Buying Into Rarity Draws After End of Season and Maintenance
We've recently had the end of season at Splinterlands for Ranked Battles. I've heard different types of opinions regarding the new Glint Shop. Personally, I like it, because it allows better planning and focusing on different strategies which rely less on the element of luck (although they will add jackpot options in the store which will be luck-based).
For example, I focus entirely on maxing out my regular soulbound reward card set at this time. Others buy extra energy to play more (and earn more rewards in the process). Some may want the limited edition titles. And some may already save up for the next set. That without counting potential purchases of potions or merits, which are less likely at this time.
At the beginning of the season I didn't buy into the existing random draws, as I did before, knowing that rarity draws are on their ways. I wasn't sure if they were going live during this maintenance window from yesterday, but it was likely, since they were added on the Mavericks test server a few days back.
Yesterday, after the maintenance, I noticed them, but didn't have the energy to focus and see what would have been the best way to proceed, given the amount of Glint I had (around 280k), and the comparative prices.
So, today was the time to do it.
First thing that was important to know, given my needs oriented primarily to legendary and epic rarity cards, was how do the the Rarity Draws compare with the Master Draw in terms of prices and chances of receiving epics and legendaries.
Obviously, the chance of receiving epics and legendaries for the Rarity Draws is 100%. But something I didn't know until I tested it is that you don't have chances for multiples. You will see, even without them, the prices are better, if that's what you want.
The legendary chance (with a potion) for the Master Draw is 6.4%. And at best, I've seen receiving a 2x multiple (meaning two legendary cards instead of 1).
Let's see what that means: 100 / 6.4 = 15.8125 times "more chances" to have a legendary in the Legendary Draw.
Multiply the Master Draw price by that and divide by 2 (for the chance of receiving 2 Legendaries for the price of 1) and you get: 5000 * 15.8125 / 2 = 39,062.5. That makes even batch 2 of the Legendary Draw (37,500) better than the Master Draw for the chance of receiving Legendary soulbound reward cards. And I haven't counted the cost of the legendary potion.
The chance of receiving an epic card on the Master Draw is 8% (no modifiers exist). Let's say the multiple goes up to 4x.
We have 100 / 8 = 12.5 times "better chances" to find epics in the Epic Draw.
2500 * 12.5 / 4 = 7812.5 is what the maximum price of the Epic Draw to have the same chances of receiving epics as in the Master Draw. I don't know what the price for the second batch of the Epic Draw is yet, but at 5000 for batch 1 is more than worth it.
So, knowing this information and with the amount of Glint at my disposal and what I unlocked from burning some of the cards, what did I do?
I purchased 10 Legendary Draws, 15 Epic Draws and 30 Rare Draws. That's the only rarities I still need to max out.
I can still purchase 10 Epic Draws and 70 Rare Draws this season from Batch 1 and I intend to do it. I will purchase the Rare Draws gradually, in case I won't need all of them, but I won't be that lucky.
The progression is ok, I guess. I forgot to take a screenshot of it at the beginning, so this is after I purchased the Legendary Draws:
And this is at the end, after everything was done:
5% progress added to the epics, and I can tell you it was a decent progress on legendaries even though it's not caught in the screenshots.
I am a bit annoyed about the slow progress on the Rare cards. I have 3 of them that aren't maxed, and it's difficult to catch them with the randomness that still exists at the Rare Draw.
This looks incredible, by the way! Almost like it was faked, lol:
Imagine how it felt opening them one by one. 😁 And here are the epics:
What is your strategy in the Glint Shop?
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The epics looks too cheap for the amount they cost. The legendaries have poor burn value, especially if you not the card that you've maxed out and want to actually burn. However, they've done well to remove the element of luck and replace it with certainty using the rarity draws
This is a good observation. I don't burn cards that I don't have in excess, so I wasn't bothered by this too much. They'll probably keep improving things.
Anyway, I am glad they introduced the rarity draws, it's an improvement over what we had before.
Yeah, fortunately there's room for improvement. One thing I'll like them to do is improve the legendary burn rate. Especially 2500 burn rate for 25k is insane
Yes, but burning a GFL, while they are rarer, gives over 60k Glint.
I like this system a lot more than the random draws. It might be expensive on glint but at least i can focus on maxing out my deck properly now.
Epics are cheap but the legendaries are a lot.
If you need more focused draws, they are certainly better than the random draws. If you need more cards (like on a new set), random draws are probably better at the beginning.
I'm not sure if they are a lot. Even at batch 2, the price is better for the Legendary Draw than the Master Draw, if we try to bring them to a common language (i.e. numbers).
I also like the addition of the new draws and my focus will mainly be on rare draws (to max out my summoners) and legendary draws
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Yes, for anyone who doesn't have maxed summoners, I believe the rare draws are a great deal!
I'm pretty much all in on all rarities except common which I maxed out, but I start from the Legendary move down, depending on the amount of Glint I have. Normally I should have enough (with burns) for full Batch 1 or rare, epic, and legendary. I want to max out the entire set (the regular ones) before the next ones come out. Hopefully, with some time to spare, so I can have some Glint to spend when the new ones arrive.
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I like the rarity draws as well. I'll probably focus on the Rare ones because I need to level up my summoners. Looking at your draws, the Legendary seems worth it, since I mostly have single copies, and I still need an Usut. The epic though, seems like a bit of a waste. I use them, but they seem like support monsters more than anything.
Yep, seems like many people love the Rare draws because of the summoners.
I want to max them all!😄 Having fully maxed out CL+reward cards (before soulbounds) has kept my account very high in the leagues, even when it was more difficult to be up there. But if you can't do it (and I expect most people aren't in the position to do this before the set is retired in a few months), it's normal to make your strategy accordingly and pick the most advantageous rarity draws for you. They may also add the option to be able to choose between gold and regular foils, but we don't know how long it will take until that comes, so probably we shouldn't wait for that unless we find news about this soon.
Yeah, I haven't maxed any card yet, and I doubt I can anytime soon. But this flexibility in choosing would really help.
I am unsure if I want the rarity draws yet. My deck isn't maxed on common or rares yet. So I might still opt for the random draws right now.
I would do the same in your place, particularly if you have many cards that aren't maxed out.
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I like the legendary
I spent 80% of my end season Glint on the Legendary Draw
Thank you for the item specification in the Glint shop
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Yep, I believe maxing them out is important for the gameplay. Not all cards are great, but they provide alternatives, especially if you put your un-bound cards on land as I have done with some of mine.
Pretty much the same as yours, the legendary first then the epic. Most of my commons I've already maxed out. You got some nice pulls there! My only complaint is there are no multiples in these draw categories where the others you get in master draw could come with more than one copy!
Yes, at first I didn't like that either. But numbers show that it's still more profitable to buy into rarity draws instead of the master draw.
That is a good thought. Funny thing is I once pulled a legendary with three copies out rare! That was right after they started with the glints though.
It's a good point. I had once very good pulls from the second-cheapest random draws (better than from the master draws at that time, other than in the latter I pulled a few GFs)