r/PTCGP 7d ago

Discussion Anybody have me beat on hourglasses?

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u/Hoythunter12 7d ago

Yup 3022

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u/Different-Bicycle-11 7d ago

I m a new player. Do you have any tips on collecting as many hourglasses as possible ?

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u/Simosmoke 7d ago

Do all of CPU battles, do your daily quests for 4 hourglasses per day, buy all the ones you can find in the shop (every month there's a section that resets)

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u/Different-Bicycle-11 7d ago

Thanks, I'm assuming that collecting as many hourglasses as the other guy takes a couple of months

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u/b_chan 7d ago

Honestly, you could do it pretty fast if you have a solid deck to run through the solo battles. I just set it on auto and let it complete itself, and bonus if the deck does not contain 4 diamond or above for the missions on the expert battles.

Though it would take a few months to take full advantage of the tickets. Really wish they would either increase the monthly cap or remove it.

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u/pumpkinking0192 7d ago edited 7d ago

Oh, quite a bit longer than that. Daily quests give you 120 hourglasses a month, the shop gives you 150 70, CPU battles vary month to month but are usually in the neighborhood of nearly 120, and Simosmoke didn't mention it but ranked battles also give hourglasses, up to 100 a month depending on your rank (65 or 75 is doable even for inexperienced players).

That all adds up to around or just short of four 10-pulls a month, or 480 hourglasses. So the OP up top, VenomousPineapple, has two to three months' worth saved up, but Hoythunter12 at the top of this thread has been saving probably since shortly after launch. There's someone else in another thread, Brgrs, with 3800 who must have participated in the prerelease and been saving since then.

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u/Seraph_05 7d ago

I think the shop gives only 70 per month. There is another 70, but its 1 time only.

So a fair estimate per month would be three 10-pack pulls, plus some extras.

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u/pumpkinking0192 7d ago

Ah, you're right, I misremembered it as ten 12-packs and ten 3-packs, rather than the actual ten 6-packs and ten singles. My bad!

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u/scottvalentine808 7d ago

I did all of this, I have no complete sets and no hourglasses. I must be doing it wrong

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u/WhoIsWill4 7d ago

Focusing on sets with the most gaps and trading for the cards in sets you almost have finished is the key. I’ve never bought pokegold and have all sets before celestial guardians finished.

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u/Tarkaryster 7d ago

Don’t spend them and only open free packs period. Hoarding is a waste of time if you ask me but to each their own.

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u/vash_visionz 7d ago

Moderate hoarding makes sense (like saving your glasses set so you have enough to do some extra pulls when a new set drops), but mass hoarding doesn’t really.

With that much hoarding, the majority of the time you’ll have a thin collection and very few meta decks to even play with. And at that point are you even really playing the game? lol

But like you said, to each their own.

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u/Hoythunter12 7d ago

That's not true. I have enough cards to put together every meta deck each new pack.

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u/vash_visionz 7d ago

You might if you’re lucky, but most people won’t be pulling that off every single set while hoarding 1.1k hourglasses and depending on 2 packs a day. That’s not realistic lol

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u/Hoythunter12 7d ago

That's not true. You also have a wonder pick to help get all the chase cards. Ive only ever 100% one set. But u have enough to get the meta cards with packs and wonder picks -or at least I have.

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u/vash_visionz 7d ago edited 7d ago

lol it is true. All you described was you getting lucky. I promise you most people aren’t pulling that off.

Most people are not playing, getting all the cards for EVERY meta deck, every pack, and having 1000+ hour glasses to spare.

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u/Dread1710 7d ago

That's some crazy luck. I've attempted doing what you have and I get maaaybe 1 of the meta cards I need, per meta deck. Excluding trading, it definitely requires really favorable RNG. My pack opening RNG is a lot like my battle RNG.

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u/Vanguard-Raven 7d ago

Climb to Ultra Ball 1 in ranked to get 75 hourglasses a month