New Character - Spider-Man (Cosmic) 6*

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  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,979 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:

    @WampaX said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    So this is nothing new, and I suppose depending on your perspective it's actually better (if you don't spend, at least you're not getting owned by whales who spent a ton of money). The new tier is always hard to get and takes forever.

    So, better than usual. I am surprised.

    Yep, the major difference with 3*, 4*, and 5* was that if you spent enough (for wildly varying values of "enough"), you could cover anybody you wanted at launch. If you didn't spend it was agonizingly slow, and all of that is documented on the forum here, if you look for it.

    With 6* they aren't allowing that (yet?).

    What was really a kick in the teeth was that saved covers didn't exist at that time. So if you got a character to 5/5/2 you only had a 1/3 chance of getting the cover you needed to champ the character and be able to respec the powers however you wanted. If you got one of the covers you already had 5 in you'd be forced to sell it for ISO when the 12 days was up.

    KGB

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,838 Chairperson of the Boards

    @KGB said:

    @entrailbucket said:

    @WampaX said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    So this is nothing new, and I suppose depending on your perspective it's actually better (if you don't spend, at least you're not getting owned by whales who spent a ton of money). The new tier is always hard to get and takes forever.

    So, better than usual. I am surprised.

    Yep, the major difference with 3*, 4*, and 5* was that if you spent enough (for wildly varying values of "enough"), you could cover anybody you wanted at launch. If you didn't spend it was agonizingly slow, and all of that is documented on the forum here, if you look for it.

    With 6* they aren't allowing that (yet?).

    What was really a kick in the teeth was that saved covers didn't exist at that time. So if you got a character to 5/5/2 you only had a 1/3 chance of getting the cover you needed to champ the character and be able to respec the powers however you wanted. If you got one of the covers you already had 5 in you'd be forced to sell it for ISO when the 12 days was up.

    KGB

    Yep. When people talk about something in MPQ being the worst ever...man, they have done some really silly, awful, dumb stuff over the years.

    The QoL situation right now is just night and day compared to where we've been. It's almost impossible for something to be the worst ever.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,706 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 3 December 2025 19:13

    Some back of envelope if you had 3 6 star characters in a rotation in PVE, and didn't buy or get any shards somehow elsewhere (special vault etc).

    Progression has 50 shards; placement varies but if you care enough to be reading this you probably T100 most events. (SCL10). This gives you 30 more, so 80 per PVE.

    There are 7 PVEs with shards (bosses have none, so far) every 4 weeks which basically gives you about 186 per 6 over those 4 weeks (560/3). We could round up to 190.

    You need 7800 for 13 covers so that's about 41 4 week periods, or 3.15 years to get 3 6s to 7800 shards, give or take a bit.

    Good luck!

    (hopefully eventually they have wildcard shards in PVE, or some way to get more shards somewhere, and hopefully they don't make the rotation longer each time a new 6 releases or you're looking at another year or two at least to finish even an early one and effectively never finishing the most recent one as dilution would make the cycles longer and longer).

    Obviously things can change and they can increase access but also they intentionally are making them the Ultimate Chase Items and they'd need to implement several things before they made them more available, AND they must like the increased revenue that resulted from making them incredibly hard to get without spending cash.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,838 Chairperson of the Boards

    Yep, if you don't spend any money at all and you want the newest thing, it's gonna take forever. It's been the same way as each new tier was introduced.

    Imagine earning one legendary token, with a 10% chance at a (random) 5* cover, if your alliance finished top 100 in a season. That's how 5* were introduced if you were free to play. Oh, and btw, the players who used to be your peers in max-4* land can now spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to get the new guys immediately, and trivially crush you over and over.

    The only difference when it comes to 6* is that everyone is basically in the same boat, and nobody is significantly ahead (for now).

  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 834 Critical Contributor
    edited 3 December 2025 21:09

    @Tiger_Wong said:
    Sick powerset. Looking forward to chasing him.

    If by chase, you mean walking in place or reading books to pump pledges in manner similar to perverse '80s elementary school fundraising scams .... yes, "chase."

  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 834 Critical Contributor

    @ThaRoadWarrior said:
    These powers look decidedly better than Galactus on paper, but I have no idea when in my lifetime I will have a fully covered 6 to really evaluate. I don’t love the art lately either - it is soft in a way that seems to be below what I consider the bar for a “professionally” done piece. The level of fidelity is all over the place across the game when it comes to detail, which as a player I don’t super love. It would be nice if there was a consistent look

    When? In your lifetime? C'mon one. What's 2yrs when you're already 10+yrs in? Sink those costs!

    O'course, when they let slip the next one, the time will slip from 2yrs to 3 .... but never us mind that. Jus' keep matchin', jus' keep matchin' ...

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