**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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Yes. Because people expect to rank up daily. That's what everyone who is short on alphas is calling for...
You didn’t rank your ant men, colossi, IP, KK past rank r3 as 4 stars, if at all, and you do not need to rank them past their 5* star equivalent. Kick rocks.
That lesser ascendant crystal does suck, but I don't think changing it to the greater ascendant crystal would specifically help T1A availability because it would automatically increase T4 B/CC cat availability. You can't choose where you place your effort.
I always run the T4B arena. I used to run the T1A arena then stopped when I didn't need them anymore, then started again when I started to run low. I used to run the ascendant arena before I discovered what the odds of that crystal were, based on running it too many times in retrospect. Even though it is now vastly easier for me to run that thing than it used to be, I never run it anymore.
I don't think it is a good idea to increase availability rather than address costs, and I don't think we should pile too many problem fixes in the arena (it is fine for me if the arena is one of many sources, but not if it becomes the basket we put everything in) but if we were going to add availability in the arena I think it makes more sense if we add a higher tier milestone to those arenas. After all, most of the people in dire need of 5* upgrade resources can trivially blow past 800k. Perhaps you could add another milestone at 1.6 million for another t1a, and while you're at it add another milestone in the T4B arena at 2.2 million for another one of those.
Then throw the ascendant arena in the ocean and rethink that completely.
It seems like that.
Just so I'm clear, when you say the game is forcing you into subjectively restrictive ranking habits, what would you say is a reasonable amount of rank ups a higher end players should be able to achieve in the average month, and how many is the game currently constraining players that play like yourself to?
I'm looking for something like "I think it would be reasonable to rank up one 5* from rank 1 to rank 3 and another 5* from rank 1 to rank 2, but the game currently limits me to doing one or the other but not both in the same month." Something like that. Every player earns a different amount of 5* (and 4*) champs, and every player earns a different amount of rank up resources. In the average month, I would like to know what the exact gap is between what you think is fair and what you think you're getting instead.
@GroundedWisdom your main point is absurd. My apologies if I wind up with a redundant post but I edited my last one and it went into moderator limbo. This is like saying because you think a famine could have been avoided if farmers/consumption had been handled differently that therefore there is no famine despite all the starving people. By definition there is a shortage so stop saying there isn't one because it's stupid and insulting to all the people who are short. @CoatHang3r has the sense to argue that the situation is manageable. He doesn't deny the existence of the situation. But even granting that alphas are as available as they were previously, it is clear that t4cc are more available than they were, and 5*'s which used to be scarce and need lots of alphas are more available, so it should be expected that a greater need for alphas without an increased supply will cause a shortage. Again, it is reasonable to argue that we need to find ways to manage this as Coathang3r has done. But to say there is no shortage is absurd.
@GroundedWisdom is often extremely ambiguous with his wording, and sometimes I think I understand what he is saying and he works hard to prove that guess wrong, but in this case I believe he is saying that while players might have a shortage, meaning the players individually lack t1a, the game itself doesn't suffer from a shortage of availability in t1a.
If players need more than they have, that is a shortage by literal definition. But that's not the same thing as saying the game has a shortage of them. The game can't literally have a shortage (because of course the game can make an infinite number of them), but it can suffer from a lack of availability, which is colloquially reasonable to call a shortage. I don't personally think that the latter kind of shortage exists, but it depends greatly on how much availability you think the game is supposed to have in the first place. That's kind of an unanswered question.
Back when 5* champs were rare, there was a huge abundance of them relative to need, because need was low. Now, some players have needs that significantly outstrip their perceived availability. But I don't personally know if those needs are reasonable, because there aren't a lot of people posting examples that compare needs over time with earnings over time. They are mostly posting backlogs. My guess however is that the very top T4CC earners and 5* champion earners are the canary in the cage, and uncollected difficulty events will start to propagate their problem downward in some fashion. At some point the devs will be compelled to address this. Perception will simply overtake the numbers.
Ignoring any criticism of your ranking choices, you seem to be implying that the minimum amount of rank ups you should be able to do should include both the ability to rank every 5* champion you acquire to rank 2 fairly quickly, on top of ranking up champions specifically to rank 3 and 4 that have the highest ranking priority. Is that a fair paraphrase of your position?
Bro you have 10 5*s at r1. You don’t have a lot ranked. Almost 2/3 if your 5* are below r3, half at r1. Piss off
You are nowhere near the level of the players dealing with alpha availability.
People open 5 star for feature or pop open 5 and they want to rank 3 all they get right away. 😂 It took me 5 to 8 months to rank 3 15 of my 5 stars. So I expect every one to be able to rank 5 stars but as its due time. It is just nonsense to moan about T1A when you can easily get 20 every MONTH.
Lets hear the complaints about Gold too once you need more than a million to max a 5 star. HAPPY GRINDING 😊
Use your glory to buy T1A. Dont be cheap or try to exploit the game.
Why set The choke point so low
I'm not specifically judging, I'm trying to put numbers to the qualitative statements. So it sounds like you're saying you think it would be reasonable to be able to rank up your 5* champions to rank 2 more or less as soon as you got them, but you think it is also reasonable to temporarily delay a rank 2 upgrade to divert resources to rank up a champion you intend to take to rank 3 or 4. Is that a reasonable rate to you?
That’s the reason why you guys have a t1a shortage and I don’t. There is no NEED to rank 5*s to R3. Anyway it doesn’t matter to me whether supply is increased. Extra T1A for doing absolutely nothing extra just lets me sell them for more T2A fragments.
I’m sorry what? Where am I getting 20 alphas a month? And it’s already been said, it’s ridiculous to have to use your glory to buy t1 alphas. It should be common enough that you don’t have to. My ally hits every milestone every time so that’s 4 in 12 days. 4 from event quests that’s 8. Glory needs to be used for t2a frags. Why should we use the glory to purchase anything other then the rarest item in the store? In a pinch, sure. But to have to use all my glory in order to be able to rank my 5* hyperion before the cosmic t4c expires is ridiculous dude. If you can’t get behind that then your just an idiot troll. Piss off
Yea not me. Since my first ever 5* if I’m not going to rank it to 4 or use it frequently as an r3 then it gets leveled and stays at 1. Been that way for three years. But now it’s different. Bc my unawakened 5* gwenpool has higher face pi at r3 then my level 99 r5 4*. And face pi is what counts in aw towards defender rating so guess what? Now that changes. 5* are now needed more. And rightfully so. They’re coming into the game
More. SO THE MATERIALS NEEDED TO RANK THEM SHOULD BE COMING IN MORE AS WELL. Simple as that. Game progresses, rewards should progress with it. But they’re leaving alphas behind as if they’re not required anymkre
Not so ridiculous is it now @CoatHang3r maybe you should think a little bit before you spew out hundreds of non sense posts trying to prove your point.
How bout an actual counter arguement instead? I know its a lot to ask for around here.
You can r3 2 defense 5s a month if that’s your focus, you telling me you can pull more than two defense 5s a month and that no one else can? Your competition is in the same boat guy.
#muhalphashortage
#moart2aformyIF
Where am I getting 20 alphas a month without constantly buying them from the glory store
It is not ridiculous my friend. You are being unrealistic. Why you have cosmic t4cc expiring. You open all your resources and want to use every single T4cc. Let me guess your looking for a specific class, guess what? That is not how the game works. Learn how to play. Plan yourself better.
Lol so what do you do when you need to rank a champ? You just don’t open anything catalyst crystals bc you may end up getting something in your overflow you don’t need? No. You’re the one that needs to learn how to play. 30 days should
Be more then enough time to earn 10 alphas without having to buy them from a store.
Kabam puts 5*s in crystals that we can buy weekly. But put a limit on the alphas we can buy. It should not be that way
EQ-6
Arena-3
3 days-10
Buy one with glory enjoy your Hyperion.
Glory is meant for you to use on what you need, if you want to prioritize something other than rank up materials that’s on you but it sounds like you need t1a to meet your goals.
Don’t have time to do arena, event quests only give 4. And I do use my glory on a rank up material. The rarest one. Not the one that players that just started are using to r3 their top champ.