Last fragment event was the first one I really noticed existing. I went for it. I failed miserably. However, I learned from it. Well, mostly I learned that I had no idea how to successfully complete one of those events, so I started doing some research. From there, I made a plan. And from that implementing that plan through this even, I discovered my limitations. This isn’t a guide for a whale or a years-in-the-game veteran. This is a guide for how to do this the first time or maybe first couple of times with 100% success. I’ll break down what stages you need to farm, how much to save up and how to prepare. TL:DR at the bottom.
Have a Plan
When the fragment summon event starts, the news feed will have a list of all of the events pertaining to it. This gives you the total number of fragments available and the schedule of events. You can do something fancy and make a spreadsheet to track it, or just hit up the Raid: Shadow Legends subreddit like I did and find someone who made one like this:
Using this information, you can identify which parts to go for and which parts to ignore. Though, truthfully, outside of whaling a bit or hoarding a LOT of shards, you’re likely to have to do all of the events outside of summon rush/champion chase. So there’s 120 fragments in total (ignoring tournament placement). Summon shard related ones amount to 35. So, you have to get some. If you get the rest, however, getting 10 from summon rush and 5 from champion chase is pretty easy with just a little shard saving. In this case, since I had 2k green shards, I’ll get 10 from summon rush and all 15 from champion chase, meaning I can, if needed, ignore the second arena tournament, since my PVP team is weak.
How Strong Do I Have to Be?
So, to determine if you can realistically do this without spending money you need to be able to farm the gear dungeons at minimum stage of 13. This gives you 4*-6* gear. Less than that and the number of pieces of loot you have to get for the points becomes way too much. If you can’t do that, I’d suggest growing in power and waiting to focus on one of these fusion/fragment events. Obviously, being able to farm a higher stage is even better, but I wouldn’t bother before stage 13. However, in the planning part, you can figure out which dungeon needs more power and work on that team during the summon/training events. My Fire Knight team was not ready until the day before Fire Knight started and I used leveling my team to get points in Champ Training day 1 and gearing them to get points in Artifact enhancement.
How Much Silver/Shards Do I Need?
For the Summon Rush, it’s based purely on the quality of shard you use. You’ll want to save Sacreds for this (and hope it always lines up with a 2x event). 2 sacred shards got me the points I needed to get from this event. For the Champion Chase, this gets a little more random. Points are based on the quality of champ you summon, not the shard used. For this, I’d save up a good number of rare shards and a ton of uncommon quality ones. If you get lucky with the rare shards pulling epics or better, it’ll be an easy event. In my case, I’m going to have used 30 rare shards and probably a few hundred greens.
Finally, for Artifact Enhancement events, you’ll need ~10m going into each one. The first even ended up costing me about 5 million silver and the second about 8 million silver, but I got pretty lucky with upgrades the first time. This doesn’t mean you need 13-20m silver to start, because you’ll gain tons during the event. Get 10m going in to it and make sure you hit 10m again after.
Double Dip When You Can
The reason I like that calendar up above is because it orders it chronologically. You can see what events overlap. This is most important with dungeon tournaments like Dragon with the Dungeon Divers event. Plan on doing your farming for the divers event during the dungeon tournament. For the first dungeon diver, I used dragon for most of it, then Fire Knight to finish it off. The second one, however, only had Ice Golem. Spider won’t start until after DD is over. So, I started leveling up some 2* to 3* food in brutal campaign and got the last points I needed with the trash gear from that. Make sure to do all or most of your champ training before the summoning/chase events end in case you need to summon more food for training you’ll get points there too.
Monitor Your Progress
As the event progresses, keep track of your frags and how many are left. If you are able to place 1st or 2nd in a tournament, that makes later parts easier for you. If you miss something, you’ll know if you have to push for tourney placement or use more saved shards on summoning.
TL:DR Version
- Use the event news schedule to make a calendar to make a plan.
- Don’t bother if you can’t do stage ~13 of all gear dungeons
- Have at least 2 sacred shards, 50 rare shards and 500 green shards.
- Have at least 1k gems for energy.
- Start with 10 million silver.
- Double dip on dungeon events and do your summon/leveling together.
- Track your progress to make changes as needed.
With this strategy, you’ll be able to collect all the fragments you need to summon your new Raid legendary champion every time without spending any money and while not wasting your time trying to do it too early in your accounts power curve.
For those who got this far but already have solid plans for getting these champs, is there anything you thought I missed? Anything tips players could use to get even more success? Let me know in the comments.
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