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The new end date will be May 1st.
When my Gold hits zero, I will....
Haji_Saab
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I finished the last gold realm or whatever its name was with 10m gold. I am now at 2m gold. The decline is pretty steady. Let me go through the normal solutions offers and put the rebuttal forward to you.
1. Don't waste gold on useless rank ups:
During this time, I have not ranked up any 4* champ. to r3 or above. I have not ranked up any useless 5* beyond 1/25. I still am looking towards a gold bankruptcy in a few weeks.
2. Arena is the solution to everything:
During this time, I have landed the 1,000 shards from 5-star arena few times, 2,000 shards couple of times and 500 shards on consistent basis. So, I am well in top 25% of arena players. It still didn't increase my net gold.
3. Questing brings Gold:
During this time, I have finished all Heroic to Uncollected quests every time and ran through completion of Normal / Beginner. I did 100% LOL and 100% Act 5. My net gold still didn't increase.
4. Map 6 is draining you of all the gold
We have not run a single Map 6 (unless when it was free of cost)
Now, I know guys who are sitting on mountains of gold and are doing all kinds of rank ups. One guy in my alliance donated gold for the whole alliance couple of weeks back because he had too much of it. But what I have found about them is that they normally go really hard at arena. I am talking about people who consistently finish either winning the champs or on their "off" week, in top 10% bracket.
This is in essence an RPG game despite the appearance of fighting game. And upgrading your characters, weapons, gear , whatever you want to call it is always a blood line for an RPG. If you want to restrict rank ups to 10% of your players base, that is your choice but it will alienate 90% of your player-base. I sat behind the t4cc wall for a year, but it was ok as I was able to still rank up 3* and 4* to a certain level. There was something happening. I can't do that with a gold wall.
So, coming to the topic, When my gold hits zero, I am probably out. I don't see a future in which I will enjoy the game without upgrading anyone.
P.S. The gold crystals are abysmal. And the gold masteries are abysmal-er.
P.S.S. This is the 100th (or more) thread on Gold shortage.
1. Don't waste gold on useless rank ups:
During this time, I have not ranked up any 4* champ. to r3 or above. I have not ranked up any useless 5* beyond 1/25. I still am looking towards a gold bankruptcy in a few weeks.
2. Arena is the solution to everything:
During this time, I have landed the 1,000 shards from 5-star arena few times, 2,000 shards couple of times and 500 shards on consistent basis. So, I am well in top 25% of arena players. It still didn't increase my net gold.
3. Questing brings Gold:
During this time, I have finished all Heroic to Uncollected quests every time and ran through completion of Normal / Beginner. I did 100% LOL and 100% Act 5. My net gold still didn't increase.
4. Map 6 is draining you of all the gold
We have not run a single Map 6 (unless when it was free of cost)
Now, I know guys who are sitting on mountains of gold and are doing all kinds of rank ups. One guy in my alliance donated gold for the whole alliance couple of weeks back because he had too much of it. But what I have found about them is that they normally go really hard at arena. I am talking about people who consistently finish either winning the champs or on their "off" week, in top 10% bracket.
This is in essence an RPG game despite the appearance of fighting game. And upgrading your characters, weapons, gear , whatever you want to call it is always a blood line for an RPG. If you want to restrict rank ups to 10% of your players base, that is your choice but it will alienate 90% of your player-base. I sat behind the t4cc wall for a year, but it was ok as I was able to still rank up 3* and 4* to a certain level. There was something happening. I can't do that with a gold wall.
So, coming to the topic, When my gold hits zero, I am probably out. I don't see a future in which I will enjoy the game without upgrading anyone.
P.S. The gold crystals are abysmal. And the gold masteries are abysmal-er.
P.S.S. This is the 100th (or more) thread on Gold shortage.
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Other than that only make important rank ups like 5*s to r4 and r5. Until you stabilize your gold.
Unless you´re a huge spender I don't think it´s intended to be able to rank every champ, and you must choose carefully.
Your post is proving the point that many of us have been making all along about the gold issue. I have gone broke 3 times in two years. I don’t have a vast 5* roster my problem was not knowing that I needed to be in the arenas everyday for about 3 hours.
There are players right now sitting on 5-7M in gold thinking they don’t have a gold problem because they are grinding the arena. They aren’t noticing their net loss in gold each week because it’s smal, a few hundred thousand here or there. In a month or two that gold stash will be down to 2.5-3.5M and then they will pull a god tier 5 or 6* champ, immediately rank them up and run out of gold.
FYI: pay no attention to the player who is maxing out 3* players, doesn’t have the roster to hit all of the milestones in multiple arenas, but comes on to the forums to give advice about how to play the game effectively. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
There is a gold shortage though. The crystals (nice BS half off offer, Kabam) and Arena shouldn't be the only options. The gold for rewards for many things is outdated and pathetic.
You shouldn't have to do extra work just to rank up characters that you earn; it should come through normal progression. Nobody is asking to be "given something for free." We are asking that Kabam adjust the gold output to coincide with the game progression so that we as players don't have to grind our lives away just to rank up characters.
Some of us have very limited time to play. I have stated in another thread that my wife and I own multiple businesses. There is virtually no way that I can complete all monthly event quests, AQ, AW, and grind for hours per day on top of that just to rank up the champs that I get from shards. I would do so if I had time, but I don't. And I shouldn't have to grind for hours, either. If I am getting the shards to earn champs, I should earn the gold necessary to rank them as well.
That's like going to a restaurant and paying for your food, but having to pay extra for utensils to eat the food with.
I currently have 5 very good 5 star champs that I can't even rank to r3 because of lack of gold. I have the other resources required, but gold is hard to come by. That shouldn't be.
1. Sell expiring Iso
2. Sell expiring items
3. Rank up only 2 5 star champs per month to rank 3.
4. Dont rank more 2, 3, 4 stars unless you rank only 1 5 star a month.
5. Stop whining
6. Play map 3 or map 4. The low donations allow you to have a surplus of gold and not a deficit while having ideal amount of resources not expiring. I have an abudance of resources anyway.
I have 10 million gold and my account has 40 5 stars almost all of them rank 3 or more. I have also 75 4 stars with almost half of those maxed.
Stop whinning. The game was not designed so you can rank up all the champs yoy want inmediately.
Yes, let's sell the ISO that's sitting because there's NO GOLD. Then I'll have gold and no ISO!
Whining? I'm all for hating against that, but there is a shortage to the increase in higher PI champs being released. Kabam just wants you to buy those pathetic gold crystals, where 99% of the time you get $2400 gold. They even cut their crappy deals in half yesterday.
Lol sorry I want to start the new trend for all the people that say "do arena" because even they started to run low on gold/will run low once they rank up their 5*/6* champs like myself.
Yes. I Max out 3*s. There's something called SA. There's also something called Level Up. "He" doesn't ignore the rest of his Roster because something new came along. "He" has a sufficient Roster to hit all the Milestones in multiple Arenas. "He" usually runs 3-5 simultaneously. "He" has the stats to support that. Apparently, "He" does know what he's talking about because "He" never runs out of Gold and Ranks at a consistent pace.
To be fair, if everyone in this game ran Map 1-3 and weren’t uncollected and don’t do uncollected monthly quest and still getting 3* and 4* shards from AW wins, no one would be having gold issues. I know you will take it personally but I really don’t mean it that way. Just different circumstances for different people.
Like @Haji_Saab, I felt the gold crunch slowly creep in as well—finally had a strong 5* crystal run and took 3-4 up to R4. Gold in the 10M range now hovers around 2M.
Some was my own fault: my arena grinding slowed (mainly because I found grinding for shards and a RNG shot at a pool of champs less appealing than grinding for a specific basic—but that owes to the obsolescence of 4*’s, not necessarily the gold issue). But some of it was also the gold and resource hungry nature of higher order champs and the failure of the game to keep pace.
Like XP, loyalty, and other parts of the in-game economy...they stay frozen in time while the game grows, rosters expand, rankups get costlier, etc. Run a UC path against 6*’s and get the same crummy T1 ISO from a quest crystal as you do running Normal against 3*’s. I fail to see how that makes sense.
Dr. Zola
So you form assumptions about my game play and continually use that in debates, but tell me it's not meant to be personal. Had you not tried the same belittling tactic before, that might be plausible. However you repeated attempts speak for themselves.
Same old M.O for you too. Trying to tell people who are mid to endgame players that everything is fine because you have no problems at low levels of the game.
If things are great for you then how about letting other players have their say without getting involved
Well the OP stated his credentials of what AQ maps he plays, what champs he ranks up, what event quests he completes, and where he is generally at in the game. So it makes the best case when someone offering a solution does the same. You made a suggestion to OP of how to resolve his gold issues because it seems like you don’t have gold issues in the game with what you’re doing. I am inquiring under what circumstances you would be in to not have gold issues and maybe state in the same format like OP did. But I know you won’t do that so I’ll drop it. Just different circumstances for different people.
The assumptions I made were of a general player in that range of the game, they wouldn’t be having gold issues because they have not reached the bigger gold sinks in the game quite yet.
Boys 99 excuses and whinning is not one!!!!!!!
The OP is free to state whatever they want. My details are mine to share if I choose. Considering the fact that I usually don't share them, I would be curious at the fact that people presume to know them. Curious indeed at the means of acquiring those things, given the fact that I don't share them, and even more curious that the information keeps circulating as some form of low-rent, overplayed ammunition. Almost as curious as the fact that someone continually calls out lack of experience in many discussions in an off-topic way, claiming it's pertinent to the discussion, when in actuality it's just an attempt to expose someone out of validity. Also as equally curious as the idea that the same people jump in whenever such an attempt is made. Then again, if I think about it, it's not curious at all.
Moving on.
Bro you can play map 4 too. I do uncollected every month. I dont know why is hard to understand to people.
You play map 5 and map 6 and you will have an overflow of resources t4cc and t4b.
You wont be able to rank up every single 5 star. Again i have 40 5 stars half of them rank 3 or above. I have 2 6 star fully ready for level 2. And close to 80 4 stars 20 of them maxed. Countless of 2 and 3 star champ maxed and still have 2000 iso and 10 million gold in my stash.
I only do 50 rounds of arena. 25 in basic and 25 in feature.
The game was not designed so you can rank up every champ you want as fast as you get it. I guess this is rocket science.
That's what I do. Keep a minimum balance and pace myself.
Yes I understand that. I don't want to give up Map 6x5 currently and know that only a small portion of players run that. But I found my solution to maintaining gold requirements from donations and leveling-up. Starting to see signs of gold increase rather than decrease finally.
Very true. Just limit your leveling options to God tier champs and sell expiring catalyst while keeping all of them maxed if you dont need them. Yes sell resources that are about to expire.
Soon we will have T5CC and selling T4CC will be a thing.