Hoarding Taco Tokens - Yea or Nay?

I've always hoarded tacos but not because I want something specific out of the vault - I hoard them so if I have a bad day in PVP I can have emergency health packs without spending HP.  I can definitely remember a few times they've really helped, though since I entered the 5* tier that almost never happens.  Now I generally draw them when I feel like it, but always make sure to leave at least 50 from each vault for when I need health packs.

I also hoard them and only pull when I need health packs for PVP, but you may not need that since you say you don't play PVP much. 

I sat on mine until i got to 300 in each, so that i could beat rng on a couple of 4* covers that were my white whales, a couple years ago. Ive maintained it that way ever since, just pulling the 3 per day out of habit.  Taking a few months off to hoard wont really slow you down in the long run.  It even helped me get the last cover i needed for taskmaster, just like the good old days.

I've been hoarding Taco tokens for as long as they have been around and have only opened some of the hoard when there was a 4* cover in the Vault. I have all characrters rostered, all 3*s champed and duped at the moment and all 4*s champed except for Namor (10 covers) and Magik (not done SHIELD training yet). I have put exactly zero Iso into my 5*s, and unlikely will any time soon (thanks 5* pull rate RNG! ).

I started hoarding because I figured that the 2* and incidental 3* cover had almost no effect on roster progress when playing mainly with the boosted 4*s each week. Even though the chances of a useful 4* appearing in the Taco Vault is minimal, that cover would be more useful than any 3* cover could be.

The hoarding tactic has helped me with a few final 4* covers when I still needed them to finish off some characters, but that was partly due to having more than 300 tokens for either Vault. Taking that into account, I can't really say you should be hoarding them as of now because until the point where you get to 300 tokens (*) you can't really say it's a guaranteed cover you can get. And seeing I am now at 456 and 569 Tacos respectively, you can say I'm now at a point where very few useful 4* covers show up in the Taco Vaults for me. Mind you, the tokens are still useful to get some health packs whenever I need them, but so far those needs have been pretty slim as PVP is a 'up to 900 if possible and shield' kind of affair for me, and most times that is possible with 10 health packs or I just shield up at somewhere above 800 or so, whereever I get hit down to repeatedly.

If I were to give any advice when you are uncertain what to do with your Taco tokens, I'd say try to go a few weeks without opening any of them first. If you don't feel you are missing out on anything try keeping it up, but otherwise you can always just open them and keep on doing that every week.



(*) to illustrate needing 300 tokens: I'v had the sitauation where the needed 4* cover (X-23 red) was on token 298 out of 300. On the other hand there was one occaision where it was on token 1 out of 300 (4* Cage black).

skittledaddy said:

I'll keep pulling tacos and see if I can't make some improvements somewhere else, instead.

@skittledaddy - you are in the hardest and longest stretch of building a roster with 24 champed 4-stars. At a third of the way through the tier, you've realized what a slog champing all the 4-stars is going to be... and they keep coming every 2-4 weeks. You start to feel stagnant because as you keep champing 4-stars, your roster starts to feel like it's only getting bigger, rather than better.

But keep on the slow, grinding path. What's happening (as you continue to champ 4-stars you feel like you'll rarely use), is that you are improving the number of boosted champs that you have each event. My guess is that with 24 champed 4s, you see PvP events where you don't have any boosted champs. Those are a slog, am I right? But those events will become few and far between as you keep going.

There's no real way to speed this up other than playing more and continue to seek higher placements (in both PvE and PvP). Keep gathering more resources, chipping away slowly, until you get to the point that your 4-star roster is robust and you're ready to start seriously focus on champing 5-stars.

At that point hoarding can help you. But not Taco tokens... LTs and CPs.

I hoard taco tokens.

The only thing in the entire taco vault that helps my progression is the Latest Legendary token. I have enough HP, health packs, 3*/4* covers.

So I hoard taco tokens because it doubles your chance of getting the Latest Legendary token, IF that's the only thing you're going for.

In order for it to work, you have to save till 300 tacos, then pull from a single vault until you pull the Legendary token, then immediately stop.

This method gives one Latest Legendary token for every 150.5 taco tokens. If you pulled the tacos one at a time from different vaults, you would get an expected value of one Latest Legendary every 300 tokens.