Im all for grinding and having fun, but after doing about 5-6 worth of 1-15s ( 3 tychuses, 2 Zeratul, 2 karax, 1/3rd of a raynor) i just have to say that, you know, it is good getting more mileage, but i feel like it’s more aimed at just people with maybe 1-2 commanders focuses and that’s fine. We had fast leveling on the ptr, and it was fun unlocking a new mastery, trying it out, and then trying to experiment with it. I feel like the current design while fresh the first 2-3 times… really gets a bit overdone the 4th 5th and 6th time.
I think on average, for a brutal game you’re looking at like 5-7 hours per 1-15, or about a evening for a single prestiege of farming brutal games. Say, you get 55k exp for a 20 minute avg brutal and need 1,045,000 to level 1-15. That’s about 19-22 games of brutal or 23-26 on hard depending on bonuses / random map.
Okay so lets take it, and lets say, ballpark it and say, you’re a good player, you get your missions won nearly every time and you take like say a nice even 20 games of hard to brutal to level up 1-15.
Now, lets say that each game on average is say, 20 minutes ingame.
20 brutal Games * 20 minutes = 7.33 Hours for 1-15.
Now (thankfully), since games in coop are set to fastest (1.5x) speed. That basically shortens it down to about 5 - 6 hours a 1-15 depending how you play and your commander’s speed.
Now multiply that by 3, and low lvl commanders, and it can be 15 - 18 hours of gameplay to max prestiege a single commander.
Multiply that grind by say, a modest 5 of maybe some commanders you care about / own. And that’s 75 - 90 hours of grinding. That’s a fair amount of grind that a old runescape skill would have say, for 1 - 99 woodcutting or fletching or something… And that’s just 25% of the commanders.
Lets say you want to, for some reason do the whole 18. 18 Commanders * 15-18 IRL hours each = 270 - 325 hours to priestiege all 18 commanders. 200 hours is more than some working adults play their favorite game in a year. But if you were to grind solely towards it, if you wanted to unlock all prestieges within say, a month of grinding.
That would need to be about 9 - 11 hours a day, for a entire month. If you wanted to do it all in two weeks, doing 18-22 hours a day of grinding, Forget it. If you wanted to do it in 1 week, im sorry but you would need a time machine to play 36 - 44 hours a day.
If you set the deadline for a much more longer say, 6 months, (or 180 days), you could be looking at a much more reasonable 10 - 15 hours a week which isn’t too bad. If you were focused on only completing one commander, it would take probably 15 - 18 hours for a average person random queing 20 minute games. if done at casual or slower speed, it could literally take 900 hours if a masochist wanted to complete it at the slowest xp rates with no holiday bonus on the lowest difficulty and time.
This is clearly a jawbreaker update meant to last a while, but also at the same time… I miss the ptr where, just since leveling is fast doesn’t mean people didn’t like playing around with the masteries! Right now it just feels like you unlock them and don’t even get to enjoy them. You zip and playing max mastery commanders feels like a waste since you feel obligated to prestiege and unlock your lower level commanders. Since… What in case you need them someday?
I would so kill for a +50% boost the first prestiege, a +100% xp boost the 2nd, and a +150% xp boost the 3rd. At least after the 1st or 2nd commander. I get it’s meant to be a jawbreaker update but comeon we were playing coop just for the fun of coop with the prestieged commanders on PTR, we could have fun with the playstyles and not need to be lvl 1-15 rofl.
250 - 300 hours to unlock all prestieges at average 20 minute hard/brutal games on fastest is a little… much. 900 Hours if you do it on casual at slowest w/o is… lolwut.