Why buy planeswalkers?

babar3355

If D3 is going to pump more and more planeswalkers out, you might want to give us some better options for leveling them up or we will just wait until they hit the vault.

I would have purchased Jace 2 and Arlinn Kord, but I can't possibly get enough runes to level them up in a timely manner. I don't have 24/7 to grind QB and even if I did it would take forever. To fully level up a dual planeswalker takes about 160,000 runes. This requires about 533 QB games... if we assume 5 minutes per game to load, fight, load then this will take roughly 44 hours of continuous play. Maybe my average win time would be lower, but I think that gets the point across.

Regardless, I am sitting on Kiora, Sarhelli Rai and Ob that are not leveled up. Why would I waste my money on Arlinn or Jace 2 when I can just wait for them to come around in the store and spend crystals? I STILL won't have these 3 leveled up to 60.

And unless I am missing something, I can't even just buy runes. I could buy 15,000 runes and 250 crystals for $15, so I could level her up for a mere $150.. What a deal! lol

I am not one who avoids spending money on this game. I bought Olivia, Sorin, and probably $150 worth of crystals. I would be willing to spend more, but you are incentivizing me not to.

And there is just no good way to get runes. The duplicate crushing is pathetic. A duplicate mythic is worth 1000 runes!?!? really? That is 1/6th of the 59-60 level. Won't even level you up from 24-25. And that's about what the event rewards are like as well.

Finally, the rewards for quick battle are pathetic as well. I don't know who these zombies are that grind to 2000 ribbons over a 2 day event, but I am impressed. What I really don't understand is the poor sap who only grinded out 1800 ribbons and gets.... a rare and a fat pack! LOL 300 games won.. about 25 hours worth of grinding... and they get a rare, 80 gold, and 5 boosters? You have to be kidding me. This reward is total garbage. Yet people are stuck grinding away for it just so they can level the flood of planeswalkers that are hitting the market.

Corn_Noodles

Grinding runes is the most painful thing in this game right now. I'd appreciate a large rune pack for direct purchase.

glggwp

i have almost 2 million runes. you can buy from me. tbh grinding qb is pretty efficient for runes once you have a winning quick qb deck that guarantees 90% win rate

aesith

I agree although I am against paying over $50 for a plainswalker now. I have spent easily over $100 but cannot bring myself to buy Kord. Jace 2 for $20 was immediate and it wasnt even a question. Wonder how much more could be made if all walkers were in that range.

madwren

It's definitely a bit of a grind. I mix it up by mastering cards, doing QB, and getting runes from events. I suggest getting your duals to 50 and ignoring 51-60 until everyone's at 50, because it's so expensive and 50 makes you viably competitive in events.

Morphis

Personally i had not any problem until now with runes but that's because I played A LOT of QBs in the beginning of the game(getting first place most of the time with at least 800 ribbons each).
That was my big source of runes, but right now I am starting to run out of it.
If I would get all missing planeswalker right now I would not be able to level all of them. For sure I won't be grinding QB anymore. I can play some matches for fun or to try new decks/planeswalkers but that's it.

I think there are 2 big problems:

- one is the amount of runes needed for dual color planeswalkers: 160k is too high.
I think instead it should be 120k. Still bigger than normal ones but not basically double the amount.

- Also quick battle rewards should increase with level at the same rate as the amount of runes needed to level planeswalkers.
To me right now it looks like rewards increase linearly while runes needed increase exponentially.
That's also a big problem that can only get worse if they'll ever increase the level cap again.

Fixing those would fix the runes problem.

speakupaskanswer

I agree with the rune problem, but I think the title question counts in other ways? Why buy them if you can buy them with crystals anyway? Just to get them earlier? I just don't see why you would pay $30-40 just to have a planeswalker that everyone can get for free (more or less).