This is heartbreaking... maybe game ending.
Affliction
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I really don't even know what to do anymore... saved and saved and saved. Months. Have hundreds of map5 crystals saved as well as t4cc frag crystals... Five star mutant awakening just sitting around... Best thing to me was Hawkeye then maybe captain... Should I give up?
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*This is my point of view* - not saying this applies to everyone, just my experiences.
I'm not saying you should quit at all, but I always use my resources (crystals, t4cc...etc) as often as I can, because the more you have it seems the more they hate you. I'm sure you have decent 4 stars you can upgrade. I don't have a 5 star above rank 3 after 3 years of playing this game because I've also been given rubbish, but I never gave up and neither should you. Few weeks ago I got Wolverine (x-23) as a 5 star, the wait seems to have paid off. Likewise the same will happen to you in the near future. Lots of people have experienced the same thing bro, but we're all in this together
If I were you I would rank up my 5* Hawkeye to R3, my 5* Magik to R4, and my 4* Iceman to rank 5/50, and between them and your 5/50 AA and 5/50 Rogue I'd have a way better team than I used to become Uncollected originally.
If you're one of those people who has been repeatedly told not to rank up a 5* champion that is unduped, you need to stop listening to those people. I have only one 4/55, and it is Iceman, and he is unduped. If someone told me he's not worth ranking up until he was duped I would simply stop listening to that person on account of them being too dumb to pay attention to. Some champions need to be awakened to be good. Your Star Lord needs to be awakened to be legitimately good. Some champions do not need to be awakened to be great. Magik is one of the top power control champions in the game and one of the best attackers whether she is duped or not. I wouldn't rank up Hawkeye to R4 myself (although I know that people do) but he is definitely a legitimate R3 worthy attacker with strong bleed and good power drain even unduped.
You've got one of the top tier attackers sitting at 3/45, you have the immunity god stuck at 4/40 because you don't think he is worth ranking up to 5/50, and you have one of the queens of act 5 in Rogue at 5/50, and you're F2P on top of that. You got a subpar 5* pull set, but overall you're in pretty good shape in my opinion.
What's scary is I have a mutant awakening gem
And 90k 5* shards saved lol.
I hope I don't follow your path
Ronan actually has use in 5.3 on power reserve as well with his l1. You can keep the opponent stunned the whole match. Long fights but it saves potions.
Cap just got a little buff now that fatigue debuffs allow you to bypass Mordos astral evade and w/ his high block pro he has use in 5.3.
You have great 4s in Iceman AA and Rogue all useful in 5.2/5.3. Magik is a top champ so rank her up as well. You have the champs to power through 5.2 and 5.3, don’t get discouraged just learn how to use those champs.
If you are only going to open basics, I would recommend opening them as you get them. There's no point in mass opening a bunch after saving in my opinion. You might as well get them sooner than later, and you don't have the built-up psychology of sitting on so many for so long.
I only advise hoarding if the intent is to wait until a favorable featured comes out and open for that. In my opinion if you only open featureds that contain a 5* featured you would immediately rank to 4 if you could, the odds are in your favor.
But while the odds are in your favor, that doesn't mean the odds mean you'll always win. Consider the optimum strategy for blackjack. The odds favor hitting 16 when dealer shows 10. But a lot of people abandon that strategy because they bust out often, and so they assume it is better to stand and see what the dealer has. But actually, while most of the time hitting 16 leads to bust, most of the time standing 16 leads to losing against dealer 10. You are trying to pick the best of two situations that both will cause you to most likely lose. One still has the better statistical outcome.
Most of the time if you pull basic you won't get a champion you want, and most of the time if you open featured you won't get a champion you want, but the odds are better if you open featured most of the time. However, if the psychological cost of spending that many shards and missing on featured is too high, then its not worth it no matter what the crystal outcome.
Remember: the reward for opening crystals is not the champion, it is ultimately your enjoyment of the game. If it causes you to not enjoy the game, it is not worth doing no matter what's inside the crystal. If it is more fun to open basics one at a time, then that's what you should do. Only gamble if you enjoy gambling.
I do not even have a 5* yet... but I hope my luck it not like that when I get my first
When I spent it would piss me off that I paid for **** and now it does not effect me as much. Just laugh it off. My last two 5* are Kamala and Howard. If I gave kabam money I’d be pissed but I’m not because I didn’t. Not saying you should stop spending but figure out why it upset you. If it’s just the game them maybe it’s time, all things done to an end.
Side note you’d think kabam would understand that if you buy stuff you want good stuff or people stop buying. But enough must have better luck than the rest to make up for it.
Most 5* crystals are acquired through fragments earned through gameplay, not purchased with cash.
And I don't know why so many people claim to not understand Kabam's motivations when the entire F2P industry, the entire city of Las Vegas, all those plastic ball dispensers in half of Japan's train stations, and most of the game shows on television exist on the premise that people don't have to win often or even ever to want a chance at gambling for prizes. GIven a choice at a guaranteed dollar or a one in a thousand chance of winning a thousand dollars, most will choose the long shot even though it has exactly the same intrinsic value and the dollar is guaranteed. If Kabam made every single 5* exactly the same in value somehow (and that's impossible) even if it was high value people would get bored with the game rapidly. We judge value in relative terms not absolute terms. There's no such thing as every champ being great. If every champ was as powerful as Dr. Voodoo, all of them would be mediocre and no one would care what they got. That's just how people work. We only care about winning when we compare it to what losing looks like.
Get a new account man, you just have to accept that there are lucky accounts and unlucky ones. Now I only play to help some friends with the harder content, I have acctually quited my account after opening 7 featured for Starky and getting none while some of my friend who are also **** players got him with 1 or 2 crystals. **** this game!
I guess that’s how they keep people in the game and grinding. I bet you won’t see someone open 7 crystal like that and pull ICE, AA, DV, GR, GP, Rouge and Quake. I’m sure the percentage rates to pull useless champs are higher than those of the good champs. And Kabam know who they are.