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Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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What did you do with your 7* shards?
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Once upon a time the devs primarily used raw numbers to make content more difficult. However, since Act 7 Chapter 1 beta, the devs have decided/been persuaded to use more "RPG-like" challenges to create higher difficulty content, including higher progression content and challenge content. That means no matter how strong a champion is, there will always be content coming along that either counters that champ or neutralizes its advantages. Meanwhile there will always be content coming along that emphasizes utility and strengths that some champs have relative to others. It has always been a useful skill to have to learn and understand how the various champions work and how to leverage their strengths and weaknesses, but I would say that in the post Act 7 game this is now the current "meta" of the game. Not to posses a couple top champs, but to possess and understand how to leverage as many diverse champions as possible.
There are only so many R4s and R5s I can make. So every single 7* I pull that I can use is one more R4/R5-caliber champ in my arsenal that I don't need to spend valuable catalysts to rank up. I'm not going to say that 7* Hawkeye would be my top choice there, but the way I look at it, it is highly unlikely that I would spend my limited cats taking my 6* Hawkeye to R4, so having a Hawkeye handed to me that essentially comes with a free R4 rank up gem is not something I'm going to be too sour over.
Of the 36 champs in the 7* pool, for me personally the top pulls are (or rather, would have been) Overseer, Titania, Domino, and Bishop (I actually did pull Domino). But I would be perfectly happy getting Elsa, Korg, Killmonger, Falcon, Hawkeye, Gambit, Sunspot, Storm X, Shuri, G2099, Venom, Terrax, Gorr, America Chavez, Dragon Man, Sasquatch, Spier Gwen, and Hulk. And most of the rest, eh, I wouldn't be too upset over. That's plenty good odds of getting something I can work with.
So if I’m patient enough I’d still rather save my precious 7* shards for a chance at other God Tier champs you have ZERO chance getting from the current 7* crystal.
That’s the key here.
ZERO chance at CGR, Doom, .. heck a Warlock would be better than any champ you get from the current pool.
Unless you’re inpatient and/or are persuaded by the underwhelming so called 7* “celebration” event.
I'd be my entire account you don't even know how to use him.
I took Silver Centurion over everyone you just listed, to rank 5. Your opinion means nothing
Opened everything that I could and I am really happy with my pulls. Initially I had 23k shards but from the 7* alliance and solo events along with the shooting star quest, I was able to open 3 more(got mantis first time from a paragon crystal)
Slavishly waiting for somebody else’s “god tier” champ to make the cut doesn’t make you smarter than anybody little lamb
You’re saying like it’s so easy to get.. lol..
I was never on the god tier bandwagon, so I never had to jump off it. Holding out hope for a slim chance at a "god tier champ" at some indeterminate time in the future is an uninformed emotional impulse. Every champ has some value, some more than others, and the correct optimal long term strategy compares the current value of using resources against the amortized statistical opportunity cost of depleting them. To value "god tier champs" as sufficiently high value that they suppress the value of all other champs to essentially zero would be a failure in judgment, not a measure of patience. That is less patience and more paralysis.If you want to hold shards, that's fine: you do you. But if you're going to parade that decision around like you're the only smart person in the room, well you're not. You are just someone ranking Groot because no one else does. Except the guy that ranks Groot because no one else does knows they are doing something just for their own satisfaction. They don't try to claim they have superior rank up insight.
If I knew right now that Doom was going to be added to the 7* basic pool sometime around the end of 2024 (its unlikely to happen before then if ever, because Doom would need to enter the Titan crystal pool first which requires the Titan crystal to appear first, and then sufficient time would have to elapse before champs from the Titan crystal then get rotated to the basic) and I also somehow knew that if I saved all my shards from now to then I was guaranteed to pull Doom in one of those crystals, I would *still* be opening crystals now. I would rather have two years of having the 7* champs than two years of sitting on crystals and having nothing until then. 7* Doom is just not worth that much time. No "god tier champ" is.
I think you're also not accounting for inflation. By the time your god tier champs show up, the amount of shards you save between now and then we'll all probably be earning on a time scale of months. So when you save two years of shards, you aren't two years ahead of me. You'll be just a few months ahead of me. Two years of drought and then you pull Doom in a massive crystal opening, and then I'll pull him four months later during Cyber weekend.
But there's a lane in 8.2.5 with freezer burn. I had no idea that surfer is absolutely a monster for it, and he absolutely cleaned up there. I never would've used him if I didn't have the 7.
Oh, and stop throwing around that made up word "god tier" I know YouTubers throw it around often but you don't need to be that sheep and follow everything you hear.. Last time I checked Kabam does not have that kind of ranking for their champs.
7* are useful right now and a maxed 6r1 outshines a 6r4. That's catalysts being saved if you want that "god tier" 6r5.
I’m having a ton of fun with my 7r1 Mantis. That’s what counts. Kabam did a great job of picking clearly underrated champs. Not sure why people want Domino and Bishop when other champs have so much utility and are way more fun.
Personally, SpiderGwen, Hawkeye, and other champs I’d never r4 or r5 are the ones I wanted.