Your opinion on GOLD
sfu_korax
Member Posts: 251 ★★
Curious to see where most of the community lies, in terms of gold acquisition and quantity. Just to see if there is indeed the slight problem that i believe exists. All the options except from option 5 are for free to play players or at least semi-free to play players that might spend small amounts on occasion.
Your opinion on GOLD 131 votes
I don't mind grinding all arena milestones, the gold i get is enough for all my rank ups
12%
17 votes
I don't mind grinding all arena milestones, the gold i get is NOT enough for all my rank ups
4%
6 votes
I try to get gold from the arena when i have the time, the gold i get is enough for all my rank ups
18%
24 votes
I try to get gold from the arena when i have the time, the gold i get is NOT enough for all my rank ups
31%
41 votes
I often spend lots on crystals, i get all the gold i need from duping champions and selling excess ISO-8
0%
1 vote
I have no time to play arena, i get enough gold casually via quests that pop up
10%
14 votes
I have no time to play arena, and i can't seem to find a way to get enough gold to rank my champions up
21%
28 votes
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I take advantage of every lvl up event to rank up champions as well, so at least Im' constantly ranking them up
In a game where ways to get champions have become more common (more shards etc.), there NEEDS to be an increase not only to the amounts of the rank up and level up materials you get, but to the ways you can earn them too.
Its not fun to be in a situation where you have to wait months to rank up a champion you want in order to use him in endgame content, plus most of the times you will get at least 2 other champions you like and wanna rank up in that amount of time.
Hoarding has been stated to be "unhealthy" behaviour, so we can understand that the message is "open your crystals regurarly, and enjoy the champions you get". But if there are not enough materials to properly rank up and level up our champions, that system is flawed. Not that hoarding would fix it, but if you were to get a new champion every other month, you would theoritically only have one option to invest your resources, thus making the whole item investment thing plausible with the current rewards, but also making the game much more dull and uninteresting.
Hopefully
On my main account I grind 5* featured to around 7.5m, and rank rewards for the others + the MEQ and it allows me to make maybe an R3 every other week when I take my donations into account (666). I have maxed T4CC and something like 500 T4CC related crystals so if I could, I’d rank a lot more as I do have the champs to do so.
On my alt which I pretty much only play to help a friend’s alliance stay together I don’t do arena and only play very casually. On that account for me to take my Iceman to R4 I’d say I’m probably looking at about a month to afford the rank up and similar again to level him up. Now, if the only account I played was the alt, and at that level, I’d have quit the game, I’m trying to quit the account but my mate needs me and I gotta help the bros.
The second a f2p player gets their first R4 candidate and doesn’t want to grind hours of arena every week they are looking at stagnation for a huge amount of time until they can afford the rank and level up.
Tell me that’s not a problem.
I have all my 5* at at least rank 2, and most are rank 3 or higher. Arena milestone grinding is definitely enough to keep you in gold if you do them consistently.
I hope they bring out gold realm again otherwise i will just have to give up the game, which i dont want to but with how things are looking i will have no choice
With 10 r5 5*, 15 r4 5* and roughly 60 more 5* below that.
Also have 16 6* champs all 25/25 except one (jugs).
In the last three days I’ve pulled...
5* cull, void, iwim, ronin. Saturday I put SS to r4. I have 3 r4 gems collecting dust and one science 2016 r4 gem.
I earned over 1.3k units a week right now from arenas. But I’m basically without gold.
I also know I’m not the only one. My ally runs 7x5 and we are near top 30 in aq ranks. I have to make deals with others that have gold to pay my gold donation otherwise I wouldn’t be able to do both donations and rank ups.
So before you go saying that doing arenas constantly will give everyone enough gold, think twice and rephrase it to yourself. 👍
So poke at what I said as much as you like. There’s one too many flaws in the game and system of gold earning to just say arenas are good enough.
500 gold for a fight win? Sometimes uncollected monthly quest fights are just above 100 gold won per fight. 2,400 gold for a gold crystal? It’s just astonishing that any player can look at these numbers and say everything is fine if you grind arenas.
It’s not. The gold earning system is exactly the same as it was years ago. So the game and the players progress beyond but the gold earning stands still.
But yes, let’s see more players. Like yourself, say it’s okay. Instead of helping a motion to change aspects of the game for the good. Let’s keep it in the Stone Age.
You can get lots of gold from playing the game as a whole. Doing quests and arenas
So, in my opinion, the way to keep a decent amount of gold is:
1. Grind a moderate amount of arena each month (not necessarily each week)
2. Sell excess not-class-specific-to-your-rank-up ISO every week
3. Prioritize your rank ups to champs that you will actually use for a specific purpose / game-mode
4. Use class-specific ISO to your rank ups.
And you will be great. Otherwise...