should i upgrade my fila-mint?

I personally would save the mints for the next experiment  experimint!

I upgraded my filamint to level 8 this morning, but in reality I rarely to never use it. Will the 25x mint packs be used for something else in the future?

@MAGICDAVESHROOM

I was chatting online with someone who has the Fila-mint. They also have it powered up to level 10. Their opinion is that it's just a useless gimmick , even when powered up to level 10. They said all it does in Battlez is take up a valuable plant slot that would be far better utilized by another plant (Premium or otherwise) that would be working throughout the entire match instead of just for a few seconds at a time.

I have just over 1200 Power-mints and as yet I feel no inclination to use any of them. Even if I do decide to get the Fila-mint, I certainly wouldn't use it in Battlez. 

@MAGICDAVESHROOM

LOL! 'Minted'. I see what you did there. 😃

The person I chatted with about the Fila-Mint had what I felt was a good suggestion when it comes to the Power Mint plants. As they're in effect a Power boost with a limited duration, instead of us having to commit a valuable plant slot to them, they could be put where the Power Snow, Power Toss, Power Zap, and/or the Power Flame are placed in the single player game.

I've found that I often don't make use of the 'Plant Of The Week' during many of the Battlez matches I've played. This is mainly because some have proved to be totally unsuited to the faster pace and tougher Zombies in the Battlez environment. That leaves me with just 5 plant slots to work with, and there's no way I'd sacrifice one of them for what amounts to a temporary boost that I MIGHT be able to use twice during a match.

I get the impression that the people who came up with the Power Mint concept did so with just one purpose - to encourage players into playing more Battlez matches than they otherwise might and end up having to pay to play. 

To do that, people have to use Gauntlets. Gems are needed to purchase Gauntlets and CASH is needed to purchase Gems. This is unless you VERY SLOOOOOWLY build up sufficient Gems to exchange for Gauntlets. (This excludes the hackers who never need to purchase anything because they have thousands or even millions of Gems.)

Okay, I know there's the 2 daily free Gauntlets and the Free Plays every 4 hours, and I ALWAYS make the most of that, but EA know that most people will eventually be tempted into purchasing Gems at some point. I still have unused Gems left over from the Pre-Battlez era, so with careful management I have yet to reach the point where that particular temptation hits.

Even if someone opts for what EA laughably refer to as the 'Best Value' option of 1800 Gems for $99.99, each Gem will cost five and a half cents. (MUCH higher on the other options). If they also go for the 'Best Value' option of 36 Gauntlets for 150 Gems, each Gauntlet costs just over four Gems. (MUCH higher on the other options). Multiply the Gem cost by the Gauntlet cost and it works out to around 22 CENTS per match - MINIMUM, and up to 50 CENTS per match if the lower value options are used. 

With that in mind, OF COURSE EA want us to go on a Power Mint hunt. It's just a shame for them that their chosen 'Bait' has turned out to be so useless. I can't help but wonder if any of the developers and/or EA executives ever even play Battlez? If they did, they'd soon see that the Mint plants are a total waste of time and space.

Totally agree with you two.
So far Fila-mint is more a gimmick plant that just waste time and slot, especially in Battlez.
The idea of having just one extra slot for power mint could be really interesting. Then you would have to adapt your stategy, is it more interesting that I play Fila-mint, Reinforcement-mint, whatever new mint, etc ? It would add a layer on your strategy and make power-mint interesting to play.

And yes the business model is so wrong. Some levels can't even be finished just with only normal plants and without power boost (spent sooo many coins in Wild West - Day 35 due to thoses f... chickens ! >_<).
And 5.49€ for each premium plant, so more than 100€/£/$ to get all prem plant ? Seriously ? 
But I guess they won't change it, we have to deal with it