Grand Experiment 2: Treading Water in the SCL 10 Post-Shardpocalypse

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  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,070 Chairperson of the Boards

    Hey, what are you doing about bonus 4*? Did you end up just bonusing all the feeders, like I've been doing?

    I'm getting so many bonus 4* shards that it's actually noticeably translating to 5*.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,570 Chairperson of the Boards

    I’ve been targeting Next Out’s feeder exclusively. So right now that is Magik, prior to it was Abomination. After this it’ll probably be Gwenpool chasing Landshark. Professor X just hit 370.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,549 Chairperson of the Boards

    I have a "free" season coming up as I finished Magik today and so can wait to pull until she rotates out so I am interested in maybe spending some CP in Classics. I am currently trying to finish Ultron. I don't really know why because I have not used him but he is closest I guess needing one cover and about 12 shards. I've had a pretty decent success rate of champing classic 5* over the past year but the ones at decent levels now are looking a bit ropey.

    Abigail is finished 5/4/4 and sitting there.
    Ultron is 2/5/4
    Ghost Rider is 5/3/3
    Yelena is 5/2/4
    Black Panther is 5/2/4

    It isn't the most inspiring bunch if I am honest.

    Then there are a bunch on 10 covers but that seems too far out to do anything with right now.

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    Ghost rider is excellent when boosted.
    Panther, too.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,549 Chairperson of the Boards

    Ah - that gives me some hope! Not for Ultron though.

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    No, Ultron just sucks.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,570 Chairperson of the Boards

    I have a feeling BP is on the near-ish term rebalance list. but then again, i'd have expected that to happen when BP 2 was doing things, so who knows?

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,070 Chairperson of the Boards

    I sure hope so...he just does that one thing, and it's not even all that good of a thing anymore.

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    He does need more health for the one thing he does.
    Maybe he'll get to be a Chasm counter before Chasm is irrelevant.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,070 Chairperson of the Boards

    Ok so with the boost he's actually pretty funny against Chasm. It's not, like, good, or anything, but it's really funny.

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    Yep, we noticed.
    Well, the ones of us with ancient rosters did.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,570 Chairperson of the Boards

    I think he should do some kind of other thing while stunned in addition to his one thing, because I find that stunning him and then 1-shotting him is pretty trivial for the most part.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,549 Chairperson of the Boards

    Yeah. He sort of needs to go away to the Ancestral Plain or something because he definitely is very killable whilst stunned.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,570 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited May 2023

    It would be nice if he didn’t aggressively undercut what Okoye is trying to do by hemmoraging all your team up that she worked so hard to bank up.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,570 Chairperson of the Boards

    I’d been dumping HP into the Krakoa vault chasing the 5* shards this week to finish Magik, and I pulled a usable red this morning anyway to finish her up, along with a High Evolutionary now that he is in Latest. I moved my favorite tree over to Jeffrey Shark. Gwenpool is at 366, so I’ll probably finish her up to 370 rather than starting the dupe now since it’s only four additional colors. Gwenom’s retro rewards rolled in, so I have 6 covers for her sitting around, and I already pulled a 3* too, so I’m kind of in remedial Hp earn mode for a bit.

    Current Latest:
    Magik: lvl 452 with 421 shards
    Jeffrey: 3/2/4 with 271 shards
    High Evolutionary: 1/3/2 with 30 shards

    NEW:
    Gwenom: 0/0/0 with one cover on the vine and 2500 shards.

  • rainkingucd
    rainkingucd Posts: 1,534 Chairperson of the Boards

    I have managed to stay ahead of the LL so far without too much trouble. My strategy has instead been sharding the most recent to enter LL. Between retro rewards, PVE, Boss Event Rewards, and targeting, I am usually champing them as the next one enters.

    I finished Jeff during the boss event, and with High Evolutionary entering, I switched him to my favourite.

    I pulled about ~40-50 from latest today. A good haul, adding some Jeff & HEvo covers (managed to get 500 bonus, plus a 50 and a 125 too)

    Magik: 454
    Jeff: 456
    HEvo: 3/4/3 with 767 shards

    Gwenom got 4 covers from retro rewards, and as a nice little surprise, managed to snag 1 from the 200 offer in the Gwenomous Spider store.

    My 4* strategy is still all over the place. I was targeting the feeders to make sure the LL were champed, but then I switched to maxing out the "in use" 4*. I just got Polaris about 360, I think I will get Juggernaut up there next. By that time maybe the next 5* will have a new feeder and I can target them instead

  • dramatist
    dramatist Posts: 227 Tile Toppler

    Well I opened 50 Latests again and managed to champ Magic and Jeffrey. Then I opened 25 classics and got 7 5* covers. I’m also up to 35 max champ 4*s.

    Ended up with 19 Latest Legends and a little over 6000 cp.

  • rainkingucd
    rainkingucd Posts: 1,534 Chairperson of the Boards

    Now I'm really lost. High Evolutionary is champed, so I now have everyone champed except Gwenom. Any ideas here on who I should favourite in the 5* tier?

    Highest is Mthor at 473
    Lowest are Black Widow, Captain Marvel, Doctor Doom, and Sersei at 452

    Target lowest to bring up the average level?
    Target metas to increase health pools?
    Target Okoye to ensure she buffs against Thor/iHulk?

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,070 Chairperson of the Boards

    That's a pretty good problem to have!

    I'd probably target Thor, because she's your highest, and she's also really good.

    If you were to really lean into the RNG life, you could just not bonus anybody, and let the shards fall wherever!

  • captainheath
    captainheath Posts: 273 Mover and Shaker

    I've been pondering the same question. I'm only weeks away from having all 5's champed. So who to favorite then? I'm thinking Okoye right now since I basically only do PVE. But I think a case could be made for Shang Chi.

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