GUIDE] The ‘GaGa’ Method to increase your chance at Purple and Gold Astral
First off, I am a new player to Wartune. I started my first toon on S128 when it began last month. Everything was a learning experience to me, and getting some good Astrals was part of that process. Being a bit of an OCD person, I started to notice some odd things happening while spending my gold trying to get some good astrals. Mostly I shared this information with a select few in my guild that seemed to be of the same interest and together we found by using the following methods, you can increase your chances at gaining purple or even gold astrals. I read everything I could find in these forums about the best methods to use in the Astral battle and adopted them in my techniques. Here it is for the first time (it seems) in these forums. Please, these techniques are not a guarantee at anything, but as many of my guild members can attest, it does indeed increase your chances.
1. When you are just starting out as a noobie, I followed the advice I found in these forums and sold everything I got, even crappy purples until I got my first Gold Astral that happened to also be a keeper. I got the PATK gold astral as my first astral. By selling everything, you will be putting more gold back into your toon’s account thereby allowing you more clicks. More clicks = more chances at a good astral. Made sense to me and that’s what I did, until I got my first Gold Astral then I started to keep the purples to level up that gold.
2. Now for my techniques. Open the Astral interface and don’t click anything, watch the star field. There are 6 constellations up there that you will see brightening. Watch them closely, they will first brighten, dim a bit, then they will brighten a second time. So… Bright Dim Bright like that. Your goal at clicking is to click during the DIM part before the constellation brightens the second time.
3. Once you DO click, and have an astral in the star field. Take care of it. Pick it or sell it whatever your intention is but take care of every Astral one at a time. Reason is that by leaving Astrals in the star field, it dims the entire star field and you cannot make out the brightening patterns of the constellations.
4. Once you mange to advance the #1 clicky up to the #2 spot, then you will need to advance the #2 clicky up to the #3 spot, then stop. Now, leaving #3 bright and shiney, go back to the #1 clicky and try and get it to advance up to the #2 spot. Once you do, it will brighten the #2 a bit, not as bright as the lead clicky is (#3) but it will brighten a lighter shade of grey. Now go back up to the #3 clicky, which is shining brightly, and advance that up to the #4 position. If you hit it right, and it advances, then go back down to the #2 clicky and move it up to the #3 spot, and then move the #1 up to the #2 spot. You should now have #2, #3, #4 bright. Lastly go back to the #4 clicky and attempt to advance it up to the #5 spot. If you get it, move all the others up so that you end up with #2, #3, #4, and #5 all lite up at the same time.
5. There appears to be some correlation with the different constellations in the sky and which clicky to click, but I can’t be certain of it, but I am going to pass the idea along anyway. Play with it.
What appears to be happening is that the more astrals you can get to light up at the same time, seems to increase the odds that you will get a good astral. And if you are able to at the same time time it just right, and click the Astral clicky in the dip between the brightenings, you increase your chance at advancing the clicky up 1.
Good Luck to ya! I am lvl 47 now, have 7700 Star points and I have had 8 gold and dozens of purple astrals go through my toons fingers. I am sure there are many out there that have had better, sweet! Got a system share it.
Or maybe, just maybe, its all frickin random anyway huh?