Well for one thing booster prices won't go up which means less money for everyone who does shinwas/quentins quests.

yep that's the way of it. :S c'est la vie?

Ha-ha make all the mistakes while you can before they get reset. :D It's how I'm looking at it.

I love battling but that's not fair. Not even a little bit.

It'd be cool if with the stat reducers in play, if they tell us about the exp wipe inb4, we could cull some stupid useless stats and replace them with actually useful ones before that exp goes out the window.

Or give the exp to another pet, Idk why that idea was tossed out the window since uh.. most people with capped pets have at least one more battle pet (if not 10 more).

I assume the culling of the exp, though, is because the cap rise will probably be like to 23k after all this mess (lol I'm glad my vested emotions in battling at this point are basically at the "lol saw that coming, glad I don't care or I'd probably be mad right now"), so really it won't matter if it's all gone or not. Still though, it'd be nice to remove all that useless speed that serves -5% purpose and replace it with a useful stat inb4 it's all wiped anyways.

Working on cashing down basically all my tokens to do that anyways (116 down, at least 234 to go xD) but it'd be nice to use that stale exp on something before its' gone anyways. Unless you can now magically use exp on reduced statted capped pets-- but I assume that's still busted and/or intentional (because why wouldn't it be).

I wonder why they didn't explain why there weren't any alternatives to wiping exp. Like for example manually or automatically converting to hard battle tokens or such.

Drakan's got 1.25m exp doing nothing since 2012? Good thing I've spent as much remaining usable exp on hp, although some were wondering why I didn't spend it on str which many prefered in their build.

But still, if I knew there's only a wipe I'd spend the rest on level just before capping. At least it's nice to see inflated levels make your pet the top 10 or so. Just like fashion as Alex said :P

@ Laurie I don't think I'd call it "fair" either. I guess I'm the only one at the cap that thinks it's overall better than everyone insta-recapping. I totally understand the arguments against it though, I mean its plain obvious. I just think it's probably a necessary evil.

it was possible since the beginning to use stat reducers on capped pets and then boost them with anything...

you know, i hadn't thought about that. might as well take a stab at the rest of the impossibles in the meantime...

Glory be, the buttons.

I'm not spending a penny on boosting anything but intel, not when there's 1.2m of exp rotting xD I'd prefer to use the leeches and use that wasted exp that's going to (apparently) be deleted anyways.

PS: I assume the new cap will be super low, and that's the cause of the deletion (otherwise it's a drop of water in body of water) and regardless of my opinion on it Idk why the idea of deleting every tier 12's exp is a better idea than letting people use the exp on another pet. I don't really think there's ever a go around for capped pets earning exp because if that's put into place no one will ever cap (or they'll just backpeddle), but I dunno. Giving it to another pet, making a new tier with a higher cost of stats, letting people keep some but not all.. the idea of just deleting it all seems... overdramatic kinda.

It also sucks for anyone who has exp held back on a tier 12 pet that isn't keeping an eye on this board and might not be that active-- bet they won't be exactly eager to stick around after that.

Also they said they're going ot make a site wide announcement a week before about the xp being cleared. so if someone's on vacation that week, that sucks but anyone who's on will be fine if they actually heed the warning.

LOL I don't care much about booster prices since I hoard them and use them myself (or give them as gifts). They're already pretty profitable for people who like to sell them.

There's a lot about the battling system here I just don't get. I am really super happy about the proposed change is awarding EXP though. I've always thought it was totally backwards the way its done - with getting LESS EXP as an opponent got BETTER. That concept just boggled my mind.

Thanks for bringing the buttons back! :)

that is probably down right the best thing I read as well. Also infinite small xp for wins past 10. Finally it'll actually mean something for people who go hard and get thousands of wins on opponents.

Also sort of related, scarsdale said he'll look into putting the opponent high scores back up which is awesome of course.

how about letting us buy intel with the exp? :P

It'd be nice if the exp could be used to REDUCE stats. That way people could use their millions of exp points to rearrange their stats and feel like they got something out of it, but still not have more total stats.

Huh I thought the compensation would be the fact all challengers are getting reset so you may not earn back the millions but you could earn more EXP again? I dunno I shouldn't say anything I'm not close to the first cap anyway.

OMG! I think that's a great idea! I don't have a capped pet, so my opinion doesn't count for much, but that would make me feel better. Being able to use instead of lose and not affecting the total sounds like a good compromise.

Are you sure? Because I'm pretty sure someone in the news post said they used some on a capped pet and still couldn't boost up because the site saw the pet as capped.

If that's not the case, and an uncapped pet can use exp than I'd like a staffer to confirm that. I'd rather be bitter and jaded with stats that end with 00's than bitter, jaded, and pissed off with 00/00/00/98s glaring me in the face.

... and lol I dunno man. Have you ever seen how people on the road react to rain? It's like they've never seen water before in their lives, I don't imagine they'd react much differently to being told all tier 12 exp is going to be wiped-- then being startled and confused when it happens |D. (Because when the site is vague.. people get confused, and when the site is explicit in detail... people still get confused.)

Since you're lurking.. can you answer my question involving the leeches verses capped pets verses exp?

It's really late and I'm tired and my filter is gone and I really really have nothing even remotely nice or positive to say about where the cap is or where it's probably going to go or what special capped surprise is in store for us (it's battling with our pet's minion isn't it?) (oh boy-- Craig's going to have the strongest spider ever true story xD) so I'ma just.. say I would really just like to train my pet again and ^ would like to know if the leeches remove useless stats on capped pets if exp can be used on said pet since it's technically not "Capped" anymore.

Ooooo, cap talk! I'm still happy I haven't hit it, even though it's more because I'm lazy, but it's good to see that there's attempts at correcting/doing something with it.

Anyway, I was having fun on some of the summoned opponents with the coming retirements and got a new damage high!:

Total Damage: 8384

If only I could get that more than once in a blue moon...