Over the last few days, I twice pulled a
which I was about to discard for Iso-8 until I realised just how rare this character actually is in the game now that you can’t pull it from tokens but only through fight rewards (it actually also got replaced in the story mission rewards).
It then gave me an idea…
“How long would it take me to build one from scratch given the rarity of the covers?” I then figured “Well, there is only one way to know!” so I decided to recruit the character as a side project for the fun of it.
Going further, I was thinking that maybe other players out there would like to do something similar as a side quest kind of thing so I am challenging the community to a friendly competition of “Who can be the luckiest & build a Bag-Man the fastest?”
What is awesome about this is that no matter your roster, odds are actually fair for everyone as tokens are not involved in the process…
There are neither prizes nor trophies to win other than getting us distracted by some light-hearted project (ideal side project for cover hoarders like myself
) & the bragging rights of getting there before anyone else so the self-honesty of the honour system is the only guiding rule here. So, if you are keen, post your interest in the friendly competition along with your progress starting fresh…
This thing might snowball into something in the community or be totally ignored & fall into oblivion…but why not try this thing? I am giving it a shot!
Good luck to everyone!
EDIT: I only meant to collect the covers…no need to invest
into the character…
*** For transparency’s sake, please recruit the character in your roster to accumulate covers (no way to know that you got them if you sell them off) & also state your alliance so that anyone can see that you’ve acquired what you claimed.
I would win as long as we all ingnore the fact my Bagman was fully covered at lvl 90. I just took him up to 94. Got a fully covered, maxed Bagman in less than a minute.
The really sad part, I not only have a Bagman, but I actually use him sometimes
. Not just in DDQ either. I like to use him in trivial and easy nodes. After all, you gotta admit, he handles count down tiles quite well. Not as well as other characters, but still.
In the past it might’ve been easier to collect covers for Bag-Man as the character was in tokens & also a reward for completing story missions which is why I wanted to exclude already built ones from this try out to see with the current rarity how long it would take to get one max covered.
I have a bagman that I started after I finished rostering everyone else. It took me 3 seasons of pvp and lightning rounds to finish him. Now he is my precious and I am never letting him go.
I get Bullseye in tokens all the time since that one is a
& Ragnarok is a
so the character is supposed to be harder to accumulate covers for…
The thing with
is that there is an artificial rarity to the character simply because of the fact that it is not in tokens even though it is a
character that is supposed to be only uncommon.
Now that tanking is no longer a thing, what does one do with a fully-covered, lvl 15 Bagman who used to be so good for saying “hey big guy, hit me for some easy points and I promise not to retaliate!”? I don’t want to sell him but compared to the price of a new roster slot, he’s not looking like much these days…
The complete uselessness of Bagman has always appealed to me. It doesn’t surprise me that not many people use him, but it does surprise me that he doesn’t play a bigger role in the community. In my book having a fully levelled Bagman is street cred +1.
I’ve only just pulled a Snarky Remark, 12 more covers to go.
He’s qutie useful against goons…when he’s on the other team
I caved in and finally sold my bagman about 2 weeks ago (I think it was for quicksilver…). As much as I’d like bragging rights, I’m not going to pay 900hp for it
I’m in, just pulled 2 snarky’s from PVP.. i have discarded about 20 or more of his covers in the past, never recruited him, nor moonstone or bullseye.. but i can see how him being a collectible is a nifty thing.
Oh man…a thought just occurred to me. With the new trend of 2* essentials in PvE, are we actually going to NEED Bagman here soon?? I had a fully covered lvl 15 one that I sold when Quicksilver came out. If he’s actually rare now, am I gonna be a sad panda here soon?
For April 1st next year they should re-run the Ultron event except instead of fighting Ultron you fight a super buffed bagman and all the prizes and tokens all give bagman covers.
