Wakanda Supports Are Coming! *Updated (5/17/18)

Let’s look at %

In the Vibranium vault, 20/280 is 7% chance of a support token
In a normal PVE vault, 3/80 Supports (all Beginner) is 3.75%
One LT and 3 4’s is 4/80 or 5%

Compared to current availability this seems OK. Whether that’s overall a good distribution model is a different story (I think they should be available in progression somewhere, for starters).

HoundofShadow said:

In your opinion, how does a support vault that isn't awful look like? 

It would have far more Support tokens and Red Iso.  It wouldn't have any 2* characters, which cannot use either Supports or Red Iso.  They can put some jokers like 10 HP or 100 Iso in there if they want to be discouraging.

HoundofShadow said:

Should they make it a 21, 40, 41, 47, 80, 81, 280 or 300 items Support vault? Do you think there's a better amount?

They did give a better chance of getting support this time: approximately twice the number of supports previously to the last vault. 

It would be helpful to be specific. 

Personally, if they want to make a vault for support releases, I think it should be composed either primarily or exclusively support-related items (I wouldn't include any covers--even Legendary tokens).  I would make it either 41 or 81, with one free token (primarily to show players who don't follow the forums/Discord/Reddit/etc that it's there).  The low prizes can still be nominal Red-Iso and it wouldn't bother me; it's still support content and not every prize in a vault can be good from a business standpoint.    For each day the vault is open, players would receive a Beginner token with the new support's release odds.  That get's more supports "in the wild", but still doesn't allow for free high level supports, which they don't seem to want at all.

For the new-release support bundles, they should always have a 3* & 5* option (and, preferably, an additional 4* option in the middle), with the exact prices and additional support levels up for debate.  The fresh-out-of-the-package supports are most valuable to someone with a developing 3* roster, so why not encourage them to go all-in on supports by helping them with the 2-3 transition as well?  The 3* bundle also allows higher players to test the waters without needing to sacrifice additional resources for covers they may or may not need.  A 5* bundle would allow 5* players a better chance to get 4* & 5* supports which would be more meaningful to their level of play in addition to a regular 5* cover.  Having two 4* bundles just seems like an odd choice for the Wakanda supports, particularly as one of them has a synergy perk with 5* BP.   

The daily free tokens gave me TWO Advanced tokens. Both were dupe normal supports, so I still have no Wakanda supports.

The reason that the vault and tokens and everything have a much higher % of getting a meh prize than a great prize is simple.  Pulling the thing you want when it’s unlikley feels better and more like an accomplishment than if you can just do it.

You can look at a bunch of 2*s as “new player friendly” but it’s just how they keep you motivated. If you get a Support token and the rest are 2’s it (in theory) feels like you did pretty well and won something.

You know what would be nice?  Details about whether we are getting a free Support token or not on one of the remaining days. But I suppose if we were getting one or two and knew, that might disincentivize spending.

My meh pulls of the day aren’t even worth listing.  Some iso I think?  I’ll always take more iso.

My daily gift pulls:

Day 1: Two 2* covers and 1,500 ISO.
Day 2: One 2* cover, 5,000 ISO, 1,000 ISO.
Day 3: Two 2* covers, 3* Star-Lord.
Day 4: 1* Ebony Maw, 1* Cull Obsidian (both duplicates.)
Day 5: TBD

Got 1* Avengers tower and 1* Shield. Oh boy, I'm excited