Seconding the sentiment that it is not worth it.

I have learned of the Iron Man/Hawkguy/Widow anti-Galactus squad.

-J

ha ha ha I didn't think you were that old compared to me.

Oh yeah we have the Galactus event....

Well well well, April 4th. You snuck up on me.

Beginning resources:
ISO - 5,812,274
HP - 31,065
CP - 2,639
LL - 145
Pulls - 250

LATEST
Abigail Brand - 0/1/0 + 1050 shards
Elektra - 1/0/2 + 755 shards
Crystal - 0/0/0 + 325 shards

Favorites:
For 4* favorite, I'm keeping Dark Beast as I mine for Apocalypse shards. For 5* I stayed with Shang-Chi for most of it. When I was about 100 pulls in, I got nervous about pulling enough Abigail in time, so I switched to her so I'd have a 3rd cover through shards. Turns out I shouldn't have worried and the 13th cover did make its way to me.

Pulls made: 199

Results:
Abigail Brand - 5/3/3 + 1429 shards
Elektra - 5/1/4 + 755 shards
Crystal - 4/0/4 + 325 shards

Stats:
21 of 199 pulls were 5* = 10.6% pull rate, (the expected 1:7 is 14.3%).
3 x 4* bonus shards (50 each)
2 x 5* bonus shards (50 each)

Longest drought (# of 4*s between 5*) = 19
# of back to back 5* = 3

After applying everything:
ISO - 5,489,844 (-322,430)
HP - 34,765 (+3,700)
CP - 1,811 (-828)
LL - 16 (-129)
Pulls - 88 (-162)

Final Analysis -
I feel like my next 2 trips into horde cracking will be stressful as both toons are in the 4/0/4 range. But with shards, I think they'll each be finished pretty quickly.

Happy cracking everyone!

Ouch on the 10%.
Glad you made it. One thing to keep in mind for future cracklings is that generally the oldest one will be making at least one, if not two, more appearances over the next four weeks, so you probably would have gotten (will get) at least 250 more shards before she cycles out.

Also, on the 1:7/14.3% thing….do we actually know what the true value is?
The screen lists it as ~1:7, so we know it isn’t exactly that. I have always assumed it to probably be a true 15% probability as that would be pretty simple to program, and the 1:7 is just the closest ratio to represent it. And even though 15% is better than 1:7, I think that 1:7 kinda sounds better. Plus if they give the ratio in the low side, then that *might* alleviate a few complaints from people who don’t understand probabilities complaining that they only got 14 out of 100 pulls.

Oh, today's PVE clear (Venom Bomb, sub 1) was R and away the fastest I have ever done a PVE clear.

Unfortunately I do not have a time logged.
I saw the flip in the bracket doc at 11:07 which said 28 people were in.
I took a few minutes to clear my schedule. When I jumped in I started at 59, I think. I was done at 11:39.
I would say it was probably in the 25 minute range.

7:12-7:39 today, so 27 minutes.
And I was getting frustrated throughout because the game was withholding reds and purples.

There you go, phant. Classic token offer

4500 HP, 2 CP, and 10 Classics for $40

I don't spend money on the game much anymore. However, this is a good deal. If CL's are $2 each and $20 gets you 2900 HP then you are getting 1600HP, 2CP, and 2CP for your alliance mates for free.

Boosted Big Wheel - with Shang-Chi and Onslaught backing him up - is no joke (PVE)

The worst is when SC runs out of steam and ends the turn with the guy in front at like 1500 health. Then BW wastes his monster hit on that.

Between tokens and CP, up to 250 LL. Getting antsy.

I'm not sure I'll reach 300 in the next month. So the question is, is Brand awesome enough that I should jump early, or am I okay with Elektra/Crystal/Moon Knight? (Or wait and see if the character after Moon Knight is better than Elektra, I suppose.)

I've got more than enough HP to roster all three and any 4* I may pull.

-J

PS: Juggerwatch - 3214 shards, still one measly cover.

Crystal is pretty interesting but I am not completely sold on her yet. Personally I would not spend the tokens/CP unless it is to get 1 cover.

The saying is that you want at least 2 great characters in there so you can blow your 300 pulls. The reason being that if you champ them you need 2 of those 5*s to be the partner of the required character in PVP and those PVE nodes. PVP is most important because once you champ a 5*, that is all you are going to see.

I have a single 5* champ and it was so I can go faster in PVE. IT slowed down my PVP play to the point where I don't play it as much as I used to.

The most interesting thing is that Wanda and Colossus came out and everyone blew their pulls. Shortly after, Shang-chi came out and a lot of people started to kick themselves because they realized he turned out to be better than anticipated. Add on to that situation with a lot of people not climbing back up to 300 pulls.

I would also recommend waiting.
Also, one thing that I found to be very important is that when you start getting 5* toons, keep them at 255 and put absolutely no iso into them at all.
With few exceptions undercovered (less than 13) 5* are not powerful enough to be really useful.
Buying levels pretty much only gets them more hit points. And doing so will artificially inflate the power of your roster giving you much harder PVP matches than you can really handle.

This quote is from March 15th. Why do we have a She-Hulk PVP again so soon?