Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-20890655-20130930122133/@comment-13129747-20131001122833

Mobage has made it easier to get elite cards. It used to be very rare to get an R4 elite card from gold episode medals, but I'm seeing more of them and the occasional raid card. For instance, in this latest campaign on the first day I managed to pull a Galvatron bot card along with his weapon. Since then I've gotten a RamJet bot from medals along with 2 Galvatron weapons. I feel that even a a month or so ago this would have been very rare.

As has been said, start farming. By farming we mean when you are in any episode, play as long as you can by using 1 cube to kill bosses. Typically you'll get this cube back in the reward for defeating the boss. You can also gain energon doing this. Each time you increase your level you get another 3 cubes. If you are still able to 1 cube bosses that's another 3 cubes that go into your bank.

Each campaign has rewards for getting more points. It may be transmetal, better cards, etc. In the events where you are using energon nets, look at the cards stats and see if it will be strong enough to get into your deck. If you determine it isn't, save those nets for higher bosses or for the next campaign. Ruby bridges are great as well for better cards. Do the math and try to save as much as possible to get the better cards. Rubies do expire at the end of the event so pay attention.

Another discussion has been building your deck. The recommend button doesn't always give you the best option. Play around with the combinations of bots and weapons to get the best numbers possible. Once you've been playing for a while you will be able to do an all autobot or all decepticon team (bots and weapons) and get a stat bonus. I find that I can increase my deck power by up to 2K points by doing my own configuration versus the recommend button.

Getting into T2 takes time. I will admit that I have been impatient and paid for the SB on a few events to get better cards. On this event after getting the Galvatron from the episode medals I went ahead and did the first 3 tiers of the SB for $10. I ended up with another Galvatron bot and alt. Since then, from the rubies I've gotten 2 more bots and 1 alt. That makes 2 full Galvatrons and 3 alts. I also have 3 weapons (2 from medals and 1 purchased). The problem I have now is that I have run out of resources to upgrade them.

The biggest factor in me climbing the ranks has been allies. Without them I would still be a T3 player with my current deck. I don't think I could make T1 without paying for several rounds of the SB. Getting T1 breeds T1. You'll find that a lot of them either got very lucky in the medal pulls (ie: this round people got Trypticon from the medals), or they have a number of R5 cards from previous episodes where they paid to do the SB.