finally pulled a 5*and I'm angry

I used to be an even-leveler. I'd bring my "A" listers up to 140, then work on the "B" listers for a while, then back to the "A" listers, etc. My "A" team was up to 145 I think when the champion update hit. Was that soft capping? I dunno. I didn't think of it that way. Having a small number of 166 and everyone else 30, 40 levels below struck me as unwise given the realities of PVE scaling.

With the champion update, I abandoned even leveling and just started bringing the "A" guys straight to 166 as soon as I had the ISO, and championed them ASAP. I actually like it better this way. You don't rely solely on your weekly boosted characters any more, i.e. Magneto, Cyclops, Steve, Kamala are perfectly useful whether they're boosted or not. So maybe I had it wrong all along.

Im not what you would call a "competitive player." Im around my 700th day, and have 47 characters on my roster, which includes about 6 champion 3*s , a 5* Phoenix, and OML has 2 covers, about 12 low level 4*s, and the rest are 3*s that range from 120-130. I stock pile boosts and health packs, and now hero points. Tokens and iso i spend almost immediately. And i have never once spent real money on this game. When i want to win an event, i do. But mostly the rewards don't justify the time and effort.

That said, the game had never lost its challenge level. Sometimes its a little too hard in pve events, and some pvp rosters that have maxed out 4*s are all i can find to fight. But if i shield properly or milk pve nodes at right times, i can place top 25.

But i would welcome any 5* character, regardless of what kind of impact it may have to gameplay. I learned during the 2* stage that i should have never sold the 3*s i had while i was stuck with mostly 1*s. I understand the strategy of saving tokens, but personally i would lose interest if i didn't get rewarded daily for my efforts.

Its very interesting to me how and why people play the game. I like to collect my favorite characters and max them out. But i also recognize the importance of using characters i dont like to enhance my team strength.

PeterGibbons316 wrote:

adamdivine wrote:

I'm not soft capping on purpose, just leveling my guys evenly and 130 is just where I'm at. Once everyone is at 130, I will go up

That is the very definition of soft capping, and sounds like you are doing it on purpose.

I'm not always "in the know" on all the terminology around here, but I thought soft-capping was leaving guys low when you have iso to level them. if he's using all his iso and leveling evenly, that is completely different than taking guys to 94 or 120 and leaving them there even when you're sitting on iso. big difference. its just a leveling strategy that is smart, but not 'cheating the sytsem' in my book - not like leaving guys 120 permanently. I used a tiering system, which was much better for pvp and still effective enough for pve, but not perfectly optimal for pve scaling.

adamdivine wrote:

Just pulled a second OML. So pissed. I don't want these 5*'s!!!!! I want to build my 3's and 4's. I originally tried rostering the first oml and the scaling was just as bad as everyone says. Sold after one try at story and one vs. Now after putting in the time to get top progression in story, I pull another one. So frustrated and angry. Please fix this issue!! I want a 4* only token. I would even pay extra

There is no issue to be fixed. You are evenly leveling your characters to keep your scaling down, you opened a token with a chance at a character that was twice the level of all your other characters. Obviously that would screw up your carefully planned leveling scheme. Either deal with the increase in scaling, or don't open the token.

The only thing broken here is your expectations.

PeterGibbons316 wrote:

adamdivine wrote:

Just pulled a second OML. So pissed. I don't want these 5*'s!!!!! I want to build my 3's and 4's. I originally tried rostering the first oml and the scaling was just as bad as everyone says. Sold after one try at story and one vs. Now after putting in the time to get top progression in story, I pull another one. So frustrated and angry. Please fix this issue!! I want a 4* only token. I would even pay extra

There is no issue to be fixed. You are evenly leveling your characters to keep your scaling down, you opened a token with a chance at a character that was twice the level of all your other characters. Obviously that would screw up your carefully planned leveling scheme. Either deal with the increase in scaling, or don't open the token.

The only thing broken here is your expectations.

Seconded. If you are still building the 3* roster there's no rush to build up 4*. Save the legendary tokens until you are more or less done with the 3* and open the legendaries then.