Board Thread:Event archives/@comment-12362668-20130925161833/@comment-11128765-20130925163949

Final Rank: 317

Final Score: 178,000

Deck Power (Pre/Begining/End/Post): 13.6k / 14.5k / 13.8k

Money Spent (and currency): 0

Coins Spent: 0

Battle Cubes: from 417 to 172 :(

Energon Cubes: +10

Medals: Great R4 pulls out of few (maybe 1000 total?) medals: Galvatron bot (twice), Jetfire bot, Elite Grimlock alt, Elite TC alt, Jetfire weapon, Elite Jazz weapon, Elite Ironhide bot, Elite SW alt, some other elite weapon. I was missing most of those so that was nice.

Highest Streak: 40 :) cost me ~70 cubes that. I averaged only 18 though.

Liked: I really liked going on PVP streaks. picking an opponent to battle was fun, and messing with my deck setup was fun. Getting fair results from battle after the crits were nerfed was even better.

Disliked: a) Before that final patch, PVP results were far too random due to over powered crit attacks. b) I'm really sad to have put my nose right up against my own glass ceiling, finishing just outside of Omega. I could have had Jetfire and saved myself 100 cubes but I let myself get excited.

Other:

I managed a streak of 40 after the last update -- Not bad for a guy with a T2 deck and previous best of 18(!). It cost ~70 cubes and shot me way up the ranks, solidifying a T2 finish, but putting me at rank 300, tantalizingly close to Omega Supreme (my only missing fave, see avatar!). I blew a whole bunch more cubes in vain trying to get another run together to break into the top, before realizing that it was moving away from me too fast (well, I realized it right away to be honest, I just didn't allow myself to believe it). Good cubes after bad points. But it was fun.

But now, the "treading water" effect has really landed on me. The Ratchet I just received as a T3 reward (and I was going to ignore) equals my previously-coveted Wheeljack T2 reward that I landed just 2 months ago. And both don't make my deck anyhow. It is frustrating having my previous T2 rewards start to suck it against newer T3 rewards. I can only imagin how that feels to the older T1 finishers. I wonder how much longer this particular electrum-covered mouse (me) will run his treadmill (TFL).