tiomono said: They have added many 4*s champion rewards to help with gaining 5*s. It is slow going but they have continually made things easier and more accessible. Personally I hate the hoard and spend it all on latests tactic. I hate locking characters away with no way to earn them. So for me to spend all my resources to get a shot at the 3 newest 5*'s while locking all the rest into bonus hero odds is no good. That is why I pull classics. It is slower to get into the 5 star tier because of dilution but I am progressing toward it steadily. When I get to the stage of wanting to spend iso on my 5*s to fully make the leap I will have a broader selection not just the latest 3. I already have 1 champed, daredevil. He is a great first 5* good damage and amazing sustain. I have 3 more at 12 covers and 2 at 11 covers. I did have gambit before his nerf. I was seeing if I could fully cover a 5 in latests pulling solely latests. With the old cs cover swap I could. But now that any 6th or more cover i get in a single color for any character can be saved and not wasted i feel classics is the right choice for me.The 5* tier is not impossible to get into. And hoarding yo spend it all on latests is not the only way to progress into the tier.
crackninja said: tiomono said: They have added many 4*s champion rewards to help with gaining 5*s. It is slow going but they have continually made things easier and more accessible. Personally I hate the hoard and spend it all on latests tactic. I hate locking characters away with no way to earn them. So for me to spend all my resources to get a shot at the 3 newest 5*'s while locking all the rest into bonus hero odds is no good. That is why I pull classics. It is slower to get into the 5 star tier because of dilution but I am progressing toward it steadily. When I get to the stage of wanting to spend iso on my 5*s to fully make the leap I will have a broader selection not just the latest 3. I already have 1 champed, daredevil. He is a great first 5* good damage and amazing sustain. I have 3 more at 12 covers and 2 at 11 covers. I did have gambit before his nerf. I was seeing if I could fully cover a 5 in latests pulling solely latests. With the old cs cover swap I could. But now that any 6th or more cover i get in a single color for any character can be saved and not wasted i feel classics is the right choice for me.The 5* tier is not impossible to get into. And hoarding yo spend it all on latests is not the only way to progress into the tier. There is more than one way to do it, but I just cannot recommend this strategy to anyone that doesn't already have good coverage in their classics, and even with that, you are facing an uphill RNG battle as far as competing characters you actually want. It's true that in the very long run you'll have more diversity, but it comes at quite a cost.
Dragon_Nexus said: Personally I found the 5* thing didn't happen until I'd nearly maxed all my 4*s.
tiomono said: Personally I hate the hoard and spend it all on latests tactic. I hate locking characters away with no way to earn them. So for me to spend all my resources to get a shot at the 3 newest 5*'s while locking all the rest into bonus hero odds is no good. That is why I pull classics. It is slower to get into the 5 star tier because of dilution but I am progressing toward it steadily. When I get to the stage of wanting to spend iso on my 5*s to fully make the leap I will have a broader selection not just the latest 3. I already have 1 champed, daredevil. He is a great first 5* good damage and amazing sustain. I have 3 more at 12 covers and 2 at 11 covers. I did have gambit before his nerf. I was seeing if I could fully cover a 5 in latests pulling solely latests. With the old cs cover swap I could. But now that any 6th or more cover i get in a single color for any character can be saved and not wasted i feel classics is the right choice for me.
barrok said: I have to echo the OP's statement. I know this game is a 'marathon', but even if you progress through the correct avenues (champ 3*'s, champ 4*'s) there is still no guarantee that you will be 5* land within the first year of playing. It could take you even longer (unless you horde or spend a ton of money).
tiomono said: crackninja said: no tiomono said: They have added many 4*s champion rewards to help with gaining 5*s. It is slow going but they have continually made things easier and more accessible. Personally I hate the hoard and spend it all on latests tactic. I hate locking characters away with no way to earn them. So for me to spend all my resources to get a shot at the 3 newest 5*'s while locking all the rest into bonus hero odds is no good. That is why I pull classics. It is slower to get into the 5 star tier because of dilution but I am progressing toward it steadily. When I get to the stage of wanting to spend iso on my 5*s to fully make the leap I will have a broader selection not just the latest 3. I already have 1 champed, daredevil. He is a great first 5* good damage and amazing sustain. I have 3 more at 12 covers and 2 at 11 covers. I did have gambit before his nerf. I was seeing if I could fully cover a 5 in latests pulling solely latests. With the old cs cover swap I could. But now that any 6th or more cover i get in a single color for any character can be saved and not wasted i feel classics is the right choice for me.The 5* tier is not impossible to get into. And hoarding yo spend it all on latests is not the only way to progress into the tier. There is more than one way to do it, but I just cannot recommend this strategy to anyone that doesn't already have good coverage in their classics, and even with that, you are facing an uphill RNG battle as far as competing characters you actually want. It's true that in the very long run you'll have more diversity, but it comes at quite a cost. And the cost of opening just latests means you never get a chance at pulling 23 characters and growing. That is way too steep a cost in my personal opinion. The new release stores are too infrequent to offset this and you never have a guarantee that a classic 5* that you want will turn up in one of these stores. For me classics with the 5* feeders is giving me good progress. I feel that the 4* tier is the meat of the game and am not feeling rushed to get into the 5* tier. If clearance level 10 opened up and was pretty much mandatory to have 5*s champed due to enemy levels I think I would still be happy in scl 9 getting the rewards I currently am and progressing my way up to scl 10 eventually.Others feel differently and that's fine. I was just letting the OP know that there is not only one way to advance.
crackninja said: no tiomono said: They have added many 4*s champion rewards to help with gaining 5*s. It is slow going but they have continually made things easier and more accessible. Personally I hate the hoard and spend it all on latests tactic. I hate locking characters away with no way to earn them. So for me to spend all my resources to get a shot at the 3 newest 5*'s while locking all the rest into bonus hero odds is no good. That is why I pull classics. It is slower to get into the 5 star tier because of dilution but I am progressing toward it steadily. When I get to the stage of wanting to spend iso on my 5*s to fully make the leap I will have a broader selection not just the latest 3. I already have 1 champed, daredevil. He is a great first 5* good damage and amazing sustain. I have 3 more at 12 covers and 2 at 11 covers. I did have gambit before his nerf. I was seeing if I could fully cover a 5 in latests pulling solely latests. With the old cs cover swap I could. But now that any 6th or more cover i get in a single color for any character can be saved and not wasted i feel classics is the right choice for me.The 5* tier is not impossible to get into. And hoarding yo spend it all on latests is not the only way to progress into the tier. There is more than one way to do it, but I just cannot recommend this strategy to anyone that doesn't already have good coverage in their classics, and even with that, you are facing an uphill RNG battle as far as competing characters you actually want. It's true that in the very long run you'll have more diversity, but it comes at quite a cost.
Hendross said: The fact you can't keep pace with the 5 star release cycle without hoarding, I'd say the dangling carrot is working as intended. This model is the defacto standard for free-to-play games. Once a critical mass is reached whereas people can routinely earn 5-star champs, I'll be expecting 6-star toons.
barrok said: ---there is still no guarantee that you will be 5* land within the first year of playing. It could take you even longer (unless you horde or spend a ton of money). You shouldn't have champed 5s in your first year playing unless you whaled out (and that is ok). I've only known a few players do that. To add insult to injury, it's quite common to see rosters where they obviously horded because they might have only half the 3*'s champed, and a few 4*'s, ..."or they flipped their 3s when they hit max level. I did that for 9 months to finance champing all the 4s.