No argument from me. HP is clearly a key constraint on new players. It’s been a while since i was struggling to roster everyone, so the current experuence is certainly different from my memory, but from the newer players in my alliance family i gather than HP for roster space is still a bit of an issue without spending.
But HP has become easier to get in tye last 15 months. Champ rewards, clearance levels, and intercepts are a steady supply of HP. And i was able to stay HP positive even before those events if i played steadily and didnt sheild more than once or twice per pvp event.
Certainly my opinion was from the perspective of someone with a completr roster. But on these forums i thought it was safe to assume that most people were vets in that category. If the forum population is turning over into more of a new-player population, then i wonder what that says about the game’s playerbase (if anything). . .
I am just into the phase where I don’t have anything to spend HP on other than slots with new character releases.
I have one 4* champ, BH has been BS since I have only ever had 1 4* BH pull. For me there are only very specific covers I would buy. Quake, because I have always wanted to champ her (need 3 more), non-red Peggys (I am up to 14 red covers so far) and the next Starlord will allow me to champ him. If it lasts until Medusa’s yellow comes around again I will buy that to champ her as well.
I don’t have much else that I feel compelled to buy. Vaulting came just as I was starting to get a nice set of covers for the existing 4* and now that has been shut off. I don’t get many 4* from heroics, only when I spend CP or get an LT for one reason or another. So most of the available 12 are not well built except for the ones mentioned above.
I will say that I would buy more if I wasn’t at the craptastic 3600HP price point. That this “blind” price test is still happening is borderline sadistic.
I’m at a similar place as deadtaco in that there aren’t many ways to make HP useful… I stopped at 160 slots, and occasionally throw some more HP into roster slots… don’t yet have any dupe 3*s, use minimal HP for PvP shielding.
Prior to the HfH store I’d drop 100HP on the daily deal for a vault with a 4* I needed.
While I think the HfH store is a woefully inadequate alternative for acquiring the retired 4* that have arisen from the vaulting fiasco, I’m going to take advantage of a cover I need being sold for HP. That said the availability of specific covers is pretty low, each specific cover will take somewhere in the neighborhood of 4-5 months before we see it again.
Another point here is that you can’t use CP to add a champion level to a character, but you can buy one via this store… As the more serious players continue along the path of getting 13 covers for new 4s before they retire the backlog of 4s that have less than 13 covers will only ever shrink, limiting your options for using CP to develop 4*s.