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So, I missed the showcase deathless piece….
Squirrelguy
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Now, I’ll try to keep this short and to the point, since I’ve been known to write posts that come dangerously close to DNA length, but here we go:
I’m sure this isn’t universal, and this is in fact opinion (you won’t hear me stating this as fact), but I’d hazard a guess that I’m not alone in thinking that the Contest has gotten a bit over saturated lately. I’ll let someone else list off the number of events that are currently available in-game with all the iterations of SQ (there are like 7 going on right now and frankly I haven’t even tried to see what that’s about), EQ (still have to explore TB, which is boring at a Valiant level, just to get to the paragon gauntlet), BGs, AW/Raids, AQ, Arena, Story, Carinas, Special quests like Necropolis, daily quests like Apothecary, special solo events, the new Sagas (with special currency spread throughout the other content in specific time-limited milestones), Holiday solo events (eg Women’s Appreciation, which was cool), Winter of Woe, and there are probably several more that I’m forgetting.
For further context, I’m a Valiant player that spent $10 on the game 4+ years ago and have been playing since the very beginning. With the end of the month coming, I was having a hard time budgeting time for all of these events ending around the same date, partially because I really want a 7* Nightcrawler, which I have just deprioritized around this point. With the end-date for a lot of content coming soon (the middle of this week), I somehow lost that the fairly limited time Showcase was ending on April 1st (a Monday right after a major holiday weekend for myself and many others in the USA and around the world), and missed out on my chance at that Deathless KG piece.
Now, I know that I should have planned to do it earlier. I know that this is meant to be difficult to obtain all of the deathless pieces. But the fact that my only recourse now to still continue in the hunt is to shell out 5k units is wild to me. I can say with some certainty that I’ve never gotten over 3k units on my account, and that was almost always with a crazy amount of arena/luck on Platinumpool crystals/etc. To know that missing a single limited-time event that was crammed in with one of the most crowded months I can ever remember in-game is demoralizing.
Now, I will probably still try to save up units (I’m around 500 now) in order to buy the piece since that’s basically my only way to continue, but I really wish that there was some permanent added 6th option for summoners that could be like a make-up piece for them for each deathless champ that could be a difficult challenge, but wasn’t just a simple unit-wall, and could alleviate a bit of the stress of perfectly achieving all of these unique milestones. I’m sure there are arguments on the other side of this perspective that are more complex than just “just don’t forget or suck it up and pay a huge number of units”, but one piece of each champion was quite literally sent out in an in-game mail, so I don’t know how solid any of those arguments could be.
But maybe I’m just an uneducated summoner who needs to git gud. Maybe it’s maybelline (don’t @ me, I don’t use beauty products). But maybe I’m not the only one who thinks that there could be a better and fun alternative safety net that wasn’t just a massive unit price stapled to a piece selector. Who knows.
I’m sure this isn’t universal, and this is in fact opinion (you won’t hear me stating this as fact), but I’d hazard a guess that I’m not alone in thinking that the Contest has gotten a bit over saturated lately. I’ll let someone else list off the number of events that are currently available in-game with all the iterations of SQ (there are like 7 going on right now and frankly I haven’t even tried to see what that’s about), EQ (still have to explore TB, which is boring at a Valiant level, just to get to the paragon gauntlet), BGs, AW/Raids, AQ, Arena, Story, Carinas, Special quests like Necropolis, daily quests like Apothecary, special solo events, the new Sagas (with special currency spread throughout the other content in specific time-limited milestones), Holiday solo events (eg Women’s Appreciation, which was cool), Winter of Woe, and there are probably several more that I’m forgetting.
For further context, I’m a Valiant player that spent $10 on the game 4+ years ago and have been playing since the very beginning. With the end of the month coming, I was having a hard time budgeting time for all of these events ending around the same date, partially because I really want a 7* Nightcrawler, which I have just deprioritized around this point. With the end-date for a lot of content coming soon (the middle of this week), I somehow lost that the fairly limited time Showcase was ending on April 1st (a Monday right after a major holiday weekend for myself and many others in the USA and around the world), and missed out on my chance at that Deathless KG piece.
Now, I know that I should have planned to do it earlier. I know that this is meant to be difficult to obtain all of the deathless pieces. But the fact that my only recourse now to still continue in the hunt is to shell out 5k units is wild to me. I can say with some certainty that I’ve never gotten over 3k units on my account, and that was almost always with a crazy amount of arena/luck on Platinumpool crystals/etc. To know that missing a single limited-time event that was crammed in with one of the most crowded months I can ever remember in-game is demoralizing.
Now, I will probably still try to save up units (I’m around 500 now) in order to buy the piece since that’s basically my only way to continue, but I really wish that there was some permanent added 6th option for summoners that could be like a make-up piece for them for each deathless champ that could be a difficult challenge, but wasn’t just a simple unit-wall, and could alleviate a bit of the stress of perfectly achieving all of these unique milestones. I’m sure there are arguments on the other side of this perspective that are more complex than just “just don’t forget or suck it up and pay a huge number of units”, but one piece of each champion was quite literally sent out in an in-game mail, so I don’t know how solid any of those arguments could be.
But maybe I’m just an uneducated summoner who needs to git gud. Maybe it’s maybelline (don’t @ me, I don’t use beauty products). But maybe I’m not the only one who thinks that there could be a better and fun alternative safety net that wasn’t just a massive unit price stapled to a piece selector. Who knows.
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- Op missed the showcase piece cuz he didn't time it right.
- Thinks 5k units is too much.
- He's never had more than 3k units on his account
- Thinks there should be an alternate way to get the missing pieces aside from units
- Doesn't care for the "git gud" or "skill issue" or any other such comments since it's his opinion
You didn't prioritize the piece, obviously, and now you're complaining about it because of other content that had nothing to do with a deathless piece.
It's nobody's fault but your own if you didn't prioritize and didn't get the piece.
The whole point of explaining about the abundance of other content was to highlight why I had trouble keeping track of event deadlines. You can heavily prioritize something and still mistime your attempt to achieve it because of an overload of information. Consequently, I wanted to make other people who might have had similar problems feel better about the mistake.
Op is just mad they couldn't read or remember the criteria for the piece lol
They're also strangely bad at budgeting time and units it seems, based on your breakdown
I'm gonna miss the WoW piece so I'll just bite the bullet and spend units on the piece
Every game mode is basically a choice. If you prioritize arena over showcase.. well...
Do arena
Complete all difficulty levels of monthly story quest
Do all variants on classic difficulty
Get the 4th milestone in the 22 hour daily events
It’ll add up over time.
I think a simpler option would be to have showcase expire later than 2 weeks, like give it a month or the duration of a season of war.
Going in EVERYBODY knows either you get the piece through the content it's released in, or, you pay 5k units down the road.
It was timed content, you knew that, you failed to prioritize the piece and bow you want kabam to put it somewhere else because of people who lack the time management skills to do it the first time?
Yeah.... no.
Just think, you can now slowly chip away at arena for units, arena isn't timed content. 😃
Now having said all of that, Kabam was very upfront that the deathless chase would be challenging and if you missed a time limited piece, it would be expensive. Mobile games have always been a question of time vs money (often times both) so I don't know what to tell you. I think giving us more than a two-week window to do the War Showcase would have been nice and it is weird it ended on a Monday so I feel you there, but ultimately I didn't want to pay the 5000 units for the magic dirt or whatever piece of King Groot was there. I felt the same way about the sword hilt on Deathless Guillotine where I was up at 12 pm grinding battlegrounds a day before going to a convention with a wake-up time of 5 am.
Ultimately though it's a matter of priorities. For whatever reason, you didn't prioritize getting this piece and are now mad your only option is to pay too many units for it. It's not wild that this is the only option. Heck, it's not even the first champ so we knew the price point going into the two-week time limit. I think it's at best, sour grapes that you can't get this piece now without the pain of saving units for it.
I don't know what the point of your post ultimately is. Kabam was clear what your two options to get King Groot were. Sorry you're not happy with your decision.
( I speed ran getting 2k units and beating all act 8 bosses to awaken Deathless guillotine cause I was missing 2 pieces, so I speak from experience)
- explore lower difficulties of event quests
- try to reach all the milestones in every arena, it's alright if you don't reach the max one for the 4* one the battlechips will make up for it.
- go into act content (act 7 n 8) and get any missing units
- make sure you reach the unit milestones every 22 he event
- keep an eye out of limited time events that give you units
At least I could go back and get that last guillotine piece when I felt like wasting revives against bahamet.
1 free
1 WoW
1 CCP
1 AW Showcase..
Can't remember the others....
So, with the UI collapsing all the Non-EQ stuff into one window pane, there was at one point 7 March SQ stuff, at least 4 Feb SQ stuff (I don't remember how many there were), as well as Showcase. It is easy enough to just zone out when you have to scroll 12+ panes, each with different timers.
Add on the ridiculous deluge of objectives and milestones (again, the February Ironheart stuff stayed active for much too long), and there definitely was a lot more needless things to keep track of/ignore. Add on to that the weird bug where Kabam added on a ton of Knullifier solo events halfway through the month, leading to more distraction.
Having said that - yes like others have said, if Deathless pieces are what you wanted then that is what you should have prioritized (For me, I don't care about Nightcrawler, so I am not prioritizing that)
I don't think adding a non-unit route is the way to go. If you miss something that isn't Permanent, then that is that. If you didn't happen to play Week 1 of Winter of Woe, then its not like there needs to be a 'make-up' for it. Whether you didn't login at all or just forgot, you still missed the time limit.