Supersize Me

[Jeto]

SUPERSIZE ME

New Epic Troop: Baldr

Baldr will be available this week for 400 Glory in the shop as well as in Event Chests, and will appear in Glory, Gem, and Guild chests in 3-4 weeks’ time.

New Legendary Troop: Vidarr the Vast

Vidarr the Vast will be available exclusively in Event Chests this week, and will make his way to Glory, Gem, Guild, and VIP chests in the usual 3-4 weeks.

New Doomed Weapon: Doomed Wand

This week it will be available in both the Tower of Doom shop, and in the Soulforge.

[Snooj]

Everyone who spent resources and money rolling for AW last week will be compensated right? I couldn’t find it mentioned in this week’s news post.

[awryan]

@Jeto

Vidarr the Vast will be available exclusively in Event Chests this week, and will make his way to Glory, Gem, Guild, and VIP chests in the usual 3-4 weeks

@Jeto Safe to assume now it’ll be the only Legendary rarity troop found in event chests this week?
I mean that’s how Mythic Rarity troops work right upon release?

Strange that legendary troops haven’t the past 3 years.

[Kafka]

I’ve moved all the discussion about the Arachnaean Weaver in Event Chests to the forum topic related to that issue:

Spin Me Right ‘Round

New Epic Troop: Aransi the Guardian [image] Aransi the Guardian will be available this week for 400 Glory in the shop as well as in Event Chests, and will appear in Glory, Gem, and Guild chests in 3-4 weeks’ time. [image] World Event: The Emerald Light There are 6 battles that players can encounter during the event: Aransi the Guardian, Spinnerette, Tomb Spider, Webspinner, Matron Velenne, and the Arachnaean Weaver. This event has 3 Phases: Phase 1 – The first 2 battles are the only ava…

[Snooj]

@Kafka

I’ve moved all the discussion about the Arachnaean Weaver in Event Chests to the forum topic related to that issue:

Although I understand wanting to be tidy, the Arachnean Weaver topic is a serious issue so it will pop up in other threads until it is resolved. It ensures

1. this topic isnt forgotten about, and

2. for others to learn about if they ignore a now old thread but see these new ones. Not everyone knows that when they rolled for Arachnean Weaver, he wasnt available.

[AMT]

@Snooj

wanting to be tidy

Is that what it was? It seemed like the issue got buried into some event thread, instead something adequately titled after the actual issue… not to mention the lovely edit:

@Jeto

Archproxy Yvendra Event Chest Exclusive:

Archproxy Yvendra will be exclusive Mythic in event chests during her exclusive period this week. When it ends, players will be able to earn the Arachnaean Weaver from Events chests as normal.

#GoWstyle

[yuru]

I’m going to assume that every statement in the opening post is a lie, that seems safer than assuming that any of them are true.

[Fourdottwoone]

@Maxx

There isn’t a proper topic for this issue.

There sort of is, feel free to contribute here and forward the link to interested parties.

Arachnean Weaver compensation

Previously on Gems of War: IP2 releases a faulty event gasha that doesn’t contain the grand jackpot, Arachnean Weaver, contrary to published odds and official documentation. Players gambling on Arachnean Weaver all come up empty-handed, after spending significant amounts of money and resources. After many complaints, IP2 eventually admits that Arachnean Weaver is missing. IP2 claims this was done intentionally based on some four year old community feedback. IP2 also confirms there is no way pl…

I’ll keep updating the summary.

[igniteice]

Okay, once again… I just spent some 6000 glory to get the new epic troop to mythic, only to find out there is a new legendary troop from event chests. Well, wait, how do I know that? Because this is what it looks like in game:

I only know about the new troop in game because…

and when I click on the top one and show Unowned, I see Vidarr the Vast. So then I go to the News section in game and I see:

and yet, go back to the first image…

“A chance to win the latest releases: Baldr or Stormheim Troops”

• Baldr is a Stormheim troop, so the reasoning for showing him means nothing. You can buy him with glory, he’s not exclusive to the chests.
• It would make more sense to show the Legendary troop, Vidarr the Vast, because you can’t buy him with glory, he’s exclusive to the event chests
• Alternatively you could easily show both Baldr and Vidarr – you’ve done it before where you have one behind the other.

It’s confusing because when you say “Baldr or Stormheim Troops,” it ignores the fact that Baldr IS a Stormheim troop, so he’s already part of that other set. Is there a higher drop rate for Baldr or something? Like, it doesn’t make any sense to say “Baldr OR Stormheim troops.” And the people who already spent glory on Baldr who now want the new legendary are forced to double dip. I didn’t need to buy enough copies to get him to mythic, because now I’ll have all these extra copies of Baldr from trying to get the new legendary.

Just annoyed. Sloppy implementation. Oh, let’s see how long it takes for me to get these new troops…

okay, 50 event keys, here are the legendary and epic troops I got:

Another 50:

Another 50:

So after 150 event keys, I’ve gotten 1 copy of Vidarr the Vast, the new troop, 4 copies of Hyndla Frostcrown, another legendary, and 5 copies of the new Epic Baldr – that’s 2000 glory FYI, @ 400 glory per copy, that I didn’t need to spend.

[Cairnso]

I like the all caps on event keys

And then the ‘To battle!’ and it sends you to event chests, as if its a warzone now. But the Baldr one is ‘Get rewards’

[Fourdottwoone]

@Maxx

Love the all caps telling me I can only get this new troop only with event keys

It’s probably not intended, they also always forget to exclude new craft-only mythics from the legendary task pool. They fix it whenever a guild reports it, and replace the troop in question with a different random one.

[Maxx]

@Fourdottwoone

There sort of is, feel free to contribute here and forward the link to interested parties.

The devs seem to be ignoring that thread though.

[Maxx]

@Fourdottwoone

It’s probably not intended

Hasn’t a few guilds gotten new legendary and mythic from LT for years now?

[Fourdottwoone]

@Maxx

The devs seem to be ignoring that thread though.

It’s not like they’ve answered, or even acknowledged, any of the open questions in the other threads.

[Fourdottwoone]

@Maxx

Hasn’t a few guilds gotten new legendary and mythic from LT for years now?

Yes, it’s actually somwhat common. There was some fiasco last year where they tried to take away the mythic troop received and replace it with 2 VIP keys, even when you had happened to pull that mythic as guaranteed one from your Path of Growth. It wasn’t exactly received well. While there still isn’t any proper QA for it, the replacement approach sort of works out for all parties involved, so I guess that’s a fine compromise.

[Maxx]

@Fourdottwoone

It’s not like they’ve answered, or even acknowledged, any of the open questions in the other threads.

Probably the only reason they are even responding in the other thread is because it’s pretty hidden away.

@Fourdottwoone

Yes, it’s actually somwhat common. There was some fiasco last year where they tried to take away the mythic troop received and replace it with 2 VIP keys, even when you had happened to pull that mythic as guaranteed one from your Path of Growth. It wasn’t exactly received well. While there still isn’t any proper QA for it, the replacement approach sort of works out for all parties involved, so I guess that’s a fine compromise.

Are they still taking them away and replacing them with older legendaries and mythics?

[Fourdottwoone]

@Maxx

Are they still taking them away and replacing them with older legendaries and mythics?

Not sure about legendaries, there haven’t been any reports about those recently. For non-craftable mythics, once a guild reports it they roll up a valid random mythic, replace the received one and correct the loot pool. It’s fair, you get the random mythic you were initially supposed to get, just with a bit of delay.

[ats1080]

Maybe the devs thought process here was if we make them mad enough about something else maybe they will forget about wanting compensation for 8 weeks of a broken heroic gem no one wanted in the first place?

Edit:
I guess technically 10 and counting, since they only fixed the AI getting first turn part of the bug