Talk:Pundemic Strike/@comment-162.234.160.158-20200429210415

Gave it some thought, and I'm probably not going to push hard on this. Figure one of three things will happen.

1) This event is one-off, virus never happens again. Other than using vaccines as a stat boost (even at 5 star, not sure if it's better than an existing artifact ability) and a potentially useful mythic (but again, even the best non-set mythic seems dubious these days) there's not much to get.

2) The virus thing comes back, but only for it's own group of 7-day, virus centered events. So you can skip/half-ass those and just focus on your main set/important events.

3) The virus mechanic becomes a key part of the important 21 day events. If you skip these virus events and forego the vaccine rewards, then you really have no chance to win, or even get much fun out of the game as a whole. If that happens, then skipping this event would really screw up the game for me in the future. BUT, as everyone else has been pointing out, if the virus mechanic becomes a big part of future events, then the game gets pretty intense: You basically need two seperate sets to work. Maybe you can make do for a while with an event set. On top of my main set, I have two event sets that are 5 star and leveled to 15+, so that could be my virus set for a while.

Thing is, we all KNOW the devs. If they go this route, they're just going to keep pushing things to be harder, to the point where a set that can't Soulbind won't be viable, so eventually we'll all be cramming cash and stones into TWO sets for diminishing returns, struggling to keep up. Frankly, I don't have the energy to play THAT game if it happens, and it doesn't sound remotely fun at that point anyway.

So as far as I'm concerned, it's win-win-win. If the prizes don't turn out to be important, then I can use the resources I don't waste on this event to keep grinding up my important deck. If the prizes DO turn out to be important, then I'm probably going to stick around for one more important event, burning all of resources in a blaze of glory, and quitting this game for good.