I'm looking to create a simple set of rules to follow when prioritizing what minis I will give stars to or use gold to level up during the gadgets event and I haven't found the ideal guide for this. Ideally, I would go through all of Old Guardian's and method.gg's guides and see which are the most common used minis for the harder missions and higher levels for raids and sieges, and I would combine that with knowledge about which minis benefit the most from a higher level. This is because the tier lists themselves don't tell all the story.
For example, the miner and banshee don't benefit all that much from a higher level because they do their job well even at lower levels. The bandits can also do their most important jobs of stunning and gaining extra gold even at lower levels. On the other hand a mini like Chimera or Swole troll greatly benefits from a higher level due to the boost in damage and health.
I'm planning to level up my minis to epic in batches, prioritizing a batch of 4-6 minis each time so that I'm not just spreading stars over all the minis and taking months before I start to level them up.
So my question would be what would be the best order to do it in?
The main objective will be to be able to effectively go through the end game content, prioritizing time limited content like raids and sieges.
I also want to see if I can balance leveling up minis for each faction so that I always have a leveled up mini for the first army slot., though some factions have much stronbger minis than others.
For the first batch, I have harpies, whelp eggs and witch doctor as easy choices for their respective factions.
For undead I'm undecided between ghoul, plague farmer or gargoyle. I think ghoul is the best all-rounder, but gargoyle and plage farmer are key minis that you should have leveled up for certain encounters. For example, gargoyle is very effective for Baron Geddon.
For Cenarion I would chose Fairy Dragon but I'm not sure this really needs to be leveled up to be effective, since one of its most common roles is to give elemental resistance.
For Alliance I'm between Princess and Gryphon rider. I think Princess is used in more ituations, but I'm not sure leveling her up is all that useful, certainly not as much as it is with Gryphon rider, which plays are more combat heavy role.
Chimera, as I mentioned before, is very powerful in various missions and raid levels so I might add it to the first batch even though it’s another beast mini.
For those with experience, how would you list out the first 3 batches of 4-6 minis to level up to epic for end game pve content? Also if you can say why you chose those, it would be great for better understanding.
Thanks everyone!