After doing 77 PvP battles, my results look like this:
51 Common Ingots
24 Rare Ingots
2 Ultra-Rare Ingots
Unless I’ve been very unlucky those three rarities are the only Ingots that drop from PvP. Even if there is a tiny chance to get higher rarities, those will be too scarce compared to upgrade costs to have any noticable impact. Technically, 1k Common Ingots + 10k Souls can be transformed into an Epic Ingot, which would make fully upgrading an Epic weapon cost 35k Common Ingots + 350k Souls. That seems to be pretty much the limit, higher rarities will have to obtained from other sources.
So after 77 battles you say that’s the only ones you can get? Did you not see my above post where I got a mythic? You have to do many more battles. I’ve found 1 mythic, 1 legendary and 7 epic so far. (900 battles)
Good info to have, be interesting to see if luck holds to 1000 battles. Lol, I just added your good luck to Awryan’s bad luck and it’s pretty close to my approx. avg.
but I’ve converted some commons into rare and upgraded 1 rare weapon to +6 already. So, I don’t know what my full total is at the moment. Have not done PvP Tier 1 for the week (thankfully)
No, I’m saying that after having seen the results of 77 battles the higher rarities are scarce enough to safely be ignored in the big picture. It takes a while to appreciate the whole impact, the patch has essentially removed kingdoms higher than 7 stars for everybody who wasn’t grandfathered into them.
You need to fully upgrade two kingdom weapons for 8 stars.
All except the oldest kingdoms only have weapons of legendary rarity and higher.
You need 45 Legendary Ingots to fully upgrade such a weapon, more than 2000 to meet all current 8 star requirements.
You received 1 (!) Legendary Ingot from roughly 1000 (!) PvP fights, doing that many fights in a month (!) is considered highly active enough to get you into almost any Top 10 guild.
Gem chests seem to have an Ingot rate of 1:10, weighted heavily towards Ultra-Rare. No numbers yet, I’d except Legendary Ingots from 1000 gem chests to be less than 5, after having converted lower rarities in the Soul Forge.
Unless there is a realistic way for average players to earn 50 Legendary Ingots each week (which would still take a year to completely catch up on those 8 star blockers), I’d except torches and pitchforks to come into high demand.
I think there is epic and UR weapons in every kingdom? Much easier to upgrade than legendary. If you don’t have them yet devs promised more ways of getting older weapons in future.
Edit: Just checked and there are some kingdoms that would currently require a legendary. Hopefully more weapons will be released in future events.