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edited October 2014 in MPQ General Discussion
Is buying standard tokens ever a good idea (especially with all the ISO we've been getting this week)?

I am now beginning my 2-3 transition (have 6 maxed 2*s and my best 3* is a lvl40 1/2/4 Patch) and got about 125k ISO stashed. I can usually get at least Top 100 in any PVP I play and the final PVE reward but I was wondering if gambling away some ISO is any good?

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  • FierceKiwi
    FierceKiwi Posts: 505 Critical Contributor
    Not really you very rarely pull something usefull from Standard Tokens and by the time you do you'll wish you had all the ISO to level someone.
  • MarvelMan
    MarvelMan Posts: 1,350
    Never. Absolutely not. No Way. Forget it. By no means. You get the point right? I mean dont even think about it.



    But seriously, there are VERY few times this is a good idea. Like only if you have spare cash and want to reward the devs without making any progress.
  • Unknown
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    I used to do that at the start of my transition. Now I wished I hadn't cause you quickly need more iso to level your peeps than worrying about covers
  • GothicKratos
    GothicKratos Posts: 1,821 Chairperson of the Boards
    As mentioned, it's pretty much an awful idea. I bought a few when I first started and was playing through Prologue, and I regret I now, even if it was a net sum of 2,000 ISO.
  • lukewin
    lukewin Posts: 1,356 Chairperson of the Boards
    futongus wrote:
    I used to do that at the start of my transition. Now I wished I hadn't cause you quickly need more iso to level your peeps than worrying about covers

    Totally agree with this. I don't regret doing it, b/c I did score a few 3* covers, when there was no other way for me to get 3*s. It would normally take me about 40 or so covers, to get a 3*. I figured, I have a buncha iso, why not. At one point, I was almost to 300k iso. Joining better alliances to get covers was the way to go for me, since I'm willing to grind in pve's. also gave the needed hp required to open up slots. If I was starting over, and knew what I know now, probably wouldn't have bought a single one.

    There was one memorable time for me though. I scored a 3* Magneto cover, trained and raised levels, went back, scored a 3* Patch. I would estimate I easily put over 100k into buying covers.
  • Unknown
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    Between drops and free standard tokens (pve nodes, pve progressive, LR progressive, etc.) I would never buy a standard token .
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    DON"T DO IT!

    I have spent like 30k ISO in my beginnings to try for those 2* covers in order to get into the 2* land. While I did get some 2* every now and then, I regretted so much spending that ISO because I was super starved when I wanted to upgrade my 2*.

    Remember, getting one good cover is not going to help you in anything. Especially when you have spent your only currency that you use to improve your characters. And considering that your chances to get 2-3 covers of the same char are super rare, it is not worth the risk.
  • SunCrusher
    SunCrusher Posts: 278 Mover and Shaker
    Between nodes in PvEs having the potential to drop Recruit Tokens and PvPs dropping actual covers from time to time, it's easy to accumulate Recruit Tokens or 1-2* covers without having to resort to spending ISO.

    I'm someone who's had 'pretty bad luck' getting Recruit Tokens to drop from PvE nodes, but even I can accumulate enough to have fairly regular pulls.

    And yes, I totally agree with what Okin107 says; you need the ISO for your better characters and pulling a single good cover oftentimes doesn't help much until you can build them because their abilities - without additional covers - cost too much AP for them to be initially useful.

    Also, another reason to not spend 500 ISO to pull Recruit Tokens:

    I ONCE PULLED 10 VENOMS ALL BACK TO BACK - BOTH BLACK AND PURPLE COVERS. BY THE TIME I WAS DONE PULLING FROM A STACK OF 30SOMEODD TOKENS, I COULD HAVE BUILT A FULLY COVERED VENOM AND THEN SOME AND A MOSTLY COVERED YELENA. THAT'S WHAT OVER 50% OF MY PULL RATE LOOKED LIKE.

    Granted, not everyone's pull rates are that spectacularly bad/one-sided, but I am definitely glad I didn't spend any ISO for any of those pulls - especially since I already had all the 1*s at that time!
  • wymtime
    wymtime Posts: 3,767 Chairperson of the Boards
    Standard tokens should be used for free ISO. You should expect to average about 145 ISO per standard token. 7 out of 10 will probably be 1* 3 out of 10 2* and on occasion 1 out of 30-50 will be 3-4*. Treat your Stadard covers as ISO farming and when you get a gold token you can celebrate like it is 1999!!

    P.S. Don't buy tokens. The only Tokens worth the risk right now are the Anniversary tokens and then the risk is best for the 50HP daily deal. For the Anniversary Tokens you have a 40% chance of getting something better than a 2* which currently are the best odds around.
  • IlDuderino
    IlDuderino Posts: 427 Mover and Shaker
    I did do this in the past and have spent about 40k iso on tokens when in the 2* to 3* phase - the only good pull I got was a Punisher green which took him to 3/5/5 and led to my first 166 character so that was pretty cool icon_e_smile.gif Though he was the reward in the following week's PVP and I have since drawn the same cover 3 / 4 times and I now have a massive iso shortage ... so I would resist if possible!

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