A question for the veterans

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Phantron wrote:

The difficulty of transitioning 2* to 3* is more due to the number of heroes available. Since D3 seems to try to make sure no 3* is left behind, when you got 20 of those guys it also ensures you won't be getting the same cover for any given guy for a very long time and that makes it very hard to build an effective roster. Back in the old days I don't think it was any easier to do well in PvP, but you know with only 10 3*s you're going to see the guy you need appear much quicker. In fact, given 3* villians used to be off limits (they're only for LRs rewards), this actually makes any 3* hero you need show up quite quickly.

I think D3 should seriously consider grouping certain characters for rewards, like say this event you can get either Sentry red or IM40 red for top 50, and the pairings should be done so that no two great heroes are ever paired together. Instead the goal should be to ensure you still have weak heroes like IM40 available without having him take up all of the 3* reward slot for PvP.

Yes, their baseline strategy seem to offer 9-10 covers after intro then that is it for months. My BP was parked since his intro to yesterday, and HT, falcon just clogging the roster waiting the last set. Daken will likely be similar story. Hulk, LT had same cycle. Really the exception was just Steve offering whole build right away, and some heroes like Punisher were collectible from progressions.

In short you seem to get stuck with unusable character for long even if you can grab all available prizes unless buy up 3 covers (or get lucky with those percent chances in tokens). Obviously those who miss even some of the initial 9-10 covers are even more hosed.

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Bugpop wrote:

Interesting. they made it easier to sell undesired characters.... and then they make 40-42 packs and lower drop rates.

Of course they do, by their article they measured that people are buying more tokens after the nerf because they are way more excited about the random pull instead just getting a dumb copy of the featured hero...

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pasa_ wrote:

Phantron wrote:

The difficulty of transitioning 2* to 3* is more due to the number of heroes available. Since D3 seems to try to make sure no 3* is left behind, when you got 20 of those guys it also ensures you won't be getting the same cover for any given guy for a very long time and that makes it very hard to build an effective roster. Back in the old days I don't think it was any easier to do well in PvP, but you know with only 10 3*s you're going to see the guy you need appear much quicker. In fact, given 3* villians used to be off limits (they're only for LRs rewards), this actually makes any 3* hero you need show up quite quickly.

I think D3 should seriously consider grouping certain characters for rewards, like say this event you can get either Sentry red or IM40 red for top 50, and the pairings should be done so that no two great heroes are ever paired together. Instead the goal should be to ensure you still have weak heroes like IM40 available without having him take up all of the 3* reward slot for PvP.

Yes, their baseline strategy seem to offer 9-10 covers after intro then that is it for months. My BP was parked since his intro to yesterday, and HT, falcon just clogging the roster waiting the last set. Daken will likely be similar story. Hulk, LT had same cycle. Really the exception was just Steve offering whole build right away, and some heroes like Punisher were collectible from progressions.

In short you seem to get stuck with unusable character for long even if you can grab all available prizes unless buy up 3 covers (or get lucky with those percent chances in tokens). Obviously those who miss even some of the initial 9-10 covers are even more hosed.

I think that they are better than before about making new characters available. Unleveled characters are quite useful in PVP - they are buffed by 30 to 70 levels.

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I don't think there's some conspiracy to keep people from completing their characters. Looking at the event reward tracker it seems like they really just want every 3* to show up as PvP rewards, but no matter how you rearrange 20 3*s there's going to be a very large time lapse before a certain hero shows up again. I think the 9-10 covers during when a character is new is fine. The problem is once you get out of that phase, a particularly unlucky 3* may need several months before he shows up again due to the sheer volume of 3*s available. Again, it wasn't easier to win events back then, but when there are only 5 guys regularly offered for reward it's easy to know what you're shooting for.