Instead of limiting the selection of shiny troops to useless Raid/Invasion/Journey troops per week, why not let us select from all the available shiny troops for that kingdom? It would make shiny keys more valuable and make the whole process easier.
Oh wait. They will get back to us in a year. Maybe. Probably not.
Prior to the 9.2 update, I only spent my Shiny Keys every five weeks. My rationale being that the only troop really worth upgrading to higher Shiny levels were the Pathfinders, and also because I vaguely recall once seeing somewhere that there was a bias towards receiving shiny tokens of the weekly troop when you pulled.
Even considering that I’m part of a guild that fully completes the weekly event, even adding in the small amounts of Shiny Dust that I’d get from the Underspire or whatever? I was still only opening about 35-40 shiny chests every five weeks. Mind you, that number could go up if I start spending my Gold Marks on Shiny Keys now that Books of Deeds are extinct, but it’s still not that much.
I could see a more legit argument for 50 shiny chests at once. 200 is just too many.
And better that the developers give us some sort of reasonable way to target our shiny token pulls. Preferably not a way that’s “spend 3 shiny keys at once and be guaranteed a token from this handful of selected/curated troops”.
Like maybe there could be a bias in which there’s a much greater percentage chance to pull shiny tokens for troops of the current week’s kingdom. Which would permit us to wait for that kingdom to roll around and spend heavily in that week if we’re trying for a particular token.
I am so tired of PvP too.. gridning the same continents over and over again for barely getting 100 gold marks which is enough for 5 shiny keys. It feels torturous even if I do it to myself, or maybe I should just skip it.
Shiny keys need to act like Event keys. For example, if there are 6 shiny troops in a kingdom, the 20% chance of getting shiny tokens for the weekly featured troop should not be limited to just that one troop. We should be able to get any shiny troop token for that kingdom. I know some people like upgrading Pathfinders, and this would make it more difficult, but I cannot see a better way to upgrade shiny troops. It is a simple concept, but something like this will probably never get implemented.
i’m in the some boat with around 700 keys, but you would waste keys opening up so much at the same time, because of the weekly supported troop with a higher drop chance. The best thing you can currently do is to hit shiny level 2 of that chosen troop for the kingdom task, so 10 pulls from keys + the 5 token from guild events, afterwards wait another week and continue.