Side note, by far the most covers I got were for 2* Black Widow. With her I was able to max out the one I was building, sell that one, recruit another, champ and max it, sell it and start another one.

Wow! You got over 20k HP during that run. I have some 237 savory tokens and am just hoping for as much health HP and the LT. Gonna pull them a bit later.

The plan: I've got 490 Savory Tacos. I'll pull until I get a combined 1000HP and the LL, then reset,

It took 296 Tacos. Screw it, I'll just blow the last four and reset for free.

-J

I feel very dumb now. I am not sure I knew or st least I forgot that a reset was free on a complete clear. On my fifth vault that would have been good.

It took me sixty-something tokens to hit the LT and I got over 1000k in HP so I reset the vault. The other 170 tokens got me all of the top prizes but not the LT again. Either way, I am up 10k HP and over 100 health packs. The covers were nothing special but I am pretty sure I snuck out with an LT or 2 and 20-ish CP in champ rewards.

I think that was pretty different. If alliance events went back to being LTs instead of 5* covers, you would see outrage and it's because this compares to that more.... Shardpocalypse was done because players went from an LT reward to (essentially) a 5* cover (it got split over more rewards, but many LTs got converted to 500 5* shards in the progression). This is a price reduction.

If they were to suddenly change the 500 CP prices in the store (for a 5* cover) to 400 CP, does that mean everyone who purchased at 500 gets to demand 100 CP back per past purchase?

Also found the following on d3 forum that I haven't seen here yet:

Full Anniversary season means (hopefully) a longer period of double ISO. Matters little to me, but one of my alliance members is deep in 4* land and can really use it.

I actually like the short season.
I realize that with them trying to stabilize many aspects of the game so that things can be scheduled and planned, putting a short season in can wreck that.

Having said that, I will be curious what comes with this anniversary.
In the past the anniversary offered two main things, imo.
1) Depending on your perspective, a really stellar Legendary store. (I have found the past few to be meh.)
2) Devil Dinosaur covers (as well as other limiteds…just heavy on the DD)

My DD is maxed now, so there is zero interest there. If I get covers, I will probably buy a slot for it, but I doubt I will be hitting the vaults much. In other words, half of the exciting bit of the anniversary is now meaningless to me.
The other half is hit or miss for me. As I said above, I don’t recall the exact line up in those stores the past couple of years, but I am pretty sure that they had Kitty and Dr. Strange…two theoretically powerful toons I don’t use.
A successful store this year will hinge basically on if Shang Chi is in there.
If he isn’t, then that half of the anniversary is also meaningless to me. Even if he is, I am just going to crunch numbers and figure out how many fan favorite pulls I can afford to splurge on, then I will pull that many and be done with it.

I am really hoping that there is something different in the anniversary to make it exciting for me. I have been finding myself feeling more and more like walking away lately anyway. The anniversary very well may be the thing that makes me stay or go.

Oh goodness I hope not. Otherwise there is no way we would be able to complete an alliance event. BUT if you feel you need to go, I understand.

https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/8...ates-live-9-22
New feeder updates.
So I am curious if the RETRO rewards are going to be given for each copy one has.

For me that would mean…
3* Cyclops - 266 - 600 4* Coulson shards
3* Cyclops - 257 - 495 4* Coulson shards
4* Emma - 360 - 1 5* Emma cover, 2500 5* Emma shards
4* Ant-Man - 370 - 1 5* Yellowjacket cover, 2500 5* Yellowjacket shards
4* Ant-Man - 290 - 1 5* Yellowjacket cover
4* Wasp - 370 - 1 5* Wasp cover, 2500 5* Wasp shards
4* Wasp - 304 - 1 5* Wasp cover, 500 5* Wasp shards
4* Jean - 370 - 1 5* Jean cover, 2500 5* Jean shards
4* Jean - 296 - 1 5* Jean cover, 100 5* Jean shards
4* Kate - 310 - 1 5* Kitty cover, 500 5* Kitty shards

If I get all of that, then that would be a nice boost.

I'm less impacted by the "double cover" issue of RETRO rewards, though I know I've sold at least two 3* Cykes already. I doubt they are going to count those. I do have one on the vine coming up, so maybe a little extra Coulson shards (which would be nice, he's a 4* I've got maxed and am building his "crop")

Meanwhile, let's talk about the first 3/5 release: https://d3go.com/marvel-puzzle-quest...1k1LBAjYY_dL_o

So 5mma is Red/Blue/Purple and 3mma is Yellow/Blue/Purple. Each one gets a unique power. 5mma's blue is better than 3mma's (by a lot).

3mma's Yellow is a tile swapper, which I always like for Apocalypse and Kalecius boss battles. Her purple seems to be slightly better than 5mma's, too.

Overall, it's interesting. My 3* "fave" strategy has been to move the shards of a toon up to 4500 so I could re-roster and champ them and get an LT as soon as the original hit 266. Now, I'm probably going to change that and shift to making sure the new 3* is fully covered and champed. I've not really been measuring how much 3* shards I've been earning to see if I can keep that as an accelerator for a month to rush the new 3* to 266, or if I should alternate between getting the new one champed to then returning to getting another toon to 4500 shards.

You can ease up on your time because 4200 shards will champ with an LT.

Personally, at minimum once a week I spend a fast 50 to earn the open 4 tokens daily reward. IF this does happen once a week I am either earning 300 - 650 shards each opening in addition to bonus shards, which earns me 4 - 10 covers through shards. I imagine there would not only be covers to earn but also shards for the new 3*s. If there are ample covers then you can always save the shard for the 4200.

I also believe that they said that the 3*s would be added automatically to packs upon release and (maybe) the odds are increased. If this is true then there is a good chance to champ the new 3* and not have to really worry too much about your sharding character. I guess we will just see.

I am just happy about my retroactive rewards. I had a second 3* Cyke along with my max champ that I instantly champed and spent a ton of shards so I could double dip the rewards. I think I am happiest about the Emma / Kate Pryde shift because I love me some new 5* covers.

That *is* my number. 4500 is the number at which I'll use shards to level up a champ. I just got jumbled when typing.

For this Shard Retro I got:

5mma Frost - 1 cover and 750 shards
Jean Grey - 1 cover and 1250 shards
Kitty - 1 cover and 250 shards
Wasp - 1 cover and 1250 shards
Yellowjacket - 1 cover and 1250 shards
Coulson - 775 shards

What I should have gotten:
3* Cyclops - 1095 4* Coulson shards
4* Emma - 1 5* Emma cover, 2500 5* Emma shards
4* Ant-Man - 2 5* Yellowjacket covers, 2500 5* Yellowjacket shards
4* Wasp - 2 5* Wasp covers, 3250 5* Wasp shards
4* Jean - 2 5* Jean covers, 2600 5* Jean shards
4* Kate - 1 5* Kitty cover, 500 5* Kitty shards

What I did get:
3* Cyclops - 1095 4* Coulson shards - CORRECT
4* Emma - 1 5* Emma cover, 1250 5* Emma shards - SHORT 1250 shards
4* Ant-Man - 2 5* Yellowjacket covers, 1250 5* Yellowjacket shards - SHORT 1250 shards
4* Wasp - 2 5* Wasp covers, 1500 5* Wasp shards - SHORT 1500 shards
4* Jean - 2 5* Jean covers, 1250 5* Jean shards - SHORT 1350 shards
4* Kate - 1 5* Kitty cover, 250 5* Kitty shards - SHORT 250 shards


I am not at all surprised that the developers screwed this up like they have done with, well, as far as I can tell, virtually everything that they have done so far with an opportunity to screw up.

Basically, looking at what I did get, my guess is that for the shards they rewarded the 250 rewards at levels 280, 300, 320, 340, 350, and 360, but the forgot the 100 and 150 levels for each of them.
The article example specifically says that this should have counted.

I have contacted them to let them know. I am guessing that their inboxes will be flooded.

True, but if the problem is missing accounting for certain rewards, it should be relatively easy to send out a second RETRO reward