Talk:Ying Long/@comment-25500470-20141225175945/@comment-25086288-20150105204232

call me crazy, but I think I side with Chad on this one. Granted the original post wasn't very detailed or tactful, his argument that ranking rewards should be comparable to summons is valid.

Take into account two things:

1) no free FAW BP - Ranking players will need to use more and more shoes and swords, and eventually get to the point of exhausting their supply resulting in either sitting out some events or purchasing jewels to purchase the items.

2) more and more players (5 million downloads and counting...).  Of course for the current event there are only ~120K active accounts (based on communication error in which system showed me as having zero event points and dropping my rank to 120688), but as the number grows the ranking rewards URs are still limited to top 500.  This should mean that you need more points in order to rank.

Couple 1 and 2 together and you can see that there is more competition with less free resources, which should lead to more players spending cash to be able to rank.

And of course the icing on the cake is that the Archwitch Damage SR cards are also the Event points cards, so you would be ranking at a huge disadvantage if you don't have them. Unless you are really lucky, and consistently lucky, you won't be getting these cards without laying out some cash. Afterall, a player without these cards will have to work 50% harder to get the same amount of points, as a comparable player with these cards.

Yes, of course, one would still be able to rank without paying anything, but with the current state of the game, it will become more and more difficult to do so in every event.

The above points being said, then the ranking rewards cards should not be second rate to the summon cards.

PS - I don't think the RR UR is junk, I see value in it, and am hoping to be in the top 300 for the first time this event. But I can see why chad would say it was junk compared to the summon cards.