Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9234979-20130517154600

I got my first R4 bots and weapons in the last two events and have been trying to max the weapons and MTM the bots. Everything is fine for the first half of the levels. You get halfway in one burst. Then it gets harder for the next quarter or so. And the final stretch is just ridiculous. I'm pumping salvo after salvo of 20 bots or weapons into these cards to upgrade them and it seems to move the needle less and less each time.

It's like that poor X in calculus class that could never reach zero. It just cut half the distance each time, which was a smaller and smaller amount each time.

The only R4s I had going into Beasts were Episode Firestar and Episode Slipstream. I maxxed them with a lot of help from transmetals. Same for Firestar's weapon. I used the rest of my transmetals maxxing other top cards and am left with some key cards and weapons I need to max. I'm out of transmetals but I had tons and tons of gold medals from the episode and have blown through them all just trying to max out a few cards.

Has it always been this hard with R4s? Did it get harder since Beasts started? It was hard even while the episode was still happening unless I used transmetals. I feel like it will take weeks and weeks and weeks of slogging and farming to make this happen. I don't see how people are doing it unless things used to be easier. 