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Should I even bother attempting the boosted Hulk end stages?
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I think with the recent changes to Wolverine and Thor, Daken might actually be the best two star character in the game. The only PVP characters that reliably can beat me with a little luck are Daken, Thor, and OBW, if and only if she's teamed up with Modern Storm.
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Feb 19, 2014 08:33
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Snazzy Frocks posted:Should I even bother attempting the boosted Hulk end stages? drat I just realized I went from fully hyped up to totally burned out between round 3 and 4.
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Feb 19, 2014 08:36
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Snazzy Frocks posted:drat I just realized I went from fully hyped up to totally burned out between round 3 and 4. Between the length of the events and the proclivity the devs have for throwing extremely difficult fights at us I usually get burned out somewhere after four days. The problem is some combination of the AI mooks and every fight being designed as an attrition fight, which doesn't work when enemies are at really high levels. At a certain point in scaling the only reasonable strategy to dealing with the fights is never letting the AI get a turn, which is tedious play particularly without a 5 Blue Spider-Man. The scaling is busted and trying to tune the game towards longer matches just sort of compounds the issue in PVE. PVP is more easily swung around big cascades now too. I think I'd get a little less burned out on these long events if the content wasn't just the same thing 3-4 times with a gradually scaling list of fights that become more tedious and random than challenging.
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Feb 19, 2014 08:47
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Snazzy Frocks posted:Should I even bother attempting the boosted Hulk end stages? Only if you can keep hulk perma stunned. The sadists even gave him a mook that generates red AP.
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Feb 19, 2014 09:07
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rabidsquid posted:
The PvE events would be better if they just got rid of the PvP competition aspect. If players are not competing there is no reason for the stupid scaling difficulty over time.
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Feb 19, 2014 09:09
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Largepotato posted:Only if you can keep hulk perma stunned. I've had a lot of success running Classic Storm/OBW/Magneto Now and CStorm did an outstanding job of locking Hulk down while generating a truckload of damage. I haven't been putting the time in to actually grind out top rewards, but Magneto Now cranking out the blue AP to feed CStorm or OBW as necessary has been incredible.
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Feb 19, 2014 11:02
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I would have been cool with this event if each area wasn't two and a half days long. Like I'll hit number 1 multiple times during the event only to be knocked out to the thirties in the last six or so hours. It just feels so futile to keep trying.
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Feb 19, 2014 12:45
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Marvel Puzzle Quest: It just feels so futile to keep trying.
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Feb 19, 2014 18:08
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What's the best DareDevil build? The game's forums are blocked so I can't look at that thread.
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Feb 19, 2014 18:20
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So, did I miss something or did they lie about the whole "bonus iso-8 decreases for Skips" thing, because I'm seeing a pay-10-iso-per-skip tax straight up in this current tourney.
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Feb 19, 2014 18:47
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Is 3/5/5 the preferred Moonstone build? Or should I go higher in Gravity Warp and actually learn how to use it 
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Feb 19, 2014 18:47
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Syrinxx posted:Is 3/5/5 the preferred Moonstone build? Or should I go higher in Gravity Warp and actually learn how to use it 5/5/3 I think. Black is too expensive.
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Feb 19, 2014 19:25
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Stupid game didn't give me my 250 Iso.  
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Feb 19, 2014 19:29
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Neat that the new Magneto tournament gives a free cover to start. I already have my Magneto NOW! at 3 blue, though.
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Feb 19, 2014 19:31
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Chernobyl Peace Prize posted:So, did I miss something or did they lie about the whole "bonus iso-8 decreases for Skips" thing, because I'm seeing a pay-10-iso-per-skip tax straight up in this current tourney. Last update I saw on that from their forums was that it's not supposed to be active yet (coming in R48?) and if you're seeing that you should put in a support ticket.
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Feb 19, 2014 19:43
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Is Hulk an Avenger or what? What boost will work on him?
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Feb 19, 2014 19:45
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chrisf posted:Last update I saw on that from their forums was that it's not supposed to be active yet (coming in R48?) and if you're seeing that you should put in a support ticket. One of those is way more MPQ, though.
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Feb 19, 2014 19:55
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Snazzy Frocks posted:Is Hulk an Avenger or what? What boost will work on him? http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3598 Scroll down to the 5th post. Edit: yep, he is an Avenger. Edit 2: I may as well post the full list as it's handy. quote:Avenger: Iron Man (both), Hawkeye (both), Black Widow (two non-classics only), Captain America, Spiderman (classic only), Thor, Wolverine (2-star only), Hulk Friendly Fire fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Feb 19, 2014 |
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Feb 19, 2014 20:28
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Holy poo poo, Marvel Now Magneto is loving TERRIBLE. Heavily considering selling him (even my unleveled Classic Magneto is better than a level 14 2-3-1 Now Magneto).
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Feb 19, 2014 21:41
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Overflight posted:Holy poo poo, Marvel Now Magneto is loving TERRIBLE. Heavily considering selling him (even my unleveled Classic Magneto is better than a level 14 2-3-1 Now Magneto). He's a one trick pony but that one trick can be really good, his purple generates insane amounts of Blue AP. Using it to fire off Classic Storm stuns left and right is killer in this event. As an added bonus at higher levels his Red hits for around 2500 if you don't have anyone else using Red AP. His Blue ability is pretty much garbage.
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Feb 19, 2014 23:58
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Overflight posted:Holy poo poo, Marvel Now Magneto is loving TERRIBLE. Heavily considering selling him (even my unleveled Classic Magneto is better than a level 14 2-3-1 Now Magneto). Yeah but no one else generates nearly as much blue. Magneto classic makes 2 and cap makes 1, but you don't want to destroy them. Magneto now is usable as a blue battery but that's about it, but he is a drat good blue battery.
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Feb 20, 2014 00:06
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I don't think I have the tools necessary to defeat these Hulks. Anyone have a strat that isn't 'eat him with venom/spidey'? Also, does the AI ever get smarter? As in will it ever choose to match 5 over 4 if it had the choice between the two? Right now the AI ALWAYS matches 4 even if it could have matched a 5.
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Feb 20, 2014 00:13
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The AI doesnt know how to make T or L 5 matches, but it will make straight 5 matches.
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Feb 20, 2014 00:22
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My Magneto Classic is sitting at 0/5/1 and I havn't put a single iso into his levels. How big is the boost in this event? I am thinking of sitting him with Storm Classic and OBW so on defense he fires off his red at every available opportunity, and basically annoys the hell out of people with the stupid long animation. I'm thinking a lot of people will see him at level 15 and ignore him as OBW and Storm are nearly always killed off first.
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Feb 20, 2014 00:23
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SynthOrange posted:The AI doesnt know how to make T or L 5 matches, but it will make straight 5 matches. That's because it is trying to do a 4-match. (The AI is dumb as gently caress, which can be exploited with daredevil, god knows he needs it).
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Feb 20, 2014 00:54
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Man, CStorm/OBW/Magneto NOW really is a strong team, or I've dropped into a bracket without anyone who cares. I can cream opponents pretty easily.
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Feb 20, 2014 10:37
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Patch & OBW end games way too quick. I don't think the devs intended for espionage to double-dip the strike tiles and inflict miniature thermonuclear strikes on each of her color matches. I smell another funbalance coming up.
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Feb 20, 2014 16:04
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Bruceski posted:Man, CStorm/OBW/Magneto NOW really is a strong team, or I've dropped into a bracket without anyone who cares. I can cream opponents pretty easily. Lucky you. I'm always swimming with the whales.
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Feb 20, 2014 16:37
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Are placed into your bracket before your first match?
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Feb 20, 2014 19:28
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Kjermzs posted:Are placed into your bracket before your first match? No you get placed into a bracket when you finish your first match. This used to allow us to hop into an event in the last hour or half hour and easily take top tens, but word got out about that and ended it. In my experience you get easier brackets if you join one with around four or eight hours to go now but that's not definitive. I guess slacker brackets may even be back!
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Feb 20, 2014 19:36
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Also the lightning rounds and the elite tournaments are exceptions to the rule: you're placed in a bracket immediately when the event starts.
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Feb 20, 2014 20:13
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messagemode1 posted:Also the lightning rounds and the elite tournaments are exceptions to the rule: you're placed in a bracket immediately when the event starts. I thought those had no brackets, it was just everyone's in one.
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Feb 20, 2014 20:15
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silvergoose posted:I thought those had no brackets, it was just everyone's in one. Yeah that's what I meant, though I guess I shouldn't have called it a bracket at all.
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Feb 20, 2014 20:22
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A.o.D. posted:Lucky you. I'm always swimming with the whales.
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Feb 20, 2014 22:39
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rabidsquid posted:No you get placed into a bracket when you finish your first match. This used to allow us to hop into an event in the last hour or half hour and easily take top tens, but word got out about that and ended it. In my experience you get easier brackets if you join one with around four or eight hours to go now but that's not definitive. I guess slacker brackets may even be back! I noticed that the last event was easier for me to place when I waited 24hrs into it. This one I joined immediately and having far more difficult matchups.
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Feb 20, 2014 22:40
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I feel like mmr is based not just on performance but on how much ISO your entire roster is worth. Has there been any insight into the mechanics? Is the consensus that it's just regular elo?
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Feb 20, 2014 23:47
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 This event's much better designed, or at least, it fits me better. I dont need to play a whole ton. For the last few days all I need is to run a few of the Hard missions each day and I'm easily in the top 10 of the subevent and the main event.
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Feb 21, 2014 01:26
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Yeah, while I'm enjoying this event I'm going to be about 9k short of the first patch cover, just because I'm new enough to the game and haven't had the roster to power up to 50k. I Did get a fresh Daken up to lvl 48 though. The diminishing returns on replaying the missions are killing me 
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Kjermzs posted:Yeah, while I'm enjoying this event I'm going to be about 9k short of the first patch cover, just because I'm new enough to the game and haven't had the roster to power up to 50k. I Did get a fresh Daken up to lvl 48 though. The purpose of diminishing returns is to make it so that the winner of each event isn't just the guy who plays non stop for 48 hours/9days. Instead it's the guy who plays for 2 hours every 8 hours.
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