Is Thronebreaker worth it?
Kahrahtay
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Thronebreaker benefits;
Somewhat better drops out of 4hour and daily crystals.
Better black market (if u pay)
1x cav crystal every 2 weeks
A title 😉
Somewhat better drops out of 4hour and daily crystals.
Better black market (if u pay)
1x cav crystal every 2 weeks
A title 😉
Is Thronebreaker worth it? 169 votes
Yes worth it
86%
146 votes
Nope
13%
23 votes
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Better calendar too for rank up mats. Glory store is also quite a bit better value and you can buy the T5cc if you’re chasing more r3s.
If you aren’t running Map 7 and getting loads of T5c/T2a and you have to (a) spend a ton and/or (b) R3 a 6* champ like Groot, Rhino, Karnak, Green Goblin, Beast or Iron Fist—absolutely not.
Dr. Zola
Thronebreaker has benefits. They are worth something. The requirements are basically complete Act 6 and rank up an r3. If those two things are in reach, and they don't cost significantly more today than they would in the reasonable future, then it is worth it.
There is an opportunity cost to ranking up any champion: you're spending resources you could spend on a stronger champ if you get one. So ranking up something today has a cost, but waiting also has a cost (you forgo TB rewards). Whichever cost is lower, go that way. How you assess that is a somewhat subjective question.
Dr. Zola
Perhaps.
Obviously, I don’t have as long a history with TB dailies as either of you, but I’ve yet to see a full cat that was anything more than a T4b/T4c (and even those have been rare).
Here’s @DNA3000 chart from a few weeks ago. His experience at that point didn’t suggest it was raining full T5b/T2a for him either.
Perhaps it’s just a streak of bad luck, but if you take his pulls from
that 90+ day period and my experience since early January, that’s equivalent to a four-month run with only a single full T2a and no full T5b.
So...if by “often” you mean once a quarter, then yes. I don’t doubt it happens—I just think building unrealistic expectations around TB dailies is a disservice to the community.
Dr. Zola
I still can’t say what the averages are, but I suspect that’s not far from the average.
And it’s great for a “free” crystal. I’m not disputing that.
But it’s fair to note that it is probably likelier you pull a 4* from a PHC than it is to pull one of the top end prizes from a TB daily. And that puts it into a tangible perspective most players can relate to.
Dr. Zola
I have also opened 20k 6 stars shards. Didn't screenshot the first time because of so much emotion
I got pumped with my second full T4b in a month...
Dr. Zola
I haven't seen 6* shards in 119 crystal openings. But if you assume at least a hundred thousand TB dailies have been opened (assuming 2000 TB players who have averaged opening half that many, as the number of TB players has grown over time: I suspect the number is higher than this) the 6* shard drop rate could be 0.1% (one in a thousand) and still have over a hundred of those drops show up somewhere. Maybe as many as one in twenty players might have gotten that drop at least once, which still means 95% of all players have yet to see it, but the odds of knowing someone that did see it are not terribly low.
The average player might see 6* shards once every three years on average, and yet feel like they are surrounded by players getting that drop.
As a PSA to the TB and almost-TB community, I should start posting my daily 18K T4b shards to provide a counterpoint.
Dr. Zola
I mean, by that logic I already won the lottery more than once.
1) Most people only post things which are noteworthy, they don't post their junk. Success is overrepresented.
2) You don't know what you don't know. For example, where it relates to crystal openings, players could be dumping in a stack of units and money to get more chances. They could have statistically below average drop rates, but appear statistically above average outwardly.
Often it seems like everyone else is striking gold and you're the only one with rocks.
Dr. Zola
Update: Approximately 45 days in and my first full cat that wasn’t a T4c or a T4b. Still looking at ~66% of the time the Daily is either 50% T4c, 50% T4b or 10% T5b.
Dr. Zola