The Great Catalyst Drought of 2018-2019
MrBanks
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Seatin made a video on this recently, it has become very hard to grind for T3BCs and T3CCs. I have around 50 4*s sitting at R1 that I want to take to R2 and R3 but I am unable to because it would take weeks to grind the daily quests for these catalysts, while also forcing me to stop progressing through the EQ and Act 4 exploration and act 5. Even if I were to grind for these catalysts, which I probably will, it would take weeks to even take up 3 champions to R2 then R3. If there is another, easier way to obtain T2BC, T2CCs, T3BCs, and T3CCs then let me know. Otherwise, I think we would all like to see a change to the way T3 Catalysts are obtained, especially for the people that don’t have time or energy OR willpower to stop progresssing and grind the daily quests. Here’s seatins video:
https://youtu.be/kQLFEIxO4hs
Thoughts?
https://youtu.be/kQLFEIxO4hsThoughts?
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I see no problems in this department.
not everyone has those items
How did you get so many? Main source of T3C income?
I’m just giving my perspective on the topic. If other people have trouble with this resource then fine, but I have had a different experience.
Seems to me you don't rank up your champs then. I dare you to rank 2 ALL your 5* and see how quickly they disappear.
My hero rating is almost 700k, doing just fine on rank ups
Out of 62 5* champs, 6 are R1, the rest R2+
Hold on let me pull a bigger one out!!!
My hero rating is over 900K, git gud, and git bedda guy!!!!...
As Seatin said they are slower to come by when you actually rank champions up, not impossible, but just slower!
As was mentioned, they're available through Solo Events, as well as the Daily.
The Daily Quest is RNG-based. If you don't pull one after 100%, you can rerun it and they may drop from Chests.
I like the approach @DNA3000 suggests, which is doing the Quests proactively. Most times, people try to pull them when they're out, and that becomes a chasing game. Running the Quests when you have time and Energy is a good way to stockpile.
Alright, and how old is your account? I’m still an avenger on call.
You don't need to wait weeks in-between. You can run it again the same day and they drop randomly.
I got all those t3cc fragment crystals just from hitting milestones from the daily 7 and 22-hour events. If you are active enough, t3b and t3cc should never be in short supply. Really don't understand the genesis of Seatin's video on this aspect of the game.
After regularly targeting solo events and shooting for top 20% I have been able to rank with those materials at will then began to build up an excess of those materials; there have been times I open t3cc crystals just for summoner advancement and to egg on other alliance members trying to secure the #1 spot within the alliance in order to push up the score for the alliance. Currently sitting on +2.5k shards and +600 crystals.
Droughts tend to happen when you focus on acquiring specific items at the expense of others. Need to budget your time/energy/cash between champion acquisition and rank up materials acquisition. A lot of people won’t hesitate to spend their resources acquring crystals or completing quests for champions but will neglect catalysts which is an important part of the equation. Need to put aside a portion of what you are spending on champion acquisition to spend on catalyst acquisition; whether that be time or cash.
I don't want to pick on Seatin specifically, as I don't have a problem with him in general, but if you're using his video to support your position, then I think he's fair game to use to illustrate broader ideas.
First, notice Seatin talks about his F2P WhaleMilker account. That's because it is almost certainly the case that his main account, the account he spends the bulk of his time playing, is probably overflowing with T3CC, as is most players accounts that are played for a significant amount of time and have progressed beyond a certain point. Seatin's F2P account is extremely atypical. Seatin is a veteran player with sufficient skills to push an account to very high progression levels very quickly without having to grind in any other area of the game. As a result, his F2P account has highly focused gameplay. It ends up being extremely unbalanced in resources with way more high level and high tier champions than 99% of players would expect to have at that level, along with vastly more high tier rank up materials that 99.99% of players would expect to have at that level. *Every* account runs out of something, because if you have plenty of everything you generally keep ranking up until you do run out of something. In Seatin's case, he ran out of T3CC, the *lowest* rank up material that is relevant to 5* champions.
Second, for all that Seatin complains about the likelihood of getting T3CC drops from the daily event, I doubt he even bothers to try in his F2P account. Why do I think that? Because Seatin mentioned the various ways to get T3CC, mentioned suggestions on how to make them more available, but didn't actually mention the Catalyst Selectors which you are guaranteed to get the option to buy if the T3CC event doesn't drop a T3CC with full exploration. Personally I think those things are overpriced monstrosities, but that's the point. I can't believe Seatin wouldn't have complained about them if they were actually showing up in his game, which they would be regularly if he was making an honest effort to attempt to grind out T3CC.
I'm not specifically against making T3CC slightly more available, but this game has to have resource constraints and T3CC is one of the weakest ones that exist. Which is to say, relative to the rate at which most players need them, they are one of the easiest resources to acquire. That doesn't mean that some players at some progression levels aren't experiencing a shortage of them, but again: if it isn't T3CC, it would be something else. For more players I think T4B is still a more constrained resource, and in fact it would almost certainly be a constrained resource for Seatin's F2P account if he somehow magicked himself enough T3CC to rank up his r1s. And then he'd be making a video about that resource.
You're not going to eliminate the grind from the game. Time is the the primary currency of the game we use to buy things, not cash. Managing how you spend your time, as @CoatHang3r mentions, is part of the game. In the long term, it is the primary skill that determines progress in the game.
Yeah. Got 0 T3BC. Amazing