Wellp, they fixed the duplicate problem.  The only issue now is, you get no coins, like, at all.  I’ve done about 25 levels since the event has come out.  I had just enough coins to purchase Mercy’s skin at 3,000 coins prior to the event.   I think I had about 50 left over.  You wanna know how many coins I have now? Oh, about 256.  After at least 25 boxes.

Why is this? Well when you get 2-4 duplicates per box, you got a little bit of coins for the duplicates.  The only summer skin I’ve picked up from a box is Junkrats.  Everything else has been non-duplicate player icons, sprays, voice lines, you know, kind of lame stuff.  (I did get D.va’s game emote though, pretty cool).

I surmised earlier than the overall skin drop rate and event skin drop rate was nerfed severely after the winter holiday event, during the Chinese New Year event.  So, you don’t get event skins with any regularity.  You don’t get duplicates to earn coins to buy the very expensive 3,000 coin event skins.  And now, coins almost never drop either.

For some reason, Blizzard put in weapons completed done in a gold skin that rewards people with a bunch of competitive wins.  Like 3,000 points worth.  Just like silver and gold portraits, all that means is YOU PLAYED A LOT.  So oooh look that Widow has a golden gun.  Big deal, they just played a lot and got enough points.  It’s not an indication of skill on any particular class.

I personally haven’t done much competitive because golden “guns” doesn’t motivate me.  First off, it barely looks any different at all on some skins.  I believe Mercy in particular has a skin that already has a golden weapon.

The gold barely makes a difference on some characters, like here’s a Reaper example.

Regular weapon (Halloween skin)

Gold weapon

It barely seems worth the work to me.  Maybe if it had a Power Torrent enchant or something.

I was doing some really tedious crap at work so I decided to take a break with a game or two.

I got in with someone named Nine who was playing music over his/her mic.  Then said in team chat “Im so alone”

I replied “well I muted you ‘cuz open mic and shit”

then this dumb stuff happened

Nine: Who are you?

me: I’m me, you?

Nine: Oh lowbie Ocyla

me: oh, plays way too much nine, nice to  meet you (he had a gold portrait)

Nine: I am gets paid to play Nine 🙂 Nice to meet you too lowbie

me: yeah sure

Then he/she bitched about no heals,  but we ended the game with me playing Zenyatta with gold elims at 3.  So yeah.  Then they group invited me just to play some “wah wah waaaaaah” music to which I said “That’s cute, how you are?”  They immediately left group.

Then they friend invited me and I asked if they “had anything clever to say?”  They asked if I wanted to group.  At this point, totally wary and I said no but I’d be on later.  I really didn’t want to group and get an earful of something just in case.  End with me saying “so maybe see you around gold portrait” and they replied “see you level 400s <3”

And question, if Doomfist stole the gauntlet, what on earth are we escorting now?

I’m still trying to figure out the logic of the Play of the Games, especially when it comes to support.  Here’s some total non-potgs:

Ana: sleeps an ulting Soldier or Roadhog.

Mercy:  4 person rez to stop final process on the payload to win the game.

Zenyatta:  Ulting to save team from Zarya’s AND Genji’s ult, ults to save team from D.va’s ult, etc.

What gets a potg?

Ana: Pretty much nothing, ever.

Mercy: A lame, non-critical 2-3 person rez  that had no real effect on the current push or point.

Zenyatta: I don’t even know, but all my Zen highlights weren’t saving the team from 2-3 ults, it was just me killing a person or two.  It feels like kills totally trumps anything supports can do.  Unless of course, it’s Lucio booping people in a hole.  That’s apparently a big fucking deal.  Oh, you pushed 2 people in a whole with a single click? Have a PotG.