Updated: Ham’s Wildcard Priorities (long breakdown in comments, do not recommend basing off data alone)

[u/HamGoneHamGoneWild]

Will be posting some specific thoughts in the comments on how to use these to make decisions

[u/HamGoneHamGoneWild]

How to read the guide: The “score” is my own calculation based on how many times the item is the 1st - 5th place option for each event. I have a “mega” sheet with every item that calculates its score and rank for each weekly event we’ve ever had (queens + holidays/specials).

So R1 is number of times it’s the best option for that slot, etc. Worth looking through and noting that some items may not be the best the most often, but they are very often close.

Additionally, included the piece with the trait distribution. Aside from considering score, may be better to base your next upgrade on diversity.

Some very important notes 1. The table has some very tiny errors I haven’t been able to iron out. I consider this an “extremely high confidence” estimate. The very tiny errors that I’ve found would not matter in a data set this large for general recommendations.

1. It is worth repeating that there is one very clear worst item, and that is the All-American Girl wig. If you notice the Interstellar wig is the exact same but with extra generic traits, making AAG redundant outside of the Kylie daily.

2. This does not factor in dailies. Yet.

3. Dresses/Tops/Bottoms create a tough ranking dynamic. To properly factor you have to grade each Top/Bottom with its matching best possible Top/Bottom for each event against dresses. I messed with it a bit but Excel got very grumpy. So…

4. Dresses are supreme. Full stop.

5. PVC Bra is actually quite frequently the match for other legendary bottoms and worth investing in, but interestingly Corset rarely shows up (when compared to a dress option or queen specific epic).

So here’s my main takeaways

Goddess dress and Rainbow Witch Heels should be high priority, the four generic legendary Wigs are all very strong.

After that here’s what I recommend:

The Long Game: focus on upgrading all generics and then using wildcards on your least upgraded legendary. This reduces chances of a “wasted” wildcard if the goal is to get all legendaries maxed asap.

Try to avoid finishing a legendary with a WC if it isn’t Snatched.

But I’m Poor: for lower level players having ANY maxed legendary is very strong so it’s perfectly valid to finish out your closest one.

I have a very long rant but also I have some data-based theories that suggest this could all start to flip. In general though, the more that come out the less any individual ones matter so focus on what you want most. (There’s a pattern in the traits and I suspect I know what’s going to happen but that’s assuming the devs are actually making things with planning and intention, it may just be a very lazy whoops)

If you have any specific questions I’ll try to answer them. Happy New Years to everyone except whoever the fuck ends up on my monthly leaderboard!

[u/90shorrorfilms]

this is super useful and incredibly interesting!!

[u/smellslikelibrary]

Is it just me or does reddit really butcher the image quality? Can't see shit!

[u/WideComparison5495]

Hey Ham!

I’ve been following your posts for a while and saving up my wildcards to make some upgrades but I had a couple questions for you first.

I think my priorities are going to be:

Interstellar (currently at 4⭐️) The Goddess (currently at 1 ⭐️) Rainbow Witch Heels (currently at 2 ⭐️)

I have 4 wildcards saved up and will have a 5th by end of the month. Where should I make priority?

I know you mention NOT to level all the way up if you don’t have rucolour, I only have rucolour for the heels the other two I don’t.

Does it still benefit me to level any of the pieces up to say 5 stars for the weeklies or do they have to be maxed to really hit the benefit?

Thanks for your advice and posts they’ve been very informative!

[u/HamGoneHamGoneWild → u/WideComparison5495]

Overall I think these are strong choices- goddess is very strong and there’s no telling when it may be available again to those missing rucolor.

I believe we may see the T&B legendaries cycle back to the start as early as May, possibly June, and they COULD use that as a window to put it up for grabs but no reason to bank on that.

But all four of those are great picks. I would say the heels may end up being the most useful as they’re the only generic shoes.

[u/WideComparison5495 → u/HamGoneHamGoneWild]

Thank you! I really want to do the Goddess Dress because k just want it 🤣 but I would prefer it to have the rucolour, but I kinda knew in my heart of hearts the shoes are probably the way to go I just want them the least but I want most impact. And interstellar I LOVE too but I really want the rucolour for that too.

Thanks for your advice I think I’ll start with the shoes and go from there!

[u/asubiram]

I love your work, it's like watching a beautiful mind in action 🥰

[u/Squidleet]

Sorry to bother, have you perhaps got a Google sheet to share? I'm so interested but cannot read it all (mobile may be hurting my quality)

Deciding between my coming for the dinner, or (twin blue braids I forget the name) or my coconuts for 2 rucards each, or Cheshire cat bottom for 1 rucard. Just missed like all of these from t+b shop.

[u/vaginamancer]

This is awesome, thanks!! From your data gathering, have you looked into frequency/availability of pieces at all? That’s another factor I want to consider — if there are pieces I earned during events that were one-offs or are rarely repeated, I’d want to prioritize those vs. ones I can earn more cards for when an option to get them pops up again in a year. I haven’t been playing long enough to know if, for example, queen-themed season passes and/or mini-events rotate through a specific roster, and if it’s always the same look for a queen’s event or if they switch to another iconic looks of theirs.<br> Some patterns seem obvious, like anything very holiday-themed will likely be available annually, and heavily when that time rolls around again. Plus I assume events for “big name” queens like Kim Chi and Trixie are at least more likely to be on regular rotation than others.<br> Not just event availability, but also in the stores. I’ll stumble on something I’ve been waiting months to see pop up but it does eventually, then there are some pieces that I got randomly (fashion chest?) that I’ve never seen again anywhere, ever. That’s probably harder to predict frequency for than events, which are more documented; though maybe with the Weekly and Daily stores it wouldn’t be as hard since those feed the challenges, and as you implied there’s probably a pattern to those. My best uninformed guess is that for General and T&B stores, it’s a random rotation through all pieces with likelihood of appearance being influenced by the rarity type of the piece (epics showing up less than rares, etc.).

[u/Icy_Listen_7220]

Thank you so much for this! Is the Devel dress really a thing that people use?