Alleged “Port Permanent Boost”

[Shambo]

The patch notes for 1.14.2-D mentioned “The Port is getting a permanent boost in both its gold and XP rewards”

Yet saving a Port for after the update resulted in no net increase for Port rewards.

Was this implemented in 1.14.2-D-LMNOPXYZ because it doesn’t look like it. Or is this one of those things that the PB team says “oh yeah it will be implemented after the refresh on XX/XX/XXXX even though that was never mentioned in any patch notes”

Thank you for your time and helpfulness regarding this topic.

[Lord_Skellington]

A few questions.

1. Which server are you on?
2. Which difficulty is your port set to?
3. How much were you getting before the update?

I’m on server 5 and complete it on my highest possible difficulty (Daunting) and I can tell you for sure I don’t usually get anywhere near that much. I’m usually just below a million.

[Pipsqueak]

They have increased, slightly. I’d usually get around 800-900k from a ‘daunting’ run, and just received 1.06m.

[Shambo]

Server 3 here, also on Daunting. I usually don’t cash out my credits until after i raid 2/2 daily ports, but with the daily video multiplier i was getting 3.2-3.45mill daily. So if there was an increase, it seems to be a measly 100k-200k.

In my opinion, 1-200k is not enough to warrant a BOLD PERMANENT BOOST announcement in the patch notes and say that this change was a direct result of “last weekend’s Dev Chat” and a “way to help players better keep up with hero progression.” i thought there would be at least a 500k-1M boost in gold port.

[Lord_Skellington]

That sounds about right to me @Pipsqueak
I’ve used all my port runs today so I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see if there is a noticeable increase.

[Lord_Skellington]

It does feel like (regardless of whether the boost has been activated and how much of a boost it is) that rather than a vague statement (i.e. “a boost”) it would have been more useful to have something more concrete (i.e. “a 20% boost”).

[Shambo]

Yes i agree, for right now i feel like we’re all in this “so did they or didn’t they??” gray area if this change was actually implemented. Made this topic to hopefully get clarification on the matter.

[Turned_To_Sin]

The increase is situational. Like, on my server the highest level gave 2 saphire cards, no more or less. Now it gives 1-3 cards
Yet smaller cards numbers actually got increased.

[Emitz]

exactly, I even got a 1.15M.