which pack with the most value ?

[DetrianWho]

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[DetrianWho]

for example best legendary. i feel like crimson is quite ok? or is there any better packs?

[Darth Joules]

They're all good, though you should ideally concentrate more on base set kegs over expansion kegs. Base set has about 120 legendaries where as the expansions usually have around 20 each. Avoid Novigrad because that expansion is all Syndicate.

Use Deck Builder to find which sets the legendaries you want come from, then fish for them by opening those kegs. Just bear in mind it's very, very luck dependant. You could open 100 kegs and never see a legendary, but you should on average expect to get 1 legendary for approximately every 25 kegs.

[Xarfai]

Originally posted by Darth Joules:

They're all good, though you should ideally concentrate more on base set kegs over expansion kegs. Base set has about 120 legendaries where as the expansions usually have around 20 each. Avoid Novigrad because that expansion is all Syndicate.

Use Deck Builder to find which sets the legendaries you want come from, then fish for them by opening those kegs. Just bear in mind it's very, very luck dependant. You could open 100 kegs and never see a legendary, but you should on average expect to get 1 legendary for approximately every 25 kegs.

There is a "pitty timer". You will get a guaranteed legendary every x kegs. Not sure about the exact number, but you will never open 100 kegs without a legendary.

But you are right about base kegs. Faction kegs are also great if you are ok with only playing 1-2 factions in the beginning.

[Darth Joules]

Originally posted by Xarfai:

There is a "pitty timer". You will get a guaranteed legendary every x kegs. Not sure about the exact number, but you will never open 100 kegs without a legendary.

Pity timer does exist, confirmed by CDPR:

https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/gwent-ask-a-dev.8684150/page-167#post-11521372

[The Fighter]

Originally posted by Darth Joules:

Originally posted by Xarfai:

There is a "pitty timer". You will get a guaranteed legendary every x kegs. Not sure about the exact number, but you will never open 100 kegs without a legendary.

Pity timer does exist, confirmed by CDPR: :steamhearteyes:

https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/gwent-ask-a-dev.8684150/page-167#post-11521372

It doesnt. You were supposed to get a legendary every 40 kegs but thats not the case anymore. It wasn't for me and othet people seems to have the same results.

[Mysti_Fogg]

The best keg is going to be the one that best supports the type of deck you're currently playing. I'd recommend figuring out what play style you like, and then investing in that faction's kegs.

You can test different styles by trying the beginner decks.

Once you've built up a collection for one or two factions, then try buying expansion kegs.

I wouldn't really bother with base set kegs because they're constantly giving them away in the rewards book, so you'll get plenty for free.

As for which expansions I like best ... well, everything but Iron Judgment. That one, it feels like I almost never get useful or interesting cards.

I've been playing for 4 months and at this point have 968 cards out of the 1,000+ available, so I think my collection strategy has worked out okay.

[Darth Joules]

Originally posted by Mysti_Fogg:

The best keg is going to be the one that best supports the type of deck you're currently playing. I'd recommend figuring out what play style you like, and then investing in that faction's kegs

Yeah, just open faction kegs for your preferred faction until you have about 100-110 cards for that faction. Then dabble a bit into the expansions except Novigrad, but not too much (about 20 kegs max per expansions) because ultimate kegs now draw from all sets.

[skill issue]

i tend to open small about of kegs
about 7-12 per day

i get around 3-5 gold from that
from my experience if u open more u get less
just my thoughts

u should open base kegs. if open expansion or fraction kegs u will be overwhelmed with its bronze card and highly unlikely that u get gold what u need from kegs

so from base kegs u will get bronze for all factions and if they duplicate craft gold what u need

also its obvious but dont craft bronze cards

[Darth Joules]

Originally posted by dno:

u should open base kegs. if open expansion or fraction kegs u will be overwhelmed with its bronze card and highly unlikely that u get gold what u need from kegs.

This is bad advise.

Beginners should not focus on ultimate kegs because otherwise their card collection will be all over the place especially since ultimate kegs may give you a disproportionate number of Syndicate cards (I opened one recently and got four).

Opening a lot of faction kegs to get 100-110 cards for their preferred faction will generate a lot of duplicate bronzes, but conversely the scrap from those duplicates can go towards crafting cards they need. It's not a bad way to building a small, but decent scrap collection.

They should focus of ultimate kegs once they have a reasonably decent collection of cards (120+) in at least two or three factions.

[skill issue]

Originally posted by Darth Joules:

Originally posted by dno:

u should open base kegs. if open expansion or fraction kegs u will be overwhelmed with its bronze card and highly unlikely that u get gold what u need from kegs.

This is bad advise.

Beginners should not focus on ultimate kegs because otherwise their card collection will be all over the place especially since ultimate kegs may give you a disproportionate number of Syndicate cards (I opened one recently and got four).

Opening a lot of faction kegs to get 100-110 cards for their preferred faction will generate a lot of duplicate bronzes, but conversely the scrap from those duplicates can go towards crafting cards they need. It's not a bad way to building a small, but decent scrap collection.

They should focus of ultimate kegs once they have a reasonably decent collection of cards (120+) in at least two or three factions.

i disagree

by opening basic kegs u learn all factions and gain bronze cards for all

as ive said after 10-15 fraction kegs u will get only dublicats. what the point collection dublicates

[Raskol]

Originally posted by Darth Joules:

Beginners should not focus on ultimate kegs because otherwise their card collection will be all over the place especially since ultimate kegs may give you a disproportionate number of Syndicate cards (I opened one recently and got four).

Opening a lot of faction kegs to get 100-110 cards for their preferred faction will generate a lot of duplicate bronzes, but conversely the scrap from those duplicates can go towards crafting cards they need. It's not a bad way to building a small, but decent scrap collection.

They should focus of ultimate kegs once they have a reasonably decent collection of cards (120+) in at least two or three factions.

I can't stress enough how much you need to follow this advice and not the other dude. I built my collection up one faction at a time: Nilfgaard, then Northern Realms, then Syndicate, then Skellige. Obviously you should go for your own choice of factions :D

Just pick 4 factions, go for them one at a time, and within a month you'll be competitive. If I'd followed the bad advice of the other person, I woulda been ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and still down in rank 20 or something - but instead I'm picking up 25 reward points at the end of each month in pro rank (which is objectively wonderful).

EDIT: Oh and the point of getting duplicates is so that you can scrap them and build the hard-to-get legendaries!!!

[Mysti_Fogg]

Originally posted by dno:

Originally posted by Darth Joules:

This is bad advise.

Beginners should not focus on ultimate kegs because otherwise their card collection will be all over the place especially since ultimate kegs may give you a disproportionate number of Syndicate cards (I opened one recently and got four).

Opening a lot of faction kegs to get 100-110 cards for their preferred faction will generate a lot of duplicate bronzes, but conversely the scrap from those duplicates can go towards crafting cards they need. It's not a bad way to building a small, but decent scrap collection.

They should focus of ultimate kegs once they have a reasonably decent collection of cards (120+) in at least two or three factions.

i disagree

by opening basic kegs u learn all factions and gain bronze cards for all

as ive said after 10-15 fraction kegs u will get only dublicats. what the point collection dublicates

It's a card game. The first goal should always be creating a deck that works.

Collecting all of the cards should be a secondary goal, particularly as a working deck is an engine that will generate the keys needed to gain ore and scrap for collecting.

As for duplicates, they can be scrapped to create necessary silvers and golds. Crafting silvers to fill in your deck at the lower ranks is well worth the effort and not as costly as chasing golds.

[Darth Joules]

Originally posted by Mysti_Fogg:

As for duplicates, they can be scrapped to create necessary silvers and golds. Crafting silvers to fill in your deck at the lower ranks is well worth the effort and not as costly as chasing golds.

^^ Spot the Beta player.

They're no longer called silvers or golds. Golds now refers to unique cards (gold border) which are seperated into epics and legendaries (the old silvers and golds respectively).

[✪ Wuhan Warrior 🍉🍉]

Silvers? So that's the term they used in Beta? Lol.

[skill issue]

guys, u missunderstud what ive sad

of course making all decks for different factions it waste at start

i said u should open base kegs to read and study different mechanics,
and u can scrap all bronze from other factions if need for u gold cards

but full invested in 1 deck for 1 faction its not wise, u need to study all factions just to know what u play against