Need advice on where to take my team next

Unknown

I've seen debate on skipping the 1*>2* phase due to how quickly you can attain 3* covers now. I'm doing pretty well in PvP events with my rag tag team, and I placed 10 overall out of my pool in the Sentry event, getting 2 covers as the reward.

My team:

IM35 level 50, 5/5/3

MStorm level 31, 5/3/5

CHawkeye level 19, 5/5

Sentry level 15, 2/1/0

Human Torch level 15, 0/0/1

Psylocke level 15, 0/0/1

Ares level 13, 2/0/0

MNThor level 6, 5/0/0

CStorm level 6, 2/0/1

MHakweye level 6, 3/0/1

DADaken level 6, 1/0

Moonstone level 6, 1/0/0

Juggernaut level 1, 2/1

Venom level 1, 1/1

Yelena level 1, 1/1

I've got 10k ISO currently, and have no problem farming about 5k a day, not counting payouts from events. Thanks for your help!

HailMary

I'm not aware that 3* covers are easier to obtain nowadays. 2* covers have gotten much easier to obtain due to fight-completion cover drops, but 3* covers... not so much.

In general, read this guide: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3939

It's quite thorough and extremely well-thought-out.

mohio

I second the guide, honestly can't recommend it enough. I really don't think you can skip the transition to 2* unless you are a whale and want to purchase at least 7 covers PER CHARACTER, and that's assuming you can top 20 the coming out party PvE, and top 10 the inevitable PvP that releases more covers a few days later (not to mention somehow be a 1* player in a top 100 alliance). The way the rewards are structured these days if you are trying to do really well in PvP, you will build a max 2* far before you win enough covers to build usable 3*s just because of the random drops. It's just the way the game is going, with more and more new characters, if you don't get lucky with some token pulls it's going to take a while before you can max out any one particular 3*, so you better get your chosen 2* team up to lvl 85 in the meantime.

Unknown

WIth MMR the way it is now it makes even less sense to skip. It takes a lot more ISO to level a 3* to cap than a 2*. So for the price of leveling 3 3* heroes to 141, you could have leveled around 8 2 * heroes to 85.

Two problems with that. First, having more capped heroes will give you greater diversity for future PvE and PvP events, so it makes sense to have more capped 2* heroes than a few 3* heroes. Secondly, if you are going to field your 3* heroes in PvP, then congrats, welcome to MMR hell, because you will quickly reach the point where you will be facing all 3* lvl 141 teams.

My advise is enjoy are 1* --> 2* --> 3* transition while you can, because once you reach a 3* roster it becomes a real slog continually facing other 3* rosters.

Unknown

There are currently 20+ 3/4 star heroes in this game. So, while it seems like you have a lot now, you will find that you will not get enough of them to start building them up.

Remember it takes about 7-10 covers of any character before they can be considered effective or worth investing ISO into.

In fact, it might be in your best interest to intentionally do poorly in some events in an attempt to win 2* covers instead.