Titan Shard Acquisition is too Slow
BigBlueOx
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Just looking at the community reaction and multiple posts expressing frustration… it seems like this commodity is too rare at the time being. It takes months to acquire shards for 1-2 shots at a new champ and if RNG isn’t on your favor you’ll walk away with an older one. These older champs aren’t bad by any stretch but they aren’t the “new” toys you are looking for either. I think one way to alleviate this frustration would be to increase the trickle of Titan shards to Valiant players to average out to one crystal a month and Paragon players to 0.75 crystals a month.
More shots at a new champ might lessen the anxiety of a miss if you know the next shot is coming in a reasonable time frame.
More shots at a new champ might lessen the anxiety of a miss if you know the next shot is coming in a reasonable time frame.
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Whenever I get enough Titan shards, I open one and that’s fine.
What’s not fine is that in my very first one I get Thing… 😓
In a normal month a paragon player barely gets half of a normal 7* crystal…
3k from Paragon Gauntlet, 3k usually from SQ, and a little bit from incursions. Anything on top of that is a bonus…
Also looking at reward structure, the target for titan shards currently seems to be Valiant.
Fixed it for you.
I worked hard to explore Necropolis and do other content like BGs/7 for 7 just to open 2 Jabari Panthers (yes 2 Jabari's).
All that effort for a champ I'll never use, or even give iso to. I'd honestly sell her if I could for a few 7* shards
I’m a Valliant, so no skin off my nose if you want less. But my main point is that if the Titan crystal is really the main access method for newer champs outside of Unit-Gone (Paragon) Crystals that the current trickle of shards isn’t really satisfying that need and has created a very uneven acquisition cadence where even pulling a good champ like Thing or Colossus feels like a Groot punch to the gut.
Colossus, spider ham and crossbones have been my 3 titan pulls so far so I understand the pain.
Regular play does not give out enough 7-star shards to make duping a viable route of obtaining enough to open a Titan crystal. 600 shards a dupe is only 3% of one Titan crystal. Your normal player is not going to be acquiring enough 7-star shards to open 33+ 7-star crystals, have all 33 be dupes, just to open 1 Titan crystal.
What this essentially boils down to is that Whales/High tier Competitive players get a 6 month early access to New Champions, while FTP have to wait 6 months for the champion to come to basic (they may have one shot at a new champion in the 6 month period if they manage to get enough Titan shards).
Instead of having the choice to hoard crystals for more shots at a featured, normal players can't increase the number of chances at getting a new champion.
Essentially, Titan crystals just is a shiny paywall that Kabam has created to try to get players to spend more on offers, or spend more to reach higher tiers in competitive modes.
By the time you get your next crystal the champ you want will just roll over into the basic pool. You’ll end up getting 1 maybe 2 tries in the “exclusive” pool of 24.
And then you have to factor in the gamble you're taking and the odds of getting a champ you want. That alone could be pretty abyssmal if RNG is a hater lol.
I don't expect to get them at the rate as we get 6* shards, but it would be nice if the quantity, availibilty, and pace was increased a little bit 🤏🏽 I think we should be able to open at least 2 per month. That should keep titan acquisition interesting and better our chances of getting who we want.
If not, then might as well lose the titan hype, and wait until the champ hits the basic.
I am somewhat ok with the current acquisition time. The one change I would make is to have a few thousand titan shards for the paragon gauntlet. That's an additional 2k a month, which is reasonable but not game breaking by any means.
I open 7* basics pretty regularly, so when I end up pulling VtD, I’m not completely destroyed because I know I can form another one soon. I’m not saying titans should be that frequent (because they definitely shouldn’t) but there should be more ways
Thankfully the Winter of Woe is offering a Titan to valiant tier players so I’m happy
As for acquisition rate of titans, I think what needs to be considered are two numbers (each considered from both the paragon and valiant perspective):
1) for an average player who completes all monthly/story content, how many Titan crystals can they open of a specific pool, assuming they start from 0 shards at the beginning of the cycle?
2) for that same player, if they were to be targeting a specific champion, how many Titan crystals could they open before that champion rotates out of the Titan pool and into the basic?
Kabam has stated they are trying to give players more agency in how they acquire 7* champions, so these numbers would be indicative of whether they are succeeding in that goal.
For reference, I’ve opened a total of 4, having completed/explored all relevant permanent content and participating in high tier alliance war but largely skipping BGs.
One of two things *should* change:
1. The frequency doubles - four a year is still next to nothing but certainly better than waiting 6 months for a Colossus or Jabari Panther.
2. The pool changes - to only include the cream of the crop characters. This sounds like it would be the better option (it would) but it also sounds harder for the game team to develop. Because these champs start in the Titan pool and eventually go to the basic, they can't *only* give us the best of the best in the Titan.
While I'd like that to be the case, I think both in Kabam's thinking and in the game economy, making Titan shards more available sounds like the more logical solution.