Blade of the Samurai -Debut of 6 new characters, including a limited edition Samurai

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Originally Posted by Banished

This event is like the god event. You earn frags to collect souls. Such souls will give you frags to special Samourai eddie. This event is taking during 2 week-ends not only one. Which means that normally you can earn at least a character without spending ironite in the shop. but if you want all of them, you will have to. but there is a sacrifice event which I think will allow to earn lots of frags (like for the god event).

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I wish you were right... but I'm afraid not.
1. the event goes until 9.11., so Friday in a week
2. there is no way to get more than the 10 souls (except in the shop)
3. whether other events in this month are related to the current event is unknown. Then it would be included in the event description I think.
There is some hope that the Fragment Event will be about Wanderer fragments instead of Lilith and a new event character (Magus Shinobi is missing by now, or?). The same is true for the sacrificial event. Only I don't believe in it.

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Originally Posted by kgk56

There won't be frags in LOL : only common souls and red runes

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My mistake i have 50 ridiculous fragments from my ten LOL battles ^^

Congrats NF, you mucked it up one more time!! Another veteran brother has left, only because you don’t get your jaws full!!

Hold, my friend, I agree with everything you say! And ofc with all the others, Alchemist, Scott, Blade, too. I’m also going very strong this direction. Have no fun playing any more atm. As a sign I have deleted the character counter in my signature, the main thing for me I was playing for (yeah I know, who cares, devs definitely don’t, but for me it is a step towards the end). Just auto-farm troopers on powerslave, cause I won’t spent any money in this game and I’m sure I wouldn’t get any event character from the free souls, so why even try. Did much too often and was only disappointed. Totally understand your decision Hold, it’s just frustrating, but I hope you think it over again :(

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Originally Posted by Blade

I wish you were right... but I'm afraid not.
1. the event goes until 9.11., so Friday in a week
2. there is no way to get more than the 10 souls (except in the shop)
3. whether other events in this month are related to the current event is unknown. Then it would be included in the event description I think.
There is some hope that the Fragment Event will be about Wanderer fragments instead of Lilith and a new event character (Magus Shinobi is missing by now, or?). The same is true for the sacrificial event. Only I don't believe in it.

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I think that some want to believe
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I personnaly don't

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Originally Posted by GotN

Congrats NF, you mucked it up one more time!! Another veteran brother has left, only because you don’t get your jaws full!!

Hold, my friend, I agree with everything you say! And ofc with all the others, Alchemist, Scott, Blade, too. I’m also going very strong this direction. Have no fun playing any more atm. As a sign I have deleted the character counter in my signature, the main thing for me I was playing for (yeah I know, who cares, devs definitely don’t, but for me it is a step towards the end). Just auto-farm troopers on powerslave, cause I won’t spent any money in this game and I’m sure I wouldn’t get any event character from the free souls, so why even try. Did much too often and was only disappointed. Totally understand your decision Hold, it’s just frustrating, but I hope you think it over again :(

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+1000 thanks NF one more time for your work, you will lose all good players that maintain the game alive but you don't or want understand anything to the future end of the game :mad:

You need to be clear here.
10 Souls earned throughout the whole Blade of the Samurai Event...each soul claimed grants 10 Shogun and Musashi Soul Fragments...that's 100 fragments total...well short of the 500 & 750 fragments needed to guarantee those characters.

THEN you add and I quote "Please note that after the conclusion of this event, collecting more Wanderer, Shogun and Musashi Soul Fragments will not be possible, but any extras you have can be converted to Precious Soul Fragments."

SO..to be perfectly clear for us to earn the fragments need for Samurai Emperor Eddie and Musashi we then have to throw down cold hard earned cash for Ironite to get the 10 soul bundles in order to GET this two characters ?

OR..like the Gods Of Powerslave there will be other ways throughout the month to earn the 500 and 750 fragments needed ?

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Originally Posted by xxxphantomfreakxxx

You need to be clear here.
10 Souls earned throughout the whole Blade of the Samurai Event...each soul claimed grants 10 Shogun and Musashi Soul Fragments...that's 100 fragments total...well short of the 500 & 750 fragments needed to guarantee those characters.

THEN you add and I quote "Please note that after the conclusion of this event, collecting more Wanderer, Shogun and Musashi Soul Fragments will not be possible, but any extras you have can be converted to Precious Soul Fragments."

SO..to be perfectly clear for us to earn the fragments need for Samurai Emperor Eddie and Musashi when then have to throw down cold hard earned cash for Ironite to get the 10 soul bundles in order to GET this two characters ?

OR..like the Gods Of Powerslave there will be other ways throughout the month to earn the 500 and 750 fragments needed ?

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They didn't give us any answers to the good questions it will not change i think but for your question perhaps ( it is not a fraud like souls drop chance ) :)

It is all so sadly downbeat on here last wee while! Kind of sad isn't it? I just wish we could get some more postivity around here but we are not getting a lot to be postive about - hence my mini 'rant' earlier. I have spent so much time with this game but I just think it is all going a bit downhill and fast - far too many new characters I think - one or two a month maybe at most but not the spamming we are seeing at the moment - it is overkill I think.

New content does not make much money for the devs or we would get more of that - I even spent ironite on Mask event coz it was new and a really quite decent event. Same with the last sac event - that worked great with no real downpoints - very little RNG to deal with so we were all mostly happy players!

As I said before we need new stuff to keep us interested - we need character changes in the old worlds - new limited time environments like Mask, new missions and challenges. I cannot believe these things are hard to set up or time consuming to do. Or just add new levels to the old worlds so we have a new challenge in PVE.

Dont get me wrong I love lots about the game - I like to get new characters and all of that stuff (I did get the medic shinobi today from a legendary) but we need to have new things to do - even in the old worlds, anything that keeps old players interested would be welcomed.

Night City has been a long running joke of sorts - I hope they never use this approach again as it back fired badly and was just an easy stick to hit the devs with.....I am worried we will be over that within a week of opening - I may be wrong but you just have to wonder? BNW lost it's shine for me pretty quick - not played it for many weeks, maybe months! LOL gets played only when I need to, PVE to do troopers on auto, and now arena on auto as I might as well as my playing often makes little difference to the outcome even with a lot of relics etc etc.......trying to saty optimistic as there is a lot to like about the game, the devs try, they communicate etc so there is some hope if Iron Maiden Holdings see it as worthwhile to keep open.

It has to mean more characters every week/month but they have to hold onto what they have and that is the hardcore players who have been here for ages - never mind the new guys coming in over the last few months who may well have lots of stuff to do - us oldeis dont and what we are given is not a real challenge as RNG is no challenge - it is what it is in most cases luck that is maybe helped a bit by having the right team and relics, tallies - as I said before I can get whiped by a team and then whip them the next game - that to me is like a coin flip more than anything else especially when you are in the top 100-200 or so in arena so I think that in some way needs to be fixed over time - the balance of the arena needs to be looked at I think.

Fingers crossed we can see more happy posts on here over the next month or two - January is coming so hopefully we can turn a new page on here........

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Originally Posted by GotN

Congrats NF, you mucked it up one more time!! Another veteran brother has left, only because you don’t get your jaws full!!

Hold, my friend, I agree with everything you say! And ofc with all the others, Alchemist, Scott, Blade, too. I’m also going very strong this direction. Have no fun playing any more atm. As a sign I have deleted the character counter in my signature, the main thing for me I was playing for (yeah I know, who cares, devs definitely don’t, but for me it is a step towards the end). Just auto-farm troopers on powerslave, cause I won’t spent any money in this game and I’m sure I wouldn’t get any event character from the free souls, so why even try. Did much too often and was only disappointed. Totally understand your decision Hold, it’s just frustrating, but I hope you think it over again :(

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Not before Night City comes out and I am liking the idea more and more to "free" me and throw everything into the pit. For now I uninstalled the thing.

Here are some more numbers to think about:

- During the Phantom Ed event I did not only spend 4000 ironite but also opened close to 80 legendary souls. Combined I got no Phantom Ed (came through a warrior soul as I said) and no Madam. Count was impossible to get through legendary.
- Today to waste the rest of my gold I opened souls for over 4 million. I think 250 G/A, 50 Warrior, 50 Sentinel, 6 Gunner, 6 Assassin, 1 Legendary Assassin, 1 Legendary Warrior and for the rest just rare souls - I think I threw roughly 350 rare souls of all colors into the book. I got 1 - in numbers ONE - Shinobi and it was the green one.

As great as the pumpkin event was and I got plenty of skillshards as well - all that stuff is completely useless. The high value chars don't jump out of the rare / legendary souls and if my chars are sharded or not doesn't make a difference in Gauntlet right now as it depends on the coin toss in higher levels. So the one mode that they could have really rewarded players that put effort in strategy they made about RNG again PLUS over the long term you need the newest powerful chars otherwise you will fall behind. So much potential and so little brainpower put into how to keep players happy.

It's not like new players haven't to catch up with a lot of shit anyways. So they could give older players easily a break once in a while with events they just can skip without falling behind. But no - faster and faster and more chars and drain resources and more and parallel events and and and ... I am sick and really tired of that. I actually was hoping the Samurai Ed is one of those events to have a break and whoever does not have him - here is your chance. NOPE! They recycled an Ed and made it next to impossible to get! You %/§$%§%&!

There are soooo many chars right now that the devs could easily balance the game more instead of more and more chars. Shaolin said if you give everyone the high power tools they are in every setup (Hallowed Ed). I have to disagree because it only shows that the devs are not capable of balance the game accordingly. Wen don't need more powerful chars - we need more counter possibilities - but not with overpowered chars and talismans but where you have to use your brain to counter.

I repeat myself that (despite the hours of swiping left) I really enjoyed Gauntlet 1 - fair fights and with the right allies you made it very far ... Season 2 is complete utter shite fully based on luck who wins the coin toss - if you have to fight the usual suspects over and over again. It amazes me how stupid one must be to destroy a really good mode in such a short time. Especially they must know how long it takes to set up a team due to very poor management possibilities within the client and you get bum f*cked by an unfair setup in 30 seconds - not frustrating at all.

They haven't got it in over 2 years and they won't get it ... I start over - they know exactly what they are doing but have no intention to change it.

@Yup: I remember a little scuffle with you when you called me about all this negativity and so on. I was in since day 1 you were fairly new. Now you know - things have changed, haven't they? No hard feelings though - do the same like me - have a break and uninstalling felt really really good today ;)

So now we have four characters (Daedalus, Redan, Duke, Musashi) in less than three months, I guess, that will only be featured "occasionally" in heroic souls and one other char ("Limited Edition" Samurai Emperor Eddie) where it is very unclear if and how it will be available again (nothing mentioned in the post above, however, in-game it says "After the conclusion he will be much more difficult to obtain", which at least makes me hop that he will indeed be made obtainable again in some way, since "much more difficiult" is at least not "impossible").

Given the RNG numbers and the fact that there are always two five-star characters in the heroic souls rotation, you will need (statistically) around 200 heroic souls to obtain one of these characters. I highly doubt that the ordinary player will be able to get that many heroic souls in a month. So, if you add one of these "heroic-souls-only chars" every month, there is just now way to ever even come close to a complete collection. As others have said – very sad direction this is heading to...

I started playing in February and found I couldn't compete unless I either played full time (4+ hours a day) it bought into the store to become better. I didn't have the time, do I broke my own time and attached my credit card to Google play. The process are very high and not really with it, but I've since spent more than I ever intended to. I've never until Sunday this week gotten Samurai Eddie. I don't have a surplus of skill shards and I bought ironite to get Emporor. To me he's the fully sharded samurai I never was able to get.
We need new worlds badly. So I do is play powerslave for my troopers. There's no longer anything I want in the trooper store and I don't play the other worlds due to the price to get in and battle. Most of my roster is toons from the first 2 levels and non competitive, even maxed out. There has to be need toons to drop to give something worth fighting for. As of now I'm a collector of unique digital items. I don't even play the majority of my roster as they are not good enough anymore.
I see the frustration in the game, but it's just a game we choose to play it not. Right now I want to play, but it's only a chore. I don't call auto playing, playing. It's no longer enjoyable enough for me to play manually. Plus, the time required keeps one from really playing...

You could just be me and wait for them to arrive in heroic souls lol. When I see these new events featuring new characters, most of the time I say f*ck em. All the Shinobi are normal 4* characters that show up anywhere, Emperor Samurai Eddie isn't worth getting, and Musashi is just another fun sounding character who will eventually be in heroic souls. Well hey the longer we wait the more heroic souls we'll have saved so there's no real need to spend money at all in these events unless you're so obsessed that you want the character NOW.

To be honest, I don't care about this game. This game is an app, like a hundred others that's designed to waste your time when you have nothing better to do. Literally every app ever has bad rng and a huge load of in app purchases that's all designed to make you spend money in order to advance faster. Ever play Marvel Future Fight? There are characters that you literally HAVE to pay for if you want them. Be glad that it's not the case for this game.

Course it's not like anything I say matters to some of you. It's alot more comfortable living in your negative world that revolves around finding faults over petty shit. Maybe you SHOULD quit. It's not like the game is gonna die without you. It would likely be better off with a little bit less negativity on here. Spartan probably quit instead of being fired because he couldn't handle the rancid garbage that the small portion of the player base spits out at any waking hour.

So back to the event... Blinding burns are only from Flash talismans and Storms fury? I suppose Daedalus could given his passive if you are lucky enough to have him

Huckfinn, you could always take the lesser grade toons and try and play against the harder levels of the game. Try and play the first years toons and talis against underworld madness for a challenge. BNW without all the OP toons and talis is a real challenge. You can always make it a challenge if you just are trying to waste time.

The ONLY positive thing regarding development I can state is that it is a good thing that the Skull guests are now dropping more rare talismans.... actually got a Trinity Talisman drop yesterday from a Skull Quest. So, I don't even need to hit 200 wins to get the 2 set.

I am absolutely, completely disheartened that EVERY event is now a money-grubbing greed event from the developers. CLEARLY.

The ONLY reason I pulled ANYTHING decent from the Halloween event (Phantom Ed) is because I broke down and bought 10 souls. If I hadn't of done that.. I'd have been left with only 3 star drops. Seriously.. haven't see a 5 star drop in weeks.. and 4 stars are ALWAYS the same and very, very, very rare themselves. It's as if the odds have gotten WORSE. which they have .. that's what every new influx of charters causes.

I've essentially stopped all spending for weeks. There's no point to it. Prices are ridiculously high for VAPORWARE, even if I can afford the pricing. But really.. I've started to feel it's all borderline FRAUD to have in-app purchases that continually give you the same shit dupes over and over and over and over.

I do play them until I see it's futile. I mean the corrupt owl cultist is about useless. He gets killed by the first good hot from the opposing team. I've tried multiple talismans combos and still he's too weak. The same goes for many others. I just keep them because they are cool. I only play FotD, warrior, assassin valkerie Hunter and Wickerman. The others I rotate DDE.

The concept of reskinning and retooling Eddies is neat! It makes me wonder if Stranger in a Strange Land Eddie will be a retool of Cyborg, with a unique passive...

I must say the fact that no shards are dropping from this event as opposed to all the others is a let down. I've already finished two of the last three challenges with only blinding to go and dropped 300 Ironite on big refills. Hope this is not a the trend going forward on character events.

Every month, NF seem to break the record of number of newly introduced toons. I get that they need to make money from new toons but they dont need to introduce that many

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Originally Posted by ericgallucci

So back to the event... Blinding burns are only from Flash talismans and Storms fury? I suppose Daedalus could given his passive if you are lucky enough to have him

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As far as i know yes. I'm trying with the assassin newborn with flash but barely getting any. Maybe assassin pyro solider will be better as he have perfect hit as passive and deals damage to all enemies... or maybe flash+counter on the gunner desert marauder although he deals damage to one target only

Try using flash on any multi hitter with assassin pyro soldier for the perfect hits to trigger flashes burns. Also if you have nightmare talisman use them on the same team as the pyro soldier, they also need perfect hits to trigger sleep.

I am using phantom Eddie with nightmare/necropolis for sleep/reduce max HP. Storm Eddie would work.
Madam for sleep skill with any talis
Sekmet with nightmare/Necropolis. Any multi hitter will work.
Assassin pyro soldier for the perfect t hit passive, gunner desert marauder.

After 80 runs on LoL X, I am done with max HP down, getting about 12 blinding burns per battle and about 9 sleeps per battle. If you run powerslave or AMoLoD you could get more per battle.

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Originally Posted by Blade

From the opening post about the event:

"From now until November 9th 4 PM PT, battle in the Lord of Light to earn Wanderer Soul Fragments, Frontier Coins and more!"

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"We’ll be running 2 all-dungeon weekends in the Lord of Light to help you reach these goals!"

Is warrior LoL not open for you right now?

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My mistake; missed it in the post, then I saw it today when I read the email.

Leviathan and/or Kaz,

Regarding Samurai Emperor Eddie, the in-game news feed says that he is "only available in the Wanderer Soul and after the event ends, he will be much more difficult to obtain, as he won't be featured in any other soul."

Could you please provide any additional details on how he might be obtainable in the future? I'm not aware of any other character who has been in this situation. Even the Beast was featured in an Anniversary Soul . . .

I just played a team in the arena I think the name was Akori ? Anyway this team featured every current event character.
Is that even possible that someone has already acquired every new character and assembled a team high enough in the arena for me to see them? Ok I should add this was only my second arena battle since reset hours earlier so I was levelled at 535 or something but having a Japanese Samurai style name and all?...... come on really?

This smells of Devs input to me!

Or money spent.

19 event souls and no red eyes,fuck this type of events...

Finally my first ever event character dropped...got the ibuki gunner ranger

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Originally Posted by Ip4

19 event souls and no red eyes,fuck this type of events...

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Don’t know if it helps or if it’s just me, but I usually burn off 10-20 common souls, before using rares or event souls.
It seems that the red eyes sometimes comes after 10-25 souls, so I try to maximise the chance by using as many common souls as possible without red eyes, and if 15-20 haven’t provided red eyes, chances are bigger for the next to be red eyes, so instead of burning 20 event souls in a row (or common, G/A etc) I do it with commons and then fill in with rares afterwards.
For this event it has given me the Shinobi girls, a POM-Eddie and a clansman. The Eddies where dupes..

Just got the Warrior one, forgot her name. That's the first time I got an event character out of an event soul. I got Phantom and Madam during that event, but out of Rare Souls. 7 event souls this time btw.

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Originally Posted by rags-6094

I just played a team in the arena I think the name was Akori ? Anyway this team featured every current event character.
Is that even possible that someone has already acquired every new character and assembled a team high enough in the arena for me to see them? Ok I should add this was only my second arena battle since reset hours earlier so I was levelled at 535 or something but having a Japanese Samurai style name and all?...... come on really?

This smells of Devs input to me!

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PAY to win, bud. PAY to win

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Originally Posted by rags-6094

I just played a team in the arena I think the name was Akori ? Anyway this team featured every current event character.
Is that even possible that someone has already acquired every new character and assembled a team high enough in the arena for me to see them? Ok I should add this was only my second arena battle since reset hours earlier so I was levelled at 535 or something but having a Japanese Samurai style name and all?...... come on really?

This smells of Devs input to me!

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I saw that team too. Seeing how the two 5* characters can be earned with fragments via event souls, like Yup has said a team like that can be purchased to some degree. I mean I could if I REALLY wanted to, buy enough event souls with the ironite I have and purchase some extra ironite, to guarantee both Musashi and S.E Eddie but to me that would be a waste. I already got Koku? (the assassin shinobi) through my first event soul too so getting another 4* Shinobi to assemble such a team is more than possible. Dickinsonman also had a team of the "new" Eddie, Musashi and a Shinobi so that's two players with both 5* characters and I would expect there to be more.

I'm still running a Beast Eddie with no talismans and a team of pumpkins as my defense though so that shows how much I care for my arena rank. These new characters will probably be useful for Gauntlet but thats about it...

Whoa guys! There's a lotta food for thought in the words I've read in the past 7 pages of this thread.
All of you have good points and I think some negativity is unavoidable, Its no secret the majority of us are collectors, but I just think Amarthir has a good point, whether you do what's required or buy those extra souls, at the saturating rate new characters are being added I reckon if you plan to stick around just accept you simply will not get every soul for your collection, or at least not in the timely manor you might prefer.
I finely gave up on that after the previous two events with 6 new souls. I did end up getting the latest Ed still so fresh he only has a hand full of skill shards so far (Phantom Ed that is).
As time goes on most of the originals in our collections will become useless except for the odd Eddie or character like Alchemist that gets a tweak, so the idea of placing the latest character up for grabs in the heroic souls while good is still mighty small odds as said earlier in this thread and by the time you do acquire it how valuable will it be against the latest thing?
Muzzleloader had a good idea setting your own goals with ancient characters I like that.
My goal is to get all my Eddies sharded and start on a few of my ally's that I still should really skill shard you know like ACOTD, Etc... still a possible help in Gauntlet but not this fortnight...
But I guess my main point would be set your own pace, try not to be sucked in, I've reached the point now I'm just gonna have to choose which ones I want to be a part of and it probably won't align with the latest event.
If you really like the game then there's enough content to vary it from week to week so it's not mindlessly boring.
How many of you have a crap load of awesome talisman you just don't seem to be able to power up for lack of evolve talisman or something, because the next big event prevents you?
I don't plan on going anywhere and I'm basically an original player, if I leave this what then, f***ing candy crush or something? I don't do PS4 or X-box so only other thing is house work and I don't want more house work!!
Hold is doing the smart thing walking away for a period, if he likes what he see's when he returns he might come back,
I think all of us need a break from it really, particularly if you've been around for the past 2+years but maybe small breaks a day here a day there a week off it completely, perhaps if we do that then the shock of RNG and the monoteny of it all would not be quite so bad...?
If you can survive the pay for this pay for that routine in LOTB then what an awesome thing it will be to say you are an original in a few more years!

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Whoa guys! There's a lotta food for thought in the words I've read in the past 7 pages of this thread.
All of you have good points and I think some negativity is unavoidable, Its no secret the majority of us are collectors, but I just think Amarthir has a good point, whether you do what's required or buy those extra souls, at the saturating rate new characters are being added I reckon if you plan to stick around just accept you simply will not get every soul for your collection, or at least not in the timely manor you might prefer.
I finely gave up on that after the previous two events with 6 new souls. I did end up getting the latest Ed still so fresh he only has a hand full of skill shards so far (Phantom Ed that is).
As time goes on most of the originals in our collections will become useless except for the odd Eddie or character like Alchemist that gets a tweak, so the idea of placing the latest character up for grabs in the heroic souls while good is still mighty small odds as said earlier in this thread and by the time you do acquire it how valuable will it be against the latest thing?
Muzzleloader had a good idea setting your own goals with ancient characters I like that.
My goal is to get all my Eddies sharded and start on a few of my ally's that I still should really skill shard you know like ACOTD, Etc... still a possible help in Gauntlet but not this fortnight...
But I guess my main point would be set your own pace, try not to be sucked in, I've reached the point now I'm just gonna have to choose which ones I want to be a part of and it probably won't align with the latest event.
If you really like the game then there's enough content to vary it from week to week so it's not mindlessly boring.
How many of you have a crap load of awesome talisman you just don't seem to be able to power up for lack of evolve talisman or something, because the next big event prevents you?
I don't plan on going anywhere and I'm basically an original player, if I leave this what then, f***ing candy crush or something? I don't do PS4 or X-box so only other thing is house work and I don't want more house work!!
Hold is doing the smart thing walking away for a period, if he likes what he see's when he returns he might come back,
I think all of us need a break from it really, particularly if you've been around for the past 2+years but maybe small breaks a day here a day there a week off it completely, perhaps if we do that then the shock of RNG and the monoteny of it all would not be quite so bad...?
If you can survive the pay for this pay for that routine in LOTB then what an awesome thing it will be to say you are an original in a few more years!

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I like your post and I agree with you. At the moment, I did almost all events. And I cannot follow with the shards/runes/skill shards. I obtained new characters but only use my clansman eddie in PVP as he is the only fully sharded and I get used to it. And time to time other eddies in gauntlet but it is very difficult when they are not fully sharded, same goes for other characters... this is why I try not to spend ironite especially for the current event which is doable without using ironite. If I don't get the special characters, it's fine.

I pretend this event never happend. :) Another unfinished bunch of fragments...

Another one of the events that I don't like. I have never got any featured character from an event soul ever and I'm 100% sure this will be no different. However, this time we have the option of getting the 2 characters through fragments after opening enough event souls.
Actually, I do have the required amount of ironite (over 5900) because I was mostly saving it from the start (from normal playing, never spent real money on ironite).

What do you think, is it actually worth burning almost all of the saved ironite for these 2 characters?
Or maybe better keep it?

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Originally Posted by HuckFinn150

It's no longer enjoyable enough for me to play manually.

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This is the biggest problem with the game right now. The Night City is about to be released, however, so I hope it'll be worth the wait. Apart from that, Gauntlet is cool to play manually but the my team / talisman selection screen needs to be redesigned 'cause it takes longer to set your team up than the actual battle.

I am not an original player, but have been playing since last summer. When I started VHE rules, while Pharoah and Visions were also top eddies. We didn't have auto play for easy grinding or all the crazy talisman. The newer players dont know how hard it was to clear all the worlds. With a few lucky red eyes you can almost clear the entire game except for the newer events. The game has radically changed even from when I started playing.

Until the last few months I was trying to evolve all character without much sharding, still have about 35 toons to go except the rare or new toons With all the recent events I cant even do that anymore. As it has been previously stated it is going to become a pick and choose which evenly to participate in without purchasing ironite.

The game has always been pay to be the best, such as purchasing SoW to become arena champ or top players. The arena has been said it is broke, some really enjoy the challenge others are just frustrated. The gauntlet has been a very good addition. The newer players cant compete since they dont have the deep roster that many have aquired and sharded over time. The top tiers can be frustrating with the coin toss or unpredictable talis on opponents.

I believe the overall scheme of the game has changed, I believe for the worst. It has become, acquire all new additions or feel like being left behind. The game has become one of instant gratification and less long term playing to acquire the precious resources. It's hard to evolve and fully shard the new 5oons before another round comes out.

A year ago how many players could easily auto beat NotB? When BNW came out how many could auto in less than a few minutes with multiple teams. I am losing interest in the overall game. As I was trying to evolve my toons, it's nice to see how far you can get with undead soldiiers or possessed mines with the old talisman, now that can be a real challenge.

This isn't a rant just some rambling thoughts. I still enjoy the game, it's just changed. I am no longer worried about getting the new additions, just trying to enjoy wasting some time.

It would be so cool if events actually dropped event characters... rather than this grind, grind, grind for LESS than a 1% chance of MAYBE pulling a character... or spend $200 (or more) to get a character.

It appears that devs are so damn worried that hardcore players will get everything, that they've made it impossible for casual players to get anything.

The lilith frag drops are a nice way of character addition. Even if the RNG was erratic for some, including myself. The god event was wisely done. You may earn them, but a way to acquire them if the grinding didn't work. The beast event was poorly thought out for the players.

The purchase only talisman is a nice way to go. For a while you get a definite benefit with the purchase, but will be available to all in a few weeks/months.

The last pumpkin sac event was a good event overall. The possible downside it definetly gave a huge advantage to long term players with hoards of resources and time to get carpal tunnels.

The continuous grind events are taking to much time to enjoy the game. The lowering of arena wins was a definite plus for many, which for those unable to finish the talisman can drop in the skull quests.

I know everyone cant be pleased about all events, but NF has done many positive approaches to them. We know the events are a money making scheme. How hard of a grind should an event be to reward dedicated players without giving everyone the end reward? The last dungeon event was a challenge at first, but became a grind after some time. Trying to beat the levels was a real challenge and may I say enjoyable to many.

Lilith frag drops???

I've not see a SINGLE Lilith frag this entire event. Or are you referring to previous events?

Previous events, sorry for the confusion.

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Originally Posted by Muzzleloader

The lilith frag drops are a nice way of character addition. Even if the RNG was erratic for some, including myself. The god event was wisely done. You may earn them, but a way to acquire them if the grinding didn't work. The beast event was poorly thought out for the players.

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Agreed. The Gods of Powerslave series of events was great. Samurai Emperor Eddie would be a great candidate for the Frontier Shop, IMO.