Marvel Puzzle Quest Discussion Thread

downsouthtigger said:
You do realize this is because of how bad you want those covers right? What do they saw about if you want something bad, life makes it harder for you to get?

Normally in this kind of event Id shoot for the top 50 at least. Even at rank 433 Im still having people constantly attack me. Luckily for every 3 that attack me, I win 1 battle, so 2 cancel each other out. Of course the 2 that cancel each other out are the low scores. :nottalking:

With this event if I were you Id get as high into the top 25 or as high as you can today and shield. Nothing else going on to take away the non tournament players so the last few hours are going to be a cluster. It was bad on the Heavy metal tourney, I lost 98 points in the last 30 minutes & that was due to the event ending & nothing going on. Even shielded Id epect to drop 1 tier since everyone else will be clawing their way up. Oh & dont watch the top 10 if you're shielded the last 15 min of the game, its maddening. I will never understand how there's always at least 1 person in the top 10 with a mediocre roster that unshields in the last couple minutes, never gets attacked, and manages to bump themselves higher. Tried that once, got my ass spanked so hard, I'll never do it again. I unshield everyone & their momma attacks me while I fought 1 guy. So how the hell do some people have the luck?
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Yeah I have no idea about those people with shit rosters that pull that. It is ridiculous. I need top 10 though.... I want the red cover too.

Ugh. We shall see. Once my health packs recharge I will go all out again and hopefully can break the 900 score and shield and stay in top 10. Unlikely though. With how much I keep dropping (200 every hour now regularly) I am struggling to keep top 50

Bah Humbug.

Oh well I am off to go take advantage of Target's triple trade in right now hopefully getting that much credit will cheer me up hahah

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Got to #23 and put up a 3 hour shield. Once I have all my guys healed back up and all 5 med packs then I will break my shields, try to hopefully win like 3 or 4 quick ones and boost up to top 10 and then put up another 3 hour shield.

Fingers crossed!

 
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New post I dont care.

I litaerlly unshielded and got to rank 12 and literally sat at 120 points because for every match I would win, I lost while playing. THIS WENT ON FOR 10 CONSECUTIVE MATCHES wtf.

Ugh. I finally shielded at #12 like freaking shit, so close to top 10 : (((

I may break my shields with like 5 minutes left but I am scared to do that and drop below 50 even somehow crazy.

 
So in honor of the worst tournament EVER, MPQ decided to go another route with the prizes.

Can you spot the changes?

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Too Damn High said:
Congrats. How many hours did you have to put in for it?
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More than I can commit to, for sure. I was up to 78th when I had to quit playing. Ended up with 3 recruit tokens. That, plus having to spend more than 100 iso between each match just to find a team without a level 100 character that I might be able to beat is really putting me off of the PvP. Trying to build up a 3 star roster to remain competitive is becoming increasingly difficult. I've had really bad cover luck (which, statistically, gets worse every time a new character is introduced) and I've been finding it impossible to compete in the tournaments that actually have rewards that I need. The current best players always get the best rewards, and if you can't put in as much time as the next guy, you're going to be left behind.

I guess MPQ is a lot like real life, though. The rich get richer, while the middle class struggles to make it to the next level.

 
ltrain23 said:
...really putting me off of the PvP...
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Judging by the previous comments here and in chat, you're not alone. It seems there is an huge element of luck as well. I thought it was bad during the Doom tourney when I lost 135 points in a little over an hour. Then I lost 103 points during one match yesterday with less than 5 minutes to go. Obviously, there's no way to recover from that. Is this D3's way of trying to shove shields down our throats?

 
Too Damn High said:
I thought it was bad during the Doom tourney.... Is this D3's way of trying to shove shields down our throats?
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Well they are trying to put something down our throats, idk if its shields exactly. This can be best explained through comics as to why the Doom tournament was so screwed.

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And this is why Broly didnt bother with the tournament yet was VERY upset when he heard how Easy Doom was to get afterwards.

*If you really want to know where this came from its The Superior Foes of Spider-Man #6 & it is absolutely a hilarious series. Its almost as fun as the GLA, (Great Lakes Avengers) but who can resist Squirrel Girl?

 
Oh and it begins all over again, I hope it stays like this though, this I can handle.

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Thankfully my Ragnarok is at a decent level powered up, logged in and the defending team was lvl 141 Punisher and lvl 90 Black Panther.  I have lvl 125 Psylocke with Punisher now, lets see if that holds better.

*Edit* Nope that didnt work, just got hit twice and lost both, I think the overlap on Red & Black with Punisher & Psylocke makes them a horrible pair.  Rather have Red be used by punisher for max damage or 1 hit kill than a mediocre strike tile; that Punisher can already make with his green.

 
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No yeah I put in way too much time into this tournament and neglected some things that I should have actually gotten accomplished this weekend. : /

But yeah you are not alone in thinking it was BS. I feel like this tournament was just that much worse because as DS mentioned earlier, it was the only event going on. Pair that with 3* Thor being a top tier character and that is just a recipe for disaster.

I played a bunch before bed Saturday night and cracked top 10 only to wake up the next morning having lost 350 points. I played again and went up and down all day. I literally could not advance though because for every one I would win I would lose at least one or two during that time as well!

I ended up shielding for 3 hours mid Sunday at like 50. Then when that broke there was like 3 hours left in the tournament. I played a bunch like crazy again but COULD NOT BREAK 12. Literally 10 matches in a row, I would win and then lose at least 1 LITERALLY 10 TIMES IN A ROW. I begrudgingly shielded at #12 then and thought maybe I would do a last minute push.

I watched the leaderboards and when I shielded I had 1001 points and the #10 person had 1038 and then #9 had like 1085.

I waited for my guys to at least all be healed up using medpacks and then when I logged back I had won a match while shielded and made 9 points!! I was then at 1010 which put me 29 points away from being in the top top. I skipped opponents for like 2 minutes until I found a match that would yield 33 points if won. I waited until there were 8 minutes left, broke my shields, beat that person, got my 33 points and squeezed into the top 10 by 4 points. I instantly shielded back up and just sat there staring at the screen hoping the people below me did not attempt what I had just done because the people below me were only 4 and 10 points away!

Luckily I held that spot but yeah it was way too much effort and way too many points overall.

I spent 300 almost every match on just boosts to be sure I would win and just skipping opponents was ridiculous. I kept getting full 141 teams and even X Force Wolv at like 200 something with another 141 a few times.

In the end I spent TEN THOUSAND ISO on this tournament counting my boosts and skipping. Plus I ended up shielding 3 times which cost me 225 HP.

So yeah, hour and hours of time, 10,000 ISO and 225 HP.

: /

BUT MY THOR IS NOW MAXED!

Plus now I just nabbed my Heroic 10-pack progression reward and I did alright but as Ltrain said with so many characters now it is even harder to get the ones you actually want.

I got 4 gold pulls from the 10 pack which is awesome, however they were as follows:

+ Thor 3* Green - I already have him maxed and so I had to sell it!! I wish I could have just given it away to one of you guys. : /

+ Falcon Yellow - This is my second move for Falcon other than the Alliance reward Blue from before. Perhaps could be helpful in the long run but right now I do not really care to have this

+ X-Force Wolv Red - Awesome feeling to get 4*s at first but really these are all but useless until perhaps like end game stuff for us.

+ Iron Man 3* - I have gotten at least 4 of these in the past and have sold them because I hate his moves. I had an open slot however since I sold my 2* Magneto for the ISO so I kept him just because. It sucks though knowing they could be so powered up if I had just kept all the covers before. : /

So yes super lucky getting 4 'Gold' pulls out of the 10 pack but really nothing there that I would use.

 
All that work and you get a 3* Thor from the heroic pack, now thats something. But green 3* Thor is one of the cards they always dish out, idk why I have 4 in that power & only 1 yellow, no red.

You're turning into one of those MPQ forum people, remember its just a game, play for fun. Also sounds like you really did a number on your MMR. Tanking is now broken, so unfortunately I guess we cant drop our ranks.  More than likely after this push you'll be facing a lot more 141 teams.

So time to sell off some more of your 1 & 2* characters.  Get your 3* guys up as high as possible. 

Side question. I have an X-force Wolvie that is currently able to cap in the 90's.  Think that can do anything in MP?  Since he wont get the benefits of being max level, Im just curious if he's worth dropping iso on. I mean thats still over level 85,  but still....

 
downsouthtigger said:
You're turning into one of those MPQ forum people, remember its just a game, play for fun. Also sounds like you really did a number on your MMR. Tanking is now broken, so unfortunately I guess we cant drop our ranks. More than likely after this push you'll be facing a lot more 141 teams.
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But it's not fun if there's no advancement. I don't mind grinding, but when you HAVE to grind for a long time, at a certain time of the day, you're going to lose players real fast.

I have kids, so there are going to be times when I can't play at the end of a tournament. Or times that I can't get into a tournament at all. It's very frustrating knowing that the only way I'm going to be able to make my team better is to play at certain times of the day.

 
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ltrain23 said:
But it's not fun if there's no advancement. I don't mind grinding, but when you HAVE to grind for a long time, at a certain time of the day, you're going to lose players real fast.
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See thats where we look at things wrong. You dont really have to grind, this game can be as casual or as hardcore as you make it.

The game has plenty of room for advancement, at your own pace. Look at what Broly did: Grind, Grind, Grind to get himself up to the top 10 for 2 thor covers. He gets his heroic 10 pack, boom 1 Thor cover was in there. So all that grinding, compared to getting lucky with a token.

The game gives you plenty of tokens that you have as much of a chance of getting that cover as you do by grinding. Hell if you want to spend real money you can cheat & just outright buy the powers. So once again advancement is what you make it. Even by winning the covers, then it comes down to do you have the iso to max them out?

I think by introducing alliances theyve made it seem more like you have to grind. If you dont, you let your alliance down or you wont get that alliance reward. Honestly without a 20 man team or really working hard, you're not getting a cover. So in the end, I think its forced perspective on how hard you actually have to work on this game. Ive sold off a bunch of 1 & 2* characters. Im going back to basics and working on them to sell them over. Now I wont get so upset when I see modern Hawkeye, Moonstone, or Cap. Although I really need to do something about bullseye, he's another progression reward! Getting sick of winning at least 2 bullseyes every week.

 
I'm hoping I placed in the top 50 for a Thor cover, but I doubt it. I broke my shield with 2 minutes to spare because I was at 51. Won a battle with enough points to boost me up to 50th place,  but I think the tournament had ended in the meantime.

Shame too. I was up in the 30s until the last few hours.

Is really the only way to play in the tournaments is to play non stop in order  to build up a massive lead so that it doesnt matter how much you're attacked in the last few hours?

 
downsouthtigger said:
See thats where we look at things wrong. You dont really have to grind, this game can be as casual or as hardcore as you make it.

The game has plenty of room for advancement, at your own pace. Look at what Broly did: Grind, Grind, Grind to get himself up to the top 10 for 2 thor covers. He gets his heroic 10 pack, boom 1 Thor cover was in there. So all that grinding, compared to getting lucky with a token.

The game gives you plenty of tokens that you have as much of a chance of getting that cover as you do by grinding. Hell if you want to spend real money you can cheat & just outright buy the powers. So once again advancement is what you make it. Even by winning the covers, then it comes down to do you have the iso to max them out?

I think by introducing alliances theyve made it seem more like you have to grind. If you dont, you let your alliance down or you wont get that alliance reward. Honestly without a 20 man team or really working hard, you're not getting a cover. So in the end, I think its forced perspective on how hard you actually have to work on this game. Ive sold off a bunch of 1 & 2* characters. Im going back to basics and working on them to sell them over. Now I wont get so upset when I see modern Hawkeye, Moonstone, or Cap. Although I really need to do something about bullseye, he's another progression reward! Getting sick of winning at least 2 bullseyes every week.
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For the record though that Thor token was the one I already had maxed and so the two I got were still really worth it, though I do still see your point.

But yeah I am not going super hardcore like the MPQ Forum people, I just really wanted to max out Thor. Most other characters are just meh against Thor. He is the main heavy hitter in every tournament and so why would I not want him maxed?

Plus I had started off pretty hard and so it was more on principle that I continued to play a ton for this one so as not to waste the time put in earlier.

I want to sell off my 2*s but the only ones I have now are Thor, Wolverine, OBW and Catp. America. All of which are regularly boosted heroes in the events...

I would sell Captain America but he has saved me countless times in the PvE events.

In terms of the X-Force I would say once you can get him to over 120 then perhaps he could be useful but I would not bother using him in Tourneys until then.

 
Not a huge fan of putting the new events on the story tab. And hey, whaddayaknow? Another new character.  :wall:

fuck I've been complaining a lot lately. The game is free, for my Lord Jesus' sake.

 
ltrain23 said:
Not a huge fan of putting the new events on the story tab. And hey, whaddayaknow? Another new character. :wall:

fuck I've been complaining a lot lately. The game is free, for my Lord Jesus' sake.
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His power set seems crappy.

2 pts between me and the guy in 1st place.

 
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Finally, sentry! And his skill set sucks. He's one of the most powerful beings in the marvel univers. However his skills have too much self or team damage.

After the last heroic event & tournament, yes we have been complaining a lot. Sure it's free but the frustration lately has been high.

Not much more to say, but yeah it's weird they put it on the story tab, but it makes sense. At least it's not another tournament.
 
downsouthtigger said:
Finally, sentry! And his skill set sucks. He's one of the most powerful beings in the marvel univers. However his skills have too much self or team damage.

After the last heroic event & tournament, yes we have been complaining a lot. Sure it's free but the frustration lately has been high.

Not much more to say, but yeah it's weird they put it on the story tab, but it makes sense. At least it's not another tournament.
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I am relieved actually that Sentry kind of sucks. Though it is funny to make such a powerful character so weak. It is an odd choice too for a character since he has no real role in the new movie universe and is a somewhat obscure character that mainstream comic fans are likely to be unaware of. Either way this means I can take a back burner in this event and just casually play like I did with the Faclon one.

Best case scenario since Rags is a powered up character, I am able to snag at least one of his covers from a token.

 
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HuBu said:
Fits with the Dark Reign theme tho.

What is odd is that Punisher is fighting along side the Maggie.
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I forget that that is the overarching arc for the game haha

Since I pay no mind to the story and just skip dialogue and do nothing but battles I forget that there even is an actual narrative playing out : P

 
BrolyB593 said:
I got 4 gold pulls from the 10 pack which is awesome, however they were as follows:
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Man, first you attack me in the tournament, and now you're getting a 10 pack with actual useful characters?


I call HAX!


In any case, I'm feeling mildly psychic with this new event:

Kojubat said:
I think the real test will be when a PvE is something like a "bad guys only" story (which would be kinda cool, actually), and the number of villain covers in the concurrent PvP rosters increase or not.
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I'm not going to start the event until later tonight, and all my villain characters suck. Who gets the special nodes this time around?

 
A character we all should have this time around, anyway. No one can complain about not being able to play the special nodes.

Not exciting about these rounds... no OBW shoulder to cry on.

 
BrolyB593 said:
It is an odd choice too for a character since he has no real role in the new movie universe and is a somewhat obscure character that mainstream comic fans are likely to be unaware of.
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Lol wut? The story is based on Dark reign, so Bob (yes his name is bob) is a MAJOR character in this event. He's one of the few real avengers, aside from Ares, which Osborn uses to make his brand of avengers look legit.

This game actually has no connection to the movie universe at all. The nick fury cover finally made sense of that, as black nick fury is actually nick fury jr. Yeah he got an eye patch too & Ol Nicky likes some chocolate from time to time, Mrawr!

The fun part about Sentry is he's kinda a jab at DC on superman. Nearly unlimited power yet Sentry is a Schizo and really doesnt know how to deal. Plus you know that cape, the s, the powers....yeah....superman....

But yeah the MPQ forums have been asking for him and iron patriot (me too) for a while now. I just dont know where to put him, since he's ultimately good, except he's easily manipulated & he does have a dark side.

All my ranting about Sentry and maybe Broly was right lol
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How are the pts awarded for this event. I was in 2nd place last night and each nice was 100 pts. Woke up this morning and I am in 27th and the nodes are 400 pts
 
I forgot that the Season 1 event is ending. I am still like rank 78 or so. I should at least wiggle my way to top 50 for another 10-Pack.

I still havent touched the Rag tournament, so once I get a solid 700 points in there or so I am sure it will boost me up to top 50 overall (hopefully)

 
BrolyB593 said:
I forgot that the Season 1 event is ending. I am still like rank 78 or so. I should at least wiggle my way to top 50 for another 10-Pack.

I still havent touched the Rag tournament, so once I get a solid 700 points in there or so I am sure it will boost me up to top 50 overall (hopefully)
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BrolyB593 said:
I forgot that the Season 1 event is ending. I am still like rank 78 or so. I should at least wiggle my way to top 50 for another 10-Pack.

I still havent touched the Rag tournament, so once I get a solid 700 points in there or so I am sure it will boost me up to top 50 overall (hopefully)
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How many points do you have that you're approaching top 50? I'm close to 8000pts and am all the way back at 600!
 
I got two Gold Thor covers from my 10-Pack. Another OBW, a three star black widow, and a bunch ones I sold like Moonstone and modern Hawkeye.

I hope to nab another Psylocke cover from this Ragnarok event, but we'll see.

 
gravel said:
I'm over 10,000 and at #106. Sounds like Broly got a good bracket.
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Im at 10619 & at 73, not even going to wiggle into the top 50. Finally logged in & see that I lost 98 points today in (Butt) CrackofDOoom

Koju is higher than me, I wonder what his rank is.

So new randoms? Whats up wit dat? We kicking or just not good enough anymore?

 
downsouthtigger said:
Koju is higher than me, I wonder what his rank is.
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11,221 points and ranked #89. I've been hovering at the 100 mark mostly, this is the highest I've been once everyone in my bracket started seriously playing. Don't expect to get top 50 even if I go crazy all-in, top ten in my bracket has a 3k lead on me.
 
That is hilarious that I am so much higher than you guys and never play like any of the Season 1 stuff. I actually entered it late so that is likely why.

Either way I booted one kid that I pulled in for the Daken tournament who literally had like no points in Season 1 or any of the other current events. Can't remember his name but then now I have been cycling through randoms though I stopped this morning I believe so perhaps that person who was pretty good and had like a 90 something XForce left? No idea.

 
I've pulled three Bullseyes in the past two days.  I think you passed the curse on.  :cry:  I did get a red Patch this morning on a standard token, but I had 7 standards, 1 heroic, and 1 prodigal son, and that was the only useful one.  Also, two Bullseyes from that lot.

I also forgot Krakadoom ended this morning so I played more of Prodigal Son this morning instead of moving up and shielding.  Now I'm at work, there goes my Psylocke for top 50.

 
Well, I can see how my day is going to go. Second match of my Krackalacka run, and I get my OBW knocked out with a cascade on my opponent's FIRST TURN. You can imagine the amount of AP that generates, so that decision to retreat wasn't a tough one... but already having to waste a health pack doesn't bode well for a Psylocke.

 
ltrain23 said:
Well, I can see how my day is going to go. Second match of my Krackalacka run, and I get my OBW knocked out with a cascade on my opponent's FIRST TURN. You can imagine the amount of AP that generates, so that decision to retreat wasn't a tough one... but already having to waste a health pack doesn't bode well for a Psylocke.
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I finally started it before bed last night hoping to gain some good ground late in a crappy bracket and then power through some more on the train into work today and then shield up.

Essentially the same thing happened to my OBW THREE TIMES IN A ROW. My MMR is definitely screwed because I have nothing but all over 100 teams basically now. No Psylocke for me!

On the bright side I should easily stay in the top 50 overall for Season 1 and get another 10-pack. I actually was at like 38 last I checked and top 25 gets 2x 10-packs!! So close but yeah no way I will be happy with my one hah

 
ltrain23 said:
I think I could take this team...
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I am lucky to run into a team that low actually now : /

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Oh! Hahah I realized it is DS! : P

Hahah

So looking at your Hulk I have been debating.

I was leveling Punisher up as suggested but dont you think a nice Hulk would go well with my Thor so that he can feed Call the Storm?

Downside is that my Hulk right now is I believe 5/4/3 or something along those lines, either way his black is the weakest so I may not want him front and center yet, but perhaps I should start now?

My Thor is at 126 right now and I think that is a comfortable level to leave him while I focus on building up more 3* characters

*edit*

Ugh

I was #45 in the Tournament but didnt shield and fought two more in a row and got DESTROYED. It is so hard fighting all of these super high level teams now : /

Plus I was so close to breaking #25 overall in the Season 1. I am #30 right now and am just about 100 away from #25 but I am out of health packs and my guys are all dead : /

Oh well I will walk away with the 10pack and a good chunk of iso from the tourney then too.

 
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Let's see how many points I can lose in the last 2 minutes...

Only 87.  Bullseye... woohoo  :nottalking:

And no fuck ing around.... Season 2 begins IMMEDIATELY!

 
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ltrain23 said:
Let's see how many points I can lose in the last 2 minutes...

Only 87. Bullseye... woohoo :nottalking:

And no fuck ing around.... Season 2 begins IMMEDIATELY!
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Seeing as I waited to start Season 1 for a couple days and my bracket's top scorer had less than 10k, I think I will wait it out a bit again to hopefully get into another easy bracket.

 
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