Hamlet Supply Exploit?

[Alhanelem]

The Hamlet Defence is clearly built towards teamwork

Ranking systems are not. People came up with the idea of collecting resources and dumping them on someone, but that doesn't mean it was designed with that in mind (Since one person gets all the credit for it, I'd say clearly it wasn't). The ranking system just isn't needed to drive participation. Aren't the relic weapons enough by themselves?

I realize that the advantage afforded to bringing a top 20 contributor is not drastic. It's still an unnecessary e-peen feature, however.

[Cthulhu]

(Since one person gets all the credit for it, I'd say clearly it wasn't).

I guess it depends on what you mean by credit. The fact that the top 20 bonus applies to the whole groups score I'd say your conclusion is wrong. Also none of the top20 drops are U/U so it's a safe bet that LSs are sharing the drops as well.

I also have to /laugh at the OPs original idea of making the turn in items U/U. 28% of players have a DoL over 40 and only 20% have a DoH. Making the items U/U means you just made it so that at best 30% of the playerbase can participate.