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I have to say, all the Daken chat, and the suggestion to throw him on your team this tournament, is no joke. I need to get some wolverine covers stat and really get the Swiss cheese machine rolling. Regular rear end tile matches are tearing people apart! Between the throwaway guest model 40 and Daken's self healing, I basically only have one character to worry about spending health kits on. I can't even imagine having wolverine in that mix, total self sustaining.
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I think I'm going to start rolling with Classic Storm, Thor, and Daken. It will work even better if I can finally get a goddamn green Thor (for versatility). It might seem counter intuitive to use Daken, since he needs the yellows for healing and Thor needs them for crushing, but he's meant to just chill in the back and crap out strike gems. I got a snapshot of myself at #1. It lasted all of about 10 seconds
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Nov 10, 2013 02:12
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 Well this was a decent draw for a heroic token. He's already level 30
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Nov 10, 2013 02:19
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Would Wolverine and Daken really play all that nicely together? I can see the appeal, but currently my Daken is seriously under-levelled (but 4/4 thanks to a good run of covers). I wouldn't want his strike tiles to block Wolverine's much more awesome ones - there are only so many reds on the board at a time. Maybe I just need like 50k more ISO to get them closer in power. It WOULD be nice to have some decent purple/black damage, too. Wolverine alone does tear poo poo up with strike tiles, but can take a while to get rolling if the board doesn't cooperate.
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Nov 10, 2013 02:20
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The Jorts of Zeus posted:I think I'm going to start rolling with Classic Storm, Thor, and Daken. It will work even better if I can finally get a goddamn green Thor (for versatility). It might seem counter intuitive to use Daken, since he needs the yellows for healing and Thor needs them for crushing, but he's meant to just chill in the back and crap out strike gems. This combination actually works very well. Get 5 purple covers for Daken and watch the strike tiles pile up.
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Nov 10, 2013 02:21
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Once you level him up, his strike tiles get decently powerful. Wolverine's are way stronger, but with both of them running, you're not cursing when all your strike tiles get wiped out with a lucky cascade. Throw in Modern Storm or Dr Doom's demons for extra 200-300 damage a turn since the strike tiles also stack with those.
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Nov 10, 2013 02:28
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SynthOrange posted:Once you level him up, his strike tiles get decently powerful. Wolverine's are way stronger, but with both of them running, you're not cursing when all your strike tiles get wiped out with a lucky cascade. Throw in Modern Storm or Dr Doom's demons for extra 200-300 damage a turn since the strike tiles also stack with those. I think this may just be my next project. Edit: Especially since the strike bonus damage doesn't seem to be affected by diminishing returns from a cascade (it's hard to tell, it happens so fast), having All Strike, All the Time seems like a solid plan. Kravdraa fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Nov 10, 2013 |
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Nov 10, 2013 02:32
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I kind of wish I had a Loki just to use as a hilarious Daken/Wolverine counter. Convert enemy strike tiles into protect tiles for me, and enemy protect tiles into strike tiles for me? Sounds good.
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Nov 10, 2013 02:40
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Oh yeah... running into a Loki is bad news as a Wolverine/Daken team. Just dont do it.
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Nov 10, 2013 02:43
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I just fought a guy in the IM event that didn't show up in the ranking. He had 718 points but the list went from 715 straight to 720-something. Can we fight people from other brackets?
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Nov 10, 2013 02:45
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Yeah, I was starting to suspect that was going on too. Getting a lot of people that arent showing up in ranks for my bracket attacking me.
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Nov 10, 2013 02:45
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seravid posted:I just fought a guy in the IM event that didn't show up in the ranking. He had 718 points but the list went from 715 straight to 720-something. Can we fight people from other brackets? That happened to me yesterday too. I was (briefly) in the top 10, got attacked by someone with more points than anyone in the bracket.
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Nov 10, 2013 02:51
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seravid posted:I just fought a guy in the IM event that didn't show up in the ranking. He had 718 points but the list went from 715 straight to 720-something. Can we fight people from other brackets?
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Nov 10, 2013 02:53
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I'm approaching the point where I may actually spend Hero Points on power training. I have a variety of 2*s that need upgrades (one more for Thor, two for Wolverine and Bullseye, a bunch for Maggie Grey, Daken and Hawkeye Modern) and 500 HP awards are getting more common, and I'm at 23 slots at the moment. I REALLY want to skill up Spidey Classic, but, well, 1250.
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Nov 10, 2013 03:03
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I had one free slot and then I get handed the regular wolverine. Now I have to either get rid of something or find a way to get more gold (pay $5 even heaven forbid) I do have a bag-man with level 1 blue/gold powers that I barely use.
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Nov 10, 2013 03:29
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JHVH-1 posted:I had one free slot and then I get handed the regular wolverine. Now I have to either get rid of something or find a way to get more gold (pay $5 even heaven forbid)
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Nov 10, 2013 03:40
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^^ you can get hero points in tons of story missions. FYI, for those curious I only just discovered that the final Daken mission in the last chapter has 3 Wolverine covers. There I was lamenting his lack of covers and noticed I'd never completed the penultimate mission in that chapter!
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Nov 10, 2013 03:41
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bubbapook posted:^^ you can get hero points in tons of story missions.
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Nov 10, 2013 03:52
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I exhausted a lot of the hero points ones to get up to the slots I am on now after wasting them on leveling characters when the game first released. I do think I should revisit the story mode and start completing that.
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Nov 10, 2013 03:53
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I still have 100 points remaining that I could claim for the Ragnarok mission. But its Ragnarok. 
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Nov 10, 2013 04:08
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SynthOrange posted:I still have 100 points remaining that I could claim for the Ragnarok mission. Yeah, likewise. Something to do when you're full on health packs, boosts and not interested the tournament, I guess.
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Nov 10, 2013 04:15
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The first time I got Spidey and Venom together, I threw on as many boosts to black and blue mana as I could, went in on my first attempt and ATE him. I then tried maybe five more times after that and failed miserably.
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Nov 10, 2013 04:22
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There didn't seem to be any middle ground with Ragnarok. Either I managed to pull out a bunch of powers and took him apart, or he'd pull out a bunch of powers and take me apart. Glad I got all his presents because I don't want to fight him again. He's a dick.
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Nov 10, 2013 05:33
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The Ragnarok mission isn't completely horrific because he's alone. You can play keepaway from red and green with him, you can lock him down with Widow, you can go in with AP boosts with Thormverine and nuke the poo poo out of him. After dealing with 5000 HP Thors regularly in PvP a 7000 HP Ragnarok isn't quite as terrifying. Got 900 just now before being plinked back down, going for 1000 tomorrow. If I get it, at that point I can either skill up one of my 2*s twice or I can take up to seven cracks at Heroic tokens and get six Bag-Men.
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Nov 10, 2013 05:39
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delfin posted:The Ragnarok mission isn't completely horrific because he's alone. You can play keepaway from red and green with him, you can lock him down with Widow, you can go in with AP boosts with Thormverine and nuke the poo poo out of him. After dealing with 5000 HP Thors regularly in PvP a 7000 HP Ragnarok isn't quite as terrifying. You know you want the bad man. I just finished skilling up my second 1* storm to 5/5/3 when my first one was 4/5/4 and now have her over lvl 20. Having her and draken who is higher level than her and Iron man 40 for the pvp thing is sick. Draken heals, storm pops all the environment tiles and puts extra damage on the board and her green is like pay 10 ap get 16 ap weeee. It has been how I have popped Iron man 40s red on my turn 3 to just murder the other team.
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Nov 10, 2013 05:45
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I still crack up when the AI uses juggernaut's ability and you end up winning cause he killed himself.
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Now that the Juggernaut tourney's over, spare a thought for those poor bastards with useless overlevelled Juggernauts.
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SynthOrange posted:Now that the Juggernaut tourney's over, spare a thought for those poor bastards with useless overlevelled Juggernauts. I laugh at them before beating them up. Thank you, Free For All Tournament. Now we just need one that buffs Bag Man.
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SynthOrange posted:Now that the Juggernaut tourney's over, spare a thought for those poor bastards with useless overlevelled Juggernauts. I'm still using mine cause that green power is fun. It destroys 16 tiles at level 4, and only costs 7AP. You don't get AP back but they do damage plus you get all the random tiles all over that might match for API.
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SynthOrange posted:Now that the Juggernaut tourney's over, spare a thought for those poor bastards with useless overlevelled Juggernauts. I dunno why everyone's so down on Juggernaut. He's not amazing, but he's alright as a second stringer when you need a wall of meat and someone who can clear the board when tiles aren't going your way.
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SynthOrange posted:Now that the Juggernaut tourney's over, spare a thought for those poor bastards with useless overlevelled Juggernauts.
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Nov 10, 2013 06:40
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Ew. Thanks for that horrifying mental image.
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SynthOrange posted:Ew. Thanks for that horrifying mental image. Make sure to add in that grunting noise Juggernaut makes when he charges.
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McDragon posted:I laugh at them before beating them up. Thank you, Free For All Tournament. Now we just need one that buffs Bag Man. Problem is that buffing Bag-Man also buffs Classic Spidey, and screw that guy at high levels. 2 AP for a stun? You can never ever let him match blue.
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Nov 10, 2013 08:39
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 Never assume its the default Iron Man you will fight. thankfully the red combo saved my rear end here.
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I think they hosed something up, I haven't been able to see the Iron Man 40 for the last couple of hours, it just says "No missions are currently available" so I figured maybe it just ended early. At least it seems to have for me. 
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Nov 10, 2013 11:18
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Still there for me, on iOS. Force quit and restart?
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OK Octopus posted:It is breathtaking how shamelessly each successive update is a bigger and bigger gently caress you to the player. You forgot the biggest gently caress of all - retreating takes a third of you total health. The leveling to heal was never sustainable, but in a game where you can easily be completely hosed by one bad AP cascade (especially at high levels), retreating was the last bastion of sanity against the RNG. Especially when the last 15 minutes are all that matters for rankings within the 50, it seems like this change is primarily to sell health packs (now priced at ~$1 for you whole team!) And if they keep minion damage ridiculously high, the next PVE event is going to be a lot of waiting around for health packs in order to get screwed again by an unmatchable counter in a corner doing 2000 damage to your whole team (or a whooole lotta venom runs to try to heal in between retreats). I'm probably just getting old and cranky, but as much as I like puzzle quest, I'm quickly losing patience with this puzzle quest.
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Got my 1000 this morning. Touch-and-go, but with boosts you can blast through even tough opponents pretty quickly, and today's reward being three extra health packs helped a lot. The progression rewards are seductive, though. Spidey Yellow only 100 more? (Of course, as I type that I see I lost 96 points while making tea.) The trick to progression is to go after it in waves. The health pack changes fit right into that because every two hours or so you're right back in position. Since it's PvP, you're gaining anywhere from 210 - 420 ISO every three fights when you're winning, so +3 AP all / +3 AP to four colors costs you from 0 - 190 ISO to renew, averaging about a hundred. Blast through tough targets in a hurry, get your reward, let them plink you back down and recharge. Bigger targets will be easier on the last days when others have high scores too and are worth more to defeat. Stickman posted:You forgot the biggest gently caress of all - retreating takes a third of you total health. THAT is specifically targeted at the people who pounded the poo poo out of the Unstable ISO missions. I was one of them and I can say that what we did was within the rules but not necessarily the spirit of the tourney. (For reference, the repeatable mission was always something nasty, like the one that was Spy 90 / Spy 90 / Pyro 90 or something like that. So you could go in, analyze the board and decide "can I beat this one and take no damage doing so?" If so, do it and collect your points; if not, retreat and go back in until you get a good board. Dedicated spergers got thousands of points doing that.) delfin fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Nov 10, 2013 |
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delfin posted:THAT is specifically targeted at the people who pounded the poo poo out of the Unstable ISO missions. I was one of them and I can say that what we did was within the rules but not necessarily the spirit of the tourney. It's also a side nerf to people like me who would go into random HAMMER missions with the intent of using Classic Spidey to heal. If there was a countdown tile about to go off, I'd use all my blue and yellow to heal for as much as I could, retreat, and come back in. Thankfully the health pack buff put an end to the need for that.
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