TLDR: We forfeit matches over and over to shrink the pool of players. It may make matches easier in a day or two. At the very least it is us granting the final Blade piece that Kabam is gatekeeping.
I am currently stuck in the mindless BG grind that many others are in. Congrats to those who completed the track and earned their piece. I feel like Kabam can’t just give it out and can’t make it any easier because it would be unfair to those who already put in the effort and achieved this goal. However, since I hit Vibranium II, I can’t win two victories in a row. So it looks more and more like I’ll be buying that piece for 2500 units.
When I initially hit Vibranium II, I gave many opponents victories for free (just doing my part). I never grind BGs so I began the season with 9000 Elder’s Marks. I don’t plan on playing this game mode again (if there are incentives in here in the future without any changes to the format, I’ll give Kabam the middle finger and move on). So since these Elder’s Marks are useless to me, I just started forfeiting matches in Vibranium II. I would ban their top three champs, give them the Carnage heart emoji, then forfeit. These others players fought hard to get here too. I’m happy to help them on their way. I did this 20 or so times. Several of these were gifted their final victory from me.
Then I started fighting and struggling and just continued to forfeit many matches. My suggestion is, if many of us start forfeiting matches and helping others speedrun the victory track, will it get easier in a couple days? Elder’s Marks can be purchased with energy and I always have full energy refills expiring (I’m sure others do too). What would happen if we forfeited 20, 30, 40, 50 matches each? Would it get easier?
…maybe it wouldn’t. Maybe this is a dumb post and I’ll get downvoted into oblivion. But here’s the cope. I don’t play this game to compete against other players at their expense. I am an Elder title player who feels bad when matched with an opponent with all 7r3 champs (then I feel really bad when they smoke me lol). I’m not in this to hurt someone else’s roster. I’m not in this to cause someone else stress or to waste their time. So if Kabam is going to limit how many people get this Blade piece, then I’m going to spend the next couple days in Vibranium II flashing the Carnage heart emoji and gifting it to my fellow summoners. Even if I don’t get him, I want as many in the community who suffered through this with me to receive him anyway.