Since this keeps getting brought up:
- This is the first time to my knowledge that an event key has removed a mythic from the pool as a result of this. There were no overlaps of mythics and events such that a mythic would have to be removed from the chests to make the new one exclusive. Without said overlap, where the are at least two mythics in the event key pool during the period of overlap this code would have done nothing, with no way for the players to know it was there.
- I could find no evidence of anything being said about when the change did allegedly take place, and I was around during this period and don’t recall anything being stated. It is possible I just forgot, but I also haven’t seen any links supplied showing when this change was communicated. Since the game is a lot older than 2018, a fundamental change in the way event chests are rolled is something that is expected to be announced, right?
- As has been pointed out probably over a hundred times by now, all of the material available from official sources as of the start of the week heavily implied that Weaver would still be in event chests (some of it, like the in game event text, even implied Archproxy wouldn’t be in event chests)
- The only indication I can find that this was a “requested” change is the oft brought up posts of newbies sometimes incorrectly digging event chests for the “exclusive” mythic when it is not in the kingdom, usually being quickly corrected by more knowledgeable players and thats the end of it. If this is the case, it would be really disingenuous, as this isn’t even the change that happened.
I’m still struggling to believe that someone in 2018, the start of which we were still getting new kingdoms and there wasn’t more than one mythic available in any event key pool, was concerned about pulling the non-exclusive mythic from event keys, outside of maybe a passing or academic discussion about the future of mythics (because, again, there wouldn’t have even been two kingdom mythics for one to be pulled EVEN IF there was an overlap between kingdom event and exclusive period) and for the devs to immediately action said feedback based on the length of time other stuff stays broken.
Of the event key changes that I know about in 2018, I still cant even find where this was announced in official news after doing a bit of targeted searching in patch notes and weekly events around the time, but do know this is about when it happened because other communication took place because I happened to be monitoring it - starting Feb 2018 is when event key pools stopped getting random other kingdom troops injected in them for lower rarities and switched to fully kingdom only troops. It wasn’t long after, by the way, that there was the major snafu about other mythics (most notably Pharos Ra not appearing in the April 9, 2018 weekly event chest rotation, or rather, his chance being set to ZERO) even when there wasn’t a different exclusive. Now I’m thinking this was probably related. And again, at the time, no kingdom had two key-available mythics period.
There was also at least one change after this where common and rare troops were added to the event key pool. I’m still looking for the official news on that one, because I’m sure that was announced.
Anyways, thank you for the clarification on the upcoming kingdom mythic. Please stop pretending players were supposed to know AW wasn’t in chests at the start of the event week. because it was an “old change”.
Edit: found the last announced event key change:
Announced on April 2, 2019, with patch 4.3.
Broken on at least one instance a month later:
And of course, the same type of stonewalling and denial in that thread trying to get it addressed also.