Board Thread:Game Discussions/@comment-24829740-20140819170154/@comment-25055391-20140822165827

I can agree with much of this except there is no way in hell that anyone using 1000 gems gets only 20-25k pts. I'd say at worst, absolute worst, they get 60k, and that is they have truly terrible armor. I still think you are overstating the amount of time needed to play, but even at 4.5 hours spread out over three days, that is simply an extra 30 minutes, 3 times per day, which again, (this is my personal opinion based on 6+ top 25 runs and 4 top 10 runs), I still say 75% of players have this time preplanned to spend warring.

And yes the tougher opponents will eliminate SOME, but the fact is there is a cap of 400 players who can go top 10 every war. These 400 spots will fill up easy, as there are hundreds who look for top 10 every war.

Yes I know this war went crazy, I was in BoP and we took 8th. Our averaged score was around 300k, maybe slightly above, the average score for #25, (this is not exact since I don't remember exact score, but I believe it was in the 6 millions) would be right around 100k, maybe 125k. Yes higher than usual, which is in the 75k range, but still not 250k.

I didn't say they don't apply, I am simply saying there is no such thing as absolutes, and there are many variables going in to this that you (we) are missing.