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Worthless 1/5 star characters.
GhostStalker
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Should I keep them or not? Is it time to start trashing fully equipped legendary characters, since many newer 4* are stronger? First world problems, right?
Examples: Frank Hollander and Bashir, Julian Bashir
Examples: Frank Hollander and Bashir, Julian Bashir
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Discovery's 5* cards are the among most powerful in the game. Burnham, Lorca, Culber, Tilly, pretty much all of them. As of today. If you want to " think fourth dimensionally" and do well at this game, you'll want the powerful cards. Which brings me to your other argument... As more and more cards come in, the chances of getting one I need drop. Similarly, the older ones become even more useless.
Meanwhile, I'm starting to become less likely to buy packs, because I keep getting all immortal beholds. Therefore, I sincerely doubt I will ever FF these 5* cards. They're basically just slots I've wasted.
EDIT: A possible rebuttal to my argument would be that Data and Bashir are often event characters, so I could use them. This is true, but they aren't my only 5* that I don't think I've ever used for anything. I just picked two.
Alright, I have my own problems with Discovery, but I'm not going to deny that it's the direction the people IN CHARGE of Star Trek want to take their intellectual property.
In any case, they're also VERY STRONG cards which I would LOVE to have. Because that's the point of this game. Now quit changing the subject, the point is older 5* that aren't strong anymore.
Are we complaining about power creep?
About how diluted the portal pool is?
Do you actually want to hear others' opinions on this topic? That was my initial thought, but your response to RikerWasNumber1 makes me think that you don't.
I don't think the topic is whether Discovery is Star Trek or not.
I don't either, but I was referring to the first reply to RikerWasNumber1, not the second.
Actually, Hollander is very useful in Data events because he has skills (CMD) that the other versions of Data don’t normally have... the same applies to some mirror versions like Bashir who has ENG instead of MED... so unless you have ten MED shuttles in a Bashir event, he’s useful to have.
I have only airlocked deformed Martok in a crew slot crisis because I couldn’t stand looking at him anymore. If I were to run out of crew slots again and couldn’t freeze some 4/4*, then I would pick non-leveled, non-recurring, two skill (maybe older with poor stats), 1/5* to airlock and probably one I didn’t care for. Looking at my current roster that may include things Chris Pike and Dr. Soong.
If we just use ownership of Intellectual Property as validation, then Michael Jacksons cover of "Come Together" should be lauded by all Beatles fans, as well as Frampton fans should be all ga-ga over Regae versions of Baby I Love Your Way. Yeah they had rights to do it, but that doesn't make them in the vein of what they came from.....
I'm kinda over the whole Discovery thing having just moved over to other Franchises going in directions I enjoy, but arguments like the above put my teeth on edge.
If you play the game because you love Trek and want to collect one of everybody, especially if they might someday be situationally useful in an event or gauntlet or achievement, keep your 1/5s and airlock/cryostorage your 2/3 and lesser-used 4 stars instead.
The long-haul argument applies here.
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I currently have 100 crew slots and of these, 32 are 5 star crew. Only the event crew since borg event are at 4/5 while a handful - shinzon, kal if fae Kirk, 1701 sisko are at 2/5 while all the rest are all 1/5, all level 100. My logic was a 1/5 should be better than a 1/2 out of 4. Howcwrong was I!!??
I've got every 1 and 2 star character in the game frozen and am trying to work my way through the 3 star crew. The constant new 4 stars normally go in the bin unless i get them up to 3/4 in the event yet im really struggling with space.
I need the older 5 stars to come out if hiding to fuse them, but the chance to do this is very very low. If DB did an offer for me to "fuse 4 crew" for 19.99 i'd but it. Also i cannot see that happening
The epitome of a worthless 1/5. Not even 300 on the secondary skill. She used to be decent for a gauntlet here or there, but not worth it for that anymore either unless at 65%.
I should probably send her out the air-lock, but just can’t bring myself to ditch a 5* card that I busted my balls to earn in an event.
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The only place I still use him is in the arena. I want to get him to 5/5* because he is a favorite of mine but I just can’t justify the honor expense it would take to do it when there are no other benefits. For collection puspises, 1/5* is okay by me.
In fact, the only legendary I ever tossed out of the airlock (besides Mirror Picard #6) was Convergence Day Quark. This was in the dark times before honor and citations where I knew without a doubt that I wouldn’t spend a single dilithium crystal on packs to FF him and I really needed the space. He went out alongside my second FF/FE Captain Janeway (who was one of the best SRs in those days) and my 1/4* Rianna Mayweather. These days, crew slots aren’t as critical (currently 189/195 with more due to free up after the end of this mega) and I have no problem playing the long game when it comes to fusing crew that have been power-creeped into obsolescence.
I like the "off-brand" main cast varieties. Benny Russell is the primarily science Benjamin Sisko that can come in pretty handy. Musketeer La Forge, Mademoiselle de Neuf and Detective Data are security-primary versions of normally science/engineering type characters. For super rares, there's Klingon O'Brien (diplomacy primary) and Undercover O'Brien (security primary), and Galen Picard (science primary).
I've previously airlocked Captain Pike for precisely the reasons you stated, and I have Lissan sitting around 1/5 and level 1 so she's always on the airlock bubble. Dr Chaotica would be on that list as well if I hadn't fully equipped him.
Besides there are no bad 5* Bashir cards really.
-Alternate Future is extremely high MED, and he's great for gauntlet with his MED/SCI/COM combo if needed.
-Mirror Bashir gives his variant some rare ENG which is pretty good base stat wise, he's also not bad for a gauntlet
-Bashir, Julian Bashir ties in a nice MED/SEC combo, and he's strong in both DIP and MED and he's pretty great for voyages, in fact all of his 5* versions are.
Actually, Bashir is one of the rare characters who covers all the skills with his variants.
COM - Alternate Future Bashir
DIP - Bashir, Julian Bashir
ENG - Mirror Bashir
SEC - Mirror Bashir, Bashir, Julian Bashir
MED - Bashir, Julian Bashir, Alternate Future Bashir
SCI - Alternate Future Bashir
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