Erwan said:
Gadheras said:
you could always send 1000 attacks with 1 pike in each at someone to test.
Thanks, but I'm not skeptical about my own words.
Probably because I have already done my own tests...
Oh boy...
You could send 1000 attacks with 1 pike in each yourself.
What don't you understand in "Let's obtain the Ulrich's Blade, all together" ??
I already spent a lot of my very own units.
Maybe, you could help me, just a bit.
So by "all together" you mean somebody else figure it out for you? XD
Well here's my 2 cents. Relic drops probably follow a series of probability distributions, where the probability of getting each type of relic is based on the value of troops lost in the fight (of course with a cap of 1 relic per battle). So in a battle where you lose 100 pikemen, the chance of getting a "weak" relic might be 1/10, the chance of getting a "medium" relic might be 1/500, and the chance of getting a "strong" relic might be 1/10000. The probability of each type of relic dropping changes independently based on the troops lost, so in a tiny battle your chances of getting a "strong" relic are non zero, but very small, while in a larger battle your chances of getting the same relic are much higher.
Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean that larger battles are always better. Let's say your chances of getting a "strong" relic are 1/50 in a battle where you lose 50 dragons, but 1/10 in a battle where you lose 500 dragons. On average it would cost you 1250 dragons to get the relic losing them 50 at a time, but 2500 by sending them 500 at a time, so doing more of the smaller battles might be better even though the drop chance on each one is lower. The opposite is also true, sending single unit attacks doesn't seem to work very well either although there is a non zero chance that you'll get the relic you want.
So it becomes an optimization problem, where you have to estimate the drop chance for different size attacks, and use that to determine the least costly strategy.
There's also the question of how Plarium categorizes the relics (hence why I put my assumed classes in quotations). The ulrichs blade relic is one of the best relics in the game, but because it acts on infantry it may be considered a low level relic.
Here's a little data:
Last beacon massacre I sent 50 waves of 400-500 demons at stacked beacons. 28 of them got relics, but none were ulrichs blades. It could be that I just got unlucky, but it seems more likely that my hits were either too large or too small.