yes max your basics, it took me like 40 games to do so but you get a huge pool of consumables and will increase your maxes quite a bit as well. it will give you a lot of characters that will have 25 points to spend at level 1 which is huge. that one SMG is very powerful too, the charger, great weapon at X that will hold until you get some rarer drops. i'm deep into the advance packs right now, like i said it opens up a lot of options bc i can rip those characters into silver right off the bat with 25 skill points, 2 consumables, and a good weapon.