Call to Arms event!

imnfiction

This is an attempt to forecast weapons that will appear during the Call to Arms event. {last update 3/22/2020}

*********************** intro ***********************
My decision to buy or skip the offered weapons depends on:
- cost, i.e. what if tomorrow a similar one would cost more or less? so far the cost stable 1k.
- my gold balance, i.e. what if tomorrow there will be better offering and I don't have gold?
- weapon itself, i.e. must have vs nice to have.

Based on all above, the big question is - how can I know if today is the best offer, or should I wait for a better one.

*********************** guessing ***********************

Since we have 6 classes and 7 days:
- it's likely we get one class weapon per 6 days, with a potential twist on the day 7. <<Update>>: this got broken on day 6, when instead of a scout weapon we got another hunter weapon)
- It's likely the cost will stay 1k gold during the first 6 days.
- It's unlikely we get weapons of different quality (tier) during the first 6 days, i.e. if we have mid-tier buckshot shotgun for hunter on day 1, we won't have top-tier dragon tongue for warrior.

*********************** confirmed ***********************

- Day 1 Buckshot Shotgun
- Day 2 Festive Lucille
- Day 3 Chainsaw
- Day 4 Spear Gun (was guessed correctly)
- Day 5 Dixieland BBQ (was guessed correctly)
- Day 6 Flaming Crossbow (who would expect the hunter weapon again?!!!)
- Day 7 Tactical Spear

*********************** Tiers & Probabilities ***********************

Top tier - LOW probability to appear, with exception to day 7.
hunter: harpoon
bruiser: Morgan staff, hockey stick
scout: tactical spear, daryl's hunting knife, pitchfork
assault: golden assault rifle
shooter: flare guns
warrior: dragon's tongue

Mid tier - HIGH probability to appear at days 1-6.
hunter: festive shotgun (confirmed), flaming crossbow (confirmed), golden incendiary rifle, RPG
bruiser: festive Lucille (confirmed)
scout: pumpkin carver, musket (highest probability), cheap spear, winter axe (lowest probability)
assault: LMG, DixieLand BBQ (confirmed), Pickle Jar, the Reconnin'
shooter: spear gun (confirmed)
warrior: chainsaw (confirmed), winter shovel, road sign

Unique weapons w/o special functionality have almost no chance to appear, hence I'm skipping Michonne's Katana, Rick's mace, someone's special pistol, etc.

kalebson

I have to agree. It’s way too expensive especially not knowing what all of them are. I might want to buy a couple but don’t want to pass on todays waiting for something that never comes. At least tell us what they all are in advance

Deadheads

Can someone share the details of this event?

Deadheads

Is it just regular weapons you can find in crates or unique ones?

TWDaddiction

> @Deadheads said:
> Is it just regular weapons you can find in crates or unique ones?

Today is the shotgun, so likely they’ll all be unique, buyable weapons

JayZ

Day 1

MudMoccasin

Please, oh PLEASE, let these be weapons no longer seen in Bundle Shop (i.e. Beth's Scissors, Heath's Crowbar, Tactical Rifle, Silenced Mac 10, Golden Lucille, ect.)!!!!!!!!!!!

Deadheads

Hmmm, that COULD be good then, especially for F2P players. The timing isn't great though considering people are using their gold to reset distance.

imnfiction

@JayZ question to Pro from F2P. Bucket shotgun is must have or nice to have for 40+, given that I already have the festive shotgun and Daryl’s crossbow and will get harpoon from the GW soon.

WellyLuga

The shotgun is absolutely not worth 1k gold, I'd agree somewhere between 300-500. I think at that price to get people really buying you'd have to offer up the high tier best in class weapons like the staff, spear, harpoon, DT or golden AR but I guess we will see what the week has in store.

Billdinger

@Fluxxx You all were so close to making this one of the best improvements in recent memory. But as usual, the ball was fumbled right as the goalline was being crossed. 1000K gold for a weapon is absurd. Look at today's bundles. $9.99 for the Slick rick bundle which nets you 40SR tokens, 100 radios( 7 SR calls), 600 Gold, and 3K TG. The value of the gold would be $5.99 alone once you base it off current prices. So for $12.00 of Gold based upon current prices, you get 1 weapon. for $2.01 less you get 40 SR tokens, 3K TG, and 7 SR calls, plus the gold to do a distance reset.

Realistically, the cost to purchase a weapon with gold should be no more than 400 Gold. Anything more than that just steers people to purchase better-valued bundles for a 25% savings vs using gold in the shop.

Please consider the logic and make the corrections.

WellyLuga

imnfiction said:

@JayZ question to Pro from F2P. Bucket shotgun is must have or nice to have for 40+, given that I already have the festive shotgun and Daryl’s crossbow and will get harpoon from the GW soon.

I'd put the buckshot above Daryl's crossbow but below the festive shotgun and the harpoon. I think the harpoon is the only must have hunter weapon in the game at the moment.

ATLAS-Z

It's a great option for free to play players that are very frugal with their gold and don't have some of the good weapons.

I do think the cost is a bit high but then if they're offering some of the best weapons in the game then okay.

I recommend if you're free to play player and you have some gold stashed up and save it for the weapons that are absolutely necessary.

The buckshot shotgun that is being offered today is really cool and nice but definitely not necessary for free to play

JayZ

imnfiction said:

@JayZ question to Pro from F2P. Bucket shotgun is must have or nice to have for 40+, given that I already have the festive shotgun and Daryl’s crossbow and will get harpoon from the GW soon.

IMO, for end-gamers, it is a not-needed-at-all item. I bought the buckshot shotgun a while ago, and am only using on Maggie when I farm XP in the Distance... Like @WellyLuga said, Harpoon is the most valuable Hunter weapon in the game, followed by Festive Shotgun, and then a normal fire rifle (wide bore, lucky, incendiary), and then the Flaming Crossbow. I almost never take more than two Hunters on missions, so having two Harpoons and a Festive Shotgun is more than enough for me.

imnfiction

@WellyLuga @ATLAS-Z @JayZ thanks a mil for swift replies!

Verdao1914

I think this initiative to allow players to use resources from within the game to acquire a special weapon is very cool. I am sure that if this had happened 2 years ago I would literally be jumping for joy. But today is not the case. I really think it's a great idea but I believe that we will not have such a good execution of the event.
Among several problems with this dynamic is the weapon's value. I do not even need to explain why I do not agree that 1000 gold is a fair value since my colleagues have scored this issue so well before me.
The period that we are having access to this event also does not seem to be the best as we are in the middle of a seasonal campaign where the overwhelming majority of players are investing 400 gold in the repetition of the distance mode every week.
It also doesn't seem fair to me not to disclose which weapons will be participating in the event since most of us don't usually stock that much gold. If we knew what was coming, we could program ourselves to buy the weapon that really makes our eyes shine.
Finally, I would like to leave a idea so we can future terms a sequence of this event in proper way to happen in my opinion.
In place of a "lightning" event that ended up taking everyone by surprise, NG could create "Community Day" and once a month offer a special weapon so that we can buy using gold. With a prior announcement of which weapon would be the highlight, we could program ourselves to buy the desired weapon on Community Day. I know it would be useless if it was still expensive, but we would have a chance to mine enough gold to make the purchase.

euchid

For 1000 gold it should have unique stats and some tokens ...

Firekid

They are obviously testing the water with this and feel that 700 gold would have been a better price. I mean “technically” this is a free weapon, as in you don’t need to spend real money to get it. The comments above saying it’s a better deal to spend money on x bundle is fine if you are willing to spend real money on it. Gold isn't as easy to get as say trade goods but it can be farmed and collected/hoarded by FTP players.
How many threads have their been asking for special premium weapons in the trade shop. NG have answered this request in the only way they can without hurting their bottom line. Yes of course buying any of the weapons which will be offered this week for real money in the bundle store is going to be better value, but that’s the point, you pay real money you get a better deal.
The one thing I would say is the timing of it really sucks and should not have been done during the campaign. Maybe going forward you could do 1 weapon on the first Tuesday of each month during tradeshop Tuesday a weapon for 1000 gold.

Firekid

But harsh putting the festive Lucille in. Was given free to most players during the recent campaign and inferior to the Morgan staff or hockey stick. Poor show.

Firekid

But harsh putting the festive Lucille in. Was given free to most players during the recent campaign and inferior to the Morgan staff or hockey stick. Poor show.

JayZ

Day 2

imnfiction

this has been reviewed, optimized and moved to the first post.

ShadowWalker

Assuming we get one weapon for each class my guess will be the Spear Gun for Shooters. There is a Flare Gun bundle today so I don't think they will sell one and then offer a free one.

For scouts I will guess a SS Spear, I don't think they will give out a Tactical one for free.

There is already a Festive Road Sign in the Guild Wars shop so I think there is a pretty decent chance for another Dragon's Tongue.

We are about to get the Decimator and we already got a Golden Assault Rifle, so my guess for assaults is that it won't be a stunning weapon. Probably Light Machine Gun or Dixie Land BBQ.

Wildcard for 7th day: An RPG (hopefully the Devil's Torch), if I recall correctly they made some adjustments to them in the update so perhaps they let us try it out.

Basically I am not expecting anything too amazing.

imnfiction

@ShadowWalker thanks, updated. Don’t think that there will be Dragons Tongue tho. Fully agree about the rest.

TJCart

> @JayZ said:
> (Quote)
> IMO, for end-gamers, it is a not-needed-at-all item. I bought the buckshot shotgun a while ago, and am only using on Maggie when I farm XP in the Distance... Like @WellyLuga said, Harpoon is the most valuable Hunter weapon in the game, followed by Festive Shotgun, and then a normal fire rifle (wide bore, lucky, incendiary), and then the Flaming Crossbow. I almost never take more than two Hunters on missions, so having two Harpoons and a Festive Shotgun is more than enough for me.

@JayZ Since you did it for hunters, could you or someone else rack and stack the usefulness of bruiser weapons in the same way?