I've been playing SCL 10 since it came out. The enticement of 250 5* shards in progression is just too much to ignore. Even in the more difficult events I've always been able to complete progression.
I don't play optimally though and only recently was able to do full grind on the more challenging CNs, so I'm usually between top 100 and top 200. Meaning I get 300-325 shards per event.
It's been a pretty nice week as I managed to get Shuri to lvl 300 and the 250 shards gave me an Okoye cover for a reasonable 5/3/2 spec and the shards I assigned bagged me a Thor cover so he now sits at 5/4/2 both very useable. I am now sharding Gamora to get her to 300 for Thanos shards and also Black Bolt as he is very close to spitting out a cover via shards which will put both of them in reach of finishing. My roster is starting to shape up ahead of my 5* transition.
because Negasonic is feature in today's PvE... I ran her, Black Bolt, and Storm together. Please note that while my Nega is champed, the other two aren't.
It was actually quite fun! Lots of charge tiles to work with, to get cascades... get that extra AP from cascading charge tiles... if nothing happens, at least you're probably proc'ing BBolt's passive each turn after turn 2.
When I had enough black built up (easy with Storm's passive), hitting Storm's black was even more fun with Nega there to cause MORE destruction on top of the norm.
The boosted list of this week wasn't kind to me - a lot of newer characters I don't have champed yet. The only boosted 4* I have champed was Lady Thor.
Somehow, people still let me climb up to 900 pts with Lady Thor/IM40 (and some guest appearances of Sabretooth vs Polaris/GRocket teams) in Sting Theory for the Scorpion cover.
Yay! And here I thought that was only happening when I could use 2 of the boosted 4*s, not a 4* and a 3*. Maybe it's just because it's off-season.
This morning I used the retro Milestone awards to earn enough 5-star Shards to finish and Champion both Beta Ray Bill and Gambit. I actually first finished Gambit approx. 2 & 1/2 years ago, literally right when he was nerfed, then sold him for 13 5-star tokens which would help me finish and make Okoye my first 5-star Champion. With today's rewards I also added another 5-6 levels to Okoye to bring her up to level 497. Some may see it as a waste of shards to finish Gambit, but I only needed 150 Shards, and by finessing the Milestone rewards I was literally able to get exactly that many for him. Also BRB and Gambit are my 20th and 21st 5-star Champions, so I'm not exactly hurting for shards
After all the wonderful milestones today went to pull of few latest legends tokens to boost Heimdal the 15 shards he needed for another cover and got 500 bonus shards out of nowhere. So he got two covers.
Shot in the dark, but I think it's safe to say that everyone's "best MPQ moment of the day" was due to Milestone Quests.
Champed Havok and Archangel (1 cover each) Prof X (3 covers) and Apocalypse (4 covers) thanks to the shards. Also managed a champ level for Okoye with Shuri Shards once I set her as my 4-star favorite. Sped up the champing of those four characters by at least a year.
Thanks to Milestone rewards I finally champed BRB! Too bad I was both tired and excited and didn't realize I already had enough to champ him. Brought him to 454 meanwhile iHulk is still at 5 covers.
Pulled LL once Magneto rotated in so I could finish Heimdall and maybe Deadpool. Got what I needed with 10/45 pulls, and saw that the milestone rewards for "Collect X powers for 5* heroes" gave me enough shards for another level on my targeted 5* champ. I've decided to keep covering LL even when they seem a bit underwhelming, and this is a good sweetener for me to keep pulling every rotation.
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I've been starting to have the one leaving champed before he left, but this is the first time all 3 currently in the store are champed.
I don't play optimally though and only recently was able to do full grind on the more challenging CNs, so I'm usually between top 100 and top 200. Meaning I get 300-325 shards per event.
It was actually quite fun! Lots of charge tiles to work with, to get cascades... get that extra AP from cascading charge tiles... if nothing happens, at least you're probably proc'ing BBolt's passive each turn after turn 2.
When I had enough black built up (easy with Storm's passive), hitting Storm's black was even more fun with Nega there to cause MORE destruction on top of the norm.
Obviously, this isn't meta -- but it was fun.
Some may see it as a waste of shards to finish Gambit, but I only needed 150 Shards, and by finessing the Milestone rewards I was literally able to get exactly that many for him.
Also BRB and Gambit are my 20th and 21st 5-star Champions, so I'm not exactly hurting for shards
For me champing 5* Strange, DD, and Thanos.
I almost could have squeezed out a fourth classic (Jean or ArchAngel) if I would have played my cards right. Still a nice win for one day.
God doom , JJ, banner hulk , Peter Parker and onslaught plus ihulk to 12 covers oh and almost forgot i champed wasp
Xmas came early
Oh well, its a nice problem to have!