Time for a change of strategy
I have been playing the game Splinterlands for ages. When I look at my account, I see there that I have played a total of 18'000 battles.... That's quite some time spent on the game. What is worse is that I actually have 4 accounts that I play with. The combined number of battles is 39'000 !
Ok, with so much game experience, you would expect me to be the perfect player. Unfortunatly, I'm very far from it. On the contrary, I have the feeling that each season it is getting more difficult to reach a high rank. In the past I reached easily Champions II but now I have a lot of difficulties to reach Champions III at the end of a season.
In terms of points, I have two accounts that have enough to qualify for champion level. The third account could reach Diamond II and the third one Gold III. I hardly manage to reach these levels however.
The value of my main Splinterlands account lies at around 4700 $
This week I decided that it was time for a change of strategy.
Before the point system was introduced, it made a lot of sense to play several accounts. I reached champions I with 3 accounts at that time. However this is not the case anymore.
My strategy was to keep several competitive accounts to make a maximum income. I also wanted to avoid leveling up the cards too much for fear not to be able to sell them in the future.
The level of the players is increasing
What I realised is that compared to other players, my deck wasn't evolving enough. Of course I manage to collect quite a lot of cards and DEC with the daily quests and the season rewards but in the end, I spread the improvements over all four accounts and in the end this is simply not enough.
My biggest problem is that almost all the summoners in my best deck are at level 6 and because of that I can not play high level monster cards. This puts me quite at some disadvantage in respect to players that are putting all their efforts into one set of cards. Summoners are pretty expensive and it takes a lot of ressources to develop them. At my level however, I can't be competitive with a level 6 summoner anymore.
Merging decks
I took the decision to merge my first and third decks together. This allowed me to get level 7 summoners for almost all splinters and I even have two summoners that are maxed out. I could also merge a lot of legendary cards and some reward cards. What is great is that with level 7 summoners you can actually play fully developed legendary cards.
Some of my maxed out Splinterlands cards
I hope that I will now be able to be competitive with my main deck and reach champion II or even champion I level.
Why do I want to play in the highest leagues?
When you look at the daily quest rewards, the season rewards and also at the DEC earned by won matches, reaching a champion II ranking at the end of the season is worth about double of what you can earn in diamond I. I therefore prefer to concentrate my efforts on my main account and reduce my efforts with the remaining decks.
I have a lot of money invested in the game and my decisions aim to get the best possible return
Now I will probably have no more excuses not to reach my goals. If I don't manage it... well then maybe it means that I simply don't have enough talent for the game... If this is the case, a solution would be to rent out my cards to some better players...
What do you think about my game plan?
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WOW, that's pretty BEASTY !!!
My account is up to 22k battles - i've been playing since alpha ;)
my summoners stuck at level 4/5 - the alpha summoners are SUPER spendy !!!
I keep telling myself i'm gonna save all my $dec and make a few bucks - NOPE, I still buy more cards with it LOL
I'm hoping the land stuff will pan out - would be nice to see a little change of pace .
Man you are batteling even more than me :-). I have two beta summoners for blue and I wanted to merge them. So I needed 5 more cards of alric stormbringer to get it to the next level. I wanted to buy them and then I saw that each card was worth 8 $!
It's definitely getting harder and harder to improve beta summoners. I can imagine that it's much worse for alpha ones!
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ENGAGEtokens.Sounds like a solid plan right there. Max level summoners are pretty important if you want to get to the top although you should probably be able to get to Champion II with lvl 7 summoners mostly. Best of luck out there!
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I had like the feeling that I was getting nowhere with lvl 6 summoners. Hope it will be enough to reach Champion II regularly :-)
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ENGAGEtokens.Scary deck! I would want to be matched up against you (not that I could be, because my max level is only Silver III. 😅
The ones who started early had a big advantage because they litteraly got hundreds of free cards from daily quests and rewards. In addition alpha and beta need much less cards to combine. I was lucky I started very early :-)
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I wish I stuck with the game that time. I also bought early when it launched but could not comprehend it and left it at that. Lol.
I remember that it wasn't as fun to play back then as it is now. However whoever is playing at the moment is still early in the game I believe!
ENGAGEtokens.I've noticed that too.
Sounds like a good plan for you. I hope you get to Champion 1 soon.
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If I can reach Champion 2 regulary, I'm quite happy already :-). Thanks for stopping by!
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ENGAGEtokens.That sounds like a nightmare to fight and my summoners are level 3 or 4. I don't even have max cards for Silver Rank. Good luck with this choice and its too bad that the decision is irreversible. You may have to rebuy some of the cards off the market if things don't play out but I think your DEC should get you there in a few months if things don't play out.
I think I tend to do extremely well fighting in Silver but get demolished in Gold. Though it seems like I am doing better since some of those stronger people have probably moved up further.
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Splinterlands is a very dynamic world. There are some people I was fighting with my weakest deck then a couple of months later, they beat my strongest one... People don't sleep. They evolve and it's difficult to keep up sometimes.
The step from Silver to Gold is quite steep I believe. There are a lot of people in these leagues but once you reach gold, you start to earn decent income from wins and the rewards. This allows to improve the splinters and you can relatively quickly go through Gold 3 and 2.
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ENGAGEtokens.39000 battles and 4 accounts
Dude you really need to change strategy. Maybe you need and assistant to manage all this 🤣
Jokes apart
This is really impressive
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I should calculate how many hours I played this game lol. Maybe this would make me stop immediately ;-).
Thanks for your comment!
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ENGAGEtokens.If nothing else, this account merge will help you with more free time... Sometimes, I had a similar idea to buy some cards, level them up, and fight for that Champion league... And then, on the other side, I'm thinking about quitting with SL... lol...
Love and hate relation with the game... :)
Wish you luck for getting into Champ 2 or even Champ 1!!!
Yes, I was always worried that I wouldn't be able to one day sell the cards if I leveled them up too much. How the game is developing and we the new renting options, I'm less worried about that now. Playing only 3 decks instead of four will definitely free some time ;-)
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ENGAGEtokens.You've really played a lot! I only have some 13600 battles and sometimes I felt it was too much.
We met a few times relatively recently and you kicked my b*tt. :) And I have maxxed out summoners for any splinter. You obviously compensate a lot with skill.
But there's a limit, of course, and on the long run the upgraded summoners and monsters help you achieve better results with less effort.
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I realised that my Splinterlands game have a lot to do with how I feel on a certain day. I often play 4 accounts at the same time and this doesn't leave much time for thinking and I build my decks quite intuitively. On good days, I win but on bad days I struggle to finish my quests. I think that this side is really nice about Splinterlands. It requires skill. But it's much easier when you have a well developed deck :-)
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I usually play Splinterlands (muted) while listening to a 3Speak video speeded up. At least that's my latest routine.
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ENGAGEtokens.Wow thats a bunch of cards, let me know what you want to get rid of and I will buy it for LEN :)
4700$ in value for one deck? That sounds ridiculously crazy haha
I'm working on that ;-). In addition to that I have 3 additional decks... I need to desinvest a bit :-)
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ENGAGEtokens.@achim03 You are a superstar!
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