Board Thread:Current Episode Discussion/@comment-12362668-20140611191407/@comment-24829928-20140612002534

Random points incoming...

No cards through points this raid, really? Ouch. That takes some of my motivation out when my only "100%" R5 is ruby grind (can never really be certain where I am in ranks).

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Corran.horn333  -  " Get ready to stockpile EC day one and double/triple your BC stockpile the rest of the week as the few EC you stored are slowly drained away!" - How do you stockpile your energon other than being smart about not dumping cubes for stupid reasons?

All bosses in the first 24 hours (roughly, it can be 24, or shorter, depends on when day 2 update hits), give a small EC as the "first attack" reward. You pull roughly 1-3 boss encounters for every small EC spent, meaning you either break even or put more EC away during the first day of any raid event than you put in. Granted, ever since Level 9 bosses were introduced and this whole "get more BCs than you spend" thing happened, many players have to blow any EC they gained day one just to maintain their rank throughout the week.

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Newbie strat for raids are fairly simple (imo):

1. Like I said, day 1 means you get small EC (small energon charges) from bosses. For new players with little or no resources stockpiled, the more EC you can start putting away for a rainy day, the better.

2. As the week progresses, the Level 8 and Level 9 bosses will appear. New decks may not have the pull to solo them, so you may be better off 1-cubing them and then clicking that "help" button. You may not get that XX BC reward for mvp, but as a new player you want the points really. More points means more point rewards and maybe an easy to hit T3, maybe T2 ranking.

3. That said, if you can solo Level 9s, even 3-cubing them... do so. Judging from recent raids, the rewards, especially mvp, will return more BC than the 3 you put into the boss. I forget exact number (anyone, feel free to correct this), but I think the last raid was returning 5 BCs, between mvp and finisher rewards.

In short, more bosses more benefits... which is why you see so many consider raid events a massive grindfest.