bluewolf said: @bbigler So let's consider the premise of this effort, which is to enter 5* play as quickly as possible. Which means to do so without regard to which 5's are available at the time you have gathered the resources (pulls) to chase a set of 5's. Kitty is the closest to a meta defining 5 since Okoye...So you made a go at Kitty, it seems, when she was released (or at least when you felt you had enough pulls) and then I assume hoarded through Wasp and now Loki. In hindsight, you might have had better luck hoarding more before chasing Kitty; even though it doesn't matter now, you might very well have been more successful with a bigger hoard before starting the chase
bbigler said: @abenness I leveled my Kitty to 360, which helped greatly in PVE and didn't cause any problems in PVP.
bluewolf said: In hindsight, you might have had better luck hoarding more before chasing Kitty; even though it doesn't matter now, you might very well have been more successful with a bigger hoard before starting the chase...........Final thought: Coming back to my first point, if you had saved all your pulls until now, you might indeed have a champed Kitty and from one point of view, you could argue that you established a timeline to enter the 5 tier, just that you unfortunately didn't wait long enough to pull at once and overcome RNG.
HoundofShadow said: How much money have you spent since you started MPQ all over again and what bundles have you bought? Are you able to list down all of them so that other players have a more complete understanding of how you achieved these goals?
bbigler said: HoundofShadow said: How much money have you spent since you started MPQ all over again and what bundles have you bought? Are you able to list down all of them so that other players have a more complete understanding of how you achieved these goals? That's a good question, but it makes me reveal all my "dirty laundry".
bbigler said: @abenness I would focus on Grocket over Medusa to pair with Kitty. It takes some real skill to play the combo because you have to protect your strikes from being matched away. You'll always lose some, but you need at least 4 to keep the buffing going. Kitty and Grocket can make more specials when you get low though. I also use Nova team-ups to get more strikes if I run too low. 2* Wolverine Green team-ups work very well too. With this combo, you can easily get up to 5K+ per match, so cascades can take out full health 4*s, even boosted ones. Carnage also works with Kitty, but it's not that great. You have never ending attack tiles to buff, but cascades are not as powerful and you give them attack tiles too, which is really bad if you're fighting Grockitty. I always smile when I see Carnage on the opposing team because my Grockitty team loves it. Now Grockitty + Medusa is really killer. Passively make attack tiles and get a health burst whenever something is matched away. Plus, with attack tiles and Medusa's tile, you triple dip on strikes. With Grockets green and blue CD tiles, you can dip 5 times on strike damage!
AardvarkPepper If you're keeping the thread going as a sort of personal journal, I can see that. But it's a lot more interesting to read what particular decisions you made in terms of spending, and what characters you chose to concentrate on and for what reasons.I mean hey, anyone can get a gigantic powered roster just by throwing enough money at the game. So the question is really what you spent and why.Also - what's an SCL bundle?
bbigler said: An SCL bundle is a HFH special 1-time deal that's available when you go up in rank and qualify for the next SCL. These deals are very good and go up in price the higher you go. The first deal starts at SCL 3 or 4.
Daredevil217 said: If you plan to quit as soon as you champ 3 fives (the goal), who cares how good they are? Since you won’t be playing them it really shouldn’t matter, unless I’m missing something.
Daredevil217 said: Also, that money you spent is super significant. It looks like you’ve spent hundreds on the game. I’m guessing between 500-1K in a few months? That’s way way WAY more than I’ve spent in 4+ years of playing ($2 a month for maybe a year and one Taskmaster bundle is it). I do believe that any player can enter 5* play quickly if they spend big. But then it’s not just about playing optimally and chasing the right characters. The money is just as important as all of that and is arguably a contaminant in your experiment.
Dogface said: Spending money is like jumping the queue. From an experimental standpoint it would be more interesting to see how fast you could champ a 5* if playing for free. I understand this would take a long long time, so i get why you would want to spend, but still spending gives a skewed perspective.If you stay on this forum for some time, probably gonna be after you quit the game, i could tell you how long it takes to champ a 5* for free. My highest ranked 5* is 405 atm after 1056 days of play.
Daredevil217 said:Also, that money you spent is super significant. It looks like you’ve spent hundreds on the game. I’m guessing between 500-1K in a few months? That’s way way WAY more than I’ve spent in 4+ years of playing ($2 a month for maybe a year and one Taskmaster bundle is it). I do believe that any player can enter 5* play quickly if they spend big. But then it’s not just about playing optimally and chasing the right characters. The money is just as important as all of that and is arguably a contaminant in your experiment.
bbigler said: That totals $432 over 7 months, Despite my purchases, the strategy I'm using to reach 5* play can be used by FTP players, the timeline will only be a little longer.
HoundofShadow said: Thanks for answering my question. Just to share in return, I'm quite a competitive 100% FTP player and I have played this game for close to 400 in-game days. I'm not in a top 250 alliance by any means.Based on my CP usage tracking, I would have ~7000CP by now if I could control my itch. I have about 80 LTs now. That would have put me at a total of about 360 LT pulls. This is despite the fact that I have to roster, sell and re-roster 3* and 4* characters early and late in the game. 7 months of play is about 210 days. You are close to your goals or should have reached your goal. It seems spending 432 helped you to shave off about 40-50% (200-250 days / 400 days) of in-game days to reach 5* land (3 champed 5*)?