I know that its not much, but I am proud of what I have. After 2 weeks of playing I am currently at 1917 rating. I have to admit, I surprised myself that I was able to get to a Gold level rating. Unfortunately I still dont even have the cards to qualify for Silver 3. I did what I could to rent good, cheap cards to try to get the rewards for silver but it is insanely hard to beat the bots to the card rentals. I really don't understand how they do it. I sat there refreshing the page constantly and clicked as fast as I could to rent cards and I am not able to rent about 97% of them. They must scan the blockchain with their bot and rent then before I even see them. I am not sure, but it was frustrating to say the least. I was really excited to get more chests when I hit that gold rating but I will end up collecting bronze level chests :(. Oh well, I am having fun!
When I started I put 100$ into the game. I watched the market and made a decision to buy Djinn Oshannus as well as at least 1 of each of the djinns. I figured these were good long term investments and I figured I would get a lot of fun playing with them in the mean time. I was right about that. This game is a lot of fun and I am hoping for some decent rewards in my 9 chests that I get to open, although I understand that it is not likely. I made an early decision to scoop up a decent amount of cheaper, newer reward cards. At the time these were some of the best "collection power investments" that I was aware of. I have also had a bit of fun flipping cards on Peakmonsters to get a couple more cheap cards for my collection. Its truly amazing how much difference it makes to actually be rewarded with something of value for playing a game. I am not used to this aspect but I really enjoy it! I have done my best to recruit my friends and my brother to come join me in the game due to the fact that I believe there is A LOT of potential here in both the short term and the long term. Personally, I am more long term myself and I hope to see streamers playing Splinterlands on twitch someday :D.
At this point I am really looking forward to buying my first packs. Since I just started the game I have never experienced or seen pack drops, so for me this is entirely new and very exciting. I am hoping to slowly accumulate more and more cards and get my collection power higher so that I can actually compete at higher levels. I know that I would not actually be able to compete at gold currently which the cards I have. I have watched enough videos to understand that I would get my booty stomped. But no worries on this end, I will get there eventually.
Right now I am excited to scoop some cards when packs drop as well as participate in opening a few, really hoping for some good luck and I hope you all have good luck yourselves! Cheers Mates! Splinter on!
Great build up mate.
I would say buying the Djinns was a good choice :)
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