Board Thread:Current Episode Discussion/@comment-12362668-20140611191407/@comment-24829928-20140612020043

Corran.horn333 wrote: Ok, thanks all!

I went into this episode with ~600 BC but not a single EC. The main thing I was starting to wonder is if it is better to burn EC I earn to get more, or just stockpile and you answered that! I hope I can grind enough rubies for the lvl 5, because I know I won't get into T1 and T2 may be a stretch.

What would be the way to proceed in terms of resource management? I am 1 shotting everything so far up to lvl 5s, I'm just worried that my mostly Decepticon deck is weak compared to my normal one that has MTM Moonracer x3 with weapons and MTM Sunstreaker with weapon. IMO, I would stick to 1-cubing and hitting the "help" button. You'll still walk away with the day-one ECs and like break even, or make more back, on BCs. Also, it is a raid. You get the points no matter if you 1-cube or solo the boss, not like TvTs. So, no need to go all out, when you can merely hand off the boss to 50k DP folks, for the same point returns.

New decks have few options for "optimizing", so you're usually better off hitting the "recommend" button on day one of events. While not that useful later on, when you have 20+ MTM cards with weapons to rotate, the game deck builder's automatically shifting around faction and similar bonuses to the frontline. That usually squeezes out a few more DP points on new decks.

Hell, my deck has 2 Moonracers and a Sunstreaker, but DP is better with the decepticon Howlback, Hook, and Skullcrusher in the leader spots, due to the 1.5x faction bonus. Granted, shifting a deck to make use of episode bonuses tend to make you lose any PvP encounter you might have... but really, PvP fights are not that important these days.