Q: What’s the second most difficult troop to get in the game?
A: Zuul’Goth.
Let’s face it, the current way of looting gnome troops from the vault is severely disappointing. They can only drop from Cedric, and you only get a chance or two each week. Usually one of these three things happens:
1.) You didn’t get a gnome. Yay, you got some good loot instead. Win.
2.) You got a gnome you already own. Ouch, you pulled a dud, and you need 190 more to mythic.
3.) You got a gnome you didn’t own yet. Ouch, you pulled a dud, but at least you are one step closer to satisfying your complete collection OCD.
Gnome troops (with the exception of Cedric) don’t really provide any gameplay value, except for setting up a defense guaranteed to lose. There’s really no need to make them next to impossible to obtain. I’d like to propose the following:
Remove gnomes from the Cedric drop pool, Cedric should always drop something worthwhile considering how rare vault keys are. Instead, add a gnome on top of the vault reward, so you get one each time. It will still take years to collect gnomes to mythic, which feels slightly more reasonable than centuries. Balance out the rarity curve a bit to fit in with the rest of the game, getting a common gnome should be more likely than getting Cedric, not the other way around.