Do I go for the 5 Star Vision?
LibertyPrimeV1
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I just so happen to have enough Units to buy the First Tier of the Vision Offer today.
I've got more than enough T4 Tech Catalysts to Rank 4 him.
Currently him ONLY 5 Star Tech is Iron Patriot... (Side Note, he was my first 5 Star...)
But I don't have a 5 Star Awakening Gem for him if I were to buy him, and since he's not in the Basic Pool there's no telling how long it could take to get a Tech 5 Star Awakening Gem or for the Offer to return and have another 3k Units ready for when it does return...
So, Should I Buy The First Tier Of The Vision Offer?
Do I go for the 5 Star Vision? 106 votes
Yes
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No
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The statistical average amount of units to have to spend before getting a 5* champ from Cavalier crystals is about 1400, plus or minus. So a random 5* champ costs approximately that much to get via the most efficient continuously available unit purchase method.
Are there better places to spend units? For some players, yes. If you're a player still working on masteries, that's where you should spend units. If you're still working on becoming Uncollected and you need units for that, that's probably better. But once you start reaching the point in the game where special offers are all that's left to spend units on, and if you are someone that either buys a lot of units or grinds a lot of units, I think this is a very good option to consider. Vision is not the best 5* champ out there, but somehow I doubt we'll be seeing 3000 unit offers for Ghost or Corvus any time soon. In terms of general utility Vision is probably among the top 15% of all champs. If you don't need that utility, obviously this isn't a good purchase: save units for some future offer for things like rank up materials. But if you don't have that utility yet, I think this is where you should spend your units.
As with lots of these offers, it isn't only about how good Vision is, it is really about how much benefit an individual player will get out of him. For many players, I think they would get a huge benefit from him, probably more benefit than he currently costs.
If you only have one tech 5*, likely means you haven't been playing THAT long (or you have very bad luck which is also possible). If you're still growing your roster and working your way through the content, there are probably better use for units.
You spend those units and you have 300 left, meaning you'll be handcuffed when trying to hit harder content if you get stuck. And that harder content will get you the 5* shards to help grow your roster.
If you're not pushing progression hard and not using units much at all, or if you're desperate for a 4* or 5* double immunities champ, then go for it.
So I bet you can guess what I did.
Then again, so far, every offer has had two components so you could purchase twice: meaning you could buy and awaken on the same day. But there's no guarantee Kabam will do that indefinitely, so that's a bit of a gamble. If the next offer is only for 5* Vision in one shot, that will either be a first time buy or an awaken but not both.
Those who skipped the 5000 x2 offer from last year won that bet because now they can buy twice for less today. But it is a gamble people aren't guaranteed to win. It is hard to say whether buying only one copy of Vision today (if that's all you can afford) is a good idea since there's some crystal balling of the future involved.
Pepperidge farm remembers.
In fact with 6000 Units you can easily go through act 5 on 100% or through both variants!!!