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

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  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,569 Chairperson of the Boards

    I ascended Winter Soldier, moved my 4* over to Flaptain who has a 12 cover dupe. I’m looking at Coulson after that who has a 5/5/0

  • rainkingucd
    rainkingucd Posts: 1,533 Chairperson of the Boards

    Coulson is hands down the most fun of all the characters I've ascended so far

  • DrClever
    DrClever Posts: 584 Critical Contributor
    edited November 2023

    @rainkingucd said:
    Coulson is hands down the most fun of all the characters I've ascended so far

    Yes, so it seems. If I was close to being able to ascend him that's what I'd push for.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,045 Chairperson of the Boards

    @rainkingucd said:
    Coulson is hands down the most fun of all the characters I've ascended so far

    I'm worried that the CD power is a bug that they're going to fix.

    Actually I might be more worried that it's a feature that they're NOT going to fix.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,569 Chairperson of the Boards

    I'm 99 shards from Flaptain, so I'll be on that Coulson train probably in a day or so to see what the story is.

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

    @entrailbucket said:

    @rainkingucd said:
    Coulson is hands down the most fun of all the characters I've ascended so far

    I'm worried that the CD power is a bug that they're going to fix.

    Actually I might be more worried that it's a feature that they're NOT going to fix.

    Yeah I think once someone at BCS actually plays him and notices 5 CD tiles, he's dead.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,045 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Bowgentle said:

    @entrailbucket said:

    @rainkingucd said:
    Coulson is hands down the most fun of all the characters I've ascended so far

    I'm worried that the CD power is a bug that they're going to fix.

    Actually I might be more worried that it's a feature that they're NOT going to fix.

    Yeah I think once someone at BCS actually plays him and notices 5 CD tiles, he's dead.

    And the flip side of that is that 1000 players are currently going all-in to get him ascended, so if he stays the way he is, he's going to end up absolutely everywhere.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,569 Chairperson of the Boards

    Going to be funny when he is made a retro feeder in a month right after that CD thing gets fixed.

  • dramatist
    dramatist Posts: 227 Tile Toppler

    Seems like it would be easy enough to look for an ascended character on a roster and be able to give retro feeder rewards.

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

    @dramatist said:
    Seems like it would be easy enough to look for an ascended character on a roster and be able to give retro feeder rewards.

    Sure, but they don't want to.
    They explicitly stated that.
    It's a trade-off.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,569 Chairperson of the Boards

    I would guess the problem arises with how you break out what the merged character was after ascension. It's basically the same thing as how sold off max-champs never granted retro rewards conceptually. You need that version of that character on roster at the time of reward to get it.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,045 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Bowgentle said:

    @dramatist said:
    Seems like it would be easy enough to look for an ascended character on a roster and be able to give retro feeder rewards.

    Sure, but they don't want to.
    They explicitly stated that.
    It's a trade-off.

    I have a feeling that they'll change their mind about this when they see the level of outcry it will produce among the top 1%. Nobody has truly ramped up the pressure on this yet because it's still theoretical, but when it becomes real it's going to be a big mess for them.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,569 Chairperson of the Boards

    I'll be curious to see what happens. Unlike past retro handouts, this time up front it was pretty explicitly stated that there would be no handouts for ascended characters, and this wasn't like shardmas where it was getting applied to your roster from on high, you have to opt in to ascend a character same as selling them off. So it's pretty clear, but you know, people be having feelings even so.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,569 Chairperson of the Boards

    Man, Coulson at 5* is top tier. Hands down the best jump up I’ve seen so far.

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

    Shhh, we still don't know if that blue is working as intended.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,569 Chairperson of the Boards

    Its power description matches what happens, so I would hope it’s intended. Even if the damage values change hopefully the cD spam will persist.

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

    Well so was his purple, until they changed it.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,569 Chairperson of the Boards

    Ah, that wasn’t clear from the commentary. I noticed in simulator that an enemy Kang earns blue off of all countdown resolution from either side. I hadn’t noticed that before

  • rainkingucd
    rainkingucd Posts: 1,533 Chairperson of the Boards

    @rainkingucd said:
    With Goose (Chewie!) out, I'm going to go all in on her as my 3* favourite. Nearly all of my current 3* are Max-Max or close to as I kept my dupes when BCS was handing out all those retro rewards, so I have no real need to target any 3* unless I really wanted one in particular the 5* level.

    So now I'll test how long it takes to max a 3* from scratch (hehe) before I can ascend.

    Update: With the bonus pull rate now at an end, Goose is at 207.

    She was my only 3* target the entire time, I've been pulling all my Standard/Heroic/Elite/Mighty tokens. 54 covers in 2 weeks. Will see how long it takes to get the next 59 covers without the bonus pull rate in effect. I'm guessing 8 more weeks.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,371 Chairperson of the Boards

    @rainkingucd said:

    @rainkingucd said:
    With Goose (Chewie!) out, I'm going to go all in on her as my 3* favourite. Nearly all of my current 3* are Max-Max or close to as I kept my dupes when BCS was handing out all those retro rewards, so I have no real need to target any 3* unless I really wanted one in particular the 5* level.

    So now I'll test how long it takes to max a 3* from scratch (hehe) before I can ascend.

    Update: With the bonus pull rate now at an end, Goose is at 207.

    She was my only 3* target the entire time, I've been pulling all my Standard/Heroic/Elite/Mighty tokens. 54 covers in 2 weeks. Will see how long it takes to get the next 59 covers without the bonus pull rate in effect. I'm guessing 8 more weeks.

    Interesting? Maybe? Without favoriting Goose but pulling everything, mine is at 173.

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