Marvel Puzzle Quest Discussion Thread

[downsouthtigger]

Its showing the event is a bust.  Im currently #9 in the Panther tournament and there's more resistance there.  I also completely missed a sub even (wakanda maybe?) because I thought it ended at 12 cst not est.  So missed by an hour, damn.  Since I missed that sub I guess Im totally out for the Doc Ock progression reward. Really curious though, is it seriously attainable? I hate when they swing from easily gotten top progression rewards to no chance in hell ones.  Can we just have a steady "yes if you try" progression reward? Nothing easy but not insanely grindy hard.

Anyways just got my heroic 10 pack.  I got 3 useable cards, which is loads better than 10 2*s.  Got a 2* Johnny Torch green, last one I needed on him.  A blue 3* Daken, which makes my blue 5 now, and a Yellow Nick Fury.  Guess I should be happy that I got the nick fury right? Thats worth the whole 10 pack isnt it?

Lastly Nm8or, have they quit? They on vaca? Havent seen them play in a while.  Just curious, I think thats Broly's friend so maybe he knows?

*Edit*

Also I found a glitch that I wasnt aware of.  Redwing does not get rid of X-force's recovery countdown.  I was very confused by this.  The enemy X-force put down a recovery countdown, naturally my redwing came in and removed the tile.  Decided to match the redwing countdown so that redwing could reappear should I need him.  When I cleared the tile recovery still went off and caused damage to my team.  Since not many people fight X-force with Falcon, I guess Im in the minority to see this.  If anyone else does use Falcon have they noticed any other special tiles redwing doesnt fully remove?

 

[britton_draws]

I once made love to a llama. It was far more gentle than I expected it to be.

I still don't have Fury : (

And yeah I am pretty sure she is just done. I talked to her about the game last week and she said she thinks she just wants to take a break and so yeah judging by her actions, or lack thereof, it seems to be the case. I will ask her when I see her tonight but either way at this point she will have to dip out with such a low score. I would just rather her leave than I boot her so that she can easily rejoin if she starts playing again in the next event or something.

And I mirror all the ugh remarks for this event. The nodes are shit, the points are shit and the rewards are shit.

And I checked, I still havent even gotten the FIRST progression reward this season hahahah I am at like 270 or something. That is what happens when you only play a few PvP events and Broly each one haha womp womp

 

[kojubat]

Since I missed that sub I guess Im totally out for the Doc Ock progression reward. Really curious though, is it seriously attainable?

I think it is, but just barely. I'm about halfway there, about halfway through the event. I haven't really done any serious grinding, and fell asleep last night without doing my last round on one of the subevents.

Also I found a glitch that I wasnt aware of. Redwing does not get rid of X-force's recovery countdown. I was very confused by this. The enemy X-force put down a recovery countdown, naturally my redwing came in and removed the tile. Decided to match the redwing countdown so that redwing could reappear should I need him. When I cleared the tile recovery still went off and caused damage to my team. Since not many people fight X-force with Falcon, I guess Im in the minority to see this. If anyone else does use Falcon have they noticed any other special tiles redwing doesnt fully remove?

This is one of those 'unacknowledged known issues'. X-Force has the only countdown that does something when matched. It looks like the code doesn't take that into account when Falcon takes it over. I imagine that the same thing happens when Moonstone takes it over, not sure. Like you said, though, doesn't come up as often as say, the Ares Sunder bug.

 

[eldergamer]

3rd and 4th the shitty node scores. I'm mostly just playing the essential ones anyway. but some of those are redonkculous. (sic0

No way i'm fighting enemies in the 130s for only 300 points.

I'll try and get a Sentry cover from this BP tournament, but even he isn't useable.

 

[downsouthtigger]

This is one of those 'unacknowledged known issues'. X-Force has the only countdown that does something when matched. It looks like the code doesn't take that into account when Falcon takes it over. I imagine that the same thing happens when Moonstone takes it over, not sure. Like you said, though, doesn't come up as often as say, the Ares Sunder bug.

Now honestly when I think about glitches I really wonder about Daredevil. With his trap tiles there could be so many glitches in there. Of course since no one uses him one would hardly know about it. Trap tiles have only recently come into play with daredevil and Nick Fury being the only 2 who really use them. Naturally they are also some of the least used characters.

Moonstone is another character that needs to be greatly funbalanced. She honestly is quite useful and has the same color scheme as deadpool. If she wasnt so expenisive though, I mean when powered up she is useful. Ive used her purple skill lots and I think I have it at 5. I was just thinking about it since Thunder Chief had brought it up in an earlier post.

Would have been nice to have Moonstone powered up again. I only have her 1/0/3, but she was very useful to me the last event she was suped up in.

Yep, there is it.

 

[ltrain23]

Moonstone

I like the thought behind her moves, but they're too damn expensive. She's also in that health tier where she can hold her own with some of the big guns, and not get mashed up into tiny little pieces with one blow.

I've never held on to her because of her move cost, but if they would fix that, she would be a very viable character with a useable purple.

 

[kojubat]

Now honestly when I think about glitches I really wonder about Daredevil. With his trap tiles there could be so many glitches in there. Of course since no one uses him one would hardly know about it. Trap tiles have only recently come into play with daredevil and Nick Fury being the only 2 who really use them. Naturally they are also some of the least used characters.

I have seen trap tile glitches. Usually only when facing him, as I have him on my team very rarely. Playing earlier today, I downed him and it looked like a bunch of his traps disarmed. Then I downed the next character, and another one disarmed. I have no idea if that trap was really still there or if it was just a process glitch.

I have also been hit with traps even when he's stunned. Not sure how a stunned person manages to ambush you. This is probably working as intended (traps being more like attack tiles than countdowns), but still kinda odd.

We'd probably see more if it wasn't for the AI being able to see them.

 

[britton_draws]

I like the thought behind her moves, but they're too damn expensive. She's also in that health tier where she can hold her own with some of the big guns, and not get mashed up into tiny little pieces with one blow.

I've never held on to her because of her move cost, but if they would fix that, she would be a very viable character with a useable purple.

You forgot to mention her body paint outfit! : P

 

[downsouthtigger]

You forgot to mention her body paint outfit! : P

How could I forget that! My apologies!

 

[Thunder Chief]

Make sure to get all 3 wolverine covers available in the prologue stories.

There's also 3 Thor and 3 cStorm covers to grab in there.

Here's the map to those treasures:

http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=235

Ahhh, that's where they are! I have checked the wiki (but not for the last chapter), and used it today to get Daken's pink, my last cover for him (since I had only just started Oscorp chapter shortly before getting wrapped up in all these events, and did not want to wait for it), from a L65 Venom!!! I think I am *definitely* getting progression spiking in the prologue... he rolled me the first time I played the node. I thought I may have already got the 3 Wolvies, but now I see they are in the final chapter... cool!

As far as Thor and cStorm, I got all three of theirs already. They are 5/2/4 and 5/3/1, respectively. Need 4 more covers for both to max/respec them.

For future reference, if you overshoot the ranking you want, you can always intentionally lose to drop some points. The lower the points listed, the more you'll lose.

Daken is like Punisher - there are a couple of builds that all work fine depending on play style. The difference is driven by whether you want to treat Daken as a support character or not. If you want him to support someone else, you want to focus on the best strike tiles you can make, and removing them with blue is not desired. If you like the idea of him dealing direct damage through his blue, it doesn't matter how strong the tiles are.

Thanks for the tip, but it was too late to do that... I ended the last match about 2mins from the end of the event. Stupid thing is, I should have started earlier and tried to go for 2 covers for BP instead, like I almost did with Psylocke (when I forgot about Shields...). Once I get the hp, I will claim his yellow. Hated playing against him, so I am guessing I will love to play him!

BP actually changed my basic strategy of "go for the goons, leave the toons." I *had* to take him out first. Those damn Attack and Protect tiles are way powerful, and his team attack knocked out two of my toons at once on two occasions!

Same with Falcon. Cast his Protect, then buffed them with his Inspiration, and I was facing 9 protect tiles, 3 with strength of 168. Couldn't hang on to the match with the spitballs I was throwing, so I got rolled.

I will say I'm finding this event super boring compared to the first time this played. I want the Doc Ock covers, but I don't WANT them. Probably doesn't help that so many nodes are underwhelming in the point value. 400 points for a 200+ Human Torch/Spider-Man/Daredevil node? No thanks.

Dem nodes. UGH! I know now that they are "balanced" to our level, but hell... I checked on a DD node that I need to run, but it was L90, and I needed to wait to heal. Came back later, L96. 30 mins later, L97. A little bit later, L100. dafuq??? FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!! My L133 Doc has only 2 covers, and I my Ares and Daken are only boosted to L97, so it is not something I want to partake in, esp. for ~400 pts.

Esp with them 2K+ nodes we had in the DA event so fresh in my memory. Those were awesome! And EASY!

Speaking of DA event, got some very good news today. Right after my 22-point shortfall, I played a PvP round and got a very weird bug. The game did not immediately register my 3rd win. I mean, I got the progression reward for passing 50 points, but my score was still reading my 2nd win total of 48. Within about 15 seconds or so, my score jumped to 70. So, it got me thinking...

Could the server have bunged up my 2nd to last DA match???

Wouldn't hurt to ask. So, I did! I sent in a support ticket to d3p. Got a response last week of "sorry for the delay, we are looking into it." Then, today, I got a no-explanation, "here, have a blue Psylocke cover, thanks for playing!" message. w00t!

Funny thing, you know how the token rewards usually say Reward Earned "You've reached XXXX" [points] or "You were a Top XXX finisher in [event]"? You want to know what this one said?

FREE COMIC!

lulz

That cracked me up... for some silly reason... anyway...

This is one of those 'unacknowledged known issues'. X-Force has the only countdown that does something when matched. It looks like the code doesn't take that into account when Falcon takes it over. I imagine that the same thing happens when Moonstone takes it over, not sure. Like you said, though, doesn't come up as often as say, the Ares Sunder bug.

Sunder bug? Fill me in, plz... Since he is my go-to dmg dealer right now, I don't want to be surprised...

Oh, and Moonstone... "best" bad guy in the game... har har har...

Question for those of you who have her leveled up a bit. Her purple is the swap power, right? Starts off with only black or purple special tiles... does this power become completely unpredictable as you level it up? At only 1, it was nice to use her to match a Assault Rifle tile into a group of purple for a 4-match, or a Detonate, or that Maggia 10-tick CD tile. But leveled, I can only imagine its unpredictability... or is there some "smarts" to the tile that the AI "randomly" picks for you?

Unlock Doc Ock's blue, which has only ever triggered one match once... I'd rather cast 2x Chemical Reactions instead.

Well, GL with the rest of the event, all. Keep on keepin' on! We can do this!!!

 

[kojubat]

Sunder bug? Fill me in, plz... Since he is my go-to dmg dealer right now, I don't want to be surprised...

It's been fixed, finally. And it would have been to your benefit if using him. There used to be a bug where if Ares used Sunder, and was then downed before the countdown finished, sometimes the countdown wouldn't disappear and still countdown and do damage. They claimed to have fixed it for something like 3 patches until finally squashing it. Considering he is a top tier 2*, it was a very visible bug, because you faced him a lot in PvP.

I do find it interesting that you go for the goons first as a default behavior. I go the other way around for board and damage control - if there aren't any named characters, you don't have to worry about tile damage and can set up match-fives. Every so often there's a countdown I can't get rid of, but I'd rather take a pistol shot over a power. That being said, I will go after goons first if they are feeding a cheap power on a health-heavy opponent, like green/red to Juggernaut.

Oh, and congrats on the Psylocke resolution. You were so close, it was ridiculous.


The event scaling/rubberbanding seems to have kicked in for the last few hours of these subevents. I'm seeing a few 1k+ nodes in Hell's Kitchen, and some high 900s in DC. But, I dragged my feet in the BP event, so I have to weigh the idea of using my health to try for a few Sentry covers instead of worrying about the Doc Ock progression . Can't Broly it, don't have the seed teams.

Maybe I can try a variant. Skip my way to three 50 point opponents and spend ISO on boosts? I probably won't recoup the ISO, but I can probably get at least a Sentry cover or two.

 

[gravel]

I've never been this high in an event, but once I hit 700 points, all I'm seeing are 166/166/270 teams.I'm hoping to hold on to top 25, but it doesn't look good.

 

[kojubat]

I've never been this high in an event, but once I hit 700 points, all I'm seeing are 166/166/270 teams.I'm hoping to hold on to top 25, but it doesn't look good.

They seemed to have reworked the way MMR works for pushing into the higher point values. It looks like your MMR only matters until about the 600-700 point range. After that, MMR goes out the window and you're in a general pool of players at that level, most of which are playing with a maxed team. Occasionally you'll find someone rolling with a partially transitioned team, but that's maybe 1 in 20. The upside is sometimes you can get one of the people in an X-Men alliance or some such on your node that will be worth 50 points. Otherwise, you generally get lumped into a score band where it's rare to see any opponents worth 30 points or more.

 

[gravel]

They seemed to have reworked the way MMR works for pushing into the higher point values. It looks like your MMR only matters until about the 600-700 point range. After that, MMR goes out the window and you're in a general pool of players at that level, most of which are playing with a maxed team. Occasionally you'll find someone rolling with a partially transitioned team, but that's maybe 1 in 20. The upside is sometimes you can get one of the people in an X-Men alliance or some such on your node that will be worth 50 points. Otherwise, you generally get lumped into a score band where it's rare to see any opponents worth 30 points or more.

Yeah. I'm the one with the partially transitioned team. At least BP is boosted, and mine is almost fully leveled, but yeah, I'm wasting Iso skipping some matchups and HP on shields. I thought I might be able to get the 800 or 900 rewards, but that won't be happening. If I do hold on for two Sentries, he'll be 5/5/2 though, but would still need a ton of Iso, so that's something I guess (not that I really use him).

 

[kojubat]

Maybe I can try a variant. Skip my way to three 50 point opponents and spend ISO on boosts? I probably won't recoup the ISO, but I can probably get at least a Sentry cover or two.

Wow. This worked. I got 311 points in 12 minutes. First place. Second place had 239.

I spent ISO to AP boost black and yellow. Third boost I used up my stock of all AP/damage. Used Hulk to tank green and red and Hood to steal. I had BP leveled just enough to take tiles from Hood. Last fight was against a 166 Patch who got off a green and then cascaded on Hulk, enough to kick off 3 Anger tiles. Those nice purple strike tiles went nice with the Anger damage and resulting cascades to wipe out the enemy team with a minute to go.

I do admit to buying a single health pack, though. BP got kinda dinged up after the first few matches and I was out. Cost of doing business - I'll make that HP back with placement, didn't have to shield - my team was too scary for the points I would be worth.

Sentry event has Deadpool awards. Might try this again.

 

[britton_draws]

Guess who got ANOTHER EFFING Daredevil.

You seriously have to be kidding me. This shit pull rate I have been having the past month or two is not helping much with the whole fact that I already am getting quite bored of the game/ events. Ugh.

 

[eldergamer]

Lost a few easy matches and just cut myself short from placing in the top 100 for a Sentry cover. Oh well. (I only started playing the BP event in the last 12 hours)

I've definately noticed once you get into the top 50 ranks (or anything over 600 points) the teams you start facing are top tier.

The point values go way down as well. It's always 30-40 points in the beginning but as you climb your way up the ranks you're lucky to see anyone give points over 25.

I don't even have any two star chracters showing up on my first page of selections now (except for OBW). So those 94 level two star guys rarely get used any more. 

i'm still transitioning though, so some of them are actually stronger than their higher level 3 star comrades for now.

 

[kojubat]

You seriously have to be kidding me. This shit pull rate I have been having the past month or two is not helping much with the whole fact that I already am getting quite bored of the game/ events. Ugh.

I'm sitting on 30 heroics because of the draw percentages.

At least we get to test drive female Thor in a week or so, plus whatever the top voted events are. Awards are supposed to be Anniversary tokens with the new three-cover Devil Dinosaur in the drop rate.

 

[sidlon]

For anyone who could use a Sentry cover, make sure to work your way through the Thunderbolt Mountain event before it gets harder.

The 'Final Choice' node gives a guaranteed red Sentry.

 

[gravel]

For anyone who could use a Sentry cover, make sure to work your way through the Thunderbolt Mountain event before it gets harder.

The 'Final Choice' node gives a guaranteed red Sentry.

But I need a yellow cover!

 

[downsouthtigger]

For anyone who could use a Sentry cover, make sure to work your way through the Thunderbolt Mountain event before it gets harder.

The 'Final Choice' node gives a guaranteed red Sentry.

Sweet! The game must be telling me I really need to work on my sentry then. Got a yellow Sentry from token pulls a couple days ago, top 25 in the Panther tourney got me a Red and Green cover, now another free red? Now all I need is some iso...

*Edit*

Wow really, already leveled in the 100s for the enemies. Geez people really trying for that doc ock cover huh? My next reward is 30k for 50 HP. I dont even know if Im gonna make that.

 

[HuBu]

Those Defend the Sentry nodes are pretty tough

 

[britton_draws]

Dang, wish I knew earlier! I won't get a chance to try this subevent for a couple hours now!

Hopefully I can speed through it still somehow on my train ride back home.

 

[HuBu]

Do more nodes pop up once you complete the paths? I have 3 more nodes to do. "Defend The Sentry IV" and the one after that along with "Easier Said Than Done". With the latter being green whereas the Defend is yellow. Gotta wait for health to refill.

 

[kojubat]

Do more nodes pop up once you complete the paths? I have 3 more nodes to do. "Defend The Sentry IV" and the one after that along with "Easier Said Than Done". With the latter being green whereas the Defend is yellow. Gotta wait for health to refill.

Once you finish all the nodes, one last one-time node appears.

I was able to get through the whole cycle in one shot, but not without casualties. Ended up testing out Patch/Daken/Loki and was like hot knife through butter. Just hold on to Patch's green/red until you have enough black and go to town. Unfortunately the couple of Astonishing Wolverine nodes got in the way.

 

[sidlon]

Only after fighting my way through & sentry-bombing the tough final battle did I realize that last PvP actually maxed out my Sentry in the 3/5/5 build I wanted.  B^)

Glad they just made Final Choice a regular node this time.  Last time they did this event, we had to wait for the global energy bar to fill.

I kept alternating between Steve/IM40/? and Pun/Falcon.   Will definitely play with the Patch/Loki, especially if I can get some more black Lokis to bring down the crazy cost.

 

[downsouthtigger]

OK I give up for the event, Im just done with it. I dont need/ wont get the spiderman tokens anyways.  Also ditto for 2* Daken. So Im just letting my score drop since x amount of standard tokens will be better for me than any of the other prizes.  At least with standard tokens I have a chance for a 3* or better.  Hell Im having Broly luck, I got a red daredevil from a standard today.  Im not even gonna complain about it, gave me 5 in DD red and its a hell of a lot better than a 1 or 2*!

So this last sub event, total bitch! All I have to say is thank God Punisher and Psylocke arent avengers.  Also that hulk was used for only a few nodes here and there.  You know what Im talking about, I couldnt use half my teams because they were all Avengers: Steve, Panther, Wolverine, Falcon, Even GSBW & IM40! I dont have a good enough 3* Thor, but Id prob be pissed off with not being able to use him some too! Its events like these which really show that the balance is really skewed towards heroes than villains. Also even when powered up, Ares still couldnt compete with the advanced levels of the scaled nodes.

 

[HuBu]

LOL man the node for the Sentry cover is RED...

 

[britton_draws]

OK I give up for the event, Im just done with it. I dont need/ wont get the spiderman tokens anyways. Also ditto for 2* Daken. So Im just letting my score drop since x amount of standard tokens will be better for me than any of the other prizes. At least with standard tokens I have a chance for a 3* or better. Hell Im having Broly luck, I got a red daredevil from a standard today. Im not even gonna complain about it, gave me 5 in DD red and its a hell of a lot better than a 1 or 2*!

So this last sub event, total bitch! All I have to say is thank God Punisher and Psylocke arent avengers. Also that hulk was used for only a few nodes here and there. You know what Im talking about, I couldnt use half my teams because they were all Avengers: Steve, Panther, Wolverine, Falcon, Even GSBW & IM40! I dont have a good enough 3* Thor, but Id prob be pissed off with not being able to use him some too! Its events like these which really show that the balance is really skewed towards heroes than villains. Also even when powered up, Ares still couldnt compete with the advanced levels of the scaled nodes.

At least you got his Red maxed! That is his most useful move and despite my DD being maxed, his Red is only 3 : (

And I was super worried about some of these nodes in this subevent because my main hitters are Thor, Hulk, Steve and Patch and they (astonishing not patch but still the same problem) were all in them and I could rarely use them. The one node with Thor, Steve and Astonishing had me super worried.

I managed to squeeze through the whole subevent without losing fortunately though! I will keep pushing a bit still though since we are at like 90 as an Alliance and as we all know a 10 team lead doesnt mean crap when we get into the last few hours haha

 

[ltrain23]

Just a reminder, if you haven't played through it yet, keep slots open for Team-Ups when you hit some of the tougher nodes. I just pulled a level 206 Call the Storm from LThor in the final node.

Ummmm.... yes, please, and thank you.

 

[britton_draws]

Just a reminder, if you haven't played through it yet, keep slots open for Team-Ups when you hit some of the tougher nodes. I just pulled a level 206 Call the Storm from LThor in the final node.

Ummmm.... yes, please, and thank you.

I got a 202 Mjolnirs Might. Least ideal of his moves but still powerful nonetheless!

 

[eldergamer]

Just a few nodes left for me in the Sentry event, so at least I'll get his cover out of this hopefully.

I haven't pulled a three star from a token in who knows how long. (No, I remember getting a black Punisher a week ago. Even though I've already got 5 in him)

Psylocke is a beast if she can get black and red quickly enough.

 

[britton_draws]

Psylocke is a beast if she can get black and red quickly enough.

Psylocke is a bitch ass pussy piece of crap, worst character in the game!

(puts up DS shield)

 

[kojubat]

Looks like I can redeem my 40 heroics next week. Woo.

From http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17495

Great news - we're finally going to add the new characters to the comic packs.

Going forward, new characters are going to rotate into the comic packs in sync with Versus seasons. New characters will be added into the packs, and older characters will be given some time out of the packs. As a result, we'll be getting all the new characters into the packs without reducing the rates of any of the 3 and 4 stars, so your character progress won't slow down.

Our first rotation will happen on October 17th with Season 7.

In: Beast, Captain Marvel, Colossus, Deadpool, Doctor Octopus, She-Hulk
Out: Daredevil, Doctor Doom, Human Torch (Classic), Loki, Ragnarok, Wolverine (Patch), Punisher

The first characters that are taken out of packs will start rotating back in during Season 8. We'll always communicate in advance which characters will be rotating out.

This will put the latest characters into the packs sooner and allow us to work on the characters that are out of the spotlight.

Thanks and keep the feedback coming!

That also sounds like they are going to work on adding a third power for Doom, Loki and Rags. And possibly some improvements to the Double-Dee.

...And perhaps swine will go airborne.

 

[britton_draws]

ASKLDHASKLDH

I am saving my tokens from now on haha I just get so anxious!

But yeah I have pretty much all of those maxed or I dont care to like Loki and Rags. Only downside is no more Doom but really I never freaking could draw him anyway!

I am excited now to store up my tokens. Granted I only have a week of storing now at this point but still!

 

[downsouthtigger]

Psylocke is a bitch ass pussy piece of crap, worst character in the game!

All I read is pussy, ass, and if you could do your worst youd do it to that character in the game.

I concur.... especially on the ass part....and just for you some pussy emphasized too.

Spoiler

 

[eldergamer]

im playing at worrk instead of doing urinalysis and coags. got that red sentry cover. 45k points may not be enough for a spidey though

 

[britton_draws]

Haha oh man. Juggernaut was over at my place tonight and we completely forgot to play the end of the event until literally the minute it ended! D'oh!

Still got the Alliance reward so good job guys!

 

[Thunder Chief]

It's been fixed, finally. And it would have been to your benefit if using him. There used to be a bug where if Ares used Sunder, and was then downed before the countdown finished, sometimes the countdown wouldn't disappear and still countdown and do damage. They claimed to have fixed it for something like 3 patches until finally squashing it. Considering he is a top tier 2*, it was a very visible bug, because you faced him a lot in PvP.

I do find it interesting that you go for the goons first as a default behavior. I go the other way around for board and damage control - if there aren't any named characters, you don't have to worry about tile damage and can set up match-fives. Every so often there's a countdown I can't get rid of, but I'd rather take a pistol shot over a power. That being said, I will go after goons first if they are feeding a cheap power on a health-heavy opponent, like green/red to Juggernaut.

Oh, and congrats on the Psylocke resolution. You were so close, it was ridiculous.

Thanks for the info on Ares. Now my biggest Sunder concern is properly timing its casting so that the tile doesn't get blown up before it can heal.

Not sure where I read it, but the strategy offered was to go for goons first, since the toons can "help" match CD tiles that you might not be able to get to on time, so it is a damage trade-off that you have to make. It generally works out for me, but there have been certain rounds I will adjust, but that is usually when I can see from the board that I am going to have an AP windfall and will be able to one-shot the goons after a few matches, so I will leave them alone while gathering AP. That being said, I can say that I universally go for a healer when I see one. Lieutenants are always first on my list. Damn Morale Boost. Nothing like getting Wolverine** to 1/3 health and then having it all come back due to his yellow match and a Morale Boost firing off in the same turn. Ugh.

I know that a lot of the game is luck, since cascades from hell can hit anybody at any time, but any general strategy you have for certain chars, or if you know of a place to go to get some info, I would greatly appreciate.

Thanks for the congrats. Yeah, I was hoping they would rule in my favor, but wasn't holding my breath. I would have died with the two week response delay, lol!

And congrats to you on that first place. Nicely done!

I'm sitting on 30 heroics because of the draw percentages.

At least we get to test drive female Thor in a week or so, plus whatever the top voted events are. Awards are supposed to be Anniversary tokens with the new three-cover Devil Dinosaur in the drop rate.

I really should have held on to all of the PS tokens and let them convert to Heroics, since I was getting much better covers out of the Heroic tokens from our alliance placements than I was from the PS tokens I was earning myself.

Sweet! The game must be telling me I really need to work on my sentry then. Got a yellow Sentry from token pulls a couple days ago, top 25 in the Panther tourney got me a Red and Green cover, now another free red? Now all I need is some iso...

*Edit*

Wow really, already leveled in the 100s for the enemies. Geez people really trying for that doc ock cover huh? My next reward is 30k for 50 HP. I dont even know if Im gonna make that.

You know who the game is now telling me to work on? Moonstone!

I mentioned before that I had pulled several mHawkeye covers from PS tokens (who is now 4/1/5... yes, I finally got a red, but need 4 more... ), but here's the latest: mnMags from 0/1/1 to 0/3/2, and Moonstone from 1/0/2 to 3/0/3... Still no direct damage skill for her, tho...

In other news, I totally forgot to do the BP PvP event, which I was going to low-ball to get a second purple Bullseye. I had his black before, but sold it after I read up on exactly how hard it is to activate its maximum potential, but when I got the purple in the progression, held on to it just as a sub for this event. Now I am contemplating just dumping him once again to make room for that yellow BP cover I got by accident (was going for the purple Daken to max him out, lol).

I am also contemplating dumping those two purple Spidey covers from this event. From what I hear, not really worth it. I can totally see myself using BP in the future... albeit, the very distant future... so I do want to hold on to him as best I can. And Hulk as well, tho the AI Hulk was rolling himself in this event due to Daken's purple... I think I had 10 strike tiles on the board after 5 Anger-tiles covered the board in green. All I had to do after that was sneeze and it was over.

That being said, Hulk was the primary reason I ended up 2500 shy. Got completely decimated 15 mins before the end of the event while doing an 1100 pt node with IM40/Thor/Hulk. Once Thor's CtS took out Ares, it was all downhill. And I had been saving up green to one-shot Hulk as well, so that was a huge blow. I had already depleted my health packs before the match, so there was no coming back. If I had completed this node, I only needed to do the following BP/Hulk node at 1100 and then the intro node at 400 and I would have completed 105k. Thems the breaks.

But, all in all, I was happy with my run today. Got 44k points in the last 24 hours with farming 3 nodes only. I didn't think I was going to get that far, and I had already counted the Doc cover out about 2 days ago, so I was pretty surprised. 2 days ago I was massively trolled by the game when the timers erroneously indicated 7+ hours left in the DC/Hell's Kitchen subevents that I had not been doing well in, so instead of trying to do some quick matches before going to work, I decided to wait until I was on a break. Next time I opened MPQ, I was greeted with 6x 1* tokens for being outside of 300 on both subs. The subevents ended on time, despite the timers indicating more time left. Should've known better...

Speaking of health packs, guess which n00b dummy didn't realize until 2 days ago that your last 5 regen? Yeah, I had been sitting on 20 from dailies and prologue rewards and such, until the last event when I finally started using them. Then I used them even more heavily in this event due to the Doc nodes being my only real shot, and since he was my top tile dmg dealer, he kept getting sacked. That's when I saw the timer for the first time and went to the wiki and looked it up. Sonuvabitch!!! Massive facepalm moment right there.

So, any thoughts about this new Deadpool PvP event with the rainbow Anniversary tag on it??? < 8 hours to go!

 

[britton_draws]

Speaking of health packs, guess which n00b dummy didn't realize until 2 days ago that your last 5 regen? Yeah, I had been sitting on 20 from dailies and prologue rewards and such, until the last event when I finally started using them. Then I used them even more heavily in this event due to the Doc nodes being my only real shot, and since he was my top tile dmg dealer, he kept getting sacked. That's when I saw the timer for the first time and went to the wiki and looked it up. Sonuvabitch!!! Massive facepalm moment right there.

So, any thoughts about this new Deadpool PvP event with the rainbow Anniversary tag on it??? < 8 hours to go!

Haha no worries, I did the same thing!! I am sorry we missed out on that bit of advice!

I played for about a month before I realized that the last 5 recharged and once I did it made everything much easier haha

And the Rainbow Tag is for the One Year Anniversary. We posted a while back but I honestly already forgot what it entails haha : P

 

[HuBu]

Very valuable. I didn't know that and was hording it.

 

[Thunder Chief]

New PvP *and* new PvE events on the same day! And both with our buddy Deadpool! Double the chimichangas!!!

PvE up now!!!

 

[kojubat]

I really should have held on to all of the PS tokens and let them convert to Heroics, since I was getting much better covers out of the Heroic tokens from our alliance placements than I was from the PS tokens I was earning myself.

Just a note, tokens don't convert. They stay tied to whatever event you earned them and won't change until the event runs again. So a Prodigal Sun token stays that way with the same draw percentages until just before the event runs again, when they update the odds to match the new parameters. You can use this to predict feature characters before an event starts, but that's of extremely low value compared to the cover potential for where you are in the game.

And the Rainbow Tag is for the One Year Anniversary. We posted a while back but I honestly already forgot what it entails haha : P

Essentially, it's the events that won the Facebook polls as 'favorite'. All of the events give an Anniversary Token instead of a token themed to the event. Looks like the PvE event just went live.

And these tokens are pretty cool. 50 HP for daily deal, and 40%ish that isn't 2* covers have new characters as well as ISO/HP possibilities. This might be the first time I think it's worth gambling on the daily deal.

 

[eldergamer]

Reward for the new PvE event is Gray Widow (Gray Suit Black Widow).

It's a repeat of the Deadpool vs MPQ event from earlier.

hopefully I can get a least another Deadpool token from the Sentry tournament first. Won't be able to play at work today, unfortunately.

 

[HuBu]

New update, new icon, new splash screen.

Devil Dino is here.

 

[kojubat]

If you were in the market for buying ISO/HP, there's a sale - you get a bonus 20% for the same spending.

Also, someone that isn't official posted some general information from the Comic Con announcement here: http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17523. One of the D3 folks said not everything is correct/accurate and an official announcement is coming, but here's the rundown so far:

ISO will be cheaper
All 3* characters will get a 3rd ability
Female Thor is Red/Yellow/Blue, and will be available easier/earlier than Fury
Sentry to be nerfed
Devil Dinosaur is Purple/Green/Red (purple is a board move, red and green are straight up damage)


Also, just got the screen pop that ISO is doubled this week, so now is the time where we put on our overalls and farm.

 

[britton_draws]

Essentially, it's the events that won the Facebook polls as 'favorite'. All of the events give an Anniversary Token instead of a token themed to the event. Looks like the PvE event just went live.

And these tokens are pretty cool. 50 HP for daily deal, and 40%ish that isn't 2* covers have new characters as well as ISO/HP possibilities. This might be the first time I think it's worth gambling on the daily deal.

Damn! That is a really good token. I wish the 10-pack wasn't 5k HP though with no daily... that is intense.

I bought a single one for 50... and got an OBW. Cool MPQ... cool.

TI could still use some GSBW though so hopefully I can score well in this event. When does the first subevent end for this one?

 

[kojubat]

Jeez, Tex Mex just opened and it's going to be super competitive. The new Devil Dino is the placement award, and a blue Fury for first. Jumpin' Jiminy.

EDIT: And the entire Anniversary has a week-long progression/placement for tokens. Black Deadpool and Devil Barney in the progression. This is crazy.

 

[downsouthtigger]

New PvP *and* new PvE events on the same day! And both with our buddy Deadpool! Double the chimichangas!!!

PvE up now!!!

I saw this, so was the PVE picked as a favorite too? I mean I know this was the newest event but this will be the 2nd time it was run since its been introduced. I mean damn you want to rerun current events, lets do the gauntlet again.

For shits and giggles, why dont we run the Hulk event again, been a while since we played that one. Oh well if I get at least 1 red GSBW cover it'll make mine 5/5/3, whenever I get some purples I can respec the reds.

By the by, my sex force is now lvl 168, Its very weird to see him as my first cover. I just got used to Steve being first & Psylocke and Punisher are hurt by this as well. I really want more Falcon covers!

Oh and great work Alliance on the Sentry event, I know I was dead last on the alliance, so good work everyone else! Aside from getting that red sentry, I didnt need anything else. I know thats selfish, but I got to the point where I knew I wouldnt even get that green Ares. Anyways my spidey had 5 in purple so even that was a dud for me. Congrats to everyone who got their first spiderman though!

 

[ltrain23]

And these tokens are pretty cool. 50 HP for daily deal, and 40%ish that isn't 2* covers have new characters as well as ISO/HP possibilities. This might be the first time I think it's worth gambling on the daily deal.

Agreed with your logic, and pulled a green Hulk. Ah well. Try again tomorrow.