Arena Crystals - Regular, Uncollected, or Thronebreaker

I've always been an arena grinder and I wanted to gather some data on the arena crystals and see which ones ended up giving the most value for me. I did 12 openings using 1mill battlechips each time. This is how it went:

(1) 100 Uncollected - Units: 1,468 / Gold: 1,570,340
(2) 20 Thronebreaker - Units: 2,585 / Gold: 1,890,150
(3) 500 Regular - Units: 2,120 / Gold: 1,630,280
(4) 500 Regular - Units: 1,755 / Gold: 2,565,000
(5) 20 Thronebreaker - Units: 2,625 / Gold: 2,347,500
(6) 100 Uncollected - Units: 1,575 / Gold: 2,381,163
(7) 20 Thronebreaker - Units: 3,375 / Gold: 2,700,000
(8) 20 Thronebreaker - Units: 3,000 / Gold: 2,700,000
(9) 20 Thronebreaker - Units: 3,375 / Gold: 2,225,000
(10) 20 Thronebreaker - Units 750 / Gold: 2,700,000 (I had very bad luck in this opening, so I went for regular the next one)
(11) 500 Regular - Units: 1,785 / Gold: 2,542,304
(12) 20 Thronebreaker - Units: 5,250 / Gold: 1,981,163

Thronebreaker ones are the ones giving me more luck, but I do like to open them when I have 1mill battlechips, I think this is the best option to get the most value.

How about you guys? What do you normally open?

Comments

kvirr

Question, is there a method to get all these battlechips ? 12m is a lot, how long have you been saving for ? do you have methods to get the most ?

ahmynuts

@DNA3000

LeinadSagrav

Question, is there a method to get all these battlechips ? 12m is a lot, how long have you been saving for ? do you have methods to get the most ?

@kvirr Well the first opening I did on June 2023, and the last one on Dec 2024. It was more than a year of grinding arena. There is not a special method, just grind arena like crazy like you don't have a life

DNA3000

Question, is there a method to get all these battlechips ? 12m is a lot, how long have you been saving for ? do you have methods to get the most ?

The optimal way to get as much units and BC as possible is to farm milestones, and then when you have them all, grind the highest arena if you still have time.

When I was at the height of my grinding, circa 2022 - 2023, I was opening a batch of one million BC worth of crystals about every three weeks.

DNA3000

Thronebreaker ones are the ones giving me more luck, but I do like to open them when I have 1mill battlechips, I think this is the best option to get the most value.

How about you guys? What do you normally open?

It all comes down to random chance. In terms of units, all the crystals have the same long term average rate of return: 1875 units per million BC worth of crystals. If you open enough of them, your long term average will converge on that number. But in short bursts, you can get much higher or lower amounts of course.

After opening 2300 UC crystals my average ended up being 1926 units per batch of 100 (1M BC worth) and my average so far after 1020 TB crystals (51 batches of 20) is 1890 units per batch (I switched to TB when they became available).

PT_99

UC only

SummonerNR

Since OP failed to actually summarize theirs, it all came out to 2472 Units per 1M BC opened each time. (Which was quite good)

Your Regular and UC (combined of 1740) came closer to DNA's 1875 or 1900.
Even though you did 1M of them less times, was actually more crystals that your TB below.

Whereas your TB was a smaller sample size than DNA's much larger data set, so luckily ended up with more random deviation from average (your smaller TB collection could have just as easily been way under the average).

Link below is DNA's semi more recent one he made (2021), which inside then has link to original mega analysis he did earlier (2019). Including Gold, etc.

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/255770/2000-uncollected-arena-crystals#latest