Siniri wrote:
I guess I misunderstood what you meant by this then: "it's your total number of wins times the difficulty of the opponent (x 0.5 for draw, x 0.2 for loss) to give the team points." Because that equation doesn't include the hit points of the opponent. So is it #wins times hit points times difficulty factor (assuming the latter two are constant)?
Okay, probably overdoing this, but just want to make sure it's clear (in case there are lurkers reading as well):
Some battledome opponents difficulties don't match up with their starting hit points. We have no clue why that is, but that's why it's been specified as difficulty verses hit points. For example, the Snowager has an Easy Difficulty of 650 but the Starting HP are 700. Thankfully, I believe the battleground ones all line up, like Lanie and Lillie have a Hard Difficulty of 450 and the Starting HP is also 450. At any rate, what matters is the difficulty number for counting points for your team, not the actual hit points.
So...points for your team would be (for
each challenger on
each difficulty setting you fought):
(number of wins) x (opponent's difficulty) + (number of draws) x (opponent's difficulty) x (0.5) + (number of losses) x (opponent's difficulty) x (0.2)
So if I fought Lannie and Lillie 10 times on hard and won all 10 times:
(10) x (450) = 4500 points
If I fought Lannie and Lillie 20 times on hard, won 10, drew 5, and lost 5:
(10) x (450) + (5) x (450) x (0.5) + (5) x (450) x (0.2) = 7650 points
If I fought Lanie and Lillie 10 times on medium and won all 10 times:
(10) x (338) = 3380 points
If you only fight the top two challengers on hard and win all the time, calculating your points is super easy.
For example, last round, I fought each of the top two challengers on hard only and won 300 times on each.
So that would be:
Kanrik: (300) x (450) = 135000
Rasala: (300) x (450) = 135000
So I earned 270,000 points for the Seekers.
BUT which team wins overall is done by calculating the
total number of points for the team divided by the number of people who put in at least 10 battles. So the people who fought 10 battles against the Minor Warlock on easy with a difficulty of 8....they only earned 80 points. Needless to say, even those who do 10 battles on hard for 4500 points still drop the average for the team down significantly.
Last time around, Order had WAY more people battling (about 1.74 times more than Thieves and Seekers combined), BUT (using that same Order vs. Thieves + Seekers), they also about 1.86 times the number of people who only did somewhere between 10 and 20 battles only (which ended up being almost 60% of the people on their team, which was the highest percentage of any of the three teams).
So...what it's been coming down to lately is which team has the least number of people who do the minimum necessary to qualify for the boon.
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All that being said, using a second weapon to OHKO the top opponent is probably going to net you more points for your time than doing a OHKO with a single weapon on an opponent with lesser difficulty, and possibly still better to do the top challenger with two rounds, as well (especially if you don't have to change weapons, just abilities). At least, that would be my guess based on battledome page load times on my machine. Because it always seems to take forever to get the actual battle started! But...that could be just me.
Also...don't bother fighting the lower tier guys unless you REALLY want to. Fight at whatever level you can OHKO (or 2HKO). You'll earn way more points for the team that way.
Whew. I feel like I wrote a book.