Pulling (or not) with Peggy leaving tokens

WalrusGooner

Looking for some advice on whether now is the time to pull with Peggy leaving tokens next week. Here's my current roster:

https://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/WalrusGooner/

I'm farming lower tier , with plans to roster dupes of the higher tier ones when I have sufficient space.

I'm on day 394, with S.H.I.E.L.D. Rank 48. I play SCL 7 if I have the essential , otherwise I drop down to SCL 6 in order to boost my HP income via better sub placement. I am mostly F2P, no VIP, with zero inclination to spend anytime soon based on recent changes. I play PVE almost exclusively.

I have enough HP saved up for one roster slot, plus 820 CP, 19 LTs, and two stockpiled Purple Reign tokens. FWIW I also have two in my queue.

Prior to vaulting, my strategy had been geared towards the essential and champion end of things -- rostering as many characters as possible, prioritizing those in the top tier when there was an HP crunch, and buying the occasional Agency Expenses (or even a Logan if a sale was on) if facing a particularly unpleasant choice. My plan had been to wait until I had enough HP for a roster slot, no unrostered characters in my queue, and at least half of the rostered before pulling any LTs, and then only pulling until I received an unrostered character. Then wait until I have enough HP for another roster slot, wash, rinse, repeat. This strategy is now rather suboptimal in light of vaulting.

Under the circumstances, my question now is whether I should blow out my meager hoard in hopes of getting as many Peggys as possible before she cycles out, or continue to hoard (as I've always done -- I've never pulled an LT or spent CP). Given my current pace of play (2-4 clears of PVE), I find it unlikely that I will have six current rostered with HP to spare anytime soon, though perhaps I am selling myself short.

Any advice from the crowd?

PS- I realize that one possible solution would be selling off vaulted/low-covered in favor of rostering newer ones, but I like having the essential for PVE and Behemoth Burrito (and eventually Crash), and therefore lean away from that idea.

Khanwulf

Having been in your position, and spent a considerable amount of money on HP to get out of it, I would recommend waiting further until you have a good chunk of HP and a hoard of tokens/CP sufficient to jump immediately into fully covered 5-land, as others have done, plus a roster of latest 4s.

In the meantime your Peggy at 4 covers has at least one of each color and is quite usable for DDQ. You could spend CP to cover her directly, later. If you pull your stock now you'll have many, many covers go to waste searching for that 1 in 12 Peggy pull.

That would be a shame.

--Khanwulf

MarkersMake

WalrusGooner wrote:

Looking for some advice on whether now is the time to pull with Peggy leaving tokens next week.

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PS- I realize that one possible solution would be selling off vaulted/low-covered in favor of rostering newer ones, but I like having the essential for PVE and Behemoth Burrito (and eventually Crash), and therefore lean away from that idea.

I was in a similar position to you a couple of weeks ago. Here is how it worked out for me. (I'm pretty happy with the results). I also had most of the 12 already rostered.

I had to temporarily sell off 3 of my 2*s, as well as my one cover Nick Fury. I've replaced my 2*s now, and I don't miss Nick at all.

Note that I have also no interest in going to 5* land anytime soon, so this approach might be sub-optimal if that is your goal.

revskip

I would wait and hoard until you have enough CP to nearly completely cover the 12 non-vaulted characters, enough HP to roster them and enough ISO to champ at least 3 or 4 of them. This might seem like a lot of resources but in about 3 months time you should have enough of all three resources to make a big jump up to the 4* tier without being forced to only use one or two characters.

It's pretty much what I did with my roster, champed every single 3* I could then saved up for a few months and did it all in one big pull-marathon. Ended up with three 4*s I could champ right away and that made the transition a little less jarring. The other benefit is that your 3*s will all be higher leveled too by then meaning when your 4*s are unboosted they will be close in level to your boosted 3*s which will help with PVE scaling.

The downside to that approach is that PVP will be very tough to crack more than 575 for quite a while although from what you said in your post that isn't really an issue.

bbigler

Peggy is so good that this is a serious consideration to use your hoard to champ her. Have you considered the token pulling and bonus hero odds? Meaning, have you predicted how many Peggy covers you ought to get, and will that amount allow you to champ her? If you get into a 5 x 5 x 2 scenario, then you could just buy her last cover for 120 CP.

I will say that I don't think it is a good idea to try and skip over the 4* tier and try to champ 3 x 5*s. A deep 4* roster is very useful and makes the game more fun anyway.

astrp3

revskip wrote:

The downside to that approach is that PVP will be very tough to crack more than 575 for quite a while although from what you said in your post that isn't really an issue.

Are you saying that getting to 575 will be tough after he champions three 4*s? I currently have a three-star roster (33 championed) and am starting to get some 4*s covered. Right now, it is trivially easy to get to 575 and usually not too difficult to get to 800 (though it's been tough this season).

Once I finished championing the 3*s, I was planning on leveling 4* up to around the level of my 3*s, then saving enough ISO to champion about 4-6 of them at once (like I did with my 4*s). I was hoping that this would make me MORE competitive in PvP and allow me to get to 900. Are you saying it will make it hard to even get to 575? If so, I may need to completely rethink my plans.

revskip

astrp3 wrote:

revskip wrote:

The downside to that approach is that PVP will be very tough to crack more than 575 for quite a while although from what you said in your post that isn't really an issue.

Are you saying that getting to 575 will be tough after he champions three 4*s? I currently have a three-star roster (33 championed) and am starting to get some 4*s covered. Right now, it is trivially easy to get to 575 and usually not too difficult to get to 800 (though it's been tough this season).

Once I finished championing the 3*s, I was planning on leveling 4* up to around the level of my 3*s, then saving enough ISO to champion about 4-6 of them at once (like I did with my 4*s). I was hoping that this would make me MORE competitive in PvP and allow me to get to 900. Are you saying it will make it hard to even get to 575? If so, I may need to completely rethink my plans.

No, was saying that until you graduate to a 4* roster (and in fact until some of those are boosted) you will have a hard time floating past 500 or so since everyone that can queue you with even a single boosted 4* is gonna hit you at will.

Once you have 3-4 champed 4*s and at least one of them is boosted PVP gets much easier.

Hoarding will slow down getting there a bit but will help you get there with a more diverse selection when you do finally make the jump.

bbigler

astrp3 wrote:

revskip wrote:

The downside to that approach is that PVP will be very tough to crack more than 575 for quite a while although from what you said in your post that isn't really an issue.

Are you saying that getting to 575 will be tough after he champions three 4*s? I currently have a three-star roster (33 championed) and am starting to get some 4*s covered. Right now, it is trivially easy to get to 575 and usually not too difficult to get to 800 (though it's been tough this season).

Once I finished championing the 3*s, I was planning on leveling 4* up to around the level of my 3*s, then saving enough ISO to champion about 4-6 of them at once (like I did with my 4*s). I was hoping that this would make me MORE competitive in PvP and allow me to get to 900. Are you saying it will make it hard to even get to 575? If so, I may need to completely rethink my plans.

I started champing my 4*s about 4 months ago and my PvP experience got better, not worse. It was easy to get to 575 and 650, without shields. You simply get attacked less with boosted champed 4*s. So, the more champed 4*s you have, the better the odds of them being boosted that week. You also get attacked less with a champed Peggy (even not boosted). Everyone is looking for an easy target, so don't make yourself an easy target.

My PvE experience also got a little better too, despite scaling.

FokaiHI

Looking at your roster, you could live without Peggy. I would say that roster slots would be a better way to go. Hoard your CPs and LTs until you have enough roster slots to spend them. As good as Peggy is, obtaining more characters to have for pve and weekly buffs will go a long way.

WalrusGooner

Thanks all for the advice! I think I'm going to wait it out for now and see how it goes (I will probably go ahead and roster 4* Iron Fist as well as a result), and simply make Peggy my 4* Bonus Hero instead of Teen Jean.

Also, apologies to the mods for posting this in the wrong subforum. I originally had it all set to go in this subforum, and then at the last second thought it might fit better in the general forum. My bad, sorry to give y'all work to do.

Quebbster

We're talking about 40 Legendary tokens in your hoard, right? That's about three Peggy covers then, not enough to make a difference. Set her as a favorite and keep hoarding.