We had a really good thing going until all of this Sinister 6 madness! I'm willing to think that alliance events are strange outliers as far as keeping things on the pattern everything else before it has established. If we lose the ability to predict progression covers, that's a bit of a shame but there's still some merit to the rest of the trends that lead to forecasts.
Yeah, I don't think two boss events in three weeks helped much.
It could be that they're featuring Riri' s blue because it got (in my opinion) the most significant rework. I think I'm safe saying the general consensus was that it was an extremely niche power before that most people put at 3 covers and rarely ever used. Now it at least has some utility, no matter what the situation is.
Should be interesting to see how the re-addition of vintage heroes to tokens plays out for this. Now that vintage heroes are much easier to attain while latest 12 are actually harder, I think I'd prefer if this system stayed in place. Getting those Vulture/Mockingbird covers through PvE essentials will be more desirable now rather than the old way where the Token 12 were pretty much a foregone conclusion of getting covered.
Ifthey keep the established rotation pattern of the latest twelve, the next progression covers could look like this:
Winter Soldier - blue Gamora - red Coulson - purple (?) New character (Yondu?)
Now, after the new guy we should reach Sandman in the T12A list, but I don't think he will be a progression reward so soon. So it's more likely that the list starts back at Agent Venom.
Ifthey keep the established rotation pattern of the latest twelve, the next progression covers could look like this:
Winter Soldier - blue Gamora - red Coulson - purple (?) New character (Yondu?)
Now, after the new guy we should reach Sandman in the T12A list, but I don't think he will be a progression reward so soon. So it's more likely that the list starts back at Agent Venom.
Won't it be Winter Soldier purple in the progression next? And whatever event comes after Unstable ISO 8 will be a release event, so the new character will come after WS, right?
I'm sorry, you're right in both regards. It's WS purple and the release event follows unstable ISO.
So it could look like this:
Winter Soldier - purple New character (Yondu?) Gamora - red Coulson - purple (?) Agent Venom - red Iron Fist - green (?) ? = the colour progression in the T12B list is a bit wonky, but I think it should be the second colour now.
Disclaimer: It's all speculation based on DesertTortoise excellent observations, so results may vary.
After that, the T12 (which I may rename L12A and L12B for "Latest 12" rather than "Token 12") options are:
Coulson purple (as noted, we appear to be on the 2nd covers but they've been strange lately)
Gamora red
After Gamora it gets tricky, it could either be Sandman green or it could reset to the beginning of the rotation, which would be Agent Venom and I'm not fully sure that'd still be the 1st cover.
I need any colour but red for Gamora, so I hope that prediction's wrong. I just had to roster the two red covers withering in my queue.
Gotta love RNG. I have precisely one red cover for her, which I got from hitting 2000 in the SHIELD Simulator. I've already had to sell two of her black covers. Had to sell two purple Coulson covers as well, which is why I'm less than thrilled that will likely be the progression cover.
I need any colour but red for Gamora, so I hope that prediction's wrong. I just had to roster the two red covers withering in my queue.
I've been wrong before, but there's a lot of evidence that Gamora's red will be coming next. The second time a character is an essential (the first time being the event after their release event) it's always been their first cover that's provided as a progression reward.
aye that's generally been correct and it's a good idea to make sure that if players were to get one cover from making top 100 in the release event and then the next color in the first time featured PVE then when the character is featured next time you get the one cover you probably missed out on bar token draws. I really need that red Gamora because I haven't gotten any covers from her from tokens personally
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It could be that they're featuring Riri' s blue because it got (in my opinion) the most significant rework. I think I'm safe saying the general consensus was that it was an extremely niche power before that most people put at 3 covers and rarely ever used. Now it at least has some utility, no matter what the situation is.
Winter Soldier - blue
Gamora - red
Coulson - purple (?)
New character (Yondu?)
Now, after the new guy we should reach Sandman in the T12A list, but I don't think he will be a progression reward so soon. So it's more likely that the list starts back at Agent Venom.
So it could look like this:
Winter Soldier - purple
New character (Yondu?)
Gamora - red
Coulson - purple (?)
Agent Venom - red
Iron Fist - green (?)
? = the colour progression in the T12B list is a bit wonky, but I think it should be the second colour now.
Disclaimer: It's all speculation based on DesertTortoise excellent observations, so results may vary.
Next two events are very likely:
After that, the T12 (which I may rename L12A and L12B for "Latest 12" rather than "Token 12") options are:
After Gamora it gets tricky, it could either be Sandman green or it could reset to the beginning of the rotation, which would be Agent Venom and I'm not fully sure that'd still be the 1st cover.