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Originally Posted by Tinkerman
I'm really talking about gold. Folks in diamond may scoff, but gold's been a lot of fun for me this year. You can use a ton more cards and it's a bit better for Friend League action than diamond. But all those cards can become like sacrificial lambs when a meta diamond team rolls into town!
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As a guy who spent about five consecutive months in gold and made the playoffs over 20 times (aside from the occasional diamond promotion [human sacrifice], I agree that it was a lot more fun for its diversity. I do think that has changed since FH3 launched, because a lot of teams stuck in the yo-yo promotion cycle have joined the meta group (myself included), and that now makes up half of gold as well. I didn’t perceive that as much of an issue earlier in the year; I was regularly winning 95-110 games in gold without the best players in the PT universe. I think it’s a symptom of when a game hits its final stage of the power creep, and teams have nowhere else to go but down once the same strength is continually picked up by other teams.
Every team in my diamond league has some variation of the FH3 meta, and some percent of that same roster will be demoted, whatever the threshold at this point. It increases week-to-week. It sucks for those whose theme teams were able to compete with one another at higher levels this year, but I’m trying to find the silver lining (pun intended) with my all Sox team, who leads its silver division after competing in gold most of the year. I just had to resign myself to the idea that it can’t happen in gold anymore at this stage of the game.