froggerjohn said: Are there leveling consequences of boosting the SHIELD XP rank?
HoundofShadow said: I levelled up my S.H.I.E.L.D ranking too fast and kind of regret it because I'm locked out of SCL 5 and soon, I'll be lock out of SCL 6. The score difference among the top scoring board for SCL 5, 6, 7, 8 are pretty crazy. SCL 6 typical top scores are about 800 and when you reach SCL 7 or 8, the top scores are about 2000. I'm referring to PvP only.
Dormammu said: Someone did the math on this after they revamped the way XP works. I think I remember that it was ISO positive to farm 1-stars for the XP rewards until you get into an upper shield level (80-100ish?) but after that you'll get more iso for just selling them.
rocks52 said: Dormammu said: Someone did the math on this after they revamped the way XP works. I think I remember that it was ISO positive to farm 1-stars for the XP rewards until you get into an upper shield level (80-100ish?) but after that you'll get more iso for just selling them. Did they figure it with max covered level 1 1*? Iso loss for maxing out a character and then selling it vs Iso loss for not just outright selling the covers. Also would depend on if we're talking a lv 40 1* vs lv 50
I don't Think the farmers level their onestars, they just keep them at level 1 and apply covers as they come.
I seem to recall the break-even Point being around level 177.
MoTiV said: I'm not sure where the break even point is but you can always check how much ISO per XP you're getting by dividing the rank reward (ISO) by the amount of XP needed to get to the next rank. Right now I'm at rank 99 and it takes 3875 ISO to get to 100. The rank reward is 52500 ISO so 52500/3875 = 13.55 ISO/XP. Each 1 star cover gives 10XP so right now every cover I farm gives me 13.55 *10 =135.5 ISO. So I'm getting a +35% ISO boost by farming. Once it gets down to around 100 it won't be worth the effort but right now i need all the ISO i can get!
rocks52 said: Ok the math here is wrong. You only get XP for first time rostering a specific character. so re-rostering a 1* will not give you 10 xp each time. So you only get 90 (or 120) xp from max covered 1* characters.
Daredevil217 said: Am I crazy or is farming 1* like giving away iso?I think of XP rewards as this bond or inheritance that’s put away for me and I can’t touch it until I reach a certain age. I will eventually be old enough to get it, I just have to be patient. By farming instead of selling you are essentially paying a fee that allows you to access your bond sooner. So you get yours this year but paid for that privilege while I get mine next year and would have pocketed the money you spent to get yours sooner.
Daredevil217 said: It’s sort of like the people who will spend CP to champ a character and say “well I got a legendary token so it evened out”. No it didn’t! You were going to get that champ level eventually, and when you did you would have had your CP in the bank as well! Again you’re just paying to get something that you were going to get eventually sooner.
DarthDeVo said: rocks52 said: Ok the math here is wrong. You only get XP for first time rostering a specific character. so re-rostering a 1* will not give you 10 xp each time. So you only get 90 (or 120) xp from max covered 1* characters. You are correct that you won't get XP for re-rostering a character, but if you get one of the three-cover 1*s to 13 covers, you can respec which cover is at 5, and each time you do that you do get 10 XP, which is what I do. I haven't bothered maxing out a two-cover 1* and then selling it yet, and probably won't.
rocks52 said: DarthDeVo said: rocks52 said: Ok the math here is wrong. You only get XP for first time rostering a specific character. so re-rostering a 1* will not give you 10 xp each time. So you only get 90 (or 120) xp from max covered 1* characters. You are correct that you won't get XP for re-rostering a character, but if you get one of the three-cover 1*s to 13 covers, you can respec which cover is at 5, and each time you do that you do get 10 XP, which is what I do. I haven't bothered maxing out a two-cover 1* and then selling it yet, and probably won't. Wouldn't this hurt you in the long run? If you never sell those 1* covers, you never get any iso from them. Are you also immediately selling all 2-cover 1*? I don't feel like trying to math it to see what the net gain/loss is there
DarthDeVo said: Others have done the math and I think it's somewhere above Level 150 or so that it's a net ISO loss to farm the 1*s for XP.