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    Player Februs's Avatar
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    Februs Harrow
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    Paladin Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by distant-cubix View Post
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    'Heavy Medal' refers to the debuff you accumulate as you collect the medals dropped by an enemy player. It increases your vulnerability to damage. The more stacks you have, the quicker you die when attacked. The vulnerability goes from 12% at one stack all the way up to 120% at 10 stacks, which is the cap. So, it's quite substantial. How well your team manages your medals can make or break the match, and picking up too many is almost always fatal. For that reason, the player with the most heavy medal stacks tends to become the priority target for the enemy. This is especially true at the end of the match, when a late game Limit Break can snipe a high medal target and steal the win. So, it is essential for the team to split medal drops.

    Typically, the tank should usually stop collecting medals at 4 stacks, at maximum. After that, the rest of the team should be splitting the remainder up evenly to avoid making any one player too vulnerable to damage. You should also learn what each medal symbol indicates, because there is a range of medals dropped for each image. You don't want to accidentally pick up too many. If you want to read more on it, the details of which medals are worth how much, and the exact table of heavy medal vulnerabilities, can be found here.

    As for box timers, quite frankly, I never paid attention to the exact time in the heat of the match, since I'm usually busy on suppression duty (#PallyLife). The adrenaline box always pops up first, though; so, you should be keeping your eyes open after each one.
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    Last edited by Februs; 08-01-2016 at 07:44 AM.

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