I'm now at level 77 and my biggest pain point is still blue gear!!! I thousands of purple and orange gear and it's super frustrating because I really don't wanna waste campaign energy on the early nodes
God tell me about it! I have purples and oranges for literal days, but I can’t farm stupid blue mutant bits to save my life. I’ve spent thousands of energy on early campaign because there’s just no alternative
@ScottGimpel the problem is once you start doing u7 or doom campaigns, later campaign nodes are your only way to get blue ability mats, and also blue training mats, so the value is awful
Hey! Just wanna point out that you need to be level 70 to go into DD2 because you need gear tier 13 characters, and for that you need lvl 70 characters unfortunately. The big problem for me rn (im level 73) is the blue ability mats, my alliance needs to do u6 which slows down a lot of more advanced players, only to get around 90 a day which is ridiculous. Purple ability mats and training mats are a problem too but not as much as the blue ones, which is really weird
I couldn't participate in lot of events even when I purchased strong and recent characters because restrictions based on your level. If I didn't already bought the teams then I would have quit. I purchased time heist and now can play almost all modes as level 87 (4.5 months in). My point is that it is a grind unless pay to fully play all modes.
I did ftp new player run takes about 90days to get to dd2 level then right around that time dd1 as well 120ish days dd3 170ish days dd 4 and I'm just now starting apoc saga and dd5 at 230ish days and still have blue gear issues and the biggest bottleneck of all is training mats have 10s of millions of gold but can't use it
my levle 86 account has over 700 godl orbs (after opening 200 for the recent event) but 0 training mats, and 0 blue spikey balls. if i farm the hard node campaigns for training mats i cant get past blue gear. if i farm blue gear i cant level them past 60!
just wait until you get to level 80+ all the big training mat drops are locked behind needing to use "tier 16+ toons in [event]" but you cant level anyone up because you dont have the training mats
*Read entire comment for actual suggestion to developers: I mean, as an experienced player who has purchased other players accounts ( just saying, no ill will) ... you do know this is a resource management game? You have wasted a ton of mats on a ton of characters that aren't needed in early game. It's exactly why you are experiencing the bottlenecks. Yeah, MSF needs to increase lower tier mats substantially, but If they had a design that unlocked current meta characters early and in a useful order (cadence) for new players, based on early game progression needs, then the new player experience would be great. Like seriously, who needs shield medic, luke cage, spiderman, crossbones and elecktra??? Why not create a campaign, or update the earlier campaigns, for new players where they can unlock reworked current meta caracters? The game should unlock a hero team example... Wave 1 Avengers, then a villan team, example ... Sinister Six, than a Cosmic Team, example... Bi Frost which can be used in the mythic campaign and section in raids later. The system floods new players with a bunch of characters and the new player does exactly what you did! (which is mind boggling because 90% of those toons should be sitting at level 1 still. Bro you should know better by now, your a friggen envoy playing a baby account as if you just installed the game for the first time) You created the bottleneck with your own actions. (Which we are all guilty of) If Scopely gated the majority of characters at the early stages of the game unlocking only seriously useful characters upfront, flooding the account with lower tier gear, then start flooding the new players with characters after they at least clear the mythic campaign... there won't be a huge bottleneck. And the player will learn by then how to manage resources. My 2 cents
I havent put any excess gear in any bad characters... all my gear has gone into xtreme, hivemind, sup6, and wave 1 (they need to be a certain size to unlock Doc Ock) I have one off characters like surfer who was a necessity to build to unlock the better characters. I have only put pieces of "wasted" gear on characters like Ikaris and Gamora as they will be able to solo shield war teams, and hand crucible teams. There is a very real blue bottle neck. And it makes no sense. ALL new players should be able to bring up ALL characters to gear 8 cause it affects nothing except lets them learn.
Fair enough. I definitely agree there is a blue bottleneck. (There is a serious purple unique bottleneck also) Part of that early game experience as you level though is the fact that as players we have to learn that there are restraints in gear and it's a resource management game. So investing in, even amazing characters, way too early before you need them specifically for exactly what your facing at that moment or about to face soon, is exasperating the bottleneck issue. That's the point I'm trying to make. I have a second account so I've done the whole baby account thing so I know what your going through.
I'm now at level 77 and my biggest pain point is still blue gear!!! I thousands of purple and orange gear and it's super frustrating because I really don't wanna waste campaign energy on the early nodes
God tell me about it! I have purples and oranges for literal days, but I can’t farm stupid blue mutant bits to save my life. I’ve spent thousands of energy on early campaign because there’s just no alternative
They need to update that TBH. I'll say that, if you need the gear, it's never a waste of campaign energy 🤷♂️
@ScottGimpel the problem is once you start doing u7 or doom campaigns, later campaign nodes are your only way to get blue ability mats, and also blue training mats, so the value is awful
It would help to increase the drop rates in the campaign. At least it would make target farming the pieces easier.
Blitz all you can to use those credits towards orbs. Blitz is the biggest resource for starters.
Hey! Just wanna point out that you need to be level 70 to go into DD2 because you need gear tier 13 characters, and for that you need lvl 70 characters unfortunately.
The big problem for me rn (im level 73) is the blue ability mats, my alliance needs to do u6 which slows down a lot of more advanced players, only to get around 90 a day which is ridiculous. Purple ability mats and training mats are a problem too but not as much as the blue ones, which is really weird
I couldn't participate in lot of events even when I purchased strong and recent characters because restrictions based on your level. If I didn't already bought the teams then I would have quit. I purchased time heist and now can play almost all modes as level 87 (4.5 months in). My point is that it is a grind unless pay to fully play all modes.
I did ftp new player run takes about 90days to get to dd2 level then right around that time dd1 as well 120ish days dd3 170ish days dd 4 and I'm just now starting apoc saga and dd5 at 230ish days and still have blue gear issues and the biggest bottleneck of all is training mats have 10s of millions of gold but can't use it
my levle 86 account has over 700 godl orbs (after opening 200 for the recent event) but 0 training mats, and 0 blue spikey balls. if i farm the hard node campaigns for training mats i cant get past blue gear. if i farm blue gear i cant level them past 60!
You have to be lvl 80 to unlock void knight? That’s brutal! Why are they doing character releases gated by lvl.
just wait until you get to level 80+
all the big training mat drops are locked behind needing to use "tier 16+ toons in [event]" but you cant level anyone up because you dont have the training mats
Blue gear is still a problem. It doesn't get much better.
I'm level 62 and can participate in the Green goblin trial.
I'm level 70 and still 15 blitz teams save squads max 15
They really try to make you spend early.
Your on point
*Read entire comment for actual suggestion to developers: I mean, as an experienced player who has purchased other players accounts ( just saying, no ill will) ... you do know this is a resource management game? You have wasted a ton of mats on a ton of characters that aren't needed in early game. It's exactly why you are experiencing the bottlenecks. Yeah, MSF needs to increase lower tier mats substantially, but If they had a design that unlocked current meta characters early and in a useful order (cadence) for new players, based on early game progression needs, then the new player experience would be great. Like seriously, who needs shield medic, luke cage, spiderman, crossbones and elecktra??? Why not create a campaign, or update the earlier campaigns, for new players where they can unlock reworked current meta caracters? The game should unlock a hero team example... Wave 1 Avengers, then a villan team, example ... Sinister Six, than a Cosmic Team, example... Bi Frost which can be used in the mythic campaign and section in raids later. The system floods new players with a bunch of characters and the new player does exactly what you did! (which is mind boggling because 90% of those toons should be sitting at level 1 still. Bro you should know better by now, your a friggen envoy playing a baby account as if you just installed the game for the first time) You created the bottleneck with your own actions. (Which we are all guilty of) If Scopely gated the majority of characters at the early stages of the game unlocking only seriously useful characters upfront, flooding the account with lower tier gear, then start flooding the new players with characters after they at least clear the mythic campaign... there won't be a huge bottleneck. And the player will learn by then how to manage resources. My 2 cents
I havent put any excess gear in any bad characters... all my gear has gone into xtreme, hivemind, sup6, and wave 1 (they need to be a certain size to unlock Doc Ock)
I have one off characters like surfer who was a necessity to build to unlock the better characters. I have only put pieces of "wasted" gear on characters like Ikaris and Gamora as they will be able to solo shield war teams, and hand crucible teams.
There is a very real blue bottle neck. And it makes no sense. ALL new players should be able to bring up ALL characters to gear 8 cause it affects nothing except lets them learn.
Fair enough. I definitely agree there is a blue bottleneck. (There is a serious purple unique bottleneck also) Part of that early game experience as you level though is the fact that as players we have to learn that there are restraints in gear and it's a resource management game. So investing in, even amazing characters, way too early before you need them specifically for exactly what your facing at that moment or about to face soon, is exasperating the bottleneck issue. That's the point I'm trying to make. I have a second account so I've done the whole baby account thing so I know what your going through.
shouldnt take 3 months to hit 70, im just over a month of playing and im lvl 68 and completely F2P