It feels like SG could drive a lot more bonuses if they included even some costumes (e.g. even costumes that were themselves, say, at least a year old?)
But then another consideration, as @Nightmare2048 pointed out on another thread is that with the insane rate of hero release, that an increasing fraction of the zoo of rando 5* is actually more recent….
Hm, let’s see, working from the current OP of this thread and grouping some chunks of 5*…
New challenge events: 51
Untold Tales: 10
Tower events: 37
Musketeers: 9
Clash of Knights (new releases): 4
Journey heroes: 6
Covenant: 25
Super elemental: 15
Goblin: 7
(and seperately,new this portal: 2)
I’m not saying all these are desirable, desirable to all, or that these are the only desirable 5*, just a very rough grouping of new-ish/not costumed heroes
which is 164ish out of 387ish or a bit over 40% of the heroes.
So:
0.2% chance of the new BF heroes
40% of the 3.6% add’l chance is 1.4-1.5%
So basically a total 1.6 to 1.7% chance of a “newish” 5*, depending on your definition of “newish” and how you round.
(I’m only considering 5* here, obviously, and folks will value these differently depending on their existing rosters.)
So… is that “better enough” compared to the chance of something new from a bog-standard portal, powered by, say, roughly USD1 per pull coins?
That’s the question for any given individual, I suppose.