It would be close break even IMO.
You can get lucky and get some good yellow saints, or not so lucky and wind up having to delete a bunch of blues and weak purples.
Plus going from AA5 to Dominion5 can take as much or more cards than going from Saint 5 to AA 5 it self.
It is all a bit of luck on what kind of saints your hero (Adamanti) has lined up.
For me, I rather build my Hero's as I go along and remove crap saints as they pop up. I find it more gem cost effective this way. If you don't plan to remove any saints and use what you are dealt with, then I would go the transfer route.
So far every transfer I have done have given me 1/3 yellow, 1/3 purple, 1/3 blues. My Pompey is a prime example of this as well as my Flavius which in both cases I transferred from other hero.
Last edited by Riot; 04-30-2014 at 04:37 AM.
every transfer i've done has given me about 70% yellows 20% purples and 10% blues. I know i've been lucky, but not too unlikely to get a lot more on the yellow and purple end. It's all based on your heroes preset. Also, it can still be a lot cost effective if you get a really bad batch of saints to just transfer back to dawn and take him back up then transfer back to the other hero. Using a dawn transfer to blood saves about 35-40k spirits, totally worth it.
Transferring back to Dawn would lose another 5 saints bringing it from dominion 5 -> AA5 -> A5 then build it back up to Dominion 5 and re-transfer again? I am not sure this would be worth the cost even for a 2k hero like King T. Blood is 1800 spirit, Adamanti is 1500 spirit.
But it is up to the luck of the hero's presets. If you get 70% yellow, it would be worth it.
no. when you for example made a hero to use and decided to keep in your form and now want to build him up you can transfer onto dawn first to save some of the stars and saints. i recently transfered from 8 star aphrodite to dawn and back on aphrodite to have saved 5 stars in the process. not saying its more effective, just sayn i am rather greedy when it comes to it. also in your example the AA5 would turn into an AA1 and if your transfer wasnt as good as you hoped it would, you could transfer our AA5 on dawn, rebuild him back to dominion and transfer back again hoping for a better result. my recent transfer action gave me all yellow that i actually was hoping for and 1 blue (AGAIN! thats the second time in 2 days this sort of a turnout)