Quick Roster Slot Question

dswan3rd

Situation: I've got 500 HP (enough for 1 slot), a purple Prof. X that expires in 7 days and a black Luke Cage that expires in 11 days. Since Cage (red) is the DDQ award today, do I buy the slot and recruit him (to complete today's DDQ for ISO and an extra taco) and just "hope" that I can earn another 500+ HP (for another slot) before the Prof. X expires?

My roster consists of either maxed 2*s that get used, 3*s with at least a pair of covers, and Juggs (for DDQ) so I'm not even sure who I would sell if Prof. X was about to expire. Thoughts?

Quebbster

Yes, recruit Cage. He is awesome. A two-cover Cage will serve you a lot better than a one-cover Professor X in the long run.
Out of curiosity, what does the rest of your roster look like?

dswan3rd

Quebbster wrote:

Yes, recruit Cage. He is awesome. A two-cover Cage will serve you a lot better than a one-cover Professor X in the long run.
Out of curiosity, what does the rest of your roster look like?

Thanks for the advice...

140 Capt. Marvel (3*) - 5/3/3
140 Hood - 5/0/5
130 Spidey - 5/4/1
127 Blade - 4/4/2 (one more essential to finish for the green cover from the Gauntlet)
127 LCap - 3/3/4
115 XF - 1/3/1
114 Falcon - 5/3/0
104 Patch - 3/1/4
102 Magneto (3*) - 4/2/2
102 R & G - 2/3/3
102 She-Hulk - 3/4/0
102 Mohawk - 3/2/3
91 Deadpool - 4/1/2
91 Doc Ock - 3/1/3
89 Rags - 3/3/0
78 Pun - 4/0/1
68 GSBW - 1/3/1
68 Doom - 1/3/1
68 Mystique - 3/1/1
68 Sentry - 3/1/1
66 IF - 1/0/3
66 LThor - 2/2/1
63 DD - 2/0/2
53 SG - 1/2/0
50 Cyclops - 2/0/0

Maxed 2*s - Ares/OBW/Ms. Marvel/Daken/Hawkeye/Torchling/MNMags/Cl.Storm/MNThor/A.Wolv, and Juggs @ 40

Quebbster

dswan3rd wrote:

Quebbster wrote:

Yes, recruit Cage. He is awesome. A two-cover Cage will serve you a lot better than a one-cover Professor X in the long run.
Out of curiosity, what does the rest of your roster look like?

Thanks for the advice...

140 Capt. Marvel (3*) - 5/3/3
140 Hood - 5/0/5
130 Spidey - 5/4/1
127 Blade - 4/4/2 (one more essential to finish for the green cover from the Gauntlet)
127 LCap - 3/3/4
115 XF - 1/3/1
114 Falcon - 5/3/0
104 Patch - 3/1/4
102 Magneto (3*) - 4/2/2
102 R & G - 2/3/3
102 She-Hulk - 3/4/0
102 Mohawk - 3/2/3
91 Deadpool - 4/1/2
91 Doc Ock - 3/1/3
89 Rags - 3/3/0
78 Pun - 4/0/1
68 GSBW - 1/3/1
68 Doom - 1/3/1
68 Mystique - 3/1/1
68 Sentry - 3/1/1
66 IF - 1/0/3
66 LThor - 2/2/1
63 DD - 2/0/2
53 SG - 1/2/0
50 Cyclops - 2/0/0

Not seeing much here that can be cut. Possibly Sentry, he's kind of **** since his redo.

dswan3rd wrote:

Maxed 2*s - Ares/OBW/Ms. Marvel/Daken/Hawkeye/Torchling/MNMags/Cl.Storm/MNThor/A.Wolv, and Juggs @ 40

So pretty much all of the good and decent ones. I definitely think Ares, OBW, Daken and Thor are all worth keeping, the rest really depends on how much you use them.
(disclaimer - I have all those on my roster, most are maxed. Still, if you need the space you could sell a two-star you rarely use and then rebuild it fairy easily.)

dswan3rd

Quebbster wrote:

Not seeing much here that can be cut. Possibly Sentry, he's kind of **** since his redo.

dswan3rd wrote:

Maxed 2*s - Ares/OBW/Ms. Marvel/Daken/Hawkeye/Torchling/MNMags/Cl.Storm/MNThor/A.Wolv, and Juggs @ 40

So pretty much all of the good and decent ones. I definitely think Ares, OBW, Daken and Thor are all worth keeping, the rest really depends on how much you use them.
(disclaimer - I have all those on my roster, most are maxed. Still, if you need the space you could sell a two-star you rarely use and then rebuild it fairy easily.)

I figured Sentry made sense as a casualty since I feel like only use him on Trivial/Easy PVE nodes. At the same time, I thought his sizable health pool and damage dealing (albeit at the expense of your team) would make him a PVP option here and there. Torchling probably gets used the least out of the 2*s, so he'll be the next to go if I absolutely need a slot.

Thanks again.

PeterGibbons316

Prof. X will sit useless on your roster for a LONG time. You will actually earn Luke Cage covers though and he will be useful much sooner. In fact, if they keep the current PvP scheme with multiple characters boosted you will see a lot more people using Luke Cage to reduce match damage and hopefully conserve health packs.

TxMoose

your roster is well ahead of mine and I can't remember the last time I thought, hey, lets put ms marvel in this node... I'd trade ms marvel for prof x right now if I could, even if it sat useless for 8-10 months. In that 8-10 months, the only times I'd use marvel is when buffed and even then, with the ***s you have, it's unlikely she'd be better than them anyway.

Given the Cage/Prof choice, Cage for all the reasons listed above.

dswan3rd

Thanks to all for the feedback - who knows, maybe I'll get lucky from a taco (I've gotten all 2*s plus a Squirrel Girl and a Mystique) and have a influx of HP to open a slot for Prof. X before the cover expires. Everything you guys said makes sense with regard to Cage though, so hopefully I'll stumble across more covers soon.

optimus2861

PeterGibbons316 wrote:

Prof. X will sit useless on your roster for a LONG time.

To wit, I drew a from a token very early in my playing days; it may even have been a standard token. It's still the only cover of him I have, and I'm seriously considering selling him to free the slot.

I drew an from a heroic this week and I'll probably end up selling her too for that very same reason (I swear, every time I test my token luck when I don't have a free roster slot, a new cover spits out).

TxMoose

optimus2861 wrote:

PeterGibbons316 wrote:

Prof. X will sit useless on your roster for a LONG time.

To wit, I drew a from a token very early in my playing days; it may even have been a standard token. It's still the only cover of him I have, and I'm seriously considering selling him to free the slot.

I drew an from a heroic this week and I'll probably end up selling her too for that very same reason (I swear, every time I test my token luck when I don't have a free roster slot, a new cover spits out).

True - I drew 4hor red early and earned an Elektra back when I was in a noob bracket. In ~114 days I have since drawn 1 more 4hor red and earned a star lord and drawn one starlord. So pulling 3 **** covers in over 100 days is not fast progress. I think the main engine to gain **** covers is reaching 1000 pts in pvp, which is not possible except with the best ***s in the game, or xf. So, depends on how long-term you want to think. I'm always trying to think very long-term, but being that this is a mobile game, who knows how much staying power it will have after a while. Mobile match games come and go often, so take that for what it is.

Quebbster

TxMoose wrote:

your roster is well ahead of mine and I can't remember the last time I thought, hey, lets put ms marvel in this node... I'd trade ms marvel for prof x right now if I could, even if it sat useless for 8-10 months. In that 8-10 months, the only times I'd use marvel is when buffed and even then, with the ***s you have, it's unlikely she'd be better than them anyway.

Given the Cage/Prof choice, Cage for all the reasons listed above.

Photonic Blasts can be a nice utility power against defense tiles and Sonic Boom is possibly the best active black power in two-star land - a case can be made for Inferno, but Torchling has less HP than Ms Marvel. Those are the main reasons to consider playing Ms Marvel IMO.
She can probably be dropped eventually when the three-star roster is more developed, but she definitely has a role to play in two-star land.

lukewin

I would probably drop 2* Torch for Prof X. It is hard to do, since you've already invested ~70k ISO to level him, but he can easily be rebuilt. The only time you would miss him, is if he is an option in a Heroic. You don't have the 3* version yet, but when you do, it's the same move set. Purple Prof X is actually pretty useful. It can be a pain to go up against, if you can't match that tile or there are no team attacks. He would do great in goon only nodes, that have no team attacks. I like my 2* Cap Marvel. She has a different move set than 3* Cap Marvel, so I would def sell 2* Torch before 2* Marvel.

You've got a Deadpool for cheap Red attack, so you wouldn't miss out on Torch's best ability.

Unknown

Sell MNMags for the extra 550 HP, then you can start to collect covers to rebuild him for when you get enough HP for another slot. I understand yiu may be using him with CStorm for the big Enchilada, so, make sure you have another team that will consistently earn you that daily cover.

Quebbster

CrankyDay wrote:

Sell MNMags for the extra 550 HP, then you can start to collect covers to rebuild him for when you get enough HP for another slot. I understand yiu may be using him with CStorm for the big Enchilada, so, make sure you have another team that will consistently earn you that daily cover.

That's a good idea. I usually blast straight through the DDQ with Ares/OBW/CStorm, though Daken would be an excellent alternative to Storm. In fact, it may be more hurtful to PvEs to be without Magneto...