The April event calendar identifies the next Guild Wars starts in May with the attack team restriction being Divinion Fields, however, the Cattauri King is not guaranteed to be available for anyone that didn’t purchase the pass in February. This announcement states that he will be available 2-3 months after the Kingdom Pass ends.
This troop will be key to many attack teams and could be considered a paywall for Guild Wars. Hopefully, we can ensure the troop is available before the next Guild Wars starts.
I’m having some doubts they can easily modify the date at which Cattauri King becomes available, it’s likely fully automated. It wouldn’t even help, because fishing for one specific legendary in a huge pool of several hundred would cost more keys than 99.9% of players have available.
Possible solutions:
Pick a different restriction. There doesn’t seem to be any theme involved, like a tie-in with kingdom event week, so any kingdom would do.
Put Cattauri King into the forge for the whole duration of Guild Wars, including the preparation phase.
Well said, Raistlin. It was also a pretty shady business practice to have a kingdom pass for a kingdom that would have guild wars coming up, making players who didn’t give them money feel left out. It’s inconsiderate. Plain and simple.
It’s hard not to think that all they care about is profits with decisions like that being made…
they can not automate most things: neither soulforge mythics, last bounty captain (first time happened though), campaign tarots, holiday event legendarys…community always has to call out
1.) Cattauri King lets all Centaur troops start out with half mana. That’s a huge advantage, because all the heavy hitters with high mana cost are ready several turns earlier. Those who have access to this troop (currently paying players only) will be able to take out most defense teams before they pose a threat, winning faster and much more reliably, both affecting scores. There is no other troop Cattauri King could be replaced with, the effect is unique.
2.) Just making the troop available in chests won’t help. The regular loot table is huge, Cattauri King would be sharing the legendary slot (which already has a very slim chance to get rolled) with several hundred other legendary troops. To somewhat reliably obtain Cattauri King this way needs an amount of resources that takes end-gamers several years to collect. The only remotely reasonable way to fish for legendary troops is event chests, which would require a Divinion Fields kingdom event week (and several hundred event keys on average).