Curious how often players have received high level runes from the chest from "Champion I"?
Maybe it's better to stay in 5K Champion I rather than up to 5.5K Legendary IV?

@Monsterbath this is the first time the reward is given also orbs are better in higher leagues

I am very curious about these rune chests as well - only time will tell!!!

To a developing player, runes may be more useful than relics. For an advanced player, relics are preferable. So, looks like the rewards are appropriately targeted, to me.

I think this is nice to it finally allowing ftp to finally get access to higher runes that they really need.

the real question is: what are the chances to get a level X or even a level IX rune?
30%?
5%?
0,00000001%?

@Jimmy Definitely below 1% I think.

@esentis

that's why a golden relic is better, imho

@Jimmy However any rune better then 5 is a great deal. I mean rune crafting method it up to a level x.

@MonstrousManiac good luck making a lvl 5 rune into a lvl 10 rune

Gold Relic is better for me hands down.

Well, I'm up to 5.85 now so I might as well keep going and try to hit the top 500 before the season closes.
Thanks for the input everyone, I hope we get an idea of the % of high level runes chance from that chest soon.
If it was high I would prefer level x runes over gold relics myself.

Considering I am unable to craft Gold Relics I will go for the relic over a rune every time.

@San said in V to X rune chests from PVP. Better than gold relic?:

Considering I am unable to craft Gold Relics I will go for the relic over a rune every time.

And you are able to craft level X runes? Just curious. Level VIII runes? Just tell me, how long does it take to craft a level VIII rune? How many level I runes do you need to buy?

Relics and runes can be bought for gems. 685 gems for 2 gold and 3 bronze relics, not counting events. 345 gems for a level X rune (best price). Seems to me it really depends on the probabilities to draw a high level rune. (And even though I play for a year, I still need a LOT of runes.)

But the thing about relics is, most of them are useless and go to the forge. Runes are never useless as they can be flipped.

@Frunobulax said in V to X rune chests from PVP. Better than gold relic?:

But the thing about relics is, most of them are useless and go to the forge.

no there arent useless relics relics that aren't good I love them, they "feed" my good relics

@Frunobulax Of course I'm able able to craft X runes as well as every other rank rune. Yes it takes time but good luck crafting up to a gold relic.

@San technically you can't craft relics, you need to obtain them and then level them up, while (in theory) you can buy an X rune for gold (you need to buy 262144 lvl 1 runes). But that costs over 131 billion gold ...

@keki14 Your cost calculation is incorrect unless you plan to craft up the rune without skipping ranks. You do realize you can craft a X rune with 1 rank9 and 3 rank1 runes no? While gambling isn't my thing I do skip many rune ranks using 3 rank 1runes with 1 of any rune from rank2 thru 9.

@San I just copied the wiki, it's 262144 lvl 1 runes without gambling.

@keki14 said in V to X rune chests from PVP. Better than gold relic?:

@San I just copied the wiki, it's 262144 lvl 1 runes without gambling.

And don't forget to factor in the require time. Gambling reduces the amount of required runes significantly (I figure by a factor of 3-4), but increases the crafting time. So, no gambling: 24h for X, 4 * 20h for XI, 16 * 12h for VIII, 64 * 8h for VII, 256 * 4h for VI, 1024 * 2h for V, 4096 * 1h for IV. Yes, you can craft the III runes easily in events. But I'm at 332 days so far. Tell me again how you "craft" a level X rune @San?
Even a friggin level VIII rune (which does little in high leagues) takes 21 days, provided that you set your alarm clock every 1 or 2 hours during the night to craft...

Compared to a high level rune, what use is a relic that allows me to increase the level of one of my relics from whatever, 17 to 18?

@San said in V to X rune chests from PVP. Better than gold relic?:

@keki14 Your cost calculation is incorrect unless you plan to craft up the rune without skipping ranks. You do realize you can craft a X rune with 1 rank9 and 3 rank1 runes no? While gambling isn't my thing I do skip many rune ranks using 3 rank 1runes with 1 of any rune from rank2 thru 9.

Which saves about 15% in rune cost per level, per my most recent numbers. No savings at level 2, so we have 8 upgrades. 0.85 to the power of 8 is 0.27, so instead of 262144 lvl I runes you'll need only (ONLY?) 70.000 lvl I runes, but a LOT more time to craft.

Well, now we know. I had 2 rune chests and 2 level V runes.
Surprised? No. Disappointed? Hell yes.

@Frunobulax Two rune chests here also. Both runes were stamina , one V and the other VI.

Please keep posting results from opening those chests - still Undecided whether I should aim for L4 or C1 with my second account!

2 rune chests :
level V team speed
level VI stamina

Champion I - 1 team stamina V + 1 team Life V

Level V Team Stamina and Level V Team Health.

2 level 5 stamina

2 chests - 1 was V speed, 1 was V team stamina

I got 2 level 5 runes as well. I've decided these aren't worth it until/unless we see what the percentages are.

So basically all of them are garbage ...

same here, waited for the rune lords to open on my baby accounts and all lvl 5 really really bad rewards for same trophies as previous seasons , very discouraging, i'm waiting for someone to say they got more than a 7 at least

Level 6 speed.
Level 7 Stamina.

That's the first level 7 rune we've seen.

My kid got 2 of the lvl4+ chests, both were level 4.
I was in the relic category, got a lame amulet.

So far, seeing the results, I think I like the relic better.