Splinterlands - Community Engagement Challenge - Support Articles - Glint Shop Usage and Buy Strategy

This is the important step as to how we spend Glint tokens and how we earn the rewards cards which use to be provided to battle players in the form of chests earlier for daily battle wins and season end rewards as well.

But, this is changed now and the Glint token is introduced and that has to be spent in Glen's Glint shop in order to get the cards and this method can be of 2 types as highlighted in above screenshot.

So, we can earn the rewards cards from Rebellion edition which is the last introduced edition for us and we can earn these cards with 2 different types of options.

1. Rarity Draws:

Rarity Draws are something which gets us straight to the point in earning cards and ONLY cards when we purchase these and these can be 4 types based on 4 rarities we have in Splinterlands cards viz. common, rare, epic and the awesome legendary ones.

Each of these rarity draws are of different cost with common Ones costing 150 Glints for each. Likewise, we have to pay 750 glints for rare ones, 7500 glint for epic ones and finally 35000 for a legendary rarity draw and I would like to remind that, each of these rarity draws will yield One card, so, if I purchase 10 rare rarity draws by paying 7.5K (750 * 10), then I will get exactly 10 rare cards some of which may be gold foiled Ones based on potions usage and on the percentage of gold foil cards set for these draws.

Source

So, as we can see from above screenshots, I brought 10 rare rarity draws and spend 7.5K Glint and used 10 alchemy potion and finally when I drew these, I got exactly 10 cards although none of them are gold foiled ones.

So, the thumb rule is, Number of rarity draws = number of cards we get, as simple as that.

2. Loot Chests:

Now comes the Second option to purchase the rewards cards and this is Loot chests options which is similar to the loot chests we use to get earlier for competing in battles and level up to earn more loot chests.

The major difference between these and the rarity rewards is that that, the loot chests not just have rewards cards, these might even have the all important energy, some awesome jackpots such as land plots and even potions along with merits which are usable to purchase guild gladius packs.

So, to some extent, we can say these are more beneficial compared to rarity draws as these will give us a chance to earn the energy and jackpots.

There is also an additional advantage with these loot chests as we might get multiple copies of the same cards from each loot chest.

Let's see by purchasing 10 loot chests of ultimate Ones as it's been a season end day and I have enough Glint to purchase ultimate chests :)

So, I spend 45K Glint for purchasing 10 ultimate chests:

Used 10 alchemy and 10 legendary potions to increase my chance of getting those shiny Ones.

10 loot chests I got:

and... booooooom, here are my 10 ultimate loot chest rewards:

It has to be my luckiest day as I got 2 (infact 3) legendary cards and all important 4 energy and an epic (count it as 2 copies) of epic Nightreaper and 6 set of common card and usual potions.

So, that shows that, we might feel good with ultimate chests, but we need to spend that much Glint as well.

Also, note the multiple copies of cards we got there with that First legendary card is in 2 numbers.

So, this is what we can corelate with rarity draws and loot chests where in, loot chests have definitely yielded better results with 3 legendary cards for me and even couple of epic cards too.

So, a total of 11 cards I got from 10 chests and I have spent 45K Glint for this, but a rewarding One.

The strategy for Glint spending:

Well, whether you call me old fashioned or whatever, but I still want to go with the strategy of buying rarity draws from a particular rarity out of those 4 and get all the cards leveled up and then move to the next rarity group.

In that way, we can level up the cards faster and hopefully, we can get most of the cards from atleast 2 or 3 rarities leveled up than having all cards from all rarities not fully leveled up.

Because, I have been facing this issue since last 2 editions as I haven't been able to level up all the cards from all rarities and have lost those all important abilities we will get from fully leveled up cards and I will always be lagging behind when I compete with those fully leveled up cards.

So, this is my personal opinion but a more rewarding One if I follow this strategy.

Any counters on this? Please comment out guys.

That is what I wanted to write up in this blog and I hope some of you find it informative when you go out and make those purchases from Gwen's Glint Shop next time.

Take care and have a great week ahead my awesome battlers :)

Thanks and Have a good day :)

P.S: All the images used are property of Splinerlands and taken from Splinterlands website unless explicitly sourced.

Not yet signed up for Splinterlands?

You can join using my referral link: splinterlands.io and get some monsters from me :)

()

Posted Using InLeo Alpha