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The villains seem to have more 3 stars than the regular heroic. That said if you do go for the 10 pack expect to get mostly Dakens and Bullseyes.
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Tezzeract posted:The random draw pool is WAYY better. Think of it like a starter pack for lightning rounds. aren't they both random? Dravs posted:The villains seem to have more 3 stars than the regular heroic. That said if you do go for the 10 pack expect to get mostly Dakens and Bullseyes. 
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Dec 15, 2013 22:30
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^^^ they're both random, but the Doom one is restricted to considerably less characters, improving your chances of not getting another loving green Thor.Jibo posted:I'd probably rather fight the Ragnarok team since he's low enough level to not worry about and the computer doesn't know how to use him. I'd easily rather fight a 115 Widow because the AI is braindead, she's still rather fragile, her skills are more expensive and she doesn't cause large chains of multicolour AP that funnel straight to other members while keeping the cascades going.
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Dec 15, 2013 22:35
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In the Moonstone/Ragnarok fight I had a match where she kept moving Hawkeye's countdown tiles into the middle of the board for Rag to break, but I suspect that was random instead of good AI.
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Karnegal posted:aren't they both random? Well, the pool is more limited, so expect to get more cover upgrades rather than a random hodge-podge of 1 covers. That said, if you don't like the Dark Avengers, it's less worth it.
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Dec 15, 2013 22:42
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Occasionally you will get events that have guaranteed heroes, like the Venom event that had a guaranteed Spidey draw, but that was 1000HP a pop. Went to bed with 6 hours of contest remaining at #1, woke up with a top 50 prize. 
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Dec 15, 2013 23:04
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Lots of people on the D3 forums have flames shooting out of their asses over the event end, and I can't blame them. Ending a ten-day PvE event with "whoever plays in the last half-hour wins" is more than a little goofy. Naturally, there are those who are like "Well, _I_ got three covers, you just don't understand the game well enough.  "
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delfin posted:Lots of people on the D3 forums have flames shooting out of their asses over the event end, and I can't blame them. Ending a ten-day PvE event with "whoever plays in the last half-hour wins" is more than a little goofy. I love some of the arguments on that forum. "Ragnarok is broken". "Not at all you can totally beat him if your clever. On a side note I use him on literally every team"
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delfin posted:Lots of people on the D3 forums have flames shooting out of their asses over the event end, and I can't blame them. Ending a ten-day PvE event with "whoever plays in the last half-hour wins" is more than a little goofy. I think the lesson to be learned is to make the top prize covers all Invisible Woman.
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Dec 15, 2013 23:28
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Ghostlight posted:If anything Ragnarok is so ridiculously simple that he's the one character the AI does know how to play - get red: spam green; get green: punch hole in board; repeat. Grey Widow it will use the purple and spray green nonsensically around the board instead of forming criticals, and it'll just randomly select red/green targets to the degree that I've had it position the sniper reticle so that my Recharge token was in the four-tile gap but it killed two of its own. You'd think a 10 covers, level 115 Grey Widow would look downright formidable compared to a relatively low-level Rags but his abilities are so cheap and AI-friendly... I hate that I have to go with the Objectively Best Characters to stay competitive instead of choosing the ones I actually like. Those 1250HP I have saved up? Going straight to the 'Rok instead of a new, potentially fun dude like The Punisher.
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Tezzeract posted:I think the lesson to be learned is to make the top prize covers all Yelena.
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delfin posted:Ending a ten-day PvE event with "whoever plays in the last half-hour wins" is more than a little goofy. We have multiple people right in this very thread posting about how playing right at the end didn't allow them to overtake anyone or in fact even keep their current place because the levels were worth so few points.
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How to shoot to the top: Save all your missions for the last hour so they're worth the most points.
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What's the general feeling on taking Black Widow Original purple past 3? Looks like there isn't a great benefit to pumping blue, but raising purple takes it from 3 matches to 4....
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Dec 16, 2013 00:18
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Got some hero tokens from some Hunt mission or another. All Bombastic Bag-Man. 
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IAmUnaware posted:We have multiple people right in this very thread posting about how playing right at the end didn't allow them to overtake anyone or in fact even keep their current place because the levels were worth so few points. Just playing at the end wasn't enough. It was playing ONLY at the very end. I ran the Savage missions lots of times in the last two hours, but since I'd already used up my point-scoring runs they got me jack and poo poo.
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Mons Hubris posted:What's the general feeling on taking Black Widow Original purple past 3? Looks like there isn't a great benefit to pumping blue, but raising purple takes it from 3 matches to 4.... Taking Blue to 5 means that instead of having healing OR timer increases, you'll always heal, even if timers are on the board. I thought I was going for a 3/5/5 build, but looking closer, the damage added at max level and skill for black matches is only 112, so 5/5/3 may be better, since that still takes 4 purple matches, but steals 4 purple back.
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SynthOrange posted:How to shoot to the top: Save all your missions for the last hour so they're worth the most points. It's a weird event because some people got screwed over by not keeping up with their bracket and others got screwed over because they kept up with the bracket too intently and last minute rubberbanding sealed the deal for another player. I personally was going to give up at around 16th place and played the repeatables mainly to get the HC rewards. When I saw that there was an opening for top 3, I just chugged all the boosts and ended up placing because I had enough spare points left in the tank.
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Anyone with a black Punisher cover? How's Molotov work? Does the countdown disappear or does it stay on the board til destroyed? With Green, do you get to pick the 3x3 target?
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I think staying close but not too close was key. I made sure to stay within two or three hundred points of the #1 player yesterday and it was an easy climb to the top today; I was scoring 30 points per mission and it only dropped to 15 at the very end, when I was already #1.SynthOrange posted:Anyone with a black Punisher cover? How's Molotov work? Does the countdown disappear or does it stay on the board til destroyed? Countdown tile appears randomly and never goes away by itself, it simply resets after x turns. Green is random as well.
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Shwqa posted:I love some of the arguments on that forum. A maxed out Ragnarok outside of Lightning Rounds is perfectly beatable. A maxed out Spider-Man on the other hand...
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seravid posted:Countdown tile appears randomly and never goes away by itself, it simply resets after x turns. That is reaaaally nice, should pair well with strikes. The green power would have been more useful with targetting I guess, but you cant have everything. Its like Doom and Wolverine rolled into one package. Just without healing.
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I was in the top 10 of the punisher event and dropped 50 ranks overnight. I didn't mind I figured I'd catch up in the morning, but the point yield in the missions never reset. It's a heartbreaker but oh well. On the bright side I have 50+ tokens saved up. Is punisher available for purchase yet? I'd like to try my luck. Have you guys pulled anything cool of standard tokens? I scored a classic mags off 500 ISO and 2 classic spiderman off standard tokens.
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Yeah, they just have very low rates compared to 1* dudes which must be like 90% of the prize pool.
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What's the best way to get a bunch of health packs without buying them for irl money or waiting?
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Other than those two, they drop from some PvE missions. If you've earned all of them, then that's it. Healing can also come from Spider-Man Classic or Black Widow Original.
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beergod posted:What's the best way to get a bunch of health packs without buying them for irl money or waiting? The best thing to do is to build up the tankier characters so you use less health packs. Having your tank be able to protect your squishier support characters helps a bunch. You'll use 1 health pack vs 3 if you do it right.
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That's about all there is, unless they have them in easily cleared prologue missions. If you are hard up for healing, you could rerun the early venom missions with Spider-Man as a guest character and use his web bandages to heal up two of your dudes.
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drat, The Hunt really spoiled me; I'm out of ISO for the first time since... 10 days ago? 70 per match does not cut it, no sir.
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My 64 3/3 Doom is doing crazy damage in this tournament. 1300+ damage a turn once I match two more black matches. (After boosts) Having wolverine In the team helps. E: vv no-one likes a show-off 
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My 89 doom is doing around 3K damage per turn.  edit: Oh hey, event rewards now have a tick through them if you've won them. Nice! Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Dec 16, 2013 |
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Augh god I'm trading the lead in Doom with a 120 point lead over third place and I just know somehow I'm going to drop out of second by midnight.
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Hey GulliverJones, if you're a goon, I'm aiming for #2 for triple Spiderman, so I'm just trying to put some distance between me and #3. It's him you gotta watch out for. e: Dear greggray24: gently caress off, please and thank you. e2: Is anyone else constantly overestimating how much damage their Thor is gonna deal? I've been spoiled by that enormous Hunt boost. Phenotype fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Dec 16, 2013 |
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I actually skipped using Thor for this tournament and it's great. Using IM40 and Wolverine has turned out to be a good choice - Iron Man is tanky as and generates a tonne of AP for Wolverine to throw around. They usually manages to kill Thor before he gets off any specials and it's so far shutdown any high level Doom purely out of denying him clean red tiles to create demons on.
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I'm chilling in 6th with a lvl 60 5/0 Doom. I really want to go pass out since I just got back from a Christmas party and am wiped out from food and liquor but I really have a shot at getting those three Spidey covers. The big question will then be: go 4/5/4 or wait and try to get another purple for 3/5/5.
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SynthOrange posted:My 89 doom is doing around 3K damage per turn. Look at these guys not using Ragnarok letting the rounds go past the first turn.
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Only mildly interested in this tourney. If I get 1 Spidey cover out of it, I'm happy. If I get 3 Captain Americas, I guess I'm fine too.
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Magneto Now is such a great partner for Doom. Get Purples, use Magneto's skill to make a 5-match with Blue and place whatever's left next to Black tiles, then active Doom's skill to make a 5-match with 'em. Then use Doom's Summon Demons for Attack Tiles. I've been hanging at #2 and #3 since I don't want to overdo it and get another Invisible Woman, but really #2 ~ #5 is fine with me since it's the Blue and Purple I really want. Too bad there aren't that many great Black active skills that I could use as a third partner to the Doom / Magneto Now combo. Bullseye might be a decent option since he gets benefits from matching Purple tiles as well but mine's too low level to justify using him over Thor.
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Eurgh, if this Doom tourney teaches you anything it's that no matter what your team looks like now, if you've got a 1-cover villain, you are getting attacked a lot
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This is the quietest event end I've seen. Dont know if it's the top prize or my level 89 Doom.
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