I don’t plan on spending money on anything for now
I usually find the time to grind PvEs and make top 50 regularly
I don’t know how to properly grind PvPs for progression rewards (800 and above) and I don’t like to spend HP on shields that much, unless it’s to ensure a good placement by shielding in the last 3 hours and getting 50 HP back for my 75 HP investment
I like to maximise my number of roster slots and have a collector’s mentality
Now, the roster:
I have every 3* character rostered, no duplicates. 8 are championed.
Before the champions update, I had 5 max-level 2* characters and most of my 3* characters were under-covered (not needing any ISO). I made the mistake of investing into more 2* characters for champion rewards, using a lot of the ISO I had accumulated. I championed two more 2* and rostered 2 more. When one of these last two reached level 50 I stopped investing ISO in them because of my 3* needs.
I just started getting 4* covers. Right now I have rostered Howard, XFDeadpool, and Flaptain. I recognize that Howard and Flaps are suboptimal characters.
I have 54 occupied slots: 40 3* guys + 7 2* champions + 2 fully-covered underleveled 2* + 3 1-covered 4* guys + 1 temporary slot for PvE 2* essential character + Juggernaut
I have 3 covers waiting for a potential slot: Ghost Rider, Invisible Woman, The Thing.
I have accumulated 347 CP and I’m patiently waiting to have more slots to start opening LTs.
I’m also sitting on about 30 DDQ tokens.
This should give you an idea of the current situation. I don’t want to get rid of any 3* character or 2* champion, erasing the underleveled 2s would be a lost investment (i.e. I could consider it but it’d hurt, then again I’m probably not championing them anytime soon). Juggs is also obviously untouchable as my only 1.
Replacing Flaptain and Howard with other 4*s is an option, actually I’m probably keeping Howard for essential missions in the next days then selling him when Duck Season is over.
Out of the tokens waiting for a decision, I’m leaning towards keeping the Thing and Ghost Rider and selling IW. That means I need to free two slots.
Should I try to keep as many 4* as I can or should I only focus on average-to-good ones? Should I bother rostering 5*s if I happen to open one? What would you guys recommend?
I would say wait a little before you start chasing 4s (i.e. don’t open LTs yet). your roster is not too far from being ready, but I think you need some more 3 champs before you risk rostering a 5*. not sure which champs you have, but most start with the top tier guys. any of fist/cyke/cage/cmags/hood/loki/witch/im40/panther/kk/steve are all no brainers. I think daken/gsbw/torch/hulk/thor are worth it too. then the blade/grocket/doom/gamora/marvel/patch group can be personal preferences. get a good group of 12-15 champs and you can then start opening LTs for 4s. my thinking is that if you’ll likely have 2-3 boosted characters in the mid-200s anyway, rostering a level 255 - 5 won’t affect much in way of pve scaling. pve is the main part of your game and you don’t want to do anything to jack that up.
also, by then (12-15 top champs) you’ll have added some hp for slots and can afford to start rostering them - others will likely be pulled from event/heroic tokens. paring down your 2*s is a good idea (I’ve kept 5 - storm/ares/obw/thor/mnmags). I think your plan for rostering thing and GR is exactly what I’d do. although, keep in mind - if the IW is yellow, her ddq battle can be won (to add an LT) with 1 yellow cover alone (with some skill and luck).
Thanks a lot for the advice. Yeah, I am going to wait a little bit more until I start opening LTs.
My champs are mostly not top tier guys actually - they just happen to be the best ones among those for which I have had the luck to get 13 covers: GSBlack Widow, Thor, Dr. Doom, Deadpool, Hulk, She-Hulk, Squirrel Girl, Human Torch. I have a few fully-covered 3* that I’m not planning on championing any time soon: Spider-Man, Mohawk Storm, Punisher, Daredevil, Gamora. Unfortunately I haven’t had too much luck with the top tier 3*s so far. For these reasons, I suppose I might need to wait a while still…
So for now I’ll follow your advice and scrap some 2s: the two that are not championed should go and maybe C. Marvel which is already at level 144 - I will not get any more champion rewards with her, so if I really need the slot I might let her go too. For now, I’m freeing the two 2 slots for Thing and Ghost Rider and I’ll also sell Flaptain for IW which happens to be yellow as you said. If I’m keeping a mostly useless 4*, might as well have a shot at the DDQ Clash of the Titans.
I guess mostly due to PvE and to the fact that I have never actually spent a single CP. It has been 18 days since this post and I’m now sitting at 462 CP, which means an average of a little over 6CP/day in the last few weeks.
I usually get my CP from the top progression award in PvE (25 per event) and I also try and beat the two nodes that have 1CP rewards in each PvE sub until I get that. So the best scenario would be a 3-day PvE with 3 subs of 24h in which I have the essential 4*: that’s likely 31 CP in 3 days.
First piece of advice, if you need to make room for any tier it should be favouring 4* over 2* you can get by with very few 2s if you have some decent 3.
Personally I keep cstorm mnmags and obw and that’s it. I sold everyone else when I started accumulating 3s
2* covers are easy to come by so rplacing them later (if you’re a collector) is much easier than replacing 4s.
Don’t ever roster cho or sue storm as they are genuinely a waste of time and are actually more valuable as 1k iso.
Don’t sell Falcap The forum doesn’t like him but he’s good f9r pve once covered and levelled. Howard I would say can go if you really want to sell a 4* his event will come round once a year.
Based on your roster description I’d agree that you should wait to transition until you have 3cyke fist and cage champed first. I transitioned too early and it made my transition harder.
Last and final tip - don’t put iso into 4* unless you have at least 9 covers in key areas (Falcap for example need at least 3 blue and 5 red) the iso is better spent on your 3* for now
