A day after luck-based chests were introduced to the Glint Shop the season was over and shortly after (or even before?) the new chests were withdrawn because demand for them was underestimated and jackpot prizes flew much quicker than anticipated.
Currently, the new chests which replaced the random draws cannot be found in the Glint shop, but from my understanding from the Discord announcements, looks like they'll be back with 10x lower chances of winning the jackpot for all types of chests (minor, major, and ultimate).
I know many people bought lots of Ultimate chests after they were launched, hoping to hit the jackpot. And some did and they are now very happy about it! Good for them! Some didn't win big, though... which is how luck works.
I was probably wrong to ignore the opportunity presented by the Ultimate chests while the high chances to hit the jackpot lasted.
But I'm not going to bang my head against the wall now because of it.
I preferred the more predictable outcome to the one based on luck, but it's true, its downside is that the rewards are... soulbound. While someone who hit the jackpot won old-edition packs with tradable cards, plots of land, and whatever else was in the jackpot prize pool.
That being said, and considering my goal to max out my regular souldbound set, I've made pretty good progress. I might wrap this up sooner than I thought I would.
End of Season
But before we get there... it's nice to see this at the end of the season:
but I like it even more here:
Yes, it's Wild, and yes, I don't play my account in Ranked, but these are my cards, and I have almost 3k of them (but only 273 in the playing deck, 500 staked on land).
From what I hear and see, it's easier to rank well in Wild than it used to be, with or without help.
When I played my account in Ranked, I briefly reached Champ 1 once, but didn't finish the season in Champ 1. So this would be my highest result at the end of the season, I think, although in the past I had ratings above 4800 too. I don't think this result can be truly comparable with the ones from the past though.
My regular EOS league used to be Champ 3, but that came after a long and often frustrating season, and that's why, for me, this arrangement works just fine. I play a much lower number of games in Brawls, and this is more to my liking...
Either way, back to shopping with Glint.
Glint Shopping
This is what I had in my balance after the season rewards were payed out:
250k were not enough, and I was impatient, so planned to burn as many GF and regular duplicates as needed to buy all the batch 1 rarity draws from rare to legendary.
And I did that, step by step. I have screenshots at every step, but I won't bother you with all of them. I'll just add the starting and the ending points.
Before I made any purchases:
After everything was done:
You can notice the regress on the GF side because I sold some of them (which aren't or didn't have the perspective to be maxed), but also the progress on the regular ones.
3% progress from 73% to 76% on the legendary soulbound reward cards from 10 pulls is acceptable. There are 12 of them, 5 already maxed before the pulls. From the 10 draws, half were of cards I already had maxed out.
4% progress from 91% to 95% on the epics progress from 25 pulls is more than I expected, especially since it's getting closer to 100%. The advantage is that from the 7 epics, I only have 1 maxed, so almost whatever I pull counts toward progress. From the 25 draws only one hit the maxed one, plus two that were GF.
On the rare ones, things are the toughest. Of the 12 rare soulbound reward cards, I have them all maxed but 2. Chances to hit those two are quite low. Luckily, the number of draws are higher too. So, at 100 draws I hit both cards several times, enough to slide the progress bar from 97% to 98%. Cumulatively, I still need 25 copies of the two cards.
Seems better than last season's draws. I completed what I had planned at the beginning of the season, not mid-season, so I have practically a full season of Glint accumulation before I go shopping again.
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