I feel like I'm not grinding as smart as I should. Every day I do the daily objectives and spend my energy including the 50 power core refills(no to the 100 core refill) on missions to either earn equipment or on character shards. Then I might do a few blitz battles and that's it. I'm lvl 69 so I understand I'm at a point where the grind is suppose to be unruly but still.
Also I don't focus on teams with good synergies. My strongest team consists of Minn-Erva, Deadpool, Yondu, Crossbones, and Ronan.
I guess I'm trying to ask for good strategies for gaining shards/stars and anything else I need to advance.
It's definitely a loooong grind. I remember when I was foolishly using energy trying to get IMPROVED basic catalysts. Now I'm sitting on hundreds of them. Also I was trying to be careful with how I spend blue ability materials. Eventually you play long enough where you have enough materials to get any character past the "blue" stages and the purples are what you grind for.
One mistake I made is not committing to some characters shards nodes that were "far" from the next star upgrade. Sometimes you just gotta stick with it.
Then you run into the problem of running out of specific blue mats and it gets annoying. I never have enough of random blues and then I have over 300 of others... Bah. ---
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