Where are all the T1 Alphas?
OhGodYes
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I remember a time when I was inundated with T1A and sold them for the gold. I use to have piles of them. Once Kabam decided to give you 180 T2A shards when you sell them, they reduced the drop rate or something. Every rank up seems to need T1A and yet the opportunity to get them has greatly reduced. My Alliance does 5x5 so pulling them in quest doesn't happen. I have resorted to using my Valor and Glory to purchase these. I don't know if I have ever pulled a fully formed T1A in a Greater Solo Crystal so that doesn't help me. Sure I receive a few passively from Alliance Events like Completion , Perfect Series, Item use, etc, but there should be more available at least in some of the solo events. Normally I can wait, but now Im at a point where T4CC expire faster than I can rank heros up. Besides grinding T1A Arena does anyone know another way to get more?
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When they introduced 5*s, the requirement for T1 alphas went up drastically. We need 5 just for 1->2. And 5 more for 2->3!
With increased 5* shards being given out in the past couple of months, the t1a have not kept pace. I believe looking at the number of t1's sold prior to 5*s being more common prompted kabam to keep a high timer on t1a in the glory store. This needs to be revisited. Even moving the refresh timer to 1 day would improve availability.
The problems is that after a while, you have to make the transition from ranking up your 4* champs to ranking up 5* which are T1A dependent but the natural progression of quests don't have those "lower tier" catalysts.
As it is setup if you want to focus on 5* champs, you actually have to take a step backwards in AQ maps.
If the progression of the game is to rank up 5* champs, then the game needs to be updated to put T1A in the same levels as T4B.
They changed the rank rewards to all map 5 and 6 crystals. Before when you ran 5x5 you still get the lower map crystals as the week progressed, which was awesome. At this point I'd rather a map 3 crystal than another map 5.
What’s a daily gold quest?
maybe I'm spoiled by the days of plenty because it hurts me to spend that much glory/ valor on a resource that was once so abundant. I need them for T4b!! And T2A!! And really, 5 to rank a 5 star, have to buy that many? Pfft
I was just being a troll... don't think about it too hard
I agree with you on this. Besides even if someone wanted to sell them for T2A, you only get 180 shards. That's nothing! I would grind for them if there were more. You get 1 at 800k. Give another at 1.25 Mill and another at 1.7mil or do a ranked based reward giving the top 10% a chance to earn another. All my glory and valor goes towards T1A. Once you run out it takes a week just to take 1 5* to R2. Who has time for that?
The costs to rank up a 5* champion to rank 3 is 6 T4B, 3 T4CC, 10 T1A and 2 T2A (I'm ignoring the lower cats here for simplicity). The costs to rank up a 4* to similar rank, in this case rank 5, is 8 T4B, 3 T4CC, and 4 T1A. The resources are similar aside from the 5* T2A requirement, except T1A is wildly different. Any amount from two to six would seem to be roughly in line with some kind of scaling resource cost, but ten is off the chart. And it is that large imbalance between the t1 alpha costs and the other resource costs for 5* champs that creates the huge t1a bottleneck.
I would be perfectly happy if they reduced the t1a rank up costs for 5* champs to be 2 t1a for 1->2, 3 t1a for 2->3, and 4 t1a for 3->4. That would make the total t1a costs for ranking 5* champs be a total of 5 to get from rank 1 to rank 3, and a total of 9 to get from rank 1 to rank 4, compared to the current requirement of 16.
That would be more in line with the resource cost ratios for 4* champions, just higher than 4*. But with similar ratios, there wouldn't be a dramatic shift in bottleneck moving from ranking 4* champs to 5* champs. It would just require more resources, but not radically different ratios of resources.
Might want to check that again. The requirements to rank 3 a 5* are 4 t4 basic, 3 t4 class, and 5 t1 alpha, and no t2 alpha. You are thinking of the resources to rank 4 a 5* which is 6 t4 basic, 4 t4 class, 6 t1 alpha, and 4 t2 alpha. Besides taking a 5* to rank 3 is like taking a 4* to rank 5.
i ran alpha arena for 2.3m and i got rank 200 only, u nid to be rank 50 and below to get extra t1A which is crazy...
The T1A cost to rank a 5 star (any rank) is astronomical and should be lower. T4b is already a greatly limited resource, we don't need T1A also holding us back. I can't even rank 3 my 4 star anymore because I can't spare the T1A. I am ranking 4* over 5* because I need to use the t4cc expiring and don't have the T1A
I don't know why my brain malfunctioned and threw those T2As in there, but I was referring to the cost to rank up to rank 3, not rank 2 to rank 3. 2 T4B, 3 T3B, 5 T1A from rank 1 to rank 2, and then 4 T4B, 3 T4CC, and 5 T1A from rank 2 to rank 3, for a total of 6 T4B, 3 T3B, 3 T4CC, and 10 T1A.
I have to hoard anything that gives T4CC because I'm afraid i'll keep putting T4CC in my stash. I'm then at the mercy of trying to rank up a champion I may not want to rank up just to save the T4CC before it expires...It has been an endless struggle...
I cant remember the last time I received T1A Frags....
You'll get one when you buy an offer that useless for £100
I was wrong, you even get one.
Lol