A little guidance needed

 - Don't spend hero points on tokens. Only ever spend them to buy new roster slots. Roster slots will be the most limited resource for you basically forever.

 - If you don't have a free roster slot (or the hero points to buy them) you might not want to open any heroic or elite tokens. There's a 25% chance you'll get a 3* or 4* and will probably end up selling them. Save up your hero points until you have enough to buy a roster slot, then open tokens until you get a 3* you have to roster. Then stop again.

 - If you ever end up with command points or legendary tokens, do not spend or open them. You will want to save those for when you have at least half of your 3* characters championed. That's a long way away from where you are now. You do not need the headache of "lucking" into a 5* yet. *Exception* Under certain circumstances, you may want to spend 20 CP to buy a 3* cover, usually the 13th cover so you can max-level them. This is acceptable.

- Roster all the 2*s. 2* Spider-Man (Bag Man) is the only optional one. Not because they're all good, but because you will gain resources in the long run by getting champion levels for all of them.

- Don't put any more ISO into your 1*s, and don't level up any of your 3*s yet. Spend it on your 2*s. Your 3* characters will not be better than your 2*s, even at a higher level, until they have around 9 covers (3/3/3).

- I'd probably sell those 4* covers you have. Once you can use them, they're not so rare that you'll wish you still had that one extra, and the two extra roster slots for 2*s and 3*s right now will be much more helpful.

Versus mode will be rough without 3*s; probably you'll be able to play for the 4 wins (and maybe 8 wins) tokens, and then stop.

Story mode progression rewards are probably the best place for you to get covers. If you play every mission two times that is, I believe, sufficient to get a few 2* covers and a 3* (not clear on the low clearance level rewards, sorry). Since you won't have the required 4* very often, if at all, you might have to do each mission three times instead.

Do the deadpool daily missions every day. Having as many 3*s as possible  will help you get the better rewards more often. It is possible to complete the final mission (Big Enchilada) with three 2*s at ~level 80. 

Welcome to the forums

  One last question - Is the best bet then to only open standard rewards and then save up anything above it (even the taco ones?) until im working on 3*? I take it they dont expire do they?

    I'm sure there will probably be disagreement by some but I would definitely open taco tokens because you'll get quite a bit of 2*s and iso from opening them up.  But most importantly you'll at some point get the 250 or 1000 HP reward that you can use to open up a new roster slot.

    A few more strategy pointers that worked pretty well for me when I started, is concentrate on getting top tier 3*s on your roster when you have all of your 2*s (except bagman) rostered.  I would take a look at this forum post https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/67654/all-the-different-character-rankings to give you some help on what 3*s are most highly useful (the most helpful to me personally was Dauthi's 3* guide).  My personal recommendations for starting out 3*s are Iron Man 40, Dr Strange, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.  The only other wild card that's probably not mentioned in rankings yet is 3* Gambit.  I don't have him champed yet, but he is very difficult to play against so he may be among the top 3*s even though he's relatively new character.  After reading about the 3*s find out which seems to be the most useful 3* character for you and set them up as a bonus hero and hopefully it won't take much time to get enough covers to make them useful.

 

     Some 3*s and 4*s can be helpful to have when they are featured in story mode (PVE).  Try your best, if you can, to save a slot for featured three or four star character which will help your placement and progression in PVE and feel free to sell it right after they are no longer featured.

    Lastly, my final recommendation for PVP would be to enter an event a few hours before if ends and hopefully you can at least grab a few tokens or maybe even some more 2* covers.
 

Mozza said:

whats the benefit of having every 2* rostered if some of them potentially suck? Wouldnt that be a waste of roster space for potentially good 3* heroes? I have the Dauthi post saved it proved useful for team ups. I have iron fist and iron man 40 already rostered so looking forward to building those ones up.

Two Words: champion rewards. The champion rewards are pretty good, and two-star covers are common enough that you can cycle through them quickly. What you want to do (once you are no longer Reliant on your two-star heroes) is to sell them off once they reach level 144 and then roster a new version to get the champion rewards again. It doesn't really cost you any ISO, and the other rewards (HP, CP, covers, tokens) are well Worth the effort.

While you are still in the two-star phase there is no immediate need to roster every two-star, but be aware that you will want to have them all rostered eventually.

Mozza said:

Hey guys,

Thanks for the advice, its much appreciated. 

I have sold those 4* cards now which has freed up some space to build on champing 2* cards. I take it the easiest way to get covers for these 2* is to just do story only is it? or can you get them from pvp as well? 

One last question - Is the best bet then to only open standard rewards and then save up anything above it (even the taco ones?) until im working on 3*? I take it they dont expire do they?

Time to get my grind on! 

You do occasionally get 2*s as rewards from winning Versus matches, and they're also in the placement rewards from top 50 or so down to 300, I think. 

Tokens don't expire; in my opinion you're fine to open heroic tokens and taco tokens, although, as others have mentioned, the safest way is to wait until you have enough to buy a roster slot before opening anything.

Mozza said:

whats the benefit of having every 2* rostered if some of them potentially suck? Wouldnt that be a waste of roster space for potentially good 3* heroes? I have the Dauthi post saved it proved useful for team ups. I have iron fist and iron man 40 already rostered so looking forward to building those ones up.

Also, having all 2*s rostered helps for Story missions; there are only 13 non-limited 2*s, so they all get their turn as the required 2* character in Story events pretty often. No, you'll probably never use 2* Steve for any other reason, and that's fine. He'll still net you 3 3* Steve covers on his way up to 144, and that's totally worth it.

So related question - 

I did not think to look for this great forum until I had been playing for quite some time. I'm at the point that I have a good percentage of my 3s champed (but not maxed), but I have an assortment of 4s and 5s. As you can imagine, all the 5s have one cover except for one that has 2. 

At this point, how much am I hurting myself holding on to those 5s? I assume I'm fine with 4s a this point.

Jaedenkaal said:

 

I don't know, that's probably pretty obnoxious with Ares. Or Storm, for that matter.

   I understand from TPF's other posts that IM40 is still a pretty conditional character.  If you have a yellow starved board or are against a yellow heavy AI, then it usually takes too many matches to activate his other powers.  However, for me, I used him with Storm all the time while in 2* land and most of the time I had him underleveled so that he wouldn't take damage.  A level 40 IM40 with 5 yellow covers is pretty dang useful, especially in PVE.  There are times that 6 yellow AP just doesn't come and it makes the match very long and painful with him.  But that negative for him, doesn't deter me from using him daily.