Just curious as to how long it has taken people to get their first 4* to 13 covers? (I’m getting kinda frustrated here)
I’m currently on day 638, and I finally attained a max-covered 4-star (5/3/5 Invisible Woman) about a month ago. So… 600 days or so for me? Granted, even though I am a long-time player, I am not a hard-core player - 650 in PvP is usually good enough for me, with the occasional push to 800 if it’s a three-star I need. Only once have I ever made it to 1000 in PvP, when I decided that yes I really did want that Hulkbuster cover.
On day 433 now, got my first 4* fully covered about 2 seasons ago, also a 5/3/5 Invisible Woman. In fact I could have had her at 10/3/10 by now. Just had Nick join her by end of last season at 3/5/5 from daily rewards. XForce is at 12, Elektra, Dino and Starwho? are at 11 each. Unfortunately those that really matter (Buster and Prof) are in a pretty pathetic state.
Spent zip, longtime member of a firm T500 alliance.
I bought several covers for my xforce around day 200-something (bought him to 11 covers and then finished him from there with prog rewards). It sucked to drop a fair bit of my saved-up HP stash on him about 6 weeks before he was nerfed. But it was also fun to see just how dominant he was (since I had missed out on Rags, Spidey, cMags, and Sentry in their days of dominance). I probably won’t spend HP on 4*s again any time soon.
As for 4*s built entirely from rewards and token pulls, I have none. The best I can do is:
Kingpin @ 2/3/4
Fury @ 4/2/4
Elektra @ 5/3/2
IMHB @ 5/4/2
So it will still be a month or two before those characters rotate back around to 1k rewards and I can finish them (barring a lucky token pull).
Took me probably about three months after I started playing, but this was when there was only two 4* stars, xforce and invisible woman… I was also very competitve in PvE events frequently finishing in the top 2. And because of the low number of 4* it meant those two characters cycled very fast between events.
Even when they introduced Nick Fury into the rewards that didn’t take too long but I did buy two ranks in his purple once I finally got that cover, had maxed out his blue and yellow a long time before I finally got his purple again that took around 2-3 months.
4Thor when she was introduced I got a lot of HP back from the allience roster slot refund, so I wouldn’t count that in my estimations over how long it takes to fully cover her.
When Electra came out I got 4 of her covers from the pve event, forgot how long ago that was, but she’s been stuck at 224 for a long time now. A year maybe? By that point I pretty much stopped aiming for top 2 as the 2 hour refresh on the nodes were absolutely killing me back then.
The thing is if you really want to max cover 4 stars without buying them outright, the easiest route is via the verses events and hit the 1000 and 1300 points progression. You will probably have to spend 50-1000 hero points to do it though due to shielding costs and again will depend whether you can avoid getting hit during your hops.. Coming top 2 in story events is no where as efficient and also depends whether you got put into a competitive bracket or not, and that can be all down to luck!
Ever since Hulkbuster came out, I only got three of his covers, two came from the PvE story event and one from Guantlet, not seen a cover since…
Pretty much I don’t expect to cover any of the new 4* anywhere as close as the early ones.
I started playing last June, and I cover maxed X-Force (who is still the only 4* I have more than 11 covers for) in April.
easily over 300 days
Like skydivearcher, I started playing in the early days when the only 4s were Xforce and later Invisible Woman, and they were both pretty easy to get both in events and in tokens (the 4 drop rate in standard tokens was really good back then, for some reason).
Of the newer 4*s, I maxed both Prof X and Hulkbuster last week, so those took 5 and 4 months to build. For HB I used some of my HP stash to get his last cover (he really needs that 5th red to be effective), but Prof X I got purely from event rewards and 2 or 3 covers from token drops. My Kingpin is only one cover shy of 13 as well, although I’d like to respec him.
Because I took a break from the game, I missed the anniversary and the releases of Fury, Thoress, Elektra and Star-Lord, so other than Fury (whose purple is now up for the daily reward for me soon) I only have 5 or 6 covers each for those. Doing well in 4* release PvE’s really helps to speed things up.
It’s day 407 for me, and as soon as I get to 1k in the Lord of Thunder PvP, then I’ll have a fully covered XForce. IW has 9 covers, and everyone else has 8 or less.
Thanks guys!
The answer is probably going to change a lot now. When people started a year or 2 ago, 4 stars were not common. Now, it appears they clearly are going for some sort of 4 / 3 / 2 star separate sub tournaments which is fine by me.
By that notion, covers for 4 stars should be more common, as are the 4 star pantheon of characters. I see more buffed 4 star characters than I ever have.
For me it took me probably 18 months with some luck and some money. Then I learned my lesson watching XF get nerfed.
Either way getting a 4 star character to full level requires an ass load of iso on top of your covers. This equates to time, money, and perhaps a lucky team arrangement.
Given, logically at some point the PVP matchmaking should be able to segregate by stars, and more importantly there is a history of capricious character “adjustments,” the investment in 4 star characters just isn’t there for me.
More 4 star covers will actually make it harder. cycles will get longer and certain colors will be favored, just like 3 stars.
I’ve actually had terrible luck, Fury is the closest thing I have to full at 1/4/4 and I got 2 when he first appeared form the PVP game (i was still new then so i was able to get top something at the time) and won a couple later on in the games. as for the others no suck luck. I guess I don’t grind PVE as much and only now become decent in pvp (so been a year or so)
But having said that i think i sold enough Invisible woman to have her full
Day 458, and no maxed 4* for me. Invisible Woman is my most covered 4*, currently at 4/4/2.
Day 426 for me, and I don’t have one maxed yet. The most I have on any one 4* is X-Force with 8 covers.
Sometime within the last month? >.> So around day 520 or later. Yeah, don’t ask.
This is almost exactly where I am lol
380 days to get my X-Force to 270; got the 13th cover on day 371. I would guess it’s getting easier for lower-level players to get some 4* characters, but I think the biggest acceleration is coming to high level PVP players. With the 1K reward now much easier for maxed 3* rosters to get, the 4* transition is going way faster than it used to.
Day 551 and my best one is Nick Fury at 2/5/5. Really want that last yellow =/
Just got to 3/5/5 with xfw last week.
Have been 5/5/2 with IW for months.
3/3/2 with 4hor
1/3/3 with Fury
1/1/5 with DD
2/2/2 with Elektra
1/1/2 with Star-Lord
2/0/1 with Carnage
1/0/1 with HB
1/0/0 with PX
2/0/0 with Ant-Man.
No Kingpin or Thing.
I am on day 643