A Beginners Guide to Raid: Shadow Legends

Raid: Shadow Legends is a gacha game for mobile and PC. It has champion collection; dungeon grinding for gear and stats; a campaign with a “story”; daily quests; long term missions; clans with bosses, quests, and clan vs clan; and player versus player in two forms of arena. And if you’re reading this article, then you’ve probably just downloaded the game and maybe you want to to know how to navigate the games many systems as effectively as possible. This article will give you a variety of starting do’s and don’ts regarding resources such as champions, energy, and shards as well as general account goals. If you don’t read any further – don’t use any resources that you don’t specifically know you should be using. Outside resources and a TL;DR at the end of the post.

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Is it Pay to Win? Raid: Shadow Legends

Raid: Shadow Legends Sacred Shard

Welcome to ‘Is it Pay to Win’ – a column where we examine a game and decide if that game is has aspects of pay to win and to what extent. Check out Is it Pay to Win?: Defined to see how we break down the components of pay to win (p2w), such as pay for advantage, pay for convenience, and pay for cosmetics.

Raid: Shadow Legends describes itself as a “mythical RPG with hundreds of champions and 14 factions”. While it’s originally a mobile game, it is also available on PC. It features champion collection (with level and gearing of those champions), dungeon bosses, a campaign (with a story, sort of) clans, tournaments, events and more. It has a cash shop that allows you to buy most things you could acquire in game.

Scoring:

  • Pay for Power: 4/5
  • Pay for Advantage: 4/5
  • Pay for Convenience: 4/5
  • Pay for Cosmetics: 3/5
  • Pay to Win: 3.86

See below for a brief game play description and a detailed breakdown of how we come up with those scores.

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