I'll be probably in the minority, but I'm not a fan of the raid stuff

[turintuor]

@HootyMcOwlFace

it’s the idea that choosing not to buy these extra tiers now sets you behind.

Let’s see a whole week how many sigils/member are required to close the last portal (yeah leaderboard is out of discussion as Sirrian said that it’s a P2W feature).

@HootyMcOwlFace

It doesn’t feel as fair or as balanced as GW in terms of investing resources based on your level and amount of disposable income as a guild/player.

It depends of your guild rank in GW leaderboard. Most guilds didn’t get any gems. And stat bonus for 340 gems have always been a “maybe these bonus make you win”. But only a maybe. For 250 gems, you get a new troop and a new weapon (both meh) and other stuffs.

@HootyMcOwlFace

if the spawn rate of the raven is truely random

The deviation is apparently super low (if there is no bug ).

Placement in leaderboards now entirely luck based?

While the Valraven is part of the Gnome kingdom and family, it works a little differently. The Valraven has a form of counter on it (which Treasure Gnomes do not). It caps the minimum & maximum valravens each player will see at any point in the game. The most anyone will get ahead or behind is by a single valraven encounter. This means all players should encounter the Valraven within plus/minus one of everyone else.