I assumed they were for the month. I got 400 Thoress shards for Women's month. Did you get those?

Yep and the token for the special vault.

MPQ is having that same fault with all games once they have been around for a while, and it has to do with the older game pieces (GPs). The big difference is that in MPQ they still want you to use the older GPs, which is a great thing to put viability in the product but also reward those players who have been around for a long time. The problem is that there are too many GPs and for a lot of people playing it makes it hard for this to be a casual game.

In my dream world for MPQ I would think that if we get CLs there needs to be a change. First, D3 cannot mess with CP and LLs, they either need to stay the same or get slightly better. When we are playing SCL 11 (made it up) the prize support needs to change. Standard and elite tokens should be eliminated from SCL 11. At this juncture in the game we should be earning Heroics at minimum, a lot more mighties, then CLs and finally LLs.

In my mind that seems good but I didn't do any calculations with it. Ultimately I was thinking that when you are playing at this level the 2 farm will slow down and we will have more successful 3 farms.

I think the problem here would be one of scale. If SCL 11 (which I think is within a year away) eliminates those and increases things like CLs and LLs is that it will broaden the gap between long-term/top-tier players and beginners. Now, it's not like these folks are facing of against each other, but the time it takes to go from one to the other will get longer.

What I would do for SCL 11 is increase the HP and ISO, maybe even open up doors to allow for support roster management (maybe add in more supports?) and while I can get on board changing the low-level tokens to things like CLs and LLs, I would decrease the number of tokens available. Regular players (which is what I consider myself and Harpua) being able to average 3 pulls a day has felt "about right" for maintaining collectability. Increasing that too much would, I think, lead to things like D3 increasing their release schedule (and since biweekly has been working for nearly 8 years now, I don't think anyone wants that).

At the same time, I would also increase the tokens in the lower tiers. I don't know how things go in rewards below SCL 9, but I would increase it, so that the ability to ramp up from newbie to regular flattens some.

The top players are going to remain the top players. It's the payoff for getting in earlier and staying semi-regular in your play. But it's not impossible to be passed by someone playing more intensely/regularly. For example, little known fact (and I'd be interested in knowing his day number) is that Harpua started after me and he is without a doubt in a stronger position than I am a this point. No love lost, it's just where it is because he played PVP more/better than I did and I will often go through periods of time where I do my PVE 4-clears and that is it.

Harpua - to that end, what day # are you today for your SHIELD Resupply? I'm at 3025 (and ooh, lookie at that, it'll be a Dark Beast cover - my Apoc will be happy to see that)

Also, I see Puzzle Gauntlet will open up at noon. Looks like our support-of-the-month will be Lockheed. Mine's already at 3*, so it can improve, though I'm not really missing any features I need.

I am on day 2254.

Regarding the puzzle event, here are the nodes I have hit and what I used.

Big node (30 purple)- 3* Hawkeye at 3/5/5
Lesser big node (30 red)-4* cake
Hard 1 (18 black)-C&D, 5* Storm, Valerie
Hard 2(28 blue) - shangslaught/Im40 for the first, then on to IM40, Throg, Thoress
Hard 3(30 green)-im40, 5* storm, 3*GSBW

You make a lot of good points. I would not want to decrease the number of token available, I would just weight it more so that instead of earning (random number time) 5 elite, 4 heroic 2 mighty tokens, and 1 LL for the whole of the event, instead you earn 6 heroic, 5 mighty, 1 CL, and 1 LL.

Anything to speed up 4* land.

A couple of things that could be done would be to offer essential choices.
There is an event where at one point you choose to fight Cap or Tony. The other closes off. Do the same thing with essential nodes.
They could also make an offer available to purchase the essential for a dirt cheap amount of HP/CP.

Well, I think I am going to make a complaint to D3. In the new special legendary store, which has 2 awesome choices I made 57 pulls and only got three 5*s, which is almost 1:20.

Here is the pull sequence all the "1" represents the 5* that was pulled.
18, 1, 6, 1, 30, 1

If you were to bracket 3 numbers from above the best pull rate would be 1:3 (1,6,1) and the worst pull rate would be 1:36. (6,1,30)

I know that odds are not guaranteed but this was very frustrating.

As someone who has made several runs of 250-300 pulls, I can pretty much say that almost every time I could bracket off a sequence or two in the run that looks just like that.

Yeah I know. With the way RNG is one could say that in order to be mentally prepared for such a deficit of 5* pulls you almost always need to be making 100+ pulls in any Legendary store.

No argument, that is exceptionally frustrating. It's a really good store and I'm tempted because damn, I'd love to level up Shang-Chi some more and there is no down side to leveling up Kitty or Strange. I'll be doing my math tomorrow to see if I can afford to go in. I've already got a few Brand and Elektra covers and Big Wheel is going to champ up as soon as I've mined all the progression rewards out of Deadpool Vs PVE.

Despite the frustration how do I move on? Here are the 2 choices...
1. I stop, don't pull any more and just save my CP.
2. I can make about 13 more pulls until I am down to 1000 CP with the mindset that "I'm due for a few in a row" Knowing full well that this may not be true but at least I tried my theory out and my mind is ready so I don't get frustrated.

I will dwell on this a bit more.

I say go with #2 because if it doesn't work out you can always blow that 1000 cp because you will really really be due.

Also, because I am a dick.

In all honesty, Shang Chi is game changing.

You have Apoc, Scarlet Witch, and colossus at 13 covers.
You have several others that are quite prominent there, too.
The only ones I think are critical that you are missing are SC, 5X, and Onslaught.

You have 6 covers for Shang. If you blew your 1000 cp on this store, I think it would be worth it.
53 pulls would theoretically net you 7-8 5* from that vault, and theoretically 2-3 should be Shang Chis.

Now, to work with the “you are due” aspect, you would be looking at a full run of 110 pulls. In theory that should yield 15-16 5*, so you *might* get 12-13 out of those last 53 pulls.



It might honestly be worth dumping your whole stash into this store. I would do so with SC favorited, too.

Basically, what I am looking at is my hindsight on what I could have done better in jumping to 5* land. I could have gotten a few key 5* champed and then used those to build the rest from there.