Quick question re: support shards as PVP reward

Wyntre
Wyntre Posts: 49 Just Dropped In
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I'm not much of a PvPer but I've played enough of a couple of PvPs to get the 50 support shards for supports that I don't have. Shouldn't that unlock the 1* support? I don't have Thanos-Copter unlocked, but I played enough Kang to get the 50 shards. I don't see where to unlock it, though. Under supports, it's still greyed out showing what it looks like at level 250/250.

What am I missing? Same with Leapfrog--I should have 50 shards but they show up nowhere.

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  • ArchusMonk
    ArchusMonk Posts: 211 Tile Toppler

    Pretty sure you can’t unlock a support with shards only. You have to have pulled at least rank 1.

  • Wyntre
    Wyntre Posts: 49 Just Dropped In

    Well, that's just mean. Thanks!

  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 1,013 Chairperson of the Boards

    I'm not sure if that's the case or not. The way I understood it is that you could not favorite a support you didn't have unlocked to gain shards and unlock it. Since we're talking about earned shards I would think once you hit whatever initial threshold, it would become unlockable.

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,286 Chairperson of the Boards

    They did this so players could not unlock the stones via shards.

    KGB

  • Pantera236
    Pantera236 Posts: 529 Critical Contributor

    @KGB said:
    They did this so players could not unlock the stones via shards.

    KGB

    But then have given away 3 so far and almost a 4th one.

  • bigjojo04
    bigjojo04 Posts: 419 Mover and Shaker

    They “gave” those away for the community hitting a goal they set.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,997 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 13 July 2024, 17:59

    @KGB said:
    They did this so players could not unlock the stones via shards.

    KGB

    This made way more sense when they were treating them as trophies (for whoever was willing to hop the most and pretend to be the friendliest for a full season), because the actual supports are kinda bad (except for the purple one, sorta).

    I think it's probably safe to undo it now though. I'd way rather use one of the supports that's "win the game turn0" than any of the infinity stones, and I bet anybody who wanted the trophies --and could realistically win them -- already has them all by now.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,852 Chairperson of the Boards

    A reason to hold back unlocking via shards for non-Stones is that many (most) people playing don’t have all the supports and the devs would like to sell supports to people, and sometimes we’ll see a bundle with a R1 of whatever. Or a chain of the new one.

    If you can’t just unlock them with shards it creates a demand/reason for people to buy the new offering, or be stuck waiting for RNG to go in their favor.

    Also there are older supports they offer sometimes and if you want one and can’ lt just use shards you might buy that offer.

    Plenty of players doing catch-up on just unlocking them.

  • Pantera236
    Pantera236 Posts: 529 Critical Contributor

    @bigjojo04 said:
    They “gave” those away for the community hitting a goal they set.

    Correct.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,346 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Pantera236 said:

    @bigjojo04 said:
    They “gave” those away for the community hitting a goal they set.

    Correct.

    Although one of those goals was just to be a bit chatty here to be fair which cough some of us found a bit easy. No follow up questions.

  • Wyntre
    Wyntre Posts: 49 Just Dropped In

    Well, whatever the reason for it, at least I don't have any incentive to PvP (which I don't enjoy), so there's that. ;)

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