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Got the Shakes

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CosmicQueso said:
Did some of you cats say that you finished conquest multiple times? I'm trying to get through it once and it's just a grind.



I'm jealous. I ended up with an AJ Pollock that had been better than I thought it would be but a 90+ Seaver would be a dream. I got to see the guy pitch once when he was on the White Sox in the mid 80s. Shell of what he once was but instantly became one of my all time favorite players.
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I actually finished it the five times you're allowed to for the free 10 packs of cards. It can be boring, but I got to the point where I could basically conquer all 30 strongholds in like a day.
 
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Got the Shakes

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bosh said:
In a day ? Holy hell that's quick
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If I put in a full day on a weekend I could do it. Usually I ended up breaking it up over 3-4 nights during the week. Not sure it was worth doing 5 times as I ended up with just Machado and Rizzo as cards I use in my lineup, but I do like opening packs and I got 50 free ones all said and done.
 
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ph33nix

MWO
5 times is the max you can do it? That's the one I'm on

I've got some decent hauls from those 10 packs. Never a diamond but I'd get a upper tier gold that let me buy more

Thankfully my days of bulk packs are over 😇
 
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Got the Shakes

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ph33nix said:
5 times is the max you can do it? That's the one I'm on

I've got some decent hauls from those 10 packs. Never a diamond but I'd get a upper tier gold that let me buy more

Thankfully my days of bulk packs are over 😇
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5 times is the max amount of times you can do it for any sort of rewards.
 
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ph33nix

MWO
Got the Shakes said:
5 times is the max amount of times you can do it for any sort of rewards.
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God damn it

Whatever, time to use this last opportunity to farm saves and complete game shutouts!

I'd been running through this final one all on legend difficulty but I might go to all-star. I can't deal with rookie anymore because games take forever
 
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Got the Shakes

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ph33nix said:
God damn it

Whatever, time to use this last opportunity to farm saves and complete game shutouts!

I'd been running through this final one all on legend difficulty but I might go to all-star. I can't deal with rookie anymore because games take forever
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I mean it will let you play as many times as you want, there just won't be packs and XP at the end after you've completed it the 5th time.

Edit: Is the Scherzer from the Tigers collection a good card? I'm a huge Tigers fan and I have the stubs to buy the Miggy LS card. Would obviously be able to plug the Miggy into my lineup too. Right now I'm starting Rizzo at 1st and I'm in the process of finishing the Cards collection and will end up with the Cepeda card. So is it worth doing the Tigers team epic in my position, or should I just do another team instead?
 
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KoruptData

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Happens every season. Get to 850s and drop down into the low 700s. Lost some heart breakers and ran into a bunch of teams that ran lots of lefty specialists so I decided to sell Gwynn and get that new Beltran after hearing a bunch of good reviews of it.
 
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ph33nix

MWO
Got the Shakes said:
I mean it will let you play as many times as you want, there just won't be packs and XP at the end after you've completed it the 5th time.

Edit: Is the Scherzer from the Tigers collection a good card? I'm a huge Tigers fan and I have the stubs to buy the Miggy LS card. Would obviously be able to plug the Miggy into my lineup too. Right now I'm starting Rizzo at 1st and I'm in the process of finishing the Cards collection and will end up with the Cepeda card. So is it worth doing the Tigers team epic in my position, or should I just do another team instead?
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I don't like that Scherzer card. Looks good on paper but he consistently got rocked against upper tier teams. Maybe I just used him wrong. Fastball is too slow, curveball lacks control and movement, card is just meh. Cabrera kicks ass though, I'm just worried he might sink to gold.

What else is on your team? Pirates is a good one to complete. That McCutchen is solid.




.....holding down R2 before they pitch is frowned upon? I do it sometimes to check their pitches and refresh myself on what they might throw. But I see this is a pretty popular complaint.
 
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Got the Shakes

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ph33nix said:
I don't like that Scherzer card. Looks good on paper but he consistently got rocked against upper tier teams. Maybe I just used him wrong. Fastball is too slow, curveball lacks control and movement, card is just meh. Cabrera kicks ass though, I'm just worried he might sink to gold.

What else is on your team? Pirates is a good one to complete. That McCutchen is solid.




.....holding down R2 before they pitch is frowned upon? I do it sometimes to check their pitches and refresh myself on what they might throw. But I see this is a pretty popular complaint.
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Sort of doing this off the top of my head as I'm not at home.

Pitchers:

CC (conquest reward)
Catfish Hunter
LS Grienkie
LS King Felix
LS Darvish

1B I think I use the Conquest reward Holiday
2B 97 Kinsler
SS LS Machado
3B LS Beltre
C LS Lucroy
OF 92 AJ Pollock
OF 94 Reggie Jackson
OF 93 Granderson

My bench has the team epic Mike Schmidt, Paul Konerko, LS Brandon Crawford, and a couple other gold cards. My bullpen isn't that great. I have no diamonds, but a bunch of golds. I think Cody Allen is my best reliever.

I have about 70,000 stubs right now. One option I thought of was buying Zack Britton and doing the Orioles epic since I already have Machado, but I'm not even sure what the team epic reward is. I could also use some lefty relief since I think I only have one in the pen.
 
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ph33nix

MWO
Got the Shakes said:
Sort of doing this off the top of my head as I'm not at home.

Pitchers:

CC (conquest reward)
Catfish Hunter
LS Grienkie
LS King Felix
LS Darvish

1B I think I use the Conquest reward Holiday
2B 97 Kinsler
SS LS Machado
3B LS Beltre
C LS Lucroy
OF 92 AJ Pollock
OF 94 Reggie Jackson
OF 93 Granderson

My bench has the team epic Mike Schmidt, Paul Konerko, LS Brandon Crawford, and a couple other gold cards. My bullpen isn't that great. I have no diamonds, but a bunch of golds. I think Cody Allen is my best reliever.

I have about 70,000 stubs right now. One option I thought of was buying Zack Britton and doing the Orioles epic since I already have Machado, but I'm not even sure what the team epic reward is. I could also use some lefty relief since I think I only have one in the pen.
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Give me a bit of time to think about this, running around right now and working in a bit, but before you do anything, do not finish the Orioles

Completing collections is overrated, unless you WANT the collection reward, and Jim Palmer ain't worth it. Also, Machado might go gold right?
 
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Got the Shakes

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ph33nix said:
Give me a bit of time to think about this, running around right now and working in a bit, but before you do anything, do not finish the Orioles

Completing collections is overrated, unless you WANT the collection reward, and Jim Palmer ain't worth it. Also, Machado might go gold right?
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That's fine. Take you time as I can't really do anything until later this evening. I won't finish the Orioles though. Machado could go gold, think he's at a 91 after the latest roster update, could be 90 though I can't remember.
 
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ph33nix

MWO
Okay, a few quick thoughts:

Royals gets you Soria and Cain. Cain might be better than that Pollock but the difference isn't much. But the Royals are cheap and I think Soria is a good bullpen arm. I do better with Soria than I do K-Rod.

Brewers is also cheapish, and that AS Lucroy is a step up from the LS version. And John Axford is another nice reliever I've done well with.

After those two, I'd probably just target some specific LS players. I'll get to that later. But I think your starting rotation is where I'd improve first. There actually may be some nice throwback cards that you can get and don't have to lock in. I've heard Rookie Syndergaard is really nice.
 
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Got the Shakes

Member
ph33nix said:
Okay, a few quick thoughts:

Royals gets you Soria and Cain. Cain might be better than that Pollock but the difference isn't much. But the Royals are cheap and I think Soria is a good bullpen arm. I do better with Soria than I do K-Rod.

Brewers is also cheapish, and that AS Lucroy is a step up from the LS version. And John Axford is another nice reliever I've done well with.

After those two, I'd probably just target some specific LS players. I'll get to that later. But I think your starting rotation is where I'd improve first. There actually may be some nice throwback cards that you can get and don't have to lock in. I've heard Rookie Syndergaard is really nice.
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I can't say I'm super thrilled with my rotation either. Darvish is probably my favorite guy to pitch with out of the starters I have. I actually have LS Lester that I've never tried and LS Paxton who only has three pitches I think, but he is a lefty and throws gas.
 
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ph33nix

MWO
Got the Shakes said:
I can't say I'm super thrilled with my rotation either. Darvish is probably my favorite guy to pitch with out of the starters I have. I actually have LS Lester that I've never tried and LS Paxton who only has three pitches I think, but he is a lefty and throws gas.
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The three pitchers I'd take a look at are Rookie Thor, LS Strasburg/Scherzer. I think Korupt also mentioned Pirates BO Perez being good too
 
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ph33nix

MWO
This dude just made it from 2nd to home on a fly out to not that deep center field, because I hit the cut off man then hit third. I didn't think he'd send his guy home and my 3rd baseman took too long to throw it home.

Why.
 
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Rommel

Junior Member
ph33nix said:
Have you retrieved your PS4 from chucking it out the window?

That seriously sucks though, damn. What was your 12 win reward?
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Cespedes. A potential 60k hit... oh well. Was quite the run. My previous lost game in that run I lost 3-0 when they had 2 hits and I had 7. Was super awesome.
 
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ph33nix

MWO
That's the Battle Royale life. You just gotta keep doing it, you'll hit 12-1 eventually. Just hope your 12 isn't LS Craig Kimbrel lol. Cespedes would have been a good get. Anything over 50k is great to me.

I just drafted an all offensive team. My bullpen totally sucks because the draft just kept avoiding giving me good options there and then I ended up with Hunter Strickland as my main man lol
Somehow I won 4 straight, scored at least 4 in each one so far. Scoring 3+ is my only chance of winning cause most games I can't hold them under 2 lol
 
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Rommel

Junior Member
ph33nix said:
That's the Battle Royale life. You just gotta keep doing it, you'll hit 12-1 eventually. Just hope your 12 isn't LS Craig Kimbrel lol. Cespedes would have been a good get. Anything over 50k is great to me.

I just drafted an all offensive team. My bullpen totally sucks because the draft just kept avoiding giving me good options there and then I ended up with Hunter Strickland as my main man lol
Somehow I won 4 straight, scored at least 4 in each one so far. Scoring 3+ is my only chance of winning cause most games I can't hold them under 2 lol
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That's pretty much my current team... brutal pitching but monster bats.

My run was with a solid pen built around Yankee Miller.

I can't get a legend for a bullpen pitcher to save my life to try for the strikeouts... stupid requirement to have legend only. Finally finished the 100 hits, and the 30 HR's with IV is not going to happen since I only have 3 so far lol.
 
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ph33nix

MWO
Rommel said:
That's pretty much my current team... brutal pitching but monster bats.

My run was with a solid pen built around Yankee Miller.

I can't get a legend for a bullpen pitcher to save my life to try for the strikeouts... stupid requirement to have legend only. Finally finished the 100 hits, and the 30 HR's with IV is not going to happen since I only have 3 so far lol.
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Yeah I'm about to do the same thing lol

I lost game five 4-1 to someone who was 12-0. I had my chances but I grounded into double plays with bases loaded while he hit it into the gaps. it happens :(

just got some pomeranz for my 6 win (3k) and my 9 win is IV Cliff Floyd. LFG

Lost in btm 3rd of what would have been win 9 :(
 
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Rommel

Junior Member
ph33nix said:
What's been happening in those games?

Good thing you still have 2 weeks.

Been working awfully hard to get 100 flashback hits for one Ballin' is a Habit pack, which is probably going to be a Bronze is a Habit kind of pack :(
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Only got a cheap gold in mine. :(
 
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BigJonsson

Member
Redeemed 7 Topps codes

Pulled....

IV Dale Murphy
Cole Hamels
Jose Ramirez
Hardware Hellickson
George Springer
7 gold equipment
2 gold sponsorships
Corey Seager

Not a bad return I guess, Seager was in the 11th last pack :|
 
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Rommel

Junior Member
Snagged an extra All-Star Beltran @ 46k on the assumption he'll spike when the program is released.

To be honest I had him in one BR run and he flat out raked. Had something like 10 RBI's in the first 3 games alone.
 
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ph33nix

MWO
Are IV prices inflated right now? Wondering if I should sell Nolan and get him back later. I'm thinking no because it's not like anybody is pulling him right now and anytime soon...

Currently 5-0 on a BR run and I like the construct of my team and the players (Except my 3B/SS combo is Rookie Miggy and IV Hanley. Yikes on defense). My 6 win reward is Rookie Schmidt.

This probably means I'm about to lose my next 2.

Won game 6 on some bullshit but it's happened to me so whatever! 9 wins is BO Coco Crisp lol
Oh damn he worth 12-14!!!
 
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Rommel

Junior Member
ph33nix said:
Are IV prices inflated right now? Wondering if I should sell Nolan and get him back later. I'm thinking no because it's not like anybody is pulling him right now and anytime soon...

Currently 5-0 on a BR run and I like the construct of my team and the players (Except my 3B/SS combo is Rookie Miggy and IV Hanley. Yikes on defense). My 6 win reward is Rookie Schmidt.

This probably means I'm about to lose my next 2.

Won game 6 on some bullshit but it's happened to me so whatever! 9 wins is BO Coco Crisp lol
Oh damn he worth 12-14!!!
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My 11-2 run came with All-Star Pedro Alvarez as my leadoff hitter. I hit .400 with the dude w/6 bombs. Even bunted against the shift for a hit with him against a lefty lol.
 
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ph33nix

MWO
Just won game 7. Going to take a break, try to win 3, break, then 2.

I lost game 9 on a hit and run where it was a curveball in the dirt he made contact with :( and I couldn't capitalize on wild pitching

i lost two in a row :(
 
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ph33nix

MWO
Rommel said:
Rumor on reddit is 2 All-Star programs are dropping tomorrow. All-Star prices are starting to go up already.
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TWO? Damn

I think the programs are for AS Jansen and Legend Schmidt (same card we've had for three years)

I'm wondering what the legends in the new set will be

And I hope there are diamond level rewards. I'm tired of seeing Hershiser and Victor Martinez lol




I'm gonna need a support group to talk me out of selling cano and Gwynn for a pair of fifty packs
 
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KoruptData

Member
Bought that 91 Jared Weaver and took down a WS player with him pretty convincingly. So much break, weird arm angle, and his height make for a really unique pitcher.
 
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Rommel

Junior Member
ph33nix said:
TWO? Damn

I think the programs are for AS Jansen and Legend Schmidt (same card we've had for three years)

I'm wondering what the legends in the new set will be

And I hope there are diamond level rewards. I'm tired of seeing Hershiser and Victor Martinez lol




I'm gonna need a support group to talk me out of selling cano and Gwynn for a pair of fifty packs
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Let my pain be a warning then. Sold my Betts and rolled the dice on 25 bases loaded packs. My best card... Alex Wood. I'll be lucky to recoup 10k from those packs.
 
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ph33nix

MWO
Rommel said:
Let my pain be a warning then. Sold my Betts and rolled the dice on 25 bases loaded packs. My best card... Alex Wood. I'll be lucky to recoup 10k from those packs.
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Damn, I should feel fortunate that my 8 pack fury was indeed a stroke of luck.

I really hope they release more starting pitchers soon. I'm getting tired of the current crop.

I didn't even know there was a 91 Jered Weaver.


Now that I don't need to play conquest anymore and I'm taking a BR break...doesn't seem like I have much to do besides RS. And I can't play those games unless I'm fresh.
 
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ph33nix

MWO
The missions are for King Felix and 1990 Ryne Sandberg
set 7 is flashback reyes and blyleven.

Ok I don't care for any of them! Still going to buy a 20 anyways


Ticket store got 2010 adrian Gonzalez and 2016 Jackie Bradley

Yawn
 
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Rommel

Junior Member
ph33nix said:
The missions are for King Felix and 1990 Ryne Sandberg
set 7 is flashback reyes and blyleven.

Ok I don't care for any of them! Still going to buy a 20 anyways


Ticket store got 2010 adrian Gonzalez and 2016 Jackie Bradley

Yawn
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Meh on all of them but King Felix... he will be mine :D
 
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ph33nix

MWO
The other two big ticket additions are 2009 97 OVR Zobrist and 2014 92 OVR Doolittle. Not too bad! Probably won't care for either but hopefully there's diamond level rewards soon.

Started the season 6-0, at 802 now. Hopefully I can just go 5-0, 6-0 to get to 900, make this quick and painless..

I have always sucked with Felix. This card doesn't look too different than the ones in the past.


There's an AS Kershaw card but can't buy or sell. Huh
IV Nolan prices dropping like crazy. Someone just got him for 56k wow
 
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