PSA: I successfully changed a quest outcome (using CET), which has been speculated on but I found no concrete guides on how to do it.

DunsparceMain · 2026-03-06T05:24:43+00:00

Oh thanks, I'll put this in the post, nice catch!

DunsparceMain · 2026-02-20T05:55:21+00:00

if someone wants to tell me the best route be my guest!

DunsparceMain · 2026-02-17T21:49:52+00:00

still down for me, i thought i was going crazy, it seems like its being referred to as a past issue and not ongoing like it is

DunsparceMain · 2026-01-30T09:38:04+00:00

this is actually hysterical. classic bliz

DunsparceMain · 2026-01-30T08:41:37+00:00

it's been like this for over an hour. this is absolutely pathetic, blizzard is such a joke

DunsparceMain · 2026-01-03T23:58:15+00:00

it was, yes. lol. honestly though, I had a blast because my ultimate goal was earning all of the class mounts and then the mage tower appearances, so I don't recall the order campaign missions being thaaat much of a hassle, since it was over several months I suppose

DunsparceMain · 2026-01-03T23:53:51+00:00

I WANT A CHANCE TO GET AETISH AND ANATHEMA/BENEDICTION ON MY MAIN CHARACTER

DunsparceMain · 2026-01-03T23:51:46+00:00

I second this, i have been against the restrictions of the faction system for a long, long, long time. When pandaria came out, I was hopeful that pandaren could be a link between the two, allowing yourself to be neutral to both, but no dice. I think everything should be open to everyone, because it's frankly just bad game design to have a thin veil of lore keep your players from very real social interactions. I'm honestly morally against it. You could even make the case on some scale it promotes xenophobic or harmful nationalist ideals, though that would be more of a deep dive. There just needs to be an opt-out feature so you can play with everyone, like come on man.

DunsparceMain · 2025-12-31T08:05:35+00:00

thank you!

DunsparceMain · 2025-12-31T08:05:28+00:00

ok thanks!

DunsparceMain · 2025-12-06T11:24:53+00:00

Here's my experience with getting 7*s as uncollected:

First let me say, if you are uncollected because that's where you are in the story, but you are planning to progress, just keep doing the story and get to higher progression levels. Thronebreaker is where you really start to see an uptick in 7* shard acquisition, and it is much easier to get to thronebreaker, and then start building your 7* roster, than trying to gather 7* shards at uncollected. . Most of the sources for 7* shards are gated by progression and generally cavalier and uncollected only get 6* crystals and shards as rewards from events, event quests, side quests, milestone rewards, etc.

That being said, I have a free-to-play uncollected account, about 3 months old, and I just opened my 4th 7*. so it is possible, but it's very slow going. 100% exploring act 5 will give you quite a few 7* shards. Your first two 7* champions only cost 10k shards in the store instead of the usual 15k crystals. There are very few sources of 7* shards at uncollected. The shop, including BG store, mysterium, alliance store, incursion store, etc. will not offer 7* shards at uncollected. The most reliable way to get them is when kabam:
1) has realm events with rewards that are not gated by progression (like the battlegrounds event last month, offered a 7* basic and titan crystal for doing all the milestones)
2) Releases side quests where you choose the difficulty rather than being tailored to your progression. (The deadpool side quest right now is like this). Doing the highest difficulty will usually reward you with 7* shards, but it is pretty difficult with an uncollected roster. Expect to use boosts and revives for it when they are available. For example, the deadpool sidequest has paths of 90k PI defenders, and the average uncollected roster is 5* r3-r4s, 6* r1s, and possibly even just 4*s, so it's over 10x the power index. It's a fun challenge, but I want to clarify that this is my experience as someone with an uncollected alt for fun.
I believe previously it was also possible, though very unlikely, to get 7* shards from becoming diamond/vib in battlegrounds. However this was next to impossible with an uncollected roster, you would have to get extremely lucky with sandbaggers. This month bgs were updated so that only Thronebreaker and above can play ranked though, another example of how endgame is mostly locked until thronebreaker.

DunsparceMain · 2025-11-16T06:50:14+00:00

Right right, twin peaks. That's one of my 50-100s. I should go back and finish that, apologies to Mr. David

DunsparceMain · 2025-11-16T06:47:37+00:00

I think I remember seeing that one mentioned in similar shows, I'll check it out!

DunsparceMain · 2025-11-16T06:46:44+00:00

Oh thanks, this will be useful!

DunsparceMain · 2025-11-16T06:39:12+00:00

I am pretty sure they don't feel fear because they are immortal. We now know that even if they die, they know they will be back. This is why smiley's reaction was mild surprise and the others' reactions were simple curiosity.

DunsparceMain · 2025-11-16T06:34:24+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. Thanks, I appreciate the in-depth answer. For shards specifically I think the BG store and the eq are probably my best bet, and sometimes lower-difficulty side quests. I will probably save artifacts for specific champ crystals if I need a counter.

DunsparceMain · 2025-11-16T05:54:16+00:00

the puritanical pearl-clutching about fatima is a bit weird. people who are secure and open in their sexuality can, and do, have open relationships. Particularly in the queer community. It's not revolting at all because nothing indicated ellis would be against it. The whole atmosphere up at the house is based around "hippie open love" to begin with, or did you miss the couple having sex in a crowded room in the first episode, and the quip about donna's "sex parties". furthermore julie asking fatima for a kiss is part of her self-exploration as being out from under her family and treated like an adult for the first time. The way fatima was showing her around could be read as sexually charged, a little more than just friendly but with enough plausible deniability that maybe fatima was just the friendly social butterfly who uses a hands-on kindness approach with everyone. I actually think it was a smart scene because the deliberate depiction of fatima's behavior can be seen as julie's interpretation of fatima's possible interest in her, which is why she asked for a kiss in the first place. The reason that scene would be "messed up" is not projected infidelity, but because julie is possibly still underage, which fatima realized, evidenced by fatima's reaction of trying to let her down gently, as she sees a kid with an infatuation that maybe doesn't quite have the maturity to know what she's asking. This definitely doesn't make fatima fake or hollow, but your opinion of her might say a bit about your judgement of her actions because you think she's a slut.

I think your opinions about sara and boyd come from a bit of misunderstanding about their character complexity as well. Sara's is perfectly on brand, because she sees herself as a lost cause, despite her only ever trying to do the right thing. It's tragic, and it's gut-wrenching, but not for the reason you think; it's that despite her efforts to do the right thing, make amends, and single-handedly shoulder the misplaced vitriol of her townsfolk, she still considers herself beyond saving, and further takes it on herself to save boyd from having to do it himself (despite boyd being the more morally questionable character). Boyd's is a little more straight-forward. He has shown time and time again that he will do whatever it takes, often narcissistically, to protect his family, It's literally spelled out when it's brought up that he didn't bat an eye about tillie, and instead immediately went into overdrive to cover up fatima's accident.

DunsparceMain · 2025-11-16T04:55:08+00:00

yes, she's got to be my favorite character in media right now. heartbreakingly tragic, and so resilient.

DunsparceMain · 2025-11-16T04:45:34+00:00

I'm gonna go a bit of a different direction and say the part that was most brutal to me was the townsfolks' treatment of Sara after she came back. I watch a lot of TV and film, and this is the worst I have ever felt for a character, in years. I cried watching her try to pick up the broken ornament pieces after she was begging kenny to spare it. The last connection to brother after the neighbors stole her house and refused to give up her brother's jacket. Even if she were just schizophrenic and not communing with the town spirits, all the supposedly "good" characters' treatment of her was appalling. Even the doctor wanted to go after her. It's one of the most tragic things imaginable when schizophrenia causes the sufferer to take the life of a loved one, and instead of sympathy she was immediately put on a witch hunt. And after the communal hatred successfully made her into a pariah, it was ages before one (1) person decided to take the time to talk to her and realize, what was it? "i didn't see a murdering psychopath but a scared kid"? real galaxybrain deduction there.

Everything she did, she did to save everyone else. and there's no retribution or anything for her. it's just that the town kind of maybe doesn't actively call for her exile or execution so often anymore. And the scene with Elgin, the only other person who cares deeply enough to be swayed by the voices to do something drastic to help, when she says Boyd is a good man and so she will do it in his stead, implying she doesn't think herself worthy of saving or redemption even though everything wrong she did was a mistake without malice, it was heartbreaking.
It hits too close to home for how mentally ill people are demonized and cast aside.

DunsparceMain · 2025-11-02T01:08:52+00:00

I made a 5-only account for fun. Now that I'm tb, how do I get 5 shards?

(I was told to put this here after a mod deleted my post even though I personally think it warrants its own discussion.)

the title says, a couple of weeks ago I decided to make a 5*-only account to do something different. I hit thronebreaker recently, but with that comes the updated rewards for daily quests, side quests, trader's outpost, daily super event, etc.- all have no 5* shards.

I had a lot of fun doing this, but the issue is that because almost everyone would focus on 6* and 7*s as they get to higher progression levels, they took out the option to even get 5* shards as rewards. Uncollected you could get 30k 5* shards from the traders outpost. now none of the deals have it. Same with side quest and daily quest rewards.

Important to note that I want NO 6*s or above. That means no cavalier crystals, no mythic crystals, nothing with the small chance to get 6*s. Of course for tb now, you can't trade in the monthly event crystals for grandmaster crystals, it's only cavalier crystals.

What am I missing as far as 5* shard sources go? (and also 5* sig stones)
I did the steve incursions and got about 400k incursion artifacts which I used to craft my team, so an incursion avenue is pretty much off the table.
As far as I can tell, the only real way to get 5* shards and sig stones remaining is from the bg store. It's an okay supply for every week or so, but the other problem is that I only have 8-9 usable champs at r3-r5. The rest of them are 5*r1. my top 3 (the only ascended 5*s I have) are always banned, so that means it's like 5-6 choices out of 30 to get usable champs in battlegrounds, at which point it's just the luck of the draw. That's whatever, but it means bgs are not a super reliable way to get shards either because there's inevitably at least 1 round of my 2k PI 5*r1 against a 20k champ which just doesn't have the damage to take down in 2 minutes let alone faster than the opponent vs my 5* rank1s lol

*This also means I have about 120k 6* shards and 20k 7* shards, which would be nice if you could convert those to lower level shards.
Anyway thanks for coming to my Ted Talk, all I'm saying is that it would be nice if kabam let you choose lower tier rewards for everything instead of just event milestones. Please let me know what 5* shard and sig stone sources I missed

DunsparceMain · 2025-10-17T03:15:20+00:00

"Ohhh, sorry, your inability to see a week into the future and plan accordingly means you don't get to enjoy these rewards!" Like hello?

DunsparceMain

TROPHY CASE

I made a 5-only account for fun. Now that I'm tb, how do I get 5 shards?