Underdog Tools have been adjusted via the latest patch. Devs have posted an explanation of changes and reasons behind those changes.

This is a quick devlog about the current state of the underdog tools and how they've changed with today's patch. Due to how we control these tools, this is a new part of the 1.3 release. Although it's short, we're using a devlog to hit as wide of an audience as possible.

With character transfers live, we've condensed our population down to fewer servers. This drastically changed the landscape on many of those servers, effectively nullifying a portion of the server's conquest history. As a result, the underdog tools are no longer an appropriate representation of the situation on a given server. They're also less important when there's a critical mass of players on a server, because they do not have to overcome the same hurdles.

In light of this, 1.3 includes changes to the underdog tools. There's a significant reduction to the amount of unrest alteration based on ranking. Here are the changes to the values:

1st: Defensive Unrest +20% -> +5%
3rd: Offensive Unrest +15% -> +5%, Defensive Unrest -15% -> -5%
4th: Offensive Unrest +35% -> +10%, Defensive Unrest -35% -> -10%

This sets up a small difference, but not nearly as significant as the current implementation. We don't want to turn them off entirely because it won't dynamically change as the underdog landscape starts to normalize due to the server changes. In 1.4, these numbers are going to increase to a level between where they are now and where they were in 1.2.

These changes don't impact the XP/Loot bonuses for last place.

And here I thought they were talking about the superhero dog...