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heh sadly only 2* or better

yeah but given the # of 2 star covers they drop, that's no problem xp

I thought I saw that you'd be able to respec on the fly for your champions, which would be cool, especially for like Hood & Blade

Aw man, they've already broken the balance of the game, let's just go full-on hilarious

otoh I am looking forward to Iron Fist becoming even more of a screaming nightmare than he already is

so jealous of you there, my IF is only 3-3-5

here's the champion announcement video.

pay ISO to go into champion mode on a fully covered character (looks like 5000 ISO for 3*s) which allows free respecs. then each cover gains a level, no iso needed, and you get rewards for each level -- different rewards for every character, lots of CP. max of 50 levels for 2*s and 100 levels for others.

i'll probably go for OBW first. i wonder if any whales will try for level 550 5*s.

it does give me some incentive to max out some of those 2*s like Ares and Ms. Marvel.
sounds like another massive iso sink to distract me from finishing off my 3* roster! makes sense.

I might prioritize Patch and Lazy Daken for this

yeah, this is a smart move. i started saving common cover tokens this week and am up to like 34.

I had 70 including vault tokens but broke and spent a bunch trying to get a Mystique cover (didn't work)

Currently I have 83 standard tokens, 12 heroics, and then 26 other event tokens, with 51 and 19 (I forgot to play one day!) taco tokens.

OBW definitely going to be one of my first champion priorities, I want to love her again, as well as 2* Storm. As for 3*s, Patch, Loki, R&G, Hood, IF, Cage... well, almost all of them, lol.

I can't grind enough to get the legendary token---I don't think? it seems totally unreachable every time.

As for getting the Legendaries in PVE, you just ("just") need to play each node in each sub-mission 3 times (doesn't matter when exactly), and you'll be close enough to getting the token with a final grind on the last day.

hmm... i'll give that a try on the next PVE. too late for this one
basically i've been grinding the 4* nodes and the final node (if i can get that far) for the CP. never came remotely close enough to getting the Legendary reward, though.

the idea of OBW or 2-star Storm with a sensible number of hit points is very appealing (ditto Loki/Hood)

k, they changed the character card interface obviously in antipication of the new Champions thing, but it's turned off, so it's just a blank area at the bottom of the screen. odd

People on the forum were saying that D3 has to make sure that everyone who's playing has downloaded the latest patch first before they turn on championing on the server-side.

... Why? All they need to do is check the version and pop up their "hey dummy, update yr app" message

have they ever forced an app update? i think you can keep running old versions for a while even if they bug you

Sometimes they force updates.

Anyway, Champing is coming tomorrow:

https://d3go.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=37610

Also can't buy covers with HP starting tomorrow, but I don't think anyone here does that.

as far as i'm concerned that's great; those were the lamest temptation

i think this is gonna be a big across the board rebalance, which is cool imo

Command Points can be used to purchase Ability Level Upgrades for 3 and 4-Stars (20 and 120 respectively).

it is a bad deal IMO; the chance of a 5* makes legendary tokens much better

maybe. one thing's for sure, i'll actually be completing Deadpool Dailies for the 3* card again...

yeah I'd skipped deadpool daily for a few weeks but then I decided to try to take lady thor (5-3-4) to her level cap & by golly wow that takes a lot of iso.

I like all these changes a lot btw.

pushed back to tonight

Every time you get a 3* to level 167, you get a legendary token. Nice.

Hmm considering I have four dudes at 162 right now this is good news.

Cashed in all my tokens! With all the Legendaries from champing, I pulled the last three 4*s that I've been missing (purple Prof X to boot!), ~AND~ I got another Star-lord! Best MPQ day ever!

7500 iso to upgrade 3*, 5000 for 2*, quite reasonable. Only had enough ISO to upgrade one character (Doctor Doom, figured since he was yesterday's Deadpool reward), gonna be grinding for a ton now.

Rumor on the forum is that if you champion and fully level Bagman, you unlock Gorgon!

i heard it was noob saibot

Lol.

Man, I have 3 3* Bullseye covers and 2 3* Spideys and 1 Mohawk in various stages of decay, and would need about another 30-40K in ISO to 166 any of them. Decisions! (Of course, now that I've caved and bought HP, I might as well buy ISO!)

that's how they get you.
actually i may take advantage of the game shift to go on hiatus. probably healthier.

xp yeah this is the first time i've ever seriously considered buying ISO

The one year no one gave me an iTunes gift card is the one year I'd actually use it right away (on this dumb game that I play while pooping and waiting in lines).

They'd have to increase the amount of iso in those packages by at least 5x for me to even consider it. this is the first time i've depleted my is in like a couple of weeks but in that time i got, what, 40k or so? not worth 50 bucks to buy something that i'll end up having in a short amount of time just by playing the dang game

altho i gotta say it is really tempting me to start cracking the seal on these taco tokens, i've got 37/29... i wanna hit 50 first tho i think.

also lol. i had my 166 dr doom (5/5/3) with two purple covers sitting in the reserve, while I wondered if I would make him 5/3/5. Then I championed him and burned thme to get him to 168 and I was like "SHIT, I WANTED TO MAKE HIM 5/3/5, I CAN'T BELIEVE I DID THAT" then i remembered champion lets you do that. duhhhh

and here i thought i was done chasing OBW covers

So what is the ultimate goal as a player here? Hoard every cover 2* and up in the possibility that we'll Champion all of them a go for these rewards? Because I doubt I'll be able to get enough ISO in 13 days before these rewards expire.

Like there's no way I'm going to 166 my Falcon or Mystique that soon, so should I just bite the bullet and sell them for ISO?

Yeah, my level 44 Mohawk was set to expire in < 23 hours, so I preemptively sold her.

My main goal, once I figured out how the mechanism worked, was to get as many Legendaries as I could while still keeping enough ISO around in case I wanted to 166 another character. Clearly, this is the best way for me to make that 4* transition.

I also have only about 7 2* characters left, and I only keep the covers for 2*s I don't have in my queue so that I can roster them when they're essentials. Yes, it'd be nice to get their 3* rewards, but not at a cost of a roster spot and leveling them up for 70K+ ISO.

The 3* Champion rewards are really good, naturally - eventually you can get two 4*s out of it
Champion'd a 2* Human Torch to see what you get out of it -not as good, but some Command Points and 3* version of the HT, which I already have 166'd, so I can use them at that point.

I have 600+ pts to go in Shield Simulator to get to 2000 in 3 days so... sigh guess I'll grind that

You can get three 4*s, actually! One for each color.

Here's a crowdsourced spreadsheet of the rewards: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cDCzOzQPZ0juvWhiID8POYsQMQR27sTPyLhupCYcInY/edit#gid=673002743

I'm in the same boat as you with the Simulator Got a Gamora (168!) and a Patch, and probably a MagNow (101!)). And, I only just got my 10-pack after a grind tonight, I'm way off my PVP game lately.

heh it's a trip watching ppl edit that spreadsheet in real time

from my legendary tokens today:
Ghost Rider black
IW green
DP black
Carnage green
Hulkbuster black
5* Phoenix red -- now I have all three 5*s with one cover
Falcap yellow -- no space for him, will probably sell it

I have 30 maxed 3*s so there's more to come.

I championed lazy daken & loki this morning, that's all the iso I had. I'll have enough for a third champion after deadpool daily today, then I'll champion doom. those are all the ones I had 2 covers sitting around already. with those 2 legendaries I drew my first kingpin and my second 4 star falcon (2 in blue now). I have 100 tokens sitting around with a ten pack but I'm gonna wait a bit longer to draw them.

I championed 3-* Falcon because:

a) I drew that card when opening my 75 tokens yesterday
b) My SamCap is 1-1-1 and Falcon can feed him 3 more cards
c) I love him

I also championed several 2s mostly to farm the rewards (OBW, MHawk, MagNow)

I also drew a SWitch cover that finally got her to 13

I was sitting on enough ISO to champion another 3* but instead I lvled Nick Fury to 128 and came SO CLOSE to taking down Silly Buffed Magneto (got him to 1097 before he fired Magnetized Projectiles) on my second attempt; I think I should get that legendary token today.