Just saw these pop up... are they worthwhile?

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These are the aforementioned tournaments. I wouldn't specifically try to get anywhere in those, since you'll have no real chance of actually winning them, and the individual rewards aren't necessary for you right now.

Perfect, thanks for the advice

To the OP.  As a new player, THERE IS NO QUESTION 2x is the best to open shards. You are looking to expand your pool of players, but at the same time looking to get better players in that pool (as opposed to trash).  Leggos are on average much better thane epics which are much better than rares.

Fill our roster with the best champs using the shards you have under the best conditions!!! 2x.

As you advance though, you will want to consider other options.  That should have been the end of this thread.  

Let us know when you have a respectible roster and may want to consider the other alternatives.

So should I use my 2 or not?

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Everyone  but  me  says  not  to.  Theyre  more  experienced  so...  I  think  your  first  will  be  an  epic  and  how  do  you  know  youll  be  here  in  a  month  certainly  not  without  getting  any  shiny  new  toys.  Think  youll  get  some  epic  from   your  ancients  which  could  tide  you  over.  1-2  shards  isnt  making  or  breaking  anything.  

How  long  you  played  and  where  are  you?  I  used  2  green  for  a  week  im  sure,  then  had  4  blue  champs  even  ranked  and  leveled  them  to  40.  Cant  say  when  i  got  epics  but  had  plenty  before  high  katun  at  4  weeks.

Been playing for 6 days, L29 and 0 epic champs, lol

Yes! You should use them now as a brand new player.  No doubt.  Now, I wouldn't get my hopes up, your odds of an leggo or even epic are still very small (BUT DOUBLE). And even if you get one it most likely will not be god tier.  But your odds for getting something useful as a brand new player will not be this good again for 6 weeks.

lol, talked me into plus i'm impatent!  any good?

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Check  out  ayumilove  website.  Just  from  their  description  and  skills.  Warcaster  Unkillable  on  all  allies  if  even  for  1  turn  is  pretty  big.  More  for  arena  and  it  says  campaign  which  isnt  what  tou  want  right  now  better  to  do  dungeons  but  likely  better  than  anything  else  youve  got  besides  your  main.  Stealing  and  blocking  buffs  can  be  useful  too  but  wasted  some  on  grunts  and  hordes  whos  buffs  matter  less. 

eviscerator  it  says  isnt  great  anywhere  but  poison  on  a1  and  dec  def  on  a2,  good  boss/  dungeon  support  if  she  can  stay  alive  and  until  someone  better  comes  along.  Passive  seems  extra  good  counter  attacks  anyone  who  heals  or  buffs.  Thats  free  hits  that  can  add  poison.

Warcaster was one of my first and went a good way for me, as an early account.  Also is cluth in some early CB builds but I'm not intimate with them.  Eviscerator I've never used.  Definitily keep them both if you have room, but Warcaster for sure.  Never good to eat the only copy of a void unless it's absolutly necessary.

Warcaster will do some work for you for sure! Congrats! 

And, side note for way down the line, you are halfway to an unkillable CB comp ALREADY too. So that's really fortunate.

I'm going to disagree with this. You should be saving those up and only using them during fusion/fragment events that give champions worth chasing. You don't have the resources to be able to just use them on every 2x weekend.

Hold on to Warcaster for now. He is used in some endgame teams. I wouldn't level either of them though. Just stick em in your vault, neither are worth investing in right now.

One last thing I'd caution you on, OP (I just randomly chose this thread to say this). There are many people on these forums whose advice is almost always worth following.

However, there are also people, especially those who don't post often, that you should be cautious about listening to. Not every piece of advice is going to have the same value. If you have a thread where you ask for advice on something, and you get an accurate response, you'll usually know, because you won't get a parade of people subsequently posting that the advice is incorrect.

I'd wait on any responses before just immediately taking them to heart. We're pretty good at setting the record straight, so if you wait even a half hour, it'll probably be enough time for mistakes to be pointed out.

I respect your opinion and what you suggest is primarliy what I do. At the same time I'm going to disagree with you regarding a brand new account.  It took me 9 months to complete my first fusion, and I never would have done it without opening shards before that.  Should they really wait that long to open the first few shards to get a few starter champs?  At this point, brand new, the player needs champs. They are not going to get them from mystery shards.

At my level, I don't open unless its a 2x/10x simultaneous, or a 2x chase/summoning, or a 2x garanteed, or a 2x get one get another free.  But we are talking about a brand new accouint.

A brand new account may open some shards to get started during the first occuring 2x event for each shard type. But I would definetly keep most resources. Early on (day 6, before you can farm 12-3 brutal) you have neither the energy to farm XP for new champions, nor the gear to equip a lot of them. You get some artifacts in campaign, that is good enough to equip your starter champ and 2 or 3 others. You need patience in the game.

Thing is - you can do pretty much all of the content you need with just your starter champ and free champs. Is it going to be a bit slower? Sure. But those shards are really, really hard to come by early on, and missing out on an important fusion event because you used them on a 2x is hard to recover from.

Still - I'm not completely sold on my own analysis, as I mentioned earlier. I can definitely see both sides - good old compounded return on investment, right?

Well, you are making a valid point. But is his starter champ, at 6/60, going to be able to complete all tourny/event for a fusion/frag?  Is he supposed to wait until that's possible?  You say you can do all of the content..yes, CB, Arena, Dungions, but what about all the tourny/event?  

Thing is, even out of an event or 2x, your chances of pulling say, Blind Seer, or Cardiel, just for example, while not double, are still not significantly (practiclal significance) lower than during an event.  

Let me ask you this.  If he doesn't open any shards, other than mystery, how long do you think it would take to be able to complete a fusion (other than Rhazin)?

That might actually be a decent milestone.  If you have not completed Rhazin, work on that. If you have, save up shards for other fusions?

Aorry to show my incompetence but what is an unkillable CB comp ?