Grand Experiment 2: Treading Water in the SCL 10 Post-Shardpocalypse

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  • Sekilicious
    Sekilicious Posts: 1,766 Chairperson of the Boards
    Three more pulls! So sometime today. Tomorrow if rng decides to toy with your emotions. So exciting. 
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    My P4nther has a long way to go before getting the next 5* Panther cover. It will be as long as him appearing in the next special store, so I might as well wait for it. Mine is at 12 covers and has fewer shards than yours.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    HoundofShadow said:
    My P4nther has a long way to go before getting the next 5* Panther cover. It will be as long as him appearing in the next special store, so I might as well wait for it. Mine is at 12 covers and has fewer shards than yours.
    My 5* Panther is 4/4/4 with 100 shards, that was my 4* I listed there. For me those guys are a place to park my 4* and casually finish up the tier.
  • dramatist
    dramatist Posts: 227 Tile Toppler
    I had 6 legendary tokens this morning and decided to try for the last Shang Chi cover I needed. I got lucky on pull number 5. 

    Then it took my last legendary plus 50 cp to get a Sersi cover so that was lucky too. 
    Now to hoard legendaries until Ultron (lvl 455) is out. My Gamora is doing fine at 3,1,3 with 700+ shards so I think I can go back to classics with cp for awhile at least. 
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    Sekilicious said:
    Three more pulls! So sometime today. Tomorrow if rng decides to toy with your emotions. So exciting. 
    I'd be surprised if I get 3x more pulls today with DP vs MPQ running, and me having already exhausted the cp in snowball fight. But soon enough for sure.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    Shang-Chi is sitting at 499 shards to completion. 1 more and he'll be done after champing Ikaris for the LT. pushing to 500 in evergreen will get me one more pull; i feel obligated to do so now... 
  • Sekilicious
    Sekilicious Posts: 1,766 Chairperson of the Boards
    You can really torture yourself and wait for him in the shard store lol. Wait. That sounds too awful. 
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    What if that pull gave him 500 5* shards? 
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    That would be fine, it would be an LT champ level. But it did not give him 500 shards, just the 3 and a purple for Fury. I moved my fav to Ultron. Thank goodness for double iso, I need ~70k to champ him and Iron Man is still on the back burner.
  • dramatist
    dramatist Posts: 227 Tile Toppler
    I pulled my first 100 cp in classics in a few months. First pull ended up being a saved cover for my 3,3,5 Banner Hulk and the fifth pull was level 451 for Shang Chi. 

    So he’s apparently easier to pull from classics. 
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,480 Chairperson of the Boards
    dramatist said:
    I pulled my first 100 cp in classics in a few months. First pull ended up being a saved cover for my 3,3,5 Banner Hulk and the fifth pull was level 451 for Shang Chi. 

    So he’s apparently easier to pull from classics. 

    As the owner of an 8/4/3 Shang Chi I like the sound of this news update!
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    I’m trying to decide if I want to experiment with completely committing to Classic and sharding next available out with this group; I’m definitely chasing Big Wheel directly though, that character is everything I want from a Marvel game lol
  • Zalasta
    Zalasta Posts: 308 Mover and Shaker
    edited December 2021
    I burned around 110 LTs when SC rotated out, and have been burning earned CP in latest as well (have been doing classics until the LT pull). Ultron is set as favorite at 4/2/3 with 458 shards, so probably need another 3 pulls to finish him up by the time his next event rolls around. 

    Gamora at 1/4/3 with 250 shards.  Sersi is 1/2/3 with 375 shards.  I'm not sure how committed I am to Gamora or Sersi. Guess we'll see how the LT pulls go before Ultron rotates out.   I might be in trouble past Sersi since I won't have any type of hoard going.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    Latest has been pretty dry for me; I did land a black for Gamora, and this double iso has allowed me to champ Shang-chi and Iron Man, just in time for his boost week it turns out. 

    Current latest crop:
    Ultron: 1/2/2 with 860 shards (current shard target)
    Gamora: 0/1/2 with 740 shards
    Sersei: 0/0/0 with 390 shards

    Big Wheel: 0/0/0 with 265 shards

    I need 7 more levels on P4nther (351) to complete BP: Civil War who is currently 4/4/4 with 350  shards.

    My next 4* shard target will be Vulture, currently level 341, so I can work on SMPP who is my next highest covered vintage 5* at 4/4/3 with 70 shards.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited December 2021
    Broke my lengthy dry spell with a couple Gamoras and a Sersei. Current latest:
    Ultron: 1/2/2 with 982 shards
    Gamora: 1/1/3 with 940 shards
    Sersei: 0/1/0 with 390 shards

    New!
    Big Wheel: 0/0/0 with 390 shards

    4.5 more P4nthers until BP:CW is finished

    i should be within a cover or two of my second max champ 4* after hitting progression in this Frost PVP as well.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited January 2022
    having a bit of a Gamora rally while Ultron languishes. Current latest crop:
    Ultron: 1/2/3 with 1030 shards (current favorite)
    Gamora: 2/2/4 with 1065 shards
    Sersi: 0/1/0 with 715 shards

    NEW:
    Big Wheel: 0/0/0 with 390 shards

    4* panther hit 355, which means 5* panther only needs 50 shards to be complete. That's 3x more 4* covers, or direct sharding him instead of Ultron for 17 pulls. I think I'll do the latter, it'll happen way sooner, and move my 4* grind over to Vulture. Since I can't think of any 3* that feeds vulture, I'll be using my 3* to play re-champ catchup on my recently flipped 3s.

  • Zalasta
    Zalasta Posts: 308 Mover and Shaker
    RW - you only using LTs or also CP for LL?   I've transitioned to using everything in LL to try to cover the new 5 stars.

    Ultron @ 5/3/4 with 257 shards (favorite)  Should be close to championing at the close of this event.
    Gamora @ 3/5/3 with 50 shards
    Sersi @ 2/4/4 with 174 shards
    Big Wheel @ 1/0/0 with 400 shards

    I was hoping to get back to using CP for classics, but I'm not sure it's going to happen.

    Once Ultron is champed, debating on how badly to chase Gamora & Sersi since neither is likely to get much use. Being so close to finishing them, it might just be worth it to try to finish them off. 
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    You might as well wait for their feeders since you are close to 11 covers and you're not going to use them. Depending on how and where you play, it's easily two 5* covers from new 4* feeders for me.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    HoundofShadow said:
    You might as well wait for their feeders since you are close to 11 covers and you're not going to use them. Depending on how and where you play, it's easily two 5* covers from new 4* feeders for me.
    Waiting on feeders seems like a risky proposition given the wildly erratic feeder rollout we've been seeing ever since last year's Great CAtch Up event.

    @Zalasta I'm all-in on Latest at the moment with CP and LTs trying to get caught up on Ultron. This happens to me sometimes, where the 2nd out has a rally and gets done first. I'll likely be pulling for Ultron right up to the bell when Big Wheel lands, so we'll see what my Classic pulling strategy does or doesn't look like at that point. I think it's a safe assumption that Gamora will get covered though.
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    It's risky in the sense that the timeframe is unknown, but it will happen one day. If you aren't going to use that character after champing them, then this risk is minor. You might as well spend your iso-8 or shards on those that you want to use.

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