Is Casual Building Worthless?

[Neuronia]

Nah.

You can legit get on most teams with the craziest, silliest build imaginable.
A lot of people don't know mids even exists.
Now, if you want to run Master events and so on, there's going to be a bit of a requirement to tune your builds. The game is still very casual-friendly though, and that's one of its best features.

 

Also, you character would be fine, I think.
A lot of the endgame stuff is just running ITF or weeklies, so there's a lot of leeway for non-epic builds.

 

Edited July 23, 2022 by Neuronia

[Hyperstrike]

46 minutes ago, Neuronia said:

Nah.

You can legit get on most teams with the craziest, silliest build imaginable.
A lot of people don't know mids even exists.
Now, if you want to run Master events and so on, there's going to be a bit of a requirement to tune your builds. The game is still very casual-friendly though, and that's one of its best features.

 

Also, you character would be fine, I think.
A lot of the endgame stuff is just running ITF or weeklies, so there's a lot of leeway for non-epic builds.

 

I'm sitting on billions in Inf.
Hero Merits galore.
And Empys out the ying yank (OW!)

 

And I believe everyone should have at least ONE high end build.
Just so you can appreciate the stupid-crazy things you can do to most builds that turn them up from Masher to MONSTER.

[Neuronia]

I agree Hyper and I...min-max all my stuff almost. I mean I'm farming damage right now for Born in Battle.
But people need to play as they wish. One of my friends logs in like once or twice a year and just builds costumes and weird builds then logs back out. The game is super modular; I will say though that with people wanting to get the Aetherized salvage, it's maybe a good time to start on one build you max out.

TLDR: I'm really a min-maxer at heart but I'll help anyone, really. I've run into so many cool builds on my farm runs that I just want people to express themselves as they wish. 😍

[Greycat]

On 7/21/2022 at 1:04 PM, drgantz said:

I've seen many builds in which the character is built to every detail including every mod.

I prefer to build or convert IOs as I receive each recipe.

Would this make my character so weak that it would be worthless in an endgame group?

 

No, and anyone who says you're holding a group back or "gimped" or whatever needs a swift kick.  I don't theorycraft, I don't do anything special in builds, don't perma-this or hyper-recharge-that or cap whatever and will still end up being an effective rolling nuke (depending on character... obviously my ice/emp isn't.)

[Spaghetti Betty]

Nah, team buffs are stronger than any IO build. However, as you gain experience with the IOs, building becomes a lot more fun for huge nerds. It's like Tetris with math.