Harder: Variants or 7.1

willrun4adonut

Where should I head in the game next? I just became thronebreaker [~2200 units required for GM], and I have only done one run of variant 4 out of all the variants. Should I focus on variants, or 7.1? I have most champs required for the different variants. What would be the best use of my time?

SL1229

Variants

wait...is the poll for what's more difficult or what should you do next?

willrun4adonut

Oops, I see that that is two different questions now. I meant for the poll to be what I should do next.

Xguard77

Variants

Exploit variants 5, 6 and 7 - after that go to 7.1

LordSmasher

Variants

I say complete variant 5/6/7 for the rank up crystal. Then do 7.

Giuliameij

Variants

It does depend on your roster. But I would just complete 5/6/7 to get the 3 6* champs and they might be usefull for 7.1,
5* champs can work very well in 7.1 however 6* champs to have their benefits, you might pull a really great counter for an initial completion run.
And the rank up crystals might give you a usefull r5 5* or 2

Ted_n00bgent

Dang. I was hoping to find out which one is harder. I have done initial clears of variants 4, 5, 6 and 7 and have beaten the gm but I'm looking to get t5cc. So I have been saving units and trying decide to either explore the variants or do act 7 and try to explore that.

To the OP I would do the variants personally. They are relatively easy and the 5 star rank up gems are nice.

willrun4adonut

Variants it is. Thanks everyone.

Mauled

Take a break

Variants are probably easier and if you spent 2200 units on the GM then I can only say that you brute forced it and really need to either widen your roster or improve your skills.

LordSmasher

Variants

Ted_n00bgent said:

Dang. I was hoping to find out which one is harder. I have done initial clears of variants 4, 5, 6 and 7 and have beaten the gm but I'm looking to get t5cc. So I have been saving units and trying decide to either explore the variants or do act 7 and try to explore that.

To the OP I would do the variants personally. They are relatively easy and the 5 star rank up gems are nice.

I'd say an explore of the variants is harder than act 7 as they are much more specific on your roster.

Hector_1475

It doesn't work like this. There is no generic answer to your question. Both Variants and Act 7 have roster-dependent nodes. It all depends on your roster and the answers it can give to the questions posed by the designers.

Ercarret

Variants

I would go with Act 7. (I voted Variants but that was because I thought you wanted to know which was harder.)

Act 7 is just plain fun. I think Act 7 and the last two Variants are similar in terms of design - sometimes hard nodes, but also fun boosts to your champs that make taking on those nodes easier - and they are fairly interchangeable in terms of what you should focus on and general level of "funness".

I would probably recommend that you do an initial run of Act 7.1 and 7.2 to get those juicy completion rewards, then explore Variants 6 and 7 (and maybe 5 as well), then explore 7.1 and 7.2, and finally explore the other Variants if you feel like it.

Basically, I think that the Variants are harder but they are also significantly smaller to explore than the Act 7 chapters. Therefore, an initial completion of Act 7.1/2 is easier, but exploring the Variants is more time-friendly than fully exploring Act 7. At least that has been my experience.

One thing to keep in mind with Act 7 is also that it has great rewards on the lanes. You can form entire t5bs from just a single run of a single quest. That's obviously great but it also means that you might not necessarily want to plough through it all in one go because then a lot of resources will just go into your overflow. Just something to think about.

Will3808

Variants

Do completion of all the variants (expect maybe 1) next. It’s definitely easier than 7.1. If I were you I’d complete the variants you have the roster for and then do 7.1.