EVENT ANALYSIS: Forged of Iron

Late again with this, because update, but here it is! Our little summary of the first event of the new update…and it’s…..half good, half *shrugs*.

7 days to run 625,000 meters. Without buffs that’s 11 Great Runs, which is better than the last few week-longs. With buffs you can do it in a fraction of one, which is lovely. It’s a pretty standard run, has lots of different environments, mechtopus and goes a full length of around 55k meters. Unfortunately, the Grand Prize is just Iron Spider, who people have been getting from the VIP portal for months. Just because he has new card art, doesn’t mean he deserves his own event. He is a totally weak card anyway. So, compete for collection purposes.

PROGRESSION:

For your troubles you will progress through 35 raw ISO, Inventory slot, a Premium and VIP portal, plus other bits for a grand total of 151 ISO worth of prizes. The last Update ended at an average of 158 ISO value per event. So this is alright in terms of that, depending how valuable portals are to you. Even VIP could be worth just 500 vials to some people. The difficulty to reward ratio is good on this one, even without any buffs – giving it a Fanguide Event Score of 42. The average score for last update was 18, which is pretty poor. Only two Events scored higher than this one, so in that regard we are off to a good start.

LEADERBOARD:

It’s a Grind Leaderboard, of course. Another full week – although they seem to have been going quiet for a few days in the middle, then picking back up on last day again. 1 – 3 - Legendary iron Spider x 3 & 210 ISO 4 – 25 Event Portal and 130 ISO 26 – 100 – Event Portal & 35 ISO Big drop off of ISO reward there.

BUFF SPIDERS:

Buffs affect the progression and leaderboard

Titan MJ x 4
Legendary Miles Pig x 6
Legendary Cyborg x 5
Rare Spider Knight x 3

PORTAL

Spiders in this portal are just 2*, which in our book is totally unacceptable. 4* for Titans, 3* for Legendaries. This should not have been changed. We have no sense of humour over this, so encourage you NOT to pull from this portal, or any portal with just 2* cards. Unless you really really want those buff spiders to make progression easier, or you are going to settle down for a long grind.

But again, remember – all you’re competing for is 210 ISO and 3 1* cards you may not really be interested in. So make sure you don’t spend too much, or it won’t be a worthwhile 7-day grind. Have fun though.

Update 10 / SMU 2.0 is here.

WEEEOO!!

Goatmeat