Ambush/Invasion League Challenge Rankings - Last Updated: 05/07/2014

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Sadat wrote:

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Flubby wrote:

an gz iski that was kinda expensive :D

i guess it was the 350ex axe ~~

ye 150 kills still just one ... wanted to be safe ...

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Balguez wrote:

Yes, yes indeed.

Fun fact: I/we chose to buy it while we're looking at a double digit amount of mortal sets.
To be on the safe side of rng.. gl guys, you'll need it.

i'll run my only set on the last day and pick up the axe just in time :P

Congrats ShadwRoca!

I was ahead the whole time in the 2 week race, especially after your 51 died. I dont really care about a leveling speed challenge as its 99% about how much time you invest...

That said I did find this bit funny:

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Flubby wrote:

push their chars far further then most hc players are able to do jsut becuase thy know how much room is left even if you go below 25% hp/es.

"dies to 2 year old PoE pk method".

I do know that if your HP bar hits zero, you lose, maybe thats all I've learned in hardcore :D.

I tend to think in a straight up leveling contest of myself vs some of you softcore guys, I think I would win 8 out of 10 times as I'm a hardcore player by trade. And this was, of course, a hardcore race. Mostly because, for every advantage you might cite as a reason for something you do well in Ambush, we have an equivalent person doing the same thing in a less forgiving environment.

I'd never planned on first 8\8 given your axe drop rates, but when we got that early one I figured I'd give it a shot.

If my sole objective was first 8\8 above and beyond anything else, the axe drop would have been the last piece I needed as I primarily play hardcore. I do however detest leveling beyond a certain point. I had fun either way just going for it in the two week!

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ignarsoll wrote:

Congrats ShadwRoca!

Wow you did it bro! Congratulations!

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Morsexier wrote:

I tend to think in a straight up leveling contest of myself vs some of you softcore guys, I think I would win 8 out of 10 times as I'm a hardcore player by trade.

now, that is getting interesting. you would win 8 out 10 times? solo/group, selffound/trade allowed, what lvl distance? 1-50, 1-90? sorry for being personal, i dont track your poe career and i dont know if you delete your high lvl hc chars but you only leveled 1 char past lvl 90? and that in like 3 years of poe?

http://poestatistics.com/users/morsexier/ (rips at 89, 87, 87, 85 || next highest alive char besides lvl 92 is lvl 86)

being good in 1-50 races doesnt mean to be good in 1-90.

what i see/saw so far is that sc players that came over to inv for lvl 90 did it in like 1-2 attempts. while so elite hc players reroll on daily basis

i wouldnt be surprised if you would win 10/10, but i wouldnt be also surprised if you lose 10/10. simply by looking at past statistics, i rather tend to vote for second

in general, in my opinion, an exclusively hc playing guy would lose to an exclusively sc playing guy (same "skill" level) when it comes to 1-90 races, in hc mode. Simply because the sc guy spent way more time in endendgame (75+ maps) and experienced all the deadly things and limits. while the hc guy has to waste time and reroll after he died, sc player just jumps into the same fight few seconds later

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

A direct correlation of levels though means nothing, as it was stab your eyes out to get to say level 90-92 before the introduction of 76+ maps, and now you can get 95+ incredibly easily given the level 78 content, coupled with the 2% experience change.

If you didn't play invasion at the start, well I don't really know what to say about your comparison of skill levels.

In the past, for every league with the exception of this one (IE carto boxes) the hardcore is ahead in levels until the true grind sets in after the first week or two. This makes sense as people play vastly differently in softcore\ambush than they do in hardcore.

A person clearing at the same speed with zero deaths is always going to be ahead.

I have no doubt that someone can level fast 3 months into a hardcore league with all sorts of tricked out gear. Not really my point.

Edit: my point being, if you think there is anything special about getting over X level, when its repetition of clearing the same maps over and over for weeks on end, well I tend to disagree. I've won 3-4 one week demis and I may win one in the future schedule permitting. Hitting 100 holds zero allure for me.

[Removed by Support] is banned, curious if he still gets a shirt =)

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Sadat wrote:

[Removed by Support]

I have been told like last week that he sold his Atziris axe for 4 mirrors and got a new one, surprisingly, few days later.

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Sadat wrote:

[Removed by Support] is banned, curious if he still gets a shirt =)

LOL, do you know what happened to him?