OK, my F2P brethren (and sistren?), I need your advice. My willpower holding onto free summon opportunities is usually pretty strong, but I’m really tempted by the costume portal right now. My plan was this:
- Use all challenge coins in June (targeting Falcon and Jackal; I only have the bat)
- Use all EHTs in July, assuming Sand Empire slops over from June (targeting Jabbar and Gafar, and would be ecstatic over Yunan; already have Hisan)
- Use all costume keys in July (assuming July HotM will be some kind of red Telly counter, and I have the rings)
- Maybe use Atlantis pulls in July (it will only be two or three at most; this would again be based on a HotM that I want in July)
- Probably hold Valhalla coins, assuming the really big dogs will be at the end of S3, but again if the July HotM is awesome, I could be persuaded.
But here we are in May, and I’m thinking about burning my costume keys. We still don’t know that Sand Empire will go into July, and we don’t know who the HotM will be that month anyway. They could be as bad as Raffale is expected to be in June. Advantages for pulling now:
- Domitia is featured. She’s my strongest hero by TP (and at +17, it isn’t close), my defense team tank, and a hero that I use almost everywhere. Even if the costume is garbage (and I don’t think it is) it would be worth it for her stat boosts alone.
- Magni is also featured, and I don’t have him at all. Both he and his costume would be great additions, and I do have the scopes.
- Clarissa is clearly a great HotM (bird in the hand, and all that), but I’m out of tabards, having ascended Sartana not long ago.
- Some of the new four-tier costumes look pretty good, especially Caedmon, for a green cleanser.
- I would have just enough keys to open the ascension mats chest, not that I ever get anything good anyway.
On the con side:
- Fewer potential pulls for July if the HotM is OP
- I have all of the old three-star costumes except Hawkmoon and all the old four-star costumes except Li Xiu from last time I pulled, so a high chance for a lot of dupes.
- Will almost certainly need to use gems to add roster space (100 gems for 5 slots), as I don’t currently hold some of the three-stars that got costumes this time (Renfeld, Azar, Prisca, Isshtak). I have been saving Google Play credit hoping that and gems will let me do a 10-pull during Guardians or Sand Empire if I don’t get who I’m targeting with my other pulls.
So what do you guys say? Try for some shiny new toys now, or hold firm and put most of my eggs in the potential-Telly-counter July HotM?