Holiday Showdown

Crzdpup

Anyone else having issues with getting opponents?

ManiiNames

Worked fine for me earlier today, played eight games in a row.  

Grixis197

Crzdpup said:

Anyone else having issues with getting opponents?

Working fine for me played all 9 charges, your probably just experiencing what I did with the TotP on Wednesday happened to me no one else seemed to have it. 

rafalele

Read this and open a ticket to support each time you suffer it.

https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/69089/numerous-events-not-loading-opponent-devs-aware#latest

jchesnutt

It doesn’t really matter if you finish this event anyway. The end reward after waiting a whole day for matches to repopulate is a single booster of Kaladesh with 5 duplicate commons... yay.

Volrak

jchesnutt said:

It doesn’t really matter if you finish this event anyway. The end reward after waiting a whole day for matches to repopulate is a single booster of Kaladesh with 5 duplicate commons... yay.

A random 5-card pack which is all dupes gives on average about 120 orbs. Open 25 packs like that and you'll have enough orbs for a non-dupe ORI mythic.  It's a bit like getting 16 jewels from every pack of dupes, with the added bonus of no dupe mythics guaranteed when cashing in (but on the flip side, you don't get masterpieces 10% of the time).  You don't have to be thrilled by that, but it's a pretty good deal compared to before booster crafting.

(Also - you might already know, but 5-card packs are programmed to avoid dropping 5 commons - your 5th card will be uncommon or better if the first four were common.)

Marvaddin

Was thinking about it. Registered over 100 boosters and never saw 5 commons. But had at least one booster of 5 uncommons.

Edit: but in fact, most 5 cards boosters won't give more than 60-70 orbs, as they are mostly common and uncommon. Uncommons ncould be worthy more, like 30-50 orbs. Well, still better than nothing.

Gilesclone

According to the currently observed drop rates, if you had all the cards, you would expect an average of 117.5 orbs per normal pack.  If you have all the common, uncommon, and rare cards, but no mythics or MPs, you would expect 87.5.  But you would get some new cards which are worth more than the orbs.
it depends a lot on which cards you have, but 60-70 orbs average would mean you’re also getting some cards you are missing, which is generally a better deal.

khurram

I don't know what data you guys are basing your statements on but the 5-card packs I am getting are giving me 60 to 90 orbs 

Mainloop25

I get about 70 orbs on average if I don't get a rare or mythic. 

Dropspot

The avg of 117 accounts for rares, mythics and MP. The avg orb value of a pack is almost a individual stat since it is dependant of the collection a player have. A new player should have a expected value of orbs close to zero since almost all cards will be new. On the other hand a player with all cards will have a expected value close to 117.

ertaii

Dropspot said:

The avg of 117 accounts for rares, mythics and MP. The avg orb value of a pack is almost a individual stat since it is dependant of the collection a player have. A new player should have a expected value of orbs close to zero since almost all cards will be new. On the other hand a player with all cards will have a expected value close to 117.

Which drop rate do you use in your calculations for mp, mythics and rare ?

Dropspot

All this number were generated from @volrak work of collecting drop rate data from the community. More about that here: https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/64739/2-10-drop-rate-stats

Gilesclone

A new player will get nothing in the way of orbs, but the cards they get are all new.  This is for the most part much better than 117 orbs.  The cost to craft 4 HoD commons and one HoD uncommon is 1350 orbs, even for Origins it’s 540.

bk1234

khurram said:

I don't know what data you guys are basing your statements on but the 5-card packs I am getting are giving me 60 to 90 orbs 

60 orbs would be 4 commons and an uncommon so that is accurate.