Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8201966-20130427162104/@comment-8284783-20130503170526

Optimx wrote: @phonso34: Thanks for the thoughts. I actually started over last night. I only had two days in on my iPad and left it at work, so I started playing on my Droid Bionic. I leveled up to 5 quick then joined the event for the medals and got lucky there compared to where I was previously. Once I found out I could play cross platform I reinstalled on the iPad. I'm only lvl 18 right now and I'm only getting Starfire bosses, so the bounties are pretty weak. I'm ranked 34368 right now, so top 1000 is well out of reach. Best case scenario I think is the medals or a Rank 4 Firestar and weapon. Personally I'd try to get rank <30,000, as that will net you a set of Firestar (remember that Event cards tend be slightly better than regular set ones).

With 100 silver medals, you will get a lot of upgrading fodder, but if all you have to upgrade is your starting Thundercracker, then it's not doing you that much good (the event Firestar should be more than twice as good).

In the same line of thought, out of 100 Silver Medals, you can reasonably expect 2-3 rares at most (I'd say 2, but you could get lucky). An Event Firestar is likely to end up boosting your team as much, if not more (at least in the long run) than those 2 rares (unless you luck out and get a Starscream and a Grimlock).

So while the Silver Medals would give you slightly more boost right now, they probably wouldn't be as good in the long run (and, by the time the next event comes, wouldn't have as much of an impact as having an event R4 on your team when it comes to battling bosses, IMO).

I'm sure someone more experienced will be able to comment on that, since I'm also pretty new to the game :D