**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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. which makes no sense if you're offering the choice then why make it harder? Why not just allow summoners to trade for the shards if the intent was to allow choice.
If it was intended to give an actual choice then a new exchange option of Shatter to Token needs to be added to the store. Or what's there currently needs to be fixed
I'm failing to see the choice here?? Or why this was even necessary when they've actually given an illusion of choice smh.
If I don't want a Loyalty crystal . I can use my Loyalty to buy Shatter which gets me nothing but a Loyalty crystal. So exactly how am I using my loyalty differently?
Now that I see this it makes no sense to have even been implemented. You turned shards into tokens so that we can visit the store to get those same shards back and put it under the guise of choice?
There's zero choice here .. either you use loyalty to buy a loyalty crystal or not. Loyalty can still ONLY be used for the Loyalty crystal.
So should we feel cool to now have to trade our tokens in for shards or feel good that you've turned our shards into an opportunity to get Shatter for a Loyalty crystal?
But was that ever a cry from the community??? Give me a faster climb to a Loyalty Crystal?
But yeah you do realize that these tokens were just swapped out for the same seven star shards you would typically get so you want me to say yay for making me choose the same seven star shards I wanted in the first place if I'm someone who had no interest in the Loyalty Crystal? That's not much of a choice .. just a clever Jedi mind trick.
No one has ever been forced to buy the Loyalty Crystal ... the complaint has always been how much it is and the champs that are in it. I guess they interpreted it as if the community wanted to use shards for these crystals .. who knows.
Is there anyway this can be passed on as feedback for the team to consider this as a future change?
1.) You've introduced two new currencies that share the same first three words in their name. That's begging for confusion. Why not call the tokens something else? Call them War Medals, or War Shard Vouchers or even just War Tokens. Something to indicate the functional difference between the two currencies: One used to buy different types of shards, the other is a fraction of a Loyalty crystal.
2.)Speaking of functional differences, what is the actual difference between a "Crystal Shatter" and the crystal shards you use for other crystals? You have an almost decade old currency framework for describing a fraction of a crystal. Why introduce a new term for the exact same thing? Just call them Loyalty Crystal Shards.
3.)And all this for what? The goal seems to be to offer the choice of getting 1/15th of a loyalty crystal instead of 1k 7* shards. There's no need for two new currencies to do that. Why not just give a a selection box reward offering 100k Loyalty or 1k 7* shards? Same result with zero new currencies.
4.) Lastly, as others have mentioned, I'd love to see the metric in a month for how many people actually benefited from having this "choice." My impression is that anyone placing high enough to earn these tokens are either already buying the Loyalty Crystal on cooldown or have no interest in them.
Before, you had to choose between saving for the crystal or spending your loyalty on something else
Apparently, there’s the ability to get 7 tokens via the new solo AW showcase thing as well. The tokens can be traded for 1000 7* shards each OR kept and collected until you get 15 of them (then you can turn them into a “shatter” and trade them for the traditional Loyalty 7* crystal).
The functionality that gets added is that you can use loyalty to buy the new token now. Then, you get to decide if you want to use those tokens on basic 7* shards or for loyalty 7* “shatters” that can only be used to the 7* loyalty crystal.
Nothing has changed the cost of the 7* loyalty crystal. But, with the solo AW showcase thing it may be somewhat easier to obtain them.
At least that’s how I now understand it.
Dr. Zola
if not, the Shatter system feels pretty silly
They literally just turned your seven star shards into tokens so you could buy a loyalty crystal in a new exciting way. Except it's not.
No one hoards loyalty because they want to spend it on all the cool stuff instead of "having" to spend it on a Loyalty crystal and no one is hoarding it to spend on a Loyalty crystal ... people hoard loyalty because there's nothing worth spending it on Loyalty crystal included.
What this will do is cause more hoarding because you're essentially saving people 100K loyalty per token... do you think ANYONE is going to use these tokens for a Loyalty crystal? No. They'll use them for the seven star shards and just hoard more loyalty smh
I think that is why some folks are upset.
Which lends credence to the argument that unnecessary convolution is…well, unnecessary.
Dr. Zola
Dr. Zola
You can obtain the shattered tokens from end of season AW rewards, and through the new AW side quest.
That's now two new ways to obtain the Loyalty Crystal that doesn't deplete your Loyalty.
If you don't want the Loyalty crystal, and would prefer the 7 Star Shards you always got from AW rewards, you can choose to keep that consistent. You could also continue to purchase the Crystal using only Loyalty, if you choose.
From players who push war, the "cry" has been that it's no fun to have to choose between using Loyalty on War consumables or the 7 Star Loyalty Crystal. It's a trade off that never made much sense, tbh.
If you don't push war, and subsequently have a surplus of Loyalty just sitting around, that's all well and good - but lots of players in T1 war have been griping about this since the crystal launched.
This fixes the wonky system pretty effectively.
Where are the loyalty crystal shatters in our inventory?
but i mean hey .. it's something for some people and not something for others. i don't know of many beyond T1 i guess crying about consumables because down in the peasant tiers lol ... it's not necessary.
Why create a new confusing system, for no good reason. Unless I'm missing something?
War gives War conversion crystals (no complex name).
1 War conversion crystal can be traded for either 100k loyalty or 1k 7 star shards
If there are concerns about the loyalty 7 star crystal, increase buying limit to 2
Should end confusion.
You can buy the Loyalty 7* Shards with your loyalty - as always. No change. But now you can buy the shards with the shatter tokens.
You earn the tokens as part of Alliance War and, apparently, some other upcoming content/challenges.
The tokens can also be spent on generic 7* shards. Loyalty cannot.
Loyalty can now be more freely spent on consumables, while you use the tokens you earn to buy the shards for either the 7* Loyalty Crystal or the generic 7* shards. Or, if you're not buying consumables, you can spend your loyalty on the 7* Loyalty Crystal (shards) as always.