Marvel Puzzle Quest Discussion Thread

If anyone starts the PvE, can you post how much time the first subevent has? I don't want to kick off a bracket right now, too busy with work and family and hoping it's tomorrow night, not tomorrow afternoon.
Same. Plus if I can hop in at night I will get in a much better bracket. This last event I hopped in after a subevent ended a whole day and a half after the beginning of the event as a whole and I got into a great bracket. I scored 76k and was #8 whereas I recall a random reporting barely breaking top 50 with a score like mine in his!

 
Doesn't look like there are subevents - just one 7-day event.

But if I remember right, the mission nodes available on the single view will probably change every 12 or 24 hours.

 
Damn, I'm good. Steve covers for the Psylocke tournament. That was quick.

If anyone starts the PvE, can you post how much time the first subevent has? I don't want to kick off a bracket right now, too busy with work and family and hoping it's tomorrow night, not tomorrow afternoon.
Im at 5 for blue on steve, so that sucks for me. Why cant Red be the easy reward? Was it during the last event? I dont remember, I just know I dont really want the yellow too much. 1 would be fine....

There's sub events? I dont remember on the hunt anymore, as many times as its been rerun. I did the first node with the guaranteed 2* cap, which isnt powered up, yet steve is?

So Im thinking Pay to win has gotten more prevalent. Token pulls have been crap. As many tokens as Ive redeemed Im getting nothing great, again. Yet how about I spend 100 HP on the daily deals and I get good stuffs. Yesterday was a Blue Classic Mags, today I got a red sentry. Although no daily deals on the powered up tournament, got the token redeemed it and I got another moonstone I think, blah.

 
Doesn't look like there are subevents - just one 7-day event.

But if I remember right, the mission nodes available on the single view will probably change every 12 or 24 hours.
This is correct. The event description says there are new nodes every day, so I'm going to assume at this point that they'll flip at noon eastern tomorrow.

In that event, I ran with Super Buffed Steve, CMags, and Punisher. I played every node that had only HAMMER troops down to the point where they'll be back to full points in 8 hours... and the only damage I took was the 100 that gets dealt when you use the forest environmental effect. Not a single one of their countdowns went off. I'd be okay with an extra Captain Marvel if you guys are up for it.

I like being back in the PvP scene with this special event. I racked up a pile of points with OBW, MNMags, and CStorm (total domination btw - OBW gets an extra purple per match, which powers Mags' purple to make 5 blue, which powers Storm's blue that deals 5138 to the whole team and freezes whoever the eff you want to.) Transitioned that to a defensive team of Hulk, Ares, and OBW, and I think I lost less than 50% of my defensive match-ups. Pretty good rate if you ask me. Sitting in 9th place right now. Where's everyone else at?

 
Seriously... more Steve rewards? I already had to sell 2 last event. The game is trolling me fucking hard for spending my saved HP on Steve covers.

Bastards.

We should be able to get the Cpt Marvel Alliance reward this time around too. We scored the Steve pretty easily and many of us didnt even have the Torch 2* to do some of the nodes. This one we all have Steves, many of at as quite decent levels too so this should be a cake walk. I will probably hop in late tomorrow night to the event and hope for a nice bracket. Hell I may even wait until Sunday afternoon.

 
Going to be on a business trip starting Sunday morning that ends on Wednesday.  Should I start the PvE when I get back and get in a decent bracket or start tomorrow and get a few extra points?

 
Going to be on a business trip starting Sunday morning that ends on Wednesday. Should I start the PvE when I get back and get in a decent bracket or start tomorrow and get a few extra points?
Yikes. That is a tough call. I feel like no matter now easy of a bracket you get in starting Wednesday is going to be tough to get to the top.

If you started tomorrow afternoon could you still pop a quick match or two to at least get the highest scoring node or so really quick in the bathroom through those few days?

 
Yikes. That is a tough call. I feel like no matter now easy of a bracket you get in starting Wednesday is going to be tough to get to the top.

If you started tomorrow afternoon could you still pop a quick match or two to at least get the highest scoring node or so really quick in the bathroom through those few days?
I think I'll just have to wake up an hour early and knock out a few nodes.

PvP didn't go as planned. Used up my extra medkits because of stupid mistakes but 4th right now and 50 points from 2nd. Didn't realized I still have an hour left and hoping to make one more push once I get another medkit. Question is do I shield or not? Just got rocked twice and didn't realized 2nd has the same prize as 4th. :wall:

 
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I completely forgot about the PvP and jumped on with an hour left and managed to snag #8!

I also got a Blue Psylocke from one of the progression reward tokens. Which is kind of lame seeing as now I will have a 1/5/3 Psylocke and would much rather have stronger Black and Reds for her but I can't really complain I suppose!

 
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Scored 29 points while shielded to move up to 7th from 9th. Really wanted 5th, as I don't have any black for her yet, but ran out of health packs. Oh well. I'll take it. Had fun with that event, mixing in the 2* characters that I still have with the 3*s that I typically need to roll with.

 
I finished in the 80s. That wasn't too bad. Have my psylocke at 5 Reds now. (with a few blue and reds)

Should have more free time next week to work on the PvE event.   Maybe I'll get rid of my 1-star Iron man to make room for Captain Marvel.

 
Still havent jumped into the PvE yet. Debating if I should tonight or tomorrow morning?

Progression rewards are Steve covers just to rub it in more so I don't really need those and so I think I would rather wait to get in a super shitty bracket tomorrow sometime, especially because I will be busy flipping games from Best Buy to Target in the morning to fund my PS4 haha

Thoughts?

 
Psylocke tournament seems pretty non-competitive with less than 12 hours to go. I'm already in the top 100 with less than 250 points.

Unfortunately, I have been neglecting the PvE event.  Plenty of time left, I just hope I can catch up. At work the next few days, then back to playing wherever I can get the kids off me.

 
Psylocke tournament seems pretty non-competitive with less than 12 hours to go. I'm already in the top 100 with less than 250 points.

Unfortunately, I have been neglecting the PvE event. Plenty of time left, I just hope I can catch up. At work the next few days, then back to playing wherever I can get the kids off me.
Ugh I need to jump on that, but I have 5 blue for steve so unsure how hard Id have to work for the yellow.

Also forgot what being a daddy is like. Ive been neglecting PvE taking care of my kids. I also jumped in too early & got a bad bracket. Im shooting for not getting a Cap Marvel honestly.

Feels weird going to bed at 10 & not staying up until 4am playing MPQ.

 
I definitely got a tougher bracket than usual for the PvP.

688 pts has only gotten me to 28th place, so I'm starting to wonder just how much I need that last yellow for my 2/5/5 Steve.
 
I started the PvE tonight finally and played for about 40 minutes. In those 40 minutes I already managed to get a higher score than half of the Alliance....

That isn't very good and doesn't bode well for our Alliance Reward! Coooooommmmeeeee onn!

 
I started the PvE tonight finally and played for about 40 minutes. In those 40 minutes I already managed to get a higher score than half of the Alliance....

That isn't very good and doesn't bode well for our Alliance Reward! Coooooommmmeeeee onn!
Woke up an hour early to cleared out couple nodes and I'm 1st in the alliance for the PvE. Time to head out to my conference and let you guys catch up to me.

 
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I started the PvE tonight finally and played for about 40 minutes. In those 40 minutes I already managed to get a higher score than half of the Alliance....

That isn't very good and doesn't bode well for our Alliance Reward! Coooooommmmeeeee onn!
Can I borrow your Steve Rogers for the event? :whee:

 
Woke up an hour early to cleared out couple nodes and I'm 1st in the alliance for the PvE. Time to head out to my conference and let you guys catch up to me.
Have a safe trip!

And hopefully they have nice bathrooms to sneak away to occasionally for MPQ : P

Can I borrow your Steve Rogers for the event? :whee:
I don't really even use him right now actively. I still basically just use Thor's Yellow and Green to do some quick wipes of the field.

I am so pissed though seriously, 2x 3* Progression rewards? They never do that... except when I pay to get more Steve covers RIGHT before all of this shit. Oh yeah and I scored a Black Panther a few days ago, whoo woo. And then this morning a Red effing Daredevil.

Plus the PvP Steve rewards are BP... so that really makes me want to push in this one...

I can only imagine that I will be trolled even more and the upcoming BP tournament will have Punisher or Hulk as a reward or something. Bah humbug. I am just sour at the moment. Metra was over 20 minutes late and so I had to sprint over a mile to get to work in the Chicago heat clad in full dress clothes only to make it to work on time with like 5 seconds to spare.

Ugh.

 
I am so pissed though seriously, 2x 3* Progression rewards? They never do that... except when I pay to get more Steve covers RIGHT before all of this shit.

Plus the PvP Steve rewards are BP... so that really makes me want to push in this one...
Really before all this my Steve was ok. I rarely used him because of how I felt with Cap. Got a blue token from a heroic, and just leveled him up. Now all these progression rewards he's looking good & Im using him as much as I can. All I need is 1 red & 1 yellow & I'll have the full power set I want for steve. Funny with all these progression rewards Im looking at those 2 powers exactly. Great when it works out that way.

Black Panther, what can we say about that? He's still a good character, just boring like we said. Still a great pair with Hulk and classic mags. I'll just have to level him up to 166, I went ahead & maxed out my Psylocke....God those last 6 levels took a ton of ISO.

 
God those last 6 levels took a ton of ISO.
That is why my Hulk is still 164. It costs 5208 just to get him two more levels to max.

I am keeping BP at 150 for now too because that last stretch is so expensive! For his remaining 16 levels, it will cost me 39,506.

Thor was lucky that I pushed him to max and I am sure glad I did but with so many other characters and limited ISO it is hard to justify those last few levels.

That being said my Steve is now at 131! I am not sure where I will end with him but seeing as I dont have any other characters with a ton of powers I may focus on him and BP a bit once they are neck and neck at 150 but we shall see by then!

 
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That is why my Hulk is still 164. It costs 5208 just to get him two more levels to max.

I am keeping BP at 150 for now too because that last stretch is so expensive! For his remaining 16 levels, it will cost me 39,506.

That being said my Steve is now at 131! I am not sure where I will end with him but seeing as I dont have any other characters with a ton of powers I may focus on him and BP a bit once they are neck and neck at 150 but we shall see by then!
I left hulk at 151 & havent looked back at him. Just did, I have a soft cap of 153....only 4696....I should just max that out...

Forgot we both had BPs that could be maxed & at the same level, ugh almost 40k in ISO....that health pool though, thats all I think about. Punisher & Psylocke at 166 have only 6800 Health, BP at 150- 7675, so already he's better.

Looks like my Steve can now soft cap at 140, so I suppose I could work on him. He's mad effective & Ive been using him more. Same with IM40 too, but they both share the same color set, which makes it hard for them to be paired together.

 
I left hulk at 151 & havent looked back at him. Just did, I have a soft cap of 153....only 4696....I should just max that out...

Forgot we both had BPs that could be maxed & at the same level, ugh almost 40k in ISO....that health pool though, thats all I think about. Punisher & Psylocke at 166 have only 6800 Health, BP at 150- 7675, so already he's better.

Looks like my Steve can now soft cap at 140, so I suppose I could work on him. He's mad effective & Ive been using him more. Same with IM40 too, but they both share the same color set, which makes it hard for them to be paired together.
Yeah I like Hulk because of tanking and now he also heals faster so he is a good fodder character with tons of health but not much use beyond that usually.

I know BP has such a nice health pool for being largely a support character, largest HP for support in the game I think. Though yes you can argue he is not just support since his black but you know what I mean.

Punisher's shit health pool is yet another thing that makes me dislike him. He still is useless in my eyes no matter how many people tell me otherwise hahah

And Steve is really amazing. I am hopeful that our Alliance will all have at least a fairly strong Steve by the end of these events now. If you get a decent pool of red and blue then he is essentially unstoppable. Strong health pool keeps him alive and then it is just blue stun, red damage, match, match, repeat haha

 
PVP - Psylock event - my bracket shows I need at least 700-800 to get top 10. I started at 4 hrs left, end up finishing at 70th.

PVE - new nodes, the only nodes that are easy are the Steve nodes. all others are yellow and red now.

 
Punisher's shit health pool is yet another thing that makes me dislike him. He still is useless in my eyes no matter how many people tell me otherwise hahah
It's because you never use his green, right? His strike tiles can be ridiculous. He's lousy when paired with someone who has a better use for his colors. When you match him up with anyone with multidamage (OBW's matches, multiple attack tiles, etc.), you can really chew through opponents to set up for the 40% instakill red. He was really useful in the Balance of Power because of that red.

I'm sucking wind in PvE. I'm stuck in a grinding bracket that I'll be lucky to get top 100, because I've been super busy the past few days. I'm laying my hopes on Carol based on the alliance award. And my MMR is back up based on the opponents in the Psylocke tournament. Couldn't hold on to a top 25 because I was running low on health packs and viable characters. Got the blue, so not complaining, but was counting on these two events to max out Steve. That ain't happening. Maybe progression in PvE will get me to 2/5/5.

Still, I think I've transitioned far enough into 3* that I'm back to enjoying this game on a regular basis.
 
It's because you never use his green, right? His strike tiles can be ridiculous. He's lousy when paired with someone who has a better use for his colors. When you match him up with anyone with multidamage (OBW's matches, multiple attack tiles, etc.), you can really chew through opponents to set up for the 40% instakill red. He was really useful in the Balance of Power because of that red.

I'm sucking wind in PvE. I'm stuck in a grinding bracket that I'll be lucky to get top 100, because I've been super busy the past few days. I'm laying my hopes on Carol based on the alliance award. And my MMR is back up based on the opponents in the Psylocke tournament. Couldn't hold on to a top 25 because I was running low on health packs and viable characters. Got the blue, so not complaining, but was counting on these two events to max out Steve. That ain't happening. Maybe progression in PvE will get me to 2/5/5.

Still, I think I've transitioned far enough into 3* that I'm back to enjoying this game on a regular basis.
I can see that about Punisher, but that is the thing, I have multiple characters that have better uses for his colors I feel. Bah whatever, he will just sit at 105 for a long while I bet haha

I knew I didnt feel like playing MPQ that much when this PvE started and so I figured I would just wait to hop in at all. I jumped in yesterday afternoon and have no doubts that I will score all of the Carol covers. I have the same score as most of you guys and yet here I am sitting at, last I checked an hour ago, #8 in my bracket : D *insert troll face*

I too am enjoying the game now more myself as my roster of 3*s become more and more useful. Especially in PvE where I can switch my teams around regularly since I have so many at usable levels.

 
I should had started few hours later but still top 20 after a good "bathroom" break so hopefully I'll get all 3 covers. I have a feeling Carol will be used in the next PvE
 
I should had started few hours later but still top 20 after a good "bathroom" break so hopefully I'll get all 3 covers. I have a feeling Carol will be used in the next PvE
She will be useful in the next PvE for sure, that is how they do it but I feel in the long run she will be very helpful. Having a strong defense against defense tiles is great and also future proof. If they later introduce a character like Daken but instead with protect tiles, aka some sort of 3* Bullseye, then she will be soooo helpful!

I am really intrigued to see how she plays in general though and am glad I am on course to get 4 covers! Then if they pull some crazy progression rewards like they did this one with Steve maybe we can get more of her later on easily as well!

 
Man people are really pushing for this and the difference between ranks are so close
I dropped 150ish spots over night, played two rounds and got 100 back. I think I made the most ground when then Psylocke event was ending, of course that didn't help my rank there.

 
I dropped 150ish spots over night, played two rounds and got 100 back. I think I made the most ground when then Psylocke event was ending, of course that didn't help my rank there.
Yeah I went to bed at #1 and woke up at like #50 or so. I am really struggling to hold the top #20 now.

It appears as though the resetting of the nodes is not on a set timer like the sub-events but more tailored to when you began the event because I have seen different reported times of changed nodes and for example out of nowhere a large group of people in my bracket jumped up thousands of points in an extremely short amount of time leading me to believe their nodes had just changed but in reality my last node change was 18 hours before that point. Hmmm...

Also as an Alliance we are not doing well. We are SO close to #100 but that is no good. We need to at least get in the 80s so that we can hold our spot and not be nipping at the reward with the edge of our teeth!

Also I am still really sour about having spent almost 4k of my saved HP on Steve covers only to get those same covers in such abundance now and have to sell them. Had I spent them on Hood instead I would have an even more amazing team. Ugh. It was over 3 months of saving up HP : (

 
highest pts per node for me is 600-800. The ones that required Steve covers are milked to the pt that they are 70 pts each time and has a 7 hrs counter.

 
The nodes all suck, I really dont see how people are blasting ahead.  I mean unless they're sitting there grinding down every node to 1.

Its just amazing everyone trying so hard for this.  After still not having a StormHawk, Im not really hurting for one, so kinda pointless for trying this hard. Plus the next event will be another rehash/recycle, so how cares? I mean isnt it time for another hulk event?

Ive noticed some of our Alliance members have been moonlighting in other alliances.  For those who havent noticed I posted it in the in-game chat.  Im kinda kidding, I just tought it was funny that porkchop was on vacation & last night one of the alliances that was beating us into the top 100 was called Porkchops crew.  Even weirder when I did a search there was a 9 member alliance called porkchopxpress, coincidence? Who knows.  If you see an alliance out there with tigger in the title let me know...if they're doing awesome I may jump ship too! =P

 
I have a BW node that is Red but gives 759 pts. My last attempt was at a yellow node fighting lvl 100s - did not end well. 

 
The nodes all suck, I really dont see how people are blasting ahead. I mean unless they're sitting there grinding down every node to 1.

Its just amazing everyone trying so hard for this. After still not having a StormHawk, Im not really hurting for one, so kinda pointless for trying this hard.
Carol's move set looks really promising though, much more than another Lazy 3*. I hope we all can push enough to at least get the Alliance reward though. Not only do I want it but that means if next event is something worthwhile, then we all have one to work with at least (plus it is getting harder and harder for me to stay in top 20). I agree though, I dislike these kind of events the most as they feel the most grind-y.

With my in class summer course done and the other being an online one, paired with the new Dark Souls 2 DLC and the Destiny beta it is going to be hard to focus on MPQ personally but at least I have such long stretches in my commute and what not that keep me top of the Alliance : P

My nodes, to correct my earlier comment are actually only maxing out at about 400 per highest one : /

 
It never does....it never does.

Dont let that 1k points fool you, its just not happening.
My highest level nodes are all 198's which are fairly reasonable when I have 166 Thor, 164 Hulk and then my boosted 200 something Steve. Problem is that node at max is worth about 420 points and so it isnt even worth the long battle and lost health. This event really is getting on my nerves because I want the rewards badly but the grind is atrocious. Plus as an Alliance we keep getting so close and even break #100 occasionally but never actually hold it. Ugh.

 
This event really is getting on my nerves because I want the rewards badly but the grind is atrocious. Plus as an Alliance we keep getting so close and even break #100 occasionally but never actually hold it. Ugh.
The grind is horrible. I played last night because I had some nodes that were giving ~1k points. Luckily they were the essential steve nodes, so the levels were fairly low. The Yelena/Goon/Venom node is giving 1k points right now but naturally its hard as hell to beat. Maybe 1/3 times I cant do it.

Having said that, we were 118, then after my effort we got to 103. I look and we were 5k down from 100 last night. How the hell? IDK what to do about this. Im in the top 300, finally got into the upper 200s this morning. Like did I get a shitty bracket or people are bored of pvp again?

 
The grind is horrible. I played last night because I had some nodes that were giving ~1k points. Luckily they were the essential steve nodes, so the levels were fairly low. The Yelena/Goon/Venom node is giving 1k points right now but naturally its hard as hell to beat. Maybe 1/3 times I cant do it.

Having said that, we were 118, then after my effort we got to 103. I look and we were 5k down from 100 last night. How the hell? IDK what to do about this. Im in the top 300, finally got into the upper 200s this morning. Like did I get a shitty bracket or people are bored of pvp again?
I think people's nodes are refreshing at different intervals like I said so when we feel like we get ahead, then shortly after other people get high scoring nodes and rocket past us.

 
Having said that, we were 118, then after my effort we got to 103. I look and we were 5k down from 100 last night. How the hell? IDK what to do about this. Im in the top 300, finally got into the upper 200s this morning. Like did I get a shitty bracket or people are bored of pvp again?
This event is weird. When nodes reset, I drop down to the upper 200s, sometimes 300s (right now 296, because I haven't been able to put any time in today yet). Then I grind my way back up into the 50-100 band, and that's assuming the nodes are manageable. Then hope this cycle happens in my favor when the event ends.

I think the problem is not enough nodes, and the Maggia goons are the worst ones to fight at high levels.

I will say, Steve+OBW+Falcon is great for any node with two or more goons. Let Steve take care of stunning/damage and the other two manage countdowns as needed.
 
I will say, Steve+OBW+Falcon is great for any node with two or more goons. Let Steve take care of stunning/damage and the other two manage countdowns as needed.
My Falcon only has two moves and is useless : (

I just have been brute forcing through all of the nodes since my guys all do high damage and have high health haha

 
This event is weird. When nodes reset, I drop down to the upper 200s, sometimes 300s (right now 296, because I haven't been able to put any time in today yet). Then I grind my way back up into the 50-100 band, and that's assuming the nodes are manageable. Then hope this cycle happens in my favor when the event ends.

I think the problem is not enough nodes, and the Maggia goons are the worst ones to fight at high levels.

I will say, Steve+OBW+Falcon is great for any node with two or more goons. Let Steve take care of stunning/damage and the other two manage countdowns as needed.
I dont understand the whole nodes reset at certain times for certain people. Im trying to rubberband but thats not helping me at all.

However Falcon is quite awesome during this event. Makes me very happy I have redwing at 4. Any countdown gets taken away & redwing comes back and redwing happily gets rid of another one. His purple is weird though. It cuts pistols and covering fire down to 1 damage, but sniper rifle can still do a 1 hit kill? How's that work?

My Falcon only has two moves and is useless : (
You need to work on that, he's actually useful. The purple skill isnt great, but its useable. The passives are actually working a lot better than I ever thought they would.

 
Oh! How silly of me I forgot all I need to do is work on it to get them! I am on it! :roll:
I'm glad we had this talk. I'm sure once you get that all settled, the nodes will be easier.

Will you be starting this after work? I definitely need your support to get into the top 100 for the alliance rewards.
 
I'm glad we had this talk. I'm sure once you get that all settled, the nodes will be easier.

Will you be starting this after work? I definitely need your support to get into the top 100 for the alliance rewards.
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