A page about best bang for the buck on various items/offers.
This page is an attempt to answer questions like - "I want to buy XYZ, what’s the least price I can get it for?" Or - “I can afford to spend a little, what are the cheapest summons I can have”.
This is evaluated purely on the monetary value of the item and not based on how much “perceived value” an item/offer may have. There are many factors that can make one offer more desirable to one player than other.
1 You need to buy all 4 to get 1600 gems plus 100 coins which gives you 6 summons. D2 offer is terrible for summons only but it’s good if you are farming during Atlantis Rises and need loot tickets/WE flasks.
Update 9/24/2022: Based on inputs, I reworked the tables. It is split into summons and items now. Summons ignore values provided by bundled items like ham or mats as those are subjective and will vary based on player’s situation. Same goes for items. You may look at the offer and see if the extras are worth paying or not before deciding if that’s the best offer for you.
This game deserves no single penny with all they do. I did’t spend any of mine since a year. And hope othes make the same. This crasy printer should be stopped.
I did consider using “pull” as the unit for coins but then decided against it to keep things simple and consistent. E.g., some offers require you to buy multiple ones for a single pull and since you get horrible results with a single pull, one may want to accumulate coins for 10 or 30 pulls - so you’d need to spread your buying over multiple offers and/or stack your buying when the offer lets you. As you can see, this brings us towards to the “perceived value” which is a very hard to quantify area.
However, I think it’ll be good to add another table for “Cheapest Pulls” because most of the time, that’s what a majority of players will be looking for.
I do appreciate your post and hope others add more like these because all this information allows players to evaluate what works best for them and choose accordingly!
Should come with the warning that the “pull” is just the start of the spending process. If you speed up one aspect of gaining a useful hero, you’re likely to be disappointed by the rate of the other walls and have to spend there too.
@RandaPanduh I think it’s better to merge the 2 tables and instead of making it price per coin, for coins/tokens, it should be price per summon. Summon is what anyone is really after and not taking gems into account may seem to make one offer more economical than other when it’s not - e.g. Dunes D1/D4 vs Eloise offer (see the tables above).
Another thing that makes it tricky is that if you factor in other items bundled in the offer, the discount changes. E.g., Eloise Dunes offer has a lower summon price if you factor in the 7.5M ham that comes with it.
In my post, all I was accounting for was summons only. And since gems can be used via summons, I considered all gem offers too (and if they were in said offer, I included them in the final run-down). However, if you still plan on using your gems for summons, best to buy coins outright instead.
So essentially came down to $1 per summon, in most cases.
The $30 for 20 summons are great value if you need flasks, but if you don’t, you’re getting less pulls per $ than you would going straight for coins. Same goes with the food bundles: if you’re actually after summons > food, those feel the nights without gems - where summons are 5 but the total is $10 - aren’t actually the best value (for summons specifically)
However, if one is after food bundles, the recent solo offer with em - that were paired with the $15 for 15 pulls - was the best value I’d ever seen. Otherwise, the solo ones during Seasonals for $5 each (but I wasn’t accounting for food bundles tbh, even tho most would also find those enticing as well I’d assume)
So depends on what one is after. However, since summons are the biggest $$ maker, and I know for me - the main thing I budget for and prioritize (I don’t buy mats personally) - I wanted to specify just for them
Better to compare via price per summon in USD. If offers include ham or other stuff, better to ignore the additional stuff, making that offer probably more expensive summon-wise.
One currency. Easier to compare.
As for other items, again better in USD.
USA is one of the biggest markets for this game.
Beep me on line. We can slowly work through your table.