"A Thing You Need"

[TFA] Cubby

After playing nearly every Gauntlet since they came out, I had a weird thing happen to me this past Sunday night.

(Some particulars: I'm Level 67, VIP 14, been playing since Nov. 16, 317 crew immortalized. I've just been forum-lurking forever.)

In the last minutes of a Gauntlet on Sunday night, with most of my crew down in stats because of fatigue, I opened a reward crate on a 45 win streak and got....a blue-boxed, latinum-imaged item entitled (iirc) "A Thing You Need."

When I returned to the "lobby" screen, all of my crew...were completely fresh!

I ran this by my fleetmates (shout out Task Force April!) but they'd never heard of it before. Has anyone else encountered it?

TP do better!! ~Colli~ (PoF)

Wow that’s awesome!

[7TW] UnkieB

Someone mentioned it in a thread the other day, but I can't find it right now.

[TFA] Cubby

(And, that should have been, “playing since Nov 2016.)

Capt. Chaos

https://forum.disruptorbeam.com/stt/discussion/10942/new-guantlet-reward-type

[SSR] GTMET

Yeah, it was cubby I was referring to in my post

guest_7456

yah i'm pretty sure this bug happens when you open the reward after the crew have refreshed. not sure what you're actually getting, my guess is that the "thing you need" is just a placeholder.

Wildstar19

My question is: how many merits did it take to win 45 in a row? And why was that worth it?

Pol

You don´t really need credits... you win some matches and when you see a hard match you wait the 4 hours for the crew refresh... a good crew, patience and some luck is what you need if you dón´t want to spend credits... if you do it could go faster

Wildstar19

Pol wrote: »

You don´t really need credits... you win some matches and when you see a hard match you wait the 4 hours for the crew refresh... a good crew, patience and some luck is what you need if you dón´t want to spend credits... if you do it could go faster

Doesn't cost credits, it costs merits. And no way you could wait out enough to make it to 45 in a row before you ran out of time. No, that took merits, and a ton of them.

Paladin 27

Darth Skippy wrote: »

Pol wrote: »

You don´t really need credits... you win some matches and when you see a hard match you wait the 4 hours for the crew refresh... a good crew, patience and some luck is what you need if you dón´t want to spend credits... if you do it could go faster

Doesn't cost credits, it costs merits. And no way you could wait out enough to make it to 45 in a row before you ran out of time. No, that took merits, and a ton of them.

If you have a strong enough crew and you start a off hour gauntlet, you can get 10-15 wins a round for maybe 2-3 merit refreshes each time. Now to not lose a 90/10 match for 45 times you probably had to spend a little dil.

[TFA] Cubby

Darth Skippy wrote: »

Pol wrote: »

You don´t really need credits... you win some matches and when you see a hard match you wait the 4 hours for the crew refresh... a good crew, patience and some luck is what you need if you dón´t want to spend credits... if you do it could go faster

Doesn't cost credits, it costs merits. And no way you could wait out enough to make it to 45 in a row before you ran out of time. No, that took merits, and a ton of them.

Not really. All I do is take the matchups to the far right, that give me the fewest points toward rank. With my crew, I can usually reel off 15-20 wins in a row without spending any merits before they’re too tired to continue. Wait a few hours until they’re refreshed, do it again for as long as possible without merits.

Usually I’ll get to a 30ish win streak before I’ve basically been forced up in rank to where I have to decide whether to spend anything. And I certainly never spend dil on a gauntlet. If I get busted in a round, so be it.

I’ve got about 18,500 merits at the moment and have been as high as 24,000, because of collecting so many this way. They’re not really a bottleneck for me anyway.

Webberoni

Cubby wrote: »

Darth Skippy wrote: »

Pol wrote: »

You don´t really need credits... you win some matches and when you see a hard match you wait the 4 hours for the crew refresh... a good crew, patience and some luck is what you need if you dón´t want to spend credits... if you do it could go faster

Doesn't cost credits, it costs merits. And no way you could wait out enough to make it to 45 in a row before you ran out of time. No, that took merits, and a ton of them.

Not really. All I do is take the matchups to the far right, that give me the fewest points toward rank. With my crew, I can usually reel off 15-20 wins in a row without spending any merits before they’re too tired to continue. Wait a few hours until they’re refreshed, do it again for as long as possible without merits.

Usually I’ll get to a 30ish win streak before I’ve basically been forced up in rank to where I have to decide whether to spend anything. And I certainly never spend dil on a gauntlet. If I get busted in a round, so be it.

I’ve got about 18,500 merits at the moment and have been as high as 24,000, because of collecting so many this way. They’re not really a bottleneck for me anyway.

That used to be a lot easier to do than it is now, where I've run into walls of Picard/Surak/Guinan/Locutus/etc... on my very first match, when I'm ranked near the very bottom of the gauntlet.

Even with stacked gauntlet teams, I have a much harder time even getting streaks of 6 or 9 by this same approach (minimal points against weakest opponent, even waiting between rounds to drop in rankings) than I used to, when I could reel off much longer win streaks even with a relatively weaker team.

[TFA] Cubby

That’s very true—the 45 win streak was probably a bit of an outlier from where I more often get these days. I often skip Gauntlets with traits that point to a Locutus, Guinan or Surak mosh pit.

[QH] Captain Ziggy

Cubby wrote: »

That’s very true—the 45 win streak was probably a bit of an outlier from where I more often get these days. I often skip Gauntlets with traits that point to a Locutus, Guinan or Surak mosh pit.

So you've stopped playing?! 😉

Wildstar19

Cubby wrote: »

Darth Skippy wrote: »

Pol wrote: »

You don´t really need credits... you win some matches and when you see a hard match you wait the 4 hours for the crew refresh... a good crew, patience and some luck is what you need if you dón´t want to spend credits... if you do it could go faster

Doesn't cost credits, it costs merits. And no way you could wait out enough to make it to 45 in a row before you ran out of time. No, that took merits, and a ton of them.

Not really. All I do is take the matchups to the far right, that give me the fewest points toward rank. With my crew, I can usually reel off 15-20 wins in a row without spending any merits before they’re too tired to continue. Wait a few hours until they’re refreshed, do it again for as long as possible without merits.

Usually I’ll get to a 30ish win streak before I’ve basically been forced up in rank to where I have to decide whether to spend anything. And I certainly never spend dil on a gauntlet. If I get busted in a round, so be it.

I’ve got about 18,500 merits at the moment and have been as high as 24,000, because of collecting so many this way. They’re not really a bottleneck for me anyway.

Interesting approach, but how are you not coming against Surak, Guinan, Caretaker walls? Seems inevitable they'd nail with one, sooner than later. Lately, trying a similar approach - only playing "winnable" matchups, waiting for reset - I've made it to 11 in a row before the stonewall.