Greetings Skylords, Skyladies, and Skyfolks!
XLink here coming with another game design update. Now, it has come to our attention that a lot of you have been wondering what your booster odds are in Skylords Reborn. That is to say, what are your chances of getting different rarities of cards? I will provide you with answers to this debate, as an official ratio has been set up. We've had many questions as to what the exact rates are, and so I'll clear things up a bit, and explain why the ratio has changed.
The original BattleForge used a system where rare cards and ultra-rare cards are difficult to obtain. Boosters would give you 5 commons, 2 uncommons, and a rare or ultra-rare card at 16% (1/6) odds. This seems like a reasonable ratio. However, when I looked into the amount of cards in the game over the rarity given, it's noted that about 40% of all cards are Rare or Ultra Rare. This is a significant portion of all cards, that have a very low chance of being obtained.
Since we will not be exploiting a microtransaction system to siphon your money out through booster rarities, as well as with the spirit of being able to obtain cards quicker, easier and in a more satisfying and enjoyable manner, it's been decided that we increase the chance of getting rare cards in boosters, to let that 40% flow to the players more efficiently than by 16% of a booster at a time. It'll be easier to get that shiny loot! This has been the case since closed beta, and has been tested within closed beta, which has been quite a success. Many of you have asked what the exact ratio was, and we decided to keep it under the radar a bit for testing and changing purposes, but now that we have established a solid ratio, I'm publishing your odds right here. (this has been published before, but not definitively, in a beta thread) This does not mean that these are definitive. They are close to definitive, but in case of design flaws or the odds not turning out as we would have liked them to turn out, these ratios are subject to change; especially the promo ratio.
With these ratio changes I'm officially introducing our way of distributing promo cards; every booster will have a very small chance of granting a promo card. This way, everyone will have access to these elusive, extremely rare cards. We will also possibly use them as rewards for tournaments and official events. Seasonal promos, like Santa Claus and Easter Egg, will not be available in regular boosters.
With that all being said, here are the general odds for the card boosters in Skylords Reborn! The cards go from top left to bottom right.
Card 1: 0.5% Promo, 19.5% Ultra Rare, 80% Rare
Card 2: 15% Rare, 85% Uncommon
Card 3: 20% Uncommon, 80% Common
Card 4: 100% Uncommon
Cards 5, 6, 7 and 8: 100% Common
This means that every single booster will provide you with up to 1 ultra-rare at a time, up to 2 rares at a time, and up to 3 uncommons at a time. If you get an Ultra Rare or a promo, there is still a chance you will get a rare. Getting 2 rares and 2 uncommons will therefore not be a strange sight, as it would have been in the original game. Remember that the promo ratio especially may be subject to change if we deem it too high or too low of a chance.
We hope that these new ratios will provide a quicker, more enjoyable and way more satisfying way of collecting cards, to kickstart the game more efficiently and make grinding and collecting a little more bearable, whilst sticking to the game's original mechanics.
In the nearby future, we will discuss the possibility of different types of boosters (e.g. editions, elements) and potential odds and card pools for them, internally. Stay tuned for more information on that in said nearby future. Booster prices will be discussed in the even more distant future, when the programming team is ready for it.
I hope to have informed you sufficiently on the new booster ratios. Be wary that this booster ratio has been calculated quite thoroughly and is pretty much definitive. Even small changes could throw the booster rarity ratios off balance; we have found these values to hit the sweet spot.
Feel free to let me know what you think and to discuss the topic below, taking the aforementioned statement in mind.
Stay tuned for future design updates, and may the forge be with you!
This will be a summary mostly of special theme-decks i have played with passion.
Important Note: Some cards in the decks might be just "fun-cards" and cards rarely to very rarely played by players, means there were stronger to much stronger and faster alternatives i could put in but did not do it because i always hated the fact maps are way too easy to manage with an overpowered deck. Embalmers Shrine, Shadow Phoenix, ashbone pyro, lost souls ship, shrine of war, voidmanipulating and many other cards/tactics are for example extremely overpowered in PvE/rPvE and sadly never got nerfed.
So if you like to play a weaker playstyle than others but in exchange for a lot of more fun and challenging aspects you are right here.
With all of those decks every expert map and with most of them rPvE 9 and even 10 (-> some of the decks are not made for a lost souls randomised map in 10 though) are possible to defeat. (ofcourse at defending maps or other situational points there might be some keycard/building edits but still it let it be an extraordinary themedeck)
I will edit this thread from time to time.
Have fun with the inspirations and see you in the forge soon!
Greetings
Cy
Worms Bandits
Stonekin Twilight
Lost Souls Pure Shadow
Root Network Constructs
Pure Nature Ultimate Defense
Pure Frost Pure Fire
Ships Allmighty Dragons
S-Units dmg Spells
Stonekin Deff Fire Deff
Pure Frost Deff Pure Shadow Deff
Pure Nature Deff Legendarys
Ultimate Deff 2 Pure T4
Rainbow Batariel rPvE Lost Souls 10
No XL Ultra UP Frost Fire
Shadow Nature Pure Fire rPvE Lost Souls 10
Pure Shadow rPvE Lost Souls 10 Lost Souls rPvE Lost Souls 10
Hello Skylords,
So now, let's talk about what we're going to do after all you will have to wait a bit longer, and please forgive us for this delay.
We have decided on a few things:
Everyone will receive 2 boosters once the game will be in open beta (you'll still get them even after a potential reset)
From the 1st of February and until the Open beta, we'll invite some players everyday to the closed beta, to increase the amount of players, progressively (Giveaways will happen anytime during the day, morning, afternoon, evening ..)
You'll be able from now to pre-download the client, and we finally after a lot of discussion decided to give the client here on the forum ourselves. Want to pre-download it ? You can use Mediafire or MEGA to download it! (You cannot start the game right now, you'll have to wait for open beta, and the release of our launcher to make it work.)
INFORMATION : Giveaways for the Closed Beta will resume! These giveaways will mainly be held on Discord, but it may also happen on the forum, so keep following these two closely!
Discord : https://discord.gg/0y3WGMGXhd5q2lXA
With kind regards and apologies for any inconvenience caused,
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