Best Of

I liked it. I think it succeeded in three important areas: the main Banquet crystals, the Jubilant crystals, and the Realm event tier rewards. The only thing that I felt was underwhelming was the ranked rewards. They're not objectively bad, but so many people pushed so hard that it was difficult to get anything especially worthwhile without putting down some serious cash. I put in over 40k points (which is probably about what I've put in in the last three years combined), but still only ended up in the top 10%. To cap off an event where I think I r4'd eight or nine champs with two 4-5 6* gems felt…yeah.

Not that it came as a surprise. As the Realm awards started ramping up, you could feel the community going hard and just pushing forward. While I aimed higher than I ended up at, I always suspected that I'd land where I did in the end.

But like I said, that was the only thing that I felt was underwhelming. I really liked the rest of the event.

One thing that I would like to see changed next year, though: while it was nice to have an extra avenue to earn some free crystals, please don't tie them to an alliance event next year. As an alliance leader, I feel like it puts me in a weird position. I typically declare December to be a grace month of sorts where everyone can just take whatever time off they need due to the holidays, without having to worry about any alliance stuff. But if Kabam then launches an alliance event (even a fairly low-effort one) where you can earn up to about an Odin's worth of Banquet crystals, I suddenly have to rally the troops again so that we don't end up losing out on a very significant source of both points and actual rewards.

I'm not opposed to an alliance event as such, but I would rather have it in November and then have the rewards carry over in some fashion to the Banquet. I don't want to hound my alliance mates about moving in AW during Christmas and New Year's (and especially not after having explicitly said I wouldn't).

But aside from those little nitpicks, I had a great Banquet. It really showed me how much mileage you can get out of diligently saving up your units throughout the year. I wasn't entirely free to play, but I felt very much like a little goldfish in a sea of whales and dolphins. Somehow that still worked out great for me. I haven't had a Banquet feel this account-changing for me since it was called the Gifting Event back in the day.

I hate that the realm milestones were drip fed to the players, you can’t really plan ahead bcos you thought that’s the last milestone, I can go do something else during the holidays, especially towards the end when you see 1 milestone at a time

Ppl have a life, some just want to get it done and over with, not wait for you to show the milestones in pieces

It was alright... Got lots of new champs and R4's.

Ranked rewards were kinda lame and anticlimactic after all those milestones, though. Like, I just spent over 30,000 units... what am I gonna do with 6* 4-5 gems?

Next thing you know the Monday Quest will be only on Monday.

This is outrageous!!! Dang "SUNDAY" quest available only on Sundays….🤬🤬🤬

Even with block penetration stat focus and 3 pierce buffs she appears to be getting around a third of the listed value. Also noticing she randomly inflicts no damage on a few hits into block here and there.

yep! Super off.

I was thinking no way she scales this poorly.

Now THIS is what the Sorcerer Supreme, the Master of the Mystic Arts should be

No, no it wasn't.

It's an announcement of what they're intending: the rebalance hasn't actually happened yet!

Here, I took this twenty seconds ago:

So, it's one need: just one. And it'll be a much smaller deal than you think.