User blog comment:Oneanimal/Why the FW set is OP/@comment-75.159.107.64-20161010013549

Thanks for starting this blog. It deals with a question I've wrestled with before.

Now, my cheeky answer is that they best not nerf that set since I just got the mace last night after hundreds and hundreds of LL cards over the last 8 months of playing MP, and trying really hard to get it especially since they changed the regen from the two piece to the 3 piece bonus.

Now, in all seriousness, having won over 23000 battles to date, I can't even estimate how many times I've had to play against the full fourth world set. Is it annoying? Yes. Does it make some teams really difficult? Yes. Have I lost to teams equipped with the set? Obviously. Is the set OP? No, not in my opinion.

Let me explain. As I mentioned, I just obtained the mace after 11 months of play (but only playing MP for the last 8 months or so). Despite that, during the weekly MP tournaments, I always reach the top 100 (and usually I'm in the top 25 and if I really grind, top 10) with an overall lifetime cumulative battle rating of over 1.29 million and an overall lifetime ranking of 809.

So, not having the full FW didn't stop me from winning all these matches. But more importantly, I was able to win (probably thousands of matches) against teams with the full FW set (and I'm sure thousands of other players have too). If the full FW set was really OP, I don't think I (and others) could have achieved that. If anything, in my opinion, having to face all of those teams with the full FW set made me a better player as I have had to develop strategies to counter all of those teams with the FW set.

Additionally, if you look at the teams in the top 10 using the full FW set, if the set was OP, you would expect those teams to have a defensive win ratio much higher than you see. Typically, those teams win 25 to 30 percent of the matches. I was able to do that (and even slightly better) without the FW set.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sympathetic to the frustration you feel, but (maybe for selfish reasons since that I just got it), I don't want the set nerfed. I can see making it more rare, although, given how long it took me to get the full set I'm not sure it needs to be more rare 😉

Just my two cents,

Gorthrax