JHawkInc said: Got to say, I love seeing a little bit further out like this.Human Torch, Kraven, and Sam Wilson for the next Shield Training, with a little bit of foreknowledge to let people get ready.Iron Man, Ghost Rider as the next two classic 5-star Essentials. Guess we're skipping Green Goblin? The pattern has been a little wonky this time around, we skipped and shuffled a couple, Goblin is the only one that's still "out of sequence", skipped but hasn't been revisited yet.Then I see Iceman and Professor X, at which point Carnage should enter Latest Legends. The next event (not in the Sneak Peek) should start 11/28. Could be our first 5e with Carnage, could be a Boss for the (US) holiday, delaying Carnage by an event. Either way, having that tiny extra buffer before he's Essential for people to acquire him via Latest Legends if they haven't already, that's nice. Doubled by knowing that we'll have that buffer in advance (as someone who has had bad luck with 5's recently, both a slightly unlucky streak, and a streak of not pulling the characters/covers I want/need, I appreciate it, lol)
ElReyFelix said:Do you have a list/projection of the order of featured 5e you could share?
JHawkInc said: Iron Man, Ghost Rider as the next two classic 5-star Essentials. Guess we're skipping Green Goblin? The pattern has been a little wonky this time around, we skipped and shuffled a couple, Goblin is the only one that's still "out of sequence", skipped but hasn't been revisited yet.
blankcanvas said: @IceIX Is there another new 4* Captain America incoming called Endgame? I'm confused!
IceIX said: Updated all sections. Trying something new by eliminating the sub-names for better readability except when there are multiples of a character in a rarity. Should be perfectly understandable, but let me know if there are any issues with it.
KGB said: I'm just stunned we are getting Human Torch twice as a required ST character in such a short time frame. Makes me really happy I bonused him and opened a bunch of tokens to get him last time.KGB
CartoonScience said: KGB said: I'm just stunned we are getting Human Torch twice as a required ST character in such a short time frame. Makes me really happy I bonused him and opened a bunch of tokens to get him last time.KGB On the other end of things, I expected that Capt. America Worthy would be the next essential 4* in SHIELD training, because that makes sense, and I still don't have Torch at level 209 because I've been focused on drawing Cap Worthy covers over the last few weeks.It's almost like they lost track of what was featured in the previous SHIELD training.
Friarbundy said: I stopped chasing Torch after the SHIELD Training figuring "They won't use him again for a while" and "Worthy will be next up so time to start chasing him". They played me for a sucker. So whoever came up with the idea of using Torch again, please "Go tinykitty yourself".
bluewolf said: This, I suppose, is why you hoard and hoard and hoard...... At least with shards you are only about 27 pulls from a bonus 4 at any time with no bad streaks to worry about.I'm not quite sure why everyone thinks shards will make it harder to get people to 209 when Heroics give shards too, every time.
bluewolf said:On the other hand, dilution - as I have pointed out before - makes hitting 10 covers for more than one person in ST (who you don't already have there) pretty much impossible, even with a week or two of notice, and having hoarded etc.As dilution gets a little worse with every release, the goalposts get a little harder to reach on a continual basis and the baked-in advantage of vets solidifies even more.