This, I suppose, is why you hoard and hoard and hoard...... At least with shards you are only about 27 pulls from a bonus 4 at any time with no bad streaks to worry about.
I'm not quite sure why everyone thinks shards will make it harder to get people to 209 when Heroics give shards too, every time.
This, I suppose, is why you hoard and hoard and hoard...... At least with shards you are only about 27 pulls from a bonus 4 at any time with no bad streaks to worry about.
I'm not quite sure why everyone thinks shards will make it harder to get people to 209 when Heroics give shards too, every time.
Probably the same reason high school physics class often disregards air resistance on word problems - it makes the full picture of what's going on much less straightforward when you introduce those other factors. Also we don't know what we don't know yet about supplemental shard drop rates, which further complicate the picture. So we look at the easy to math up ones in a vacuum and have our feelings about it all.
If the picture of feeders changes dramatically like was implied in the shard post, that too could really shift the acquisition rates to the positive. I'll be very interested to see final numbers on shards as they roll out, and compare it to my tracked progress so far in 2019 chasing 4s and 5s via bonus.
I stopped chasing Torch after the SHIELD Training figuring "They won't use him again for a while" and "Worthy will be next up so time to start chasing him". They played me for a sucker. So whoever came up with the idea of using Torch again, please "Go tinykitty yourself".
according to @TPF Alexis, that should be "go talos yourself"
This, I suppose, is why you hoard and hoard and hoard...... At least with shards you are only about 27 pulls from a bonus 4 at any time with no bad streaks to worry about.
I'm not quite sure why everyone thinks shards will make it harder to get people to 209 when Heroics give shards too, every time.
Yeah, plus there's the option of spending hp so I think my method will be a combination of hp and token pulls.
On the one hand, ST has always been about pushing people to chase covers/spend HP and dollars. But you could probably get really close with some decent placement, enough so that you could fill in the gap with a bonus if you hit two PVEs hard and the PVP in progression etc. Or maybe you can get that new person to 10 covers without a bonus, it all depends.
On the other hand, dilution - as I have pointed out before - makes hitting 10 covers for more than one person in ST (who you don't already have there) pretty much impossible, even with a week or two of notice, and having hoarded etc.
As dilution gets a little worse with every release, the goalposts get a little harder to reach on a continual basis and the baked-in advantage of vets solidifies even more.
On the other hand, dilution - as I have pointed out before - makes hitting 10 covers for more than one person in ST (who you don't already have there) pretty much impossible, even with a week or two of notice, and having hoarded etc.
As dilution gets a little worse with every release, the goalposts get a little harder to reach on a continual basis and the baked-in advantage of vets solidifies even more.
I agree wholeheartedly, I always seem to have 2/3 of ST essentials @ a usable level. But I have never had the money or resources to roster everyone, so I pick up a couple more whenever I can. The dilution problem doesn't seem to have a viable solution on the horizon either, as new additions that aren't finished are getting generic power "placeholder" updates until the character is release ready.
It seems that events & releases are starting to place a time strain on the beloved MPQ gods. I for one would be MUCH happier w/ say 1 new character a month that was well thought out & worth having than some of the more pedestrian characters that are must haves just because they're new.
I don't want to turn this thread into a dilution discussion - plenty of those around. But long story short, the devs have no incentive to stop consistently releasing characters since they drive spending for a lot of people. Each new person requires a roster slot and creates covers to chase, etc.
Therefore the only way to (even slightly) improve the situation is with reward adjustments. We finally have a 3/4 token coming as well as shards providing a possible route to increase rewards since they give partial covers.
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I'm not quite sure why everyone thinks shards will make it harder to get people to 209 when Heroics give shards too, every time.
If the picture of feeders changes dramatically like was implied in the shard post, that too could really shift the acquisition rates to the positive. I'll be very interested to see final numbers on shards as they roll out, and compare it to my tracked progress so far in 2019 chasing 4s and 5s via bonus.
On the other hand, dilution - as I have pointed out before - makes hitting 10 covers for more than one person in ST (who you don't already have there) pretty much impossible, even with a week or two of notice, and having hoarded etc.
As dilution gets a little worse with every release, the goalposts get a little harder to reach on a continual basis and the baked-in advantage of vets solidifies even more.
It seems that events & releases are starting to place a time strain on the beloved MPQ gods. I for one would be MUCH happier w/ say 1 new character a month that was well thought out & worth having than some of the more pedestrian characters that are must haves just because they're new.
Therefore the only way to (even slightly) improve the situation is with reward adjustments. We finally have a 3/4 token coming as well as shards providing a possible route to increase rewards since they give partial covers.
We will see how things shake out.
The Final Countdown
(Tried attaching "Meet the Robinson's" dinosaur "I have a big head and little arms" meme, but couldn't from my phone)
Just to clarify:
Featured Characters:
5-Star: Carnage
4-Star: Captain America (Endgame)
3-Star: Deadpool
2-Star: Black Widow
Endgame = Worthy, right? And not yet another Cap coming our way....
Kitty and Nico are boosted in this PVE, guess there will double tiles buffing with 4*RocketGroot!