I think it’s fair to say that getting full completion for a brand new player is pretty tough at this point. But I’m still not at full completion after being two years in and given how the campaign mythics are releasing and how I only spend keys for new mythic weeks, I can’t see myself maxing my account for at least another year. I do have all craftable weapons and both boss troops with power orbs to spare though. I also had all top craftable mythics (from my personal top list of mythics) within a year. Zuul was achieved in less than a year and enraged was also in less than a year.
Full Maxing of an account as F2P is probably not possible and I would go as far as to say my current account will never have all troops at once. Does this affect progression in anyway? No, it doesn’t. I have all the best troops and can get every new mythic. Even the campaign mythics I can save the diamonds for specifically for those if need be. Sure some super maxed accounts will get a few more skill points than myself, but let’s be honest, skill points are pretty trivial once you reach a certain point. If you are a P2W this is possible but would require more money and time than it’s worth.
Being a productive member of a high end guild with high reqs as a F2P is very achievable with proper guidance and optimization. Conserve gem spending, and target specific mythics/weapons from the soulforge in your first few months/year. After crating or pulling the top mythics you want, along with key weapons, you can focus on crafting either mythics or old weapons for collection purposes. i’ve helped many new players reach a point where they are productive in a high end guild in just a few months time, even without most of the resources an extreme endgamer has. A P2W player can get there even faster by buying the right things. It doesn’t require years to be competitive, it just requires knowing how to build your account to complete events/delves at the highest levels as quickly as possible. The rest comes with time.
I’m aware not all kingdoms are on a perfect 34 week cycle(see pridelands or Drak-Zum before that) but it’s in that range. So usually you’ll be able to get most weapons in that next year, this is exactly what I did and crafted all weapons. If I hadn’t done that I probably could have gotten all mythics to round out my collection instead.
For the sake of this argument let’s take a hypothetical look at the time to complete all categories vs. time to complete the meaningful things in those categories.
All Mythics or essentially all troops in the game: Probably never if we are being honest lol. Forge cycle is too long, and drop rate isn’t high enough for keys. Once you hit around 50% or so, pulling a random mythic you don’t have just gets harder and harder and it’s better to save keys for a new mythic. Time: Never, lol
Quality Mythics: There are less than 10 top mythics in my opinion. In fact I could narrow that list down to less if we are really optimizing things. Assuming the meta doesn’t shift a whole lot in a year, getting those 10 or so specific mythics shouldn’t take years. I know a few 2020 starters who have a good portion of the quality mythics(including zuul already). Time: 12-18 months
Boss Troops: One player in our network got their zuul in less than 8 months from starting. That is super fast and I wouldn’t consider this reasonable for most. But it is very reasonable in a year of active playing. My proof is my brother and I got both boss troops in about a years time for each. The only luck part was pulling heart of rage, something a new player with have two years to get. Now with power orbs being in the drop table for major orbs, this time will be cut even more. Time: 8-12 months
All Weapons: Unless you plan on paying for weapons, you’ll probably never get them all in a reasonable timeframe, and almost certainly won’t get them all maxed cause of the doom scroll issue. Time: 3-5 years
Quality Weapons: This one, much like the quality mythics can be targeted ahead of time using taransworld to see what kingdoms are coming up and saving for the viable weapons. The factions on a less than 34 week cycle so you will see the same faction come up at least twice if not 3 times in a single year so you shouldn’t miss out on faction weapons. Doom converters and Tomes will be hard your main targets along with big hitters like earth’s fury, yasmine’s pride and rope dart. This took me less than a year back in 2019, but I suspect to get all the quality weapons it’s gonna take just a little over that amount now. But reasonable. Time: 12-18 months
Completing all delves 500(non pure): This one is a tough one cause you are limited by daily sigils. If you utilize the tuesday faction event this will knock down the time to all factions to 500 but will still require a solid year plus. I’m not even considering pure faction…yet. Time: 12-18 months
Pure Faction 500: A year ago I would have said the average player would take 5 years to complete them all to 500 pure. After seeing players optimize their runs, gem sink events, and create very useful guides and teams, I would say this is doable for those highly focused on it. If this is an actual player goal, than less than 3 years is likely. I’m 2 years in, and still have about half of the delves left to finish for 500, but if i spent my gems on tuesday events i would have completed it months ago. I also know players who played less than a year finish this task. Time: 18-36 months
Non Cosmetic pets: This is def one that will be tough to obtain unless you are in a highly active guild that does pvp or arena a lot. It requires tons of luck and tons of time to play at all hours when a pet pops up. I caught up on pets pretty quickly in my first year, but now it’s been a grind to find a pet I haven’t maxed. I choose not to take the daily pet offers but that is one way to reduce the time for this one. Time: Never, unless you mythic all new pets instantly.
Cosmetic pets: This one will take years to never lol. I have been maxing all new and old cosmetic pets since they started doing sat. pet rescues and my gem hoard allowed for it. I sacrificed a few new faction weekend 500 runs to do it but for me it was worth it. I’ll eventually get around to pure 500 on those delves, but an old cosmetic pet may take literal years to come back, if they ever do. Time: 5 years to never.
Power Level/Kingdom Level: I’m bundling these two together since they are the same type of progression system in my mind. Power level 30 and Kingdom level 20 may actually be listed in the game, but they are FAR from possible. By the time a player does catch up, I’m sure the bar will have been moved again. But on the flipside, things will start to become more available such as book of deeds. This was never meant to truly be maxed but hitting the current caps probably requires more time than a new player would want to invest for this specific goal considering the things needed for it. Time: 3-5 years
Recap: Some things will take years, but those things are already taking years or may never be fully completed. Getting most of the quality mythics/weapons/boss troops/factions done will require less than 2 years. It takes time and effort don’t get me wrong, but if you wanted a game you could complete in a few weeks or a month go play a Triple AAA game instead (I still do). I will admit some things are def harder now for a newer player to get maxed, but getting the things you need to succeed across the board really hasn’t.
TL:DR: New player can catch up in about 2 years with high activity for most collections. Some things will never be maxed, even for current accounts.
