Buying Packs

Buying Packs
 * 1) There are different 3 kinds of packs
 * 2) Normal Recurring Packs
 * 3) * Resource, Growth, Research, Crafting, Sheild, Resource, Building, Gold, Teleport, Dragon Advancement etc.
 * 4) * These show up in amounts from $5 to $99, and cycle unpredictably
 * 5) * Mostly suck - avoid them
 * 6) Limited Availablity Packs
 * 7) * Race to Keep XX, Race to Tier XX, Advanced Building materials, Arya’s Revenge
 * 8) Event Packs
 * 9) * E.g. Holiday packs, or monthy Event packs
 * 10) * These are limited time during event and then gone forever
 * 11) More Expensive Packs are much better deals
 * 12) See for yourself - carefully compare a $99 pack to a $9.99 Pack — the $99 pack might have 16 times the gold and 16X the food or boosts.
 * 13) The “Best” packs: a matter of opinion but favorites include
 * 14) * Arya’s Revenge
 * 15) * Advanced Buidling Materials
 * 16) * Race To Keep/TroopTier
 * 17) * Various Event Packs
 * 18) Normal Recurring Packs Suck - don’t buy them unless you have to
 * 19) Sheilds and Teleports should be the only ones of these you ever buy.  Personally I just pay for 24 hour shields and teleports in gold each time.
 * 20) Learn to use the GOTC Tips Discord Bot to value and compare packs.  This is really invaluable.
 * 21) Be Careful with Special Packs – you might not get what you thought
 * 22) * Common sob story–- “I saw a Great pack called “WOW Release Pack” for $50 that had Keystones. But when I bought a $99 version it didn’t have any keystones. ” That sucks.
 * 23) * Verify the contents each special pack - they vary. Sometimes the “pack x” offered 2 hours ago has different rewards that one with the name that came up now.
 * 24) Its my opinion that you should really only buy packs for Keystones and Steel - and special materials.  There are some exceptions.
 * 25) Keystones are the real limiting factor in growing to T8 and T9, and they can’t be hunted for and are ridiculously expensive.
 * 26) As noted elsewhere hunt for pine and bricks all day an night, but don’t pick packs for them.  You are much better off buying stamina to hunt them.
 * 27) The steel packs that come from time to time can reall help.  At my keep level I get about 10Million steel for $100 which really helps with those level 30-40 crafting items.
 * 28) Do not buy the normal recurring packs for keystones or steel.  they are a terrible deal.
 * 29) Occasionally I break down and buy Special Material back, like Bravosi or Bolton packs (sea shells and horseshoes).  Also Trinket Packs because those materials may not come around again.  Again the more expensive ones are much better deals.
 * 30) The 7-day “Special Delivery” Packs tend to be really good.
 * 31) I used to buy Teleport Packs, but now I just pay for teleports at $2000 gold each.