Booster Pack Rewards

[Ry]

So far the only way to get a Booster Pack whether its Hero/Villain or whatever is by buying them. Honestly, that being the ONLY way to do it is kind of lame. Maybe throw in a few of them for Taskforces or Trials? Or have them as an option instead of bonus merits for the weekly?

 

Or something?

 

Please? 😧

[MTeague]

Eh. It only costs in-game influence, not real-life monies, and it's not hard to pile up a hundred mil a week (Honestly, I think that's a *very* modest figure.) with even part-time marketeering for a half hour a couple times a week. 

I don't mind it staying right as it is. 

 

I will admit I did used to wonder how people ever afforded them back when I was levelling up my first characters and hadn't learned of the glorious awesomeness that are Enhancement Converters.

Edited August 20, 2020 by MTeague

[Greycat]

I wouldn't argue with the winter / ATOs dropping extremely rarely outside of the packs. OTOH the packs themselves dropping would make getting the ATO-less ones less annoying, since you haven't dropped 10 (or 25) mil on it.

 

[Lines]

I think it would be cool to work them or the ATOs/WinterOs into gameplay rewards somehow, with such rarity that the 10/25mil cost for a pack is still a good baseline.

 

Not sure what that would look like, though.

[Yomo Kimyata]

My gut instinct is that we have a lot of rewards already.  It would be cool to get a lottery ticket and get a Winter Pack to drop, but I'd expect/hope for the odds to be extremely low, and in exchange for other rewards (like purples) drop rates to be cut.

[FrauleinMental]

Packs are plenty available, enough that we've already seen in the past few months a decrease in AH prices for most of the stuff that comes out of packs.  If granted as a reward, it should be almost as rare as a purple drop (and I get few enough of those already).  I could almost see them being sold at the Merit Vendor, but not everything needs to be in one place like a convenience store.

 

Spend the 10M inf (or 25M) to buy a pack.  Unlike most things in the game, packs used to cost real money.

[Greycat]

48 minutes ago, FrauleinMental said:

Packs are plenty available, enough that we've already seen in the past few months a decrease in AH prices for most of the stuff that comes out of packs.  If granted as a reward, it should be almost as rare as a purple drop (and I get few enough of those already).  I could almost see them being sold at the Merit Vendor, but not everything needs to be in one place like a convenience store.

If we're looking specifically at ATOs, which I think most people buy the packs for, they *are* sold at the merit vendor. The rest of the stuff is nice - and does drop, generally - but the ATOs tend to be the focus. Though it *would* be nice to have an alternate way to get them.

 

Heck, I'll buy a Winter IO, sell it for 17-25 million, and turn around and buy a hero/villain or rogue/vig pack sometimes. 🙂 That way I take a shot at what's in it and still have some inf left over.

[MTeague]

for non-card drops,

• I admit I've never bought a single Unslotter, because I still have a few hundred from opening packs. 
• I've still got an extra 30+ respecs on tap in my email as well. 
• getting Brain Storm ideas in bulk can be nice.  My personal base salvage racks are stocked with rare salvage because I'll let them pile up to 400-600 brain storm ideas at a time, then crunch them all into rare salvage. 
• can scoop up some Boosters / Catalysts on the side, but you're not going to get them in BULK unless you're buying a gazillion packs. 
• the Candy Canes are nice in the winter packs.  I don't have all the Winter Event Badges yet.
• I wish I could vendor/sell the Tailor Tokens. I'll NEVER use them. Ever. Not until I get all the tailor badges anyway.
• the inspirations are "meh" at best to me. 

[Vanden]

Opening boosters is fun, and I wish there were ways to get them besides deciding to buy yourself one, but I wouldn't want it to be something too common that would devalue them.

 

They'd definitely make fun prizes for community- or Homecoming team-run events.