Update to Solo Events

Summoners!

As mentioned in our Dev Diary on The Champions of the Contest, we’ve been working on some major revisions to Solo Events! We started by looking at ways to add Signature Stones to Solo Events, but then decided, why stop there?

There are some big changes coming to Solo Events, including updates to the rewards and solo crystals!

Progression based Events

Currently, Solo Events are available to Summoner in 3 different buckets based on Prestige. We’re doing away with this, and moving to use Campaign Progression instead!

As you move up through each Progression Level, you’ll find your 22-Hour Solo Event Milestone and Rank rewards keep getting better! 7-Hour Solo Events will also change as you progress but are lumped into groups of Progression Levels.

The Events

There aren’t any new events at this time, but there are some things to note.

First, while the number of points for doing a certain task will not change, as your progression level increases, the points required to achieve each milestone will as well. This should help less experienced Summoners achieve these milestones, and progress with a player as they move further in their journey.

Quest Completion now awards more points for completing the Uncollected Difficulty Event Quests and even more for completing the Cavalier Difficulty Event Quests!

Hero Use has seen a pretty big update. A big part of it is that 5-Star and 6-Star Champion usage now gives more points than 4-Star Champion usage. Additionally, players gain different amounts of points depending on if they are fighting in an Arena, Duel, or Quest, and get bonus points based on the rarity level of the enemy defeated!

Class Combat Events will now only award points for fighting, and also award bonus points for finishing fights with specific final attacks!

Make sure to check out the “How to Score Points” info for events when they come back around.

Changes to Solo Crystals

Say goodbye to different Shards for different Crystals. Moving forward, Solo Events will award “Solo Crystal Shards”, and you can use them to purchase Solo Crystals (1000 Shards) (formerly known as Lesser Solo Crystals), Greater Solo Crystals (2000 Shards), or the new Supreme Solo Crystal, available for 10 000 Shards!

The new Supreme Solo Crystals contain some very valuable rewards, such as 5 and 6-Star Arena Boosts, 4 and 5-Star Signature Stone Crystals, 4-Star Awakening Gems, as well as Lesser Champion, Health, and Attack Boosts, and even a chance at 4500x Tier 5 Basic Catalyst Fragments or 7200x Tier 2 Alpha Catalyst Fragments! These Crystals are only available to Summoners that have become Uncollected, and also don’t contain any Experience Boosts!

Sorry stockpilers, your existing Lesser and Greater Solo Crystal shards will not change to the new Solo Crystal Shards. They’ll be mass converted into Solo and Greater Solo Crystals.

Rewards for Solo Events

Right now, different events give different rewards. Moving forward, all events will have the same set of Milestone and Rank Rewards. That just makes sense, right?

Coming Soon!

You won’t be waiting long for these updates. New Solo events are going through final passes with our QA team, and are targeted to launch on Tuesday (barring any possible last-minute issues found in testing that could cause a delay)! Keep in mind that some of the old 7 Hour events may spawn before the new ones are activated. Additionally, the new 22 Hour Quest Completion Solo Event will not spawn until October, as it requires the October Monthly Quest to accurately award points.

Comments

Tiger360

Wait...so people want something extra because they've been sitting on stockpiles? Lol.
Most of us were under the assumption that when the crystals were updated we would be able to use the shards the we would currently spend on these crystals to buy the other ones. Lots of people have no reason to open these, as they don’t need XP or arena boosts, etc.

They were planning to use the shards they had saved to buy the newer crystals, and are now finding out we can’t do that. Didn’t want extra.
No one gave that impression. Let's stop and analyze this. Some Players haven't opened those Crystals in YEARS. They're sitting on millions of Shards. What do you think a flood of Sigs like that would do?
Oh the economy of the game would just be in absolute shambles if those endgame players got their hands on some extra 4 star sig stones
They're available to anyone Uncollected as well. Not just End Game. They also contain T2A Frags, 5* Sigs, among other things. People keep minimizing what an influx of things like that means, but I don't think they realize the effects. Rewards aren't just a random number stuck to a dart board. It all has to be balanced with a number of factors.

Someone tell him that it will be like a >2% chance to get those 5* sigs, and it will probably be like 5 max, so 50 crystals for 5 5* sig stones is not too game breaking

Kill_Grey

Not sure why nobody's mentioned this yet. But it appears that an attack boost is featured in the milestones. Does this alternate with a health boost, or is it fixed?

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Drake

Still way way too much focus on 4 star junk for Cavalier.

DroidDoes

To the mods, the 22-hour hero use event seems to be bugged. As stated in the descriptions, you’re supposed to get “bonus points based on the rarity level of the enemy defeated”; I was doing some EQ fighting, and while I did get the 4,375 points for winning a fight with a 6*, I did not get the points for the champion I defeated (was running Master, so should’ve been 2,000 points for defeating a 5*)

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TimeGenesis

Shall i just pop all of these? 😆

GroundedWisdom

Wait...so people want something extra because they've been sitting on stockpiles? Lol.
Most of us were under the assumption that when the crystals were updated we would be able to use the shards the we would currently spend on these crystals to buy the other ones. Lots of people have no reason to open these, as they don’t need XP or arena boosts, etc.

They were planning to use the shards they had saved to buy the newer crystals, and are now finding out we can’t do that. Didn’t want extra.
No one gave that impression. Let's stop and analyze this. Some Players haven't opened those Crystals in YEARS. They're sitting on millions of Shards. What do you think a flood of Sigs like that would do?
Oh the economy of the game would just be in absolute shambles if those endgame players got their hands on some extra 4 star sig stones
They're available to anyone Uncollected as well. Not just End Game. They also contain T2A Frags, 5* Sigs, among other things. People keep minimizing what an influx of things like that means, but I don't think they realize the effects. Rewards aren't just a random number stuck to a dart board. It all has to be balanced with a number of factors.
Someone tell him that it will be like a >2% chance to get those 5* sigs, and it will probably be like 5 max, so 50 crystals for 5 5* sig stones is not too game breaking

How many Shards do you figure some people are sitting on, since they haven't opened them in years? Mafs is fun.

LilMaddogHT

I'm absolutely LOVING the changes to point allocations for the 22hr and 7hr solos! Great experience thus far 👍

Just_grinding

@Kabam Miike can you do trade-in crystals? For everyone who just got a ton of lesser solo and greater solo crystals (that we didn't want)? The change is great, but it would have been better if the old crystals hadn't been automatically converted or there was a way to upgrade them.

Nameless_IW

Why do we have 2 and 3 stars stuff in the cavalier rewards?

Why no 6 star sig stones in cavalier rewards?

How hard was it to just increase the 25 units to 50 units? And why not add a 40% revive on the final milestone? The 25 units and 20% revive are from 5 years ago you know

Dru_a

Anybody else notice that the "bonus" points for hero use aren't adding up? I beat a 6* in duel with a 6*. That should get me 3125 + 2500, but I only got the 3125. Same happened in quest.

L0rd3N

Anybody else notice that the "bonus" points for hero use aren't adding up? I beat a 6* in duel with a 6*. That should get me 3125 + 2500, but I only got the 3125. Same happened in quest.

Same to me.

jay_says_hi

They’ll be mass converted into Solo and Greater Solo Crystals.

Ok, but why? We weren't opening those crystals because we don't have any use whatsoever for what they contain. By forcing us to open them without giving us the ability to exchange for a resource we care about aren't you essentially acknowledging that you have been giving us no solo rewards for years? At least let us sell them for gold or something, cluttering my inventory with XP boosts and 3* sig stones would just be annoying. Currently I guess my plan is to just never pop them? Not sure why this approach was taken instead of just doing something that players might appreciate.

Ken1378

Pretty underwhelming. Especially in the 7hr event. What do Cavalier players care about 2, 3, and 4-star sig stones? And the drop rates of the Supreme Solo Crystal aren’t great, either.

Yusuf68

Slm

Kabam Boo

Anybody else notice that the "bonus" points for hero use aren't adding up? I beat a 6* in duel with a 6*. That should get me 3125 + 2500, but I only got the 3125. Same happened in quest.

Points are adding correctly now. Thanks for pointing it out here!

Lormif

They’ll be mass converted into Solo and Greater Solo Crystals.

Ok, but why? We weren't opening those crystals because we don't have any use whatsoever for what they contain. By forcing us to open them without giving us the ability to exchange for a resource we care about aren't you essentially acknowledging that you have been giving us no solo rewards for years? At least let us sell them for gold or something, cluttering my inventory with XP boosts and 3* sig stones would just be annoying. Currently I guess my plan is to just never pop them? Not sure why this approach was taken instead of just doing something that players might appreciate.

where in that message does it say you have to open them? They are not forceing you to open them, they are converting them into a crystals so you cannot bulk buy the new crystals, giving everyone an equal start at them. You can let those old crystals continue to sit there if you like

Oesername123

Love these changes. I can finally get some of my 5* champs to sig 200, albeit it will take months/years, at least it's attainable without having to pay or wait for years. This will also make me think twice about what I was planning to get on the mutant treasure island.

Remeli

Rewards are already outdated...those wiuld have been nice like 1.5 years ago.

Colinwhitworth69

As long as I won't be "rewarded" with useless XP boosts, I'll be happy. Haven't need those in two years.

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Giuliameij

Very Very Very good upgrade to Solo events.
Much thanks from a grateful summoner!!!

battleone

I'm cavalier. I'm ecstatic with these changes. I'm certainly not expecting game changing stuff for using my heroes. I mean seriously what are you expecting 5 star awakening gems daily for playing the game? Yes I want 3 and 4 star sigs to keep these and new characters maxed for shard purposes. Yes I like keeping a 2 star stone in the 7 hour events. That is the foundation of your roster and shards flow up hill. I want Kabam to continue to make content using these characters and to still have the ability to have resources to work on them. I think the reward update is spot on and hope they update it current occasionally. They even changed 7 hour rank rewards to 100% of eligible people (from 20%) I mean you get a t4cc for being in the top 10% of daily 22 hour reward. How is that not great?

LibertyPrimeV1

First, while the number of points for doing a certain task will not change, as your progression level increases, the points required to achieve each milestone will as well. This should help less experienced Summoners achieve these milestones, and progress with a player as they move further in their journey.

Wait so am I reading this right?
Are they saying as your Story Progression Increase the Points Required to reach each Milestone will go Up as well?!
If I read that correctly, Why???

GroundedWisdom

First, while the number of points for doing a certain task will not change, as your progression level increases, the points required to achieve each milestone will as well. This should help less experienced Summoners achieve these milestones, and progress with a player as they move further in their journey.
Wait so am I reading this right?
Are they saying as your Story Progression Increase the Points Required to reach each Milestone will go Up as well?!
If I read that correctly, Why???

More advanced Players are more capable of putting up Points.

FineDog

First, while the number of points for doing a certain task will not change, as your progression level increases, the points required to achieve each milestone will as well. This should help less experienced Summoners achieve these milestones, and progress with a player as they move further in their journey.
Wait so am I reading this right?
Are they saying as your Story Progression Increase the Points Required to reach each Milestone will go Up as well?!
If I read that correctly, Why???

Yes but the rewards also increase. So lower level players only need, like, x points to get y gold from a certain milestone, whereas cavalier players might need 5x points to get 5y gold (I'm just making these numbers up). I think the idea is to let low-level players hit all the milestones and progress faster than end-game players, which is in line with pretty much everything else in the Contest.

TheAngryOne

Appreciate the changes but it's not that impressive regarding rewards / drop rates and the fact that you auto converted existing shards...

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