Servers, Rankings and GW understanding

"Shard" is just some generic name used thru gameing to describe a set of players grouped together.

I personally don't know or really care where it came from. The trchnival term as provided by Dev's is leaderboard.
There is only 1 server with multiple leaderboards

You will hear/see shard/server/leaderboard used for same thing.
Kinda like coke/pop/soda

arena servers are grouped by 20k people, so its unlikely that any shard has no one paying money.

thanks a lot for all your answers!

GW is not based on your arena server. It’s a progression based on power, so that the early nodes are supposed to be weaker than your top team and the final nodes are supposed to be tougher.

"Liath;c-1445889" wrote:
GW is not based on your arena server. It’s a progression based on power, so that the early nodes are supposed to be weaker than your top team and the final nodes are supposed to be tougher.

How will my top team be determined? Is it the last one I used in the last GW or the first one I will use when I start a new one?

"Filipensky;c-1445997" wrote:

"Liath;c-1445889" wrote:
GW is not based on your arena server. It’s a progression based on power, so that the early nodes are supposed to be weaker than your top team and the final nodes are supposed to be tougher.

How will my top team be determined? Is it the last one I used in the last GW or the first one I will use when I start a new one?

There was a lot of discussion around this topic and many people were sure they had the answer but disagreed with each other. The most convincing answer I’ve seen is that it’s the current power (actually not what’s shown in the game now, the old power rating system) of the most powerful 5 characters you’ve used together as a team.

But then they went and severely nerfed gw for end game players and now nobody really pays attention or cares what it is.

"Liath;c-1446008" wrote:

"Filipensky;c-1445997" wrote:

"Liath;c-1445889" wrote:
GW is not based on your arena server. It’s a progression based on power, so that the early nodes are supposed to be weaker than your top team and the final nodes are supposed to be tougher.

How will my top team be determined? Is it the last one I used in the last GW or the first one I will use when I start a new one?

There was a lot of discussion around this topic and many people were sure they had the answer but disagreed with each other. The most convincing answer I’ve seen is that it’s the current power (actually not what’s shown in the game now, the old power rating system) of the most powerful 5 characters you’ve used together as a team.

But then they went and severely nerfed gw for end game players and now nobody really pays attention or cares what it is.

Except the ones that complain that they can't get to finish it. Personnaly I can, but my cousin and brother can't and I annoy them every time I say I've had "difficulty" finishing it this time. I would've liked to know how to help them get back ahead of things.

Thanks again

"Filipensky;c-1446065" wrote:

"Liath;c-1446008" wrote:

"Filipensky;c-1445997" wrote:

"Liath;c-1445889" wrote:
GW is not based on your arena server. It’s a progression based on power, so that the early nodes are supposed to be weaker than your top team and the final nodes are supposed to be tougher.

How will my top team be determined? Is it the last one I used in the last GW or the first one I will use when I start a new one?

There was a lot of discussion around this topic and many people were sure they had the answer but disagreed with each other. The most convincing answer I’ve seen is that it’s the current power (actually not what’s shown in the game now, the old power rating system) of the most powerful 5 characters you’ve used together as a team.

But then they went and severely nerfed gw for end game players and now nobody really pays attention or cares what it is.

Except the ones that complain that they can't get finish it. Personnaly I can, but my cousin and brother can't and I annoy them every time I say I've had "difficulty" finishing it this time. I would've liked to know how to help them get back ahead of things.

Thanks again

Phoenix team is easy mode for gw. They recover so much. You can bring the other team down to being two members (tank and healer) and switch to doing basics and non damaging attacks. By the time the battle is over you have gone from near dead to 100% health and 100% protection.

The one thing that has not been mentioned, is there are multiple payouts on a shard based on a players location.

Not all players on that shard have the same payout time so while there are 20k players, 24 payout times 'could' exist on each shard depending on the spread of player locations. This means you could have up to 24 different people getting 1st place over the day

Realistically it will be fewer than 24 but the mechanics of how the payouts work is still valid.