**KNOWN AW ISSUE**
Please be aware, there is a known issue with Saga badging when observing the AW map.
The team have found the source of the issue and will be updating with our next build.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Please be aware, there is a known issue with Saga badging when observing the AW map.
The team have found the source of the issue and will be updating with our next build.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
**KNOWN BG ISSUE**
We are aware of an issue with the seeding for the beginning of the BG season.
We are adding rewards to higher progression brackets to offset the additional grind.
More information here.
We are aware of an issue with the seeding for the beginning of the BG season.
We are adding rewards to higher progression brackets to offset the additional grind.
More information here.
**Arcade is being extra tricky with his Murder Box...**
It appears Arcade has been non-cooperative in his approach to this month's side quest and presented his clues in a nonsensical order. Lucky you, Summoners, we have our best and brightest on the case and those clues should now be a lot more straightforward. While messing around in Arcade's files we came across a phrase, highlighted and bolded, with sparkles and pointy arrows: "the abode for the dead" ... Maybe that will help you along the way!
It appears Arcade has been non-cooperative in his approach to this month's side quest and presented his clues in a nonsensical order. Lucky you, Summoners, we have our best and brightest on the case and those clues should now be a lot more straightforward. While messing around in Arcade's files we came across a phrase, highlighted and bolded, with sparkles and pointy arrows: "the abode for the dead" ... Maybe that will help you along the way!
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How can the same reward be worth 1800 units more 12 months in advance? And don’t say because you get better stuff in the crystal because that’s only dependent on rng rewards shouldn’t be watered down because you have a chance of getting something good.
To apologize would be an admission of guilt and you already have an elaborate explanation as to why things are the way they are this year.
I wish it was different, and I think it's wrong like the rest of us, but if you're asking for an apology... you're never going to get it.
A 6-star Abyss nexus Carrie’s less value to many players because a champ needs to be r4 for most competitive play, and at this point the Abyss nexus probably only has a 1/4 chance to have your most desired champ anyway.
It’s hard to comment without knowing exact drop rates, but anything involving t5b, t5cc, and t2a will feel like a huge dud to me, and I won’t be thrilled for 4000 6-star shards either.
I spent 21000 units on cyber weekend focused primarily on rankup materials, but these milestones don’t do anything in the current game economy.
If you want to know what they’re worth, tally them up and compare to if they were bought with glory or BG trophies. Then do the same for last year. Yikes.
There should’ve been an uncollected/cavalier crystal for 150 with these items that I’m griping about, and a crystal for TB+ players with better odds at t6b/t6cc/t3a/7-star shards. I know that won’t happen because the opportunity for rapid growth of lower accounts is a big financial win for Kabam and a way to replace departing players. The alternative would’ve been milestone selectors by progression level. 3 t6b for valiant, 2 for paragon, 1 for TB, for example.
Ultimately, you've been burning through 7*s pretty quick, and giving out non-ascension 6* materials like crystals, AGs and sigs much more liberally than a year and a half ago. You had to slow down at some point with 7*s, and it seems this is it. Even if you didn't, the rewards were never going to seem great coming out of necropolis. This has led to an environment where R5/R2 materials and 7*s are the only things players really care about though, so everything else feels like a dud.
But hey, those are the relatively jaded opinions of a valiant who, aside from Colossus from a titan, has been getting a lot of good pulls recently. Maybe the people who got Spider-man and Gwen from necropolis completion instead of Hulk and Titania feel differently.
As for actionable feedback, keep the inflation down? Obviously the glaring thing is doing banquet right after releasing everest content that massively skews everyone's value of in game items, so don't do that again I guess?
Since its kinda meh to write it, I just edited some of the fixes I think would be appropiate without destroying the economy of the game:
First of all, the Greater Banquet Crystals:
Right side is the current one, left side is my change
I dont think at the current state of the game, we should have 2 6* Sig Stone prizes, so I changed it so we only have the generic ones only.
Buffed the 7* Shards a little bit, since I dont know the chances still, guessing those are above the lower % ones, I think those buffs are kinda fair, both basic and Titan shards.
We had also 2 prizes for T5 basic, the lowest one was removed.
No more changes here.
Also changed the ISO rewards inside the GBC, the first amounts are the current ones, the last amounts are the ones I would wish for, the ones in the middle are the fair ones.
Now, the Solo Milestones:
Right side is the current one, left side is my change
Removed the T2 Alpha rewards and lowered one Tier the points overall.
6* Awakening Gem reduced to one, and lowered the points till put it right after the Deathless piece.
T5 Basic Cats removed.
5-Star relic turned into Nexus.
T5 CC, T3 Alpha and T6 Basic buffed from 1 to 3.
6-Star Relic turned into Nexus. ( I dont think its that gamebreaking to make it Nexus)
T6 Class Catalyst Selector points lowered.
6* Rank Up Crystal 4 to 5 added.
Titan Shards added.
I think those changes are fair enough without being gamebreaking.
And finally the alliance milestones:
Right side is the current one, left side is my change
T2 Alpha and T5 Basic removed and T3 and T6 added instead, one of each.
Tier 1 Primordial Dust removed .
6* Shards points lowered into the T1 Dust place.
6* Rank Up Gem 3 to 4 added.
T3 Alpha frags removed, T6 Class 50% Crystal added instead.
T6 Basic Frags removed, 7* Shards added instead; 2500 (I dont think its too much, can be lowered but I think this is fair enough)
Now, I think this changes are enough to fix the players negative feedback, but the ranked rewards need also need several tweaks, rewards from 601-2600 to 100% should be looken into, in this case Ill just write it down instead of make a comparison table:
Minimum 6 Rank up Gems should be 3 to 4, remove the lower ones.
7* Shards should be buffed, how come top 601 spender only gets 2.500 Titan shards, I dont think thats fair at all, same with the basic ones.
We need more Relic Nexuses for top rewards.
6* Crystals, nexus or not, should be class at least for higher ranks.
And some buffs in calendar rewards from Dec 21 to Jan 3:
Turn 2k 4*Shards into 10k 5* Shards.
Turn 5k 5*Shards into 5k 6*Shards, both days
Turn 4k 6*Shards into 2.5k 7* Shards.
Those would be the changes overall, I think most of them are fair enough for both the players and the company, I dont know if you guys have enough time to change them or not, but I think it would be very nice to give an additional "compensation" or "gift" package with the rewards I changed above for the players that would have reached that rewards.
I hope this at least helps for the next event if you cant fix this one before it starts.
I will try to stick to Actual Actionable Items as you say, and try to be realistic in suggestions (ie not adding 7 star awakening gems or anything like that).
There is one big thing that sticks out to me, and that is the emphasis on 6 star stuff. Now I understand that GBC and the milestones are progression level neutral, and therefore to some players those are worth quite a bit. In this emphasis on 6 stars, its somewhat apparent that the rewards have not shifted significantly vs last year, despite the massive shift forward in game economy. Last Christmas it was almost impossible to R5 a 6 star, now there are people with entire BGs decks of 7 star R2/3s or ascended 6R5s. Its just a different economy and values have changed.
1. Many players are at the point where they are just selling T5B, T5CC and T2A since the last update. I would say that changing the T2A and T5B to perhaps a chance at a generic 6 star 3-4 gem would possibly be a good solution? I think that would seem fair to me, and not a pull that most people would feel was a waste of 300 units. I think that removing these 3 solo milestones and replacing the T2A/T5B with a R4 gem, and the T5CC with a R5 Gem would be fair. The R5 Gem could even be shuffled to a higher milestone too. I dont think that R5 gems in milestones would be breaking the economy, there are a lot of people out there who already have 30+
2. 6 star shards. I would just increase the quantity of them in the GBC. 4000 is honestly just a joke. Thats less than what I usually get from Summoners Advancement now I think. I would change the quantities from 4k, 10k, 15k to 10k, 20k, 50k. Again, I dont think its really gamebreaking given the economy. I think that changing 10k to a featured crystal would be good too.
In the Milestones, the 15k is meh but its a low milestone so whatever. Its not the biggest issue.
3. 6 star awakening gems: again, the economy of the game has made these essentially worthless recently. I have so many saved up in my inventory. I would just move these to the regular crystal, and for the milestone maybe add like 100 sig stones to that milestone?
4. Lack of 7 Star Shards: I mean there are none in the milestones.... given that we can get 3k just from the paragauntlet every month, among other fairly easy to access options, I think that its not unreasonable to expect some shards at some milestone. Doesnt need to be too many but 2.5-5k seems like an easy change to make that would make a lot of people happy. The 750 sharda option in the GBC crystals is kind of a feel bad amount too. Bump it up to 1000 Id say. 1000 just feels better!
5. To add to 4., I think that Titan shards are a glaring exception from the top of the milestones. We get 2.5k from the valiant calendar, I think 2.5k would be a compelling reason to buy enough GBC to get to the end.
7. Lastly, I would say to just put the amount you get per GBC back to the 3k. Its about 4k more units this year to get the top milestones vs last year, and while I se3 your point about there being more milestones, that seems like a fairly extreme difference.
I only have 106 different 6-stars at r3 or higher. These t5b and t2a will be a huge help to fix this roster deficiency.
Seriously though - last year’s milestones were building something that I literally didn’t have. This year’s milestones are giving me one champ in a pool of 20.
I don’t care about the points, just the actual cost to hit the milestone. If it’s still 300 units per crystal then measuring/comparing milestones in crystals makes sense.
Most of the comparisons I’ve see show fairly equal rewards to last year for the same milestones. That’s a big let down given how much the game has shifted in the last year.
I haven’t read every comment but I haven’t seen anyone actually asking for R3 materials. That is an extreme ask and I agree with excluding those this year.
I did expect to see significantly more 7* crystals/shards and 7*R2 materials.
I also hoped to see 6* 3-4 and 4-5 gems to help save catalysts for 7* rank ups. I don’t think generics would be game breaking but 6*4-5 class gems would tone it down a bit and still be welcome.
In years past, the banquet could be account changing for me. I always lag a bit behind “end-game” status. This year, I don’t see anything being account changing as announced. More 7*s, 7* R2 materials, and 6* 4-5 gems could be though if I get lucky. And that’s the fun part to me. Cyber deals are known, banquet is a big roll of the dice.
Three points:
1. It seems out of touch for players to believe Banquet would be sufficient to catapult players to Valiant/R3s.
2. It seems equally out of touch to believe that a rehash of last year’s Banquet prizes would delight players, especially given all that has transpired in-game in the intervening year.
3. There is ample room between 1&2 to have built an event that would have delighted players.
Dr. Zola
The rewards allround (with the exception of the pinnacle solo rewards) are pitiful to put it lightly. Go have a look at your monthly thronebreaker quest, what your various stores sell and then think about what you are offering to your player base.
I cannot believe a game team (and especially you the community managers) is so out of touch with what your player base wants. They literally comment on these forums daily.