Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11179649-20130707191526/@comment-9971098-20130707222058

For me it's getting harder and harder to be confident with the recommend feature. I'm basing this solely on the event periods though. I try to max all my level 4 weapons which has left me with more with roughly twenty to choose from. That way if you don't get a signature weapon, like Barrage in the last event, at least you'll have a powerful weapon to choose from. I'm the type that opens all medals during an event and I've been lucky finding R4 weapons. I've also been playing long enough to have either a full Autobot deck or Decepticon R4 deck, even if it means a weaker card or two. The faction bonus easily makes up for that in my opinion.

Last event I didn't use the recommend feature at all and ended up with a deck power of 2k greater than what the AI suggested that I go with. None of my weapons were matching up and it kept wanting to substitute Autobots where Decepticons should be. I ended up getting one half of a X5 card and one half of a X3 card but the recommend feature didn't even suggest using those.

I've written down the stats of all my R4 cards so I'll know which is best to put where. The middle cards in the first row I generally always go with health/defense since it protects your major raid card and you want that one protected as long as possible. That's where deck power and the amount of damage you can deal plays havoc with your deck rating. Though substituting health/defense for attack strength might lower your deck rating, it can also leave your major card a longer opportunity to deal a triple or critical hit.

So basically what I'm saying is there might not be an answer to your question. It's just something that you'll have to play around with until you're comfortable with your deck.