Am I just straight wrong or is Banquet not as bad as many are saying?
Noob_Master69
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I keep seeing people talk about Banquet like it's the absolute worst event to ever exist in the history of the game (perhpas a smaal over exaggeration by me) but I flat out disagree! I'm a Valiant player, explored all story missions besides 9.1 and have done 2 paths in Necropolis, so not some newbie to the game. I did however save about 20K units throughout the year
The Banquet crystals, I agree, are bad. But that's kind of where my complaints start and end, the milestones in Solo, Alliance, and Realm have given great rewards. I love the Glorious Guardians keys they gave out and how they work, aswell as the slew of rank up materials and champion related items.
I don't feel like any of my units were wasted, I see the Banquet crystals mostly as supplemental extras to the guaranteed event rewards
Feel free to disagree, but I'd love to hear some opinions on why the rewards we got weren't worth tha 15K units put in
The Banquet crystals, I agree, are bad. But that's kind of where my complaints start and end, the milestones in Solo, Alliance, and Realm have given great rewards. I love the Glorious Guardians keys they gave out and how they work, aswell as the slew of rank up materials and champion related items.
I don't feel like any of my units were wasted, I see the Banquet crystals mostly as supplemental extras to the guaranteed event rewards
Feel free to disagree, but I'd love to hear some opinions on why the rewards we got weren't worth tha 15K units put in
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On a side note, I feel the same way.
I spent 9k units and it gave me a r3, 4 r2s and 7 7 stars. In cyber weekend 9k units would have gotten me 2 r2s and maybe 3 7 stars.
So although the SBCs were just straight garbage, banquet on a whole was a decent event. The only reason why the community sees it as complete trash is because kabam overhyped it by saying cavs will have r3s.
But cavs do have rank 3’s.
It was Great Realm event 🎉
The problem was that the hype and false expectations of the crystals soured the thing for anyone under that. If they would have straight up told everyone “crystals aren’t going to have useless junk like tier 2 alpha, but unless you have insane luck, they aren’t account changing in and of themselves. The milestones are where the value is.”…. That would have went a long way to keep the community on board. Instead we got absurd 10th anniversary hypefests in the livestreams - banquet tickets for months that fed into the crystal hype, etc.
Add onto that the perspective that banquet last year was faceplant. Before that we had ending iterations of gifting…. And lower accounts are reaping in rewards that make title progression pointless. In all, the banquet has the distinct quality of being a let down now for years based on expectations.
It might make sense to save 15k for milestones vs cyber if you want… you got a little more value this year. But the community needs to get their head adjusted on banquet ever being awesome with tons of crystal fun. If they didn’t turn it loose on the 10th anniversary- it ain’t ever happening .
I've done a few new rankups since banquet started, and still have my 2-3 generic gem, my class gem we just got and 6 t4a (started with 4) chilling for later.
A couple new r2's, a couple new r3's and more than enough in my inventory to do more if I choose to.
Those crystals though.... 😰
Crystals are bad? They definitely are.
But every single gifting-banquet event in the past, the crystal were bad. I dont trust rng events. But The milestones are worth it this time.
Personally, I did extremely well on rewards, with the highlights being 7* Jessica Jones, 8x T4A, a crapload of new 7* champs (including 2 Titans with a 3rd coming soon.)
With this being my 2nd banquet, if I have any complaints at all it's that the event is just kinda boring; Spending thousands of units and then waiting for literal days to be rewarded just isn't fun. I know they gotta stretch it out, but I feel like it's a huge missed opportunity for actual holiday themed content and activities beyond just spending.