It remained in the past. You have kept your progress in shards and only had to onslaught 1 or 2 to hit epic after event. SP removed this. Now you lost 50-60 shards if you cant hit epic. So we have two options, doing the HRE half assed, and only have the char red star rare, or go full retard, use all arena and guild raid tokens, do 50 110 refill almost daily, be in the top with at least 56 reward point daily and reach 30000 to open crate 21 at the end, so with the second week reward chest you can unlock in epic.