It’s been so long since I pulled a gold foil card from the daily focus chests that I almost forgot that they existed. Fortunately, one of my recent daily focus rewards reminded me gold foil can still be pulled even in the lower leagues.
Although I only pulled a common gold foil card (Pelacor Bandit), I was still happy because as mentioned earlier, it’s been so long.
Besides the gold foil Pelacor Mercenary, I was also able to pull a Naga Assassin (Rare) which was a nice addition. As for the DEC, I only got 48 but I didn’t mind that much as ranked battles in the modern format gives a decent amount per win.
Four of out of the 10 focus chests I’ve opened contain potions but that’s still okay as the gold foil card somewhat made up for it.
Overall, I wasn’t a bad pull.
Unfortunately, my happiness didn’t last long because the very next day, things turned around for the worse.
Not only did I not get any gold foil (or anything good for that matter), out of 8 focus chests that I opened, 6 were potions.
Can you imagine that? 75% of my loots yesterday were made out of potions, and this was despite the fact that I was playing in the silver league. If I was playing in the bronze league, I would still understand as the drop rate in that league was made like that to push the players to play in the upper league. But from the look of things, the drop rate of potions in the lower leagues was increased significantly thus potions dropped more often than cards these days.
Unfortunately, the developers of the game weren’t satisfied in messing with bronze league players, they now want to silver league players to move to the gold league.
What’s next? Push gold league players to move to the diamond league by giving trash rewards in the gold league?
Honestly, playing in the silver league isn’t worth it anymore as more often than not, my daily focus rewards consist mainly of trash.
Good rewards also exist in the lower league exist? Sure they do but they’re rare than shiny Pokémons in Pokémon games.
Play in the gold league?
I don’t have the cards and the money to compete in the higher league, unfortunately. And with the archmage bots ruining normal players’ experience, winning becomes more difficult and frustration increases.
To get those 8 focus chests, I was forced to endure constant consecutive losses that push my ECR down to the 70%.
You could probably imagine the frustration I’ve felt whenever I play the ranked battles which is why instead of moving to the gold league, I’ll do the opposite and move back to the bronze league next season.
Sure, the rewards in the bronze league is worse compared to the rewards in the silver league but winning should be much easier.
In short, I’ll exchange quality with quantity.
This might seemed evolving backwards and is against what the dev team was trying to accomplish but so what? I would rather play in the bronze league and face the lower drop rates than to deal with the frustration of playing in the silver league.
Anyway, that plan was for the next season. For now I’ll just try to endure.
Thank you for reading.
