War Bonds in Faction War: does anyone in your faction use them?

[Hunter Hogan]

If someone in your faction uses War Bonds for refills during Faction Wars, then your faction should start thinking about what will happen to your ability to win Faction Wars after Synapse implements the new Faction War system.

We don't yet have many details about the new system, but the inability to purchase a win is a dramatic change. This change probably only impacts high-level factions because the people that are willing to purchase wins tend to join a high-level faction. (Purchasing a win earns FP → faction level → faction reward cards. If you want a level 16 reward card, just join a level 16 faction. But if you want a level 17 card, then...)

[Randomick]

As an Evocati player, I can say that wb purchase is often the reason why we loose a war. It is stil possible to score wars above 30k, but this is less likely to happen, since we will have maybe other uses for stamina....

[joannes3000]

The only times we've (Soldiers of Fortune) WB'd heavily to date is when we're up against factions like FBB. Even before we started getting hit by factions with strangely high activity levels throughout all six hours of a war... we were never keen on inflating our war production through refills. Even with the spenders we have in our faction, refilling never seemed like a sustainable practice.

[Hunter Hogan]

Either I have not been reading the Synapse announcements closely enough (likely) or I don't understand "since we will have maybe other uses for stamina..." 

Does this mean that when the new system comes out, we might be able to use Stamina for something other than PvP Faction Wars? If so, then factions that use WB to win wars will be hit even harder. First, they won't be able to use WB for refills. Second, if Stamina is useful for things other than Faction Wars, then players will be tempted to (or need to) use Stamina outside of Faction Wars. Both of those things would reduce the total damage a WB-using faction could inflict.

Of course, any reductions might be offset by other changes, so my speculations are merely speculations.

Fortune favors the well prepared, however, and a faction that wins with War Bonds would be wise to prepare now for the possibility that a faction war system without War Bonds will significantly hurt the faction's strength in Faction Wars.

[Randomick]

I suppose conquest will use stamina instead of energy, then players will have to share the stamina between direct wars and conquest ...So we can expect to see lower scores on average for faction wars....