I try to sum up my reactions to this:

Guurda Bogbrew: After playing Raid for close to 2 years, I do not need this champ as a login reward. It will not bring much progress to my account. I would like to have the 4 sacred shards and 4 5*-chicken back as login rewards as they would help me much more in progressing the account. Do not try to tell me that with these login-champs after more than a year you want to explain mechanics to the player....this is just insulting.

Yannica's fragments: Well...I do not think that 4* Glyphs are really rewarding...or attractive for players. Neither are 2* or 3* chicken for anyone who passed 2nd class math. This is just another step in the wrong direction as it lessens the motivation for players to take part in CvC. 

Mithrala: ...is the only reason to play Hydra...if you do not adequately replace her fragments after a player has gotten her...well...as I said, she is the only reason to invest the heavy amounts of time to play Hydra. But good that you mentioned it here...so I can stop playing Hydra after getting Mithrala. As for the other rewards: They are for mostly Plat arena...and I seem to have a bad stream of luck and getting almost 80% of flat stat items..can do without the frustration of running Hydra for some hours until I got the right series of RNG to be able to get some godd damage on it and than being rewarded with some 5 or 6* blue flat stat chest... Clan Gold? What can you do for it? Buying 4* Glyphs?   Aehm...the clan shop does not really hold many attractive offers...those that are present I can get with the weekly Clan quests...Clan XP?..Who cares?

Next CvC: Who without a credit card cares about that? Who with a real mind would think of personal rewards being tied to the success of the Clan instead of being...personal rewards?

Fan Art contest? Not my world...not my interest. While I love looking at those pictures, I think that the rewards are just way too low for the time and energy most people put into this.

The only 2 news items I want to read about is:

TAVERN QoL improvements is going live.

Plarium cuts down on the time needed to play the game.

You can forget about all the rest...not important for me.

Guurda Bogbrew is pretty meh but at least she isn't a slap in the face like the epic.  Seriously though, just replace the 5 star chicken and the sacred gem.  Whoever you are paying who is claiming that retaining players doesn't matter should be fired instantly.  They are giving you horrendous advice and will cost you tons of money over time.

Yannica's fragments - The replacement you have is just laughable.  

Mythrala - Good, so we get her and then stop playing hyrda.  Considering how much Plarium decided to quadruple down on RNG instead of actually making unique and rewarding gameplay, it is good that most people can just ignore that complete swing and a miss.  Even the krakens who have spent tens of thousands think it is way overtuned.

CvC - Nice to know I guess for those who care.  There isn't any reason for you not to tell us about the next one in advance as well.  More communication is almost always a good thing.

What you didn't mention:

Arena:  You have messed it up beyond belief again.  Even the end-game krackens are noticing.  Just triple the tiers, add them all above gold but keep the per-battle rewards the same as gold 4.  That would mean that 2/3rds of the playerbase can effectively farm for PvE which is the actual core of the game.  Your proposed fix (gold 5) is laughable. That isn't close to enough of a fix.  While you are at it, remove the player power aspect of matchmaking.  I have a referral account with account power of around 100k which sits in silver 4 fairly comfortably while people with much better accounts cannot find a win in silver 4.  Why is that? Because someone thought a ranking system in a PvP area should have pretty much nothing to do with the actual ability to do PvP against others of the same rank.  It is just a mockery of a ranking system.

"I seem to have a bad stream of luck and getting almost 80% of flat stat items..can do without the frustration of running Hydra for some hours until I got the right series of RNG to be able to get some godd damage on it and than being rewarded with some 5 or 6* blue flat stat chest... Clan Gold? What can you do for it? Buying 4* Glyphs? Aehm...the clan shop does not really hold many attractive offers...those that are present I can get with the weekly Clan quests...Clan XP?..Who cares?"

Not just for you. I dont remember when i got not flat just percentage subtats 6star epic or legendary items from spider. At least minimum 2 subtats always flat always. It is a very strange RNG when i playing over 2 years and completed several thousand battles and got several thousand 6 epic and legendary items from Skavag. 

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Aehm, the amulet is a bad example, as the main is always flat (except crit damage) and the only % substat that can happen in an amulet is also %crit damage...

Guurda Bogbrew  would help me NOW!! in the Faction Crypt. Since I have only pulled till now crappy Ogryn. And Ghrush alone won't get me to 3Star.

But now I have to wait a half year for the Champ. Hopefully the shardpulling will be in my favour. 

What I  want to say is, that the Champ comes way to late even for me and my crappy Ogryn Champs. 

Please reconsider bringing back the Shard and the Chicken. This would help my progress and interest in the game way more. Since Shardpulling is is way mora appealing than waiting for a Champ over half a year.

Mithrala I can't wait to get mey Hands on her, but since I'm stuck in the lowest tier and my clan cant beat the Hydra it is only 1 to 2 fragments every week. So if I'm lucky I will have her by the beginning of 2023. That is. If I'm still playing the game.

When I got all the Yannica's fragments which will be this week the Clanquests will be way less interesting for me. Since it will take ages before my clan has reached the level where I can buy the intesting Shards and Books.........

I'm realy not sure what got into the person who thought up the "(un)personal" Rewards at the CvC. Clanexperincepoints are great, but this is not a personal reward.

Also I would realy like to get the PERSONAL rewards. Even if me and my clan do not win the CvC. Since it is a personal reward. Or is it?

@Matrim 

The only 2 news items I want to read about is:

TAVERN QoL improvements is going live.

Plarium cuts down on the time needed to play the game. 

You got a good point. The only thing why I'm still playing this extremely timeconsuming game is because I have a great community in the discordchannnel I'm in. Otherwise I would have quitted the game long ago.

Everything is way to tedious and takes way to much time. 

After reviewing the forums to find something current on this release, it seems this is the only dialogue. That said, I'm only curious about one thing after these last couple releases.

1) Why did I see a "Power" Value decrease for nearly 70% of my characters? How do I know this occurred you may ask, well let me tell you.  I regularly review the status of all my characters to determine their power level and their areas of expertise for 5*/4* referral along with several other factors which I keep all on a spreadsheet. Now I am sure this is overkill, but its better than building out an entire Access database to manage all my characters.

Anyway, my concern is that the majority of my characters lost anywhere from 200 to 2000 points in "Power" value all in the last couple weeks. I know this also because during my regular reviews I verify what the previous values were to the current and then determine what Artifacts and Accessories I need/want to improve upon for specific characters.

Now this may seem unimportant to some, but for me to continue having fun playing this game, which is decreasing by the week, it sure would be nice to have some basic consistency and for you guys to quit making thoroughly tested updates.

That's enough of a soapbox for now. Rest assurred in the future I will be commenting more as this "game" has become more of an investment than I had planned for it to be. I have an F2P and P2P account each and I'm finding considerable differences between the two which is also off putting but I'll save that for another day.

Did you fall down a rank in arena?

how will we  know who the winners are

They are typically announced in the Discord and contacted there as well.

what is the discord name so i can see the winners

@Harbby  If my leveling up and down in Arena is the reason why I constantly see a change in Power, then it's no wonder I continue to have challenges in so many other areas, i.e. dungeon and campaigns.

The recent changes to Arena have not seemed to make any differences in my opportunity for advancement. If anything, its seems worse.

Anyway, thanks for the response. I'm getting tired of all the issues I'm having now with this issue and so many others that it's about time I quit playing. Not worth the money nor the hassles I continue to run into.

Keep on trudging on everyone else and good luck with all the challenges.