"Tanzos;c-1745639" wrote:
"Liath;c-1745566" wrote:
Improving your roster towards a particular goal takes time. If you expect to do anything in this game “right now” then you generally have to spend money to get it done.
No, you can’t downgrade those characters, but you can improve the rest of your roster around them so that they are a smaller and therefore less relevant portion of it. The highest number of character teams you need to place on defense in this mode is 7. Figure out the 7 best defense teams and the 7 best offensive counters to those teams. Build those characters. If you have them all perfect, it doesn’t much matter what the rest of your roster looks like. And the closer you get to this ideal, the less it will matter what the rest of your roster looks like.
Saying you can’t do anything to improve in this game mode is defeatist nonsense.
Unfortunately raising characters to G12 just puts me against players who have more G12 than before. The difference, in theory, remains the same. The "fluff" still exists and will always be dead weight until they stop release new characters and everyone gears every character because there's nothing else to do, or the release a lot more "useless" characters that no one will gear up. Niether of those will happen.
I've always focused on top tier characters, I G12+ C-3PO 2 days after unlocking. I have never neglected top tier characters. The problem is my GP is quite literally inflated. I don't use actual useable gear on useless characters, so I haven't been using gear unwisely. Leveling to 85, starring to 7*, gearing to purple and upgrading abilities to 7 hasn't hindered my top roster development. I just don't hoard that stuff.
I have a ton of credits, 73mil and no one left to level up. I have tons of purple mats (224) that only 20 characters aren't all at ability lvl 7 (I stopped once GA became a thing). All the 7* came from bronzium, and assault battles or events. Again, I just don't sit on it.
What am I going to do with 224 purple mats if only takes 30ish for a Zeta?
It's not like I wasted those materials, I just didn't sit on them.
That's my point. There is such an excess of materials that there's no point in hoarding them so I use them. Some don't for no legitimate reason other than to hoard.
If I took all the levels off, abilities back to 1, unstarred the characters I don't use, and geared them back to 1, my top tier of characters would NOT get better. I would just be sitting on even more materials have a ton of already.
Does anyone understand the difference I'm saying? My choice wasn't to waste materials on useless characters, it was to not sit on materials I have a gigantic pile of.
I understand over time it will balance out but that would take a very long time because now no one is going to upgrade the useless characters now that GA is a thing. So I'll continue to stay a step behind until the "good" characters now become useless.
I didn’t say anything about you wasting materials. I said that if you want to improve your roster for GA going forward you can do so.
It’s not true that nobody will gear up useless characters, because the game is constantly providing new reasons to do so. I have a bunch of g7-8 characters, but I don’t consider them fluff because I generally had a reason to put them there — legendary and HJ events, assault battles, TB requirements, the old mod battles, and whatever. I don’t expect things like that to go away because the devs are always trying to come up with reasons to make you work on more people.
It’s a spectrum, not an absolute. It’s not like there are two types of people in the game and every roster is either perfectly lean or perfectly fluffy. Maybe you won’t ever be able to beat the top 1% of lean rosters in GA, but you can improve your roster and improve the percentage of battles you can win/keep close.
