ her is why I make the statements
3) that the feedback was ignored even when asked for. Beta and from what I infer from the translations on the International forum all were of displeasure and calls for adjustments and fixes to drastically reduce or eliminate the ORC and MANA use, and to take out the penalty for growing and application of expansions, any number of items that were feedback asked for and given and ignored it seems. the beta threads are long and detailed and not allowed as I understand the rules to be linked here.
These are objective comparisons based on what has been openly given as results and background. Are my comparisons personal, no, I don't have a beta account and could not test, but I can read and understand the results of users I trust.
Agree or disagree I do not care but I do like that one way or another the discussion is here and in public rather than just in the back of the minds of players.
For the record they did make adjustments to mana, orcs and premium expansions (already implemented on live). Of course not as much or what players would like but they did tweak these based on feedback. Bottom line with expansions is it is the new difficulty direction they have decided on and started with spire.
@clusseau I hadn't looked at the EN results until your comment but yes one team got all 19 chests last week so it is achievable. I am actually surprised (pleasently) to see tourney scores still very high there, initally on beta 5K was considered top tier. 10 chests has been made way easier from what I saw, which appeared to be their goal. So it will be interesting to see how it all plays out. As you said it is the metrics they will pay attention to and tweak things if they see anomolies in those.