**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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When will the first batch be announced? Can they please be announced before Feb 13th and blades last rerun of his featured crystal. That way people can decide which to go for.
Also in general how and when will the batches be announced. Will it be a case of there’s a post detailing each champion in the batch or will it be a try your luck and find out?
There will be an equal chance for every Champion in this Crystal. No increased chance for any particular Champion.
I misread, it’s a pool of 18 and then 6 featured champs. Even worse than I originally thought.
That is amazing to slow down the progression by adding more randomness into it, great. Nice. Love it.
The original Featured Hero Crystal had one purpose, and that was because it was originally the only chance you had at a 5-Star Champion, and potentially meant that the Champion would never come around again. This has changed, and that means that this Crystal has run its course.
5-Star Champions are coming to a place where they are now added to the regular Champion pool at the same consistency as other rarities.
I think the idea is it is technically a featured for the last 6 new champs (so if you may be Blade, MODOK, Taskmaster, or Medusa it may still be worth it... but i agree in terms of going for one specific champ it kind of sucks). So basically you might be pulling from a pool with a much better chance at a strong champ then the basic one. So might still be worth it.
They must be doing this, at least in part, becasue of the new rule changes of having to know what is in them and the odds. Now you will know the odds and the odds are better if only 18 are in the crystal then 100.
Give this man an answer!
But are those odds worth the shard increase? I am leaning towards no, unless your roster is just very set on champs, and you can afford to be pickier. But it will make it harder to get champs of certain classes, if, say, you have multiple science awakening gems and wanted to get Void/GH, but now you have a much lower chance of getting them from featured crystals than if the old system was in place.
Although I do agree that the old crystal style is old, and based on the way the Contest used to run, unless the pools are always well-stacked, it seems a bit of a step back.
Yeah I feel most are not seeing this part of the value. It is true that it sucks you cannot go for a specific champ anymore (and I just started playing so the Feb22nd Blade will be my first and last try at those sadly).
But overall the last 6 champs in a crystal with only 18 other champs instead of 100 other champs that contain a lot of trash... that is still a decent crystal and definitely worth the extra 5k if the pool is really that much better then the baser pool.
As stated in the Announcement, you can see that we have made an exception for Blade, and he will still have his regular Featured Hero Crystal.
but the champs in those crystals will not include all champs in the overall pool, right? Jus the 6 featured and the 18 selected champs?
Blade will be added to the regular pool on the 16, then the Blade FEATURED Crystal at 15k Shards will be available on the 23 or 28 (I forget which date)??
Yes i've been saving Big time!
But you’re just paying 5000 extra shards for a crystal that is very very similar to the basic 5* crystal. The lure of the 5* featured was that it was the best way to get a good unique 5* and it was a decent chance to get a specific champ, community estimates are 1 in 5. But with the new ones, there is no such lure, if you want a specific champ there’s 1 in 24 chance which is awful. As bad as the early 5* pool was.
I will reserve my final judgement until i see the 18 champs in the pool but until I do see them, I do not think I will buy one of the crystals at all.
The only way I will buy them is if the 18 in the pool are in the top tier of champions, but that wouldn’t make sense as then it’s not a featured crystal.
If you start adding the undesirable champs into the crystal you’re going to risk alienating players further.
I really don’t see the benefit of featured crystals now, at all. What you’ve done is basically change the odds of getting the champ u want from 1 in 5 (roughly) to 1 in 24 and try and convince us it’s a good thing, nice try lol.
You did not answer his question, which has more importance: Will this new featured crystal give an INCREASED chance at the champion we want such as Blade when his crystal arrives or just an equal chance at all new champs?