How terrified are you of the "new leveling system"?

Marvel Puzzle Quest MPQ General Discussion
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As I said in the other channel where the conversation began, I suspect we’ll be able to turn 4 stars into 5 stars as well. Or atleast in time. I remember so many times someone said “Great character 5 star character” but ended up being 4 star. Suddenly those characters are now 5 stars. 5 star Legion!

Honestly I feel certain it includes 4 stars because many people have commented on 4 star characters saying how much they wished they were 5 stars. Additionally, for veteran players 4 stars don’t really matter unless their Feeders are good. So the ability to upgrade 4 stars to 5 stars, means suddenly both new 3 stars and 4 stars can be very useful to even late game 5 star players.

The downside however and what I fear. Is Champion levels only get so high by duplicate covers. So the question is how many 4 star covers would you need to upgrade them to 5 star?

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potentially, every character can be a 5-star!

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I would say that this is an excellent reason for the devs not to suggest offhand that they’re about to change core game mechanics.

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It sounds like it’s advancing Champing into a further prestige system. So if it means more rewards, I’m down.

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I have a feeling it’s one of two things, and ideally a combination:

  1. A system to remove the champion level caps, where characters don’t get stronger necessarily but new tiers of champ rewards open up.
  2. A way to increase the strength / level of lower tier characters so we can play with our entire roster, instead of just core teams at our tier and whomever the required character is. This would also let them build out the 1-, 2-, and 3-star tiers more, as they would once again be useful to all players.

In either case, I’m looking forward to it as long as:

  • It just requires applying additional covers and not ISO or HP.
  • If we have dupes for farming purposes, they let us convert those to shards we can apply to the originals, and also give us the ISO we spent leveling them.
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Yeah, ISO-refunds are 1000% not happening.

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I was the one who asked the question about 4.5* but I should have known better. I should have known they could never be happy with a 0.5, it was always going to be tubular to the max. But 1* - I was hoping they were gonna bin them not make them champable!

I hope we aren’t made to wait Supports long level of time for some info on this terrible thing I may have inadvertently released on you all…

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Waiting for their claims that thousands of players have asked them to keep 1s and 2s relevant for much longer.

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I can live with 3* but no, no interest in the tiers below. The 4* tier is where it is horrifically bloated - that needs attention and not attention in making the 5* tier more bloated either!

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Although not Barbie track suit Miles…I think I am not going to worry so much about getting him.

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If it works anything like Balance of Power, the scaling on a jumped up 1* character is better than the scaling on a true-born higher star character. Ideally this new system isn’t going to just borrow that code without a review. Also 1* iron man has a blue power that costs 15AP, so I’m expecting some thought is going to have to be given to those characters lol. 3* Iron Man with a 5* health pool would probably see some use.

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It would be so nice of they weren’t so totally incompetent about their social media.
Like, if you’re not ready to roll out all your info on a potentially game-changing feature, DO NOT TEASE IT.

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I guess the “publish to social media” button must be next to the “make coffee” button. It’s an easy mistake to make. Especially if you have not had your coffee.

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I’m not thrilled at all. I expect the worst.___

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What would that be?

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I’m worried about the needed resources to progress. I don’t have anyone at 550, but I also don’t excel at champing the new releases every time. So I have to hoard a lot. This new change has the potential to punish players who miss out on new great/meta characters… so it could create fomo/anxiety about spending my limited resources. But I need to see how they attack it before freaking out. I don’t have high hopes though

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Yeah, we have zero details about what this is, besides a weird picture of Iron Man with more stars on him. I don’t think we can say what kind of players this will or won’t affect, or how it’ll change optimal roster strategies, or literally anything at all until we know what it is.

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Terrified is not the right phrase, but it does give me pause on using any resources in the short term. I rostered a 3rd Moonstone this morning rather than selling a dupe that just maxed as per normal farming.

Intrigued and wishing they would provide the details promptly

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More curious than anything. If it is a system that lets you raise the star level of characters, I’m curious to see how that will play out with the current 3/5 release schedule that deploys scaled versions of the same kit.

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I’ll bet it’s like a prestige level. You’ll be able to revert a champ to either its base level or its bottom champ level and do the levels again for better rewards.

If so, I hope I can convert a dupe character into covers for my (main) champ. Also slightly regret recycling my second max-champ 3* Dr. Strange now.