No-Pull (Insert Month Here)

thisone

Not me. I'm getting ready for dearth December!

Just hit 1000 cp. Would love to hit 2000

deadtaco

My very dear Sarah:

I can scarcely believe that the end of November is upon us. Grant says that if we march through the night I shall be able to deliver this missive in person!

Our regiment used everything we had. I have no blanket nor any clothes but what I have got. I have got the suit you sent me. They came in a good time. If I had a good pair of shoes I would be the best clothed man in the regiment!

I apologize that I shall be 20 command points lighter than I should be due to the unexpected deadpool covers with which I could not bear to dispose of. The thought of losing those gave me a right case of the vapors.

O how my heart thunders when I imagine the goods we shall receive when we convert these many tokens upon the morrow. Our cartographer says that I am assured a 5 star, but I do not know about such things.

A final accounting of our current stores :

154 standards
126 elites
56 + one 10 pack heroics
8 legendary
121 tacos
218 CP

ClydeFrog76

ClydeFrog76 wrote:

I had my first MPQ dream last night. I opened my Time Gem Season 10 pack and it was ALL 4*s

Oh dream self, you done trolled me good!

It was actually ALL BLUE. That's right, 2*s as far as the eye could see! And it didn't get much better with my single Heroics; I had 16 saved up, and only THREE were gold: a champ level for Iron Fist and Cyke, and one solitary 4*, my first champ level for Fury (which kinda made everything better, as it gave me another LT for the NPN feast I was about to parktake in ).

SO...I went into the screen with eight LTs and 420 CP and, I gotta say, I really can't complain with the results. I took screengrabs for posterity, so this is the exact order I pulled them in (with post-pull powers parenthesised):

:redhulk: (3/1/1)
(0/1/0)
(0/1/0)
(0/2/0) - two in a row, love dat!
(0/1/1) - now I have to go for the red in SHIELD sim dammit
(3/1/2)
(0/1/1)
(0/2/0)
(0/1/2)
(1/1/2) - the game really wants me to have Gwenpool obviously
(2/0/1) - Give me a yellow!
- not rostered, but have a black in my queue so I might if I save the HP in time
(0/1/2)
(3/1/2)
(3/3/4) - I wish I was happy, I really do
(3/1/2)
(2/4/2)
(1/5/1) - looking forward to my next Kate pull being another black
(1/0/1) - MEH
- another champ level!
(/1/1/1)
(3/0/1) - GIVE ME A YELLOW!
(3/1/0)
(0/1/0) - the only 5* I don't have now is Strange 8-)
(0/1/1)
(2/4/3) - getting there!
(0/1/2)
- wasted, as she's at 2/1/5. Very depressing, as I'm also about to hit Beast's first champ reward cover for her...which is also green :(
(3/2/2)

6 legendaries out of 29, 20% pull rate...really can't complain with that

Had so much fun doing it, so I've started saving again for another go on New Year's Eve!

Looking forward to seeing everyone else's pulls

Edit: turns out I'm **** with spoiler tags. Three edits to get it looking right

monsieurmojo

tl:dr; I was bad, but man, was it fun.

Confession: I pulled everything 6 days ago. I didn't bring this to the board until now because I didn't want to sway anybody else who may have been teetering on the brink. My original reasons for joining were that I had three 4* characters--Jean Grey, Hulkbuster, and Quake--fully covered but not yet championed, and really didn't want to start pulling duplicate covers for them. They all started at level 200, and I thought it would take somewhere between 4-6 weeks to champion all three.

Man, have SCLs and Signal Intercepts really made a difference in ISO flow. I not only had those three championed by Thanksgiving, I had raised Black Bolt from 255 to 330, championed Dr. Strange, She-Hulk *and* the Punisher.

So--maybe with the aid of a not-insignificant amount of beer--I went ahead and pulled them.

I already took this to the boss, El Satanno, and was already summarily fired. It was well deserved.

NO-PULL NOVEMBER POST-MORTEM

Standards (206):

1* 174 (paced by 35 Storm) -- 84.5%
2* 28 (paced by 6 OBW) -- 13.6%
3* 4 (DP Purple, Vision Blue, R&G Green, Steve Red) -- 1.9%

Elites (60):

2* 41 (paced by 8 Hawkeye) -- 68.3%
3* 19 (2 each of Fist and Psylocke were the outliers, plus, of interest, one champion level for Dr. Strange) -- 31.7%

EVENT TOKENS AND TACOS:

Really got nothing interesting from either. The DP vaults yielded about 67% ISO, and maybe 1-2 3*. The event tokens didn't yield much except for the Strange Sights tokens, where in 24 pulls, I pulled a Nova red (> 3/1/4), Quake yellow (first champ level), and X-23 green (> 6/3/1). Nothing else from an event token higher than a 3*, and notably, not one single featured character.

Heroics (64 + one 10-pack):

2* 49 (incl. 8 Daken) -- 66.2%
3* 21 (3 Sentry yielded 1,500 ISO; 2 champ levels for newly minted Shulk, 183 levels for Steve [Bucky purple] and Cage [4* Cage yellow]) -- 28.4%
4* 4 (Star-Lord purple > 6/0/0, Hulkbuster red [first champ level], Cho black > 3/1/1, Daisy blue [second champ level]) -- 5.4%

LEGENDARIES, CP PULLS, and SANCTUM SANTORUM:

Sanctum Santorum (1):
> 1/3/3

Latest Legends (12):
> 2/3/2
> 1/1/0
> 3/2/2
> 1/4/3
> 2/4/2
>1/4/4
> 1/3/4
> 0/1/0
> 3/0/2
> 6/2/1
> 5/2/4
> 5/3/0

Latest Legends from CP (425 = 17 pulls):
> 5/2/5 (going to rock this out on the [hopeful] eventual rework)
> 5/2/2
> 4/1/3
> 1/5/2
> 3/1/2
> 7/2/1
> 3/2/1
> 1/3/4 (one of my two unicorns!)
> 0/1/1
> 3/3/2
> 1/6/3 (likely to be ISO)
(champion level)
> 2/3/5
> 4/2/4
> 3/1/2
> 3/3/5

In the interim:
Daisy Crash: > 4/0/2
She-Hulk LT: > 4/1/2
25 CP: > 6/3/0 (ISO)
25 CP: > 4/3/1 (the other of my two unicorns!)

So, of 32 pulls, ended up with 5 x 5* (including the 2 duplicate Black Bolt greens for which a ticket has been submitted) = 15.6%
Fairly happy that only two ended up being unusable, as well.

Very, very glad to pull the 9th and 10th Black Bolt covers. If CS swaps them out for the black covers I requested--he's going to be a beast at 5/4/1.

I also had so much fun--and now have such a huge ISO hole to dig out of again--that I'm probably going to join Clyde for December.

dei1564

This is my final accumulation:

146 - Standard (+26)
108 - Elite (+32)
34 - Heroic (+4)
9 - LT
3 - Identity Thiefth
4 - Thick as Thieves
23 - Strange Sights
1 - Cover Squirrel
3 - Hollowpoint Kiss
2 - Army of One
3 - Smash Hit
2 - Predator and Prey (+2)
3 - Red Shift
1 - Vicious cycle
3 - Strange Days
2 - Army of Two (+2)
4 - Prodigal Sun (+4)
20 - Taco Sweet (+4)
4 - Oscorp Heroic
30 - Taco Savory (+10)
3 - Meet Rocket & Groot
2 - Simulator (+2)
3 - Deadpool vs MPQ

415 Total Tokens

442 CP (+88)

broll

My final accumulation:

ST - 276
ET - 170
HT - 75 (65 + 1 10 Pack)
LT - 19
CP - 491
Taco: Sweet - 18
Taco: Savory - 20
Prodigal Sun - 6
Meet Rocket & Groot - 4

NOTE: I started hording before November for ST, ET, HT, LT, and CP, but didn't start hording specific event and taco tokens till midway through. I also spent 100 CP on some 3* covers to champ some leftovers.

My horde will continue.
I have a handful of 2* with 13 covers that aren't champed. I'm going to get them all or nearly all champed before I open ST, ET, and HT.
I will continue to horde LT and CP for the forseeable future. I will evaluate if it's worth opening them based on how many 4* I have champable after opening the lower level tokens.
I will continue to save up individual event and Taco tokens until I have their max number.

MPQ_Daywalker

I was a late joiner to No-Pull November (as I previously posted I just happened to be hoarding legendaries & command points for the month for my own reasons) and just had LTs and CP to pull from.

Here are my results (if it was a champ level, I didn't record the color I received, because I didn't care)...

13 Latest Legends:

:



:

Two 5 characters (including my first Dr. Strange), giving a respectable 15.38% average from Latests. All the 4 covers were either usable or champ levels.

31 Classic Legendary Tokens (pulled from 624 CP):

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That was seven 5 covers (including my first Bruce Banner covers), giving me an awesome 22.58% 5 pull rate for classics. All but two of the 4 pulls were usable (either training a character or a champ level for one of my 17 4 champions). Unfortunately those two covers were both Peggy Carter -- she's sitting with 10 covers at 2/3/5 right now.

Overall I'm really, really happy with my pulls. Couldn't have gone much better.

deadtaco

I didn't record the color because that is a lot to track. I did however track each and every pull -

I'm gonna do this in updates as I get time.

Standard Tokens - 157

133 -
23 -
1 -

Elite Tokens - 133

113 -
20 -

Heroic Tokens - 82

60 -
17 -
5 -

LT - 9

7 -
2 -

:drstrange:

CP - 120 - all

Wobby

I've started hoarding again. Looks like I hit the 3-year daily reward bonanza around Christmas so that's when I'll open my LTs.

My 4/4/2 Strange wants more yellows! Even the 3* does more passage damage than he does at level 390!

thisone

I opened my hoard. Crushing disappointment.

Left me feeling I've not much left to accomplish in game. 5* progression just a joke. When I finish nova and maxie I seriously am thinking well, what now?

Got rise of tomb raider and final fantasy XV to dive into that's what

I really feel for the vets who got to where I am months ago. Respect!

granne

I managed to wait until about half past midnight, because I have the patience and self-control of a toddler.

My final tally (for the last week of November, because, well, see above comment) was:

89 Standards
33 Elites
18 Heroics
14 Legendaries
579 CP

The Standards earned me 78 1*s, 9 2*s, 2 3*s.
The Elites earned me 28 2*s, 5 3*s.
The Heroics earned me 11 2*s, 5 3*s, 2 4*s
The Legendaries remain untouched.

Once I added all the champ levels, I had another 6 Heroics (6 more 2*s), 26,650 extra Iso, 250 extra HP, 2 extra CP and had earned 464 XP.

All in all, I'm pretty happy. I didn't get any covers for my gang of four 3*s who had 12 + x covers, so I liberated some CP to save four unusable covers from being sold. That means I now have 16 LTs.

Getting only 2 four star covers was actually kind of a relief. I'm getting a lot more HP these days than I was even a couple of weeks ago, but I still struggle to keep up with roster slots.

I just counted up how much Iso I need to max-level everyone, and it's actually gone up instead of down. #sadface. Who's up for a "Don't-Pull December"?

ClydeFrog76

granne wrote:

Who's up for a "Don't-Pull December"?

Hi!

Aweberman

granne wrote:

Who's up for a "Don't-Pull December"?

I started my own "No-Pull Time Gem Season" (which is not at all catchy) and am going to start opening tokens only between seasons.

CT1888

As publicised previously, I split my pulls in 2 across the month to champ Thing (worth the risk of a P45), so results are split in 2, the Walk of Shame, and the End Goal. Formatting is horrible as I'm doing this on my phone.

Walk of Shame

Standards 103
Patch, GSBW, 16 2*s, rest 1*s

Elite 79: 57 2* to champ farm
3*s champ level except Strange
Bullseye, squirrel girl, Steve Rodgers, Psylocke, dock Ock, 2x falcon, Groot, Deadpool, Hulk, strange blue,2x im, 2x cap marvel, Daredevil, Cage, KK, Cyke, Ragnarock, sentry, magneto

Heroic 46
4* Thor - Champ, Venom - iso
3* She Hulk, Torch, mystique, vision, kk
2* 39 assorted farm feed

Event Tokens 57
Carnage red-iso
Iceman - champ
red Hulk - champ
Sentry,
Torch
Daredevil
Daken
Ragnarok
Blade
Spiderman x2
Iron Fist
Storm x 2
Punisher
Gamora
Hulk
Beast
Vision

Then the End Goal

41 Standards, 35 1*, 2* 2 OBW, Torch, Moonstone, Thor, Storm

Elite 43: 3* Strange blue, purple, Magneto, Beast, Squirrel Girl, Panther, Sentry, 2 Doom, Falcon, 2 Torch, GSBW, Iron Fist, Storm, 2 Thor

Heroic 27: iceman - champ
3* Cyclops, Sentry, GSBW, Beast, Captain Marvel

10 pack: 4* Blade black, 3* Marvel

18 Event Tokens: Vision, GSBW, Carnage black - used,
Savory taco 25: 1x1000 iso, 8 x 500 iso 250 hp, 3* Beast, Falcon, Cap, Bullseye, 2* Bullseye, Daken, 2 Thor, osbw, 3 Cap, 2 Moonstone, 2 Marvel, Magneto, Ares - I open these early to chase the Quake cover

Classics 25: 5* Goblin Purple, Jean Purple, 2 Spider Green, Surfer Blue,
4* Hulkbuster, RHulk, Deadpool, Wolverine, 2 Antman, Thor, Kingpin, - all champ levels,
2 Invisible Woman, Elektra - all sold
Nick Fury championed him just because
Moon Knight green, Ghost Rider green, Carnage Red, Kate purple, Punisher black blue, Elektra, Blade Green, Prof X blue (to Dupe) Cage red - all applied

Latest 12: Black Widow black, Strange 3 x purple,
X23 purple sold,
Kingpin - champ,
Quake 2 yellow, Drax red, Luke Cage Yellow, Kate blue, Kingpin, Falcon yellow all applied

Discussion.
5* I now have a 0/3/0 Strange. Yay? 9 out of 37 were 5*, but even now with 8 Surfer and 7 Phoenix covers, they still feel like trophies. Would've liked another OML cover as he is at least doing something for me.
4* Some nice champion levels, didn't need to sell many and Quake has reached 4/4/4. Just need an iso mountain. Still, 14 champs ain't bad.
3* Champed Strang3, yay! Champ levels, yay!
2* harvested several and rebuilt a couple of them at the same time.

All round pretty decent, but don't think I'll do a mega hoard for a while. Cp and LT may need to be hoarded in the future

Jabrony_Geoff

NO-PULL NOVEMBER , the day of reckoning

Standards (179):

Opened only 29 and pulled
= 26
= 3
I'll keep the rest for Iso-8 purposes

Elites (101):

Only opened 51 because I tired of all the 2. Star covers pulled.
= 44
= 7

EVENT TOKENS (60)

A bit disappointed with my return here
=48
=9
=
= 1

Taco Sweet & Savoury (56)

There is nothing I like in the current vault so I will be saving these for the foreseeable future.

Heroics (67 includes two 10-packs):

Got the Peggy cover I wanted but damn its red and my Peggy already has 5 red, ...typical.
= 43
= 21
=

LEGENDARIES,(10 )
CP (399)

Going to continue hoarding legendary tokens and CP after I use 120 to finish championing Peggy Carter.
Like someone said in the forum, sometimes you can't rely on RNG to finish off a character.

ClydeFrog76

Jabrony Geoff wrote:

Going to continue hoarding legendary tokens and CP after I use 120 to finish championing Peggy Carter.
Like someone said in the forum, sometimes you can't rely on RNG to finish off a character.

I honestly think I'm going to do this with XFW.

He's currently at 5/2/4. I'm not far off getting Colossus' first champ reward cover for him, another yellow. I just CANNOT pull another black, but have got so many greens since hitting 5 that it's starting to do my head in.

Think I'll just spend to get him up to 13 covers and then champ and respec him. I want him so bad, it's depressing that I've been playing for 3 damn years and I still can't use him.

El Satanno

First, well done to everyone that didn't get fired across the month.

Second, congrats to everyone who had good luck.

Third, sympathy to everyone who had poor luck.

Fourth, excited that it looks like we have the beginnings of a Hoard Horde!

Fifth, since not everyone opened on the first, I'll be jumping in with those that are carrying on until December! Well, at least until the end of the current season. I'm not sure that even I can hold out for over two months.

monsieurmojo

Going to wait till after Medusa event is over to start the next hoard; the first 10 CP from HoD put me over the edge for another Latest:

This is getting out of hand.

deadtaco

Did this massive opening of tokens fry anyone else's vine? I went from a few to ~23

I'm not above asking for input - these are my unchamped 3* - who should I champ, who should I *GULP* sell. I hate wasting covers.

I'm thinking Loki and Gamora - Loki as Patch's buddy and Gamora is boosted in the next event and is fun with KK.

broll

I decided to open my Standard Token hoard of 298.

- 86% (257)

Spider-Man (Original) - 56
Storm (Modern) - 41
Iron Man (Model 35) - 38
Venom (Dark Avengers) - 36
Black Widow (Modern) - 30
Hawkeye (Classic) - 30
Juggernaut (Classic) - 26

- 12% (35)

Bullseye (Dark Avengers) - 7
Storm (Classic) - 7
Black Widow (Orginal) - 4
Daken (Dark Avengers) - 4
Human Torch (Johnny Storm) - 3
Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men) - 3
Hawkeye (Modern) - 2
Magneto (Marvel NOW!) - 2
Thor (Marvel NOW!) - 2
Steve Rogers (Captain America) - 1

- 2% (6)

Beast (Classic) - 1
Deadpool (It's Me, Deadpool) - 1
Doctor Doom (Classic) - 1
Sam Wilson (Falcon) - 1
The Punisher (Dark Reign) - 1
Wolverine (Patch) - 1