Marvel Puzzle Quest Discussion Thread

I managed 87th, despite joining a bracket at the super wrong time. I was watching the bracket timing thread on the forums, and thought I had it timed right to join a new bracket. Nope! Ended up being one of the last to join an almost full one, and the bracket leaders had at least a few hours on me. Thankfully rubberbanding+scaling was managable. The team synergy sucked this time around - Magneto had no useful blues to feed, nobody could take tiles for Widow, and any power that could control countdowns was expensive or luck based. Glad that's over.

And man, I wanted to rest for Children of the Atom - need to finish up Sunset Overdrive's story and new games out tomorrow. The  two covers I want most right now in MPQ are the 1300 progression and top placement. Razzinfrazzin.

Oh, and I thought I had posted this, but guess not. HP refunds are going out later this week for anyone who bought an alliance slot for any alliance ever. Some folks are gonna get paid.

Green Mohawk - I had her covered before Real Steel, but not optimally. Missing one last green, and have been for a little while, so guess maybe it is a little more rare.

2* Marvel - She is a good 2*, with a nice area attack black but a crazy niche yellow. 3* has a much better yellow. I wouldn't mind having the 2* black scaled to 3*, but the 3* black's stun can be handy.

 
Marauder7 said:
Placed #112 so picked up 1 Blade cover. Thanks a lot of introducing Terra to me. Was playing MPQ on my phone and Terra on my tablet so that left me little cross eyed :joystick: . It's going to be hell for me until last week of November with traveling, finishing up my projects for the year, and planning for projects for next year. The problems of being underpaid and overworked.
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Found out this morning that I got booted because of my bad performance last couple weeks and thought I remind B that due to real life responsibilities I couldn't do my normal middle of the pack performance. I mainly focused on PvP because I wanted that 10 pack and did consistently put in +400 in that last couple PvP except for the recent event because I was pushing the PvE the last 3 hours. This at least gives me a reason to take a break from MPQ and focus on what needs my attention. Best of luck to you all and congrats on the Alliance award.

 
Is your roster still full? I guessing it is. I know I saw a post about a potential second alliance. Is there enough interest?

My alliance keeps upping the PvP minimum and has finally pushed it to a point I can't hang with regularly yet. The minimum is now 700, and I score in the 600's. I finished the last PvP with 638. I played a lot last year then (rage) quit until September.

I now have 4 2* characters maxed (Ares, Thor, Daken, OBW) and 2 more at max powers (CStorm and Wolverine). I only just maxed them during the season, so I hope I can get some covers and push my scores up further. My roster is limited so there will be some events I won't score great in (like Fat Thor this past week - everyone seems to have a decent one).
 
Kojubat said:
I managed 87th, despite joining a bracket at the super wrong time. I was watching the bracket timing thread on the forums, and thought I had it timed right to join a new bracket. Nope! Ended up being one of the last to join an almost full one, and the bracket leaders had at least a few hours on me. Thankfully rubberbanding+scaling was managable. The team synergy sucked this time around - Magneto had no useful blues to feed, nobody could take tiles for Widow, and any power that could control countdowns was expensive or luck based. Glad that's over.

Oh, and I thought I had posted this, but guess not. HP refunds are going out later this week for anyone who bought an alliance slot for any alliance ever. Some folks are gonna get paid.
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I am really curious how this will pan out for my HP fund... hahah Seeing as I was the one who brokered a bunch of the slot openings and opened a few myself.

And yeah I definitely saw you jumped in to the event later than I did even. Rubberbanding and what not was still on my side too and I was able to make it to 91st place I believe in my bracket with starting the event with just under 10 hours left.

I actually liked the Synergy of the event, I only could use one team; BP, Colossus and GSBW. Wasn't perfect by any means but it got the job done. As always this event made me wish I had my GSBW at a higher level haha

Marauder7 said:
Found out this morning that I got booted because of my bad performance last couple weeks and thought I remind B that due to real life responsibilities I couldn't do my normal middle of the pack performance. I mainly focused on PvP because I wanted that 10 pack and did consistently put in +400 in that last couple PvP except for the recent event because I was pushing the PvE the last 3 hours. This at least gives me a reason to take a break from MPQ and focus on what needs my attention. Best of luck to you all and congrats on the Alliance award.
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Sorry to always be the bad guy : (

We just barely squeezed in to the top 100 ranking literally at the last 30 seconds of the event. It was pretty ridiculous.

Like I have been saying in PM though, as soon as you start playing again just let us know and we will gladly make room for you again.

That being said I COMPLETELY know what you mean about maybe going back to what needs your attention. I have eliminated essentially all mobile games besides MPQ and after I do each one I realize I have so much more time to do stuff I actually NEED to do and I have eyed MPQ multiple times thinking how much I would get done with it gone. I clearly have no pulled the trigger myself and doubt I will for a long while, but the fact remains it would open up much more needed time in my life haha Damn MPQ.

 
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BrolyB593 said:
I am really curious how this will pan out for my HP fund... hahah Seeing as I was the one who brokered a bunch of the slot openings and opened a few myself.
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Damn. That turned out to be a pretty nice investment for you. How many people besides me paid you for those openings?

And don't worry, I'm only a little butt-hurt, because I could really use that HP, but the investment was well worth it, with as much as those slots helped out in the beginning of alliances.

 
BrolyB593 said:
And yeah I definitely saw you jumped in to the event later than I did even.
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Was going to start early Sunday, then decided to take the kids to Big Hero 6. By the time that was over, the bracket update thread was indicating I could jump in about an hour or so after that, so I waited a little longer hoping to have a shot at top 2 placement. That failed miserably.

It didn't hurt the alliance in the end, but it didn't feel good being the last one to jump in. I don't like it when the randoms are taking the top spots for a CAG alliance. I was so guilty I actually shelled out for health packs to pull in more points towards the end. Haven't done that in ages.
 
Ltrain23 said:
Damn. That turned out to be a pretty nice investment for you. How many people besides me paid you for those openings?

And don't worry, I'm only a little butt-hurt, because I could really use that HP, but the investment was well worth it, with as much as those slots helped out in the beginning of alliances.
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I did it for quite a few yeah but for the record almost in every single person joining, I ended up eating the costs a little bit because in my mind it was for the greater good of the Alliance! But yeah I totally am going to make out really well hopefully. If I could shoot you guys some of that HP I totally would. And if money was not so tight I would just send you something through PayPal. When I am finished with my Masters and am back to pulling in normal money every paycheck in a year remind me and I will send you a couple dollars!

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Was going to start early Sunday, then decided to take the kids to Big Hero 6. By the time that was over, the bracket update thread was indicating I could jump in about an hour or so after that, so I waited a little longer hoping to have a shot at top 2 placement. That failed miserably.

It didn't hurt the alliance in the end, but it didn't feel good being the last one to jump in. I don't like it when the randoms are taking the top spots for a CAG alliance. I was so guilty I actually shelled out for health packs to pull in more points towards the end. Haven't done that in ages.
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I am so jealous! Everyone has seen it already it seems. I can't wait! I was doing work all weekend basically and didnt give myself much time to do anything but work, workout and sleep haha

I actually dropped 100HP on healthpacks too (which I too never do) so that I could squeeze in more points since we were so close to the top rewards!

 
Kojubat said:
Was going to start early Sunday, then decided to take the kids to Big Hero 6. By the time that was over, the bracket update thread was indicating I could jump in about an hour or so after that, so I waited a little longer hoping to have a shot at top 2 placement. That failed miserably.

It didn't hurt the alliance in the end, but it didn't feel good being the last one to jump in. I don't like it when the randoms are taking the top spots for a CAG alliance. I was so guilty I actually shelled out for health packs to pull in more points towards the end. Haven't done that in ages.
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While peters is technically a random, he's been around long enough that I think he can shed that tag. It's like a rookie in the NFL... you're only a rookie for 16 games. Now if only he would bring his horrible spelling and cut-off sentences to CAG...

 
BrolyB593 said:
I did it for quite a few yeah but for the record almost in every single person joining, I ended up eating the costs a little bit because in my mind it was for the greater good of the Alliance! But yeah I totally am going to make out really well hopefully. If I could shoot you guys some of that HP I totally would. And if money was not so tight I would just send you something through PayPal. When I am finished with my Masters and am back to pulling in normal money every paycheck in a year remind me and I will send you a couple dollars!
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Nope. Don't want anything back. Like I said, it's paid off, where if you hadn't done that, we wouldn't have been able to start earning that extra HP right away. It's just that my HP fund could use a little replenishing with all these new characters they've been rolling out.

 
Ltrain23 said:
While peters is technically a random, he's been around long enough that I think he can shed that tag. It's like a rookie in the NFL... you're only a rookie for 16 games. Now if only he would bring his horrible spelling and cut-off sentences to CAG...
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I agree hahah He has earned his wings in my book.

Ltrain23 said:
Nope. Don't want anything back. Like I said, it's paid off, where if you hadn't done that, we wouldn't have been able to start earning that extra HP right away. It's just that my HP fund could use a little replenishing with all these new characters they've been rolling out.
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hpbbes said:
Is your roster still full? I guessing it is. I know I saw a post about a potential second alliance. Is there enough interest?

My alliance keeps upping the PvP minimum and has finally pushed it to a point I can't hang with regularly yet. The minimum is now 700, and I score in the 600's. I finished the last PvP with 638. I played a lot last year then (rage) quit until September.

I now have 4 2* characters maxed (Ares, Thor, Daken, OBW) and 2 more at max powers (CStorm and Wolverine). I only just maxed them during the season, so I hope I can get some covers and push my scores up further. My roster is limited so there will be some events I won't score great in (like Fat Thor this past week - everyone seems to have a decent one).
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With the new alliance limits, we could start one, but you would probably be better off in a random alliance for now. Since every alliance can have 20 members immediately, it would probably be easier to join a healthy alliance than recruit people to a brand new one. We focus more on PvE than PvP, and don't have any requirements for it. We do have a fair amount of turnover between our randoms, but that is mostly during the PvE when they are roster hopping in hopes of better rewards.

 
Gravel, what the heck happened to the team referenced by your avatar last night? Don't get me wrong, I needed a huge night from Jordy Nelson in my fantasy league, but they were the pre-season sleeper favorite, and are now alone in the cellar of the North, beneath my child-beating, injury-stricken Vikings.

 
So when the next Season starts, they change the output rewards for the Heroic tokens, right? Should I just hold off in cashing those in until now.

I guess i'll have to spend all my remaining HP to open another roster slot for Mystique. (There's a few three stars with one or two covers that  I could drop, but I'm reluctant to do so)

Should have checked back in on that Colossus tournament instead of getting on the exercise bike and watching Doctor Who. Dropped out of a yellow stormhawk reward. (She's already got 4.)

 
I have shit luck with tokens and am antsy so I always just open mine : P

I actually scored another Purple Nick Fury. Earlier in the week I got another IW, can't remember the color. Either way while I appreciate getting 4*s over the usual 2*, they are almost even more useless to me. At least I can sell off the 2*s for ISO to level the characters I do use. 4*s like IW and Nick Fury however are largely not usable, IW because she kind of sucks and then Nick Fury because to get him usable I will need a crap ton more covers for him. So both more likely than not will continue to be completely unused with no signs of needing to ever dust them off and actually use them.

 
Ltrain23 said:
Gravel, what the heck happened to the team referenced by your avatar last night? Don't get me wrong, I needed a huge night from Jordy Nelson in my fantasy league, but they were the pre-season sleeper favorite, and are now alone in the cellar of the North, beneath my child-beating, injury-stricken Vikings.
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This year has been awful, and some people should be benched/cut/fired. I'm just glad The Walking Dead was on last night, even though it wasn't the best episode. It was only 14-0 at that point, and by the time TWD was done, it was 42-0 at halftime.

 
Just a quick update to let you guys know I'm not dead.
Cable won't be out until tomorrow, so I'm working with a spotty at best 3G signal. I'm sort of in the country so it dips into 1x or no signal constantly.

Was playing real steal and was top 100 with a couple minutes to go. Of course signal went out, couldn't get back in until this morning. Went from 85 to 164, dammit.

Top it off, although I like the Rom I'm using, it's unstable & constantly goes into airplane mode, also another issue I had last night.

And then there's my job interview on Thursday, so more travel... Ugh I'll be back in a week or two tops.
 
downsouthtigger said:
Just a quick update to let you guys know I'm not dead.
Cable won't be out until tomorrow, so I'm working with a spotty at best 3G signal. I'm sort of in the country so it dips into 1x or no signal constantly.

Was playing real steal and was top 100 with a couple minutes to go. Of course signal went out, couldn't get back in until this morning. Went from 85 to 164, dammit.

Top it off, although I like the Rom I'm using, it's unstable & constantly goes into airplane mode, also another issue I had last night.

And then there's my job interview on Thursday, so more travel... Ugh I'll be back in a week or two tops.
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Doesnt sound ideal but I hope all goes well and there arent too many hiccups. We look forward to your official return : )

 
I am getting really antsy to see how much HP I get back.

I am debating on what I will do with it. Do I buy that last Purple cover for Deadpool? Do I give Falcon some more covers? Do I save it so that once I get at least one cover per move for Blade or Mystique I can boost them?

I have no idea! It all depends on the amount refunded of course, of which I cannot remember for the life of me how much I spent. I am imagining at least like 4k HP

 
HuBu said:
simulator event seems promising with a falcon reward.
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Yeah. shame the bottom rewards are for a blue falcon. I just got him at 5 in that color. My yellow is 3, and my purple, well, zero.

I'd like to get into the top 25 for that purple cover but I'm not sure if I can make it.

Plus I only have one day off over the next 7, and the wife's working night shift so I have more kid duty than usual.

 
Simulator - 7d 11h Purple Mys @ 160k pts

Normal - 2d 11h

Hard - 2d 11h

I am currently 2/4/0 with Falcon so the Yellow will help, need a pink.

 
Xforce, CStorm, MMag...pretty good together. MMag's Pink to feed CStorm's stun AOE, Xforce to clear board and occasional heal/hurt.

Do we know what the reward for the Villians is?

 
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gravel said:
I'm using Psylocke, BP, and Falcon. I suppose I could use more X-Men, but none of mine are that great either, and I've put up 600+ points, so hopefully I'll land one more Hood.
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Shielded right now @ 663 (67th). Once I hit that 600 barrier, only seeing lvl's closed to 200.

 
I didn't have much of an issue getting to about 800 or so. Then I started seeing maxed X-Force, Patch, and Psylock teams. And then it was Sentry/Hood + either Wolverine. The matches take too long, even with boosts, and there are too many high damage attacks in play. Even if you manage to win, you're limping away. I decided this morning to just say screw it and stopped at 950 unshielded. Nothing good from tokens, either.

That fifth black cover for X-Force makes a huge difference, especially if you hit green. Since I've failed to earn it twice, here's hoping that my alliance slot refund is big enough to warrant an outright purchase.
 
I didn't have much of an issue getting to about 800 or so. Then I started seeing maxed X-Force, Patch, and Psylock teams. And then it was Sentry/Hood + either Wolverine. The matches take too long, even with boosts, and there are too many high damage attacks in play. Even if you manage to win, you're limping away. I decided this morning to just say screw it and stopped at 950 unshielded. Nothing good from tokens, either.

That fifth black cover for X-Force makes a huge difference, especially if you hit green. Since I've failed to earn it twice, here's hoping that my alliance slot refund is big enough to warrant an outright purchase.
 
Mys is the reward for Foes. Masterstroke is such an odd name for a move for a female character.

Finished 70th

 
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Finished 86 for Children of the Atom.  My Hood will be 5/1/5 when the rewards come out.  Looks like I could level Sentry (5/5/2, Hood, or Loki(5/5) (or Daken (2/4/2) or Mags (2/4/4)) for Nefarious Foes.  Moonstone and Ares are boosted to 187.  Any ideas on the best combination?

 
A note on matchmaking in the new PvP from http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18784&p=247876

"Hey all, we're working on our Versus matchmaking algorithm and will be rolling out some tweaks over the next week so we can collect data on the results. To set expectations, this will not be a huge change but we're interested in hearing your unbiased observations of the changes. We also suspect it won't have any effect for some players. If you see anything different, please share your thoughts with us. We'll have more details later, and we'll share the results of the data we collect."

Because we'd like to get feedback quickly, before the next Versus Season begins - we're firing up the test in a few short days. If it works well, and players are pleased, we'll roll the change into the next Season. If reaction is overly negative, we can roll things back before the Season gets underway.
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I was thinking it ended at midnight, not noon. Son of a bitch. I have been wanting one more Yellow to respec my Hood to be perfect for months now. I am so pissed.

I have been really busy and havent even logged on today and just kept thinking, yeah it ends at midnight. Bah ugh so pissed right now.

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WHICH ALSO MEANS I MISSED THE SEED TEAMS FOR THIS NEXT PVP... with the Mystique rewards. 

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gravel said:
Finished 86 for Children of the Atom. My Hood will be 5/1/5 when the rewards come out. Looks like I could level Sentry (5/5/2, Hood, or Loki(5/5) (or Daken (2/4/2) or Mags (2/4/4)) for Nefarious Foes. Moonstone and Ares are boosted to 187. Any ideas on the best combination?
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That's a tough call. Sentry and Hood are the metagame, so anything to get them closer to that is an investment for the future (assuming no nerfs before you get there). However, you do not have the best covers for either one of them. Sentry's red is only good on defense, and Hood's black over 3 is only useful if you are putting out a lot of countdowns (see Sentry green). Without more Sentry green covers, Hood's black doesn't do much to help, and without more Hood blue covers, you aren't stealing much of anything. That being said, your Sentry is more useful than your Hood as currently covered.

Loki is really only useful if you're running Patch regularly, so you can throw out a Trickery after a Berserker. But you don't necessarily need levels for that to work.

I have been finding Daken super useful lately, so that wouldn't be bad.

I think I lean towards Magneto of the options given. His red and blue are the better powers, he is closer to max covers, and he scales well when boosted.
 
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I don't mind as much when I just space on the time and miss it. This I literally was consciously thinking about it and waiting because I thought it ended at a different time than it did like an idiot. Ugh.

 
[quote name="BrolyB593" post="12235215" timestamp="1415838373"]I don't mind as much when I just space on the time and miss it. This I literally was consciously thinking about it and waiting because I thought it ended at a different time than it did like an idiot. Ugh.[/quote]
The new timer display would help you with that. I wish you can set notification for when you heals are filled again. Don't really care about heroes being fully healed.

I think this was mentioned earlier in the thread, but who knows about Android phone and sideloading root when your phone is unlocked.
 
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gravel said:
Finished 86 for Children of the Atom. My Hood will be 5/1/5 when the rewards come out. Looks like I could level Sentry (5/5/2, Hood, or Loki(5/5) (or Daken (2/4/2) or Mags (2/4/4)) for Nefarious Foes. Moonstone and Ares are boosted to 187. Any ideas on the best combination?
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must be a lot more people playing on tablet then pc. Just started Nov 1 ended 36th on the atom. and was once ranked 1 on the new one (lasted about 10 seconds) down to like 98 now.

i really dont think will get that far without putting real cash into the game. only good person i got is a ranked out Level 1 iron man.

As a starter do you think this team will take me far

Level 50 rank 1 iron man. his special do like almost 1000 and 400 and 1900

Level 40 rank 1 black widow i like her stun for 5 moves move.

got some ranks 2 (like thor and storm) and i think i won hood on that last thing. BUT without getting covers for them they are mostly useless.

Got 250 hero points but need 400 to even open up 3 more slots

 
Kojubat said:
I think I lean towards Magneto of the options given. His red and blue are the better powers, he is closer to max covers, and he scales well when boosted.
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Something to consider about my advice, from the forums:

Greetings MPQ Community,

Last month we announced a Character Rotation plan for adding new characters to comic packs. (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17495). We wanted to provide you with news on the latest round of rotations set to go live with the start of Season VIII on Friday, November 14th.

In: Blade, Mystique, (also Ms. Marvel (2*) will be added to packs at this time)
Out: Thor (Modern), Magneto (Classic)

Characters that are taken out of packs will start rotating back in during Season 9. We'll always communicate in advance which characters will be rotating out.

Reminder: This allows us to work on the characters that are out of the spotlight.

Thanks!
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So, maybe not? Once the new season starts, you probably won't see new covers for Magneto for at least two months.
 
sidlon said:
I'd recommend this guide (http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3939) on how to work your way up to a 2* and 3* roster.

There's no question that you can progress while playing for free. I haven't spent a dime yet, and have a pack of dinosaurs heading my way.
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I would not call Devil Dino progress hahaha I hate him he is the worst.

But the point you were making is still very true.

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And according to HuBu's post before, the subevents should end in 13 hours from now? 11pm Central?

 
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