Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9524180-20130606172223/@comment-9234979-20130606201757

Yes, it's possible to get under 5k with that, or at least it has been prior to now and should still be unless conditions have changed. It would be good to have a deck a little closer to 8k but it can still be done, particularly with that many cubes to work with.

Firstly, scan and take on bosses until you can no longer one-cube the bosses you bump into. Beating them gets you lots of loot and you lose no stored cubes (and regen cubes are free and grow back).

Then shift into snipe mode. If you have a job where you can leave your phone open on transformers right next to your keyboard while you work, you'll see bosses pop up in your help queue in your peripheral vision whenever they happen. Same when you're at home watching tv or whatever. Anytime a snipe-able boss comes up, be ready to jump in and grab that finish. Every time you do, you get your blue cube back for a net zero loss.

After a while it can be hard to grab the finish because you're being asked to help out on big bosses, and big hitters out there can snatch a finish from you that is ten times more than you can one-cube. But the payouts on the bigger bosses are high enough that it's worth losing/investing a cube to get the episode rank points. Cubes are ultimately for spending after all, so get in on that big boss action. If you are confident based on a boss's current damage progress that it will get killed and not get left to wither on the vine, go ahead and take a gamble, make your one-cube contribution to killing it. Then others will hopefully finish it. If so you get your points and get closer to 5000.

Don't blow your wad on comparatively smaller bosses. At whatever phase you're at, save your cubes for beating the higher couple of tiers available to you. Do it at a rate that your cubes will last you to the end of the event. But always one-cube finish a help boss of any level if you see it available, because hey, it's free points.

If you have progressed enough, the last 36 hours or so will be a deluge of maxi-bosses that pay huge bounties, like 30,000 to 50,000. That's where you can really move up the ranks quickly. The very highest ranks are where it's hard to hold your place, but it's not that hard to float between, say 3500 and 5000th place. A little maintenance, maybe a little catchup in the morning. Not too hard. But you do have to do the work to get there at some point, which can be a real time commitment when your deck is that strength.