I had been thinking of doing a roster retrospective thread, but I’ll use this one instead. I don’t religiously track my roster, so a lot of this is my best recollection and history from Gamependium.
I remember capping off last year and beginning this hitting 2000 in SHIELD Simulator for the first time and getting a Medusa cover. I’ve hit 2000 every season since.
According to my Gamependium history, I started the year trying to finish off the 3* tier. My highest champ was IM40 at Level 187 and the lowest 3* character was Ragnarok at 1/2/1 Level 55. I was only missing one cover in the tier: Sentry yellow. I had 35 3* champs, but all the characters at least rostered. I had no 4* or 5* champs. My best covered 4* was X-23, at 4/1/1. Gamependium says I had 27 4*s rostered.
I also remember having a hard time keeping up with HP demands as I continued rostering characters at this stage. At some point in January, I pulled my first 5*, Thanos green. In early February, I cracked a bunch of CP on the Black Panther release vault. He got to 3/2/2 and I pulled the last of my needed 4*s. I remember scrambling to get enough HP to roster them all before the covers expired.
In early March, I champed my first 4*: Medusa. I think this was close to when vaulting was implemented, maybe right before. I was initially pretty upset with vaulting. It felt like the majority of the tier was ripped away from me right as I was trying to make the transition. In hindsight, it ended up working out pretty well for me. During vaulting, I slowly became a T5/10 player in SCL7, then SCL 8. The focus on the latest 4*s allowed me to champ them pretty quickly and get positioned to continue developing my roster once vaulting was over.
This was beneficial because I was hoarding for the most part, yet still able to obtain decent roster development. Another thing that helped was getting to the point I could hit 900 in PvP. I think the first time I did was during Iron Fist’s release event. I didn’t start hitting that mark more consistently until roughly early summer, I think. I did manage to hit 1200 a month or two ago, but it didn’t count. I started the last fight with only a minute or two left in the event and didn’t finish in time. So maybe I’ll officially hit it sometime this year.
About the middle of June, I got my first fully covered 5*: Black Panther. He’s still stuck at Level 290 though, and probably will be until I’m closer to being done with the 4* tier. Then came anniversary time and the addition of Gambit. As soon as Doc Ock rotated out of Classics, I pulled my hoard I had been working of for a good part of the year. I pulled over the span of a couple weeks and added roughly a dozen (if not more) 4* champs in the span of about a month.
I made one last push to try and get 5pidey covered before he went into Classics, but ended up pulling a ton of covers for Daredevil instead. So he ended up becoming my first (and still only) 5* champ in late November or early December. The only ones I don’t have rostered are Cap and Archangel.
I also got my first few 3* max champs: Grocket, Cap and IM40. The first two also have champed dupes, and I’ve got dupes for about a dozen more 3s going. The only 3 not champed at this point is Angel.
I finished out the year with 38 4* champs, and another 13 fully covered at various levels, with a further two set to be fully covered relatively soon. Whereas HP was the impediment to my roster development at the beginning of the year, now it’s ISO. Other than the two newest characters, all my 4*s have at least 10 covers though.
Heading into 2018, I’m hoping to get all the 5s at least rostered, which should be easier with the HfH store and 4 champ feeders. Maybe add some levels to those characters. I want to finish off champing the 4* tier, and I’m getting closer, but its starting to get rather exhausting always being out of ISO. I’m in an OK alliance, but I’m thinking of getting into a better one. I do tend to do a lot of the heavy lifting in PvE and boss events, and I think I’m the only one who gets full season progression in PvP/Sim. It would be nice to get some better rewards through that avenue.
