**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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The only people with an abundance of gold in about 2 years will be whales if Kabam doesn't change the game economy and you're not a whale from your prestige and your pride in not spending.
1. Sell all your Basic ISO as soon as you get it.
2. Complete Incursions every month (gives you a decent amount of gold now).
3. Buy the Summoner's Sigil and do the Goldpool event every week.
4. Explore all the Variants (again, decent gold).
5. Stop ranking and leveling 4-stars or any champs that aren't god-tier (yes, even if you have rank up gems, don't do it!)
6. Sell your Class Iso when you don't have a good champ of that Class.
7. Grind Arenas like it's your job (nobody playing this game has friends, a family, or other hobbies anyway, do they?)
Grinding arena gets me units, most importantly.
The side benefits are:
1. It gives me more gold than I spend since I only rank up champs during Level Up events (which is twice a week at most).
2. It gives me shards to open more 4/5* crystals, which directly translates to more ISO that can be sold for more gold. (I have ISOs expiring everyday).
So in short, most calculations that attempt to predict how much gold is given by arena is pretty inaccurately low.
For a 3 day arena (just based on the first 3 milestones), you get:
Gold: 17.5k (3*) + 23k (4*B) + 30.75k (4*F) + 38k (5*) = 109.25k
BCs: 2k (3*) + 3k (4*B) + 4.5k (4*F) + 5.5k (5*) = 15k BCs
Over the 8 arenas in a span of a month, it adds up to 874k Gold + 120k BCs. That's the BARE MINIMUM.
If someone needs more gold on a monthly basis, then it's expected that they will have to do more arena for it. There's no substitute for hard work. It's already been proven by the number of times a "Gold Quest" has been introduced that it's a band-aid for many players.
People who don't balance their resources, who aren't patient, who feel obligated to rank up every single champ they get, who don't balance their gold in and outs, who don't plan their rank ups, will ALWAYS have a shortage of gold.
Unless you are going to not perform basic rank ups and only rank up very select champs then you have to grind lower arena milestones in order to routinely rank up.
For a while I ran 1.5 M 4* basic, 4.5 mil 4* featured and 9 mil 5* featured and doing this allowed me to maintain net neutral over the course of 4 months from December to April with regular ranking up for level up events. I would oscillate between 23mil and 25 mil in this time period.
The time commitment here is not small and doesn’t fit in small increments to hit these numbers. You needed to do at least 4 hours a day of just arena to pull this off I would estimate. And that kept me neutral.
Needed a break as the grind burnt me out of arena and with just minimal arena grinding my account is down 10 mil gold since I stoped over 2 months. That is a huge negative.
I get the need to grind resources but when you spend probably an 1-2 hours a day in Alliance events and another 2-3 hours a day questing do we really needs another 4 hours a day in arena to maintain neutral on gold if you are consistently ranking up. Doesn’t that seem kind of absurd. Not to mention incursions as well.
Also one add is since I took a break from arena I stopped regularly ranking up and I’m still down 10 mil gold
But I also looked up your profile and you have 287,000 PVP wins. So at 1 minute per win (which I realize it likely a high-ish estimate, but if you factor in log-in time, selecting champs, clicking between screen after wins, collecting resources, opening BC crystals, and even the occasional loss, I don't think it's totally unreasonable) you've put in roughly 4,800 hours grinding Arenas. So put another way, if you've been playing for 4 years, that's 23 hours a week EVERY SINGLE WEEK! Lol, that's just not a reasonable time commitment for most players to put into just one mode of this game.
There was a period of time (when my account had a 4* R3 rocket as the top champ) that I went crazy on arena.
Nowadays I just chill and clock about 200 rounds of fights over 3 days. That’s 200 a day, for about 100+mins, as my fights end in less than 30s.
Every night I spend about an hour to an hour plus to unwind watching television, catch up on Netflix etc, that’s where the time is spent, at no additional cost since I’ll be watching television at that time regardless.
7 mins, 4 rounds, 350k points, 4*F arena. When did I do this? When I went out of my house to smoke a cigarette.
I just complete regular content and play the arenas till the milestones, for units. Never had gold problems for the last 5 years.
However, I only level up and rank up champions during the level up solo event, which I always complete it.
Point is, if you manage your rank up's and actually "play the game", you shouldn't have gold problems. Is one resource that I always ignore and forget that is something in the game, except for the times when I open crystals for champions, shards or units and get gold
This was my treasury at the start of the month.
And this is my treasury right now. I'm pretty convinced that is my only way
I think that typically people who are in these forums would probably be higher than that but regardless of that, the game should be sustainable at that assumed weekly average if you want to retain the majority of your player base (average ppl). There is no way the average person can/will spend the amount of time necessary to grind arena in order to support the account growth that can be accomplished through rank up resource acquisition from standard in-game rewards.
grinding arena, then you have AW, AQ, monthly missions, story... what else? Good for you but that's not exaclty easy for everyone. I used to grind arenas everytime, now I can barely run the arena on Sunday. It's a game, life has other priorities.
Real problem is rewards are strongly outdated. They made some changes in crystal shards and "cats" but we still get gold rewards for stuff that was made when 3* ruled the game
I’m sorry that you have to resort to picking bones out of eggs for this.
Based on estimation, I should be done with 4*B in another 17-18 rounds.
That brings my total number of rounds over 3 days to 48 + 50 + 86 = 184 rounds.
A rough (higher) estimate is 2 mins per round, inclusive of load time, rewards claiming etc, so that’s 368mins, or 6 hours and 8 mins, which is around 2 hours daily.
Less the 1-1.5 hours a night from television, I only need to spend small pockets of 3-6 pockets of 10 minutes in a day to grind a little (and I definitely smoke than 3-6x a day). Most of these pockets come from the time I have to send then pick my kids up from school (generally it’s either going or coming from school when without the kid).
AQ and AW takes up some of those pockets since my alliance run Map 6 and is currently in P2. But the rough idea is there. Fit the grind into your schedule and things will work out.
I generally grind a little more on the first 2 days, so I get the third day off to do some other stuffs like AW planning, clearing quests etc. (Side note: I save energy refills from the previous month so I have around 10+ spare refills for the new UC, that is done on the one of the days when I’m more free, or during Crystal Trove arena days. Master and below is being auto played with the natural energy gain.)
It’s always harder at the start as you try to fit grinding into your day to day schedule. But once you get the correct balance, it’s golden and it doesn’t become a chore. No one is asking you to sit down, concentrate fully for 2-3 hours, to grind arena.