hey all, thanks for the thoughts and insights @Muchacho @Shohoku79 @SamMe
first off, @SamMe I would be super sad to see you go, I would miss you. As @Sarah2 said, you are insightful and encouraging, and it breaks my heart to see such enthusiastic, eager, willing-to-learn and optimistic players - and genuinely nice, kind peope!!! - as yourself and @Gwniver becoming all discouraged. But I get it, I am quite in the same boat. If I look at my posts these past few days, my mood has definitely changed. When I pulled Zila Lei in Underwild… normally I would be excited. Oh, a non S1 4*! But I was just… meh… had trouble getting excited.
As @Muchacho said, I try to have reasonable expectations about this game. example:
- Challenge events: top 10k / top 5k / top 10k only.
- Ninja Tower: top 25k
- Raids: hover around 2500 cups and open my chests in Diamond
- Raid tournaments: top 5% or higher only in 3* and 4* ones (especially 4*, because I also have highly emblemed 4* and enough costumes/non S1 ones to make it! 3s are a struggle because of all the +20 monster defenses out there, while my 3s are only up to +9 or +11)
etc. etc.
What scares me about the recent Q&A is that even these seemingly attainable, reasonable heights might slowly slip away.
- Ascension mats and Emblems can be bought. i would not be surprised if limit breakers can also later be bought.
- Loot will be horrible. Valhalla Forever coin drops will not get better. Future seasons likely will not either.
- But more and more heroes and events will be released… yet the attainability of heroes will not improve. Summon odds won’t go up. Each season has its own coin, forcing us to hoard gems and choose which portal to pull in. 3* and 4* will never be added to Hero Academy.
- big spenders will continue to summon heavily, buy ascension mat offers, buy emblems, blah blah blah…
so even the heights to which i have climbed, might slip away.
I’ve grinded and worked hard to get here. and like @Shohoku79 I like getting new heroes (within reasonable expectations, I expect to get many 3s out there, some 4s, and very few of the 5*s). but seeing the expanding collection of heroes I will likely never get anyway… and watching others waltz around with those heroes and compete more easily in arenas I also play in…
I mean, it’s getting harder and harder to raid as it is. I’m ok with it as long as I hang in Diamond, But will the day come that I get pushed down to Platinum because all the defenses out there are so strong…
I don’t know if reorienting myself to become more casual will help. I really don’t.
Titans shouldn’t change. Wars maybe won’t, but I’ve seen enough bad match-ups to know some can slip through. The World Map won’t change, but it’s boring… I grind it mostly for summons, but summons odds suck.
and if things like Challenge Events, Raid Tournaments, Ninja Tower become even more soul-crushing…
yeah