Splinterlands: My Brawl fight report and Gladiators Upgrade!

about 12 hours ago (Edited)

Good morning, fellow warriors! ⚔️
It’s your guy @zusi78 back in the arena.

I have been grinding a lot of Brawls lately and stacking Gladiators, so I wanted to drop a quick breakdown for the new players (and a reminder for the veterans).

For the record,there is a direct loop between Brawls, Merits and Gladiators that a lot of people still underestimate:

You show up and fight in Guild Brawls.
At the end of every Brawl, members who complete at least 75% of their Fray battles receive full Crowns and Merits (your personal Win/Loss doesn’t matter)
You spend those Merits in the Guild Store on Gladius Cases (2,000 Merits each)
Every Case gives you 5 Gladiator cards (1 guaranteed Rare or better)
All Gladiators come with the nasty Bloodlust ability (+1 to all non-zero stats every time they get a kill).

In summary:

The guild earns Crowns (based on overall ranking/performance). Crowns are used by leaders/officers to upgrade guild buildings (Arena, Store, Barracks, etc.).
Individual participating members earn Merits. Merits are a soulbound (non-transferable, non-tradeable) guild currency.

So the more consistent you are in Brawl participation = more Merits = more Gladiators = stronger teams = even better Brawl results. It is a beautiful compounding loop.This system heavily rewards the people who show up week after week. You don’t have to be the best player — you just have to be reliable.The brawl just ended and my guild came in third. Immediately after the results came out and the spoils were shared, I took a look at the merits earned.That guided me on whether to wait for another brawl to earn more merits or go to the store and purchase Gladius cases. But this time, I chose the latter.

I went to the Guild store,saw the merits l have there and found out it would only give me one gladius case.So I topped the merits using glints and that would enable me buy at least two gladius cases.

OPENING THE GLADIUS CASES AND MY GLADIATORS CARD COLLECTIONS.

I got two rare and 8 common gladiators.

MY COLLECTIONS SO FAR:There are currently 32 Gladiator cards in total in the Gladius Edition.These are the unique card types (not counting gold foils or multiple copies/BCX).