Stocking Up for RIX?

wickedwitch74

Yeah... once I got River's Rebuke I shut it down. 

With apologies to a few decent cards, this set is entirely underwhelming, and the tribal synergies are not worth the effort or expense.

DBJones

FindingHeart8 said:

DBJones said:

I'm pretty sure Brigby said that the no points for winning in RtO was a glitch, just like getting no coalition points at all. I'm hoping the no rare rewards was a temporary thing, and will go away once Ixalan becomes craftable. Or after we complain enough, whatever works.

he did?  It's not in the listed changes for RtO.  Yeah I'm hoping the rare rewards come back too, even if it's just from a non-Ixalan set that'll get me a dupe.

Yeah, in his second post on the RtO is broken thread (https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/70834/race-to-orazca-event-issues-fix-in-upcoming-data-push/p1) he said:

"Hi Everyone. The team has identified the issue with both individual ribbons not being applied to Coalition score, as well as ribbons not being awarded for just winning matches."

He also mentioned they wouldn't be able to fix things while the event was running.

speakupaskanswer

If we knew when RIX would drop, I'd think about it, but I want to have at least one more shot at an Elite and Premium Pack. And, yes, I'm also saving crystals for Huatli and Vraska. It's a bit much all at once!

FindingHeart8

DBJones said:

FindingHeart8 said:

DBJones said:

I'm pretty sure Brigby said that the no points for winning in RtO was a glitch, just like getting no coalition points at all. I'm hoping the no rare rewards was a temporary thing, and will go away once Ixalan becomes craftable. Or after we complain enough, whatever works.

he did?  It's not in the listed changes for RtO.  Yeah I'm hoping the rare rewards come back too, even if it's just from a non-Ixalan set that'll get me a dupe.

Yeah, in his second post on the RtO is broken thread (https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/70834/race-to-orazca-event-issues-fix-in-upcoming-data-push/p1) he said:

"Hi Everyone. The team has identified the issue with both individual ribbons not being applied to Coalition score, as well as ribbons not being awarded for just winning matches."

He also mentioned they wouldn't be able to fix things while the event was running.

ah, this is good to know.  Thanks for taking the time to find it

Bil

I've stopped buying XLN packs too ... After about 15 premium packs i end with 4 useless mythics ... Nothing worth the investment and it feels like the droprates are awful ... Hopefully, i got most of the rares i was interested in.

Matthew

I just pulled Carnage Tyrant the other day from a PP that I bought out of sheer boredom. It was the only mythic I still wanted and didn't have, so I felt like I hit the lottery jackpot. Since I've got 28 rares and 11 mythics, at this point anything else I get would be "nice but not necessary." So yeah, I'm totally back to my hoarding ways.

Mainloop25

FindingHeart8 said:

bken1234 said:

FindingHeart8 said:

This game does not need to be harder for the elites to feel challenged.  They've essentially beat the game, so it's on them to find ways to challenge themselves, not the developers to re-hash the entire game at every non-elites expense.

This is important and deserves being quoted -- though for the record, I support varying degrees of difficulty like either / or objectives or events like TotP. 

However, the fact that so many top players don't even need IXN cards anymore because we had such big stashes of crystals and unobtainium says a lot. 

Yeah I'm with you on different degrees of difficulty.  Ideally, it would be nice if there was a place that challenged each level of player at their level (which is why, again, I love Avacyn's Madness so much).

Yeah some of the crystal vaults I've heard players had (150,000+) just baffles me, but then again I'm not so great at saving. 

You mean runes ? I don't think anyone has bought that many crystals (except maybe @Zander ) 

Bil

How many PP did you guys open to get 11 to 13 mythics in 4 weeks? 

bk1234

Bil said:

How many PP did you guys open to get 11 to 13 mythics in 4 weeks? 

Hmmmm....

I bought 3 mythics and got quite a few from elite packs. I think I've opened around 15 PP. I had more than 3K crystals saved up when IXN dropped. 

I've pulled 7 from Premium Packs -- actually 6 -- I pulled one from a 5 card booster. Also I have 25ish rares form those PP. The ones with PW purchase were dupes. 

Bil

Thanks ...Sounds reassuring that some came from pinkies and bundles ... I was quite impressed by such a score compared to my pulls.

FindingHeart8

Mainloop25 said:

FindingHeart8 said:

bken1234 said:

FindingHeart8 said:

This game does not need to be harder for the elites to feel challenged.  They've essentially beat the game, so it's on them to find ways to challenge themselves, not the developers to re-hash the entire game at every non-elites expense.

This is important and deserves being quoted -- though for the record, I support varying degrees of difficulty like either / or objectives or events like TotP. 

However, the fact that so many top players don't even need IXN cards anymore because we had such big stashes of crystals and unobtainium says a lot. 

Yeah I'm with you on different degrees of difficulty.  Ideally, it would be nice if there was a place that challenged each level of player at their level (which is why, again, I love Avacyn's Madness so much).

Yeah some of the crystal vaults I've heard players had (150,000+) just baffles me, but then again I'm not so great at saving. 

You mean runes ? I don't think anyone has bought that many crystals (except maybe @Zander ) 

well runes wouldn't be too hard to reach that amount.  I believe the claim was 150,000 crystals (yellow tho, not pink).  I can't remember who made the claim though, so feel free to take my comment at mere hearsay.

Firinmahlazer

I don't have all the cards I want but I'm starting to save anyway. Hopefully Across Ixalan and RtO will be kind to me. I have a few mythics and am too worried about getting a dupe from purple packs. Part of me thinks we could see an early release of RIX so I'd like to get a good stash of crystals just in case before I start getting XLN card packs again.

Edit* Also. Duh. I forgot about Vraska and a hard maybe on Jace 3.

FindingHeart8

that makes sense.

Gunmix25

@bken1234 I just opened a PP yesterday. Wished I hadn't.  All dupes and the 3 PP prior a couple of weeks ago were too. Just a side note. I estimated 14 PP before I hit my first full dupe PP in #15. So now I know how much I need to save for to reach the dupe saturation point. Technically once one reaches this point, it is better to start saving again and just draw from progression packs. 

Yes, I should've been following my own advice.... else I wouldn't be 320 crystal short. Lol. But you bet I'm saving solidly from here on out. Jewels too. 

Kinesia

Saving up to buy Jace with crystals (Have decided it suits me more to buy the 2 colour ones with money and the 1 colour with crystals) and then will save for Rix.
I have enough to play with and Across Ixalan and other rewards can tide me over.

Mainloop25

FindingHeart8 said:

Mainloop25 said:

FindingHeart8 said:

bken1234 said:

FindingHeart8 said:

This game does not need to be harder for the elites to feel challenged.  They've essentially beat the game, so it's on them to find ways to challenge themselves, not the developers to re-hash the entire game at every non-elites expense.

This is important and deserves being quoted -- though for the record, I support varying degrees of difficulty like either / or objectives or events like TotP. 

However, the fact that so many top players don't even need IXN cards anymore because we had such big stashes of crystals and unobtainium says a lot. 

Yeah I'm with you on different degrees of difficulty.  Ideally, it would be nice if there was a place that challenged each level of player at their level (which is why, again, I love Avacyn's Madness so much).

Yeah some of the crystal vaults I've heard players had (150,000+) just baffles me, but then again I'm not so great at saving. 

You mean runes ? I don't think anyone has bought that many crystals (except maybe @Zander ) 

well runes wouldn't be too hard to reach that amount.  I believe the claim was 150,000 crystals (yellow tho, not pink).  I can't remember who made the claim though, so feel free to take my comment at mere hearsay.

Yeah I'm gonna go ahead and do that.

FindingHeart8

Mainloop25 said:

FindingHeart8 said:

Mainloop25 said:

FindingHeart8 said:

bken1234 said:

FindingHeart8 said:

This game does not need to be harder for the elites to feel challenged.  They've essentially beat the game, so it's on them to find ways to challenge themselves, not the developers to re-hash the entire game at every non-elites expense.

This is important and deserves being quoted -- though for the record, I support varying degrees of difficulty like either / or objectives or events like TotP. 

However, the fact that so many top players don't even need IXN cards anymore because we had such big stashes of crystals and unobtainium says a lot. 

Yeah I'm with you on different degrees of difficulty.  Ideally, it would be nice if there was a place that challenged each level of player at their level (which is why, again, I love Avacyn's Madness so much).

Yeah some of the crystal vaults I've heard players had (150,000+) just baffles me, but then again I'm not so great at saving. 

You mean runes ? I don't think anyone has bought that many crystals (except maybe @Zander ) 

well runes wouldn't be too hard to reach that amount.  I believe the claim was 150,000 crystals (yellow tho, not pink).  I can't remember who made the claim though, so feel free to take my comment at mere hearsay.

Yeah I'm gonna go ahead and do that.

lol, well I don't disagree with you.  I mean, I've never had half that many crystals, or a quarter...or a tenth of that amount.  I'm also really bad at not spending them too  

TheDragonHermit

bken1234 said:

FindingHeart8 said:

This game does not need to be harder for the elites to feel challenged.  They've essentially beat the game, so it's on them to find ways to challenge themselves, not the developers to re-hash the entire game at every non-elites expense.

This is important and deserves being quoted -- though for the record, I support varying degrees of difficulty like either / or objectives or events like TotP. 

However, the fact that so many top players don't even need IXN cards anymore because we had such big stashes of crystals and unobtainium says a lot. 

The stashes say a bit more about the time between releases, myself I got a decent haul of Rares and 2 Mythics from the set. Not seeing the must-haves that so many sets have had (and I had trouble getting). I think that more than the cost issue and underwhelming creatures is what is holding IXN back. Well that and the fact that the supports all got wet and are rusting before our eyes.

Gilesclone

I’ve opened 23 Ixalan premium packs.  The last 5 only got me 3 new cards.  But at this point I’m more interested in the bonus orbs than the cards.  

Mainloop25

@FindingHeart8 If I had never spent any crystals on anything, I would maybe have had half of that. But that's after about 2.5 years of playing? So maybe it's possible?