There is only one viable strategy in colisseum - whale early, whale hard. That is the only way to get reasonable amounts of r10 mats, anything else is fighting for scraps. I was expecting this update to benefit the whales, but not to the point where everyone else is pretty much locked out of r10 (besides the one we get from the calendar). And combined with the relic delta system...
I'm FtP. I spent 6k crystals on a 5-pack of shard cards and 1k worth of currency and mats. 7k total. That's about all I can afford sustainably for an every-2-week thing, but I can afford it.
I'm going to end up with a coliseum rank in the 40s, 50s, or 60s, probably (I was 38th last I looked, but I expect some ppl to pass me up between now and end of the payout period.) Best case is 300 r10 currency.
But the thing is that even though I'm trying this out to see where it goes, I'm not having fun in the coliseum, and I don't see where the mats or currency to level up is going to come from. That's... very opaque.
So while it's possible I might settle in to this pattern for future releases, I certainly can't do anything MORE than I'm doing right now, and if they don't find a way to make this fun, then I don't know why I would. I wasn't a day 1 player, but I have been playing for over 9years and 10months at this point. I have a huge stock of gear. I don't need to level these toons in order to be able to have them at relic at the end of the era.
So why am I doing this?
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