Which 2* characters are worth keeping post 3* transition?

Ronfar

I've basically managed the 2* to 3* transition completely by now; I have a whole lot of 3* characters at level 166 and several more with full covers sitting at level 120. However, there are a LOT of different characters you can get, and I tend to run out of roster space. I've reached the point where I've started to need to sell off my 2* characters to make room for new 3* characters. A powered up 2* character at max level is no longer stronger than a regular strength 3* character at max level, so I'm wondering if I should just forget about most of my 2* roster completely altogether. I've already ditched all the 1* characters except Black Widow, Storm, Iron Man, and Juggernaut, and I'm wondering if I should also pare down my 2* team to the bare minimum I need to run Deadpool's Daily Quest and leave it at that...

Adrock1020

I ran into the same problem a couple of months ago when I decided to cap my roster slots at 50. The only 2* characters I have are OBW, Thor and Storm (My usual DDQ team), as well as an Ares (for Balance of Power) and the only 1* I have is Juggs (for DDQ and Balance of Power). He can easily solo the DDQ. I'd almost recommend selling off your 1*s first and then start trimming the 2*s as needed.

Unknown

OBW, so much that I invested in two. I always use her for nodes which has characters that need time to build up AP like Lazy Thor.

Malcrof

OBW is a must, I find Torch and Ms Marvel useful , especially when boosted, their reds do more then a 3/5/5 lvl 166 3Thor..

But with 2 star essentials in the mix now, if you have the space, keep them all.

TxMoose

I'm mid-transition (1 maxed, one other at 142, 4 others with 13 covers, lots of 10/11/12 cover guys) and up until recently my plan was to cut hawkeye and then wolvie (when patch became slightly more useful). with the added ** pve essentials I'm not sure what I'm going to do - at 58 slots (have all ***/**** except beast and Ddino) and would like to cap at 60 but not sure I can hold myself to it when several more new shinies come out . long-term I was planning on keeping ares/obw/storm/mnmags for sure and probably still daken/thor for a time. I actually like baby thor better in the big enchilada than Lthor because it gives you more time to accumulate ap - the few times I plugged Lthor into thormneto (Lthormneto if you will) he just obliterated the goon waves so fast that I hit the character waves really before I wanted to, so keeping **thor is a preference of mine. and my Ldaken needs one or 2 more black before I can consistently use him without heat taking chunks of health off every turn.

all that to say, I'm keeping ares/obw/storm/mnmags for a while. eventually I may part ways with daken/thor and I'm almost ready to pull the trigger on hawkeye and wolverine but the ** essentials are making me question that. I wonder right now if I'd be better off selling off doc ock and/or psylocke. I'd say vision too but I hesitate on selling off any 'avenger' that might be required for another ultron.

as far as the 1*s, juggs is all I need. all others are extra/fluff. I started with im35 and mbw and loved those guys but juggs is all you need for ddq and he's the right one for bop/etc.

Unknown

Malcrof wrote:

OBW is a must, I find Torch and Ms Marvel useful , especially when boosted, their reds do more then a 3/5/5 lvl 166 3Thor..

But with 2 star essentials in the mix now, if you have the space, keep them all.

I just keep one roster spot open for whatever 2* is essential for this event, sell of the single cover and replace it with the new essential when the next event hits. Considering the essential nodes are easier, there's not much of a difference between 2 3* + 1 single covered 2* essential or 2 3* + 1 fully covered 2* essential.

Currently I'm at 51 roster spots, only have 4 2*s on my roster (OBW, Storm , Thor and whatever 1 covered flavor of the week) and only 1 1* (Iron Man). I never had any problem completing the Deadpool Daily even though sometimes I'm restricted to only 2 2* characters for some of the Deadpool daily nodes and only have 1 1* to use.

Sickboy254698

Keep Ares and OBW for Deadpools Daily. Everyone else is garbage.

TxMoose

Sickboy254698 wrote:

Keep Ares and OBW for Deadpools Daily. Everyone else is garbage.

not sure this is enough. obw can be locked out of the 3rd time node and not sure ares can carry it alone. I still use daken there too and I find uses for cstorm and mnmags and even thor. many of those will become irrelevant when I have a stable of 166s but until then, not sure ares/obw is enough.

Buret0

I would keep, in this order:
OBW
Storm
Magneto
Bullseye (So happy he got his third cover, when boosted he's valuable)

Hold until your Lazy 3* versions are ready (~9 covers):
Human Torch (Edit: I loved my old 5/3/5 2orch, I can't believe I forgot to include him here)
Thor (I actually like using 2hor, OBW, and Bullseye in the nodes 2, 3, and 4 of the DDQ)
Daken (you can dump 2aken as soon as your 3aken's Healing and Heat is 4+ covers)

I might keep:
Ares (I have him fully covered, but can't justify spending the 69,530 ISO to level him this late in the 3* transition)
Wolverine
Moonstone (The only real 2* that deals with special tiles, but there aren't many times where it will matter)
Hawkeye (Only really good when boosted and you have a way to make Speed Shot reliably fire)

I would not hold:
Captain America
Captain Marvel
Bag-Man (except as that, well I beat you with Bag Man, I dare you to hit retaliate character... also because he's rare now).

I would also keep a roster spot that permits you to cycle through required 2*s. I like to choose the last slice, so I usually have the most time to prepare for any 2* that I might have sold off.

As soon as your 3hor, 3ap, and 3aken are well covered (9 covers or so) you might as well sell the 2* versions for 12,500 ISO.

I never gave Ares a chance, because in PvP he's only a threat to a 2* roster (unless he gets boosted). I never really considered him a viable PvE option. Like Juggs, he's useful to cover for the Balance of Power PvP event.

OBW is underused and underlevelled in my roster... I only put her that high because of how others see her. I still find that I use Hood/Mystique/Loki more than OBW, but that's mostly because I've got other priorities to spend my ISO on now and I didn't really see the value in OBW when I was a two star (mostly because I didn't know how good her purple ability would get until I visited this site... MPQ should really let you see what future covers give you instead of just the next cover).

Magneto powers his Magnetic Flux and Storm's Wind Storm, I will never sell those two off.

TxMoose

I gotta put a plug in for mnmags pairing with Lcap too. get steve covered and put him with mags and Cyclops with several yellow/black covers and goon nodes become cakewalks.

PeterGibbons316

I still have seven 2* chars that I use for DDQ and early PvE to help save health packs on my 3* chars so that I can be effective in both PvE and PvP. I use two teams primarily:

Ares/Thor, MNMags, CStorm
Daken, Wolverine, OBW

And if I had to drop 1 from this list it would actually be Ares of all people. Honestly I think Thor while slow to get going, ultimately covers those colors better due to his yellow feeding CtS, and Ares shows up in PvE so much that I often can't even use him. And I don't have anything close to a well covered LThor. Maybe if I had an LThor I would drop the 2* variety, hard to say.