Hey kabam, with OVER 200 champions in the game now, isn't it about time....

We revisit the topic of the wish crystals? At this point, even the dual class crystal pools are too big to make a difference or get the Champions we want or need (I've opened over 40 of them chasing apocalypse with no luck). They were YOUR idea, and the idea was received with excitement from the vast majority of the community, yet getting any information or updates about them has been like screaming at a wall.
Will these things ever exist, or was that announcement just to placate us while you continue to dilute the pool?

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Zeraphan

While I do like the idea of the Wish crystal, I think there are far more important things that need/should happen before that gets implemented.

ChaosMax1012

While I do like the idea of the Wish crystal, I think there are far more important things that need/should happen before that gets implemented.

Yeah, but let’s do this first then focus on those things.

JustinU21

While I do like the idea of the Wish crystal, I think there are far more important things that need/should happen before that gets implemented.

I can see why some would say that, but what should happen before that gets implemented?

Personally champion acquisition is 90% of why I play the game at this point as a TB player, but opening 6* crystals as of late has hardly held the same level of excitement as it had previously when my 6* roster was tiny and I was happy to get anyone. Now, being left with the choice between a generic 6* crystal and a featured 6* I can't help but feel less motivated to garner up shards for more disappointment. At least with dual class 6*s or a wish crystal I would feel like I'm making more progress and work amounts to more. Right now there's just so much disappointment after you put in a lot of work to finish challenging content only to get a 6* crystal that delivers you a 5th juggernaut

Wicket329

The issue with these isn’t a lack of desire to make them, it’s that they require a new piece of tech that has not yet been developed. The idea behind the Wish Crystals, if I remember correctly, is that you as a player get to populate the pool that you want in the crystal.

That means creating multiple layers of interfaces and techno-mumbo-jumbo that I could not even begin to comprehend. And it would have to be done in a way that doesn’t massively clutter their systems.

As was recently discussed on the forums, Kabam’s servers don’t care how many of a crystal you have, but every individual type of crystal in the game begins to bog it down. Wish Crystals are infinitely variable. Every time you get one you may pick different champions to put in it, thereby creating a unique crystal that would add clutter to the game. If I am right about each crystal counting as a unique crystal type, this could very easily become a massive problem that overwhelms the servers.

This is all just my theory about it. I’m by no means a programmer or even particularly tech-savvy. But based on the information that has been made public, this is my theory about the challenges behind making this new crystal type.

Zeraphan

The issue with these isn’t a lack of desire to make them, it’s that they require a new piece of tech that has not yet been developed. The idea behind the Wish Crystals, if I remember correctly, is that you as a player get to populate the pool that you want in the crystal.

That means creating multiple layers of interfaces and techno-mumbo-jumbo that I could not even begin to comprehend. And it would have to be done in a way that doesn’t massively clutter their systems.

As was recently discussed on the forums, Kabam’s servers don’t care how many of a crystal you have, but every individual type of crystal in the game begins to bog it down. Wish Crystals are infinitely variable. Every time you get one you may pick different champions to put in it, thereby creating a unique crystal that would add clutter to the game. If I am right about each crystal counting as a unique crystal type, this could very easily become a massive problem that overwhelms the servers.

This is all just my theory about it. I’m by no means a programmer or even particularly tech-savvy. But based on the information that has been made public, this is my theory about the challenges behind making this new crystal type.

Based on what little we do know about the behind the scenes of it all, I would design the Wish Crystal so that it had to be opened immediately when you made it. This would keep from adding to the crystal clutter.

SkyLord7000

They are called wish crystal for a reason

Keep wishing

BitterSteel

They are called wish crystal for a reason

Keep wishing

They’re called wish crystals because Kabam wish they’d never mentioned them

Skiddy212

Wish crystals are the new bases

Raganator

At minimum, it's time for a dual class 6* and a class specific 5*.

Zeraphan

Wish crystals are the new bases

We don't mention such things...

BitterSteel

At minimum, it's time for a dual class 6* and a class specific 5*.

Yeah add dual class 6*s for 10k like the 5* crystals were added.

At absolute most, 11k, I don’t think more is a good idea.

Zeraphan

At minimum, it's time for a dual class 6* and a class specific 5*.

Dual Class 6* should be an easy quick thing to implement I would imagine and yes they would be very beneficial. Maybe then I could end my Warlock hunt.

Super_carcajou

Or just make every crystal a form of Nexus with options. A formula with more shards you use, the more options you get could be interesting 10k 3 options, 15k 5 options, 20k 10 options.

Eb0ny-O-M4w

You're thinking way too much about wish crystals.

Its probably just gonna be an annual, or twice a year thing. Choose 10 get 1, kinda like incursion crystals but you choose the pool.

And these things are likely given, not bought. But thats just my assumption

LeNoirFaineant

Have you ever heard of a wish sandwich?

Mysterio

On the topic of the wish crystal, who would you guys chose if you got to add 10 champs into 1 6* crystal?
1. Mysterio
2. Electro
3. Doc Ock
4. Rhino
5. Green Goblin
6. Vulture
7. The April Spidey villain
8. Kraven
9. Ultron
10. Mojo

Chobbly

If we can't get the Wish Crystals, I wonder if instead we could get the yearly Cav crystals added into the store and rotated daily.

Wouldn't be as good obviously but it would be better than nothing and it would allow Kabam to focus resources elsewhere. Maybe even increase the cost to 300 units and make them Nexus.

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Etm34

While I do like the idea of the Wish crystal, I think there are far more important things that need/should happen before that gets implemented.

Besides the control issues, there’s nothing more important in the game to me. 6* champion acquisition is all I care about at the moment. There are select few 2019/2020 champs missing (along with 80% of the 2021 champs) from my 6* roster that I’d really like to acquire, but hunting in the basic pool is like finding the needle in the haystack at this point. The wish crystal idea was floated by kabam 1.5 years ago now and there’s been roughly no update since.

Mauled

At minimum, it's time for a dual class 6* and a class specific 5*.
Yeah add dual class 6*s for 10k like the 5* crystals were added.

At absolute most, 11k, I don’t think more is a good idea.

Still 10k tbh. It’s still 1/50 and you have ⅔ of the potential god tiers removed so I don’t really value it at more shards

RiderofHell

At minimum, it's time for a dual class 6* and a class specific 5*.
Dual Class 6* should be an easy quick thing to implement I would imagine and yes they would be very beneficial. Maybe then I could end my Warlock hunt.

I was hunting for 5* venom and never opened any dual crystal and recently pulled him from last month sinister 6 cavalier 🤣

RiderofHell

Where's the roadmap on the state of the game and what to expect this year or next year?

Wozzle007

I’d love to know what progress if any has been made on implementing wish crystals. If I had to be bet, Kabam has made no progress at all beyond what they posted in the road map. It’s been nearly 2 years since Kabam informed of a change to masteries system and we’ve had zero update since. It’s Wish crystals are Bases all over again.

BigPoppaCBONE

While I do like the idea of the Wish crystal, I think there are far more important things that need/should happen before that gets implemented.

Champ acquisition and advancement should be a top priority for Kabam as ultimately that's the big money maker. The bugs suck, but they're just kinda annoying, not enough to make me quit. Spending money and still never getting the champs I want, Nova's "buff" being insultingly pathetic, popular old champs continuing to suck, miniscule chance of acquiring new champs before they're old news. Reversing that Nova situation, and the other ones I guess, would boost $$$ and keep Kabam making money hand over fist. A much more worthwhile use of their limited resources than pulling people to chase minor annoyances.

Chobbly

For every month that goes by and champions are added into the pool concerned, the attainment of specific champions gets harder. Duping CAIW or Aegon naturally is harder now than it was six months ago, or twelve months ago.

I feel sorry for newer players, who are trying to progress against the rosters of players who built up theirs from as more limited pool. Yes, newer players have access to a wider pool of champions but that is assuming that all champions are equal in total viability - which they are certainly not.

I'd scribbled down half a dozen ideas.- some are better than others but there's two obvious ones to me.

A 'Featured Cavalier', or a 'Featured Cavalier Nexus'. It has the same champs as in the 6* Featured.
In the last week of an event, allow the direct purchase of the event crystal, such as the Cavalier Sinister Synergy crystal, for units.

I don't think this is a priority for Kabam. But it is for many players. That is why a regular Dev Roadmap is useful, to let us know what Kabam's priorities are. We can then set our expectations accordingly.

The_Sentry06

Another reason why an update roadmap is urgently needed.

Colonaut123

I do think wish crystals would get some restrictions, balance-wise. Otherwise, people would just put all the god-tier in it. I expect Kabam would divide it in a similar fashion as featured crystals.

Featured crystals contain 24 champions. Of those, 6 are new and thus high-value, 6 are trash and thus low-value and 12 are inbetween and thus mid-value.

Wish crystals would make sure you can pick 6 champions out of the high-value pool, 12 out of mid-value and 6 out of low-value. The odds to pull what you really want stay the same: 25%. You have 50% chance to get a consolation prize. 25% chance to get something you didn't want at all, but is at least of your own choosing.

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