I’m currently trying to start a 3* farm without selling my 266s while finishing off 4s and joining into 5s. I’m stretched a little thin by it, we’ll see how long till I give up and start selling the 266s lol.
I have sold 4 or 5 max championed 3* when I’ve opened the hoard recently. Other than such case I have no intention of selling them for the time being. I have no shortage of HP and the iso is not enough to justify PvP with a 180 lvl vs 266 lvl toon. I roster all 3* duplicates as soon as the main one hits 261. So far it’s working fine for me.
I would not roster dupes if the allow to get champion rewards without lvl increase. That means another 3 4* covers, CP, LT, etc. However that would mean that the extra ISO boost is not available should I get another hoard.
Long story short - I don’t see a 3* farming (if you even call it that way when you don’t spend real money on tokens) as an issue in the game.
I’m almost there - I think Panther is level 260 now - and I honestly dread the thought of farming all the 3* over again. That’s a freaking lot of covers and ISO and slots..
I keep my 144s, 266s, and 370s until I have 2 of them and then sell one. The rewards make up for the very slight reduction in ISO. Going through a hoard when you have absolutely zero covers wasted is a glorious thing.
It’s nice having the maxchamps around. Low champ or undercovered 3* are Panthos bait in PvP. Maxchamps buy a little extra time between shields.
It’s not worth sacrificing the champ rewards, though, as they’re a huge boon to both 4 and 5* progression. If I could recycle the champ rewards ad infinitum, I wouldn’t bother selling the maxchamp.
As long as I didn’t have a pressing need for the Iso, that is. There’s no downside to keeping them now other than bloating the roster with extra unnecessary slots.
I’ve had a 2* farm for a while now but have been putting off the 3* farm foolishly. Thanks to the 800 HP for a roster spot sale I finally took the dive. I already rechamped Dr. Doom and have another 10 or so 3* restarted. 3* fall from the sky like rain nowadays so it was only a matter of time. I have all every 3* already champed along with about 15 maxed champs and all 4* except MEH, Nico,Howard and America champed and I haven’t dared venture into 5* land just yet so I have an ISO overflow with nothing to spend it on anyways.
I’m guessing this answer means you would be unable to build dupes. I recycled 3s for a while but in the last year decided to build dupes once I became iso positive.
I have maxed & re-rostered 1 3* so far, and I have few more close to max level.
I don’t plan to sell any of the maxed ones and am currently thinking I will only re-roster the 3s that I get from the 2 feeders - at least initially - to keep things from getting out of hand.
I generally sell the max champ unless I feel they are fun or useful with my 4s. For me the importance is champ rewards and sell back iso. The 100k iso on hand is nice, and when the time comes to champ them again the price is so cheap compared to 4s that its no big deal.
The 5/5/5 or forever boosted might be cool, but ultimately wouldn’t change my mind.
I’ve gotten 12 max champs. Only duped IM40, Deadpool and Kamala Khan so far. Rest I’ve sold as soon as I could replace them. Rechamped 3
That’s pretty much exactly where I’m at. So far I’ve maxed and rechamped Grocket, Cap, and IM40. Patch is close to max, and his dupe is fully covered. I tried holding on to the 266s as long as I could, but there was a trifecta of needing roster space, HP, and ISO, so I sold Cap and Grocket. I’m still holding on to IM40 for now.
I’m starting dupes ~257 or so. That way in case a dupe gets an uneven build, I can put some spare covers into the original. I’ve started 15 dupes so far, and need to get ones set up for Daredevil and Deadpool. So I’m about a third of the way through simply rerostering the 3* tier.
It’s a chore, but the combo of getting an LT for maxing the original then another for champing the dupe is pretty nice.
Most of the poll options would be reasons not to bother. The only ones that aren’t are the forever boosted option and the 5/5/5 option (nothing stopping you from hanging on to your maxchamp version anyway).
I’m in this exact place though not wanting to jump to 5* land (just wanting to max-cover Gambit).
I start my 3* dupes at 255 and actually apply any extra covers outside their ideal build to the original (for example, if I have a 3/2/5 Magneto I will only apply red covers to the dupe since his ideal is 3/5/5. I know this doesn’t matter since I can respec after champing, but it’s a habit I got into). I have 12 dupes rostered with 14 more within 10 covers of needing to be rostered. I tried to level evenly with bonuses and it’s about to bite me. I have 39 open slots (thank you sale!), it’s really just iso that is the constraint for me.
My solution is to stop pulling Elites and Heroics while I save iso. My only pulls will be Latest Legends until Gambit is fully covered, and I won’t pull until I have the iso to max another 4.
Once I get Gambit to 13, I will stop pulling Latests, hoard those again, and then take a couple of months to focus champing dupe 3s, slowly opening the elites and heroics as iso permits while building up the CP/LT hoard for the next Gambit that comes along.
When the single cover sale price > champ rewards, I will sell the farm to a big conglomerate so that they can put up a strip mall… or another Disney theme park. Whichever.
Max Champed / Re-Rostered / Rechamped
IM40, Patch, DP
Max Champed & Re-Rostered (but not rechamped due to ISO constraints)
SR, KK, R&G
Over my re-roster threashold (about 260) & Re-Rostered but not to 13 covers yet
BW (260 & 10 covers)
LC (263 & 4 covers)
Daken (260 & 6 covers)
Blade (257 & 6 covers)
Storm (261 & 1 cover)
Over my re-roster threashold, but not re-rostered yet
Strange (261)
IF (260)
Re-rostered early to slow a 4* unusable cover
Hood (222 & 9 covers)
Upcoming ISO priorities:
Champ Nightcrawler to save 6 covers on the vine.
Champ TBD 4* to save covers on the vine.
Champ either TBD 4* to save covers on the vine or start pumping ISO into 12 covered Gambit.
Champ the 3 Re-rostered 13 3*s
Champ the 10 2*s not champed cause I pillaged my farm months ago and haven’t not had higher priorities to replenish.
Priorities 4 & 5 have been hovering at the bottom for like 3 months. I’ve generally had at least 10 4s at 13 for some time now and even hoarding I generally get at least one cover that pushes me to champ a 4 instead. I keep telling myself once I get the last 9 vintage 4*s champed the ISO needs will lighten up a bit. But that’s still at least 9 weeks away if I focused that 100%.
Oh well I’m having fun and for me this type of management/planning stuff increase the fun (and it wrecks it when D3 randomly throws off expected orders, hint, hint @Brigby)
I’ve been burnt and played a couple of events with a loaner, nonetheless my threshold for selling the 3* has diminished from 220+ down to barely champed based on importance/urgency of ISO need.