Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9083608-20130507011607/@comment-8284783-20130508151041

Optimx wrote: Doh! Wish I saw this thread before I ranked my slipstream with no alt mode to 55...but my deck is still weak, less than 4000, so I guess it'll still help. Onto the firestars...

Quick side question, did the bosses at the end of the event give out the gold medals? I never fought a boss higher than a level 5 Arcee, which only gave silver medals.

That Slipstream should still prove useful, even though you cannot later Trans-Scan it, because it will still get a X2 bonus in the next event.

I did the last event using strictly non MTM'ed cards, and still managed to make it up to rank ~1200 (with 2.5mil reward points). Actually, the only card I had that was trans-scanned was my starting Ravage (yes, I purposely chose the worst possible starting decepticon, just because I liked him more :P).

The reason people say not to bother with him is because, ultimately, if you cannot MTM a card, then it will never reach its full potential, meaning it is bound to replaced at one point or another. But if that "point" is far away in time, then it doesn't hurt putting in a couple cards to upgrade its level some and get better stats.

Ironically, I recently trans-scanned all my raid cards with the intent of eventually MTM'ing them, but I'm wondering if maybe I should've kept them "untrans-scanned" for a little longer to have a bigger line-up of R4 decepticons for the new event (an MTM'ed card is only 1.8 times as stronger as its regular maxed counterpart, so by keeping them separate at max level, you actually end up with a more powerful deck; until you can fill in the spots, that is).