How relevant are 5 stars?

KiDSpaZZy

Guys would you say 5 star champs are still relevant or is it champ specific like Her, Magik, Dom, etc? I honestly feel like they are starting to become obsolete but they are cheaper to rank up & require less rare materials for so including sig stones/awakening stones.

Glassback

It depends entirely on what stage of progression you’re at and what you do in game.

High tier war, AQ higher maps and BG won’t be a place for 5*s.

Lots of us did act 7 with 5s but into act 8 the health pools are getting pretty high. You still see the odd 5* whacking a boss, like a Ronan cheese but that’s about where it ends.

Plus for longevity it’s worth putting into your 6s if they are decent pulls, everyone will move up through the progressions eventually.

13579rebel_

I soloed 8.4.2 Ikaris with a 5 star Claire

Did 3 fights in the top path of 8.4.5 with 5 star Hype

Both were not ascended

DawsMan

I sometimes buy 5 star shards from battlegrounds for iso

shield311

Glassback said:

It depends entirely on what stage of progression you’re at and what you do in game.

High tier war, AQ higher maps and BG won’t be a place for 5*s.

Lots of us did act 7 with 5s but into act 8 the health pools are getting pretty high. You still see the odd 5* whacking a boss, like a Ronan cheese but that’s about where it ends.

Plus for longevity it’s worth putting into your 6s if they are decent pulls, everyone will move up through the progressions eventually.

i'm in 8.2 and I still use 3 5stars, herc, chavez and magneto, its totally about how nicely the quest counters them, since I have no ascended 6star or any r4 6star, r3 6stars and maxed 5stars are of same level, ascended 5stars have more rating than r3 6stars so as of now, they are super relevant for alot of players, and not so much for many other.

its subjective and relies on how fast you progress and how much you invest.

AadhyVan

Their usage is totally dependent on your progression level. And, as a F2P, 5* champs can always help you with clearing story content. Higher levels of AQ maps, AW and BGs are a different thing.

Personally, my 5* champs helped with clearing a lot of WOW objectives prior to the WOW Gauntlet. Since, the resources are easy to acquire (for Paragon+ players) for rank up excluding the gold to be spent. I recently maxed out Angela, Chavez, Masacre and Guillotine 2099 as I do not have them on a higher star rarity which were helpful in recent WOW content.

Magrailothos

I still like to use them in Thronebreaker EQ and Incursions. And yes, you can even use them in Winter of Woe/Eternity of Pain (I know I have).

I have to say, they'd be more relevant if Kabam were putting Tier-1 dust into rewards for Paragon/Valiant players.

Ercarret

As others have said, it's entirely about where you are in the game. If you're like me where you have almost every 6* available and about half of the 7*s, there's no reason to rank up 5*s. However, if you DON'T have all of those 6 and 7* champs and you desperately need a poison immune champion or someone who can deal with evade, then you're much better of ranking up a 5* champion than...just...not doing the content? Progression is always vital. How you get there is almost always less relevant.

Back in the day when Thronebreaker was first introduced as a title, people always used to say that you should rank up whichever champion you had available to reach that title since doing so would, in turn, give you more rewards that would allow you to rank up more champions. It was way more beneficial to rank up someone like Groot in order to become TB than to save those resources for a god-tier champion, since you were then only making sure that you were just consistently missing out on the even better rewards that you would have gotten as a Thronebreaker. This has since been true of all new progression tiers.

I don't know your exact situation, but it sounds like you're in a similar situation. If you have specific needs that your 6 and 7*s don't cover, ranking up 5*s might be the way to go. The only thing I would warn against is making sure you can actually do the content with those 5*s. As others have said, the health pools do go up pretty drastically in Act 8 and 5*s don't benefit from any of the nodes that grant 6 and 7* champions various bonuses. If you can do Act 8 with 5*s, then go for it. But otherwise, it might be wiser to focus on exploring Act 7, for example.

BuggyDClown

I used some of them in act 8.4 exploration

Darkraw346

Not really relevant but I've used my 5* The Serpant for several fights and bosses in 8.4 and hes fun

captain_rogers

On the first week of wow abs man, I didn't have sandman at 6*/7*. So I ranked my 5* sandman to complete the sinister 6 challenge

Buttehrs

There could be a quest someday down the road that let's us only use 5* too. Variant 4 comes to mind.

Nacho98

Situational for sure. I ranked a 5* G2099 to complete the deathless challenges so I didn’t have to spend as much to rank the 6*. She did very well

phillgreen

If you're asking, you're not ready to stop ranking 5*

You will know when they're not useful anymore.

Khalejandrogo

Useful in arena grinding. 5 stars have 2-hour cooldowns

EdisonLaw

Depends on the content. Thronebreaker and above, 5 stars start to become outdated with a few exceptions

JT_Supreme

I’m valiant but I’d have use for aa if I didn’t have him as 6 star. I do use 5 star Ronan for cheese options still to this day tho.

Dubois

My 5* AA still puts in work in act 8