Any one having Gold Issues?
GrassKnuckles
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I went from 11 million to 6 million in 3 weeks and can't seem to find a way to build it back up even though I play the game quite often. It doesn't help that there is a total of only 100k gold in the side quest objectives and none in the rifts. Does anyone else see an issue with there being very little gold given out?
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A run or two of Incursions will get you a little bit of gold and doesn't require questing energy. Or just do some arenas and also hope for some unit drops pre-spring cleaning/July 4th.
Dr. Zola
Haven’t seen any increase of my gold stash through my normal gameplay since then. However I’ve been saving my uncollected gold crystals since the last event where we had the 20% increase, so I should be able to replenish my stash if needed.
Actually, how much gold a player possesses isn't directly related to how much they earn or how much they spend. It is related to the ratio between the gold they earn from the activities they do and the other resources they earn that cost gold to use. If you earn a lot of gold and also a lot of rank up materials, you can still spend all your gold. If you earn very little gold but also very little rank up resources, you could still have a ton of gold. It is the balance that is important.
The two biggest sources of gold are gold earned from battlechips in the arena (via arena crystals) and indirectly from champion duplication (duplication generates ISO, which both makes it easier to use the correct class ISO and allows you to sell excess ISO for gold). Activities that generate lots of champion duplicates, especially of 4* and higher, end up generating a lot of gold.
Incursions are another way to earn gold, and honestly the side quests that offer choices in rewards often have a lot of gold, but you have to decide to target gold and forgo other options that seem juicier but will potentially strand you with a ton of rank up resources and no way to use them if you don't balance carefully. That decision to pick the thing you need and not the thing you want is one that not everyone has the discipline to make.
There are a lot of gold crystals in the solo events. So, rank up champs only during level up event. You only play 15-20 rounds of arena a week? Do them during Arena Wins solo event. Hero use is on? Autoplay lower EQ difficulties (that also gets you units). You wanna do Cav EQ in big chunks at a time? Do it during EQ completion solo event. The 7h solo events also have gold crystals. Do as many as you can while you're doing the others (i.e Cosmic combat is on and also Hero use, use a Cosmic champ to autoplay stuff).
Staying net pozitive with your gold isnt that hard if you optimize your playing.
Check the previous “gold shortage” thread. Iirc it was after SOP rewards were given out.
Now with Carina V2 + A7 Exploration, I’d say it’s pretty expected.
(Sitting on 184m though. 😂)
(Like new Cavs avoiding ranking 5*s while waiting for the same champ as a 6*)
I feel like my current position is kind of an outlier compared to where I'm usually at, simply because I just stopped pulling duds for a time. All of the champs I've taken from r1 to r3 this month have come from the past month's content. I will most likely land in a spot where my pulls become far less rank-worthy and I additionally start earning a whole lot less rank-up materials, which in turn will lead me to simply hoard gold again. I can't say that I've seen a general decline in gold acquisition. On the contrary, I really like the change to the gold crystals that Kabam made last year. I feel like it has really boosted my gold, or at least the feeling of earning that gold. Each opened crystal feels more significant nowadays.
The only solution I have found for Gold management is to focus entire periods (one or two months) from time to time, to building up Gold stash specifically, without ranking up any champions and selling all and any ISO I get from playing the game and dupes (I do own the vast majority of 4*s and most 5* in the game). It sounds harsh, but to me it feels unavoidable. I should add that I occasionally do arena, for both units and gold, but no Incursions.
6* rankups are purely to fix a gap in my roster or to boost a synergy partner for one of my main attackers.
With gold from Act 7, EQ, dupes, and when absolutely necessary incursions, I really don’t ever run arena. Solo objectives that are easy (Hero Use, Level Up) give out decent amounts of gold as well.
After the PlatPool gold offer, I worried because my gold dipped to under 20M. I’m now constantly oscillating between 33-35M no matter what I do.
I realize I’m in rarified air. Not everyone can just stop ranking a 5* max sig Shang at R4 because he doesn’t want to waste cats and gold. But the answer to stockpiling gold is to do content and only rank strategically.
Dr. Zola