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Thread: Sanctify: which is better? 1 card at low percent or 3 to 4 cards at 100%?

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    Sanctify: which is better? 1 card at low percent or 3 to 4 cards at 100%?

    I'm curious has anyone gamed this out or has it been discussed before? I have been combining cards, but mostly because the pain of a card failing is too much for me to bear. However, I've always wonder which way is actually better by the numbers. Has anyone worked the math to see if your odds are better going with one card at a time or combining for the sure thing?

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    well it's difficult to work out the exact math, but we can try at the worst case scenario roughly. I usually get to half-angel 2 in 7 cards on golds. pretty much 50% or greater, from there it starts to drop. say another 7 from half-angel 2 to angel 1. worse odds yet, 20 fails from angel 1 to arch 1. 25-30 from arch to dominion 1, 25-30 from dominion 1-dom 5. These are just really rough numbers, but i'd say pretty close to a worst case. that's just under 100 so we'll round. 100 cards and it could be probably be worse. it's 15% each from AA1 to AA5, that's an opportunity for 7 fails each level, then 9 each from Dom1 to Dom5. if you strategically use your cards you could probably get to dom 5 for 50-60 combining. best case with using only 1 card is 25 lol, never gonna happen though. So overall I'd say best way is combining at strategic points.

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    nice reply. So, you probably don't lose a whole lot by combing and more likely it is better. And the real big plus is you don't have that angst of failing. thanks for the reply.

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    you should try a quick search and find the 2 threads i am thinking about from in the past. one was about some players failing 100% after combining cards and the other about chances, predetermined successrates and stuff like that. i stopped combining cards and even if its a 10% chance i prefer to use the the 5, 6, 7 or whatever how many cards it would take and use them as singles.
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    Let's see...
    Half angel 1 to half angel 2 has a 50% failure rate with one card. The odds of failing with both cards is 25%.
    Half angel 1 to half angel 2 has a 15% failure rate with two cards combined.

    Overall, combining cards has an obvious advantage, but if you get super lucky with single cards it could end up being cheaper. Just kinda depends on how much good luck you think you have.

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    I generall find that it is better to use one card until you get to angel as for me it has ended up being MUCH cheaper and less time and effort to get soo many of the same cards, going from angel to archangel and beyond i'd use 3 cards max as failing on 3 cards multiple is unliklier than it failing on 1 card multiple times ... this is just my strategy and works fine for me, maybe not so much for others

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    This has happened several times and I don't understand why. I will be putting cards on heroes and clicking on the next card arrow to add an additional card. I will have more cards to add but the add button greys out. Sometimes I'm at 80% and want to add another card just to be sure but the button won't let me. I click the sanctify button and it fails. I can understand a failure if I don't use enough cards, but there is no excuse other than the game is cheating me when it won't let me put more cards on. I don't cheat with the game and I expect the same from the game.

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    you can only combine 5 cards max. for best results they all combinations offline and then online pick the best.

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