7* and 6*
Gardener
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Will they introduce rank 4 and 5 6*s when the new book comes out or will they just introduce 7*s or will they introduce none?
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What's certain is that there will be roster progress after 6* rank 5. What shape that takes is anyone's guess at the moment. 7* champions is the obvious continuation of the trend. But that's not certain.
It may end up looking like something that exists already, either because of convergent evolution or just because the world of gaming is so large. But I've heard ideas from players that don't directly replicate what I've seen elsewhere, and I'm sure the developers have analogous ideas.
act 4: r4 5*
act 5: r5 5*
act 6: r3 6*
Book 2 (Act 7): r4 6*
Book 2.2 (Act 8); r5 6*
Is my prediction.
If there ever are 7 star champs. We won`t see them untill Act 8 (or whatever that will be called), or untill we can max our 6 stars.
History of this game has shown that when the top rank of top rarity is available, then the next rarity releases too.
7*s are a one way road for the game anyway.
The only thing that is not certain, is when Kabam will decide to go down that road. It’s natural they want to slow it as much as they can, as it will add a lot of extra work.
They could easily buy time for that, by adding to 5*s a rank6 and to 6*s a rank6 and rank7.
That would actually make pretty much sense, since all the other rarities before 5*s 6*s go a rank beyond their number of rarity.
1*s go to rank2, 2*s rank3, 3*s rank4, 4*s rank5 and then weirdly 5*s go up to rank5 too, instead of rank6.
I personally would like to see these extra ranks on 5*s and 6*s, as it would spice up the already owned champs, rather than having to build rosters from scratch 🙂
Kabam could do a lot more to be creative with the content than just requiring newer ranks of the same hundreds of characters over and over and over again. Variant 4 was amazing for the need to use the full range of our rosters and something many people enjoyed as a result. Sure there were some restrictions (1* hulk being pretty lame), but for the most part, could be done without needing a crazy roster.
7* would only make sense if they were unique (not available as lower stars) and could only be acquired by those with a specific title or milestone (like thronebreaker or whatever the next major leap will be). Just bringing in another level of the entire roster of already existing champ's will create an unbalance to the entire game and stupid inflation of champ's, especially when the pool of those champ's still contain a lot of boring, outdated, and pretty useless characters that no one wants in the first place.
Either way, if kabam keeps recycling these large pools of existing champ's and thinks that's going to keep people interested I believe they will see many old players leave for good and new ones not stick around long enough to get there either. I know I'll be done with the game if/when that day comes if it just devalues my existing 5* and 6* champ's.
More boss rushes, more celebrity challenges, more variants that utilize full rosters, less repeat characters/ranks, unique/rewarding challenges that don't alpunish players with insane nodes, but motivate them by learning a new skill are the way to go if they want to keep the existing long term player base and grow newer players into long term players.