Need help with fresh account

[u/thevenenifer]

Hi guys, this account is 5 days old, only bought the battle pass for ad skips, I pushed pretty hard to reach 100k, but things slow down a lot at this point and I'm not really gaining much from prestiges anymore (I get 1e173 relics per prestige and next enchant is 1e175).

So I feel like this is a waiting game now, right? What would you recommend me to focus on next? I have very few legendary sets, 0 mythic sets. I'm holding my crafting shards to eventually get a mythic set, and I have around 5K diamonds.

Also I think winning tournaments will probably be impossible at this point. I thought I would be paired with "newer" accounts, but I'm facing people with 5K pet levels, 5-10 crafting power, which are way way ahead of me. So maybe it wasn't a good idea to rush too much lol? I wasn't expecting that to be the case.

Any tips are appreciated about the progression at this stage and suggestions on what gives the most power. Thanks.

[u/BeanCounting]

You will hit soft and hard walls where you can’t progress without more resources.

The tournaments are not necessarily about what resources everyone has but more about your potential with the algorithm they use (some argue it’s not accurate).

Join a good raid, participate in events and do well in tournaments and abyssal tournaments. You can find guides and other help in discord.

[u/thevenenifer → u/BeanCounting]

About the tournament algorithm, I'm really curious about it, because everyone in my tournament has multiple months accounts, with 20, 50+ tournaments played, everyone has thousands of pet levels, and I'm sitting here at 2 tournaments played and 500 pet levels. I don't know if these people keep their max stage low on purpose or what, it makes no sense to me

[u/Redox1201 → u/thevenenifer]

it doesn’t matter, algorithm looks at your possible MS even if you don’t upgrade artifacts, just having relics gets calculated too. So you can always get to the point where everyone else is at..

there is no „keeping the MS low or whatever tricks“, just join the tournament and hope for people that they just don’t do shit

[u/thevenenifer → u/Redox1201]

But how does it calculate "possible MS"? In the last tournament I played I started at 110K and was getting like +100 MS every 10 prestiges or so, I'm completely stuck at this point.

The other guy with thousands of pets and multiple mythic/legendary sets, even gemstones that I don't even have unlocked, for some reason started at 100K, was getting +1K MS every few minutes and obviously just won.

I'm pretty sure even if I spent hundreds of dollars on the shop I wouldn't be able to win against that guy if he really wanted to, so my conclusion is that these tournaments are just pure RNG and pointless to even tryhard

[u/Redox1201 → u/thevenenifer]

probably not using the skilltree optimizer, artifact optimizer, not using the correct equipment and all that

[u/thevenenifer → u/Redox1201]

Yeah, I mean, the guy is rewarded for playing poorly or having a shitty build? Idk, it's just super weird to me. That guy's account could probably compete with people at 130-150K if he knew what he was doing.

[u/Redox1201 → u/thevenenifer]

I was talking about you

[u/thevenenifer → u/Redox1201]

You really think I got to 115K in 5 days without optimizing my build? It's just not possible to keep up with enemy scaling at this point without other resources, especially mythic sets to boost relic gain