5.2 PvP Blog Post

[ebony]

The catch up won't be as good as getting your cap each week.
At least, as they've described so far.

If your rating isn't terribly high, you might have a weekly cap of 1,800 points.
If after 10 weeks of PvP, you cap each week, you will have around 18,000 points.

Your cap for week 11 will be 1,800 points as well.

A new player who hasn't done PvP this season has a cap of 1,800 (the same as the player with a lower rating).
And since the player hasn't earnt points for the preceding 10 weeks, they'll have an extra 10,000 points available.
So their cap is 11,800.
If they get 3,500 points in the week.

The player who has been PvPing steadily, has 19,800 points and a cap of 1,800 for week 12.
The player who is catching up, has 3,500 points and a week 12 cap of (1,800 + [11,000 - 3,500 = 7,500] = 9,300 points.
The regular PvP guy could have 21,600 by the end of week 12; the newer player could have 12,800 points at the end of week 12.

The new system definitely helps a player who is catching up, do just that.
But they're not on the same footing as the player who has played throughout.

yep how it should be plus any weeks u missed before 5.3 you get a extra.

that's saying a 1800 cap if they don't change it. and getting into RBG are going to be a lot easier now u get points for losing to get from 1800-2200

then if you read it goes of conquest points got to date so getting a few week does not matter.

(Current week of the season) * 1000 – (Conquest earned thus far this season)

so as a test this is was i got this season (ok this is start to now) as i did not know my cap in 5.1) still a good test

we are on week 13 * 1000 = 13000 < (new player would get) - 5730 (mine to date) = 7270 Would be my catch up conquest. if they did this in patch 5.1 this week (THIS IS A TEST ONLY)


EG 2:
capped points every week since the start of mop @ 1800

1800 * 13 = 23400

13*1000 = 13000 - 23400 = -10400

this would give me no points for catch up as i got 10400 more then i would get not using the system so i would be out of pocket.

EG 3:
capped every week with RBG 2200 cap

2200 * 13 = 28600

13*1000 = 13000 - 28600 = -15600 i got a extra 15600 points over the cap.

EG 4: (only capping points on av-ioc CTA) the cool one for boxers!

15-22 OCT av-ioc
9-12 Nov Ioc
4-6 Dec Av
25-31 dec Av-ioc
18-21 Jan Ioc

So that's 5 weeks (you can get a few more as there is some mid weeks but am keeping it as simple as i can)

1800*5 9000

13000 - 9000 = 4000 (you would get extra) and they stay on you until you use them all up. Next few av weekends. ten boxers will love this as all the ones i talk to say they always would love the points to carry on as they win them games a lot and always go over cap.

[Shodokan]

yep how it should be plus any weeks u missed before 5.3 you get a extra.

that's saying a 1800 cap if they don't change it. and getting into RBG are going to be a lot easier now u get points for losing to get from 1800-2200

then if you read it goes of conquest points got to date so getting a few week does not matter.

(Current week of the season) * 1000 – (Conquest earned thus far this season)

so as a test this is was i got this season (ok this is start to now) as i did not know my cap in 5.1) still a good test

we are on week 13 * 1000 = 13000 < (new player would get) - 5730 (mine to date) = 7270 Would be my catch up conquest. if they did this in patch 5.1 this week (THIS IS A TEST ONLY)


EG 2:
capped points every week since the start of mop @ 1800

1800 * 13 = 23400

13*1000 = 13000 - 23400 = -10400

this would give me no points for catch up as i got 10400 more then i would get not using the system so i would be out of pocket.

EG 3:
capped every week with RBG 2200 cap

2200 * 13 = 28600

13*1000 = 13000 - 28600 = -15600 i got a extra 15600 points over the cap.

EG 4: (only capping points on av-ioc CTA) the cool one for boxers!

15-22 OCT av-ioc
9-12 Nov Ioc
4-6 Dec Av
25-31 dec Av-ioc
18-21 Jan Ioc

So that's 5 weeks (you can get a few more as there is some mid weeks but am keeping it as simple as i can)

1800*5 9000

13000 - 9000 = 4000 (you would get extra) and they stay on you until you use them all up. Next few av weekends. ten boxers will love this as all the ones i talk to say they always would love the points to carry on as they win them games a lot and always go over cap.

You're missing the point entirely.

Your first week you play is N * 1000 + your current cap. So the week you get back you get over 15000 conquest points which allows you to get your t1 weapon and 4 pieces of gear, which is "catching up." Catching up doesn't mean on par, it means that you're going to be close enough to still compete. Not to tell you not to play your characters because you can "catch up" half way through the season.

For boxers this is great as it will allow you to pick one team and focus on it, let the others idle for a few months while you try to make things work and level another group if you so please to try again half way through the season if things don't work out.

Yes you get less points than playing arena every week on all your characters. Yes you get less than doing rbgs all the time. But it isn't meant to put people on 100% equal footing, that wouldn't be fair to the people who actually did play the entire season and the mmr gain isn't enough to warrant giving point for point at the minimum cap.