There’s another perspective regarding the shop tiers for this event that is being overlooked because of the laundry list of issues that are present.
Take a look at the distribution of the new troop in shop tiers. That distribution schedule is not accidental. If this schedule holds for future Faction Expansion events, to get the new troop to Mythic during its exclusive event requires:
- Tier 3 Purchase (210 Gems) + 2 minor blue orbs or 1 major blue orb
- Tier 7 x1 Purchase (1310 Gems) + 1 minor blue orb
- Tier 7 x11 Purchase (3310 Gems)
I’d say that there’s a fairly strong argument to be made that this troop distribution schedule was created with the expectation that players are required to consume blue orbs on event troops during their launch week or have very deep gem wallets. This may be GaP chaos orb inflation coming into play, possibly permanently for future event troops.