For those of you who are Thronebreaker - would you take a bad champion up to Rank 3 to achieve it?

Disgruntled_User_123

Knowing what you know, is it worth it? I’m seconds from completing my first Tier 5 Class Catalyst but the class I’m closest to achieving a fully formed Tier 5 CC is one in which I have no useful champions. Is it worth it just to get the daily deals and Glory store upgrades?

TheMailmann

yes. since i was thronebreaker right before black friday, i am now only 5 percent from forming 3 more T5CC. 5% T5CC every week from glory gets me an extra 20% at least every month in addition to 10% from cavalier eq, 5% from calendar. that would be 35% minimum, lately we get another 10% from monthly objectives 45% total. 45% over 6 months would be 270%, split by 6 classes would be 45% so that’s almost half of every class you’ll eventually get even if you get T5CC for classes you don’t want. in addition to that, there are 25% T5CC from variants and act 6/7 if you haven’t done those.

in conclusion, you’ll eventually get the desired T5CC. and for now, the contents don’t really require 6 star R3s yet so there’s nothing wrong with taking a terrible champ to R3 for the time being, especially if you’re so far from forming another T5CC. but if you’re close to forming another T5CC, i’d suggest you wait for a bit or try to do other contents

Demonzfyre

No. It's not worth it.

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Disgruntled_User_123

Unfortunately, I have horrible luck.

Of my Tier 5 CC storage,I have:

33,300 Mystic
30,150 Science
29,700 Tech

I’m struggling as to which class to use the 25% selector on.

In Mystic, I have Morningstar, Iron Fist, and Ebony Maw (all unawakened).

In Science, I have MODOK, Sentry, and Abomination (I don’t have Guardian).

In tech, I have multiple worthy champions to Rank 3 - particularly Awakened Hulkbuster.

If I choose Tech, I could be waiting for a few more months before I could become Thronebreaker (I’ll be about 5,000 Tier 5 CC off).

If I choose Mystic, I could possibly become Thronebreaker this month if I choose Shards for the next half of the side event... but I have no worthy champion to rank up.

For those of you who are Thronebreaker, what do you suggest? Should I just try to get it as fast as I can and rank up a mystic champion I won’t use (not sure if unawakened Maw would be good for defense)? Or should I take the long road and build up my Tech class?

AzKicker316

You don't need to rank someone to use right now, but you should think about long term use. For example, Abom would be a good choice if you needed to because you should eventually get RG, then he is useful in so many places. In my opinion, you should wait until you have a champ that you want to rank rather than settle. T5CCs still don't come around that quickly to justify ranking anyone just for the title.

Demonzfyre

Like others have said, everyone thinks as soon as they get a T5CC, they should have a champ to use it on. We saw this happen with awakening gems as well. People get upset because they didn't get the class they wanted when class gems were as rare as generic 5* gems. On that same note, when getting a 5* generic awakening gem a few years ago, people had no problem saving it for a champ "worthy". Now people are willing to use one of the rarest resources in the game for a title that only ending up mattering for cyber weekend.

Why not hold onto it? Why waste a resource you'll regret later. 5 and 6* shards are extremely common now. Open some more crystals. Join a map 7 alliance doing epic mods and you'll get more t5cc faster. 2700+ glory is too much for a 10% random crystal anyway.

Berjibs

For me it depends how much you think you need a r3 for content. I’d argue for those not playing highest ranks of aq or aw nobody does so why not just use it as an investment to access TB. By the time we need r3s for content, and I’d say that’s looking like 7.3/4 based on 7.1, T5cc is likely to be way less problematic to obtain.

What does TB give you right now? A steady flow of t4b t4c t2a and t5b from the daily crystals. If you’re lucky 5/6* shards and champs and T5cc. 2 basic cavs a month. Access to better offers and not a great deal more.

Hopefully soon we get some TB content and the rewards that go with it.

Mauled

Morningstar is worthy of R3 IMO. As others have said, you don’t need to rush the title, sure there’s a few benefits, but at this stage the only real benefit is the daily crystal which is a lot better than the cavalier and a cav crystal every 2 weeks. The glory store upgrade for the T5CC isn’t really worth nearly half of your weekly glory anyway - if you’re in a position to comfortably buy that T5CC you’re either never doing war or in a 7x5 alliance anyway.

Quattrucci

I think it’s worth the it for the mental factor as well. Before the TB requirement came out, I wasn’t even thinking of ranking 6*s and just R5ing for champs to have fun and clear content. Once I made the plunge and R3 the only champ I could after Abyss completion, unduped Thing ( which isn’t bad but not my first choice and I had a 5/65 already). Now that I’m already TB I’m able to go back to leveling up 5/65s and having fun, without the stress of hitting that next progression.

Bigdogbob

Yes. It is worth it. You may have a bad champ but you can buy a 5% crystal for 2700 glory in the glory store and you can buy one every 8 days if you have the glory. Also the daily crystal is drastically upgraded.
Short term it isn’t worth it. Long term it is more than worth it. In the short term you will have a bad r3. In the long term you will have much more opportunity than if you don’t. It might take a little while to get there but I’m getting an extra 15% t5c per month now Than when I was cavalier plus the daily crystal boost.

Dontsellthem

This should be asked to non thornbreakers.


I’m not one and would/WILL rank up anyone I need to.

Thousands of threads and videos on what you can get from the daily crystals...WORTH IT!!!

I’m half way to a T5 tech...then I’m thornbreaker

DrZola

Somewhat relevant datapoint:

Not TB, but sat on a T5 mutant. Popped fourth featured 6* and wound up with Apocalypse. Decided to take him to R3 instead of my R2 Havok.

I’d like to think it was worth the wait.

Dr. Zola

Demonzfyre

Dontsellthem said:

This should be asked to non thornbreakers.


I’m not one and would/WILL rank up anyone I need to.

Thousands of threads and videos on what you can get from the daily crystals...WORTH IT!!!

I’m half way to a T5 tech...then I’m thornbreaker

What stuff that's in the daily crystals can you not readily get other places?

Also.... *Thronebreaker.

Etjama

Bad? No. Decent? Maybe. Gotta be honest, I haven't seen a big benefit from TB yet. I got T5B right before Christmas. All I've been getting is T4B from daily crystals and the Christmas gift wasn't that much better. For my account personally, I would've preferred the 5* AG personally. But I know I'll see some big time benefit next time some crazy compensation or calendar comes around.

IKON

A bad champ? No.

A suboptimal champ? Absolutely.

Probably around the high demi god and above on Seatins tier list is a good ballpark.

Notsavage19

There's really no loss in ranking up a bad champ to R3 for the sole purpose of TB. Like someone said above, content isn't geared towards R3 6*s yet, so if you do end up taking a Rhino or Ultron to R3, it's not really going to impact your progression, meaning you're still going to use your 5*s and viable 6* R2s for content clearing, just as you would've without the R3. Your content clearing rate stays the same while you get the benefits of TB. I'd say it's pretty worth it.

Notsavage19

Not to mention the rate at which you'll form future T5CC increases once you get the title.

cs89518

Do you think it would be worth it to rank up my 6* aegon to r3 to get thronebreaker, i'm only 4% away but he's unawakened and I can't really get him awakened til I explore abyss, which I can't do unless I awaken my aegon

The_Sentry06

Not worth taking a meme-tier champ up but any slightly below average or average champ is definitely worth. No content requires rank 3 6* as of now as other's have said and with Kabam buffing quite a few champs per month, there's good chance that champ could be buffed too.

Bugmat78

It's been just about worth R3 what was my maybe 5th choice for R3 (BWDO awakened) for the calendar and maybe 1/10 of the daily pulls. 4-hour pulls are also better wrt pots but no real big thing.

But no I wouldn't have R3'd a not-so-good champ for it like say Diablo unawakened or something. All my below average 6* stay at rank 1 just for arena.

Aleor

I took corvus and almost don't use him, as I don't run suicides. I pulled aarkus and serfer right after I ranked corvus. And yes, it kinda worth it. If you get the, you can buy extra 10% of t5cc and a lot of t5b. If you won't get an r3 worthy champ of the class you have t5cc already, on average it not be a lose at very least. On the other hand, you may form t5cc you need garter. I've been hunting t5cc for a month now to r3 sentinel, without tb and same t5cc class sequence it would've mean waiting about 3 months. So I believe it's smarter to use it, than not to, on that reason alone. Plus you get cav crystal every second week and daily crystal upgrade

Giuliameij

Don`t think just level him/her up. It is just your first r3. The meta is still at r2 and r5 5*. Just see this first rankup as a step up towards gaining your next r3 much quicker.
You get 5% each week from Glory, 5% each month from calander. And your daily and 4h crystals are much better also.
So you`ll probably be getting that Tech champ upgraded much sooner if you go for another class now. Than as when you wait for that last 5k shards as a cavalier.

Masterpuff

Definitely not. There arent a ton of perks yet. That said, id definitely r3 MS.

Hera1d_of_Ga1actus

This guy saying MS isn't rank 3 worthy? I'm gonna cry

Astounds

It really depends on how bad the bad champ is. An average champ? Yes. A bad champ like say... Cyclops ect, absolutely not.

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Hilldar

It’s worth it. The crystal buffs alone can justify it, but the deals are much better. The Black Friday deals were significantly better. I waited 6 months, and didn’t pull a damn thing worth ranking. I took dormammu to r3 and haven’t regretted it for a second. Was able to r3 Domino much faster and I’m close to r3 on cosmic ghost rider now. Even being able to buy a 5% crystal every week in the glory store makes a difference over time

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BsuGuy

Before becoming Thronebreaker I would have said no. However, 2 minutes ago I pulled another fully formed T5B from a daily crystal so i would have to say yes