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Ultimate Updated Beginner's Guide 2022 (Uncollected in 5 weeks, Cavalier in 7 weeks, $140 only spend
Valroz
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Dear MCOC Community,
It is with pleasure and gratitude to share my strategies and tips on how to get to Uncollected in 5 weeks, and Cavalier in 7 weeks, with not more than $140 out of my pocket. This is my Ultimate Updated Beginner's Guide 2022 Edition for MCOC. I say updated because sometime in late 2017, I posted a rather comprehensive beginner's guide that seemed to have been appreciated by some of you. I quit the game in mid-2020 and left my account with a trusted friend who helped grow it since. It was at around 1.5M Rating, Abyss Explored, and Completed 6.4 before I quit. I came back just in the middle of May this year. So I'm no newcomer to the game and I bring some of that old knowledge to what you're about to read, and I'm putting out there a very simple, effective, and efficient strategy on how you can advance to Uncollected and Cavalier sooner than later.
A quick disclaimer just to manage and set expectations. Because of my current situation where I have been able to work on a per-project from home basis, I have been able to dedicate around 13-15 hours to MCOC per day counting the actual hours of playtime. If you are not able to commit that much time to MCOC, no worries. If you follow the tips and strategies I will be sharing in this guide you will still be able to reach Uncollected and Cavalier sooner than later. It will probably not be as fast as I was able to but even playing 2-3 hours/day you can probably get to Uncollected in 9-10 weeks, and Cavalier probably in 16-17 weeks, which is still not so bad in the grand scheme of things. Since I was also gone for over two years I am not yet very familiar with the many changes that have happened in the game's meta, especially champ reworks (so forgive me if I'm often biased towards the old "beyond god tiers" I was familiar with back before I quit in 2020.
I will not get into exact numbers of anything that most beginner's guides usually have since I do not have time to work on an Excel spreadsheet to break down computations to the last unit of that resource. I have also been very fortunate to have been able to join a 55M retired veteran players alliance with an average member prestige of 10K while I was only 90K rating (hey I make the best effort to contribute as much as I can! Being part of this 55M alliance has been a great part of the reason why I was able to progress very fast as I can accumulate an average of 4.5K Glory per week via AQ (150-160M / Rank 2300-2400), Silver 2-3, 1 nonmandatory BG in AW.
Unlike the previous Beginner's Guide I posted here in the forums in 2017 which was in a Q&A format, this one I'm sharing now is straight forward tips and tricks.
You also need to have the Summoner Sigil to truly maximize, optimize, and apply what you will be reading in this guide. It is the Black ISO Market that will be your best friend when you will be needing those badly rank-up resources when you're out of Glory to purchase from the Glory Store. You can still somewhat progress rather quickly without spending a dime on this game but it will not be as quickly as being able to spend even $10/month. My fighting skills are probably 6/10 so I'm nowhere close to a god-tier player. I just study what's ahead very well and play as tactically as I can to avoid having to revive and heal as much as possible.
So without further delay, let's get right on to it!
I will be breaking down this guide into several distinct sections and you can read them in whatever order you want since the way I will write this is not necessarily in chronological order but as how my brain will try to extemporaneously send the information out of my fingers as I type (haha). You can completely skip Section 1 if you don't want to hear my story from Zero to Uncollected to Cavalier, and jump to the next section (2) but you'll miss out on my story of extreme luck in crystal openings
The strategy I am providing is very unorthodox and might raise some eyebrows from the more conservative in the Community. But hey, it works!
1. You are under the mercy of the Gods of RNG (those who are luckier will get ahead faster than those who are not as lucky)
You will progress much faster if you have innate luck, slower if you don't.
Those who are very new to this game (less than 4 weeks old) must have started realizing that a huge part of a Summoner's progress in the Battlerealms is very dependent on the kind of luck you have. For example, if you have been playing for just a few days and luckily pull a 4* God Tier to Beyond God Tier Champ (e.g. Torch, Corvus, Ghost, Cosmic Ghost Rider, Doom, Void, etc.) from a premium crystal, you already own up to Act 3 with that just one champ at R3/R4 depending on your fighting skills. (For those unfamiliar with Champion Tier List, simply Google "MCOC Tier List 2022")
May 14 (Start of Account), Week 1-2 (Explore Act 1-3 in around 2 weeks).
Right off the bat, I was lucky on my first or second premium crystal pull, because I pulled a 4* Void. At even just R2 unduped, I was easily able to explore both Act 1 and Act 2 in around 3-4 days and started completing Act 3. By Day 14 I was able to save 300 units from playing arena and event quests milestones, I was able to pull a 5* Mojo from a grandmaster crystal. With R3 4* Void and R1 L25 5* Mojo unduped I was able to explore Act 3 in around 3 days.
After exploring Act 3, I saved almost 300 quest crystals and I was able to convert 200 quest crystals to 10 X full energy refills 2x back to back. The third conversion got me ISO
Last week of May to mid-June, Week 3-4 (Explore Act 4, start Act 5).
I purchased the "Progression Crystal" (forgot exactly what it's called exactly - Progress Rewards for Summoner bundle) which gave you a 3* crystal when you reach L20, a 4* crystal when you reach level 30, a 5* crystal when you reach Level 40, when you reach Level 50, and a 6* crystal when you reach Level 60). When I reached Level 30 on around day 15 I pulled 4* Cosmic Ghost Rider, when I reached Level 40 on around Day 20 I pulled a 5* Nimrod from that crystal bundle (I even thought I pulled a garbage 5* champ since I had no idea what Nimrod's tier rating was. Nimrod was not yet around when I quit in 2020 so I was clueless about him). Needless to say, when I was able to R2/R3 Nimrod, I was able to explore Act 4 by Day 25. In between those days/weeks I pulled 4* Apocalypse and 4* CAPIW. These champs made exploring Act 4 a breeze.
From the AW Season rewards (Silver 2) I pulled a 5* Havoc and R3d him within the following week.
From the first to the second week of June I saved all resources to R4 Nimrod and R3 Havoc, and R5 my top 4* champs. On June 14 with 5* Nimrod at R4 and 5* Havoc at R3, and 4* CGR R5, 4* Apoc R5, 4* CAPIW R5 I was able to become Uncollected.
Mid-June to late June, Week 5 (Act 5.1 to Uncollected)
Sometime June 23 there was a compensation package for Carina that had a 5* Nexus crystal. I pulled a 5* Torch from it, and on June 24 there was a special Grandmaster Nexus bundle that came for those of us who were not yet Uncollected for $10. Sorry if I don't remember exactly but there were 2 Nexus Grandmaster Crystals in the bundle and some other stuff. I pulled 5* Doom and 5* Corvus Glaive back to back from those two Nexus Grandmaster crystals.
Late June to early July, Week 6 (Act 5.2 to Act 5.4 Completion)
I channeled all resources to R5 my first 5* Nimrod by the last week of June, R4 Sunspot, and R3 Torch. I marched with the three 5*s along with 4* R5 CGR and 4* R5 Apoc as backup all the way to Act 5.4 final boss Ultron and my Nimrod was MVP (Nimrod had an ability to stop the regen. The Ultron 5.4.6 fight cost me 2 L2 Revives.). From the Act 5 completion rewards I was able to pull a 5* Shang Chi.
I also took advantage of activating my 4* Apocalypse Horseman ability whenever there was a mutant opponent I knew I could beat. 5* Sunspot was truly more awesome with the Horseman synergy.
01 July to 08 July, Week 7 (Act 6.1.1 - 6.1.3)
The first week of July I, I purchased from the July 4 sales Uncollected Bundles: (2 x $30 Bundle, 2 x $10 Bundle, 4 x $5 Bundle). I had some nice pulls (5* Ghost, 5* Blade, 5* CAPIW, 5* Terrax, and 5* Tigra). I used all newly acquired and saved up rank up resources to R5 Sunspot and R5 Torch. Did Act 6.1.1 - 6.1.3. From the rewards, I pulled 5* Magneto and ranked him to 5 by July 8.
July 9, I marched from Act 6.1.3 - 6.1.6 to become Cavalier with four R5 5*s (Torch, Sunspot, Nimrod, and Magneto) and one R4 5*, Shang-Chi. Final boss 6.1.6 Sentinel fight cost around 400 units total (I used up all the saved revives and healing potions from the earlier fight).
2. Prioritizing Champs
If you want to truly progress as fast as possible you must only rank and level up the champs who will help you get to the next level/stage faster. The rating doesn't mean anything in this game except that it says how many champs you have or do not have. Someone who only has 300K rating but with 6 R5 5*s will clear more content than someone with 600K rating with only 3 R5 5*s. This is exactly the reason why and how I was able to rank up those champs I mentioned in Section 1. I have not ranked a single 1*, 2*, and only two 3*s because I needed them to complete some daily events. Of the 60 some 4*s I have, I only have 3 R5 4*s, 3 R4 4*s, 3 R3 4*s, 3 R2 4*s, the rest not even leveled beyond L1. Of my 33 5*s I have only ranked and leveled those who helped me reach Cavalier.
You need to put all the champs in your roster in a "rank up row" so that you know which champ to prioritize exactly.
Never rank or level 1*s, 2*s, and 3*s (unless you are planning to do the Variant quest that requires 1*s, 2*s, and 3*s) and even then you must only rank and level those champs that will help you in that Variant. You are wasting resources if you rank anything less than a 4*.
Rank only 4*s that will help you get through Act 4 and Act 5.
Rank only 5* that will help you get through Act 5 and Act 6/7.
Rank only 6*s that are the absolute best champs.
3. Managing your rank up and level up resources
ISO is the most difficult to get resources even with the ISO daily event. Once you start leveling 5*s, you need at least 10 days worth of 100%ing (Plus AUTO) the ISO daily quest to L65 an R5 from R4.
Gold is the second most difficult resource to get but if you do enough arena you can get enough gold from battlechips to achieve what I was able to accomplish.
Right from Day 1 you must already start saving resources for your first R2 4*. If you are unlucky with your pulls, you can rank your top 3* to R3 or R4 but not more than 1 3*. One god-tier 3* at R4 (2000+ Rating) will clear until the end of Act 2 and even help you do an initial Act 3 completion.
When you can R2/R3 your first 4* that one champ can help you explore Act 2 and complete most parts of Act 3.
When you already have at least 2 or 3 R5 4*s, begin saving up to R2/R3/R4 your first god-tier 5*. You stop ranking and leveling your 4*s (no matter how god tier) once you get your first God tier 5*. Remember you cannot bring 4*s and lower to Act 6 and 7.
You can get/purchase:
T1A from weekly T1A arena, converting 2 x T3B from Black ISO Market, doing the monthly event quests (normal, heroic, master), SA, AQ, events
T2A from AW Season Rewards, Act 4 Exploration, monthly event quest, AQ, converting from T5B to T2A from Black ISO Market
T4CC from saving T4CC frags and convert in Black ISO Market, AQ, AW season Rewards, doing monthly event quests
T5B converts T2A from Black ISO Market, AQ (weekly), Glory Store, doing monthly quests
Black ISO Market conversions are paramount to being able to progress faster than you would have been able to otherwise. These conversions allow you to allocate extra resources to the ones you don't have to meet the rank-up requirements of your key champs. For example, if you have 10 x T3B, you can get 5 x T1A from Black ISO Market Conversion. You need T1A when you R2-R5 a 5* and zero T3B.
Some notable things to mention from experience: Even an unduped single R5 L65 5* is almost the equivalent of four R5 maxed out 4*s in terms of getting through content in Act 5. A single R4 L55 5* can clear more content than 2-3 R5 maxed out 4*s.
Sections 2 and 3 are probably the most important of all the tips I will be writing in this Beginner's Guide. There is absolutely no way you will reach Uncollected or Cavalier in less than 2 months if you rank every champ you get because you will run out of resources when you finally need them for the champs that will help you.
4. The type of alliance you join contributes to at least 50% of your progress
Okay, so I might have been lucky to join a 55M rating alliance with a 10+K prestige. (The leader of my alliance is a friend I know in person). But this only reinforces how important your alliance is in how quickly you advance in the game. The amount of Glory you receive per week will determine how many rank-up resources you can purchase for your champs. I was 90K rating when I joined and the next member above me was over 1M rating (haha). But take note I was no slacker except in AW where I stuck around providing just energy to the other members for almost an entire season. AW is not mandatory in our alliance and all of the members are just chill because it is a retirement alliance. We run 5/4/3 AQ so I join Map 3 and do the best I can. I got called out once but when I finally had 3 x R5 5*s joining in AW nobody complained anymore. Half of the members in my alliance have at least 2-3 R3 6*s.
This means that you need to join an alliance where you are ideally the weakest member in the team but will also make the best effort to contribute as much as you can. You must join an ACTIVE non-competitive alliance similar to the one I joined until you are ready to go competitive (Gold 3 and above). The problem with being in a competitive alliance is that you will usually end up spending all your Glory on team revives during AQ and this will hurt your progress. You need to be mindful of not biting more than you can chew or else you will probably be kicked very quickly. Being the weakest means that if you are very active you will have the greatest benefits of the alliance rewards, especially in AQ and AW. While it will be very unlikely you will find an alliance that will be as considerate as mine, but a gap of around 200-300K rating from the next member of the team shouldn't be that unreasonable. But remember rating is not that important in this game. What ultimately matters is how much you will contribute to the alliance whether you are the strongest or weakest member.
Needless to say, it is of vital importance to participate in AQ regularly and AW at least 5x/season to qualify for AW season rewards. The rewards you will get in AQ, especially Glory will be the most important weekly reward for your progress. I get around 4500 Glory per week which allows me to get 10 x 18000 T2A shards = 5 T2As. 3 x T2A in Black ISO Market can convert to 1 T5B. That weekly 4500 Glory I get since my 10th day back in this game has been crucial to how I was able to make this kind of progress. But it only reinforces this Section 4 in terms of how critical your alliance is in terms of how quickly or slowly you will make progress in MCOC.
If the only alliance you can join is an alliance at your level of prestige, you have to make sure more than 3/4ths of the members are active otherwise you will be missing out on the alliance event rewards and the amount of Glory you will get from AQ will not be as much as a 100% active alliance.
If you feel that your alliance is not helping your progress then there is no shame in finding a better alliance. You heard me, it's nothing personal when you leave your alliance for a better alliance but make sure wherever you go next you will improve and try not to be a burden. Again, do not bite more than you can chew.
Always do your best and contribute as much as you can.
Weekly SA is important but not as important as the rewards from weekly AQ.
5. Be very mindful and careful on how you spend your hard-earned units
Units are the building block of this game. The more units you have (whether you grind for them or you pay for them with real money) you will advance sooner than later. If you have unlimited real money to spend on this game, you can get 100 Odins (or $10,000) and use one R4 or R5 5* to probably get you to Elder's Bane (100% Act 5 Exploration). 300,000 units will get you 3,000 team revives which is probably enough for a full Act 5 exploration with just a single R5 5*. But if your skills are terrible you might need more
But that hyperbolical example aside, if you can only spend minimally on this game (like the monthly Summoner Sigil and an occasional bundle during special months, holidays, events, etc) then you have to be very careful where your units go.
I strongly suggest that:
a. You spend your units to help you advance to the next stage. Yes, there is no shame in buying that revive, heal, boost potion to get to Uncollected and Cavalier. No shame at all. But so shameful if you spend 300 hard-earned units on a grandmaster crystal and pull a 3*.
b. You compute how many revives you typically need to clear a Chapter End / Act End boss. You save your units for that very specific purpose. This is the surest way that you will not end up regretting getting to a boss fight and need to exit the game with just a few hits left to beat it because you didn't have enough units for one revive potion
c. You only spend on Cavalier crystals NEVER on Grandmaster Crystals. Kabam has been kinder now and you can get Cavalier crystals even at Uncollected so just wait for it.
d. Do not spend units on hero shard deals but instead on rank-up deals.
e. Buy the units in the store deals only when there are bundles.
The only exception to this is if you don't have any champ worthy of ranking then you might want to gamble some units for a better champ. But I suggest that you just wait it out until you form enough fragments of 4*/5*/6* shards to pull one instead of spending units to fast track to your next 5* or 6* (unless you're just a few fragments away).
Unless your luck is extremely shot (which is unlikely because you will get a god-tier/beyond god-tier 5* one way or the other) use your units as stipulated above.
It is with pleasure and gratitude to share my strategies and tips on how to get to Uncollected in 5 weeks, and Cavalier in 7 weeks, with not more than $140 out of my pocket. This is my Ultimate Updated Beginner's Guide 2022 Edition for MCOC. I say updated because sometime in late 2017, I posted a rather comprehensive beginner's guide that seemed to have been appreciated by some of you. I quit the game in mid-2020 and left my account with a trusted friend who helped grow it since. It was at around 1.5M Rating, Abyss Explored, and Completed 6.4 before I quit. I came back just in the middle of May this year. So I'm no newcomer to the game and I bring some of that old knowledge to what you're about to read, and I'm putting out there a very simple, effective, and efficient strategy on how you can advance to Uncollected and Cavalier sooner than later.
A quick disclaimer just to manage and set expectations. Because of my current situation where I have been able to work on a per-project from home basis, I have been able to dedicate around 13-15 hours to MCOC per day counting the actual hours of playtime. If you are not able to commit that much time to MCOC, no worries. If you follow the tips and strategies I will be sharing in this guide you will still be able to reach Uncollected and Cavalier sooner than later. It will probably not be as fast as I was able to but even playing 2-3 hours/day you can probably get to Uncollected in 9-10 weeks, and Cavalier probably in 16-17 weeks, which is still not so bad in the grand scheme of things. Since I was also gone for over two years I am not yet very familiar with the many changes that have happened in the game's meta, especially champ reworks (so forgive me if I'm often biased towards the old "beyond god tiers" I was familiar with back before I quit in 2020.
I will not get into exact numbers of anything that most beginner's guides usually have since I do not have time to work on an Excel spreadsheet to break down computations to the last unit of that resource. I have also been very fortunate to have been able to join a 55M retired veteran players alliance with an average member prestige of 10K while I was only 90K rating (hey I make the best effort to contribute as much as I can! Being part of this 55M alliance has been a great part of the reason why I was able to progress very fast as I can accumulate an average of 4.5K Glory per week via AQ (150-160M / Rank 2300-2400), Silver 2-3, 1 nonmandatory BG in AW.
Unlike the previous Beginner's Guide I posted here in the forums in 2017 which was in a Q&A format, this one I'm sharing now is straight forward tips and tricks.
You also need to have the Summoner Sigil to truly maximize, optimize, and apply what you will be reading in this guide. It is the Black ISO Market that will be your best friend when you will be needing those badly rank-up resources when you're out of Glory to purchase from the Glory Store. You can still somewhat progress rather quickly without spending a dime on this game but it will not be as quickly as being able to spend even $10/month. My fighting skills are probably 6/10 so I'm nowhere close to a god-tier player. I just study what's ahead very well and play as tactically as I can to avoid having to revive and heal as much as possible.
So without further delay, let's get right on to it!
I will be breaking down this guide into several distinct sections and you can read them in whatever order you want since the way I will write this is not necessarily in chronological order but as how my brain will try to extemporaneously send the information out of my fingers as I type (haha). You can completely skip Section 1 if you don't want to hear my story from Zero to Uncollected to Cavalier, and jump to the next section (2) but you'll miss out on my story of extreme luck in crystal openings
The strategy I am providing is very unorthodox and might raise some eyebrows from the more conservative in the Community. But hey, it works!
1. You are under the mercy of the Gods of RNG (those who are luckier will get ahead faster than those who are not as lucky)
You will progress much faster if you have innate luck, slower if you don't.
Those who are very new to this game (less than 4 weeks old) must have started realizing that a huge part of a Summoner's progress in the Battlerealms is very dependent on the kind of luck you have. For example, if you have been playing for just a few days and luckily pull a 4* God Tier to Beyond God Tier Champ (e.g. Torch, Corvus, Ghost, Cosmic Ghost Rider, Doom, Void, etc.) from a premium crystal, you already own up to Act 3 with that just one champ at R3/R4 depending on your fighting skills. (For those unfamiliar with Champion Tier List, simply Google "MCOC Tier List 2022")
May 14 (Start of Account), Week 1-2 (Explore Act 1-3 in around 2 weeks).
Right off the bat, I was lucky on my first or second premium crystal pull, because I pulled a 4* Void. At even just R2 unduped, I was easily able to explore both Act 1 and Act 2 in around 3-4 days and started completing Act 3. By Day 14 I was able to save 300 units from playing arena and event quests milestones, I was able to pull a 5* Mojo from a grandmaster crystal. With R3 4* Void and R1 L25 5* Mojo unduped I was able to explore Act 3 in around 3 days.
After exploring Act 3, I saved almost 300 quest crystals and I was able to convert 200 quest crystals to 10 X full energy refills 2x back to back. The third conversion got me ISO
Last week of May to mid-June, Week 3-4 (Explore Act 4, start Act 5).
I purchased the "Progression Crystal" (forgot exactly what it's called exactly - Progress Rewards for Summoner bundle) which gave you a 3* crystal when you reach L20, a 4* crystal when you reach level 30, a 5* crystal when you reach Level 40, when you reach Level 50, and a 6* crystal when you reach Level 60). When I reached Level 30 on around day 15 I pulled 4* Cosmic Ghost Rider, when I reached Level 40 on around Day 20 I pulled a 5* Nimrod from that crystal bundle (I even thought I pulled a garbage 5* champ since I had no idea what Nimrod's tier rating was. Nimrod was not yet around when I quit in 2020 so I was clueless about him). Needless to say, when I was able to R2/R3 Nimrod, I was able to explore Act 4 by Day 25. In between those days/weeks I pulled 4* Apocalypse and 4* CAPIW. These champs made exploring Act 4 a breeze.
From the AW Season rewards (Silver 2) I pulled a 5* Havoc and R3d him within the following week.
From the first to the second week of June I saved all resources to R4 Nimrod and R3 Havoc, and R5 my top 4* champs. On June 14 with 5* Nimrod at R4 and 5* Havoc at R3, and 4* CGR R5, 4* Apoc R5, 4* CAPIW R5 I was able to become Uncollected.
Mid-June to late June, Week 5 (Act 5.1 to Uncollected)
Sometime June 23 there was a compensation package for Carina that had a 5* Nexus crystal. I pulled a 5* Torch from it, and on June 24 there was a special Grandmaster Nexus bundle that came for those of us who were not yet Uncollected for $10. Sorry if I don't remember exactly but there were 2 Nexus Grandmaster Crystals in the bundle and some other stuff. I pulled 5* Doom and 5* Corvus Glaive back to back from those two Nexus Grandmaster crystals.
Late June to early July, Week 6 (Act 5.2 to Act 5.4 Completion)
I channeled all resources to R5 my first 5* Nimrod by the last week of June, R4 Sunspot, and R3 Torch. I marched with the three 5*s along with 4* R5 CGR and 4* R5 Apoc as backup all the way to Act 5.4 final boss Ultron and my Nimrod was MVP (Nimrod had an ability to stop the regen. The Ultron 5.4.6 fight cost me 2 L2 Revives.). From the Act 5 completion rewards I was able to pull a 5* Shang Chi.
I also took advantage of activating my 4* Apocalypse Horseman ability whenever there was a mutant opponent I knew I could beat. 5* Sunspot was truly more awesome with the Horseman synergy.
01 July to 08 July, Week 7 (Act 6.1.1 - 6.1.3)
The first week of July I, I purchased from the July 4 sales Uncollected Bundles: (2 x $30 Bundle, 2 x $10 Bundle, 4 x $5 Bundle). I had some nice pulls (5* Ghost, 5* Blade, 5* CAPIW, 5* Terrax, and 5* Tigra). I used all newly acquired and saved up rank up resources to R5 Sunspot and R5 Torch. Did Act 6.1.1 - 6.1.3. From the rewards, I pulled 5* Magneto and ranked him to 5 by July 8.
July 9, I marched from Act 6.1.3 - 6.1.6 to become Cavalier with four R5 5*s (Torch, Sunspot, Nimrod, and Magneto) and one R4 5*, Shang-Chi. Final boss 6.1.6 Sentinel fight cost around 400 units total (I used up all the saved revives and healing potions from the earlier fight).
2. Prioritizing Champs
If you want to truly progress as fast as possible you must only rank and level up the champs who will help you get to the next level/stage faster. The rating doesn't mean anything in this game except that it says how many champs you have or do not have. Someone who only has 300K rating but with 6 R5 5*s will clear more content than someone with 600K rating with only 3 R5 5*s. This is exactly the reason why and how I was able to rank up those champs I mentioned in Section 1. I have not ranked a single 1*, 2*, and only two 3*s because I needed them to complete some daily events. Of the 60 some 4*s I have, I only have 3 R5 4*s, 3 R4 4*s, 3 R3 4*s, 3 R2 4*s, the rest not even leveled beyond L1. Of my 33 5*s I have only ranked and leveled those who helped me reach Cavalier.
You need to put all the champs in your roster in a "rank up row" so that you know which champ to prioritize exactly.
Never rank or level 1*s, 2*s, and 3*s (unless you are planning to do the Variant quest that requires 1*s, 2*s, and 3*s) and even then you must only rank and level those champs that will help you in that Variant. You are wasting resources if you rank anything less than a 4*.
Rank only 4*s that will help you get through Act 4 and Act 5.
Rank only 5* that will help you get through Act 5 and Act 6/7.
Rank only 6*s that are the absolute best champs.
3. Managing your rank up and level up resources
ISO is the most difficult to get resources even with the ISO daily event. Once you start leveling 5*s, you need at least 10 days worth of 100%ing (Plus AUTO) the ISO daily quest to L65 an R5 from R4.
Gold is the second most difficult resource to get but if you do enough arena you can get enough gold from battlechips to achieve what I was able to accomplish.
Right from Day 1 you must already start saving resources for your first R2 4*. If you are unlucky with your pulls, you can rank your top 3* to R3 or R4 but not more than 1 3*. One god-tier 3* at R4 (2000+ Rating) will clear until the end of Act 2 and even help you do an initial Act 3 completion.
When you can R2/R3 your first 4* that one champ can help you explore Act 2 and complete most parts of Act 3.
When you already have at least 2 or 3 R5 4*s, begin saving up to R2/R3/R4 your first god-tier 5*. You stop ranking and leveling your 4*s (no matter how god tier) once you get your first God tier 5*. Remember you cannot bring 4*s and lower to Act 6 and 7.
You can get/purchase:
T1A from weekly T1A arena, converting 2 x T3B from Black ISO Market, doing the monthly event quests (normal, heroic, master), SA, AQ, events
T2A from AW Season Rewards, Act 4 Exploration, monthly event quest, AQ, converting from T5B to T2A from Black ISO Market
T4CC from saving T4CC frags and convert in Black ISO Market, AQ, AW season Rewards, doing monthly event quests
T5B converts T2A from Black ISO Market, AQ (weekly), Glory Store, doing monthly quests
Black ISO Market conversions are paramount to being able to progress faster than you would have been able to otherwise. These conversions allow you to allocate extra resources to the ones you don't have to meet the rank-up requirements of your key champs. For example, if you have 10 x T3B, you can get 5 x T1A from Black ISO Market Conversion. You need T1A when you R2-R5 a 5* and zero T3B.
Some notable things to mention from experience: Even an unduped single R5 L65 5* is almost the equivalent of four R5 maxed out 4*s in terms of getting through content in Act 5. A single R4 L55 5* can clear more content than 2-3 R5 maxed out 4*s.
Sections 2 and 3 are probably the most important of all the tips I will be writing in this Beginner's Guide. There is absolutely no way you will reach Uncollected or Cavalier in less than 2 months if you rank every champ you get because you will run out of resources when you finally need them for the champs that will help you.
4. The type of alliance you join contributes to at least 50% of your progress
Okay, so I might have been lucky to join a 55M rating alliance with a 10+K prestige. (The leader of my alliance is a friend I know in person). But this only reinforces how important your alliance is in how quickly you advance in the game. The amount of Glory you receive per week will determine how many rank-up resources you can purchase for your champs. I was 90K rating when I joined and the next member above me was over 1M rating (haha). But take note I was no slacker except in AW where I stuck around providing just energy to the other members for almost an entire season. AW is not mandatory in our alliance and all of the members are just chill because it is a retirement alliance. We run 5/4/3 AQ so I join Map 3 and do the best I can. I got called out once but when I finally had 3 x R5 5*s joining in AW nobody complained anymore. Half of the members in my alliance have at least 2-3 R3 6*s.
This means that you need to join an alliance where you are ideally the weakest member in the team but will also make the best effort to contribute as much as you can. You must join an ACTIVE non-competitive alliance similar to the one I joined until you are ready to go competitive (Gold 3 and above). The problem with being in a competitive alliance is that you will usually end up spending all your Glory on team revives during AQ and this will hurt your progress. You need to be mindful of not biting more than you can chew or else you will probably be kicked very quickly. Being the weakest means that if you are very active you will have the greatest benefits of the alliance rewards, especially in AQ and AW. While it will be very unlikely you will find an alliance that will be as considerate as mine, but a gap of around 200-300K rating from the next member of the team shouldn't be that unreasonable. But remember rating is not that important in this game. What ultimately matters is how much you will contribute to the alliance whether you are the strongest or weakest member.
Needless to say, it is of vital importance to participate in AQ regularly and AW at least 5x/season to qualify for AW season rewards. The rewards you will get in AQ, especially Glory will be the most important weekly reward for your progress. I get around 4500 Glory per week which allows me to get 10 x 18000 T2A shards = 5 T2As. 3 x T2A in Black ISO Market can convert to 1 T5B. That weekly 4500 Glory I get since my 10th day back in this game has been crucial to how I was able to make this kind of progress. But it only reinforces this Section 4 in terms of how critical your alliance is in terms of how quickly or slowly you will make progress in MCOC.
If the only alliance you can join is an alliance at your level of prestige, you have to make sure more than 3/4ths of the members are active otherwise you will be missing out on the alliance event rewards and the amount of Glory you will get from AQ will not be as much as a 100% active alliance.
If you feel that your alliance is not helping your progress then there is no shame in finding a better alliance. You heard me, it's nothing personal when you leave your alliance for a better alliance but make sure wherever you go next you will improve and try not to be a burden. Again, do not bite more than you can chew.
Always do your best and contribute as much as you can.
Weekly SA is important but not as important as the rewards from weekly AQ.
5. Be very mindful and careful on how you spend your hard-earned units
Units are the building block of this game. The more units you have (whether you grind for them or you pay for them with real money) you will advance sooner than later. If you have unlimited real money to spend on this game, you can get 100 Odins (or $10,000) and use one R4 or R5 5* to probably get you to Elder's Bane (100% Act 5 Exploration). 300,000 units will get you 3,000 team revives which is probably enough for a full Act 5 exploration with just a single R5 5*. But if your skills are terrible you might need more
But that hyperbolical example aside, if you can only spend minimally on this game (like the monthly Summoner Sigil and an occasional bundle during special months, holidays, events, etc) then you have to be very careful where your units go.
I strongly suggest that:
a. You spend your units to help you advance to the next stage. Yes, there is no shame in buying that revive, heal, boost potion to get to Uncollected and Cavalier. No shame at all. But so shameful if you spend 300 hard-earned units on a grandmaster crystal and pull a 3*.
b. You compute how many revives you typically need to clear a Chapter End / Act End boss. You save your units for that very specific purpose. This is the surest way that you will not end up regretting getting to a boss fight and need to exit the game with just a few hits left to beat it because you didn't have enough units for one revive potion
c. You only spend on Cavalier crystals NEVER on Grandmaster Crystals. Kabam has been kinder now and you can get Cavalier crystals even at Uncollected so just wait for it.
d. Do not spend units on hero shard deals but instead on rank-up deals.
e. Buy the units in the store deals only when there are bundles.
The only exception to this is if you don't have any champ worthy of ranking then you might want to gamble some units for a better champ. But I suggest that you just wait it out until you form enough fragments of 4*/5*/6* shards to pull one instead of spending units to fast track to your next 5* or 6* (unless you're just a few fragments away).
Unless your luck is extremely shot (which is unlikely because you will get a god-tier/beyond god-tier 5* one way or the other) use your units as stipulated above.
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It is strongly advised that you keep a record or log of how many rank-up / level up resources you need. A quick Google of "MCOC rank up cost" will pull up several sites that will help you compute these resources. This information will guide you in terms of how much of "x" resource you need to purchase for that next champ in the roster who will be ranked and leveled. You should only spend Glory on the very specific rank-up resources you need, not more, not less. That's why as mentioned in Section 2, you'll have to be clear about which champ to rank first. It is not recommended to rank multiple champs because that will take resources away from being able to max out quickly the champ you are currently working on. The only exception to this is if you have excess resources to let's say, R5 one champ and R4 another champ at the same time. Otherwise, do not R4 one 5* and R3 another 5* at the same time. Your goal is to get to as many R5 5*s as quickly as possible.
Ergo, do not spread your resources across champs if you want to become Uncollected, Cavalier, and perhaps even Thronebreaker sooner than later. Throw everything you have including the kitchen sink to that one champ you are currently working on. I followed this advice from my first R5 4* Cosmic Ghost Rider to my current R5 5* Target - (Right now I"m getting Doom to R5 and every single resource is going to him, and he will be my 5th R5 5*.). But as always, there is an exception to this. In my case back when I was going for Uncollected, I was torn to wait to save all resources to R5 Nimrod and keep Sunspot at R1. But I already had enough tech T4C to R4 Nimrod but not enough to R5 him. I had enough mutant T4C to R3 Sunspot from R1 so I R4d Nimrod and R3d Sunspot. I still ended up using Nimrod 90% of the Collector fight anyway (haha).
So the amount of T4CCs you have might create an exception to the purchases you will make from the stores and the rank-ups you will do. While it is strongly discouraged to sell T4CCs to transmute them to become another type unless you become desperate like me, if you need one more T4CC to rank up a champ there is no shame to do T4CC transmutation.
The Loyalty store is probably useful if your alliance is competitive in AW. Otherwise, just save all your Loyalty for that time when you end up in an AW competitive alliance. You can thank me later when you realize how important this advice is. But if you're like me who is in a non-AW competitive alliance, as long as I clear my lane nobody is going to kick me for not achieving a full or normal attack bonus. If your top champs are also mystic, you can use Loyalty to purchase Mystic Cores to unlock Mystic Dispersion Mastery. (You'll need at least 35 to unlock Rank 3: 5, 10, 20, if I'm not mistaken). Better to use Loyalty than Units to purchase Class Cores like Mystic Cores.
The Incursion store- you should purchase which crystal will have the highest chance of getting a decent to god tier champ.
The Valkyrie (or other monthly event-based store) - you should purchase or use the monthly currency only on the resources that will help you progress in the game.
7. Optimizing the special and daily events, solo/alliance events
Before Uncollected, do the T3B, T3C 100% every day. Do as many ISO event quests every day.
Uncollected, do the T3B, T4C 100% every day. 100% ISO event every day
Cavalier+ do the T4C 100% every day, 100% ISO event and AUTO every day.
Get the class-specific resource you need for the class of the champ you are currently working on (DUH).
Read all the available single and alliance events to know how you can contribute more to your progress and your alliance's progress. For example, if there's a Science Hero Use in the solo event and Avenger's Alliance Event, use your highest level science avenger (CAPIW for example) to get those points in both for yourself and your alliance. Two birds with one stone, as the saying goes.
8. What quests should be / ought to be prioritized
Every point of energy must go to:
Explore Act 1-3 ASAP (First 2 weeks)
Complete Act 4 ASAP (3rd week)
Explore Act 4 ASAP (Week 4)
Very important to note the exploration rewards from Act 4 will be your ticket to your first R4 5*.
Only when you've Explored Act 4 do you start doing the monthly event quest to ensure that you have enough energy.
Act 5.1.1 - 5.1.6 (Week 5 - Uncollected)
Act 5.2.1 - 5.4.6 (Week 6)
Act 6.1.1 - Act 6.1.6 (Week 7 - Cavalier)
9. Must do arena whether you like it or not if you never want to have "gold problems"
Young grasshopper, you must try to acquire at least 10,000 battlechips per day from arena (regardless of what arena you're fighting in). Don't have enough champs to get to Infinite Streak? That's fine. Just work your way starting from your weakest champs up to your strongest champs. Rinse and repeat. Your goal is to get to Win Streak 20 in the Summoner Trials and from there forward you can just use 3 x R2 4*s and you're fine.
I recycle my 33 5*s from lowest PI to highest PI around 3X per day and I'll easily get to around 400K-500K points in either of the arenas that allow 5*s and/or 6*s.
I try to get 20K battlechips per day but it's really been like 15K on a weekly average.
10K battlechips per day will almost always ensure that you'll have enough gold for all your rank-up and level-up needs. And if you're lucky you'll get a few dozen units from every 10K battlechips you open. There's a lot of gold that can be purchased from the Valkyrie store in that month's event quest store (over 1M).
10. An hour of watching MCOC YouTube content a day helps keep that credit card bill away
It pays to know what lies ahead and how to beat that final node boss rather than walking blind and clueless about how to tackle an opponent that's 2-3x your top champs rating.
There's thousands upon thousands of MCOC content made by some of the most legendary MCOC YouTubers. Seatin, KT1, Bryan Grant, RichTheMan, etc., etc. and some who are not as popular or famous (every day regular summoners like you and me (Dhruv Joshi - it's in Hindi which I don't understand but he speaks English from time to time) who show how the hardest content can be beaten with common sense fighting techniques without the most beyond god-tier roster. And he's funny when something unexpected happens).
Know which is the least difficult path that will lead to the next section to avoid wasting units going on a path that is either impossible for your champs, very difficult with your skills, or both.
Knowing what is ahead of you is going to help tremendously when you're the one working on that specific part of the content you need to advance in the game.
Needless to say, read carefully what's actually on the node that you are going to be fighting in. Bringing the correct champ is almost half the battle won. Bringing the wrong champ almost always ensures KO or champ with little health left for the next battle.
Practice fighting a few times, especially when fighting a known difficult defender. You can Google (mcoc duel target), identify the name of the summoner who has that top champ, locate it in the game, then duel that champ. Rinse and repeat. Or if you already have that champ on your roster you can practice fighting it with another champ. However which way you do it, some practice and familiarity with how a boss defender fights will usually determine a relatively attainable victory or a truckload of units you'll have to spend to win. (When I first went up against the Ultron boss in Act 5.4.6 in July of 2017 with an R5 4* OG Thor (max sig), I had little knowledge of how to beat it. Almost 500 units later I've only managed to bring it down to half health. I had to quit the fight feeling very bad. In September of 2017, I practiced with my Thor around every day since I lost the fight in July until I got the fighting style of that Ultron). When I finally got to that Ultron boss the fight was still difficult but it only cost me around 5 L2 Revives to beat it.)
Always remember that a fight ends when you see the word KO not when the defender reaches zero health (because some of them have immortal buff) and can cost you a fight when you stop paying attention.
11. Incursions- worth it or not? Worth it (despite...)
If you have the time to do Incursions, do it. While the pulls from the Incursion store are almost always the worst champs you can get, that "worst champ" can be a dupe of your existing worst champ that will help give you ISOs to level up the current champ you're working on. Just don't feel too bad if you end up playing with a total noob who is clueless about what they're doing. The good news is whatever room you finish in whether you finish it or not you will no longer lose the points like the year when I quit. So just keep going as far as you can possible and get as many points as possible. Also do the friendship bonus to earn more incursion artifacts and purchase more stuff from the incursion store.
Ideally, you also want to do incursions with a friend right from the get go so you can already earn those friendship bonus rewards.
12. Battlegrounds- worth it or not? Mixed feelings but...
I've fought 10 battles with similar Cavalier level summoners and have lost all the fights. My roster isn't deep at all so there's no way I can fight with Cavalier-level summoners who completely and outgun my roster.
My unsolicited two cents advice to Kabam for Battlegrounds is to make the match-up be based on the roster as well and not just Summoner progress rank. The matching system should be able to pair up summoners who have a similar top 30 (or however many champs are used in Battlegrounds) rating champs instead of just purely matching up progress ranking. For example, if you have 6 R5 5*s, 10 R5 4*s, 15 R4 then your opponent should have more or less the same PI roster. It's super unfair that I've been paired against Cavaliers who have 20 R5 5*s when I only have 4 R5 5*s.
But whether you win or lose is not that important. You can get the battlegrounds currency anyway win or lose. I was able to get 2000 5* shards from the battlegrounds completion matching event.
13. To hoard or not to hoard is the million-dollar question.
Until you get to around 6 x R5 5*s you should not hoard champ crystals.
There is this idea that you increase your chances of landing a god-tier / beyond god-tier champ if you hoard. That claim is completely unsubstantiated. Why? Because it's very possible to hoard 20 5* crystals and get 20 not-so-useful 5* champs. And that's gonna hurt more than just opening one 5* crystal at a time and hoping your next one will be better, not worse. And if you hoard crystals very early in the game, it will impede your progress. I know of some summoners who will hoard premium crystals right from Day 1. Not a good idea. What if your first premium crystal pull is a god-tier / beyond god-tier 4*? Then you've already won Act 1 and 2 right off the bat. Just like when I pulled 4* Void on Day 6. So up to Act 3 Thanos became easy with an R2 unduped 4* Void. And Void at R4 was my MVP going against Maestro final boss in Act 4. Even that Iron Man before Thanos who did crazy regen didn't stand a chance (haha!).
So I'd say up until you're close to or just became Thronebreaker, you should ideally not hoard champ crystals. Grandmaster and those special event champ crystals are debatable. If you already have a good-great roster then yeah, go ahead and hoard. But if you're still in dire need of at least one decent champ that will help you advance then you should open every crystal you could form or get.
Still not getting it? It's very straightforward logic. If you hoard in the beginning you miss out on the opportunity to open a solid champ that will get you to the next stage especially when you're just starting out.
14. My dream deals whether saved or paid for (hope Kabam will take notice)
Deals that specifically target your current ranking needs (e.g. deals with ISO and Gold, deals with class-specific T4CC/T5CC/T6CC),
Deals that reflect your current roster needs (deals of class-specific champs that you don't have or lacking in your roster)
More energy refills and core mastery deals
Class Card Deals that will truly help your level of progress (after 7 days you will get a full T5B, that kind of deal). It's almost always champ shard class card deals.
15. A day in the life of a deeply committed MCOC player
11PM Final energy move. Sleep
3AM. Wake up. Energy use in a quest.
5AM. Wake up. Energy use in a quest
7AM. Wake up, do Monthly side quest (highest you can go without dying on first battle)
7 AM - 12PM. Join / move in AQ / AW. Use up all energy in either daily quests or monthly quests. Do as much arena as you can (2-3K Battlechips)
1PM - 5PM Join / move in AQ / AW. Make one attempt at one sub-chapter of the next stage you need to get to (e.g. Do Act 5.1.1 if you're trying to become Uncollected. Do arena.
5PM - 11PM. Do arena (work to get 10K battlechips. Watch Youtube videos to learn next sub-chapter nodes/boss. Use up all energy
Of course, I am multi-tasking doing my home-based work alongside playing MCOC in between energy and arena recharging. So the recharging of energy and arena will take around 3 hours per cycle for a total of around 9 hours is when I get to do other things outside MCOC.
This is it for now. I truly hope and pray that I've provided some useful insights and information.
Thanks so much for reading.
People are of course free to post any way they want. However, if you want people to read what you write, it is important to try to help them out, especially when you're asking them to dedicate substantial amounts of their valuable time to reading it.
Yes, I will make no attempt to defend what I posted. Like I said in the first part of this guide that it was going to be a free flow of thoughts since I currently don't have the time to organize this as a real proper guide. I'm still hoping that there is some useful information there for those who have been struggling to get to Uncollected and Thronebreaker.
Again, thanks for the feedback and good to see you again after this past two years.
That is true, you don't need to spend a dime. But we need to take into context that to achieve such feat you have god tier champs, god tier fighting skills, or both. If you don't have either one (sub par champs and sub par fighting skills), it will be very difficult NOT to spend actual money for revives when you're up against a really difficult boss or fighting on a node in which you don't have the proper counter.
If I had god tier fighting skills, I wouldn't have the need to spend a few bucks on units for revives. But I don't. Or I could grind out arena and wait on event quests to save enough units so I don' thave to spend actual money. But then that would push back my "schedule".
I suppose all of this is really subjective. How fast is fast? How good are you and how great are your champs?
Consequently, this post is just the first of a series of tips and tricks for those who are aspiring to progress as fast as I did.
Good to see you again in the forums. I suppose you've already figured out who I was in my old account no?
Step-by-step:
(Exceptions to Ranking your first 4* is if you're lucky to pull a 5* from grandmaster crystal, in which case you must prioritize ranking the 5*).
1. Don't rank and level 1*s, 2*s and 3*s. Focus on getting to your first R2/R3 4*. One R2 4* can help you do an initial completion of Act 1, and Act 2. One R3 4* or R2 5* can help you do an intial completion of Act 3.
2. Focus on getting to your first R4/R5 4* or first R2/R3 5*. This will help you do an initial completion of Act 4.
3. Focus on exploring Act 1, Act 2, Act 3 and Act 4. You need those 4 x T2As to R4 your best 5*.
4. R4 your best 5*. Get Uncollected (5.2.6)
5. Explore both Heroic and Uncollected monthly event quests (try to form another 5* crystal).
6. Work and focus on getting your first R5 5*.
7. Start inching your way through chapters 5.3 and 5.4 (you only have to do an initial completion, not exploration)
8. Work on focus on getting your second R5 5*.
9. Once your done with 5.4.6 you should have at least 3 five stars that are already R5 or R5 worthy.
10. Start inching your way through 6.1.1 to 6.1.6 (Cavalier)
Pointers:
a. It will be very beneficial if you can do the Summoner Sigil subscription to have access to the Black ISO Market store which will allow the necessary conversions of resources to expedite your progress.
b. It will be very helpful to be part of an at least 5-7K+ prestige alliance to get at least 3K-4K glory per week from AQ. Doesn't have to be doing Map 5, they just need to have at least 5-7K alliance prestige to score 100M+ in AQ per week).
c. Do at least 10,000 Battle Chips worth of arena per day so you don't run out of gold and units
d. When you already have your initial 3xR5 5*s, save all your units to help you purchase revives when inching through the chapters towards Cavalier.
e. Do not do Act 5 full exploration until you become Cavalier. It is a waste of time and really not a good strategy.
f. Purchase that offer ($10) that gives you 3*, 4*, 5*, 6* crystals when you reach specific levels (helps a lot)
Disclaimer:
a. If your luck really sucks in pulling champs then it MIGHT take longer than sooner to reach these milestones.
b. If your luck is better than mine, you could reach these milestones sooner than I did.
c. I spend 12-15 hours per day on this game so be mindful of this. If you can't dedicate that kind of time, then you might achieve those milestones a little later than I did.
Good luck and God speed.
I apologize if this isn't what you understand by 'sharing".
Therein lies the difference, I think.
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It's been 2 long years you know.
And I'm happier and prouder with my new account.
It was 2 years ago.
He has a brand new account.
If it makes you feel better, imagine that his old account was flagged and banned. Valroz was taken before the high court of Kabam and banished for 2 years.
During that time he suffered, wailed, and gnashed his teeth.
He returns now, a shell of his former self, seeking to redeem his past sins.
So sad you kind of people actually exist in the Universe.
19 weeks and $500 spend total.