Talk:GAME Update V2/@comment-95.222.27.174-20190208003043/@comment-2602:30A:2EAA:9E0:840A:77B0:27F8:18F0-20190208035919

Something to keep in mind... for months, the more advanced players have been (fairly) complaining about the lack of an endgame. You can clear the map with only a fraction of the most powerful deck possible, so beyond vanity or sheer boredom, there was no reason to keep grinding to get the diminishing returns on those last few expensive levels.

These events serve a few purposes. They give the oldest players a new challenge and a reason to keep building up those powerful decks. They're a resource sink--again, for those older players sitting on piles of gold and items with no reason to spend them on regular tournaments. They might bring in some (real world) cash, which would be nice because maybe that will get them to put out regular content faster.

They're not--in my opinion--meant to be something that a comparatively new player with under 3k deck power can easily win in order to get a powerful Mythic care. However, when played right, they present new players an opportunity to get a huge head start on the game. I made a second account around Halloween. (I wanted to test whether starting the event a week late meant I got a full week to play in a more empty league.) I kept playing half-assedly, didn't win any tournaments, just cleared halfway into forest and farmed gold and components. Playing my second account, I took advantage of the event bonus, seduced a few of the trash event Stage 1 cards to help me clear more of the stages, won enough to get the Mythic, then started leveling/seducing the Xmas set cards to clear the quest ladder. Using those cards, cleared Sands, won a couple normal tournaments, got LIII in duels. Predictably, when the event ended I couldn't beat Sands stuff anymore or Duels, but I had 2 five-star Mythics, a couple of Xmas cards that--even without the 200% bonus--were still in my top 7 strongest cards, and a shit load of duplicate Epic and Legendary cards that would have taken me months to accumulate in Duels. I went froma bit over 1000 power before the event to over 3000, all without being strong enough to clear all of the Xmas village.