It would be really good if we had one of these:
Are you buying HERO crates only? They're the cheapest.
They give 35-50 crafting parts consistently and you get trooper/vehicle cards in them anyways.
Since I went to buying hero crates ONLY my crafting has gone way up.
JackFrags or one of those youtube guys said they nerfed HERO crate crafting parts , but last night I purchased 3 hero crates and all 3 had 50 crafting parts each. The max is 50 each crate so I got max 3 out of 3.
Nerf is definitely right that hero crates are the best way to go, but the return on duplicates is lackluster compared to most games on the higher tier item duplicates.
In most games, you get about 25% of the items value returned to you on duplicates.
Edit: I'm going to look at this a little differently to be more fair to value of a credit.
A hero crate has 35 crafting parts and 4 items. One of those items can be 15 crafting parts. For the sake of simplicity let's set the "value" of each of the 4 items to 15 crafting parts. This is an imperfect estimate because if you get a card you'll straight use that card is worth more than 15 crafting parts to you while if you get an emote you'll never use it is worth zero crafting parts to you, but let's just go with it.
So a hero crate costs 2200 credits and has 5 items that we'll value at 95 crafting parts. This just gives us a standard exchange rate between credits and crafting parts that is conservative in that it is generous in how much we value credits.
Using this formula we can say 1 crafting part is worth 23.16 credits and vice versa a credit is worth .043 crafting parts.
A duplicate white gives you 200 credits. A white costs 40 crafting parts to craft. .043*200= 8.6 crafting parts. 8.6/40= .215 or 21.5% of the card's value is returned to us. So that's not too bad. A little stingy but not off by a lot.
A duplicate green gives you 400 credits. A green costs 40+80=120 crafting parts to craft. .043*400= 17.2 crafting parts. 17.2/120= .143 or 14.3% of the card's value is returned to us. That needs a buff in my opinion. (A green's value in crafting points is 3 times higher than a white, but only twice the value is returned in credits, this is where the mistake is made in my opinion, a green should pay back three times as much credits as a white which would be 600 credits,. A blue should pay back twice as much as a green at 1200 credits, making all three items pay back about 21.5% of their value. Better yet, pay back at 25% of the value or even better still pay back in 25% of the crafting point value).
A duplicate blue gives you 800 credits. A blue costs 40+80+120 crafting parts to craft. .043*800= 34.4 crafting parts. 34.4/240= .143 or 14.3% of the card's value is returned to us. Again, this could use a buff.
So basically, we are getting paid back decently for duplicate whites, but we are being ripped off pretty significantly for duplicate greens and blues right now. IMO they should address this.
@stahn456 wrote:
I'd just like to get something not gray from a crate. Besides a blue I got from a class crate, I've gotten nothing but level 1 * from them. Every piece of gear I have over level 1 I had to craft myself. The crates are worthless unless they give you crafting parts bc they drop worthless items and cost over 10 times as much as they actually contain in value.
Ouch, that's bad luck. Green drops from crates are pretty common and blue drops from crates aren't too uncommon either.
I'd say I get at least one green about 40% of the time and at least one blue between 5%-10% of the time. I've had a couple crates with multiple blues in them. I'm not sure how many crates you've opened or what kind of crates you've opened. I only purchase hero crates and that's the only kind of crate I've ever opened.
I think the frequency of higher tier items is pretty fair to be honest. Personally I look at crates as the way to get crafting points and if I get a couple new items on top of that it's just frosting on the cake.
