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You’re missing the pattern of the rewards, each one isn’t better than the last, there seems to be a few filler ones and then a larger reward at the end of that.

Look at the titan shards and then the titan nexus.

Also, this one is only 35 million points higher rather than the near 80 of the other ones. Additionally, claiming this reward will speed up the next as the opening will go towards the overall points.

Patience, my friend.

Y'all can do better than one crystal

Oops someone at Kabam forgot to replace the placeholder milestone with the real reward

100 points isn't getting anyone to a milestone 480 points away.

So we should just be content with being offered lower value rewards? We should be fine with mediocrity? No, Kabam can do better here and they should, and it is financially in their best interest to do so. The rankup materials were fine and useful for most people immediately versus the SBC that most likely will give you some 5* champs out of gala valiants or some other meager rewards. 7* sig stones are also much more immediately useful and higher guaranteed value. There's lots of options that aren't cheap.

Another way to ask this question may be, does the solitary SBC add to the excitement of the Banquet or decrease player enthusiasm for the event? For me, I see that and am disenthused.

My guess is that they are holding the final milestone(s) for the New Year, but needed to put up something since we're close to hitting the awakening gem. We'll probably do so a few hours before midnight. By putting a SBGC there, they're (I hope) basically just buying time. One SBGC is worth 400 points while every tier jump has been 280 points, so that crystal will propel people to the next tier pretty much automatically. It's not the most exciting reward, but it's also not something that drains you of your progress (aside from 80 points).

Of course, this is just me speculating. It's possible that this is how Kabam decided to cap off the event, but I very much doubt so.

the banquet crystal is only 35m points away from the last milestone AG instead of like 80

The jump is a lot smaller than other milestones, like half as much.

maybe it’s a mix up

Incursions does not involve any other players and this is a form of AQ that absolutely does involve other players. There are ranked rewards for alliances and there will soon be a solo version of the game mode. A timer makes as much sense here as anywhere else in the game.