PerilousPeach said: Here is what my current roster looks like:44 character slots:5* Hawkeye lvl255, Red (Just pulled from 4* token)4* Captain Marvel, lvl70 ( 2 Black, 1 Yellow, 1 Green), 3 covers from the boss event4* Gwenpoole, lvl70 (1 Green)4* Sandman, lvl70 (1 Purple)20 3*s, all level 40. Only a couple have 4 covers, most are 1-2 covers.All 2*, with only two of them fully covered. Highest level is 40. (emphasis mine - ZootSax)1*s fully covered, max level 40 with Iron Man, Jugg, and Hawkeye
Honestly, rather than sell your Hawkeye, I'd look to maximize your 2*'s. 2* champions give solid rewards and your opponents with Level 94 2*'s and a 5* will be similar to what you're seeing now, but you'll have a much easier time winning. If you start playing PVE more to get 3* covers and keep up with DDQ, your 2*'s will carry you pretty well until your 3*'s are ready.
Unfortunately for you, red is probably Hawkeye's worst color to have a single cover for, but he's still a good meat shield. If you don't like using him all the time, you'll probably be no worse off selling him, but if you like the character he shouldn't hurt you to have rostered once you level your team.
PerilousPeach said: After a bunch of skips, I managed to find a few winnable fights. Won the one mentioned above, and two others that had a powered up 1* and a level 122 3*.However, I still pretty much have to use that 5* Hawkeye to have a chance. Going to try to see if that powered up 4* Sandman and my 2 cover 3* Iron Fist can beat anything.It just sucks that I'm limited to these top covers. I guess I can try maxing out some of those 2*s to get them up there, but I hear it's a waste to use ISO on those 2*s. I was saving it up anyways, as the ISO costs seemed like I could only do a few at the moment.Just read up on the whole 2-3* and 3-4* transitioning. Ugh.Talk about a buzz kill. Excited to play, buy the VIP, then finally get a 4* VIP token. Pull a 5*!And the recommendation here is to sell it.
Hey PerilousPeachThe guys in these forums know their stuff, I've lurked here and learned a lot. I'm way further down the food chain but experienced the issues you did upon starting out, although I was lucky enough to pull a yellow OML cover when my first 5* hit, so the pain was lessened due to that being a rare useful single 5* cover.Levelling your 2* is worth it, not least so they can complete the 2* missions in DDQ which grants you Iso and tokens daily and champ awards for more resources including 3* covers. Storm/Black Widow/Thor/Ares/Magneto are all solid 2* that can punch above their rank, Storm's stun & AOE and Widow's AP steal can undo stronger opponents. The fact you have all 2* rostered and a lot of 3* in 3 weeks shows you how fast the pace of the early transition can go now, that is fast progress already! I was stuck with a single cover She Hulk as my only 3* for ages and that was only as far back as January last year when I started playing. I remember lurking at these forums and feeling envious at the players with their Iron Fist's and Luke Cage combos which seemed like a lifetime away to obtain. The change in speed with which you can rack up 3* covers now is astonishing, thanks mostly to Elite tokens and Bonus Heroes. Once you have 3*, then PVP will open up but levelling 2* will only help in getting to that level.Just don't ask about the 4* transition...
Sorry OP, my advice is to fight through it, avoid selling if possible. Do what the folks above me have been advising and dump iso into one 2* at a time and get champ levels on em, they'll help with PvE.
PvP is just gonna be a pooshow for a while, even though that 5* should do insane match damage compared to what your roster normally puts out.
You could think about playing him with some cascade friendly teams, like pounding 2* marvels yellow. 5*s shine with cascades, really accentuates their crazy (comparatively) match damage.
My advice to anyone starting out is to favorite strange on the 3* tier and no one else. Ride his passive yellow out in PvE for a few months to build up your 3* tier then and only then think about pulling CP/LTs if you have roster spots open...
Rhycar said: Sell the 5* and don't open any more Legendary tokens or CP until you are at least ready to max a 4*. It is brutal otherwise.
PerilousPeach said: Decided to level a few 2* to 70 and did some of the Deadpool dailies.Then I went in to the current PvE event and noticed some much tougher opponents. Do those grow in difficulty after time?I cleared each node yesterday a few times until they stopped giving max points. Maybe healing every 1-3 fights as needed.This morning, barely got the first node. Second one had dudes 120+ (thought they were in the 60-70s yesterday?), so I had to use the 255 Hawkeye, and my powered up 3*. Those 2* can't do jack for me here.Ended up losing. Enemy drops a couple defense tiles and that awesome match damage gets you nowhere. Just a slow match 3 slog until death.Does upping your 2* make PvE harder?I'm seriously thinking I'll sell the 5* and seeing if it helps. Otherwise, it's peace out and take my time and money elsewhere.It's a shame, too. I was enjoying this a ton a few days ago. Managed to take down a level 150 boss during the event with three single cover 3* that I was initially attempting to lose so I could open those side nodes back open. Also rolling through the PvE events trying out all the characters.Maybe I'll try to finish prologue stuff with 5* Hawkeye before selling, unless that's all messed up too.
PvP relies on the matchmaking system to pair you with like rosters (theres plenty of complaint about this) so improving your roster means you get to see and get seen by more mature rosters.
PvE relies on roster based scaling to determine what enemies you face. The algorithms are not known, but its heavily speculated that your top three highest level characters, before a boost, play a major role in determining how the game will scale up your PvE competition.
When I acquired my first 5* my scaling went through the roof (relative to what it used to be, I was a 3* player still accumulating 3* covers, with a few champs) I've been told this is not as dramatic, but I've got no firsthand experience. Leveling your 2*s shouldn't have had a big impact (did you check it after acquiring the 5*)
At any rate that's how it works, getting a better roster will mean you see more difficult teams in PvP and your PvE enemies scale up in level higher.
There is real reason for hope with your situation though, for two reasons:
1 ) This is a temporary roster makeup for you, you're still acquiring covers, and those covers will quickly land you into 3* territory and out of 2->3 transition
2 ) There have been two PvE runs where roster based scaling has been eliminated, this seems to be the pattern immediately preceding the release of a new mechanic, I expect roster based scaling to be on the way out...
PerilousPeach said: :snip:Talk about a buzz kill. Excited to play, buy the VIP, then finally get a 4* VIP token. Pull a 5*!And the recommendation here is to sell it.
Roland113 said: One recommendation, at the earlier stages, PvE is a lot more forgiving than PvP.
PerilousPeach said: :snip:Current PvE nodes are still pretty high, since I cleared most of them with ONLY USING THE SAME 5* OVER AND OVER. Scaling sucked. I'm hoping the next PvE section will scale better with my roster now. :snip: