Free to play - Can’t keep up
Fictionplane
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In my opinion there have been changes to the game over the last months that make me need to either spend money or quit. They are as follows:
1. Even if I clear to the end of Act 6, I don't have an adequate 6* option to R3 unless I am spending money for crystals.
2. 6 of my top champs are almost always locked up in AQ and AW. Without a "whales" roster I need to wait to clear content and then buy energy refills to play with my best champs.
3. Because I don't want to spend all my units for revives in EQ Cavalier difficulty and Act 6, I am playing paths near completion and then quitting out (making all the time spent playing meaningless and unrewarding).
4. Drop rates are not listed for things like featured crystals. I can stockpile for featured crystals, but no one knows the actual drop rate (There are tons of featured champs in the reel, but I have opened 7 featured 5* crystals this month and have got nothing new).
5. I don't have the ability to sell class T4s for class T5s - T5 class shards are all behind endgame content that requires specific hero counters.
6. For the most part, newer characters are better and more difficult defenders making AQ and AW more difficult, but for the same rewards. New characters also usually have better damage output and higher prestige pushing down the value of my veteran roster each month.
I've really enjoyed playing this game, but I fear if these things don't change, I won't be able to keep up.
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You need to stop competing with other accounts and just progress at your own rate.
There is no winning this game. It is a never ending cycle of rank up and forward progression with lots of repetition in between to get resources for them. It's not a race unless you make it one, but if you do, your racing on a treadmill with no end in sight. Or, if you do blast through the content (youtubers, whales, etc) you'll find that you'll eventually hit a wall and have to wait until it gets moved back a little... There's still no final end game credits coming their way. So both sides of the coin will have complaints at some point. I still have 6.3, 6.4 to complete, abyss and all of act 6 to explore so I'm not end game, but far enough along I get where you're coming from. I quit for a year because my 5* luck was so frustrating I couldn't take it. Came back in Feb when Covid hit hard and found that RNG was getting better for me and resources we're more obtainable. With 1-2 5* that I held out for, monthly EQ, story mode and side events started to
Be pretty easy, for the most part.
Yes, it can be slow to grow at times, especially if RNG is not on our side. I have 15 6*, only 1 is R2 and wouldn't take to R3. Until RNG blessed me with one, 5* R5 are still my goal for some clutch champ's and every R4 or R5 is a thought decision. Everyone else is staying at R1 or possibly R2 for arena, but that's it. Saving resources for the time I can finally take up some better 6* now, so I don't have to wait til later.
Glory is your best friendbfor rankup material. If you're spending glory on potions,revives more than rankup, you're in the wrong ally for what you need/want. I found an ally that only does AQ map4 with mods and we get 3600 loyalty a week. Not the best, but certainly decent. All of it goes to T2A and T5B. You shouldn't need items for map4 with 5* R5 and this allows me to maximize glory in rankup material with minimum effort. We also only do 1bg of war and it's not required, but anyone can join who wants to. We know we're not gonna break into a top tier place, but again, most of these wars can be done itemless (or minimal). We'll get S2 rewards for not much stress or items, but again, not required if you don't want to do it at all and would rather quest.
This month, I took up doom and Claire to R5 AND QUAKE is going up as soon as the next rankup event kicks off. I'm on track to do about 2 R5s each month and not hurting for too much to get them there. When it's time to R2 and R3 more 6*, it's gonna be a bit of a slog, but trying to bank some resources now so it won't take too long.
None of this is a brag post or saying anything negative to you OP. I think you may need to decide if your ally is the best fit for what you need and can put into it. You don't have to do a bunch of war and big AQ to rank up needed champ's. And if you're roster barely covers AQ and AW and sufficient then it still needs some development for what you want to do.
AQ too, drop down a map where you can just spend glory on rank up mats and not potions and maybe even just cruise it with your r4 champs. I do map 4 AQ and we only have 1 bg for war so its optional - grind arena for units and spent them hapily clearing act 6 and abyss
-Confucius
-Gandhi
-Sun Tzu, Art of War
2. See line 1. You need to develop your roster more.
3. Again, develop your roster more by exploring the content you can.
4. Drop rates are available to people that spend money either. You can't buy featured 5/6* crystals so Kabam isn't required to post drop rates. Each champ in any 5 or 6* crystal have equal drop rate percentages unless stated otherwise. This is not a F2P only thing.
5. The majority of players getting T5CC is from high end AQ. If you can't compete there, you don't need to worry about T5CC. Plus, no one can sell T4CC for T5CC. The gap would be even larger as most top end players have stockpiles of T4CC crystals waiting to be opened.
6. Red Magneto is one of the best champs now and he's one of the oldest. Many older champs have plenty of usefulness. Corvus Glaive is what 2 years into the game or more and he's still a top champ. Starlord is one of the oldest and has very high damage output. You don't need the shiny new toy to do everything in this game.
Don't try and keep up. Free 2 play will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever keep up with anyone who pays. Your progress is your progress. Stop trying to compete with someone who's going to drop $500 on a crystal opening or can pay their way through content. You'll never get there as a free 2 play. Just enjoy the game the spenders are keeping running for you.
1. I understand the frustration of seeing huge accounts that put in less effort than you and just bought cool offers, but really, you should be proud of the amount of effort you put in as a f2p and the amount of progress you have achieved.
2. If you are complaining about not having a diverse enough roster, don't buy featured crystals. There is essentially no ability you can get in the game from the featured crystal that you can't also get from the basic pool, but there are in fact a few more champs in the basic pool, so cheaper basic crystals + a wider pool of champions to choose from = more roster diversity, and usually a better ratio oof god tier champs. Unless the ratio of god tier champs in the featured is 1.5+ times the ratio in the basic pool (it never is), then it is probably better to go basic.
3. Just a personal tip, but I find playing in a lower level alliance much easier in terms of effort in AQ and AW, I rarely use any top tier champs, and in stead focus on Act content, monthly content, Incursions or even arenas if I need some units. Buying energy refills with units is rarely ever worth it in comparison to revives to get you through tougher content.
4. I understand getting bad RNG from 6* crystals, but over time, your 6* luck will land you at least one or two rank up worthy champs, but if you complete act 6, you will at that moment get to choose the class of 25% of a T5CC, and get 18000 6* shards, enough to potentially add two new champs to your roster that may be worth ranking up.
Hang in there man.
That’s my opinion
I know you're talking about a different demographic though.