Why I don't Pop Features
TheRealApoc
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I am watching Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and the Forums. I see no evidence why I should ever open a Featured 5* crystal. I have opened two in the past.
1) Iron-man
2) Black Suit Spidey
Each came on the heels of the 2* arena last year and this year respectively. Both times I've been burned, now that was with slightly better crystals than the one that is offered today. I get it, it's buyer beware / remorse at this point. However let me be just a tad bit critical of it even though I have only opened two.
A) It takes a long time to save up shards, it's effort on my part and the fact that you do quests, arena and war to obtain these items for the most part (unless they're in a calendar). So a lot of time is put into them.
A lot of people take pride in saving up the shards for hopefully a new champion they may not have or one that they are looking to awaken.
C) It's FUN! It is fun to open crystals.
What isn't fun is the other side of the coin that is more than likely to drop onto your lap. I am not saying they all have to be great champions, however take for instance the new crystal. No one wants any of the following:
Iron-Man, Magneto, Agent Venom, She-Hulk, Iron Fist, Punisher 2099, Spider Gwen, King Groot, and Yellow Jacket. Some considerations could also be extended to Night Crawler.
9 out of the 24 champions are utter trash. I am sorry that this may hurt the developers and others that work at Kabam. No amount of Buffs to any of them would make them on par with any of the recent champions that have been released. At one time they were flashy and cool, someone spent hours trying to win them in arenas. Imagine being the guy who grinded arena for Spider Gwen.....
Speaking of Spider Gwen, you have heard from us for a very long time that her SP1 is utterly useless. And for all the effort of saving up for a featured crystal you have a 1/24 chance at opening her depending on RNGJesus.
So all I am saying is Buff it up a bit! Boost DA Power next time.
There are quite a few of the newer champions that are slightly lower tier that people would still die to have. Sabertooth, Abomination, Sentinel, Quake, Void, Juggs, Mordo, Morningstar etc....
Like I said I know that there can't all be gold, but has to be some silver lining to the crystal or all the effort is for nothing for some people. And then those people will end up quitting. Some of them spenders, some not. However the spenders help pay the bills, help keep the wheels churning and the lights on
With all the love in the world! You can close the post and forward it to the game team. Just some feelings on it all.
1) Iron-man
2) Black Suit Spidey
Each came on the heels of the 2* arena last year and this year respectively. Both times I've been burned, now that was with slightly better crystals than the one that is offered today. I get it, it's buyer beware / remorse at this point. However let me be just a tad bit critical of it even though I have only opened two.
A) It takes a long time to save up shards, it's effort on my part and the fact that you do quests, arena and war to obtain these items for the most part (unless they're in a calendar). So a lot of time is put into them.
A lot of people take pride in saving up the shards for hopefully a new champion they may not have or one that they are looking to awaken.C) It's FUN! It is fun to open crystals.
What isn't fun is the other side of the coin that is more than likely to drop onto your lap. I am not saying they all have to be great champions, however take for instance the new crystal. No one wants any of the following:
Iron-Man, Magneto, Agent Venom, She-Hulk, Iron Fist, Punisher 2099, Spider Gwen, King Groot, and Yellow Jacket. Some considerations could also be extended to Night Crawler.
9 out of the 24 champions are utter trash. I am sorry that this may hurt the developers and others that work at Kabam. No amount of Buffs to any of them would make them on par with any of the recent champions that have been released. At one time they were flashy and cool, someone spent hours trying to win them in arenas. Imagine being the guy who grinded arena for Spider Gwen.....
Speaking of Spider Gwen, you have heard from us for a very long time that her SP1 is utterly useless. And for all the effort of saving up for a featured crystal you have a 1/24 chance at opening her depending on RNGJesus.
So all I am saying is Buff it up a bit! Boost DA Power next time.
There are quite a few of the newer champions that are slightly lower tier that people would still die to have. Sabertooth, Abomination, Sentinel, Quake, Void, Juggs, Mordo, Morningstar etc....
Like I said I know that there can't all be gold, but has to be some silver lining to the crystal or all the effort is for nothing for some people. And then those people will end up quitting. Some of them spenders, some not. However the spenders help pay the bills, help keep the wheels churning and the lights on
With all the love in the world! You can close the post and forward it to the game team. Just some feelings on it all. 5
Comments
the old featured 15k crystal wasnt really all that, it was later revealed to have a 20% chance.
but i did get lucky and went 2/2 on blade with old crystal but i also seen alot of horrible pulls..
(anonymous2k for example)
Same can not be said about the basic crystal. Many would have seen Richtheman open 7 basic 5* recently. He got 7 new champs. All trash if I remember. I would have raged quit, so I'm fine with wasting my shards of it gives me a chance at getting a new great champ
I seem to have better featured crystal pulls after I’ve opened basic crystals for a while
Of course you won't have an issue after a pull like that, however if you had got Spider Gwen we'd be having a different conversation. I am not saying eliminate the lower end champions. I am saying don't put the worst of them in the crystal.
Everyone's idea of "the worst" is different, so if they eliminated everyone's idea of "the worst" you'd really just be stacking the crystal with the best.
For example, you mentioned Juggernaut. I would consider Juggernaut to be a mediocre pull, but there are a lot of people who have posted getting Juggernaut and claiming it was one of the worst pulls they could have gotten. I've also seen people complain loudly about Abomination and Morningstar, although in the case of Morningstar they are just crazy.
Morningstar is great on paper but her dash back is a problem.
Spider Gwen isn’t great but if played correctly she deals out pretty decent damage.
90% of the game is based on RNG, the game is completely unbalanced by design. If you don’t like gambling then stay away from the featured crystals, if you are looking for fairness for money spent then this isn’t your game move on.
Again for the people in the back: The game is unbalanced by design.
On a side note please buff shehulk and spidergwen these poor gals have struggled long enough kabam
The gamble on the featured is looking really attractive.
If you don't have a lot of 5*s I would definitely recommend the basic crystal. For me it's worth it to open featured as I need better war defenders and new champs to rank in general and the featured crystal has better odds for that.
I have almost 100, i opened 2 for this,
Have a...
Sig 100 drax (2nd drax from featured 5*)
Sig 60 iron fist
And despite my big roster...this hurts,
I took the gamble and i loss. Its rng
Opened at least 15 of the crystals with corvus in them and 20 or so of the ones with ghost. There were a ton of trash pulls but I still ended up getting most of the champs I wanted from them. There's just far too many champs in the basic pool if you're looking for a small number of champs. If you have a stacked roster and open a lot of crystals, as long as there's 4-6 champs in the featured you want, you're probably better off with them in the long run.
The current crystal only has like 2 or 3 good pulls for me in it so I'll be back to basics for a while
At the end point in game I have no need to add more trashy 5* that will never go past r3
I wanted Aegon and Sym Supreme from this crystal... opened 8 yesterday. Got 1 x Aegon and then 7 dupes (Mephisto, Modok and 6 pure trash).
Will take that everyday and also swap 10 champs for another Aegon
Pretty much just how I feel. If you already have a fairly built and diverse roster, the odd of pulling someone that's legitimately going to help you from basic are incredibly low.
Not worth the extra shards.
Opened 3 on my alt account and got X23 Meph and YJ not so thrilled with that.
So I opened 9 crystals and all were basic champs but 1. to be clear I am not complaining
Pretty bad return on investment. So if you are a starting player then do not open featured. I’ve got 60+ 5* now so I can still gamble on features but I would have had more if I didn’t take those chances.