
Originally Posted by
DarrenPR
If this is referring to the enhanced leaderboard for Arena, Season 8, allow me to put in my two cents here, as I was one of the members of the party that wiped that leaderboard:
To the best of my knowledge, elixirs that were stacked only increased the timer on the elixir, not the effects of the elixir itself. This showed a timer in the map while you were there that was longer than the normal allotted time. However, if you left the map to any other area, the timer would have gone back to the previous time, before you "stacked" it. After I saw that happening, I considered using more than 1 elixir for the time stacking a complete waste of the elixir and did not waste my time doing it. If there was in fact a bug that stacked the effect of the elixirs as well, I was not only unaware of this, but also did not take advantage of this (as previously stated, due to finding it a waste of elixirs). I can only speak for myself in this situation, but looking at the rest of my team's damage and comparing it to mine as well, considering the gear difference we had, I had (and still have) no reason to believe any of them had stacked any elixir effects to gain an unfair advantage. We actually spent the entire season staying #1 on the leaderboard, or getting knocked down to #2 or #3 as some people got some lucky times. Nonetheless, we stayed on the leaderboard the entire season, and without much competition either. At the end of the season we gave the leaderboard some final runs, as we knew the season was coming to and end. We saw that we were powerful enough to overtake the #1 time relatively easily (given good environments & luck in crits) without the need for the challenger (which saves 10-15 seconds, depending on your group) after the first couple of runs. We decided to just go ahead and set as many of the times on the leaderboard to what we were averaging. All we did is use our elixirs, as everybody else can, and use our gear, that everybody else also had access to (provided they had the funding for it). I know I can only speak for myself here, but I know I did not personally use anything that nobody else had access to to give me an unfair advantage, and I don't believe any of my team members did as well. We won the top times fair and square. Please don't automatically assume that just because there was a sudden wiping of the leaderboard times that we were cheating. Some people got particularly mad about getting wiped off the times, and may automatically assume that the opposition was cheating because of pride reasons, but I personally think in this new age where more and more players are getting higher gear and finally becoming an equal to previous uncontested leaderboard winners who had advantages purely in gear, we're going to see more and more names on the board because they are simply more skilled than the other players (and now on equal grounds with gear) - and I'm looking forward to seeing some real competition for the leaderboard spots in the future!
Edit: I hadn't thought to mention this while writing with regards to the enhanced leaderboard spots, but if you actually looked at the pure leaderboard times, we could have easily wiped that board as well. We didn't as we had some other friends on the list that we wanted to share a first time season banner with. But the point I wanted to make is: we could have easily wiped pure LB as well, and there is no way we could have cheated by stacking elixirs on the pure leaderboard, obviously.
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