Saturday, September 15, 2018

Paladins: Completing the Dragon's Call Rewards

I only recently started playing Paladins after the release of the 1.4 patch update, but along with that update came an event called Dragon's Call. It's pretty great. You can read the full information about it here, but to sum it up, it's a capture the flag type of event where you capture a ball (or "the key") from the center of the arena and run it / throw it into your enemies goal. The first team to 4 goals (or the most goals in 15 minutes . . . or the first team to touch the ball if you're tied) wins!

Gotta get them goals, kids!

Along with this event comes a reward track where for every goal your team scores (win or lose) you gain a point along the reward track, so you're winning cool stuff all along the way.

Gotta get that loot, kids!

As you can see from all the check marks and blue boxes above the rewards in the above picture, this morning was my morning to finish this event up and get all my dragon's call loot! Well . . . I say all the loot, BUT WAIT . . . THERE'S MORE!  Well, I should say there's more if you'd like to lay down 1,200 crystals (around 25 bucks) to buy the entire dragon's call bundle. I have to admit that this "Raeve" "Maeve" skin is super tempting. I'm really loving the Deadmau5 vibes they're dropping here with this skin.

Gotta get that cool skin, kids! 

 To make their bundle extra sexy, you get double goal points on your reward track if you buy it . . . and even if you don't play the event, when the event is over, they're going to give you all those reward track items for free anyway.

So, it's not all cash grab. It's actually a fun event regardless if you get the rare skins or not, and it was a fun way for me to finish up my quests for the day in Paladins.  Here's a video from one of my winning Dragon's Call matches where I was playing Grohk.


Woot best in class!

Rumor has it that the event will end when the 1.6 patch goes live in what is anticipated to be October, so you still have some time to play. Also, you'll notice a few weird bugs when you play the event, like these:

  • If you score two goals and then the opposing team scores one goal, it says, "your team has taken the lead" even though you already have th elead.
  • You have to play one extra game to collect your rewards even though you've made your goal.
  • The reward screen will be blank if you win that next match, but it will show your reward if you lose your next match.
  • FX from how you were killed (like fire) will still be displayed on your character when you are revived.
  • Sometimes you pass right through the ball.
  • etc.
It's not "perfect," but it's nothing super game breaking and still a lot of fun. I'm sure it's hard to ship an event like this bug free (believe you me, it's next to impossible from my previous CM experience with how updates go).

Happy Dueling!

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