(Discussion) Only Recent 5*s as essentials so far! Make people spend more or just the most fair way?

Perhaps they are gearing up to give us more ways to earn 5* covers.

Is it possible that they have got the latest out of the way, and then they’ll flip to the beginning to have OML and Pheonix lined up for during anniversary / mutant week?
Maybe shift silver Surfer round to after them.

It feels as fair as it can be with a 5* essential node. So far the required 5s were in tokens with the greatest chance of pulling a 5. I feel it would have been less fair if a classic 5* was required and it was only available in classic tokens as they are now.

I also don’t feel this totally hurts hoarding. Until hours before webbed wonder started i didn’t have 5* Daredevil. Minutes before the event started i decided to try and get a cover. I may have beat odds but it took me 5 attempts to get it. Now i can play the 5* essential and i can resume hoarding.

I had similar results. I missed out on 5pidey feature and near the end of sub 1 with no Ock it was looking doubtful I’d hit T100 in SCL7 and would miss out on Rouge. Pulled 10 latest and got 1 5pidey, 2 DD, & 1 Ock. I may have 10 less to pull when I open my hoard before 5pidey leaves, but I also need 3 fewer 5* covers, so it should balance out.

The problem with this line of reasoning is you can also pull 50 without getting the 5* you wanted (“only” a 7.5% chance to happen, but very well possible)

And you’ll need 70 pulls to have a 50/50 chance to get any specific classic 5* (or almost 40 pulls when using BH)

Im a relatively newer player (1 year) and i have pulled over the course of that time every 5 star bar phoenix and widow crom classics with ghe exception of devil, ock and spidey. Infact i didnt keep most because i need the space for the growing 4 stars after vaulting. I have pulled 2 hulks, 2 bolts, 4 OML, 2 Thanos, 1 spidey, 3 BSS, 3 strange, 3 Hawkguy, 2 Surfer, 3 Cap, 1 Iron Man, 2 Surfer, 1 DD, 1 Ock, 1 Goblin, 1 Panther and 3 SL covers. I kinda regret not keeping some but hp wasnt flowing and i generally juat get pve progress rewards and placement as extras. Obly recently due to the anniversary have i been grinding hp. What that means to say is that unless your really new or just extremely u lucky its engirely possible to pull all of them and i dont have 100s of cp at a time either.

I’m not crazy about it since I’m a hoarder and don’t have doc oc, Peter or dd, but I’ll pull through somehow.

with xmen teamed anniversary, we should be able to see oml and phx as 5* required ? These 4 havent been easy for me, as no one has more than 4 covers, i wonder how bad that essential will be with championed 5*

Did the same thing. Not as much CP because I don’t want to burden myself with a 4* that I’d then need to champ, but I opened a bunch of legendaries and got an OML and a Spider Man. That was it.

Soooo…yeah, Daredevil’s the only 5* I don’t have, so I’m stuffed here.

Nah, going by D3 logic, the required 5* for the gambit release tourney will be 5* gambit

Personally, I can’t agree with this enough. If they are not going to add some way of targeting 5*s then this node belongs in Deadpool Daily not regular pve.