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The new end date will be May 1st.
I very much regret pushing for thronebreaker prematurely, Cavs don't force it.
BadPullsMarco
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Just reflecting on the $200 bucks I spent to form that catalyst and ranking up something that was un-duped (that will probably never get duped let alone sigged up) and honestly there was no point. Those daily crystals might as well be called t4 basic crystals, there are no regular offers for thronbreakers, no exclusive content, cav difficulty is soooooo arduous as it is, honestly, I can't think of a single real benefit that's worth the rush.
Long story short guys, let it happen naturally, it's a pointless pursuit.
Long story short guys, let it happen naturally, it's a pointless pursuit.
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Now that the holidays are gone, ain’t really worth rushing thronebreaker
The realistic requirements to form a T5CC from shards requires active participation in a Map 7 alliance or high tier AW and the exploration of multiple high level pieces of content - V5/6 exploration alongside multiple Act 6 chapters. The roster required to do this, compared to just getting through Act 6 are vast. Not only this, in the process of exploring all of this content you'll get an additional 20 or so R5/2 champions in rank up materials, significantly widening your roster.
There's far too much emphasis on 6* champions when most players still need to develop and widen their 5* rosters because that's where they're going to be able to get their sig200s and take full advantage of a champion's ability set. The crossover between people trying to get Thronebreaker and complaining about cavalier difficulty being too hard or specific shows that roster development is key. There's not much point in having a very sharp tip to the spear of your roster if the rest of it hasn't been properly forged; it'll bend and break. Perhaps this is a poor analogy but it stands.
This is a difficulty requirement that's going to get diluted as time goes on with more comparatively easy high level content being released like the variants and the monthly cavalier events. This comes alongside increased 6* access making it far more likely that the player is going to have a champion that they WANT to R3 in each class when the time comes that they do form their T5CC.
I've been TB since it went live and got my first full T5b yesterday. Got probably 20x 4,500 T5b shards by now as well. It really does pay off overall. Main benefit was of course the cyber monday deals though.
I’m not sure how long they expect players to take to get to Thronebreaker but for me it will be years at this rate and I will possibly have lost interest by then.
The struggle to get T2A and T5B is a long enough road and that’s mainly achieved via AQ.
I realise they have to have progressing tiers for Non-Whales and players that are not God mode players but personally think Cav difficulty for Cav players is too champion specific and that should be for top tier players like Thronebreaker which I presumed was the point.
Kabam needs to separate CAV from TB like uncollected is compared to Cav or Conqueror, the difference is Night & Day.
Me acquiring T5CC via Cav monthly events is as so rare it may as well be called a Bismuth Crystal.
My experience over a month or so...
I’m sure someone somewhere has gotten epic pulls from the Daily, but I haven’t sniffed one since I hit TB.
Is there a sense of accumulating decent stuff daily? Sure, but it’s more like a couple of Map 5 crystals a day thus far. That’s not what gets sold re: the dailies on forums—I recall the adjective “game-changing” being tossed around back in December.
As for the event offers, I missed them because I was just short of a T5c (I passed on all the “spend for T5c” offers leading up). But they did look like nice prizes in return for your cash/units.
The calendar 5% is definitely nice. Glory for a 5% also great. So is the Sigil 6* featured discount (which I pay $9.99 a month for). The four-hours are higher level pots but drop in about the same ratios, and it is a pleasant surprise to discover you’ve formed a shard Cav crystal every two weeks. Plus you can now spend just 175 units on a regular Cav instead of 200 units, so that’s an improvement.
I’m sure I forgot about something—but is all that worth a couple hundred bucks? Probably not. Is it worth shooting for over time? Probably so, which I think is what OP suggests.
To temper anyone’s Daily TB expectations, I will refer back to @DNA3000 ’s chart in this thread:
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/248093/should-i-become-thronebreaker/p1
That gives you a fair idea of what to expect over a few months for Daily drops. My shorter TB experience conforms to his, albeit without the higher end Daily pulls that I’m sure are just around the corner.
Dr. Zola
I also have been lucky enough to pull roughly 3 t2a and 2 t5b from the dailies. Been thronebreaker for about 2 months now. And the potions you can get from the 4h crystals are actually usable, unlike the level 2 versions.
One thing I have to say thou. Do not spend to get thronebreaker. Just from it from the game, or do your first abyss path. If you have almost any champ in the class you get just r3 them. The bad r3 won`t hold you back because you can roughly get 2 more r3's in a year than a cavalier player does.
The meta is still very much at 5/65 and 2/35 level so for a long while that first r3 won`t matter. Getting the others faster will.
Looking back at threads in November-ish, you and a few others specifically noted the dailies were nothing special. But that screenshot from Patchie (I think) of fully formed T2a, T5b and 10K 6* shards danced like sugar-plums in most people’s heads.
Dr. Zola
Absolutely great bonuses but nothing that has made any massive difference to my account. In all honesty, the added t2a and t4b have been useful more regularly than anything. Not exactly exciting though.
Dr. Zola
Anyways play at your pace, it’s not a race.
Is it worth using a t5cc you already have on an above average champ (not god) to get Thronebreaker? Imo yes it is.
I'm almost there without spending anything for any T5CC deal. If I bought the 15% selector after finishing 7.1, I may have been TB now. The T5CC I'm forming is from content alone (not doing Map 7) which makes it much more satisfying once I get TB. If I get TB soon, I'll love those T4Bs as they are still my bottleneck. I'm still ranking up 5*s left and right more than 6*s.. Lol.