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

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  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited June 2022
    I champed Silver Surfer. I moved my 4* to Jubilee (333) to start working on Jean Grey (5/2/2 with 400 shards). I now have remaining:
    archangel (3/4/4) with 10 shards. Nightcrawler only has 750 shards left in him, so i’d either have to wait on another SCL10 feature, start a dupe, or direct shard him
    Jean Grey: 5/2/2 with 400 shards
    Black Widow: 4/2/2 with 0 shards
    Dock Ock: 3/3/4 with 405 shards
    Black Suit: 4/3/3 with 400 shards


    Latest Legends:
    Crystal: 2/2/4 with 1649 shards
    moon Knight: 1/0/3 with 725 shards
    gargantos: 1/1/2 with 575 shards

    NEW: Ms marvel 0/0/0 with 650 shards

    I’m now in a situation where my feeders are largely already past the point where they have enough shards left in them to finish the 5* excepting just a few, so it’ll probably be a lot slower going. Also I’ve had a bit of a rally on Crystal, but odds are really good she will drop out incomplete. 
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    Landed a red for Crystal, bringing her to an organic 3/3/3, so I burned my shards to make her a 4/4/4 leaving 370 in the bank. Anybody know if she has seen her last feature? I feel like she has.
  • Xception81
    Xception81 Posts: 433 Mover and Shaker
    Yeah she shouldn’t have any other features. She’ll be rotating out of Latest on 6/27 (assuming they don’t do anything weird because of the delay in the last rotation, but I doubt they will). 
  • dramatist
    dramatist Posts: 227 Tile Toppler
    I recently champed Crystal to reach 60 5* champions. I had already champed Moon Knight and Gargantos is 5,1,3 and K Khan is 1,1,1 so I decided to pull about 1000 CP in Classics. I realized that OMD only needed 40 shards to get cover 13 so I sharded him until I could champ him for #61. 

    I got 10 5* covers in 49 pulls so I did well there. No meta covers but I did get a Havok cover to make him 3,4,3.

    I will probably hoard until Moon Knight leaves Latest and see where I am on Gargantos when I start pulling again. I may get bored hoarding and spend some CP on Classics again too. 
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    Pulled an organic green for Crystal, so she is champed now. I’m sitting tight till she rotates out to pull.
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    I can't remember what in-game days you are in, so I took a look on page 1. Unfortunately, the link can't be accessed anymore.

    Anyway...

    On Feb 2020, you had 8 5* championed. 28 months had flown by. So, you are champing ~2 5* every month on average. You should be able to champ all 5* released in by May/June 2023.

    I champed my 8th 5* in December 2020.
    Today, I have only 36 champed, which works out to about 1.5 5* every month. At my current rate, I will champ all 5* by March 2028.   :D

    Just some fun thoughts.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    I’m on day 2,336. My original thread got deleted during a forum restructure, so I’m not sure when I champed Ghost Rider, my first 5*, but I committed to Latest I believe in December 2019 chasing Kingpin and missed out on him. But I’ve been champing 5s regularly since the Doom release.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    Man, my Moon Knight is shaping up to be super lopsided at 1/1/4. I’m curious how this Latest crop will ultimately shake out.

    current latest:
    Moon Knight: 1/1/4 with 1,167 shards (current fav)
    Gargantos: 3/2/3 with 575 shards
    Kamala: 2/2/1 with 750 shards

    NEW
    Jane Foster: 0/0/0 with 365 shards

    favs:
    Jubilee: 342 with 342 shards - Jean Grey is 5/3/2 with 430 shards, so I’ll come up 70 shards short after the remaining 1,000

    3*- just chasing LTs at the moment
  • Chirus
    Chirus Posts: 191 Tile Toppler
    Just chasing latest to see if it can be done with a purely SCL 9 income. I'm currently 12/13 with MK at 3/5/4. Do you think I can finish it before he rotates out at the end of the month?
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    Chirus said:
    Just chasing latest to see if it can be done with a purely SCL 9 income. I'm currently 12/13 with MK at 3/5/4. Do you think I can finish it before he rotates out at the end of the month?
    I mean. You'll get 250 shards from prog... Oh cl9.
    No idea how many shards you'll get from prog rewards next pve and placement rewards this pve.
    In cl10 it's a lock to finish moonie from shards with just one cover remaining.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    I'm feeling pretty good about Gargantos at this point. I have him at 5/3/3 now after pulling a 5th green organically and using my shard cover to bring black up to 3. I am curious if he will get the same number of available shard covers, being the first one who was given away in the alliance events. Moon Knight I'm not feeling as solid about though at 1/1/4, though I'll have 3 covers worth of shards in the bank for him after Strange Sights.
  • Zalasta
    Zalasta Posts: 308 Mover and Shaker
    Day 2485.  40/70 5-stars champed.

    I pulled everything after Crystal left LL and had a good run. Will not pull again until KK rotates out. Have been staying out of classics due to focus on getting latest champed.

    MK @ 3/5/4 with 233 shards. Favorited to finish with bonus shards.
    Garg @ 5/3/4 with 205 shards and 6 saved covers. Will be champed with shards before it rotates out.
    KK @ 4/3/5 with 435 shards. Will be champed with shards before she rotates out.

    ISO continues to be a problem. I'm not moving up any of the newer fully covered 4-stars at the moment due to prioritizing 5-stars (mostly classics that I'm moving up with favorited 4-stars).

    It will be interesting to see how two 5-star cover rewards for monthly alliance events changes the metric. It sure helped for Garg & KK.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited July 2022
    I pulled a black for Moon Knight this morning, so he's now 2/1/4. I still need to get 3 organic pulls for him, which isn't impossible but we'll see.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited July 2022
    Hm, I suddenly find myself with a 4/4/4 moon knight (63 shards). Things are looking much better.

    Gargantos: 5/4/3 with 75 shards
    Kamala: 2/2/1 with 950 shards.

    jubilee is currently 345

    i had a good batch of 3*s that were within a cover or three of LTs, so I’ve picked up my draw pace a bunch.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    Whew! Pulled that final green this morning so moon knight is champed. I moved my 5* fav to Jean Grey since gargantos is in good shape. I need 70 shards to true her up to where a 460 Jubilee will give out a 13th complete cover. 
  • Chirus
    Chirus Posts: 191 Tile Toppler
    edited July 2022
    ThaRoadWarrior said:
    Whew! Pulled that final green this morning so moon knight is champed. I moved my 5* fav to Jean Grey since gargantos is in good shape. I need 70 shards to true her up to where a 460 Jubilee will give out a 13th complete cover. 
    I got some of your luck this morning apparently. I pulled my final green for MK putting him at 4/5/4. It's my very first 5* at 13 covers so I'm very excited! I really appreciate everyone's advice here to stick to the latest legends and not buy any of the introductory store heroes. I probably wouldn't have been able to pull it off if I had gotten distracted, lol.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    Are you going to champ him as your only 5?
  • Chirus
    Chirus Posts: 191 Tile Toppler
    ThaRoadWarrior said:
    Are you going to champ him as your only 5?
    The current plan is no. I have no urgent need to do so. In fact, there's really no rush until I unlock SCL 10. So currently, I'm going to keep collecting covers from the Latest store, but leave them untouched. Once I unlock SCL 10, hopefully, I'll have enough ISO left to champ one or two of them and have at least something that can handle enough nodes to clear progression rewards at a minimum. I don't think I need anything super powerful to do that, but I'm open to advice.
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    I don't know if it's you but there was a thread in reddit where a player fully covered Moon Knight recently and he did it on Day 307 with about $100 usd spent. 

    https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelPuzzleQuest/comments/w0jqc4/my_first_fully_covered_5_as_an_scl9_player_no/

    However, I feel that this might be his second account. 
  • Chirus
    Chirus Posts: 191 Tile Toppler
    Yep, this is indeed me. And yes, this is technically my second account (it's now my main account). I've been learning as much about this game as I can since I started around fall of last year.  I like experimenting within the space that I have and seeing what works and what doesn't for me. And I enjoy debating with people about their different approaches while trying to be fair as much as possible to their perspectives. I think I've settled on a playstyle that works for me and makes the most sense for me. I'm also prepared to be surprised and totally wrong in my base assumptions, lol. But I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

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