Standard Token MAGIC! (For me)

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edited April 2014 in MPQ General Discussion
I missed the end of yesterdays events (2 simulator sub events and Lord of Thunder PvP) due to having a real life and being out drinking with friends. But I had put a lot of effort into those events to set myself up for a last hour push. Needless to say I was bummed out today when I saw my lame rewards of 6 standard tokens. This is not when the "magic" happened. All tokens were worthless and my MPQ mood didn't improve. Making my way through the new simulator sub events and I start asking myself if I shouldn't play another game instead.

But I'm looking at my excel table where I diligently fill in all my token pulls and I'm thinking "surely I'm due something good from a standard soon". With 15K ISO I decide to start spending on standard tokens til I get something good.

Token order:
1. Juggs (oh no! what am I even doing?)
2. Astonishing Worlvie yellow (meh! but at least not a 1*)
3. Dr. Doom (HOLY SMOKES!!! I was expecting to have to spend at least 10K ISO before catching a break)
I'M ON A ROLL CAN'T STOP NOW
4. Black Widow (Bound to happen, but I'm still 1/4)
5. HULK BLACK!!! (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA - I'M UNSTOPPABLE. My first black Hulk too)
6. Iron man 35 (Still buzzing from the Hulk so who cares)
7. Cap (Yeah, I could use this Blue Cap to re-spec and thank tinykitty it wasn't a 1*)
8. Hawkey 1*
9. Storm 1*
10. IM35 (Is it time to stop? So far it's been worth 5k ISO and I have 10k left...)
11. IM35 (ok...??)
12. IM35 (what is going on here???)
13. Black Widow (at least it's not IM35.)
14. Thor 2* (who cares, but I think this might be my first thor in ages which is interesting, or not)
15. Venom
16. Juggs
17. Venom (I know I should stop now but I can't)
18. Venom
19. IM35
20. Black Widow
21. IM35
22. Juggs
23. C.Storm (Maxed out long ago. Useless)
24. IM35
25. Juggs
26. Venom
27. 25HP
28. Storm
29. BW
30. Yelena

15K ISO this little experiment cost me. I started this post after the two 3* cause that was some sick luck, but in the end RNG bit me in the ****.

Was this a big mistake? Would the Iso have been better spent bringing my Hulk from 54 to 68?
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  • Talahamut
    Talahamut Posts: 231 Tile Toppler
    Think of it like a casino slot machine. Go in with your bankroll of money you can afford to lose...there's a miniscule chance you'll get extremely lucky and hit a nice prize, but usually your just gonna have the fun of playing and hoping for a little while.
  • Unknown
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    Worst of all - You're never satisfied with the good luck you have and always hope and try for more.

    At least with MPQ you get to keep the covers. A slot machine leaves you with nothing.
  • Thanos
    Thanos Posts: 722 Critical Contributor
    Well, if you sold all the covers back you would get 4150 iso plus 25 hp so it only cost you 10850 iso!
  • Unknown
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    Thanos wrote:
    Well, if you sold all the covers back you would get 4150 iso plus 25 hp so it only cost you 10850 iso!

    Thanks for doing the math for me. I did notice once I was done.

    Now I'm wondering what a reasonable ISO price would be for a 3* in terms of buying standard tokens. I still don't have enough tokens to bring anyone over level 100.
  • Puritas
    Puritas Posts: 670 Critical Contributor
    I'd swap 10k iso for a black hulk any day of the week
  • Unknown
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    Puritas wrote:
    I'd swap 10k iso for a black hulk any day of the week

    Yeah...me too.
  • HailMary
    HailMary Posts: 2,179
    Nice token pulls! I've probably opened at least 50 standard tokens filled with 1*s and MHawkeye between yesterday's BP K pull and my previous 3* standard pull.
  • Unknown
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    WHAT HAVE I BECOME???

    This may have become my new reason for playing this game.

    I just dropped another 6K until I got a Red Punisher.

    I feel like this is helping me with that age-long question. "Who should I level?"

    If I spend my ISO to get 3* covers eventually I will max out one of my 3* heroes. At that point I will know who to level and then my ISO will have a purpose. As it stands I have been lost when it comes to my 3* putting ISO into whoever was boosted for any given event.

    Also, since PvP rewards change from event to event it takes forever to get one hero maxed.

    HailMary - I believe you're in my Simulator total bracket. I saw you sitting at the top a few days ago. Where are you at now?
  • Unknown
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    You have roughly a 1 in 40 chance to score a 3* cover from a standard token (and 1 in 11 for a 2*) so grabbing 2 3* covers from 30 tokens is great luck. (I pity the guy from the tracking spreadsheet who redeemed 250 tokens and only got 1 3*. Ouch.)
  • Spider-man 6234
    Spider-man 6234 Posts: 409
    Just redeemed a couple of tokens won from the sim. Pulled a yellow IM 35, and was bummed. Then I did the second and saw the gold cover right before you open it and was pumped. It was a black doc doom. Now that was the first three star character I've gotten from a standard in a couple of weeks and I was excited. But it made me wonder... do they keep them from me on purpose or do I just have terrible luck. I can't really complain though. When I first started I was pulling three*** from them pretty often. So it all evens out in the end right?
  • Unknown
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    Lightning rounds do give a lotta tokens. I cashed in like 100 recently and got about 4 3 star, 3 hp and 6 2 star pulls. Roughly 1 in 8 were better then the normal 1 star and 50% of that to get 3 star or hp.
  • Unknown
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    I like hearing about people's token habits and luck.

    I'm completely unable to hold on to tokens like some people do where they collect 10-100 and open all at once.

    I definitely feel like I'm having better luck with the standard tokens when I've been buying them with ISO.

    For all of the simulator sub events I hadn't gotten a single 3* from any of the standard tokens and I think you can get 10 from each so around 60(?) from the first 3 rounds of the simulator sub events (assuming you get them all).
  • Unknown
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    Actually gt blue psylocke cover and yellow bp cover from standard pull on the day they are been implemented to standard token. Talk abt luck icon_e_biggrin.gif
  • Unknown
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    The first 2 months with the game were terrible for me. I think I was 1% to draw a 3* from a standard token. Then 10 days ago (just before the new pve event started) I pulled three 3* from 20 standard tokens. Black Doom, yellow Spidey and red Ragnarok. Since then I have opened 30-40 standard tokens and all I found is 1xAres and 1xA.Wolverine. There is nothing worse than a streak of luck when you don't expect it. Afterwards, you feel you are entitled too all the goodies, but reality will ground you hard and you start feeling like a kid whose toys were taken away. icon_e_smile.gif
  • HailMary
    HailMary Posts: 2,179
    Milkrain wrote:
    HailMary - I believe you're in my Simulator total bracket. I saw you sitting at the top a few days ago. Where are you at now?
    I'm at #4, with 223K. Whereabouts are you?
    Milkrain wrote:
    I'm completely unable to hold on to tokens like some people do where they collect 10-100 and open all at once.
    Same. My sister was in town (funny thing: she got me into MPQ, but she no longer plays now icon_lol.gif), and insisted on opening my node-reward standard tokens for me. She... apparently has much better token luck than me, and got me the OBW B I needed to max her out. Out of two sets of 4, she's pulled more non-MHawkeye 2* (1 OBW, a couple of C.Storms) than I'd pulled in my last 30-40.
    Milkrain wrote:
    I definitely feel like I'm having better luck with the standard tokens when I've been buying them with ISO.
    I feel the same way about powered-up event tokens. I've gotten almost nothing but MHawkeye, Bullseye, AWolv from my ~15 placement tokens - 1 Ares & 1 Doom were the exceptions, I think. But, I bought four daily-deal tokens (first time I've ever done so), and they got me: Hood B, Ares Y, LThor Y, BP B. Then, I bought a fifth one, and it was Bullseye. I have stopped buying them. icon_razz.gif
  • Unknown
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    HailMary wrote:
    Milkrain wrote:
    HailMary - I believe you're in my Simulator total bracket. I saw you sitting at the top a few days ago. Where are you at now?
    I'm at #4, with 223K. Whereabouts are you?

    I'm sitting down at #30 in our bracket. I think I missed one or two refreshes (I was out drinking with friends over the weekend - damn those people icon_razz.gif ). So I don't think I can push into top 10 but it's only 1000 ISO difference so I don't mind that much.
  • Unknown
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    Milkrain wrote:
    I definitely feel like I'm having better luck with the standard tokens when I've been buying them with ISO.
    I feel the same way about powered-up event tokens. I've gotten almost nothing but MHawkeye, Bullseye, AWolv from my ~15 placement tokens - 1 Ares & 1 Doom were the exceptions, I think. But, I bought four daily-deal tokens (first time I've ever done so), and they got me: Hood B, Ares Y, LThor Y, BP B. Then, I bought a fifth one, and it was Bullseye. I have stopped buying them. icon_razz.gif[/quote]

    The only thing from a "special" token that I can remember is my green X-force. It was right after the patch that showed what tier award you got from the token. So I saw that gold and got the X-force. But next time I saw that gold I thought it meant another 4* so was slightly bummed when I realised that 3* also display as gold icon_razz.gif

    Don't think I've ever pulled the featured 3* from special packs.

    I've been getting a lot of MHawkeyes recently too.

    I envy your BP and LThor pulls. I only ever get the "older" 3* (Hulk, C.Mags, Hood, IM40, Punisher, Loki) from pulls. Oddly enough I've never gotten a Rag (only from daily reward and I had to sell him).

    Good luck to everyone on the Sim Reward Tokens coming up in 2hours.
  • Unknown
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    So I read this and the degenerate in me took over and I immediately dropped 10k iso into gambling even though I dont have a single lvl 85 character (though I dont have the covers for one either). 20 rolls =

    3 IM35
    1 M storm
    6 Yelena
    2 M Hawkeye
    2 Awolvie
    1 MN thor
    2 Panther
    1 Hood
    1 Ragnarok
    1 Punisher

    pretty sweet haul, especially considering it gave me some worthwhile covers for my 1 star to 2 star conversions in wolvie and thor... Even though it was dumb of me.
  • Unknown
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    Standard tokens have been largely poor for me although the occasional useful cover pops up. I was expecting my usual '100 ISO, IM35 flavour' to come up to sell and got a Punisher earlier so it was certainly a nice change icon_e_smile.gif
  • farlus
    farlus Posts: 119 Tile Toppler
    I'm at a point where I have almost no one to level (I just can't bring myself to level Cap or Moonstone, and I don't want to level Loki too high) and was sitting on 35k ISO, so I decided to hit the slots. Spent about 15k and pulled a yellow BP, a red Rag, and a red C.mag. Not the best obviously, but hey, I haven't seen a 3* cover from a token in some time, so it was nice to finally be thrown a bone.

    Leveled them all to their new soft caps instantly, so now time to pile up my ISO until I get bored again...

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