So, how many F2Pers use HP to buy covers?

M C K

F2P, spent precisely 0HP on covers. Spent them on slots and shields. Probably will not spend them on covers, and I only have one max 3* (IM40, to boot).

My alliance has been pretty inconsistent, so my HP income hasn't been phenomenal. As a player who recently has been doing moderately well in tourneys (top 50-ish), I'm probably ready to find one that isn't dwelling in the <2500 rank range. To the Alliance boards!

Unknown

So far I have only used mine for roster slots. However, I do not play a whole lot so I pretty much only get the static HP rewards and not the rank placement ones.

Unknown

First priority is roster slots and shields, but once your roster is solid enough that shielding becomes part of your PvP strategy, it's not that hard to start building a surplus of HP. At that point, there are specific covers that it makes sense to buy--nearly always 5th covers in the best skills on the best characters--because what else are you going to do with excess HP? As expensive as individual covers are, buying tokens is the major alternative. Once you are that far along, tokens are an extremely inefficient way to get needed covers--most will be sold for ISO--so buying the covers directly is the better choice. (Always keep some HP reserved for shields/roster spots.)

Unknown

I bought 3 covers so far: 2 black LDaken and a green Sentry.
I have every character and a stockpile of 3200 HP

Unknown

I don't get why people save HP for shields when it can take up to 2 months before any specific character shows up as a reward. Roster slots are only useful if you're a hoarder. I doubt most people use more than 5 characters on their entire roster in a given week not counting any must-use characters (that includes limited rosters). You can keep telling yourself that someday Captain Marvel and Psylocke will be useful, but you can be waiting for a long time until either are required in PvE and even then you usually just end up having your best two other characters carry the team instead.

I hoard characters too but I don't pretend this is good advice. Most of my 3*s are just sitting there gathering dust. The characters on my first page more than covers every event outside of limited roster + random required 3*s in PvE.

Unknown

Having a large roster is a godsend in PVEs, and at the end of PVPs, especially since they eliminated healing. The number of times I've found myself using Psylocke and Doom and Ragnarok and the rest at the end of a PVE, trying to scramble to keep up with scaling and maintain rank, is pretty close to every PVE I've tried to compete in. I've got all 47 people on my roster, and I'd guess I've used at least 40 of them in the last week, and it's more likely more than less. The 1*s are invaluable for tanking, the 2*s are used in lower-level PVE nodes, and the 3* back-benchers get used in the simulator and the end of PVE.

Plus, it's a Marvel game using a Marvel roster, and the whole reason I play it is to play with as many Marvel characters as I can. So I do.

Unknown

Ever since they tweaked scaling to not count excessively for winning with high level characters there's no need to purposely use weak characters in PvE. I do it occasionally for fun but it's certainly not needed for anything and provides no meaningful advantage. When I get bored of running Daken + Falcon + random I'll run Patch + Magneto + random but that's only because I'm bored. If a node is sufficiently hard enough I'll just run Daken + Falcon + Magneto or Sentry instead of breaking up my best PvE characters.

Unknown

Phantron wrote:

Ever since they tweaked scaling to not count excessively for winning with high level characters there's no need to purposely use weak characters in PvE. I do it occasionally for fun but it's certainly not needed for anything and provides no meaningful advantage. When I get bored of running Daken + Falcon + random I'll run Patch + Magneto + random but that's only because I'm bored. If a node is sufficiently hard enough I'll just run Daken + Falcon + Magneto or Sentry instead of breaking up my best PvE characters.

It provides a huge advantage: the weaker characters take the damage instead of the stronger ones, plus you can spread the damage around and even get the occasional person knocked out without it messing up your whole strategy. At the end of an event - which is when this tends to come up the most - it buys you a tremendous advantage to be able to spread the damage as widely as possible once you've burned through all your health packs.

over_clocked

I find Daken/Falcon incredibly boring. Not saying that Patchneto are a gazillion times better but at least they use AP in amusing ways and have fewer annoying passives.

user311

As an F2Per, I could never maintain enough HP for a 3* cover. I only bought a 2* cover in the very beginning of my play when I didnt know better (and before they were dropped from PVP). I am no longer an F2P player due to past iOS sales. I've bought about 15 or 16 covers. No regrets.

Unknown

Daken/Falcon is a very boring team to play, but if all you care about is winning in PvE they're pretty much top tier and they win faster than pretty much anyone else. Sure do whatever you find to be fun, but if you're saving up HP to buy shields only to make a stronger team, just invest in Daken/Magneto first and then Falcon later for PvE. Likewise for PvP all you need is two strong characters and it'd be quicker to spend HP for their covers rather than hoping your random 6 grabbag 3*s will somehow help you win the event when the two powerhouse characters you're going for does show up as a prize. I used a total of 3 characters for Prodigal Sun: Magneto, Thor, and Daken, and that was the last event I recall that scaled to 395. For Deadpool event I used 5 characters: Hood, Daken, Falcon, Punisher, and Magneto. And I only used Hood because he's required and Punisher because Magneto was doing double duty for PvP so he's often not available due to a lack of health. I threw in HT for quite a few of the nodes for fun, but he certainly had nothing to do with the overall success.

Nellyson

I at first spent $3 to get some roster spots, but then I started an alliance. I haven't bought any covers, but I have bought alliance slots and character slots. Some people sell all the ones they don't use, yeah....not me. I've got every character! Hahaha...but that's why I keep playing. I like having every character and I actually try to use each one. Especially on PVE events. That's been fun to bring out old characters. Then there was that Balance of Power event....damn did I ever have fun with that with my giant roster! But yeah, I enjoy collecting everybody. Mainly spend HP on alliance spots (Spider Monkeys at 18 now!!! YAY us!) and shields.

Unknown

As a F2p player I just bought my first cover (green hulk) to finish him. Was missing is last cover for over 2 season now and got tired of waiting. I had 3000hp at the time.
He is my second fully cover after Pun. I got all the 3* so don't need roster spot unless a new one comes out.

Unknown

I've bought a couple. I keep enough HP to buy three slots, and spend extra on 12th or 13th covers for characters I like (not Daredevil)

Shadow

Phantron wrote:

I don't get why people save HP for shields when it can take up to 2 months before any specific character shows up as a reward. Roster slots are only useful if you're a hoarder. I doubt most people use more than 5 characters on their entire roster in a given week not counting any must-use characters (that includes limited rosters). You can keep telling yourself that someday Captain Marvel and Psylocke will be useful, but you can be waiting for a long time until either are required in PvE and even then you usually just end up having your best two other characters carry the team instead.

I hoard characters too but I don't pretend this is good advice. Most of my 3*s are just sitting there gathering dust. The characters on my first page more than covers every event outside of limited roster + random required 3*s in PvE.

To the contrary, I make use of a lot of characters very often. Including my 1* characters. I have close to 10 max 3* but still use the 1* and 2* characters as well. It's just a matter of play style and having a nice roster helps to keep the game more interesting than playing the same set of characters all the time. Of course this only applies to PvE. In PvP, I pretty much stick to the same set of characters since using weaker characters will open yourself up to more attacks.

Unknown

Just can't bring myself to purchase covers or tokens with HP
Have hectic OCD so all HP goes to roster slots XD

AXP_isme

As a relative novice I've never spent HP on covers, mainly due to the scarcity of HP and high cost of any covers worth having. I think you need to have a reasonable roster size and a decent amount of progress before it starts to become useful - the trade off in tokens and roster slots is better in the early game.
Don't think I'll be buying specific covers any time soon - not until I can get in alliance that generates reasonable amounts of HP.

Unknown

I haven't used any HP to buy covers yet though I have considered it a couple of times. I think I will finally buy if it's the final cover for a "first-tier 3*" character I need.