Quote Originally Posted by Andy View Post
I did some testing last Friday. The test are a bit inconclusive and I am planing to do some more. The test involved bringing a player up to 1st powered down and then doing several things like being attacked and attacking and wining and loosing. The equipment and runes were not change so the power levels remained the same. The position of the hero on the grid was changed each time. From this limited testing, on a hero player that coming up to 1st or 2nd it looks like the formation is the last battle that is won, and not just the last battle.

Next I am going to do some testing where the power level changes to see if that affects the result.
well what i did was after moving people into the top 4. we would attack each other. we all got atleast 1 win in our powered down formation. the other 3 had just their main without gear or runes. i did the same but put a gearless and runeless blue hero in my formation as just a joke hero. my power didnt go up much. we all powered back up for rag and gws and sent out a guild mail saying not to attack the top 4 at any time. but even after all that it still used our formations from either rag/gws or before we powered down and attacked each other in the arena.

both me and the host that was in the top 4 has access to the other 2 in the top 4. so we know 100% that they were attacked by only the others in the top 4. and its very easy to put them in the top 4 since just myself and the host can move them up into position and be prepared for the palace.

as for this weekend we're moving 4 different people up from around rank 10. so even if the power down fails, they will still be weaker than what it would be if we had last weeks top 4.