We need an alternative way to earn key fragments. Sitting on 10 boxes sucks.

SaltyToplaneGoat·Apr 27, 2017·14 votes·1,408 views

Because I sit on ten boxes already, and every month I pretty much earn four new boxes, but also about four keys, as the system is intended that way.

And since the point of the crafting was getting cosmetic content WITHOUT paying real life money I don't wanna resort to buying keys. I mean, I'm not that broke that I couldn't, but I WOULD miss those ten bucks, especially when it is thrown out for random conent. Ya know,I might open these ten boxes and get 10 champion shards...

So maybe we should get an additional way to make players earn key fragments. Maybe craft them with a shitton of blue essence? Maybe make them an extra reward for win-streaks? I don't know but we clearly need some to stop this problem of boxes piling up...

23 Comments

RenownedWheat42Apr 27, 20178 votes

I REALLY don't expect them to up rates for free content when this is how they make their money.

But, I said the same thing about Blizzard, and now you can get literally everything in HotS for free at rapid rates, so what do I know.

EedatApr 27, 20172 votes

Thats because HotS was a failure and they're just trying to keep as many people around as possible.

SaltyToplaneGoatApr 27, 20171 votes

It's the result of trying to be "noob-friendly" in a genre that usually motivates casuals to become tryhard-nerds.

You can take strategy games and make them more casual friendly and approachable - Warcraft and Starcraft is really simple when compared to certain other strategy titles. You can take TCGs and make them simple, no one's expecting super depth from a card game anyways. You can take shooters and dumb them down by providing enough characters that either cannot insta-die or can't one-shot, with that preventing a competition based in twitch-reflexes.

But you cannot dumb down MOBAs. Especially not since there are already three titles (if you count Smite) setting the bar. Since its release HotS was the "noobie MOBA", sure it's fun, but players forever have the stigma of driving their bicycle with training wheels instead of learning how the play games of the genre "for real".

RewtApr 27, 20171 votes

Rapid Rates

average 15 gold a game (50% winrate) to get a character that costs 10,000 gold. That seems VERY rapid to me

RenownedWheat42Apr 27, 20171 votes

Have you even played since the last update? Loot crates have been added to HotS and you can get EVERYTHING from them. I got two skins and two characters from one standard crate.

They're ridiculously simple to get, as well.

GULAG 4 UApr 27, 20171 votes

Please refer Hot's balance team differently from team 5 (Hearthstone design team). Hots' design team actually gives a shit about the game and aren't lazy fucks that don't balance. Team 5 is.

Brutalitops01Apr 27, 20176 votes

I get a key fragment literally every game I win.

Mysticman89Apr 27, 20174 votes

I actually paid attention to my key fragments this month to see whether I was earning the max 12 key fragments, and it turned out I was able to crank out all 12 fragments in around a week.

S chests I'll generally get within a day or 2 of having a new chests available.

I'm currently sitting on 4 unopened chests though, due to months I was unable to play much/unlucky with fragments, and it is somewhat frustrating that I'll never be able to make it up.

It'd be nice if maybe the key fragment cap/month and chests/month didn't actually line up, so the dedicated could get more than 12 per month (of course with the diminishing drop rate it'd still be fairly impractical, but it'd be possible at least). While it 'might' lead to people accumulating an excess of keys, I feel like it just gives those dedicated players a free pass if they're busy for a month more so than the chests. It's not that difficult to crank your 3-4 chests in a few days since you can save them up (to 4), but missed key fragments in a month don't roll over.

I guess ideally they'd look at everyones account and just see "ok they've been around since hextechs creation, so the max possible keys they could have earned is X, but they've only earned Y to date, so they can still earn X-Y keys at a vastly diminished rate" or something so people can always in theory get caught up for free, but as it is the excess chests just taunt me.

PhDs NutsApr 27, 20172 votes

At least it's more comfortable than sitting on keys.

MidnightxPMCApr 27, 20171 votes

Sitting on 3 atm. I play more ARAM than normals so keys stack up faster.

SaltyToplaneGoatApr 27, 20171 votes

Dunno, getting S ranks is never really hard I think. Go into a normal, pick some totally random out-of meta-champ and just make it work.

If all fails, just try to get 300 CS and a semi decent KDA. This system is so focussed on your cs, it's absurd in most cases.

Glory ln DeathApr 27, 20171 votes

What do I do if I'm an OTP who refuses to sully his Champ Mastery page with lesser champions, so I can only get 1 box per season and am currently sitting on 40+ key fragments?

Skins ProjectApr 28, 20171 votes

Wait for next season...

They'll be a champbox reset :)

RainXBladeApr 28, 20172 votes

While people like you are sitting with 10 boxes, I'm sitting here with along 15 - 20 keys and no boxes.

SwiftKitten88Apr 27, 20171 votes

we should be able to trade 1 box for 1 (completed) key (aka 3 fragments that are forged) and vice versa...

unlike you i have the opposite problem i have NINETEEN COMPLETE keys and 2 fragments.

(my champ pool is small )

i would love to be able to trade say... 10 completed keys for 10 boxes...

Skins ProjectApr 28, 20171 votes

2-1 would be a bit more fair.

3-1 even.

1-1 is just greedy. It's free content.

A Bad NasusApr 27, 20171 votes

I would trade you keys for boxes.

I finished unlocking all of my 4 chests in aram already this month.

Getting one skin shard.

..... and 3 champion shards......

JeffLeague123Apr 28, 20171 votes

Well actually getting boxes is much harder than getting key fragments since you get key fragments when you have a chest available but get a S on a champion that you already got a chest on.Boxes are for getting S on champions that you haven't gotten a chest on and you get a S on them and get a chest. The chest gain isn't daily, i think it's weekly.

Skins ProjectApr 28, 20171 votes

no actually..

Keys have a % chance of being obtained every time you win a game. The more you get the lower the % grows until you are capped out and cannot obtain more until it resets.

In theory that is easier.

However because it is %, and there is no guaranty that can be annoying. Chests have a quota and once you reach it you obtain one making it "easier"

Only Play DariusApr 28, 20171 votes

What are you talking about? If anything we need alternate ways to get boxes, sitting on 15+ keys for months and only a couple of boxes have come my way recently

FooDangApr 28, 20171 votes

You can earn keys by spending cash.

That pool table in the RIOT breakroom isnt going to pay for itself.