Heyaz. Every season since about XXI, I’ve been hoarding them all and opening them all in one orgasmic frenzy. Here’s the latest orgasm! As always, only the interesting pulls are noted and significant pulls are in bold. Multiple pulls have been condensed for ease of reading, but I noted unusual events. I also opened any supplemental tokens I received from champion rewards immediately, however the numbers immediately below are what the hoard stood at when I began. Off we go, then.
The hoard:
- 179 silver tokens
- 113 mixed gold tokens
- 2 Heroic 10-packs
- 653 Command Points
The pulls:
[spoiler]Silver tokens
Black Widow (red)
Deadpool (black)
Luke Cage (yellow)
Doctor Doom (purple)
Iron Fist (purple)
Heroic tokens (33)
Drax (purple)
X-Force Deadpool (red)
Daredevil (purple)
Black Panther (yellow)
Iron Man (red)
Beast (blue)
Magneto (blue x2)
Squirrel Girl (green)
Storm (green)
Nova (red)
Cyclops (black)
Heroic 10-packs (2)
Nothing
Mystique (purple), Loki (black), Captain America (yellow)
Made Man (3)
Bullseye (purple)
She-Hulk (green)
Stay on Target (3)
Thor (red)
Most Wanted (3)
Deadpool (black)
Heavy Metal (3)
Daedpool (black)
Captain America (blue)
Blue Shift (3)
Psylocke (blue)
Eight Is Enough (3)
Faptain (blue)
Professor X (yellow)
Trial By Combat (3)
Vision (blue)
For Victory (3)
Quicksilver (black)
She-Hulk (green)
Thick As Thieves (11, vault)
She-Hulk (red)
Blade (black)
Meet Rocket & Groot (6, vault)
Ragnarok (blue)
Nova (red)
Punisher (black)
Dark Avengers: Heroic (5, vault)
Punisher (black)
Juggernaut: Heroic (4, vault)
Beast (green)
Avengers vs. Ultron (6, vault)
Vision (red x2)
Patch (yellow)
The following events yielded nothing signficant:
- Unstable Iso-8 (2)
- Real Steel (3)
- Black Vortex (3)
- Divine Champions (3)
- Real McCoy (3)
- Deadpool vs. MPQ (4, vault)
Classic Legendary (681 Command Points = 34 pulls)
Spider-Gwen (yellow)
Thing (red)
War Machine (blue)
Thor (red)
Nova (red, yellow)
Loser Hulk (green)
X-Force Wolverine (yellow, green)
Winter Soldier (purple)
Moon Knight (black)
Nick Fury (yellow)
Rulk (green x2 - in a row!)
X-Force Deadpool (purple x2, red)
Quake (yellow x2, green)
Elektra’s worthless ass (red)
Old Man Logan (red)
Star-Turd (red)
Drax (red)
Peggy Carter (blue, red - in a row!)
Kingpin (black)
Phoenix (purple)
Faptain (yellow)
Cyclops (blue)
Venom (black)
Carnage (red)
Miles Morales (purple)
Green Goblin (black)[/spoiler]
Total Iso from cover sales and champion rewards: 92,910
5* pull rate: 8.8%
Observations and (purely subjective) conclusions:
- My 5* pull rate went straight in the opposite direction after last season. But I picked up that 13th Phoenix cover which is really all that matters. The Gobbler cover was nice, but whatever. In total, boo on the RNG. Very unsatisfying.
- I deliberately did not open my Latest Legendary tokens as the word is that both Cap and Hulk (at least on paper) are underwhelming. Why blow my tokens trying to get IM46 when he’ll go into the Classics eventually? Here’s to hoping that maybe Black Bolt and whoever else goes in later will be worth chasing.
- While not nearly as streaky as seasons past, there are still some signs of streaky behavior in the number of Deadpool covers that showed up. Also a couple incidents of multiples in Peggy (yay!) and Rulk.
- From here on out, my hoards will likely be considerably smaller as I have decided to scale back drastically on my play time. Naturally this means a lot less of the insane grind-fest that is Story mode. I’m going to miss the CP from progression more often than not, and all the minor rewards and Iso that add up, but the time I’ll gain to do other things will surely benefit me a great deal more. Besides, I’ve got Logan and Phoenix champed! What else do I need? (Hint: The answer is “nothing.”)
And last, but certainly not least, my usual closing statements: It is absurd that 4* characters like Loser Hulk, Mr. Sucktastic, Baglady, and others exist when their relative scarcity and cost to level up remains as high as it is. Those characters need to be demoted, reworked (a fourth time in Baglady’s case!), or completely removed. It is embarassing the Silver Surfer, and now Captain America(!) it seems, are so badly designed that anyone pulling their covers is angry rather than elated. Those characters demand immediate attention as they only serve to amplify the already considerable distaste surrounding the 5* tier.
