So... I haven't voided my phone warranty. Yet.

I beat the Carnage finale! After Hulk got wiped out, I went back with Black Widow and was able to limit Carnage's free moves, which combined with some luck to finish him off.

Legion... it looks like Wiccan is the answer for most people, but mine only has one Blue and one Yellow (I do have enough shards for one more). Other than hoping for the best with Supports, is there a reasonable way to handle it with Hulk or Widow?

-J

The Legion node you need him to make the special tiles. Know his powers, let the AI get the colors, and survive

Ohhhhhh, just got to the CD node.

Got it with Coulson, Rahne, and Mantis.

There needs to be an actively puking emoticon for my pulls.

The goal was to get Sersi champed, rather, to get her to 12 covers and let the progression rewards for the current PVE finish her off.
I did manage that, but I am essentially almost completely tapped out.

I began with her at one cover and enough shards for a full cover plus more coming in the current PVE to get me what I need.

She was not completed after draining the first 233 pulls. She was at 2/4/3 (plus the shards).
Recovered 35 pulls from applying rewards, almost bang on 15% recovery.

At this point Brand was at 5/2/4 and Big Wheel was at 4/8/2. Both would be comfortably champed through shards while they wait to cycle out. I just did not get the Sersi covers.

I decided to go ahead and press on with the pulls. I was looking at an expected 5 covers in 35 pulls and needing two of those to be Sersi. (At least nothing on her was a 5 yet,)

I made 31 more pulls and got the two Sersis I needed (plus three Brands and a Big Wheel).

The end result is that I used shards on Sersi to put her at 4/4/4, but she will get enough for that final cover soon.
BW went from 1 cover and shards to 4/9/3 and will also get those last shards in the next PVE.
Brand is champed and at level 451.

Overall results…36 5* covers in 264 pulls…..a 1:7.3333 rate.
That is not too far off the mark, but it was nothing amazing,

Longest drought….27, then a 20 and two 19s.
Two back to back 5* pulls plus one back to back to back.
Four instances of only one 4* between 5*s and eight with only two between,

300 in bonus 4* shards, my favorite (Hydra Stomper) going up 13 levels total.
100 in bonus 5* shards, my favorite (Shang Chi) going up one level.

Final tally….
1 LT and 187 CP , 8 pulls

But I don’t have to do another opening until May 2nd. At three per day, that is 252 pulls saved up by then.

Oh, I also found that one thing I did not get from my rewards this time were extra 5* levels from feeders. I got one OML cover from his feeder, but while I got a bunch of shards for 5*s, nothing was enough to get any levels.
I usually come out with I would say 3-5 instances of feeders getting enough shards for their feeders.

I did max-champ several new 4*s. I am up to 52 now.
Unfortunately, I got more covers for those guys and had to buy roster slots, plus I had to buy roster slots for previous maxes for whom I didn’t have a crop started. Buying those slots depleted the HP gains I had made.

My Sersi is currently at 5/4/1 with 1328 shards. This PVE will top her off and champ her, so I am skipping the new store. (I have Brand from her specialty store).

Today my Big Wheel is at 5/2/3 and 890 shards. I expect he'll appear in PVE twice between now and when I need to make the call on token cracking, but it looks like my worst case scenario is that I am hoarding for 8 weeks and opening tokens to get 1 Big Wheel from the new store. The only twist I see is if I don't go for the new 5* in its specialty store, I might need to open in 8 weeks to also get a cover for that guy.

In my mental accounting I figure that my estimate of earning three pulls per day is low. It isn’t more than 4 over a long haul, so somewhere in between.
Anyway, my point is that for my estimates I am knowingly low, but that means that I can dip into those release stores (or the LLs) as needed in order to ensure the toon is on the roster and I should not be shaking up my estimates badly.
As I stated a while back, this time around I did some math and figured out that I had some surplus pulls and took a dip into the classics. It was…in MY case…a worthwhile venture, but I put myself as close as could be to getting burned by having done that.
The end result is that I am left with VERY few pulls and do not expect to have such a surplus again for a while.
But it was worthwhile, as I said, because the secondary objective in my CL dive was beefing up my Shang Chi by completing milestones for bonus shards.

Fwiw, my big mistake was really at the end when I decided to go for one more 5* out of the CLs. I could have waited and gotten the last 5* today (or from a feeder between then and now), but I pushed it and got burned. Like, I had been having awesome pulls in the CLs, but that last 5* was preceded by a 20+ pull drought.

In any case, the 3 per day estimate gets me 12*7*3=252 more pulls saved up by May 2nd, which would be 260 total.It isn’t exactly where I would want to be, but it is what it is. (Fwiw, if the rate is more like 3.5, then I am looking at a much more comfortable 294 pulls saved up by then.)

Just crunched some numbers on my max-champed 4*s.
I am actually surprised at how well my farm is coming along.
I think back to being in 3* land and the idea of farming those seemed lofty.

Anyway, by my calculations, there are 121 4* toons in the game.
I have 52 of them maxed.
Of those, I have gotten more covers for 49 of them.
Of those, 33 of them have the second version champed.
16 are therefore in some state of being built.
That leaves just 3 names who are not yet rerostered on the farm. One of those is Devil Dino, who I am not sure I will farm, and then Mr. F and Agent Venom are the other two, both newly maxed in this cracking.

I guess my thought in looking at that was to get a feel for how much I lost out on with rewards on those toons.
To have 33 rechamped toons….that is 33*13=429 covers that went to noting but rebuilding those toons.
Now, those covers didn’t all come from an LL cracking. There were shards, and random pulls, and event rewards mixed in there, but I would not be surprised if maybe half of those came from a cracking at some point.
That is insane.

I need 95 shards for the first Agent Brand cover. I am thinking that since I am mostly doing PVE for progression I should be able to get those shards by the second round and then roster Agent Brand. This would allow me to not touch my stash and let the CP grow after the Lunar NY store binge.

That might not work. I think I have mentioned this to nbperp twice now. The first time she will be required will most likely have the new Elektra.

Elektra's special store has Shang-Chi and Black Widow in it. So... I'll be making pulls to get her there. I'd be happy to level up the Shangster

Well poo


This would be nice. I guess it would be worth trying to get Elektra just so I can maybe get Shang-chi

New offer from D3 is just what phantalien has always wanted.... Tokens for classic legendary store

Beat me to it. Yes! This is the first time they are offering CLs even though it is for purchase.

I wish I could break it down better but I will just go with what I know. When $$$ is involved

LTs are ~$7 each. this means that for the current deal was just LTs it would be a minimum $70 not to mention the other stuff. However, I feel that the other stuff is usually ISO a bit of CP and not as much HP if any at all.

For the CL deal with 4500HP, 2 CP , and 10 CLs for $39.99. I would figure that 4500 HP is the equivalent of Logan's Loonies when there is a bonus, $19.99. That leaves $20 for the CLs and CP. CP is minimal though it does also give to the alliance, which is always a plus but does not factor in to the cost. $20 for 10 CLs, or $2 per CL.

Hypothetically, if D3 was selling 10CL's for $19.99 would you buy it? What if it was $19.99 for 200 CP (that can only be spent on CLs)?

I am just hoping that D3 is noticing how diluted the 4* pool is and the chance of pulling a 4* that you want that they are considering offering CLs cause mighty tokens are just not enough.