I started playing this game 8 days ago and I don't really know what I'm doing with regards to maximizing my resources but I read you can reroll your quests and sometimes get one worth 1500 xp. Did that get changed? I've been rerolling my quests every day and haven't seen a single 1500 xp one. If there are only 1000 xp quests I'll stop bothering.
External link →Ok thanks guys, guess I just got a bit unlucky then. Follow up question: I find a lot of articles about the ingame economy that seem to be out of date, can you recommend a source for info about the game that is updated with patches?
Yeah, overall ~20% of the quest pool is composed of 1500 XP quests, though the quests you actually get are true random so you can see some good or bad luck along the way. Re-rolls are always random too, though you can't roll another copy of a quest you already have.
RE: the economy, I don't have a link on hand to anything at the moment, but generally the economy has been the same since patch 1.0. Did you have any specific economy questions that I might be able to answer?
I was looking for general advice on common pitfalls to avoid, simple ways to increase rate of card acquisition etc.
With regards to things being out of date, one site that said it was talking about 1.0 economy for example stated the gem rewards for duplicate commons/rares were 25/75 but I thought I remembered getting 15/60 myself, is that right? What are the gem equivalents of duplicate epics or legendaries? Although I probably won't get any of those anytime soon since duplicate protection applies, correct? And it applies to cards of those rarities no matter what source you get them from, capsule, region reward track, vault, anything, right?
Do you earn gold in the game or is it only purchasable with money? I was a bit surprised at first since the 'industry standard' for free to play games seems to be to make gold the free to play currency and gems the premium currency.
Hey, sorry for the delay in getting back to you!
If you are looking for max efficiency, try and aim for a Level 10 Vault whenever you can. Levels 11+ still provide some solid rewards, but the reward efficiency is highest up til Level 10. Picking what Regions to get rewards from is a matter of what excites you, but if you are not sure what deck you want, consider taking each region to 4, then each to 8, 12, 16 etc because every 4th level in a Region is a bit more efficient in terms of the reward you get.
Regarding duplicates, the Shard values for extra copies are 15 (Common), 60 (Rare), 250 (Epic), and 750 (Champion).
Epics and Champions have duplicate protection whenever you get a random card from any source, which means you will always get an Epic or Champion that you don’t have 3x copies of before you get Shards instead. The way duplicate protection works is that we check any Set restrictions followed by Region restrictions.
For example, Levels 21-24 on Freljord are currently set up to award Rising Tides cards first. So, if you are given a random Champion, the game first checks to see if you have 3x Sejuani first (the only Freljord Champion in Rising Tides). If you do already have 3x, the game then will give you a random Freljord Champion from any Set. If you have all the Freljord Champions, then you would get a random Champion from any Region/Set, and only if you have all Champions period will you get 750 Shards. Epics work the exact same way.
Rares and Commons don’t have built-in duplicate protection though, so if you have 3x Mystic Shot and would open a 4th, instead you get Shards. This helps players get some Shard early on beyond what they would open in Chests and provides a bit more agency for players to craft what they want to craft.
Currently there is no way to directly earn Coins by playing, and yeah, we did shuffle things up a bit by making Shards the earned currency and Coins the paid one haha.
Thanks for taking the time to respond, no problem about the delay!
Sure thing! Thank you for the thoughtful questions <3
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