I lasted 4 months
I’m sure you guys have heard this before. Love this game. It's super fun, and addictive even though it's VERY repetitive. However, it has recently occurred to me that I have no business trying to enjoy this game as it is clearly catered to the wealthy, and that's fine. It is what it is. I'm just sad because it's been a while since I've had a game I got into so much, and now I'm done.
I've spent like $1k in the last 4 months (and believe me that hurt and I had to make sacrifices elsewhere in the budget) and I have spent MANY, MANY hours griding like everyone else. My problem is the gear. Even spending money on sets, or energy to keep grinding for artifacts and accessories, it has gotten me nowhere. I have an inventory full of shit gear. (actually not anymore as I sold everything yesterday in frustration)
I can count on 1 hand the 6* leg items I have gotten from rewards. I have purchased some 6* leg sets, and I got the forge pass and crafted hundreds of 5-6* Instinct pieces. I currently have 7 or 8 good artifacts, and a few nice accessories after all that time and money. That's it! So, the first problem is just getting good gear is not happening for me. I'm not going to beat Spider 21 or win in Arena Gold 5 with purple or blue gear like this:
The next problem is when I finally do get good pieces with a good main stat, the sub stats are absolutely stupid. Everyone needs speed, right? It's the main ingredient for success in this game. Of all the boots that have come through my inventory over the 4 months, guess how many of them had speed as the primary stat? ONE! I have gotten 1 pair of boots with primary stat as speed after 4 months! Not only that, but I've had maybe 5 or 6 items TOTAL that have speed on a sub stat. I'm lucky if I can get 1 champ to 180 speed, much less the 320 I need to be able to compete. After 4 months I am still speedless, and that is quite curious. Accuracy banners?? HA! Good luck. I have 1. 1 lonely accuracy banner even though I've spent countless energy and hours in spider. The rest of the items are always the same. I'll get a 6* purple speed chest with HP% primary and get excited, only to get sub stats like: Attack - Defense - Resistance - Crit Rate. I swear to god like 90% of my items have Attack, Defense, and Resistance sub stats together on the same item. So very frustrating.
I have all the best items I could muster on my Coldheart, as she is a key champ for farming. This is the best I could do after 4 months, and $1k. As you can see she's barely at the 70% crit rate 200% crit damage requirement for her to be effecitve. These were the only items I have that even remotely get her close to crit and speed requirements, and MAYBE I'll see a 500k heartseeker hit every now and then. If she lives long enough to get off a heartseeker that is...
As such, I leave you now having had my ass thoroughly kicked and defeated. Good job Plarium you got some of my money. But I see the light now. Shoulda saved that 1k for some good weed instead.
Good luck all, happing Raiding!