I have just seen PVZ2 version 7.0.1 on you tube and with this new version, there seemed to be another level up being offered. Maxed out players can now have their plants upgraded to Mastery level! (see image)
More can be viewed at
1) Mastery Level
2) Super Mastery Level
3) Super-Ultra Mastery Level
4) Super-Ultra-Mega Mastery Level
Mastery is damned expensive. You use coins to purchase each one percent increase in the Mastery level for each maxed out plant.
Once a plant reaches the max, you can open the Mastery option. On doing so, that plant will go from "Max Level" to "Mastery 1". The start position gives you plus 1% on "Damage Pierce" and a 1% chance of any plant placed on the arena receiving a Plant Food boost.
This does NOT apply to those plants while placing them in your initial Battlez setting up period. (I would imagine it would be the same on any 'Plan your Defense' levels in Adventure). Any plant placed on the arena AFTER you've initiated the match will then have that percentage boost chance.
Each 1% increase on the "Damage Pierce" scale costs "X" amount. "X" starts at 250 coins, but then escalates the further you go - 250, 500, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, 6,000, 7,000, 8,000, 9,000, 10,000 every fourth increment - finally ending with a one off 20,000. At this point you will reach +50% "Damage Pierce" level. The coin charge then drops back to 250 before going through the escalation process again.
Each time you hit a +10% boundary on "Damage Pierce", the percentage chance of a plant being boosted when placed on the arena increases by one. Once you reach the +50 "Damage Pierce" level, the percentage chance of a boost has risen to 6%.
Now for the kicker - It will cost 243,000 coins to reach the +50% "Damage Pierce" boundary, then a further 243,000 to get to +100%. At that point the boost chance percentage will have risen to 11%.
I have no idea of how far the boost percentage will be permitted to go.
[EDIT] - It seems the Mastery level peaks at 200, so the maximum "Chance to boost" should be 21%. However each 5% increase will cost players 243,000 coins. To reach the 200 ceiling will cost 972,000 coins PER PLANT. (Excluding any coins players may win in Battlez, this equates to playing 1,944 adverts).
How far you progress is also limited by the number of seed packets over and above those needed to reach max level for any particular plant. (The ones that we kept getting regardless of the particular plant being at its max level). As you receive more seeds you will reach the next upgrade boundary. At which point you will then be able to purchase a further percentage hike for that plant.
Hope this helps, and hasn't put too much of a damper on any enthusiasm levels you may have been feeling.
Did you notice the vast ammounts of coins and gems in that utube video?
160 thousand gems and 501 million coins, whose account was it- Bill Gates?
@Humplemann wrote:
.... Hope this helps, and hasn't put too much of a damper on any enthusiasm levels you may have been feeling.
Thanks for doing the maths, this does not brother me as I have no maxed out plants yet. My profile with high level plants are still around level 8/9 and I have not been using them often enough. I have been busy with work and now even my collection of entry plants suffered too from the lack of mint tokens, just need to get some time to win some Battlez….
They are Bill Gates, since I cannot break the rule by calling them by names, I just refer them as ‘talented’ players who knows how to get more gems and coins for free.
Edit: Ther are NOT Bill Gates
There is a way to get a lot coins for free, beleive me 🙂
I'm with Old McDonald. No where near maxed out.
The coins needed is staggering. I have to start using a stylus as my tapping finger is worn out.
@MAGICDAVESHROOM wrote:Did you notice the vast ammounts of coins and gems in that utube video?
160 thousand gems and 501 million coins, whose account was it- Bill Gates?
Just a hacker with access a modified system of giving large amounts of Coins and Gems. They probably also have all the Premium plants, with them maxed out as well at no cost.
Whoever it was uploaded that video made a fatal error. They allowed their Player ID details to be revealed. That means EA could trace them.
But it is quite time consuming ☹️
@eieio_31310 wrote:
@Humplemann wrote:
.... Hope this helps, and hasn't put too much of a damper on any enthusiasm levels you may have been feeling.Thanks for doing the maths, this does not brother me as I have no maxed out plants yet. My profile with high level plants are still around level 8/9 and I have not been using them often enough. I have been busy with work and now even my collection of entry plants suffered too from the lack of mint tokens, just need to get some time to win some Battlez….
Edit: They are NOT Bill Gates
How do you know that it isn't Bill Gates?
EA is not yet owned by Microsoft 👿
Link below could be an interesting read if you want to take a break from Battlez
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1xj56q/hello_reddit_im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill/
@eieio_31310 wrote:
EA is not yet owned by Microsoft 👿
I started reading it but gave up when he didn't mention pvz2 or battlez.
I notice you used the word "yet"......
Speaking for myself i am just starting to max out or am close to maxing out some plants in two of my profiles and i don't like this new "mastery" levelling system.
Is this yet more of the iceberg?
The tip of the iceberg was imposing a levelling system on an old, well established game and now the players who are reaping the rewards of maxing out their plants now have another set of expensive hurdles to jump.
What comes AFTER mastery?
Alas, poor Humplemann.......
