Is your Post-HOF FOMO Gone Now? Are you regretting not waiting till July 4?

Since Dark Phoenix (who already had counters) just got announced a hard counter.
And since July 4 now can give you Torch (whereas HOF only gave iBom) if you saved your units instead of using them on HOF
Serpent/Bullseye took how long to get proper counters in BGs? And we got a hard counter to Phoenix announced literally right after the HOF event ended. At this rate, people are going to end up taking her out of their deck similar to when they took Peni Parker out when Hulkling and Galan entered the contest
And since July 4 now can give you Torch (whereas HOF only gave iBom) if you saved your units instead of using them on HOF
Serpent/Bullseye took how long to get proper counters in BGs? And we got a hard counter to Phoenix announced literally right after the HOF event ended. At this rate, people are going to end up taking her out of their deck similar to when they took Peni Parker out when Hulkling and Galan entered the contest
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1. It will be several months before people can consistently get their hand on Nico. And some will get unlucky and not pull her at all. Also, I’ve had matchups where the “counters” people advertised still didn’t work against my DP. Whether that is due to skill issue or the champ still being great, idk, but she gets me wins regardless. Also, I can just ban Nico, problem solved 😂.
2. I’m not getting these champs just because of one game mode. BGs is not my favorite game mode. By far. I enjoy it sure, but I value champs in a much broader spectrum than that. DP and the other HoF champs have put in immense work in Everest content, AW, and will be immensely helpful in 9.3 and beyond.
3. And this is the most important reason. I like playing the champs. This is a game after all, and I won’t pursue a champ if I don’t like playing them. I have enjoyed every champ I got during HoF and am having fun with the champs.
TLDR: No regrets and I’m certainly not removing her from BG deck anytime soon
J4, bring it! Give me that sweet HT.
If he’s available for 36k units then I’ll have some fomo I guess but I’ll still love using my r4 FAM.
The last couple livestreams had the community frustrated as is with the numerous paywall gated champs but locking the top champs to $600+ is on a completely different level of absurd
I do agree with the Torch part tho, he will most likely be one of the final milestones unlike Red Guardian who you could get for about $300 and then the second copy was if you went all in on the event. They're taking it a little too far, I was pissed about Dark Phoenix (yes I know I got her doesn't change my views on the whole thing), I will definitely be pissed about Torch too. These champs aren't just some meh or decent champs, they're easily at the top of the meta they can't be making them this exclusive it's not fair especially since we won't see them anywhere else for the next year or two.
I personally don't not touch my units unless its during banquet ( I find it the most rewarding).
Its kinda a ramp up and cashout typa thing for me. Accumulate throughout the year and spend it all during banquet (whether its good or terrible)
Today, $500 feels like table stakes when I’m in a good mood; when I’m feeling less positive about the game, it seems like a meaningless amount that gives negligible benefits above simply going ftp.
So no regrets having dark phoenix along with everything other HOF champ duped (but Apoc. Yes I got lucky).
And I say all that to say - these types of posts are made with the intent to shame whales and mock them. And for what? Mostly envy I guess, but it paints with a broad brush because a lot more people benefited from HOF than those that drop big cash all at once. I am a scrub summoner who spends 90% of the game just hitting arena milestones to chill at the end of the day… not stressing high end war, not touching celestial, nor knocking out epoch in 4 revives. Take it up with Kabam if you don’t like how champions are released, The people getting them aren’t the problem.
Dr. Zola
I was a heavy spender, then started to slowly cut down cause I didn't like the direction the game was taking. Now I realized that 4-5 hundred bucks doesnt even buy me half of what the top event prize is... Could I spend more? Sure but why when I don't like the direction the game is taking..
They just made it easier to lower spending to a bare minimum of some sporadic micro buys.
Firstly ibom wasn't the only champ in the HoF as you're well aware. Secondly both serpent and bullseye had existing counters in game straight away on release and now they both have numerous counter and guess what? They are both still in everyone's deck every season. A defender having a counter doesn't suddenly make them irrelevant.
And thirdly, two types of players got dark phoenix, spenders and arena grinders. The spenders will still get torch as they will max out July 4th anyway. The arena grinders made the calculated choice that HoF would better for their accounts at that time than j4 would be and I'm sure they are still happy with that decision. You sound like you're neither of those and are still bitter about it.
You have no idea what youre blabbering about. People bought HoF because of exclusive champion availability. Nobody was expecting Torch to be on the table for july. Had they known they may not have went all the way in HoF. For instance, i got all the champs 200 points in (halfway). I couldve saved the rest of my units for torch.
It could also be that youre daft and didnt understand the Torch part as if you read comments above several agreed
I arena grind so I can participate in the big events. I was grinding for j4 until they dropped the HoF. Then I switched to do that as the champ pool was too good to miss out on.
It's calculated 'at that time' (the important part of what I said btw) because you weigh up the pros and cons of your decision.
Even with torch added. The decision is/was 6 exclusive champs (4 of which are top meta champs) that will be locked out for everyone else for a year plus vs 1 champ for 36k units.
I'd still make the same choice today.
I can live with occasionally having to ban or throw a round to torch. It's far more difficult having to do it the other way
I've said before my roster has always been relevant and I've always found M2 to be my sweet spot on bgs.. hof put me so far behind.. this has never happened before