**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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I do believe you don't read yet again they are rerunning the Blade Featured Crystal as normal which means it will be the old style Featured 5* Crystal for Blades rerun because they know players were saving for him.
"This change takes effect on February 13th, which is the day that Blade is added to the regular 5-Star Champion pool, but we also know that many of you are saving your 5-Star Crystal shards for a shot at Blade. Because we know how much time and effort you’ve all put into acquiring Shards for the return of Blade’s Featured Hero Crystal, we’ve decided to run his crystal one more time! It will return on its regularly scheduled date of February 22nd."
That depends. If you view the new crystal as *only* lowering the chance for a specific champion, then yes, the odds of pulling one specific champion have dropped from about one in five to one in twenty-four.
But that's not the correct way to view this crystal. Even with the current featured crystal, not every champion is really worth saving for, at least for any particular player. You have to think more generally. Right now, I'm saving for Blade because I really want Blade and the 5* featured Blade crystal gives me a 20% shot at getting Blade. But more importantly, that crystal gives me a 20% chance at a champion I think is worth the extra shards. The Iceman crystal also gave me that shot, and the Stark Spidey crystal gave me that shot.
You have to look at each and every one of the new 5* featured crystals that way. There are going to be six featureds and eighteen curated basics in each crystal. If the featured list was, say, Sparky, Vulture, Green Goblin, Doc Oc, Kingpin, and Medusa, that would be a pretty valuable crystal. Your odds of getting exactly the one you want are lower, but your odds of getting a good one are pretty decent - and that's before looking at the other eighteen. If the eighteen included, say, X-23, Elektra, Crossbones, Ghost Rider, and Ultron - all solid to great champions - your odds of getting at least a decent 5* could approach 50/50. That might be worth the extra shards.
Conversely, if the six featured happen to be a more depleted series and fewer of the curated basics are champs you want, you can skip that crystal and save for the next one. Just like with the current featured 5* crystal, it is not about the odds to pull one particular champion, it is the overall value of the crystal relative to the basic crystal. Depending on what Kabam puts in it and how you value those champions, that value could be lower, or it could be much higher.
Its different, and we lose one aspect of the current featured. But that doesn't mean the new one doesn't offer good options relative to the basic. It is just like even with the current featured, we have to see what's in it first.
By the time the Blade crystal rolls around I will probably have saved up eight shots at him. Statistically speaking, I'm very likely to get him. If I was shooting to dup him though, the odds are not good: about 29% chance of pulling two out of eight. Someone who opens eight of the new crystals will have about a 73% chance of duping one of the twenty-four champion in that crystal. If you pick the right crystal to shoot for, where a high percentage are champs you want, then duping a random champion in that crystal has a higher chance of being a valuable dup.
If you really one a specific champion, then your odds of getting that champion have dropped. But if you really just want a good one, or if you want to avoid pulling "bad" ones, your odds of doing that have likely significantly improved.
You are already pushing everyone to buy GMCs, why make it harder to get what we want with, essentially an increased cost basic crystal?
This is exactly how I'm viewing this. Could be good or could be bad based on the selected 18. But most likely a higher percentage chance overall to pull a usable champion that could help me more long term.
Beast
Storm
Cable
Cyclops (New Xavier School)
Thor (Ragnarok)
Taskmaster
Agent Venom
Hawkeye
Modok
Sentry
Void
Ant-Man
Mordo
Thor (Jane Foster)
Loki
Juggernaut
Hela
Phoenix
Ronan
Venompool
Nebula
Punisher (2099)
Civil Warrior
Doctor Octopus
Bold Text denotes Featured Champions.
It is equal, and always has been. You have exactly the same chance of pulling any Champion for a Basic Crystal as anyone else, and every Champ has an equal chance of dropping as each other.
That pool sucks just to be perfectly clear
We still do not have any more information on that at this time. Like we have said before, as soon as we have more information, we will share it with you all.
Trash.
I didn't say most used, but they are among the most effective. Cyclops actually scores very high on this list. There is a smaller group of players that use him, but they use him VERY effectively.
The point is you’re emphasizing a 1/24 chance at a specific champ. Obviously this crystal doesn’t emphasize specific champs, but it could emphasize good ones. Out of every 6 new champs released, surely half of them are desirable and rankworthy. Sometimes more when considering a consecutive string of champs like Blade/Mephisto/Morningstar/Medusa/KP. If you like any 3 of those, now you’re looking at 1/8 odds of a rankworthy champ.
That’s to say nothing of how well Kabam curated the lower 18 champs. If only two of those 18 are “godlike,” you’re right back to about 1/5 odds of a rankworthy champ per pull.
Like you said, I’m reserving judgment until I see the list in the first lower 18 to join the crystal, but I recognize that if Kabam picks champs generously, this has the potential to be much better than the current featured crystal. The key disadvantage to it isn’t about the drop rate of a good champ, but the drop rate of a good champ of a certain class that you may have an awakening gem for.
Interesting, not a single God-Tier champ, not one of those are ideal for LoL.
Do you ever take into consideration what the community wants or needs? So out of touch - how about we do a poll of what the majority is in favor of, like the 1$ special crystal poll?
I posted this a little late. Took too long to type I guess.
Interesting, not a single God-Tier champ, not one of those are ideal for LoL.
Do you ever take into consideration what the community wants or needs? So out of touch - how about we do a poll of what the majority is in favor of, like the 1$ special crystal poll?[/quote]
Better yet, just include 1 from each class from that voted section and bam, you have 6months of crystals ready.
Map 1...Day 1.
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I didn't say most used, but they are among the most effective. Cyclops actually scores very high on this [/quote]