Sorry, I'm not part of the "Timed Permanent Buff" discussion. Just answering your concerns about existence of a Permanent Final Stand and offer a possible context of the fix in the update notes.
Sadly we did not get the return of repeat defender penalty, which means that triple Immoral bosses will still be a thing
Check the initial Annie FAQ post for answers to that question and more!I mean, I obviously has the usual question about Annie's sprites being released/going on the Compendium, but i'm sure I'm not the first one to ask AND it'll be available when she'll be in 2nd Encore, so it might be useless to ask, right ?
Correct!
We run all kinds of tests all the time in SGM. This one is just a little more noticeable than others so we wanted to give a heads up about it before people panicked.
Certain events can inflict FINAL STAND as a Permanent modifier, like the upcoming Costume Party Prize Fight.
This change was designed to discourage players from piling all of their Rift Battles together back to back in the final hours of Sunday.
Account switching is something we are considering, but is not included in this update.
I’m a casual rift player and I have 96 red tickets saved up and rarely have less than 5 green tickets at a given moment. Every day we should still be getting a free 3 green tickets so that 3 free rounds of rift every day. That’s a minimum of 21 matches per week (way more than the necessary number to qualify for prizes); and when you take into account the new +1 green ticket for clearing 3 matches, that’s potentially 7 more free tickets you can get in a week.
Currently, those potential 7 '+1 tickets' are Red...
hear hear. but oh welhms. game's changed. id miss the short window we had hoarding red tickets tho. (i dont know about yall but i dream to use all my hoarded red tickets and get to #1 rift rank one day...one day...maybe...in my dreams...)
nah, i think evil meant rught now we get free red tocket reward that we can hold on to with no time limit or stash limit vs the change to rewarded green ticket in the next update, that has a stash limit. making the "beat all three and get extra ticket" feel cheaper. thats how i feel about it anyways.
But what I was trying to say to you was that after 4.4 drops, even casual rift players will still have access to about 28 free matches per week. So it's not like you'll have to choose whether to grind rift hardcore or do play it at all. There's plenty of between room.
Yeah, I know.
Sure, I was just pointing out to that other user that Rifts in 4.4 can be played casually, even with the reduction of Red ticket acquirement. 4.4 provides plenty of green tickets so that a casual Rift player won't need to dip into their Red ticket stock.
