Starting Over

spudzo0

I'm just about to finish my 2* transition stage, and I have a decent amount of 3*s grossly undercovered and I'm starting to get bored. I kind of want to restart and play as optimally as possible but I'm not sure that it's worth it. I'm in a decent alliance, however we struggle to hit top 100. I've wasted a lot of resources and sold a lot of essential covers in the past and am now at a point that I don't want to rebuild them from this account. I have made a separate facebook account specifically for MPQ that could be used for a fresh start and I could always come back to this one later on, but I'm not sure what the best thing to do is at this point. Should I suck it up for the next bit till I start wracking in the 3*s, or should I start fresh with better knowledge and possibly a better experience? Looking for thoughts or opinions...

Unknown

I would not trash what you have earned with your current account. Think of all the time and effort you have put in. This is not a game that has an ending, so starting over does not get you anything.

ynglink

If you feel like you've messed up, the only bonus to staring anew as opposed to just clearing up roster slots is the daily rewards, which get much better with time. So no, I wouldn't start over on a new account, but if I felt like you did. I'd just sell most of my roster then.

KrazyKeylime

not worth it until they invent cover trading, otherwise learn from your mistakes as pulls are random you are not guaranteed anything. i have two accounts a steam and mobile. lately i have been having to choose one or the other to get decent rewards. two accounts is such a time suck, but way better with 8 hr refreshers. if you end up having two accounts, i can offer some advice choose rewards you want to play for carefully and tank the rest( i.e. play only a few match and end event playing) use the time slices to your advantage i start one account in first time slice and one at the end. on the trailing account try joining the PVE event on day 2 to 3 for better brackets it take some effort to grind but i can usually get enough points in the higher point value time subs to get full progression rewards but i have mostly 3*+ on my account, don't worry about playing optimally just grab as many points as possible by fully grind lower levels first if you are get wreck in harder nodes, and also ues boosts to conserve the +3 ap dual color boost is totally worth it, save the costing boosts for last minute climbs if you might go up in your reward bracket. it might be fun to see the new changes in the upcoming patch for early game. good luck to you what ever you choose.

Lidolas

I wouldn't start over. The first month or 3 is such a grind.

morph3us

I think a fair number of us have reached a stage in our learning curves for the game where we've realised that we've made some mistakes (sold covers we shouldn't have, etc). Your initial instinct is probably to start over, because for most games, where rewards are fixed, it makes sense to do so. There's no advantage to restarting in MPQ, though. You get to do the Prologue again, but none of the rewards are really worth keeping. After that, you're at the mercy of the random number generator in terms of your drops. Also, you're going to put yourself at a substantial disadvantage in DDQ, since you'll be a missing all of the essential characters that you'll need to complete the 3* node. I wouldn't start over.

ClydeFrog76

That sounds like a terrible idea. Much better to learn from your mistakes and forge ahead with what you've got than start from scratch. I really don't see the point of beginning again.

Oldboy

So OP probably gets the general feedback that it's a bad idea to start over. I'd just like to add on and i think this will apply to many others as well, that this is probably what most 2* transitioners face. It was easier in the earlier days as there were less 3* to collect and level but with the increase in variety it gets pretty overwhelming in roster slots and competition. During this transition phase, it gets boring as you're constantly stuck using only 2* characters and you'll be stuck here for a long time unless you're willing to cough the $$$ cover your 3*. I was stuck in that phase too for at least 6 months but i should qualify that i wasn't in any alliance so no alliance rewards and i only played pvp for 3* covers. (I could only get 1 cover per pvp). I hadn't understood how to play PVE optimally yet and i didnt discover the forum until quite late. Fortunately i did and covers started coming in from PVE. Once you get your first 3 3* decently covered the game will start becoming enjoyable again. In the meantime you may want to tough it out for the next few months before you get your 3* covered and usable. Btw no decently covered (about 8 or 9 covers) 3*, except for Beast, is ever truly useless. I started out with Spiderman and Psylocke and i fit them in however i could.

Xenoberyll

I say, start over!

But only because all others say you shouldn't

simonsez

spudzo0 wrote:

Looking for thoughts or opinions...

Seems like a pointless idea. Why trash what you already have just so you can spend a couple months getting them back?

spudzo0

Great feed back everybody, thank you very much. I don't think I really wanted to start over because I felt that I had screwed up, I think it was more that I was tired of using the same 2* teams over and over and not getting any further up in PvP. Not to mention that there are times when I still wanted to play but there was nothing left for me to do. I think what I might do is start a new account on a separate device to have something to do in the downtime. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can speed up my transition? I'm already hitting PvE optimally, getting full progression and usually getting top 100 or better. Plus I'm doing most of DDQ where available. Top 100 in PvP seems to elude me for some reason and I'm not willing to spend money shield hopping. Maybe that's where I need the most help. Any suggestions on how to hit top 100 in PvP for 2* rosters?

rednailz

spudzo0 wrote:

Great feed back everybody, thank you very much. I don't think I really wanted to start over because I felt that I had screwed up, I think it was more that I was tired of using the same 2* teams over and over and not getting any further up in PvP. Not to mention that there are times when I still wanted to play but there was nothing left for me to do. I think what I might do is start a new account on a separate device to have something to do in the downtime. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can speed up my transition? I'm already hitting PvE optimally, getting full progression and usually getting top 100 or better. Plus I'm doing most of DDQ where available. Top 100 in PvP seems to elude me for some reason and I'm not willing to spend money shield hopping. Maybe that's where I need the most help. Any suggestions on how to hit top 100 in PvP for 2* rosters?

You might be able to join a shard with not much time left before it ends and hope that you land in a bracket where you can get a high placement by virture of there not being enough time for people to climb. If you luck out you can get top 100 with 400 pts I'd bet. But it might not contribute a lot to your alliance's top 100 placement. It's also a bit of a gamble.

Unknown

spudzo0 wrote:

Great feed back everybody, thank you very much. I don't think I really wanted to start over because I felt that I had screwed up, I think it was more that I was tired of using the same 2* teams over and over and not getting any further up in PvP. Not to mention that there are times when I still wanted to play but there was nothing left for me to do. I think what I might do is start a new account on a separate device to have something to do in the downtime. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can speed up my transition? I'm already hitting PvE optimally, getting full progression and usually getting top 100 or better. Plus I'm doing most of DDQ where available. Top 100 in PvP seems to elude me for some reason and I'm not willing to spend money shield hopping. Maybe that's where I need the most help. Any suggestions on how to hit top 100 in PvP for 2* rosters?

I totally agree with the stuck using the same teams and having nothing to do comments.

Not sure where you are, so can only suggest the following (which you might already be doing).
1. Max out your Ares. While AWolverine/Daken can get you top 100, it's nice to have OBW/Ares for slightly faster pushes near the end, or for 10 mins if you unexpectedly lose a battle.
2. Save 75hp for a single 3 hour shield near the end. You're unlikely to make t100 without at least one shield.
3. Play somewhere between 4 to 1 hours from the end of the event, so you can shield up after your climb, and not get hit by all the last minute retaliations.

Honestly, t100 for a 2* team has gotten very hard. If you don't have the feature character at least 4 covered, it makes it that much harder.

Unknown

spudzo0 wrote:

Great feed back everybody, thank you very much. I don't think I really wanted to start over because I felt that I had screwed up, I think it was more that I was tired of using the same 2* teams over and over and not getting any further up in PvP. Not to mention that there are times when I still wanted to play but there was nothing left for me to do. I think what I might do is start a new account on a separate device to have something to do in the downtime. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can speed up my transition? I'm already hitting PvE optimally, getting full progression and usually getting top 100 or better. Plus I'm doing most of DDQ where available. Top 100 in PvP seems to elude me for some reason and I'm not willing to spend money shield hopping. Maybe that's where I need the most help. Any suggestions on how to hit top 100 in PvP for 2* rosters?

PVP and 2* only teams just aren't a reality. You either spend $$$ or you still have months of 2* land ahead of you.

It's a bit better now than 2 months ago, but you are still hitting roster slot hp limitations and ISO. All you can do is grind PVE and wait it out, or spend $$. It will take 6+ months to even sniff a ftp 166 3*.

Unknown

One thing I did when I was at your point was take a season off. Just skip a whole month of playing and jump on your Xbox or other mobile games. Sure, you may miss some useful rewards and new characters but happiness has value too and normally trumps the value of a new character that you will only have 3 covers of for a long time. Then come back and do what all the others said. Keep plodding along.