Maximizing Grabs

Ah, the ultimate grab. Perhaps you got some from an event reward? Perhaps you spent your hard-earned gold. The ultimate grab holds so much promise.

Will you get an epic monster? An ultra? Maybe a super? Well, at least a special, right? Right?

And then the slot machine spins, slows, and comes to rest on a pathetic little rare. The same rare you assembled from puzzle pieces in Teepee Hollow when you were level 10...

Ultimate grabs are a rare resource for the non-spender, and one of the very few ways to get ultra and epic monsters. It's easy to get excited and use them immediately. However, like many things in Battle Camp, you can get an advantage if you're patient.

Ultimate grabs are special because they're the only grab with the "spin bonus". The spin bonus gives you extra stuff for spending several grabs one after another. PennyPop hopes this will entice you to spend real money on gold, to get a few more spins, but you can just as easily save up your ultimate grabs in order to get spin bonuses.

The spin bonuses do the following:

• 3 spins - you get 5 free energy and one monster grab.
• 6 spins - you get 10 free energy and one avatar grab.
• 9 spins - you get one random booster and one ultimate grab.

So, if you're willing to save your grabs, you can get some pretty good advantages. Here's how:

1. Wait until an event is happening, and your troop is fighting a raid boss. Have a full 5 energy.
2. Spend 10 or 15 spins.
3. You now have 20 energy. If you're lucky, you also got an elemental booster that you can use.

20 energy is enough for two full-blast 11x damage hits. That's about 3 hours worth of energy, plus the 10% damage boost for using 10 energy at a time. An element booster that matches your team will give you another big boost. That's a nice chunk of extra trophies, no gold required. (If you do have some gold, this might be a good time to spend it though, before the booster runs out.)

It can be hard to save those grabs through a couple events, but the reward is pretty nice. And, of course, you still get whatever monsters came out of your ultimate grabs, plus a monster grab and a piece of avatar clothing to boot.

So next time you win an ultimate grab, don't spend it right away. Think about how disappointed you're going to be when you get that useless rare, and wait. Because you'll feel a lot better about getting useless rares when they come with boosters and free energy.