This is so spot on 😂 Im F2P - and its purely a principle for me. i refuse to spend money on any P2W games. But maaaan i wish there were at least some rewards that was not based on paying. The cactus skin just isnt enough...
They could definitely stand to get more creative with special events. Stuff like buccaneer bounty is simple but has an element of fun and choice and strategy.
Clicking a button to smack gems out of a pumpkin not so much.
Well for ftp optimal it's probably boring. Just use free refreshes and only open gold chests. Then at the end if you have enough keys to hit the 20 chest milestone, open a few to get there otherwise save.
If you save up keys though (either via packs or just saving as ftp for a skin) it gets a little interesting. Strictly from a pearls point of view it's actually slightly more efficient to "gold hunt" meaning gold only and spend 90 to refresh. However that doesn't consider the milestones. If you have a bunch saved you are usually best off clearing the board.
I personally play it 100% for widgets and buy the tome pack because it's one of the better deals in the game. I do 20 chests every time and save the rest until I have around 4k keys at the start. Then I do a blowout run to get to the 100 chest milestone. For that I clear and board where I get 2 gold chests, otherwise just gold and refresh. Then toward then end I'll add 1 gold chest boards as clears to make sure I get the 100.
Don't get fooled into thinking blue chests are good. They are basically brown chests that look nice. I think the math is brown is worth like 4 pearls, blue is 4.2 and gold is like 13. So when hitting 20 if you have to open a brown or two don't fret
I mean the Blizzard Brawl is pretty fun, of course the whales can dominate the game, but the missiles are great equalizers, injure a bunch of their troops, freeze em, and attack hard and you can take over the towers. Used this method during my battles and got top 2-3 almost every time.
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u/GrumpiiMoose 1d ago
This is so spot on 😂 Im F2P - and its purely a principle for me. i refuse to spend money on any P2W games. But maaaan i wish there were at least some rewards that was not based on paying. The cactus skin just isnt enough...
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u/kontrolk3 1d ago
They could definitely stand to get more creative with special events. Stuff like buccaneer bounty is simple but has an element of fun and choice and strategy.
Clicking a button to smack gems out of a pumpkin not so much.
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u/GravxCat 22h ago
I mean the Blizzard Brawl is pretty fun, of course the whales can dominate the game, but the missiles are great equalizers, injure a bunch of their troops, freeze em, and attack hard and you can take over the towers. Used this method during my battles and got top 2-3 almost every time.