sidlon
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Congrats Gravel (and Slide) on getting into the current #2 alliance in this event!
Marvel Puzzle Quest Discussion Thread
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eldergamer
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I've only got 30,000. sitting about #160 right now. Should be okay for a luke cage by the end of the event.
Top 20 in both normal and hard though. Just have to keep grinding the essential nodes.
Top 20 in both normal and hard though. Just have to keep grinding the essential nodes.
yea the team is a powerhouse in pvp but sort of bad in pve (only top 500)
rank 1 in hard with 30 mins to go lets see how bad i get pasted in these last 30 mins LOL
20 mins with still a 5k pt lead. hopefully everyone is sleeping (like i should)
man looked at the board and thought 1 would get something nice
1-2 100 hp 3 tokens
3-5 100 hp 2 token
man im fighting for just 1 token
cause i got a 14k lead over 6th place so there is no way they can pass me there.ended up 22 in easy and 1st in hard 100 hp and 4 tokens. now to see what the tokens are in 4 hours when they come in.
and the token pulls
2 star storm into the trash
2 star thor into the trash
2 star mag into the trash
another
2 star thor into the trash
what a waste
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eldergamer
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Two three stars from my ten pack
eldergamer
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My seven year old gets to pick the characters. She demands I use pie-sy-lock
Well, this is it, gentlemen. I've decided it's time to hang up the MPQ cleats. I haven't played much in the last couple weeks, and I don't miss the grinding.
The huge drawback for me at this stage is that there is absolutely no progression unless I'm logging a hell of a lot more time than I'm willing to put in. My cover luck is garbage, and I don't have (or even want to have) the time needed to place highly in these events for a cover I'll never see until it becomes a reward again... which I'll then have to grind a ton more to pull off. In early December, I was playing 2-3 hours a day, which is a fairly significant amount for me. What did all those game hours amount to? Iso. Maybe 1-2 useful covers, MAYBE. But a decent amount of iso.
But that's not progression. All the characters I want to use are iso-maxed for their cover levels (sans X-Force), so the only real way for me to progress at this point is to get more covers of people that I want to be able to use. That's not happening through pulls, so I need to place highly in events. I'm not talking about events for new characters, either, since those will be largely useless for a long time for me. I'm talking about events for highly sought after covers that everyone and their mother is trying to score highly in. And that requires more of a time commitment than I can muster.
To top it all off, my three yr old son loves the comic characters, so he likes to look through my roster. If you recall, he spent a ton of my HP a while back buying cover packs of no significance, so I've since been monitoring him while he browses. Saturday, I left him on the couch with my roster while I went to clean up some toys. 3000 HP. 1 Heroic 10-pack. HP deleted. 1 black Hood. I was already leaning toward quitting, but that sealed the deal.
I'm going to keep it installed, because the gameplay itself is fun, but long gone are the days of playing nodes multiple times, middle of the night grinding, PvP shielding... basically, the things that make this game more of a job than a distraction. Best of luck in all your grinding.
(PS - I'll still be around here. When this thread is active, it's my favorite one to visit.)
The huge drawback for me at this stage is that there is absolutely no progression unless I'm logging a hell of a lot more time than I'm willing to put in. My cover luck is garbage, and I don't have (or even want to have) the time needed to place highly in these events for a cover I'll never see until it becomes a reward again... which I'll then have to grind a ton more to pull off. In early December, I was playing 2-3 hours a day, which is a fairly significant amount for me. What did all those game hours amount to? Iso. Maybe 1-2 useful covers, MAYBE. But a decent amount of iso.
But that's not progression. All the characters I want to use are iso-maxed for their cover levels (sans X-Force), so the only real way for me to progress at this point is to get more covers of people that I want to be able to use. That's not happening through pulls, so I need to place highly in events. I'm not talking about events for new characters, either, since those will be largely useless for a long time for me. I'm talking about events for highly sought after covers that everyone and their mother is trying to score highly in. And that requires more of a time commitment than I can muster.
To top it all off, my three yr old son loves the comic characters, so he likes to look through my roster. If you recall, he spent a ton of my HP a while back buying cover packs of no significance, so I've since been monitoring him while he browses. Saturday, I left him on the couch with my roster while I went to clean up some toys. 3000 HP. 1 Heroic 10-pack. HP deleted. 1 black Hood. I was already leaning toward quitting, but that sealed the deal.
I'm going to keep it installed, because the gameplay itself is fun, but long gone are the days of playing nodes multiple times, middle of the night grinding, PvP shielding... basically, the things that make this game more of a job than a distraction. Best of luck in all your grinding.
(PS - I'll still be around here. When this thread is active, it's my favorite one to visit.)
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I see the draw in scaling back ltrain, it's amazing how much time these games can consume. I typically play while I'm watching something, but there are times when it seems like I'm paying more attention to the game than whatever game or show I have on. It does take quite a while to build the new characters, but I like the game enough to keep grinding for now.
Wow, I missed a lot by having a home computer on the outs. Wild.
Sitting at #2 in the Simulator with a 20k lead on #3. #1 is a two star transitioner not in an alliance who is obviously playing an easier set of nodes than I am. I can get within striking distance when I do a clear, but he's grinding like a fool. I figure rewards don't care the difference between 1 & 2, so I'm just maintaining my lead over #3 and calling it a day. Luke Cage looks interesting enough with his protect tile power to put him in place as a tank for Wolverine and Daken.
I cover maxed Fury with my token rewards from the season, so that was nice. I don't see myself getting him to 270, though, when Thor is the better character and it took forever for X-Force.
And of course, Combined Arms has a character I'm low on covers. At least it's not Balance of Power, but not much better. I guess it could be worse and be Rocket/Groot covers, since I'm actually missing one of their colors.
Kind of excited for Doom's purple. I think my ISO is getting saved for his new levels.
Sitting at #2 in the Simulator with a 20k lead on #3. #1 is a two star transitioner not in an alliance who is obviously playing an easier set of nodes than I am. I can get within striking distance when I do a clear, but he's grinding like a fool. I figure rewards don't care the difference between 1 & 2, so I'm just maintaining my lead over #3 and calling it a day. Luke Cage looks interesting enough with his protect tile power to put him in place as a tank for Wolverine and Daken.
I cover maxed Fury with my token rewards from the season, so that was nice. I don't see myself getting him to 270, though, when Thor is the better character and it took forever for X-Force.
And of course, Combined Arms has a character I'm low on covers. At least it's not Balance of Power, but not much better. I guess it could be worse and be Rocket/Groot covers, since I'm actually missing one of their colors.
Kind of excited for Doom's purple. I think my ISO is getting saved for his new levels.
I still need a green for Blade, but that's the top tier. I can also use a purple and a black, but there's no way I'll finish that high with the Simulator still going on.
I also didn't realize my Doom was so low, 3/2 right now. The purple power is awesome, completely flattened my Sentry with it.
eldergamer
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Looks like that Doom's new purple only sets traps on Purple colors. (?) easy to avoid. At least when I killed him and it said trap disarmed it seemed all the tiles that flashed were purple.
50k now for the simulator. won't be able to play more until work break probably.
50k now for the simulator. won't be able to play more until work break probably.
The trap tiles show up all over, not just purple, but it doesn't do damage when you match them, it does damage when he activates the tiles. So, if he gets 10 purple, he sets off all the traps and it does x amount of base damage plus x amount per trap tile. When I was fighting him it was around 1100 per tile. He set it off once and Sentry died with over 9k HP. When he activates, it wipes all the traps, and he starts making them again. Someone with board clearing abilities could help get rid of traps, but unless you're counting, you're not going to have any idea how many are out there.
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downsouthtigger
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Allright, this is going to be put out there because of this.
I am thinking that the CAGvengers will be our casual alliance for those of our original team who want to stay & be more of a casual team please dont give up this alliance just stay and moderate. I'll promote whoever wants to take charge of it in order to keep some peace.
As for the people who still play, we'll get the new alliance set up and running. It wont be anything crazy and we'll keep the focus on PVE. Im just hearing the frustration in the chat & I understand the holidays but it seems the core members have taken a toll with things. So I want everyone to keep having fun, stay with us & its not like it isnt time for the CagVengers to branch out anyways.
#22 with 6471 points. All but 3 events I finished with over 550 points and Simulator I had over 1000 points. Going to be tough to repeat with me being matched 166+ level charectors once I get over 400 points.
so far last stage hard still ranked 1 with 17k 2nd had 12k. few must have the required person once again cause after the top 7 its a major drop off.
do we think the new season will start later this week or nothing until next week.
thought rank 1 was a lock until i seen that you have the right NOT to update on tablets Meaning DOOMS 3rd power will not update while the people on pc are forced to deal with it. (if you hit his trap 1800 pts of damage)
do we think the new season will start later this week or nothing until next week.
thought rank 1 was a lock until i seen that you have the right NOT to update on tablets Meaning DOOMS 3rd power will not update while the people on pc are forced to deal with it. (if you hit his trap 1800 pts of damage)
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On tablets, you only get a day or two before it's required (with the exception of once or twice, where it was immediately required). They only do that so that people can connect to a wifi network so as to not use a data plan.
britton_draws
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I am in your same boat ltrain but I can't quite give up just yet haha. I am going to play a bunch tomorrow to hopefully score a Luke Cage and I will gauge my play throughout the month now that I am back to more commute time.
Regardless of it all I just want to keep this mini CAG Community going. I know I have been pretty much dead lately but I have been to everyone, not just internet friends haha. I do enjoy catching up on this thread always though so even if we split into multiple groups I hope we still keep this thread active : )
If this is the plan I will stay back on CAGvengers and keep it casual because regardless I still want to keep playing the game but I have less and less time to play and my playstyle already is minimal time commitments anyway hah.
Regardless of it all I just want to keep this mini CAG Community going. I know I have been pretty much dead lately but I have been to everyone, not just internet friends haha. I do enjoy catching up on this thread always though so even if we split into multiple groups I hope we still keep this thread active : )
tablets need to be 100% online though to play it. even if they are given a day or two that will protect them till the end of the event.
downsouthtigger
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This is for the best actually, you always had the iron fist when it came to managing CAGvengers, so I dont see anyone more fit to remain and keep it in line. Plus we can always promote & demote if need be and juggle between who is more effective where.
OK My secondary account is heading up CAGPvEngers. Its private right now & once those that want mitigate over there I will drop that account from it. For the most part I guess everyone who wants to, can jump over after this PVE is over. No reason to lose placement right now, especially with only 12 hours left (on mine).
sidlon
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I guess I was feeling spontaneous. When Thunder pointed out his little rewards change within the top 2500 alliances, I decided to make the jump.
So I switched to cagPVEngers, and now we have 4 people and already rank to get the same 50hp as if we made #101. =)
I'm currently thinking anyone who wants to join, feel free, and I'll start opening up to randoms tomorrow around noon EST.
With a little luck and a lot of random-booting, maybe top 100 is a faint possibility?
So I switched to cagPVEngers, and now we have 4 people and already rank to get the same 50hp as if we made #101. =)
I'm currently thinking anyone who wants to join, feel free, and I'll start opening up to randoms tomorrow around noon EST.
With a little luck and a lot of random-booting, maybe top 100 is a faint possibility?
eldergamer
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I've got about 61,000 and am holding around the 150s in the event for now. 15 hours left for me and I'm home tonight so I should have plenty of time to play.
Will have to grind those those Easy nodes. I'm not touching any of the hard nodes. I can beat some of the essential ones if I get lucky.....
Will have to grind those those Easy nodes. I'm not touching any of the hard nodes. I can beat some of the essential ones if I get lucky.....
The highest point Hard essential messed my team up good this morning. Almost got it on the third shot, then Groot 'luckily' matched a yellow from a cascade. The previous attempt cascaded enough green to let Thor cast Call the Storm two turns in a row. Fun.
i dont think there will be many late pushers this time since rank 10 to 150 is the same besides the crystals
last set.
Easy with 1 min to go sneaked into top 50 with 80 people from 50 to 51
Hard first
overall 35th
lets see what the last 4 tokens hold
1. THOR 2 red JUNK
2... fantasy 4 torch red junk
3... mag blue JUNK
4... sentry yellow
3 i cant use and one useless one LOL
Easy with 1 min to go sneaked into top 50 with 80 people from 50 to 51
Hard first
overall 35th
lets see what the last 4 tokens hold
1. THOR 2 red JUNK
2... fantasy 4 torch red junk
3... mag blue JUNK
4... sentry yellow
3 i cant use and one useless one LOL
downsouthtigger
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Couldnt post on CAG because the internet blocked out games & media sites at the hospital. Couldnt chat because the internet at the hospital was wonky period.
Got a Purple blade last night from the daily deal, got my black luke cage (is that racist?) and a heroic from the sim netted me a yellow hood. Which is good so I can drop black from 5 & make yellow 5.
I wanted to post this about pulls, and my seemingly above average luck with them. I honestly attribute it to feeding the beast. We all know its a waste to drop hp for tokens, about as much as dropping iso for tokens. But Ive noticed when I do send a steady stream of HP through daily deals I end up with better than average pulls from tokens. Im not saying every day, thats just crazy but we do get a steady stream of HP from alliance and solo awards. Its very easy to gain 100 every couple days for a daily deal. NEVER waste hp on an event token whatsoever! 200 HP for a 2* is definitely throwing money away. However 100 Hp, a drop in the bucket.
Although thats my advice focus on getting roster slots first. Buy as many as you can. If you are anywhere close to buying roster slots, BUY THOSE! If you're at the point where you can drop extra hp and dont need the extra slots then go for it. ALWAYS GET ROSTER SLOTS FIRST WHEN USING YOUR HERO POINTS!
Got a Purple blade last night from the daily deal, got my black luke cage (is that racist?) and a heroic from the sim netted me a yellow hood. Which is good so I can drop black from 5 & make yellow 5.
I wanted to post this about pulls, and my seemingly above average luck with them. I honestly attribute it to feeding the beast. We all know its a waste to drop hp for tokens, about as much as dropping iso for tokens. But Ive noticed when I do send a steady stream of HP through daily deals I end up with better than average pulls from tokens. Im not saying every day, thats just crazy but we do get a steady stream of HP from alliance and solo awards. Its very easy to gain 100 every couple days for a daily deal. NEVER waste hp on an event token whatsoever! 200 HP for a 2* is definitely throwing money away. However 100 Hp, a drop in the bucket.
Although thats my advice focus on getting roster slots first. Buy as many as you can. If you are anywhere close to buying roster slots, BUY THOSE! If you're at the point where you can drop extra hp and dont need the extra slots then go for it. ALWAYS GET ROSTER SLOTS FIRST WHEN USING YOUR HERO POINTS!
when should you stop buying spots. im up to 34 and still dont have enough room
sidlon
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IMHO, never. This game is designed to reward a deep roster.
downsouthtigger
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Im at 46, its almost a never ending grind. Im going to say 50 is about where Im going to draw the line.
Yes and no. They always power up certain people and other people not. Then there are the characters they power up who still arent worth crap: MN Magneto (yes I said it), Moonstone, spiderman, you get the gist. Even when powered up their skills arent any better than a maxed out Steve Rogers or 3* Thor.
Then there are those 3*s that you want to keep so bad because they're 3*s, mainly beast but there are others. Hood had so much potential but his covers are so hard to get its really not worth making a spot for him, same as my feelings for sentry. Sentry has too much self damage that its horrible. Put the 2 together and sure you have a great defensive team but thats like the whole 2* MN Mags/Storm combo, sure it works great but you're leaving yourself open.
Anyways this game has now come down to how you want to play and who you want to keep. Once you get X-force you wont use 2* wolverine at all & rarely use patch, should you keep them? Your call. So around 40 roster slots you'll know who to keep & where to go. Dump 2*s if you have to. Keep OBW, 2* Thor, & Ares. Storm if you really want. Ms Marvel & Johnny have been boosted since theyve been released so they're not bad to keep when you cant use the 3*s versions. Beast & Ragnarok, you probably want to drop, she hulk as well. Although I like him as a backup I can understand losing IM40.
My last thought is you should have 3 teams you use in PVP that are your Go to Teams. Then have at 4 PvE teams, these can change depending on who's powered up. Take a look at who you use the most and focus on them. Those will be your cores and then you can adjust your roster around that.
I'm at 47 right now, but I just had to add two for a 1 star again and for Luke Cage. There should be some limit, but I am a hoarder, so I can't drop some people. Also, like Tigger said, having multiple teams helps. For the simulator PvE, I was using a B team (mostly boosted characters) to go through the easy nodes and then using my better team for the hard and the essentials. I would save my health packs for the better team, and swap other people in to the second team as necessary. It also gave me a way to earn points while I was low on health packs and needed time for them to recharge.
i have x force had him for the last 6 weeks and never used him. Why cause its 2500 HP just for one upgrade and he is useless without them
britton_draws
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CAGvengers ended at like 2500 haha it was terrible. Since you all left at once noone is staying because they see we arent even close to a full alliance and then dips. Oh well. My minimal effort still scored me two Luke Cage covers... and the kicker was I ended up putting in about an hour and a half of gameplay with the event and still got ~#30 overall!! Mwahaha
Hahah Clearly I should not be in a high scoring Alliance anymore with my tactics : PP
I assume Luke is powered up in this Hulk event, what other 3 stars are boosted? I have a good chunk of ISO and I am trying to figure out who to give it to. I probably will just pump it back into Colossus as I have been if I don't need to level up any of the boosted ones.
Hahah Clearly I should not be in a high scoring Alliance anymore with my tactics : PP
I assume Luke is powered up in this Hulk event, what other 3 stars are boosted? I have a good chunk of ISO and I am trying to figure out who to give it to. I probably will just pump it back into Colossus as I have been if I don't need to level up any of the boosted ones.
sidlon
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Personally, I'm a hoarder like gravel, and I like where that took me in the game.
My basic approach:
* keep all 3*s, and all 1-2*s that are currently useful
* put all hp into slots
* pour ISO into everyone when it's cheap
* don't bother maxing anyone
The result:
* I think the game scales down because noone is maxed
* I have 22 chars over level 100, plus a pool of maxed 1-2*s
* Especially for easier PvE nodes and things like Balance of Power, I've got a million combinations to experiment with. Steve/MNM/Spiderman is totally usable for lots of nodes.
The fact is, bad 3*s will eventually get fixed. If I'd thrown away my Loki, Doom, or Xforce when they were useless, I'd be starting them from scratch now.
It's a good thing when a game is deep enough that there are multiple good strategies.
My basic approach:
* keep all 3*s, and all 1-2*s that are currently useful
* put all hp into slots
* pour ISO into everyone when it's cheap
* don't bother maxing anyone
The result:
* I think the game scales down because noone is maxed
* I have 22 chars over level 100, plus a pool of maxed 1-2*s
* Especially for easier PvE nodes and things like Balance of Power, I've got a million combinations to experiment with. Steve/MNM/Spiderman is totally usable for lots of nodes.
The fact is, bad 3*s will eventually get fixed. If I'd thrown away my Loki, Doom, or Xforce when they were useless, I'd be starting them from scratch now.
It's a good thing when a game is deep enough that there are multiple good strategies.
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I currently have 51 roster spots, with at least one cover of every 3* or better character. I have two 1* characters still on my roster, and most of the 2* roster (I think I'm only missing Daken, Moonstone and Bullseye, intentionally). Every new character, I buy a slot for that character once I earn them. Slot 52 will cost me 650 HP for whoever comes after Power Man, but I currently have 7420 in reserve, so I should be able to keep up with a two per month release schedule.
So, I'm a believer in buying slots over dropping characters, but that's just my style.
The only advice I would have is that if they ever run a Heroic again (please, I hope not), you are going to want those 2* versions of better characters. Every so often Astonishing gets to play when he's boosted, but it's usually when my PvE A, B, C and D squads are healing up.
This last Simulator reminded me why Patch is useful - true healing versus the countdown X-Force has. I might start using him as part of my climb team for the first 300 points or so in a PvP.
Luke Cage, Punisher, Rocket/Groot, OBW, 2* Torch and 2* Cap. You can find out for an event you haven't joined yet by looking at the rewards and hitting the Event Rules button in the lower left.
Also, next PvP dropped - Avengers boosted to earn Luke Cage covers.
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sidlon
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The good news is, both alliance got the same 50hp and some iso pocket change. Add in a few more randoms, and Cagvengers will be at least top500 in no time.
Powered up for Hulk: Luke, Pun, R&G, OBW, Johnny, 2Cap
britton_draws
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Never realized you could look at the rules without entering! D'oh! Thanks for pointing that out. As you guys know I refuse to level up Punisher any more so he is not getting my ISO and Grocket doesn't even have enough covers for me to allow him to take ISO!
downsouthtigger
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This should not have happened. And because of this I am going to enforce a stricter alliance for the PVE alliance. Im going to state this here and now in bold and larger print:
CAGPvEngers is NOT the better alliance!
Its the PVE alliance and will only be for those who are competitive in PVE. This was not an alliance to get away from Broly (since he's the only core CAG left there) nor was it for people to jump because they thought theyd get a cover if they moved over.
I didnt even make it to the Patch (last) progression reward in the last PvE, my total points were 100k. I also took an early end time so I finished early & could not see what everyone else was doing. However I know that there were people who made 30k more points than me. I also know I got tired of the event, scaling kicked in, & I got bored with it. When a 10 node sub event lasts 3 days, I have no desire to repeat the same nodes after one full round; especially when scaling kicks in.
Having said that there will be a set point that every PVE member will have to reach. Since we were starting out there was no limit. In previous events if you do not receive all progression rewards, thats probably a good indicator that the PVE alliance is not for you.
Attaining all progression rewards in a PvE may be the benchmark I place for cutting a player. If you know you wont make it; being a top player in the casual alliance is not a bad thing.
Im not going to name any names or call anyone out, but the PVE alliance is not to carry people. There will be cuts, no questions no warnings. As stated this is the PVE alliance, the CAGvengers is the casual allaince. This is why we made 2, one for CAGs that want to play & chat, the other for ones who competitively want to play. Its nothing personal, as an alliance it was time for us to move forward.
So anyone who didnt want to be in one of "those" alliances probably wants to help Broly out with the CAGvengers. These are both our alliances and there's nothing wrong with being in either of them. Hell if enough people get into it we may even have a CagPvPvengers. Just know where and how you play, figure out whats best for you. If you jumped over in hopes for a reward well you saw how that happened. We crippled BOTH alliances....
And here it is, the end result. We made the same amount of hero points. The only difference was ISO, no one got an extra cover, there was no reason for EVERYONE to jump over to the new alliance just yet.
He doesnt, max HP goes from 6800 to ~7800, I just played the essential node with against a lone hulk. Pun was first to go since his icon was on every tile from being powered up. In that battle a lone Groocket came out of that only because of his yellow passive. Had it not been for that, Hulk wouldve beat Pun, Steve, & Groot all for a measely 400 points.
eldergamer
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I finished just shy of 90k (would have had over that if they counted my last battle). Got my black Luke Cage cover (WTF is up with his arms on the cover? They look like tubes of sausages.)
Nothing decent from any of my tokens. Wish I had played more in the combined arms tournament. Would have enjoyed another blade cover.
Nothing decent from any of my tokens. Wish I had played more in the combined arms tournament. Would have enjoyed another blade cover.
bread's done