Let’s hear some of your rookie mistakes, that you made before you knew any better. I went into the game without reading instructions (faqs), before reading any info on the forums, and just played based on what I saw. I’m primarily a mobile player, play it on my tablet, and phone when not in a wi-fi spot. On Day 154 right now. I opened a Steam account a month or so back, don’t even play it daily (on Day 12, just got Thor Red cover). I’m not really serious about that account (haven’t and probably won’t join an alliance), and primarily use it to play on my 52" tv (via HDMI out on laptop) and enter into events to see where the bracket is, so I know when to join on my main account. Got a Yellow Nick Fury from the freebie Anniversary token, and I have a Hulk with a Red and Black cover from Heroic tokens (fortunate that the 2 3* covers I got, were for the same character). This makes going thru the game a lot easier, since they have a ton of health to survive. The mistakes I made below are on my mobile account. Hoping this thread informs, entertains, or other people can look back and know that they weren’t the only ones that made these mistakes.
-May have spent HP on some of those first covers, don’t really remember, because I didn’t understand how often covers would come around, but I did think that having higher levels would be beneficial.
-I did not know that healthpacks regenerated, well into having some fully maxed and leveled 2*s. Don’t remember if it was a PVP or a PVE I was trying to get a cover for, and just decided to start burning thru healthpacks. Got below 5, when I saw the counter, and that’s when I realized that healthpacks regenerated.
-On the same note, I didn’t know you could buy most boosts with ISO. I rarely used boosts, and all of mine were maxed at 30.
-I fully leveled a lot of 1s and clung onto them for too long. Pretty sure I had maxed Iron Man, Storm, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Juggernaut. I may have let some 1 cover 3s go because I felt I had invested too much into my 1*s to let them go.
-Just to get more chances at 3*, I would buy standard tokens for 500 ISO. I had hit a wall, before I joined alliances for covers and HP, so I had a ton of ISO, with no one to level. Got almost to 300k ISO, at one point. There would be times I’d buy 20-50 standard tokens, til I hit a 3*. Wouldn’t be surprised if I had spent over 300,000 ISO on standard tokens. I had tried to maintain a reserve of about 200k ISO.
-I joined and stuck with a public alliance, before going to the forum and finding an alliance that would benefit from my grinding. So I was winning 3* covers, but didn’t have the HP to buy a new roster slot.
-I let 2 4* covers expire, EXPIRE meaning I didn’t even get around to selling them for the ISO. Pretty sure it was an Xforce Green and an Invisible Woman Yellow. I think I got them from the last time the Simulator was a PVE. I was the best man for my friend’s wedding, so that week we were busy. I think it was also the week where Colossus was introduced as a prize, so I didn’t even get any of his covers from that event. I got one the next event, where he was a progression reward.
-I kept buying the Daily Deal of Anniversary tokens even though I kept getting 2s. This one is more jokingly, but all of the ones I bought with HP, turned out to be 2s. 50 HP = 250 ISO. I had decent luck at the end with the lightning round Anniversary tokens, but I had horrible luck in the beginning, with only getting 2*s.
-I would always immediately level my characters when I got a cover, since I had stockpiles of ISO. I say this is a mistake because being a 2* to 3* transitional player, I leveled them too soon. I think my first was bringing Sentry up to 104. As a 2* to 3* player, I am not going to be able to do too well in PVP. I aim for Top 100, just to get the 1 3* cover. By not soft capping my players, I am hurting myself where I can succeed, PVE, by scaling myself into higher level enemies. Since Sentry was leveled to 104, that is now my soft cap for 3* / 4* characters, just to be uniform. (Currently soft capped at 104 - Sentry, Captain America, Falcon, Devil Dinosaur, Nick Fury, hard capped at 104 - Hulk, hard capped at 102 - Black Widow, Magneto, She-Hulk, The Hood). In most PVEs, and most PVPs, I am still using 2s, because my 3s aren’t covered well enough to do the damage needed to win. Having more health, but not the right powers, just means I’m prolonging a match I’m going to lose.
