Don’t Vote Godfest Exclusives

or else…

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Why

Player’s Choice Godfests (PCGF) are some of the most exciting events Puzzle and Dragons as it grants everyone to make their voice heard to create a special pool of monsters with increased rates.

Unfortunately, it also has the potential to turn into a disaster through the voting of Godfest Exclusives. Despite the fact that the top 25 cards will be featured at higher rates (or actually available for GFE), they are not weighted evenly.

Previous PCGF have had excessively high rates for GFE that resulted in terrible rates overall. This is because it is my understanding that all cards have a baseline value for rolling which is then augmented through each Godfest. Thus, if the majority of the top cards voted in are GFE, the overall rates for featured cards is significantly lower compared to having most of them being Pantheon monsters. This will result in a higher chance of rolling silver eggs and other forms of sadness.

This was my small sample size from Dec. 2015’s PCGF:

What to vote for

I am not going to tell you to vote for XYZ card because what you should be voting for should be what can benefit your monster box most. However, you should resist the urge to vote for GFE and instead put your choice behind a powerful Pantheon card.

Player’s Choice Godfests are meant to be for chasing Pantheon cards across different families. This is because like any family, there are some bad eggs (even gold eggs) and normal Godfests always feature the entire Pantheon at increased rates. Thus, voting for the strong select cards from each series will help create what could be arguably the strongest Godfest to date.

This has further relevance for Pantheons that do not have strong accompanying cards as you are able to “snipe” them for higher rates.

Vote for what is relevant now

Due to the rapid rate of Powercreep, you ideally want to have cards that are currently powerful. Voting for outdated cards can be wasteful as they may not make it in along with causing possible disappointment when rolled as they lose their value much faster.

Perhaps to better guide you, here is my current and updated tier list for Pantheon cards:

Pantheon Tier List – May 12, 2017

S+

S

S-

A+



A

A-





B+



B





B-



C+

C

C-

D+ D D-

Glimmer of hope

Last PCGF had a distressing number of 6-star GFE voted in due to the fact that every top-tier team required numerous rare cards to function. Thankfully, the meta has dramatically shifted towards teams that are not as reliant on Godfest Exclusives and prefer using Pantheon cards due to their new Reincarnated evolutions and updated awakenings.

Hopefully this inspires people to vote more intelligently than they did in the past by avoiding GFE.

Conclusion

Player’s Choice Godfest is an exciting time, but I strongly caution you against voting for Godfest Exclusives. Your vote is better spent on valuable Pantheon cards as those will have significantly higher rates compared to GFE.

If everyone does their part by voting for Pantheon monsters, we could have one of the strongest PCGF that will hopefully be reminiscent of its first incarnation.

You can cast your non-GFE vote HERE.

Let me know who you plan on voting for and why in the comments below.

Happy Puzzling!