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[GraveRobberX]

But is the progression linear ? As 20 mins is 2k exp ... 40 mins is 4k ex ?

It varies, nothing like hit certain minutes achieve this much XP

We know cap is 42 minutes

I know I average 1500XP per 20 minutes of play
That's added in the XP bonus of Master Challenge and Team Bonus from others on Challenges

 

[GraveRobberX]

Damn, I don't have any of them mastered to level 10. I like playing them all so I've go most between like level 3 and 7.

Does this mean they'll all be reset back?

Not Master Heroes, each Hero takes like 200 Hours! to reach Master status.

This is Master Challenges, the 75,000 Reputation item that unlocks goodies for levels 6-10, Level 1-5 are free for everybody

With Master Challenge you get extra Hero Bonus XP% for yourself and give your teammates a bonus too.

They said with v42, if you don't unlock Master Challenge for a Hero you have invested time in, they will get reset to 0
So buy those Heroes you've put time into. If not, all earned xp goes away. Also if you unlock the Master Challenge before v42 drops on August 8th the first 10 Ranks and the Rep required to prestige from Rank to Rank will be waived.

So spend 75,000 Rep now or new version you will have to pay more for every time you finish a Rank and need to prestige. The Rep we will earn in new version will be more but as stated pay a little Rep now, keep those Heroes free for 10 Ranks and not sink whatever Rep you do collect from being burned into those Ranks.

Also if you unlock Heroes and have made at least some headway into their XP and level, the Devs state they will be very generous with Retroactive Rewards that when new system comes online you will get "backpay" like you've earned all that stuff within the new system since Day 1



Edit:

This is how the new system XP wise work:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oqTds35MkIn2CnN6p2P7aWXbRELOW2w0M15j7m-mEAw/htmlview

Now we get rewarded faster.
Ranks have 9 levels.
There's 99 Ranks.

Every level requires 2 hours of play. After every level is completed your rewarded. So 9 small rewards and the 10th being the new Rank reward for Prestige

 

[molnizzle]

Pretty cool that heroes are gonna go to 99 now. I stop playing heroes once I get them to 10 to not "waste" experience, so I'm excited to revisit some of my old favorites like Feng Mao.

 

[Toni]

Does anybody knows if you can bring up the chatbox during a game with one of those texting gamepads for PS4?

 

[GraveRobberX]

Pretty cool that heroes are gonna go to 99 now. I stop playing heroes once I get them to 10 to not "waste" experience, so I'm excited to revisit some of my old favorites like Feng Mao.

Yeah, great thing also is you level quicker

In the old ways it required 136,000XP from 9 to 10

Now to go from one Rank to the next requires 54,000XP. That x2.5 lower required.

9 levels in between a Rank, each level being 6000XP

Along the way you earn 9 smaller rewards in the process.

 

[ZeroCoin]

Does anybody knows if you can bring up the chatbox during a game with one of those texting gamepads for PS4?

If the PS4 detects it as a keyboard then it'll work fine. I use a wireless USB keyboard/trackpad combo to chat.

 

[Moobabe]

Just played a few bot matches to work out who I wanted a mastery for - I could only afford 2.

I went for Phase since I like supports and, as far as I can tell, she and Muriel are the only two "hard" supports in the game.

Then I played the new hero but I really don't like the way she animates - she feels super stiff. Then I played Morigesh who has a GREAT animation, turns out I'd also played her a couple of times before and she's super fun - it's a shame her right click is essentially just a set up for her ult, but otherwise she's ace - so I grabbed hers!

 

[darkwing]

when is the update coming? have to master challenge a few heroes

 

[GraveRobberX]

Just played a few bot matches to work out who I wanted a mastery for - I could only afford 2.

I went for Phase since I like supports and, as far as I can tell, she and Muriel are the only two "hard" supports in the game.

Then I played the new hero but I really don't like the way she animates - she feels super stiff. Then I played Morigesh who has a GREAT animation, turns out I'd also played her a couple of times before and she's super fun - it's a shame her right click is essentially just a set up for her ult, but otherwise she's ace - so I grabbed hers!

Nice good to hear!

Don't worry so much about if you Miss out on a Mastery, the game is rewarding us with a fuckton of loot

It's only really if you invested say level 6+ on Heroes that you will feel the sting, yet if at or below 5 not a huge blow cause you would be considered Rank 1 and whatever level

I do want to give a tip though, if you can before v42 release play all Heroes as quickly as possible and try to hit level 3 with them

Will take 5-7 co-op games depending on time spent and xp bonus from other players. This way even if they get reset back to 9 and you don't have their Mastery Unlocked, you'll earn 1 Silver Chest and 1 Card Pack (levels 2, 3)

Why?

New system with silver Chest will grant 3 new items at randomly including gems and the newer cards
Card Pack due to those being converted into Veteran Chests

Card Packs, Cards you will win and have opened, and Card Material all will combine to give you a Card Score, that Card Score will then give you that amount of Veteran Chests. Epic isn't telling the algorithm, but they've said there being very generous

So it's a smart idea till August 8th, to get all 35 Heroes to level 3 at least

This way you earn up to 35 chests and 35 packs, which will help you in the future

Also Level any Hero your close to leveling, net the reward and let it carry over

when is the update coming? have to master challenge a few heroes

August 8th

3 Tuesdays from now, roughly 2.5 weeks to start setting up

______________

Some people with so much Rep are flipping their Rep into Card a Packs so they earn more Veteran Chests

I'm borderline thinking if I should drop a cool 1,000,000 Rep on the 10,000 Rep Card Packs.
Would net me 100 Card Packs, roughly 500 Cards which could very well translate into 50+ Veteran Chest. If they go 10 Cards = 1 Veteran Chest.

Still would have 2,000,000+ in the Rep Bank

This way I'll accumulate so much duplicates of cards that I can start leveling up my cards for co-op and chase after the foil effect that cards get as a border for reaching Level 5 with them

 

[darkwing]

so if you have a card pack don't open it yet?

 

[GraveRobberX]

so if you have a card pack don't open it yet?

Doesn't matter really

You can open them if you want too

There will be no more Card Packs come v42

As I stated before Card Packs, Cards, and Card Materials are all getting lumped together
If a Card Pack has 5 Cards and you have the whole set of 293/293 (w/o adding in the duplicates), and say 5000 of each crafting material, they've got a convertsion system internally that all those 3 items added up will give them a value regarding how many Veteran Chests to give you

Mind you these Veteran Chests are no to be confused with Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond Chest you earn through MMV and the Star Chest

These temporary Chest (unless they're also a reward as within the levels of a Rank) gives the cards and gems we will need for v42 and onward


Also duplicates of cards will have a feeding mechanic, getting the same card multiple times levels it up. Up to level 5. First few levels are quick with duplicates but then will need to be really earned to get them to 5.
I think we can use Rep to also level them up

This DOES NOT, I REPEAT DOES NOT EFFECT PvP
This strictly for PvE to make cards a little stronger (there's hints that bots might get higher difficulties l, so having higher level card will be necessary
For PvP side every time a Card Levels up, a fancier border will appear around the Card, with last level and hitting the cap for the card gives you a Foil Effect you can show off

 

[Souldestroyer Reborn]

Not Master Heroes, each Hero takes like 200 Hours! to reach Master status.

This is Master Challenges, the 75,000 Reputation item that unlocks goodies for levels 6-10, Level 1-5 are free for everybody

With Master Challenge you get extra Hero Bonus XP% for yourself and give your teammates a bonus too.

They said with v42, if you don't unlock Master Challenge for a Hero you have invested time in, they will get reset to 0
So buy those Heroes you've put time into. If not, all earned xp goes away. Also if you unlock the Master Challenge before v42 drops on August 8th the first 10 Ranks and the Rep required to prestige from Rank to Rank will be waived.

So spend 75,000 Rep now or new version you will have to pay more for every time you finish a Rank and need to prestige. The Rep we will earn in new version will be more but as stated pay a little Rep now, keep those Heroes free for 10 Ranks and not sink whatever Rep you do collect from being burned into those Ranks.

Also if you unlock Heroes and have made at least some headway into their XP and level, the Devs state they will be very generous with Retroactive Rewards that when new system comes online you will get "backpay" like you've earned all that stuff within the new system since Day 1



Edit:

This is how the new system XP wise work:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oqTds35MkIn2CnN6p2P7aWXbRELOW2w0M15j7m-mEAw/htmlview

Now we get rewarded faster.
Ranks have 9 levels.
There's 99 Ranks.

Every level requires 2 hours of play. After every level is completed your rewarded. So 9 small rewards and the 10th being the new Rank reward for Prestige

Awesome, thanks for that!

I hope the PvE bots get a buff as it's too easy to steamroll them.

I've not really bothered to try out PvP yet, this being my first MOBA I've spent all my time in the PvE trying to learn the best I can do that I don't let my team down when I do eventually go to PvP.

 

[ashecitism]

https://www.epicgames.com/paragon/en-US/news/v-41-4-store-update

 

[Moobabe]

https://www.epicgames.com/paragon/en-US/news/v-41-4-store-update

That's gonna make them so much money....

 

[Eggbok]

https://www.epicgames.com/paragon/en-US/news/v-41-4-store-update

I saw some of the skins get leaked last week, the new Aurora skin is God tier.

 

[delSai]

Gimme Dekker, Shinbi and Phase skins please
Dekker especially.

 

[GraveRobberX]

Goddamn at Twinblasts Ultimate, lol, FUCKING SUPERSOAKER 9000!

Damn, might buy have to buy that skin when v42 releases and Prestige Chinblast to Rank 11 and onwards

Can't wait for the Variations for this skin haha!

That leaked Aurora looks god tier!, but I don't like color scheme, will wait on Variation of it and hope to net in a Loot Crate possible down the line

 

[ashecitism]

New and improved itemization: https://www.epicgames.com/paragon/en-US/news/card-rework-blog

 

[molnizzle]

New and improved itemization: https://www.epicgames.com/paragon/en-US/news/card-rework-blog

Awesome. No more upgrading.

This'll make the game a lot better.

 

[GraveRobberX]

Awesome. No more upgrading.

This'll make the game a lot better.

Still upgrading with Gems, but Universal Affinity and Equipment cards are gone now.

6 Gems with Levels
Those Gems help which cards can and can't be used

So there's going to be a lot to digest come the new big update

Hope they do videos and show us how things work
Visualization sometimes teaches more than just word telling you



Spent 1,000,000 Rep (still have 2million saved) on Card Packs, so 500 Card added to my stockpile
With roughly 750 Cards already and the new 500 added and 225,000 Card Materials on hand, I'll have a lot of Veteran chests hopefully to open up

 

[molnizzle]

Spent 1,000,000 Rep (still have 2million saved) on Card Packs, so 500 Card added to my stockpile
With roughly 750 Cards already and the new 500 added and 225,000 Card Materials on hand, I'll have a lot of Veteran chests hopefully to open up

What's the reasoning for this?

Better to spend rep now or wait? I was just holding on to everything.

 

[ShdwDrake]

What's the reasoning for this?

Better to spend rep now or wait? I was just holding on to everything.

Not better to spend rep now but better to buy master challenges now.

The devs have been clear that reputation gain isn't the same on the new system tho so who knows how much "rep grind" will be in the game.

 

[molnizzle]

Not better to spend rep now but better to buy master challenges now.

Yeah, have all those from the $99 legacy pack.

I've just been doing my dailies and bouncing. Don't see any sense in grinding characters right now, the tradeoff isn't worth it unless you're really close to 10.

 

[Dead Prince]

i haven't updated or logged in since they put the loot crate in place lol

 

[Lakuza]

Will take 5-7 co-op games depending on time spent and xp bonus from other players. This way even if they get reset back to 9 and you don't have their Mastery Unlocked, you'll earn 1 Silver Chest and 1 Card Pack (levels 2, 3)

Why?

New system with silver Chest will grant 3 new items at randomly including gems and the newer cards
Card Pack due to those being converted into Veteran Chests

Working on getting to rank 3 for as many heroes as possible before the update as you suggested(i play countess like 90% of the time so it will take a while lol) . Is it better to leave chests unopened or should I open every silver chest i get before the update?

 

[Eggbok]

I have all masteries w/ 500k rep left, I'm ready!

 

[GraveRobberX]

What's the reasoning for this?

Better to spend rep now or wait? I was just holding on to everything.

Cards, Cards Packs, and Card materials are going away (the older version)
All Card Packs be it the 5 Cards, Card Pack or 1 Card, Card Pack will get added up. Along side all the cards you earned by opening. Then Card materials will get converted from their amounts back into cards.

We don't know what values Epic is using, but they said they're being very generous

So when all things are added together, you will be given a Card Value Score. That score will translate to how many Veteran Chest you will earn.


So if you have 50 Card Packs of 5, 10 Card Packs of 1, the whole set (293, just rounding it up to 300 to make it look nicer) and say 10,000 Card material (where every 500 material = 1 Card), that your card value total. So 580 Card Value for this assessment.
Then if it's 10 Cards per Veteran Chest (not true value, just using as example), that's 58 Veteran Chests to open up and earn the new cards and Gems.

Me I'm roughly 1250 Cards and 225,000 Card Materials, so yeah I think I'll have a stockpile to open up!

I bought 100 packs so I could increase my Card Value Score. I still have a fuckton of Rep left.
I took the gamble that Rep Value will be more fast, quicker to earn in the new system, pay the higher value Rep right now, convert into assets to hoard, then let the rest devalue a bit.
So in new system those assets pay dividends cause now Reps value isn't as much as it was prior. It's really trying to be ahead of the "economy" switch.

Don't forget all Heroes you've unlocked and whatever Rank and Level they get placed into, all those levels earned will be backpay also. So we're getting rewarded double.

Working on getting to rank 3 for as many heroes as possible before the update as you suggested(i play countess like 90% of the time so it will take a while lol) . Is it better to leave chests unopened or should I open every silver chest i get before the update?

Leave them closed.

All Chests not opened before v42 drops switch to new system
So if you want the old reward possibilities like rep, card Packs, coins, a small slim chance at Chest within a Chest and maybe a skin/Emote (like 5% in Diamond, so lower tiers would be worse) open now

If you wait till the new system, Chests Switch a little

Before all Chests were locked to giving you 4 rewards, only difference was the amount, rarity bump, and better odds (not by much) to earn something from the store

Now each rarity of Chest has changed;

Bronze gives 2 Rewards
Silver, 3 Rewards
Gold, 4 Rewards
Diamond, 5 Rewards

This was due to people believing that Gold had better loot in it than Diamond cause the reward amount were the same for both chests at 4 and you can get a Diamond Chest within it to double up your rewards. If you hit Diamond cause it was a capped Chest, you got the possibility of more amounts yet odds looked worse in your favor from Gold.
In new system Chest within a Chest carries over.

Now it's intuitive to get the Star Chest to max (120 stars) every 3 days possible for 5 Rewards, still can do gold and hope you get lucky with Chest within a Chest mechanic, but lose 1 reward in process, so there's a give and take.

 

[Lakuza]

thanks, that makes sense. will definitely save up on those chests

 

[Moobabe]

Man, you do not get much rep playing vs AI. Getting the heroes to level 3 is going to be a biiiitch

 

[GraveRobberX]

Man, you do not get much rep playing vs AI. Getting the heroes to level 3 is going to be a biiiitch

Add a 3 or 10 day booster of Rep, 350 or 950 coins respectively. Can double up your Rep.

I'm guessing you meant to say XP, buy the 550 Coin value of 10 XP booster, that almost halves the XP climb.
I just bought one. Helping my Rev to get to 10. Before a 20 minute match was 1500-1700, now 2500-2700 then add in your and teammates Master Challenges XP+% bonus, those add up quick.

I'm easily hitting close to 3,000XP every 20 minutes give or take. So roughly 9,000 earned in a hour plays downtime with XP Boost going. Could spend extra on Wins Boost, but I'll burn through them quick and their really not worth it for co-op to get max value out of them.
Also if you get a 5 Star Bot match, it will be long but it's worth to the delay dropping inhibitor in your lane
Just farm a few, if you can hit 30+ minutes. Chunk of XP earned.

 

[Moobabe]

Add a 3 or 10 day booster of Rep, 350 or 950 coins respectively. Can double up your Rep.

I'm guessing you meant to say XP, buy the 550 Coin value of 10 XP booster, that almost halves the XP climb.
I just bought one. Helping my Rev to get to 10. Before a 20 minute match was 1500-1700, now 2500-2700 then add in your and teammates Master Challenges XP+% bonus, those add up quick.

I'm easily hitting close to 3,000XP every 20 minutes give or take. So roughly 9,000 earned in a hour plays downtime with XP Boost going. Could spend extra on Wins Boost, but I'll burn through them quick and their really not worth it for co-op to get max value out of them.
Also if you get a 5 Star Bot match, it will be long but it's worth to the delay dropping inhibitor in your lane
Just farm a few, if you can hit 30+ minutes. Chunk of XP earned.

No one in my games has any mastery challenge bonuses... do you even get that in bot matches? I don't even seem to be getting any. Do I need to "activate" a mastery?

I could buy that, but I only have 1k coins and that's half of it one a booster that, I guess, doesn't last that long.

Also I should probably delay my matches, they're over in 15 mins or so mostly

 

[GraveRobberX]

No one in my games has any mastery challenge bonuses... do you even get that in bot matches? I don't even seem to be getting any. Do I need to "activate" a mastery?

I could buy that, but I only have 1k coins and that's half of it one a booster that, I guess, doesn't last that long.

Also I should probably delay my matches, they're over in 15 mins or so mostly

Yes your teammates who have their Master Challenge unlocked Reward you with bonus XP, just hover over the Hero they chose, that character icon and you will see a status. If prompt box empty. There not on a Challenge. They should have an icon with Challenger and info about the XP bonus they and you will receive.

Complete a Game, go to Game Summary, hover over the XP amount, you'll get prompt box showing how you earned the total amount of xp

Remember 42 minutes is XP and Rep cap for matches. Co-Op or PvP. You don't want to finish a match under 10 minutes, cause your wasting XP bonus when it scales up at 15 and 20 minutes respectively. But you have people who join with low account levels and Botts are 1-2 Stars and veteran co-op players are killing the core under 10 minutes, getting their Stars and looking for a match again...

So in Co-Op you many different outlooks for players trying to achieve different things.

Highest XP I ever got. Double XP Event + XP Day Boost + First Victory of the Day + All people on my team co-op wise we're on Master Challenges
We finished the match at 35 minute mark.

If you unlock a Mastery for a Hero you'll earn more XP for yourself

For the first 5 levels you get +5% more XP and give your team a +1% bonus of all the XP you earn.
Then just add 1% to the total after level 5, so 6% and 2% to them at level 6, yada yada yada until level 10

This works in Co-Op and PvP.

Today I've played roughly 5 matches.
https://agora.gg/profile/903587/GraveRobberX

Already have earned 35 Stars (earned 15 from Daily Quests today), rest from co-op wind and +bonus stars. Halfway to finishing Silver Chest in Star Chest Tier, and I have 2 days 17 hours till it refreshes.
So for me at the moment I'm grinding on xp, rep, Stars ASAP cause I have a boostergoing and more games played more xp/rep earned


Edit:

Just finished a 5 Star Bot March. 23:05 Game Time.

As you can see the XP + Boost + XP from Master Challenge players

I was the Revenant, Muriel and Zinx on my team weren't on Master Challenges
Iggy and Scorch + Wraith were

Double Edit: Zinx, 5 Star Bot Match, roughly 27 minutes

As you can see the gains

I think after 15 minutes it's +150XP added to your Match Complete, +75 Match Victory every 5 minutes.
15 Minute base value being 1000XP and Match Victory base being 500XP.

So if you can hit 42 minute mark for cap the most XP base value you can get is 2850XP per match, maybe eound it to 3000 with bonuses from XP+% from Master Challenges.

Then just add 100% to base value for xp Boost of 2850, you walk away with roughly close to 6,000XP per match for 45 minutes put in.

Yet Must people rather break that 45 minutes into 2 games within the the same timeframe, give up the chunk of xp and earn more stars within same timeframe

 

[blue_phazon]

I just got an update on PS4 for version 2.05. Any idea what it's for?

 

[GraveRobberX]

I just got an update on PS4 for version 2.05. Any idea what it's for?

v41.4
https://www.epicgames.com/paragon/en-US/news/v-41-4-store-update

Added a lot of skins and variations into the Loot crates
Also Zinx got buffed, Kitty got Claws now

Goddamn!

Next week is 41.5, last week before v.42 and the new system of Paragon going live

Every week after patch goes whole number, we get .1, .2, .3, .4, .5 then next number, so 6 weeks with 1 big patch number.
So we get 2 Heroes within every patch #Every3Weeks.

Major big updates happen every 9 weeks. So after v42 arrives the next big patch with buffs/nerfs and adjustments galore will be v43.3 (October 10th). Doesn't mean in between the sub patches they don't adjust things.

 

[blue_phazon]

v41.4
https://www.epicgames.com/paragon/en-US/news/v-41-4-store-update

Added a lot of skins and variations into the Loot crates
Also Zinx got buffed, Kitty got Claws now

Goddamn!

Next week is 41.5, last week before v.42 and the new system of Paragon going live

Every week after patch goes whole number, we get .1, .2, .3, .4, .5 then next number, so 6 weeks with 1 big patch number.
So we get 2 Heroes within every patch #Every3Weeks.

Major big updates happen every 9 weeks. So after v42 arrives the next big patch with buffs/nerfs and adjustments galore will be v43.3 (October 10th). Doesn't mean in between the sub patches they don't adjust things.

Ah interesting. I just started playing 2 days ago so everything is new so far.

 

[ShdwDrake]

Ah interesting. I just started playing 2 days ago so everything is new so far.

So yeah. Ignore the card system. Don't worry about learning anything just go crit on everyone. (I guy i friended last night i building crit on everyone and its hilarious crit countess jungle carried us one game XD)

 

[GraveRobberX]

Ah interesting. I just started playing 2 days ago so everything is new so far.

If you just started best advice, play all Heroes to level 3 at least

DO NOT WORRY ABOUT MASTERY CHALLENGES for Heroes.

Get as many Rewards for all 35 Heroes if you can.
Just earn the Silver Chests and Card Packs, level 2 and 3 rewards respectively.

DO NOT OPEN THEM!

Save them for the switch on August 8th, Paragon is going 3.0

1.0 was Legacy
2.0 was Monolith
3.0 is coming.

If you started and think the games worth it for the long run, Please I beg of you to go online and look for a copy of Paragon Essential Editions, if PS4, if PC, hope you have PS4 too!
Only thing is PC and PS4 don't share coins, but they share whatever is bought within the game on both platforms. So 6000 coins will show up on PS4 but no PC, same thing the other way.
Best Buy and GameStop recently dropped prices on it to low as $17

This way you will get 6000 coins (think $60 funny money inside the game), 5 Masteries (saving you 375,000 Rep! and this will carry over to new version), a limited edition Skin and a few 3 Rep Win Boosts that last for 5 weeks, meaning every week you'll get 3 Rep Wins Boost added, this is from the day you put in code and login to Paragon with it active.
All that for less than $20

If you do as I outlined above, buy a 10 Day XP Boost for 550 coins ($5.50). You have 6000 coins ($60) that you might only spent say $20 total for as 1:1 ratio, so $40 is kind of free to use loosely!. Then you have till August 8th to earn rewards on all characters to level 3, cause the first 2 levels are the quickest and with Boost, super quick. Like 5-7 game per co-op.

If you can muster co-op and get all Heroes to 3, that's 35 Heroes on the roster, that's 35 Silver Chests and 35 Card Packs + whatever you have done in game so far.
You'll have 5 Masteries unlocked, so when new version arrives you'll have 5 Heroes to take to Rank 10 Level 10 and get the Reputation waived off from Rank 1-10 on those 5 Heroes.

Up to you really, but if you do as I say, you'll reap more now than most people who will start afterwards, cause you'll be bringing a stockpile of stuff with you and getting Retroactive rewards also.

 

[blue_phazon]

So yeah. Ignore the card system. Don't worry about learning anything just go crit on everyone. (I guy i friended last night i building crit on everyone and its hilarious crit countess jungle carried us one game XD)

And I was just starting to get used to the card system!

If you just started best advice, play all Heroes to level 3 at least

DO NOT WORRY ABOUT MASTERY CHALLENGES for Heroes.

Get as many Rewards for all 35 Heroes if you can.
Just earn the Silver Chests and Card Packs, level 2 and 3 rewards respectively.

DO NOT OPEN THEM!

Save them for the switch on August 8th, Paragon is going 3.0

1.0 was Legacy
2.0 was Monolith
3.0 is coming.

If you started and think the games worth it for the long run, Please I beg of you to go online and look for a copy of Paragon Essential Editions, if PS4, if PC, hope you have PS4 too!
Only thing is PC and PS4 don't share coins, but they share whatever is bought within the game on both platforms. So 6000 coins will show up on PS4 but no PC, same thing the other way.
Best Buy and GameStop recently dropped prices on it to low as $17

This way you will get 6000 coins (think $60 funny money inside the game), 5 Masteries (saving you 375,000 Rep! and this will carry over to new version), a limited edition Skin and a few 3 Rep Win Boosts that last for 5 weeks, meaning every week you'll get 3 Rep Wins Boost added, this is from the day you put in code and login to Paragon with it active.
All that for less than $20

If you do as I outlined above, buy a 10 Day XP Boost for 550 coins ($5.50). You have 6000 coins ($60) that you might only spent say $20 total for as 1:1 ratio, so $40 is kind of free to use loosely!. Then you have till August 8th to earn rewards on all characters to level 3, cause the first 2 levels are the quickest and with Boost, super quick. Like 5-7 game per co-op.

If you can muster co-op and get all Heroes to 3, that's 35 Heroes on the roster, that's 35 Silver Chests and 35 Card Packs + whatever you have done in game so far.
You'll have 5 Masteries unlocked, so when new version arrives you'll have 5 Heroes to take to Rank 10 Level 10 and get the Reputation waived off from Rank 1-10 on those 5 Heroes.

Up to you really, but if you do as I say, you'll reap more now than most people who will start afterwards, cause you'll be bringing a stockpile of stuff with you and getting Retroactive rewards also.

Holy shit this is amazing! Although...it won't really work here in Canada because the Essential Edition is about $45.

So are all unopened card packs and treasure chests going to be converted to new stuff when the major update hits? If so, I guess I won't open any more chests and card packs. I'll try to grind out as many characters as I can, but I don't have all of them unlocked, and some of them unlock in as many as 12 days or so.

Looks like I have a lot to do!

 

[GraveRobberX]

And I was just starting to get used to the card system!



Holy shit this is amazing! Although...it won't really work here in Canada because the Essential Edition is about $45.

So are all unopened card packs and treasure chests going to be converted to new stuff when the major update hits? If so, I guess I won't open any more chests and card packs. I'll try to grind out as many characters as I can, but I don't have all of them unlocked, and some of them unlock in as many as 12 days or so.

Looks like I have a lot to do!

Fuck forgot they gatekeeped Heroes to Daily Logins or Account Level, forget which.

Remember the first 5 levels of any Hero the Rewards are free. So every Hero you can earn up to 2 Silver Chests and 2 Card Packs (5 Cards in each Pack).

Level 2 is quick, like 3 games, then level 3, like 4-5 Games
If you have a Boost going, cut it in half almost.

I see that Mapleland screwing ya', if close by to border hop over to US and pick up copy. Essential Editions I think is NA bound, Region 1.
Worth it for the price and stuff you get.

If no go and you're sure you will be playing this for the long haul. Buy $10 worth of coins, you'll get 1000 coins in return. Spend 550 coins and XP Boost the shit out of the Heroes.
Account level wise I think you get literally 550 coins total by the time you hit 50, iirc and they haven't changed Account level awards. So you'll be back up to 1000 coins.

Screw Masteries, too much Rep for you to accumulating now to just get 1. Save your Rep, Card Packs, any Chests you earn.
Just grind Hero levels on all 35 if you can. If level 3 looks daunting, get everyone to first so you 35 Silver Chests.

Then play w/e Hero you feel good with and get them to 3, then repeat, hopefully by end night of August 7th, your sitting pretty with a stockpile of Chest, cards, and Rep.

Yeah you'll lose all that XP gained on each Hero, fucking sucks but it's not much

The first 5 levels combined in the old system convert into the new system as Rank 1 Level 10.
So you being only level 3 and putting in 15K xp per Hero even if you had Mastery unlock would translate to Rank 1 Level 3...
So don't fret, but it's in your best interest to take advantage

Grind a little now and be at least ahead of the curve by a lot.
While new players joining will be fresh to this just the same as you, you just had a nice head start due to conversion

 

[Eyerox]

So yeah. Ignore the card system. Don't worry about learning anything just go crit on everyone. (I guy i friended last night i building crit on everyone and its hilarious crit countess jungle carried us one game XD)

Yeah. Don't do this.

 

[Eggbok]

Question, are master Revs really that rare? Whenever I play someone comments on never seeing one before or they've only seen like one additional. That's crazy to me, I was under the assumption Rev was a very popular carry.

 

[GraveRobberX]

Question, are master Revs really that rare? Whenever I play someone comments on never seeing one before or they've only seen like one additional. That's crazy to me, I was under the assumption Rev was a very popular carry.

Most that play him don't even have Mastery Unlocked!

Also his Challenger skin looks good and his Quill Skins are OP as fuck.

So most rock them. Plus people dont play Rev once he's capped @Master, no point. Just like other Heroes, you move on. Hence why we are getting 99 Ranks.

Also some people gun it for Master Skin players. If they see it in game, you become target #1 for the whole match, it's like moths to a flame, but the moths are packing heat of their own.

Also now that we are getting crowns, that will be more acceptable way to show you've Mastered and Grand Mastered a Hero (Rank 13) and put a different skin on that's not the Glowlight

 

[SSReborn]

Question, are master Revs really that rare? Whenever I play someone comments on never seeing one before or they've only seen like one additional. That's crazy to me, I was under the assumption Rev was a very popular carry.

Iunno maybe that could have been said a couple weeks ago but it's been so much time since he's come out that I don't see how it could be a rarity.

 

[Eggbok]

Most that play him don't even have Mastery Unlocked!

Also his Challenger skin looks good and his Quill Skins are OP as fuck.

So most rock them. Plus people dont play Rev once he's capped @Master, no point. Just like other Heroes, you move on. Hence why we are getting 99 Ranks.

Also some people gun it for Master Skin players. If they see it in game, you become target #1 for the whole match, it's like moths to a flame, but the moths are packing heat of their own.

Also now that we are getting crowns, that will be more acceptable way to show you've Mastered and Grand Mastered a Hero (Rank 13) and put a different skin on that's not the Glowlight

I like the idea of Rev with his hat on and a crown above it lol. I have a really good Rev build which has led to a lot of people adding me. I'm excited for the update for the additional levels. My Rev is mastered and I'm level 50 so i'm not gaining much from winning matches with him. And you are right about being targeted, I noticed that as well. If there is a group fight they go for me and Phase if there is one.

Iunno maybe that could have been said a couple weeks ago but it's been so much time since he's come out that I don't see how it could be a rarity.

I thought this as well but from what I've seen and been told it definitely appears like it is. I also realized that I'm primarily an adc. Everyone I have a master for is a carry which was not planned lol.

Edit: It's absolutely incredible how childish some people can be, someone chose Kallari and jungle. Another person wanted jungle and another wanted Kallari. Intead of them working it out the other 2 choose jungle as well. So now we have Savarog, Khaimera and Kallari in the jungle. The match starts and all of them come to right lane where I'm at and start attacking the tower immediately, the biggest wtf moment. Midlane is being attacked and none of them go to it so I leave and go there, they all go to midlane too. The entire game they are fucking around being stupid. The Wukong on out team gets mad and is like "wtf this is not bots so stop playing like it is." The guy who chose Sevarog was like "he should have be Kallari then" It was so frustrating. I report both of those fuckers lol.

 

[darkwing]

ok I spent a few rep to get the master for my favorite heroes, spend the remaining rep in card packs?

 

[GraveRobberX]

ok I spent a few rep to get the master for my favorite heroes, spend the remaining rep in card packs?

Yeah, but don't burn too much Rep.

Try to save 500,000-1,000,000 if you can.

Just to have a nice chunk as backup
No clue the amount you have. I would say 30/40% of your Rep total burn it on Card Packs (10,000). This way you get more Veteran Chest which give you more chances at cards and/or Gems

I burned 1.75 mil Rep so far. Still 2million Rep in saved. So I let go 30% of my reserves.
Might drop another 500,000 Rep for 50 more Card Packs and go into v42 with 150+ (5 Card per pack) and all the rest of the Card stuff I have on me that's getting converted.

 

[delSai]

Whats up with all the unbearable jerks lately? Just my bad luck getting into matches with 'em? Every mistake has to get commented, it's annoying as hell.
And yes, i know about the mute function. The sarcastic "Good Job!" spamming pisses me off so much.

 

[Eyerox]

. And you are right about being targeted, I noticed that as well. If there is a group fight they go for me and Phase if there is one.

In a group fight you should almost ALWAYS target the ADC and phase before anyone else.

 

[GraveRobberX]

Complete Gameplay Rebalance:

https://www.epicgames.com/paragon/en-US/news/complete-gameplay-rebalance

Oh My!

 

[Subtervotion]

I wish that post today had more details. I just want V42 now!