Two things make up the progression mechanic in Halo 5: REQ Points and Experience Points. Now its pretty much universally agreed upon that RP is extremely valuable. Its what gets you new armor, cosmetics, and weapons, and restocks your supply of REQ cards. Most people will use their RP boosters the first chance they can. That said, XP doesn’t seem to get nearly the same love.
In Halo 5, there are 152 ranks that are gained at a semi-exponential rate via XP. Typically it can take anywhere from 10 minutes to several hours to gain a rank depending on current rank and boosts used. Upon gaining a rank, the player is awarded a single REQ pack containing an array of single-use REQ cards. That’s it, that’s all. Aside from some mild bragging rights, there isn’t much else to gaining XP.
So is it worth it? If you had to pick between an XP and RP boost, which are you more likely to choose? How many people actually set goals to get to a certain rank. I’d wager not too many. After all this time, one would think that XP would be just a bit more sought after than simply an occasional free REQ restock. What do you guys think?
I don’t really see a point in XP except prestige. In Halo 4, SR ranks actually mattered because you leveled up to unlock cool armors, weapons, and assassinations. Now, all you get is honor. I would much rather use REQ boosts to finish grinding Silver Packs so I can move on to Golds and get Mythics.
When I was on the pack grind it was rp boost all the time. But now that I have finished the packs awhile back I actually do prefer the XP boost. I recently hit 148 with a long way to go. But even then XP means little to me. It’s your CSR that really reflects skill. XP only shows how much you play. I don’t even like referring to XP as “rank”. It’s more of a level.
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> Typically it can take anywhere from 10 minutes to several hours to gain a rank depending on current rank
Oh, those were the days. You forgot to add months and years to that sentence and I wish I wasn’t being serious about the time lengths.
It depends on what rank you are. For lower ranks, you want RP, but for higher ranks XP is the way to go because you already have all the customization stuff and getting 10K for a gold pack doesn’t take long.
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> > I’m trying to get to 152 so i only use xp boosts
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> Have you unlocked everything? Its kinda hard to play second fiddle when its the only fiddle.
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> > Typically it can take anywhere from 10 minutes to several hours to gain a rank depending on current rank
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> Oh, those were the days. You forgot to add months and years to that sentence and I wish I wasn’t being serious about the time lengths.
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> It depends on what rank you are. For lower ranks, you want RP, but for higher ranks XP is the way to go because you already have all the customization stuff and getting 10K for a gold pack doesn’t take long.
I’m 149 and still prefer RP boosts - because I play Warzone and need to re-stock my top-tier REQs like Banshee Ultras, Camos, Phaeton Helioses. I don’t care about my SR getting to 152.
Because of this, I’m annoyed that they recently re-weighted the probability of getting RP boosts/jackpots from gold packs. They’re VERY rare now…
I usually use xp boosts since I have everything unlocked. I set my goal to lvl 147. Its an arbitrary number that means nothing to anyone else, but it means something to me
Until you have unlocked everything, RP is more valuable. However for me who has everything, XP is more valuable. I think it depends on where you are in the game. Just starting, midway through the req system, or have everything unlocked. I do think there should be a cooler reward for at least 152, but that doesn’t matter too much to me. I would rather use an XP boost because req point are redundant for me now that I have unlocked everything.
They are both valubale if you ask me:
REQ boosters: Just for grinding out Silver/Gold packs to get all the actual good/fancy items
XP boosters: For when your REQ pack grind is completed, and you need to grind out all the xp to hit max lvl in a hurry, or be like me and catch up in leveling up as a whole.
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> Same thing here, I’m not sure if I’ll get there though.
I have been buying multiple specialty packs. When you have everything unlocked they are giving out Legendary XP Arena boosts. I want to get there with my XP, and I want to do it with a majority of my time in Arena. These boosts are helping.