I don’t know what y’all are complaining about. I got Panther after one 10 pull and another after a few single pulls just trying to show a guy how long the odds are:
In all seriousness, I tried getting Falcon and/or Jackal this recent Teltoc and a partial effort to get Gazelle while I was still in the haze of desire without thinking too hard if she’d benefit my bench or not. I have no idea how much I pulled, but I want to say it was around 20 singles with coins and gems. The best I got this time around was a bat.
Oh and I got an Owl too. In a past pull attempt. Lucky me.
I didn’t get what I wanted and was understandably bummed. But I spent what I was comfortable with.
I consider myself a very lucky E&P player. I have a lot of really good and rare heroes without having to sink as much money as others have, but even I have spent over $400 USD to get to that point (spread over 1.5 years). Of all the heroes I have, the ones I actually got after chasing are Panther, Kingston, Frida, Vivica, and Lianna, and those last two were out of TC20, so they don’t really count. Evelyn? Nope. Gazelle? Nope. Jackal? Nope. Delilah? Nope.
But heck, even that last paragraph is a bit of a brag.
To contribute here also, I tracked total 400 pulls in various events and I got only 2 event 5* heroes, luckily (I guess) for me it was Panther and Jabberwock. So it really isn’t worth to chase specific hero imho.
got this from a single pull… very first pull. Made me laugh. I planned on just doing one pull and no more so that worked out for me. Just want to remind everyone that sometimes it takes two or three pulls to get the same results
I appreciate these threads because it very much reinforces my (bit more modest) budget and just how lucky we can be.
I told myself I would quit E&P after this event if I didn’t get Guardian Chameleon. I didn’t chase for it hard (spent a grand total of $30), and ended up pulling it with a token. I was really looking for an excuse to quit, and the goddamn game didn’t give it to me
In 240 summons you only got a single event 5*? I’ll admit I skimmed a bit but did see you saying something about only getting other s1 5*. If so, how fortunate you got the one you wanted!
Yup just the one 5* Event Hero this time round… The others I got were in this little table here. All were unfortunately Duplicates of ones I had… Still no vivica
This is a fun game, don’t get me wrong. But there’s one thing I hate and this post paints that picture perfectly. It’s not pay to win, but it’s PAY BIG to get the heroes you want. Oh, and it’s pay a little more to ascend them.
Possibly not that much as an outright payment… I mean the CHANCE was there that I might get her for less but I definitly would have considered spending a fair bit for her as an outright purchase…
Yeah that’s why the loot crate method and gambling in general is so pervasive: there’s always the chance for your money to have a very high value.
It’d be interesting to see SG’s data and calculate the average cost of a non s1 5*. Across all spending, I’d be super curious to know what that base cost is.
Thanks for investing your time into this helpful and well thought out post
Assuming you have 1k gems already thats 9x Mountain of Gems purchases
In my currancy:
Cost = 9* [Mountain of Gems] = 9 * 159.99 AUD = $1,439.91 AUD
In USD:
Cost = 9 * [Mountain of Gems] = 9 * 99.99 USD = $899.91 USD
For comparison, that is 320 cups of coffee (at the average coffee price of $4.50 AUD)
EDIT:
all that is for 1 specific event hero… if we just went ANY event 5* hero:
[Probability of Success] = 1 - ( 1 - [Probability of Failure]) ^ [# of Attempts]
50% = ( 1 - 0.01) ^ x
x = 69 attempts
. Have you ever calculated that cost?
wow, only $900 huh? 
