User blog comment:Tappingplayer/Power Creep and Injustice/@comment-75.159.107.64-20161002163838

I started playing about a year ago but didn't start playing the online MP until about 2 or 3 months later. When I started playing I was focused on just getting to the end of the game. That was super challenging since I refused to buy power credits. My first challenge character was BNMH who has never been elited. I remember being so stoked to get him as he became an anchor around which I built my team (along with Doomsday prime).

When I finally started to play in the multiplayer online seasons, it was such a grind to get into the top 5 then 3 and eventually 1 percent. However, with time and patience, I was able to obtain enough copies of all of the MP reward characters to bring them to E7. Those are the characters that I use as the core for my online teams. I do have all of the new characters too, plus the credits to level them to E7, but I don't feel the need to rush and do that since I still play and enjoy those new characters even if they are not fully elited (eg, I play my I2SM, I2AM and JLWW, all E3).

I still finish top 100 in the MP season and I'm happy with that. I think that, in the majority of cases, the matching in the online battles works reasonably well so that regardless of the team I'm rolling I have a fair chance to win against my competition. One of my complaints is that with the influx of new players and the ease of getting the SS characters, every team you face now has 1-3 SS characters on it which makes the game a bit repetitive and boring.

My biggest complaint overall, which you also made, is that certain characters, like DoJBM are so difficult to get. On Batman day I bought about 55 DoJ packs, and got one of each of the DoJ characters (I got zero DoJBM cards, in March, when the movie event was on). While I did say I don't need every character at E7, I do prefer my teams to be made up of a minimum of E2s (or E5s) so I was a little choked to have not gotten a few more of the DoJBM. Meanwhile I have enough copies of DoJ SM and WW to make them E6 but I'm keeping them at E5 hoping that one day I will get enough DoJBM to make that team.

Anyway, I don't want you to take my comments as disagreeing with anything you've said, as I don't really, but only to illustrate that if you are like me, and don't concern yourself with rolling the most powerful characters available at any given time, you can still have fun, be competitive, do well with and enjoy the older cards (at least the good ones 😉).

Good hunting,

Gorthrax