Why play Platinum?

[ElementalDearWatson]

When I farm, I usually farm Gold.  If you've got a good Arena farming deck, then you have a high win rate, the reward/cost ratio is high, and you end up getting special spins and therefore winning rare upgraded cards relatively often.

With Platinum, however, you're far less likely to win.  I've seen more than one person saying that a good win rate in Platinum is around 40-50%.  That's not terribly high.  The cost/reward ratio is higher, of course, but it's not that much higher than Gold (248 compared to 161 at the moment).  And a low win ratio means that although you only need 3 wins in a row to get a special spin you're actually less likely to achieve this than you are to get one in Gold, for exactly the same reward.

So why bother?  Can anyone who farms Platinum explain it to me?

[furballdn]

I farm Gold over plat, but I suppose people do plat since with a good anti-plat or anti-fg deck, it can get a few wins. You need less wins for the special spin.

[Jenkar]

Score~

[Arum]

I dunno. Rare spins?

[ElementalDearWatson]

Score~

Is the score that much better than Gold?  Even taking in to account the relative win/loss ratios?

And what's the point of acquiring score anyway?  I'd have thought  was far more important.

[Jenkar]

Score~

Is the score that much better than Gold?  Even taking in to account the relative win/loss ratios?

And what's the point of acquiring score anyway?  I'd have thought  was far more important.

No real point. Money gets pretty useless once you reach trainer edition. Also, those 50% win rate more often that not = em.

[ElementalDearWatson]

Money gets pretty useless once you reach trainer edition.

I'm not sure what you mean by "trainer edition".

Also, those 50% win rate more often that not = em.

But if that's true for Platinum, then isn't it also true for Gold, only with the higher win rate?

[Jenkar]

Not really. The decks used to farm plat & gold are very different.

Trainer edition = 6 of each card, upped & unupped, 24 pillars/pends upped and unupped.

[ElementalDearWatson]

Not really. The decks used to farm plat & gold are very different.

Why?  Surely if a deck works on Platinum it'll work well on Gold.

Trainer edition = 6 of each card, upped & unupped, 24 pillars/pends upped and unupped.

That makes sense.  I'd have thought that was probably the exception, though.

[Jenkar]

Not really. The decks used to farm plat & gold are very different.

Why?  Surely if a deck works on Platinum it'll work well on Gold.

Actually, no. That's because the kind of deck is different. Kinda like LA working on fgs but not on AI3.

Trainer edition = 6 of each card, upped & unupped, 24 pillars/pends upped and unupped.

That makes sense.  I'd have thought that was probably the exception, though.

Mhm. The rest just do it because they prefer.

[pulli23]

To extend jenkar's answer: you also have to realize that gold has many more people creating decks for.
So all "bad"  (compared to other gold) decks are immediatelly moved out of the rankings, leaving you only decks which are build around a very solid base (and which the AI can use).

Platinum on the other hand doesn't have this quick moving: many people activelly make novelty decks which are only that strong simply because they have many, many stat points. This leads to platinum having a complete different general setup for decks than gold. And I'd dare say that an average gold deck is stronger than the platinum deck (especially when both decks use the same number of stat points).

[ElementalDearWatson]

The times I've farmed Platinum I've got around a 40-50% success rate, and I just used my Gold farming deck.  I'm really not sure I can see the difference, but I'll take your word for it that it's there.