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Pharoah
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Is it better to take a player 5star rank 5 or upgrade 6 star to rank 2?
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Could be a 5* stark and 6* Gamora
Depends on the champs. Very few 6* are worth taking to R2, even fewer unawakened
Its a little different. When comparing 4* r5 to 5* r3, the cost differential is not bad. It is 5 T4B, 3 T4CC, and 2 T1A for the 5/50 and 4 T4B, 3T4CC, 5 T1A for the 3/45. It was (and is) really only the T1A costs that are the relative bottleneck to ranking up those 5* champs. If you can farm those, the 3/45 rank up is significantly more attractive than the 5/50 rank up in many ways.
But the calculus is significantly different comparing 5* 5/65 to 6* 2/35. Forget everything else, the 5/65 will cost two T5B and the 6* 2/35 will cost three. That's a significant increase in costs for a currently very scarce resource. And burning those extra T5Bs doesn't get you a significantly more powerful champion than a 5/65, it just creates the eventual opportunity to spend even more resources to rank it up to 3/45 which is the true payoff.
We don't know what the rank 3 costs are going to be yet, but it is entirely possible that the trade off isn't between, say three 5* 5/65s and two 6* 2/35s, because if you stop there that's a bad trade in general. It might end up being something closer to five 5* 5/65s verses one 6* 3/45. And unless you already have a significant amount of 5/65s, that might not be a good trade in the long run.
I am in that same exact dilemma bud. Don’t know if I should r2 Gulk or r5 one of my top 5*s
Doesn't a 6* 2/35 show the rank up items for rank 3?
The other aspect to this is the future consideration. How useful are the 4* rank ups that you did in the past? So, same comparison, the 5/65 is far more useful and relevant right now, but the timeline drops off after a point in the future, whereas the 6* rank up will continue bearing fruit, assuming the champ is viable and useful in general (not true for all 6*s)
That's true. Not all 6* rank 2 upgrades will be worth eventually taking to rank 3, or won't be cost-effective relative to other options. That's something I was trying to imply above, but it is worth stating directly. When you upgrade 6* champs you're taking a similar gamble to when we were deciding to rank up 5* verses 4*, where at the time both Magik and Elektra might have seemed good options to take to 3/45, but in retrospect that Magik was a good bet because in today's game she's still worth taking to 4/55, but Elektra is less so.
Will Hulk Ragnarok be seen like Magik in a year or two as still a great rank up choice, or more like Elektra: good but superceded by newer champs. It is difficult to say.
I would absolutely take 6* Gulk up. Awesome pull!!!
Although the costs show up if you have a 6* rank 2, those costs aren't guaranteed to be the final costs. Until they were introduced into the game, rank 5/65 originally showed as requiring four T5B instead of two. So I would consider those costs tentative.
I also think they will do what they did with Act 5 and create another difficulty of monthly event when you beat a certain part of Act 6. This would allow them to make items more readily available for people.
r5 1000%
There is no decision. Rank Void 100 times before Gulk.