Do’s and Don’ts by Plarium and for Plarium

In this blog post I share with you the Do’s and Don’ts communicated by Plarium and the Do’s and Don’ts I created for Plarium.

Do’s and Don’ts for Plarium

Do’s and Don’ts by Plarium

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Short calculation with and without x2 for 15 Sacred Shards during Guaranteed event

In this short blog post I share with you my calculation checking what is the difference between pulling shards during x2 event or outside of it during our ongoing Guaranteed champion event.

The guaranteed champion is Wythir which is a very good champion. Here is the champion link to Ayumilove (Wythir the Crowned link #1) and HellHades (Wythir the Crowned link #2).

You can see from my calculation below:

• Pulling now is a clear winner I believe:
• While the number of expected Epics and Legos is similar,
• the Guaranteed champion is a very good champion. The x2 would give a random Lego which could be a good one but also could be a terrible one.
  

If you were unlucky and have no Epic Dupe Dwarves you can use Fylja

This is just a short blog post to remind that if you have been unlucky and have not managed to collect any Epic Dwarves in your Faction Guardians (like my account in the below picture), and, if you are not going for the fusion for whatever reason, then try to still go for at least 2 of Fylja to push forward your Faction Guardians.

Getting 2 is relatively easy since you can just pick 2 out of 4 events that you prefer. I will do the Champion Training, Artifact Upgrades, Arena and probably Fire Knight. Those are enough to get 2 of each of the Rares to fuse 2 x Fylja for the Faction Guardians.

Estimate of the last Champion Chase event Ancient Shards used and $ made by Plarium

In this blog post I estimate how much money Plarium made during the last Champion Chase event and how many shards were used by players. 

Update:

Some player feedback suggested I should be more conservative in the estimation. Therefore I have reduced several of the assumptions as follows:

• I reduce by 20% the Local 100 Group points from 393,456 (based on the group I was in) to 314,765 points
• This reduced the Total Local Group points from 2,754,190,711 points to 2,203,352,569 points.
• Then it was suggested not to add the Global 100 Group points to the above as those players are already part of various Local groups. Therefore the Total Points are now equal to the above.
• Then to further reduce the amounts I added average 500 free points per player to represent free points earned from fusing saved up champions.

The updated estimation is as follows:

Step 1: Points of Local and Global groups

• Total points of 100 players in a Local 100 Group: 314,765 points
  
• Total points of 100 players in the Global 100 Group: 10,183,604 points

Observation: I originally expected the Top player of Local groups to appear in Global, but this was not the case as there are a lot more Local Groups (see below).

Step 2: # of Players and Groups

• Assumption (web research): Daily active users playing RAID: 1,000,000
• Assumption: Participated in Champion Chase: 70% (I used this to reduce quantities just to be on the conservative side)
  
• Final number of players for calculation: 700,000
• Resulting number of Local Groups of 100 players: 7,000

Step 4: Total Points

• Points of 1 Local Group x 7,000 Groups = 2,203,352,569 points
• Total points together with the Global Group: it was suggested not to add the Global 100 Group points to the above as those players are already part of various Local groups.

Observation: sum of Local Groups is significantly more points/shards than the whales in the Global Group. 10,183,604 points out of 2,203,352,569 points represents 0.5%.

Step 5: # of Shards and $ spent estimates

Drop rates during x2 Ancient:

• 1% is Lego / 500 points
• 16% is Epic / 250 points
• 83% is Rare / 10 points

Preparation of Total points for breakdown: 

Assumption: Average free points earned by fusing saved up champions: 500 points per player
Total free points used by players: 350,000,000 

• Total points from above (total of Local Groups):  2,203,352,569 points
• of which free points from prepared summons were: 350,000,000
• Adjusted Total points remaining: 1,853,352,569 points

Result: Total points breakdown:

• Lego:18,533,526 points / 37,067 Ancient Shards
• Epic: 296,536,411 points / 1,186,146 Ancient Shards
• Rare: 1,538,282,632 points / 153,828,263 Ancient Shards

Assumption: Average free shards used: 50 Ancient Shards per player
Total free shards used by players: 35,000,000

• Total shards used: 155,051,476 Ancient Shards
• of which free shards were: 35,000,000
• purchased shards were: 120,051,476
  

Assumption: value of 1 Ancient Shard = $1
$ value of purchased shards during this 1 Champion Chase event: $120,051,476  

Happy to receive constructive feedback on the methodology.

Reference picture: Global Top 100

Picture taken 9 Feb 2022 after event completion.

Soda Dragon shares strategy to beat Faction War 21 Boss using a level 1 naked champion

I am sharing the work of Soda Dragon of his wonderful strategy to beat Faction War 21 Boss using a level 1 naked champion. Video link below.

How it works:

• The naked level 1 champion attracts boss A1 attack
• Boss does not even bother with his A2, he keeps doing A1 as the boss thinks he can one-shot kill this champion.

On which boss this works:

Faction Wars 21 boss called Duelist which is the boss for:

• Lizardmen
• Undead
• Dwarves
  

How is the level 1 kept alive:

• Shield set from 1 champion (in his case, Broadmaw)
• Ally Protect from 1 champion (in his case, Jareg)
• ATK down on boss from 1-2 champions (in his case, Jareg and Aox) 

Will the level 1 naked champion die?

Soda Dragon estimates that the level 1 dies at around 20% life left on the boss. This, of course, assumes that you have a good damage dealer (in his case, a strong Rhazin with some Aox support).

For 3 star completion you need to revive the level 1 before the end.

The video:

Here is the video Soda Dragon posted:

Tatura attacking in the wrong direction

Just for amusement/fun here is RAID/Plarium animation failure of the legendary Tatura attacking in a totally wrong direction from where his target is (this is something Plarium will probably fix at some point in the future).

This usually happens when he targets an enemy with his A1 attack.

This specific screenshot I caught is funny because it looks like he is sticking or walking on our computer monitors - maybe he knows there is a world outside RAID :)

TABLE / Analysis - Resistance & Accuracy Players must have

In this RAID Shadow Legends blog post I want to share with you my table / analysis of Resistance & Accuracy requirement for players. Using the Doom Tower to illustrate different levels of difficulty and showing suggestions for players.

TABLE / Analysis: Resistance & Accuracy Needed

Here are my observations in brief:

• The famous 200 Accuracy which RAID players use for most dungeons will also get you deep into the Doom Tower, up to approximately Hard Stage 80. From then on the enemies resistances become higher and 200 will no longer cut it.
• To get further the next "Stage" or "Tier" requires players to have 300-350 Accuracy. That amount will let players complete most of the RAID content expect the most difficult / top levels.
• To complete everything the players will need a huge 550-600 Accuracy.
  

But please note that not all champions of the team need to have these Accuracy levels. Just the champions who absolutely must have it. For example if you are killing Soraph with Drexthar then you only need Drex with high ACC and since he has an Accuracy Leader Aura (+70) then he only needs to have 530 Accuracy.

SPECIAL THANKS

As I posted previously, but happy to repeat again, thanks to Bobo for gathering RAID Shadow Legends statistics and publishing them for people to use. 

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