Best Of

It's only the rating you have that is considered. Here both you had around 33 points before the match, so it matched you.

Iboom and Fam, great

Fantman is a dual threat too

Not only do you need to awaken tigra, she is super stressful to play if you can’t get her to sig 200. Fantman doesn’t need the sig, but really likes having it. You will get more value investing into fantman

Great (no TB), but do you actually still have to do the Valiant EQ in order to get access to Gauntlet ? Is it same as what used to be in place with TB ?

Full Explore of Valiant, or just 1 Completion pass of Valiant EQ ?

And so same issue for anyone advancing progression (re, timing of progression vs EQ) ?

No, it's just open and available to Valiants and maybe Paragons. Just open the game up and go in.

Same, can confirm - I haven't touched TB but I'm halfway through the Valiant EQ. Paragon is also unlocked.

You don’t have to do TB at all. I started yesterday and explored valiant EQ, then ran through thr paragon gauntlet.

Yup

It looks like you would have to buy every single Valiant and Paragon bundle and that would only get you enough crystals for 328pts, then with the units returned you would be able to 32 more, giving 392pts. So, you would still need to buy 4 crystals somehow (it looks like they messed up in the store and there should be 12x in the 11x). Unless maybe the selectors count as a crystal.

Anyway that's $530.

Two important things to consider:

First, that's someone else's work, not Kabam's. No promises were made and you set yourself up for disappointment.

Second, that tracks your final unit cost after you've gotten the units from the milestones. It isn't actually free and you need to have units initially to get it. It's free because the cost was offset, not because you didn't have to do anything to get it.