Will do my only 10 pull on pirates tomorrow and probably will get another 10 sacrifices. So I hope the SG Gods will appreciate that and pulling won’t be for nothing this or another way.
If i sacrifice all my Little John’s at the same time as your Elks, will that make a special elemental sacrifice that might open up TC21 - old Green HOTM???
I still haven’t sacrificed any 5* heroes (yet) but I’m getting close. Thanks @Guvnor for covering me.
OTOH, I have to acknowledge that the hero academy is a very hard thing for SG to balance correctly, considering the following:
It is supposed to benefit free players, which I interpret as giving them more chance for getting a HOTM than they had before (90% likely) or possibly some chance at other non-TC20 heroes like Atlantis, Valhalla, events, etc.
Whales usually have a at least as many if not more unleveled 5*s stored up than free players, and even if they don’t, they will be getting new ones faster.
Giving whales a cheaper way to get HOTM/etc. than they had prior to the hero academy will hurt SG’s business model.
Think about it … how do you give free players an extra shot at HOTM without cutting down on what whales spend to get the current one every month?
I’m honestly hoping they find a way to balance the hero academy better than they did with the alchemy lab, which is marginally useful or effectively useless for most players, and if it takes them a while … I can live with that.
a) focus on monetizing heavy spenders via releasing more sales offerings for ascension materials and emblems.
–This makes sense anyway considering most people (including long term budget players) reach a point where they never have enough materials or emblems for their full roster.
b) identify heroes that used to be a huge draw but now have high market adoption from heavy spenders (how many heavy spenders do not yet have ursena, gravemaker and panther?) and no longer drive revenue, stick these in the academy
c) introduce higher level titans for top alliances (where heavy spenders are highly concentrated) and new 5* heroes designed for fighting these titans (think very high defense with elemental def down or other debuffs)
— dont stick these heroes in the academy
d) don’t make the hero academy free to use, replace rng with limited time hero offers for set number of gems (e.g. panther would go on sale for a week for x gems and then replaced by Arthur the next week for y gems)
e) require collection and fusing of other heroes to arrive at desired hero (maybe for an ursena you need to blend proteus, elena, quintos and sabine)
f) any other number of infinite solutions- let’s just get the academy into the game!! all of this waiting sucks. the guys at sg are awesome, they can figure it out