SO MANY COVERS NEED HELP

cooperbigdaddy

Hey all! So I opened 293 taco tokens today (I will post my token by token gains if you want to see them on another thread) and I need help with what to do next!

My roster is pretty much up to date (in my signature).
I have 315,659 ISO and 3950 HP (my slots currently cost 850), so I'm guessing I will be able to 4 slots. I don't know what number of slots makes the amount of HP per slot go up, so maybe I'll have 5? But I bet I'll have 4.
Here are the covers waiting in my queue:

2 Jessica Drew (1 , 1 )
1 Starlord
5 3*Storm (3 , 1 , 1 )
5 3* Spider-Man (2 , 2 1 )
6 3* Luke Cage (1 , 3 , 2 )
1 Doctor Octopus
1 Squirrel Girl
1 Ares
8 2* Captain Marvel (5 , 1 , 1 )
8 2* Thor (4 , 1 , 3 )
5 2* Hawkeye (2 , 1 , 2 )
14 Moonstone (5 , 4 , 5 )
10 2* Bullseye (5 , 2 , 3 )
11 OBW (3 , 5 , 3 )
14 2* Storm (8 , 3 , 3 )
14 2* Human Torch (3 , 3 , 8 )
7 2* Daken (2 , 2 , 3 )

I obviously will roster the two Jessica Drew covers.

The main help I need is do I go ahead and champion Luke, Storm, and Spider-Man to get their rewards? I currently don't have enough to champion all three, but hopefully with more champ levels of 2*s, I will.

When I add champ levels to 2*s I currently have, I believe I will net another 3* Daken and a Ragnarock. Because of lack of ISO, I believe these will go to waste. (Well, Daken will go to waste, but Rags will also go to waste because I won't roster him over a 2* to champion)

So now, it comes to which 2*s to add to champion? I estimate only 3 slots left after Jessica Drew. Should I max cover Moonstone, roster a 3/3/5 HT hoping to get 2 more non-green covers soon, and a 10 cover Bullseye? I want to champ these folks soon to start up their farm.

Again I don't have enough ISO to champ the 2*s, but then I also have almost 3000 Standard tokens. Should I open those to get 2* champ levels and sell all the 1*s to get the ISO I would need to do all this?

Is there a better strategy I'm not thinking of?? What am I missing?

GrumpySmurf1002

The Standards alone have an ROI of ~390k iso, just based on cover value.. So yeah, I'd start opening them.

Magic

The main question is why did you open all the tacos? I can't find the reason behind it in your post.

To benefit the most from this you will need iso and HP. For ISO you can look at your Standard tokens - there should be plenty of that. And for HP - the 2* farm. Plus we are on the double iso week with probably some good HP rewards coming as well. So the 2 week window should allow you to keep most of what you got. Still - the question is why you did it when your roster was clearly not prepared to accommodate the results?

cooperbigdaddy

Magic wrote:

The main question is why did you open all the tacos? I can't find the reason behind it in your post.

There was a Jessica Drew and a Jean in there and I had 293 tokens so I thought I would have a good chance to get them and the HP I needed, which I got after the 292nd token.

But now I may not have enough slots and ISO to do what I had planned, which was to roster every 2* and start farming my Standards like crazy. Can I still do this? I think I can roster 3 of the 4 2*s I'm missing if I don't worry about Doc Ock and Squirrel Girl. Is this a bad plan?

cooperbigdaddy

Thanks! So after applying champion levels to the 2*s I already have (sans Ares) and doing some math, I can currently get 3 slots and only need 150 HP more to get a 4th slot. The rest of the covers are the same except adding another 3* Storm .

Suggestions for which covers to recruit?

udonomefoo

cooperbigdaddy wrote:

Suggestions for which covers to recruit?

Sorry, it's kind of hard to follow your list since it shows covers for characters you had unmaxed like Luke, obw, etc.

My priorities for iso would be Luke, Storm, 2*s, Spidey. It's tough when you have a lot of covers staring at you though. (I know, I've got 8 psylocke covers staring at me and she's one of only 6 remaining unchamped 3*s for me)

3 slots? J Drew. From there it gets harder. Doc Oc & Squirrel are two of my still unchamped 3*s as well.

Ok, I changed my mind. Moonstone, HT, Bullseye. Pull those standard tokens. You have 2 weeks to get the 150 hp to roster J Drew.

cooperbigdaddy

UPDATE!

I did some 2* farming and boy was it fun!

Now I have some more questions. Oh boy!

I currently have 299,075 ISO. Here are my options for which 3*s to champion (all ISO prices are including the champion 7500):
Kamala Khan (94,783 to champion, 1 cover in queue)
Doctor Doom (112,944 to champion, 1 cover in queue)
Daken (113,862 to champion, 2 covers in queue)
Cyclops (118,342 to champion, 2 covers in queue)
Gamora (122,485 to champion, 3 covers in queue)
Deadpool (123,012 to champion, 0 covers in queue, 1 tomorrow from DDQ)
Spider-Man (123,012 to champion, 6 covers in queue)
Bullseye (126,594 to champion, 3 covers in queue)

And if that's not enough, here are the 3*s I don't have rostered in my queue:
Squirrel Girl 7 covers
Ragnarock 3 covers
Quicksilver 3 covers
Doctor Octopus 2 covers
Psylocke 1 cover
Sentry 7 covers

I currently have 2900 HP, enough for 3 slots.

I have 0 Standards and Elites (already opened them), 248 Heroics and 3 10-pack Heroics, but those could be 2*s or 3*s for farming, or 3*s I don't have the ISO to champion yet, or 4*s I don't have a slot for yet. I also have 285 Savory Taco Tokens (I will probably get up to 8 more of these by playing every day this taco week, so 293) so I could potentially get 1 Mr. Fantastic [who I might sell?] and Devil Dino [who I would just add to my existing DD], 4000 more HP, allowing me at least 4 more spots, so I could roster 4 more of the 3*s I don't have and hoping to get a lot more ISO from the vault and events.

What are the thoughts on these options?

(Also, I love farming! )

Smudge

It honestly depends on your goals. If you are going for best utility/bang for your buck on that ISO, you should champ Kamala and Cyclops, and it's not even close.

If you're worried about losing covers (like the 6 for Spidey), it gets trickier, but none of the cover-maxed 3*s you have listed will be game-breaking. KK and Cyc are great even unboosted. That can't be said for a lot of the others except maybe Doom or Deadpool.

As far as the 3*s unrostered (I'm guessing those 3 slots are available and you found something to do with Jessica?), I would add Squirrel Girl and Quicksilver, with the third slot probably for Doc Ock. They have the best overall utility of that group in my opinion. They get a lot of hate, but I actually like playing them when their situations arise - SG and Ock really shine against goons or special tile creators.

You have a lot of covers for Sentry, but he's so... meh. I don't even use him when he's boosted!

And for opening tokens, that's mostly up to you. Busting open 278 Heroics is probably going to put even more pressure on you than what this is doing - I wouldn't recommend it until you have more HP to help with roster slots or ISO to champ.