New uncollected crystal

Draco2199 · 2017-08-30T18:52:44+00:00

Just posting my experience not complaining. $500 worth of units used 80 crystals (yeah I did 80 which is a lil more than $500) 1 4* 79 3*s I assumed I'd at least pull 5 4*s out of that like I would 3*s from premium crystal but nope. Didn't expect to pull a 5* either. So…

Draco2199

Just posting my experience not complaining.

$500 worth of units used

80 crystals (yeah I did 80 which is a lil more than $500)
1 4*
79 3*s

I assumed I'd at least pull 5 4*s out of that like I would 3*s from premium crystal but nope. Didn't expect to pull a 5* either.

So odds of a 4* from my pulls is around 1.25%

This really isn't worth it, maybe just buy 3 at a time for fun every once in while but otherwise no real point.

Comments

Qwerty

i just assumed they moved the star levels down a percentage bracket. i.e. phc 2* odds = gmc 3* odds, phc 3* odds = gmc 4* odds, phc 4* odds = gmc 5* odds.

seems like a reasonable assumption.

Wolfe

I did it on Seatin's stream, 4 four stars and 26 3 stars. I think people ought to know the odds are pretty low, probably as low as pulling a four star from a PHC. There are people sharing their five star pulls on social media but the bulk who are not sharing are the people who have spend a few hundred dollars and not pulled anything. My alliance mate pop 30 also and got only one four star for his effort and scrolling down our alliance screen I've not seen any five star emerge also.

I think the point is to let people be aware that is is a case of a 5 star PHC which works in the same principle as pulling a 4 star from a PHC so the choice is up to the players if they feel it is worthwhile dumping cash on a very small chance of pulling a 5 star which in my conclusion the answer is an obvious no. With 6 stars coming next year I won't be grinding nor attempting to spin any featured crystals which is what the bulk of my spending on this game has gone to so to an extent, I would say the latest stuff has just save me quite a fair bit of cash which I would be spending on other stuff so its not all that bad.

Draco2199

Qwerty wrote: »

i just assumed they moved the star levels down a percentage bracket. i.e. phc 2* odds = gmc 3* odds, phc 3* odds = gmc 4* odds, phc 4* odds = gmc 5* odds.

seems like a reasonable assumption.

I assumed the same but would like to see other results.

Wolfe

Oh and to add, you don't get SA points for opening Grandmaster crystals which is another big reason that we shouldn't be spending money on these. Only open like one every few weeks when you have enough shards and treat them basically like PHCs.

MadMarks

I wish they would just post the damn odds, it is so frustrating to buy something with out knowing the odds.

MadMarks

At this point, who cares about 4 stars, odds of a 4 star should be 1 in 10.

Stara99

Draco2199 wrote: »

Just posting my experience not complaining.

$500 worth of units used

80 crystals (yeah I did 80 which is a lil more than $500)
1 4*
79 3*s

I assumed I'd at least pull 5 4*s out of that like I would 3*s from premium crystal but nope. Didn't expect to pull a 5* either.

So odds of a 4* from my pulls is around 1.25%

This really isn't worth it, maybe just buy 3 at a time for fun every once in while but otherwise no real point.

I agree the odds are low. I spent 12k units and got 5 4* and 55 3*. @Draco2199
But @Kronos987654321 is saying someone got 7 5*.which seems impossible unless they spent $10,000 dollars

Apache

wow your crazy for spending 500 bucks

Amonthir

To add next to nothing to the view of sample sizes, 3 crystals got 2 3* and 1 4* (DDOG). While I know the reel is just for show, it does feel like spinning a pumped-up PHC.

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Wolfe

Well let's sum it up. Odds are extremely low. Pulls are awful and you don't get summoner advancement points to top it all off. So if anyone still wanna spend, its their choice.

Mwhitaker23

I bought 5 crystals.. got 2 new four star champs and dupe 5 star ws

Shrimkins

Wolfe wrote: »

Well let's sum it up. Odds are extremely low. Pulls are awful and you don't get summoner advancement points to top it all off. So if anyone still wanna spend, its their choice.

Just to clarify, @Kabam Miike already said they will count for SA starting next week. His logic was the crystal was new for this week so it won't count for this week only.

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Palanthrax

I decided to try 30 crystals. I got 3 4*s and one 5* Jugg. Could have been worse, by the sound of it. I already have a crazy stash of ISO now, so I'm going to draw the line there and call it quits.

It wasn't so bad that I feel any buyer's remorse, but it's no game changer either. It's not the answer to getting or duping Starlord, for example. Unless you have 10K USD to blow on the game, and even then there'd be no guarantee.

_solidsnake

Man I guess I got pretty lucky then, only bought one and got a 4* Electro

Sungj

I opened 3 and got a 4 star and 2 three stars I think you just got unlucky, I've seen a lot of people open 5 and get 1 or 2 four stars, 2 of my alliance mates open batches of ten and one of them got a 4 star and 9 three stars and the other got 1 5 star and 9 3 stars. Overall the odds don't seem that bad, equal if not slightly better than premiums

Shrimkins

Morgan wrote: »

Shrimkins wrote: »

Wolfe wrote: »

Well let's sum it up. Odds are extremely low. Pulls are awful and you don't get summoner advancement points to top it all off. So if anyone still wanna spend, its their choice.

Just to clarify, @Kabam Miike already said they will count for SA starting next week. His logic was the crystal was new for this week so it won't count for this week only.

And what logic is that?

First days will see a boom in spending then none will open them aside whales. Way to give one less reason to spend lol

Because the event started with no crystal. The crystal probably didn't even enter into the game code until the update today.

Adding the crystal would change the rules of the event and I guess they wanted to keep the rules the same for the duration. Next week (and subsequent weeks) will have new rules.

Shadow_roast

I pulled 2 4*s from 7 crystals, i really like it

Lvernon15

I opened 1 and got 4* cap marvel

Deadbyrd9

One guy in my alliance got 2 5s from 5 crystals

acid21

opened 6 got 2 4*

OGHeRRo

I open 15 crystals and got 3 5* and 1 4*. Gambit, guilly, and antman as 5* and drax as a 4*.

Mattylo

opened 15 and got one 5* and one 4*

TillerTheKiller

My reasoning is if I am not willing to buy PHC, why should I buy these?

DarkestDestroyer

I've seen alliance mates pull 5*s opening just 10.

Quite a few too. So they are in there and a few have pulled them

New_Noob168

You could have bought an iPad for that much

Wolfe

TillerTheKiller wrote: »

My reasoning is if I am not willing to buy PHC, why should I buy these?

This actually makes a lot of sense

Star_Lord_

@Draco2199 Great post! I love posts that show what really happens. So often we see the glory posts and not realize those are the minority. The majority of people have pulls similar to yours.

So yes, 5* pulls do happen, just like pulling a 4* from a PHC does happen, problem is the 10 people who post their luck get more views than the 1,000 who pull nothing.

DNA3000

Shrimkins wrote: »

Wolfe wrote: »

Well let's sum it up. Odds are extremely low. Pulls are awful and you don't get summoner advancement points to top it all off. So if anyone still wanna spend, its their choice.

Just to clarify, @Kabam Miike already said they will count for SA starting next week. His logic was the crystal was new for this week so it won't count for this week only.

Saying it was "his logic" implies he was trying to justify the decision to exclude them from the current event. I don't think Kabam explicitly excluded them, I think they simply didn't attempt to retroactively alter the current running event because that is non-trivial to do. The next SA event is probably technically a completely different event that just happens to have the same name but under the hood includes points for the new crystal openings.

I interpreted the explanation as "the current SA started when the new crystals didn't exist, so that event is unaware of them; the new event will be aware of them and award points for the new crystal openings."