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Originally Posted by bdawg
Awesome stuff! That's cool  I'm curious how much time you devoted? Do you farm tourneys/drafts? Buy/sell smallish cards on the AH regularly? Farm all the twitch streams? |
From March to October, I didn't do anything but login and collect live cards / play the updates. Was very casual, not a lot of time went into it. I made 6-7 million PP this year on the updates, so that's my big PP generator.
Then after the updates stopped, I started playing tourneys - Daily and Weekly only, no quick tourneys. No spamming necessary, I log in a few times a day and sign up for the upcoming daily and weekly tourneys (generally 12+ hours away from starting) that I can field the strongest teams in. My winnings have been the primary generator of PP since the updates ended.
Even though I was able to field a top end team capable of competing in PeL earlier in the year with update PP only, I know from last year that if I did tourneys, too, I would have done significantly better.
If you're not playing tourneys really, it's true there is no way to have a competitive team without spending money - I would actually say that tourneys are the central focus of PT, for P2P players as much as F2P - far, far more rewards there than regular leagues or anything else. 95%+ of cards released never any chance of making a league team, they're just for missions and tourneys.
And it's what gives the game loads of depth. Crafting rosters for the different tourneys and caps is what gives 100 other cards good value and a lot of the most fun for me playing.
I get it, if you don't like tourneys; it is what it is. There's just no way to play this game well without playing tourneys.
EDIT: One other thing that is huge for me: I try to collect all of the mission cards before the missions come out. Occasionally missions drop along with new cards, but most of the time there is at least a few weeks (or much longer) to prepare. Every Thursday I take a gander through the latest releases, add most of them to my watchlist, and after the prices cool down a bit, put in reasonable but low buy orders (i.e. 2.5K on a 5K gold card) and try to get them over the next few weeks.
Spotlight packs have made this really easy and affordable to do - when the Spotlight packs are out, the cards go way down in price, but then often rebound way high again after the packs are a gone for a bit i.e. the new set that dropped, I grabbed Clemens for like 25K, Scherzer for 35K, etc - check the prices on those now. And wait until they (if they) end up in some kind of mission set - prices can go even crazier.
But I never pay those crazy prices, because I buy everything in advance as best as I can. The vast majority of mission I simply click 'submit' on everything when they come out.
There's a lot of angles like this with what you should be doing with your duplicates, and your extra non-mission pulls, etc. Another example that has made me a lot of extra PP: Throughout the year, I hold onto any non-live diamonds worth less than 12K, as a rule. Often times, these cards will become part of another mission, and I'll either have them for it, or be able to sell them for significantly more - there were some Baseball Ref cards that I had 2 or 3 of for months from pulls; finally, that last mission set dropped, and I had a few that went from 6K to going for 80K.