Hourglasses are particular objects in Pokémon TCG Pocket that help you open packs and roll a marvel decide sooner. Whereas normally you’ll be able to solely open a pack each 12 hours, you should utilize a Pack Hourglass to scale back this timer by one hour. You may also use Marvel Hourglasses to scale back the marvel decide timer by one hour every.
There are fairly a number of methods to get your fingers on Pack Hourglasses and Marvel Hourglasses, so that you’ll wish to be certain that to play each facet of the sport to earn them. It’s doable that future options and limited-time occasions can also give out hourglasses, however these are what’s accessible at launch.
Under, we record all of the strategies we all know of to get Pack and Marvel Hourglasses in Pokémon TCG Pocket and clarify the way to use hourglasses.
How you can use hourglasses in Pokémon TCG Pocket
To make use of your Pack Hourglasses, choose the pack you wish to open and simply choose the “open a pack” or “open 10 packs” button (relying on what number of hourglasses you’ve got and wish to spend). This may immediate you to spend your hourglasses to open the pack, offered you’ve got any in reserve.
For Marvel Hourglasses, you’ll have to do the identical, just for marvel picks. Choose a pack you wish to marvel decide from, and comply with the prompts to refill the required quantity of marvel stamina. The sport will mechanically set the correct amount of Marvel Hourglasses to make use of to begin your decide.
You’ll get a 4 Pack Hourglasses out of your every day missions. The missions themselves aren’t too troublesome and also you solely have to finish three of the 5 introduced missions to get your every day dose of hourglasses. To finish these, you’ll have to do three of the next:
Full extra missions
Along with every day duties, you’ll have newbie missions to finish that reward you with a whopping 120 Pack Hourglasses, sufficient to open 10 packs without delay. The missions are as follows:
After your filter the newbie missions, you’ll get some superior missions, which additionally reward you with a further 120 Pack Hourglasses. In contrast to the newbie missions, you received’t get rewards for finishing the person missions, however moderately a lump sum of hourglasses from finishing 9 of them:
Notice that there are 12 missions to finish, which means you don’t should do all of them to get that massive reward.
These missions comprise of belongings you’ll do as you play the sport naturally, so that you don’t should go actually far out of your option to clear them.
Clear the battle information and solo card battles
You’ll get a tiny handful of Pack Hourglasses in the event you full the tutorial for battles after which the solo card battles that come after. Every of the seven tutorials provides you with two Pack Hourglasses for a complete of 12.
There are seven solo battles per problem and every problem rewards totally different numbers of Pack Hourglasses (the upper the issue, the extra you get). The one exception is for the knowledgeable problem, the place there are solely six battles. The rewards are as follows:
That mentioned, you received’t be capable to clear these all immediately. Whereas we had been capable of clear out the newbie degree battles fairly shortly with early playing cards, the later units require extra technique and extra cohesive decks (moderately than simply slapping collectively no matter you bought out of your first few packs).
Purchase them with store tickets
You should purchase every sort of hourglass from the store for 2 store tickets every. You will get store tickets from different gamers providing you with thanks, thumb-up-ing your assortment, and finishing solo battles. Every solo battle additionally has particular challenges that provides you with extra store tickets, so be certain that to concentrate to what you might want to do earlier than you bounce into battle.
Degree up by battling and gathering
You’ll get a handful of hourglasses each time you degree up, which isn’t tremendous totally different from the strategies above, since you need to battle and open packs to get XP. That being mentioned, in the event you seen that some hourglasses confirmed up in your stock and also you don’t know the place they got here from, it’s most likely from leveling.
Gather playing cards from Themed Collections
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Amassing sure playing cards will full units that can generally reward hourglasses. You possibly can see these by opening your missions menu and choosing the “themed collections” button within the backside proper nook. A few of the missions are listed, however a number of of them are hidden and received’t present up till you full them. For reference, Serebii.web has a helpful record of all of the Themed Collections (even the hidden ones).
For a couple of dollars: Get them from premium missions
If you happen to wished to pay for the $9.99 Premium month-to-month subscription, you’ll be able to stand up to 11 Pack Hourglasses and eight Marvel Hourglasses from finishing the premium missions. The missions seem to reset month-to-month (with the subsequent month being December, for the reason that sport simply got here out on Oct. 30 and providing you with 48 hours to finish a month-long mission set appears merciless).
