**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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Right now, people can hoard easily obtainable 6* shards and target new champs in featured crystals. I haven't bought a Cav in years and have every champ besides Spot. The new system will force you to buy Paragons to either get the new champs or enough 7* duped for Titan shards.
it really isn't that hard to grasp.
The way I see it is that the increased amount required for the basic slows the acquisition of 7 star champs which makes sense, but the titan crystal is more to slow the acquisition of the featured champs or champs newly added as 7 stars.
This all obviously depends on how it’s finally implemented, but initially that’s what it seems like.
You're thinking of it in context of the current featured crystals.
Instead of using some on basic and some on Titan, you have to use all of your basic - no hoarding - for shards of a titan. Make no mistake, this is effectively introducing two new categories of champions in one. Think of how long it took you to save up for one or two 7* crystals. Now consider that you need to dupe those, to get a fraction of a titan crystal.
They're introducing 7* crystals AND 7.5* crystals AND they're outright saying that they will not overlap.
Imagine... instead of 6* crystals and features, new champions were put into class crystals.
In order to get a shot at a new mutant, you'd need to open a 6* crystal, dupe a mutant and then do that enough to get a 6* new mutant crystal.
Did I make the example a little more extreme? Yeah, and that's all certain people will focus on, but the foundation is the same.
Herc, Iron Doom, Quake, Magik, Hyperion, Kitty - there's your Titan crystal. To get enough shards for one titan crystal, you need to open all your base pool crystals and get dupes. Do that enough to have your titan shards add up. Better hope that Titan character doesn't need a dupe..
Will this slow progression? Probably, for F2P players, absolutely.
Regardless, it's gatekeeping and overall bad for players - we shouldn't be excited about this or allow them to put a bow on it and make it seem like a good thing "Omg, the pools won't overlap" Yeah... that just means you're crating two classes of characters and I can guarantee you right now that the Titan crystal won't be flooded with Cyclops and Iron Patriot while Herc and Kitty go into the base crystal.
Plus, the first Titan pool, will have the current month s new champions, and around 30 more? Are they going to be the god tier ones, the Nick Furies, the Apocalypses, the Scorpions, or, the second best like... I don't know, Ultron, Spider-Ham, Black Cat etc?
Good bye featured champs.
The 7* crystals will have 2 pools
The Basic one for the F2Ps with bad to upper mid tier champs, & the Titan one for spenders, filled with most of the desirable champs
We as a community have always categorised champs in different categories.....the Gods, Beyond Gods, Demigods, Memes & whatever other names that one likes to use for the categories
This Titan thing is the first time that Kabam have officially made this division in the way they're going to be selling the champs
If someone wants the top tier champs to keep up with the competition in Battlegrounds & Alliance war, then they gotta loosen their pockets
The only way to get a new 7* champ is to dupe 30-50 7*s for one Tiutan crystal and hope to get them or Paragon crystals. How, exactly, is that not intended to get people to spend?
A. For 7*: progression to be as easy as 6* progression became in the past 1.5- 2 years ie 8* by 2025
B. For 6* progression to be slower and harder than 6* had been over the 4+ years they have been available to prolong the games shelf life
When 6* first came in it took ages to get crystals and r2 them. This then exploded in the past 2+ years where we are at r5s.
If the game is too have more longevity i don't see a similar schedule being good for 7*.
Sure they will definitely monetize the 7* progression, but then that's what businesses do.
Yes banquet crystals will have 7* shards and 7r1 mats - this is how the game has always worked.
Yes the whales will have the biggest rosters with 7r1 and then 7r2 when it becomes doable, and yes that will affect BGs and AW but it's always been like that. If you are in the bars bracket you will do the same thing you did 2 years ago to stay there - spend or grind like a mad man.
The whales were the ones who had 20+ 6r4 when most players had only the 3 needed for paragon.
I'm sure their aim here is to make money while not reaching the 7* plateau as quickly as we did 6*.
The most important thing i think we need to know is how much the teased ascension mechanic will do to keep 6* relevant as 7* become available. This was not an option when we had 5* vs 6* and hopefully it will be available before the year ends and in all game modes.
If a FTP player acquires Titan shards at a slow enough rate, if the Titan pool changes, then that player might realistically only have one-shot at targeting a New Champion that they might want. An example of this is Incursions, where I pretty much only acquire enough artifacts every 2 months, so I pretty much miss out on the 1st month's pool, and have only 1 shot at targeting a champion in the 2nd month. If a similar model is used with the Titan pool, then that really sucks.
From the other posts here, I am also unclear about how the basic pool shakes out due to there not being "overlap". Is there a similar idea to all the other crystals, where the Titan/Featured crystals get added to the ever expanding Basic pool? It seems like at a certain point, the not 'overlapping' wouldn't keep up with the rate of Basic pool expansion.
But then I opened ur profile & it made complete sense
I said you’re assuming something, and you are. You also did it again in the response to me. I am doom and gloom on a lot of what Kabam does, but this isn’t one of them.
The part I was and am asking you about specifically is this section here: “ We as a community have always categorised champs in different categories.....the Gods, Beyond Gods, Demigods, Memes & whatever other names that one likes to use for the categories
This Titan thing is the first time that Kabam have officially made this division in the way they're going to be selling the champs”
If you can show me where it is stated that they are going to be splitting champs between basic and the titan crystal by who is considered god tier in order to sell crystals, then please, show me. I’ll admit I’m wrong and apologize.