As the game continues to grow and expand, some features become less and less effective. Chests, for example. Event chests drop gear for ALL crusaders tied to that event. Before, when each event only had 2-4 crusaders tied to it, this meant that the chances of getting better gear were at least decent. However, as the game has grown and more crusaders add to the pool of each event's list, the likelihood of getting gear for new crusaders from event chests lessens. Chests can still drop gear for crusaders that already have full epic gear, meaning that a player could have 4 crusaders with all legendary gear and just want to gear that last, newest, 5th crusader and 25 chests later, that crusader MIGHT have one epic. This will only get worse and worse as the game grows. The recent change in how event free plays award jeweled chests helps to slightly lessen this effect, but it's a rather nasty ordeal when a player can spend months' worth of challenge tokens buying 20 event chests and only get materials out of all that expense.

Now, I do understand that buying tier-specific chests is a thing, and the game can't just make it EASY to gear crusaders or else there would be no incentive to buy chests. However, at a certain point, in-game currency earned through real-life effort (e.g. challenge tokens) should count for something. So my actual suggestions are at least one of the following...

-Add a secondary event chest option to the challenge shop. Whichever event chest the shop currently has, the other one is a tiered chest specifically for the latest tier of that event.

-Event chests already weight themselves toward filling empty gear slots, so just add a mechanic that weights AGAINST gear slots that already have epic-or-better gear.

-Add an option to the challenge shop that gives one of the current event crusaders a random epic they do not have. However, the cost is high, around 200 (since it ignores all recipes and greatly reduces chance), and is only available during an event. It does not auto-target the newest crusader, so the player would still benefit from tiered chests and event chests in general. This option would just be to get that last one, maybe two, epics that have eluded them for the entire event.

There are no tiered chests in the challenge shop, only all-tier chests. I have never once seen a tier-specific chest in the challenge shop.

Another update: Just bought 16 jeweled "The Queens Aren't Dead" chests in the hopes that maybe I would FINALLY get Wrena's epic amulet. After opening the chests, not only did I not get the amulet, I didn't get ANY new gear. I now have the golden epic rope, but that was GUARANTEED. The chests didn't even drop the epic robe, either. Soooo...

20 tier-4-specific event chests, plus 26 more all-tier event chests, plus 16 weekend-event chests. 62 chests that can drop Wrena gear and I got...1 epic. Out of 62 chests. This, is, not, o, kay.