As most people know, I hate PVP. But I love pets. But I also check the game only once or twice a day, so… no pets for me unless I trigger the event myself, I guess.
So I went into the PVP section when I wanted to never go there again. Battled myself to Tier 1. No Pet Gnome. Total bummer. Thought. Reconsidered. Figured: “I’ll go into casual PVP, load a battle, if there’s no gnome, I will simply retreat.”
Two hours with that strategy and surely 200+ battles later: No gnome. I haven’t even seen these guys once!
So, question: Is this RNG or do I actually have to win battles in Casual to get a chance to have one of the gnomes spawn, as a measure to prevent guilds from just doing this to get pet gnomes to appear more quickly?
If it makes you feel any better: Since the update, I’ve encountered a whopping 2 pet gnomes. Both times in Arena. Both times I defeated the pet gnome. Both times I lost the Arena battle. Still stuck on the minimum amount of pets (bunny+Lucky).
I have tried this as well, but without any luck. I think that it is simply coded in a way that a Gnome can only spawn in the upcoming match if you did not retreat the match before it.
Losses/Retreats in Casual PvP does not count towards your win streak, only ranked PvP does.
I get that impression by now as well. I just found my first “normal” gnome (treasure gnome) and that was after I actually finished a battle since I found a 4x Fire Bomb one.
Yes and no. I have found a total of 3 so far and I have done 516 pvp battles, around 8 arena runs and retreated from close to 100 casual pvp battles but someone in Hoguns today found 7 and the last one he found was before the previous event even ended.
I’ve been lucky that other people have been finding them and posting on discord about them otherwise I would probably only have 6 or 7.
Another dumb question: may this chance of meeting a pet gnome depend on amount of guild members playing ATM? The more members play - the higher this chance.