How relevant are 5 stars?
KiDSpaZZy
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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.
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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.
Did 3 fights in the top path of 8.4.5 with 5 star Hype
Both were not ascended
its subjective and relies on how fast you progress and how much you invest.
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.
I have to say, they'd be more relevant if Kabam were putting Tier-1 dust into rewards for Paragon/Valiant players.
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.
You will know when they're not useful anymore.