Marvel Puzzle Quest Discussion Thread

[britton_draws]

This is the guy who makes the game free for everyone else:


A Stark Salary is $99.99. This guy puts $2600 a year into this game. Nevermind the fact that getting to 300 in 20 out of 24 LR means playing this game about five hours a day during LR periods, not including regular PvP/PvE.

On the plus side, it's good to know I don't have a problem, I only have a mild issue.

Holy balls... that is just ridiculous. I have no words for that. I don't understand how anyone could have that much time and moeny without just being a young highschool kid with crazy rich parents or something haha

So where's Broly at? He's been MIA for how many events now?

Yeah I am here I am sorry guys. I went to go leave the Alliance towards the end of the last PvE so as to not be a burden but I saw we were already top 100 anyway without me so I just stayed. Either you guys rocked it like effing crazy or nobody was playing that event haha.

I have been dead to many people this past week especially with my sickness and some other stuff going on. I had even two different friends text and call me yesterday to literally make sure I was still alive because the last they had spoken with me was a long while back and I was feeling terrible then. Hah I am alive however!

I already started up this Gauntlet and will be back to playing more again now probably.

 

[downsouthtigger]

is daken worth maxxing

I'm assuming 2 star. I don't know, as always, it depends on which other 2 stars you have that aren't maxed. I think he's better now that they added a third power to him, before that, he wasn't very useful. It also depends on how much Iso you have. You shouldn't be wasting Iso on the cover packs, you mostly get junk. Save it for leveling up characters. Some of the more useful 2 stars are Ares, Wolverine, Black Widow, Storm, Thor, Moonstone, Magneto. I think Daken is better now that he has a third power, but that's more of a guess.

Leveling Daken, OBW and one of Thor, Ares, and Wolverine (to a slightly lesser extent) should be your focus. Then branch out from there depending on what covers you get. Read mischiefmaker's rankings on the D3P forums.

Daken is an iffy one, I mean those strike tiles can be useful, but then again 2* Wolverine is more consistent and a better with the direct attack ability on red.

Your 2* focus should be: Ares, Thor, OBW, Storm & Wolverine.

If you're in the 2-3* transition your main team should more than likely be Thor/Ares, OBW, & your choice. Usually your choice is required character from pvp.

Secondary focus on 2*s would imo go to Johnny storm, Ms. Marvel, Magneto and Hawkeye. Captain America & Daken are ok to focus on, but once you get the 3* versions the 2*s are obsolete.

Everyone in 2* land loves the Magneto/Storm combo, but defensively theyre too weak for me, I prefer OBW and Thor/Ares for a more balanced offensive/defensive team. Now that they've added more useful 2*s, a team of Thor/Ares, OBW, and Ms. Marvel/Johnny storm wouldnt be bad, that covers all powers/colors. If you go the Wolverine route then you could use Wolverine, OBW, and Ms Marvel. Aside from Ares any other 2* villian is not going to be useful, no matter how much we want moonstone to be.

 

[hpbbes]

I salivate at 2* mags and storm in PvP. I can unleash Ares's green without any great fear of retribution.

The reason I love Daken is because OBW double dips on strike tiles with her black ability, and his blue ability is a great finisher that also generates green tiles for Thor/Ares.

 

[kojubat]

Note that I never built or leveled a 2* Daken (I was well out of 2* land when he got his third power), but I rely heavily on my 3* Daken, so take my advice as you will.

Something to keep in mind with Daken is that he shows up a lot in the Dark Avengers PvE events. This is true also for Moonstone, Bullseye, Venom, Juggernaut, and Yelena. Ragnarok and Ares make appearances, but not as pervasively.

If you are still building your 2* roster and plan to play PvE competitively, it is hard to recommend leveling Daken over someone more universal like OBW, Wolverine, Thor or Storm. He's a good character in the 2* range due to the automatic healing and strike tiles, but you may end up in an event where you can't use him for half the nodes. Now, if you already have a good squad of 2*s and aren't getting the 3* covers to work on anyone specific yet, he's a great fourth character to rotate in and out.

Magneto/Storm is a target in PvP land, but super strong in PvE against named characters - especially since it seems like one or the other is always boosted. Then you need to decide whether you want the triple threat of Hawkeye's purple (and leave yourself open on three colors) or a color-covering tank like Thor or Ares (to a lesser extent, Wolverine or Marvel).


Completely unrelated - Rocket/Groot's yellow is a beast of a power. Fought two fully covered/leveled in the Gamora PvP, and one yellow match was all that was needed to go back to full health - which is crazy high to begin with. A scaled version in PvE is going to be a nightmare, assuming they aren't already in the gauntlet somewhere. (I only finished the first one so far.)

 

[hpbbes]

Fair point. I definitely agree that Daken on pve isn't super useful.

 

[eldergamer]

I hate the Balance of Power event. Haven't seen that many juggernauts yet thankfully. But it's really hard to asses an opponents difficultly level when we're all 270. Paying attention to seeing if they have a full power spread helps.

 

[hpbbes]

Heh. Asses.

 

[gravel]

Note that I never built or leveled a 2* Daken (I was well out of 2* land when he got his third power), but I rely heavily on my 3* Daken, so take my advice as you will.

Something to keep in mind with Daken is that he shows up a lot in the Dark Avengers PvE events. This is true also for Moonstone, Bullseye, Venom, Juggernaut, and Yelena. Ragnarok and Ares make appearances, but not as pervasively.

If you are still building your 2* roster and plan to play PvE competitively, it is hard to recommend leveling Daken over someone more universal like OBW, Wolverine, Thor or Storm. He's a good character in the 2* range due to the automatic healing and strike tiles, but you may end up in an event where you can't use him for half the nodes. Now, if you already have a good squad of 2*s and aren't getting the 3* covers to work on anyone specific yet, he's a great fourth character to rotate in and out.

Magneto/Storm is a target in PvP land, but super strong in PvE against named characters - especially since it seems like one or the other is always boosted. Then you need to decide whether you want the triple threat of Hawkeye's purple (and leave yourself open on three colors) or a color-covering tank like Thor or Ares (to a lesser extent, Wolverine or Marvel).


Completely unrelated - Rocket/Groot's yellow is a beast of a power. Fought two fully covered/leveled in the Gamora PvP, and one yellow match was all that was needed to go back to full health - which is crazy high to begin with. A scaled version in PvE is going to be a nightmare, assuming they aren't already in the gauntlet somewhere. (I only finished the first one so far.)

There is one Rocket/Groot about halfway through the second gauntlet, now sure how powerful he was. I haven't made it further than that yet.

 

[downsouthtigger]

Note that I never built or leveled a 2* Daken (I was well out of 2* land when he got his third power), but I rely heavily on my 3* Daken, so take my advice as you will.


Completely unrelated - Rocket/Groot's yellow is a beast of a power. Fought two fully covered/leveled in the Gamora PvP, and one yellow match was all that was needed to go back to full health - which is crazy high to begin with. A scaled version in PvE is going to be a nightmare, assuming they aren't already in the gauntlet somewhere. (I only finished the first one so far.)

I agree with this, Daken is usually on my attack team when playing PVP. Required character, X-force, Daken. I can usually blaze through pretty easily with that team. To be honest I used Captain Marvel, Laken, Sex-force for the 1st round of the gauntlet without any rotation.

With Groocket I only have 1 yellow, but during the 1st round of Meet Rocket & Groot where they were boosted, I definitely saw their uses.Its a great mix of Wolverine's x-force & astonishings healing abilities. When at x% health make a yellow match, destroys y tiles and regains z health. I know it was boosted during the event but even with 1 yellow match it would get me well past 50%. Although missing a purple & red power; I could see trying out a team of Daken, X-force, Groocket. Strike tiles from Groocket & Daken, and everyone has true healing? Definitely one I want to try.

Speaking of teams I tried: Falcon & Doc Ock. Why did I think that was going to be more fun, especially against goons. It became a race against myself, trying to match enemy countdown tiles so dock could make attack tiles before redwing came and turned them. When I finally made attack tiles there were hardly any yellow matches for falcon to boost them. I'll have to try again but I was not impressed with that pair. X-force just watched as pretty much wondered what the hell was going on.

 

[HuBu]

Really really hate balance of power. Juggs is very annoying. I need to work on a better combination of fighters. 

My OBW/Ares/(3*)Daken is great but if Ares goes down. I got nothing.

 

[HuBu]

Really really hate balance of power. Juggs is very annoying. I need to work on a better combination of fighters. 

My OBW/Ares/(3*)Daken is great but if Ares goes down. I got nothing.

 

[sidlon]

Also Hint: "The Law of Inverse Ninja Strength.

That smells of Elektra's release and a story involving the Hand (a clan of ninjas). They have history with Daredevil and Wolverine, so that fits with those guys having been reworked.

For what it's worth:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ninja/Laws

tl;dr - The more ninjas you fight, the weaker each ninja must be. 4 ninja turtles > infinite Foot ninjas

So... maybe it'll be a stamina competition to see how many weakling goons you can take down before falling to the infinite ninja mob?

(note to self: create band named Infinite Ninja Mob)

 

[sidlon]

Also, details on the new DareDevil, which I'll definitely use more often:

   http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20199

 

[downsouthtigger]

Also, details on the new DareDevil, which I'll definitely use more often:

http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20199

I saw that while playing sim 33 or 34, I was like wait a minute I havent set off any trap tiles, why is Daredevil using his abilities. Then I red his description in game. Im like what? Only red uses trap tiles? This will def change some things!

• Radar Sense - Purple 10 AP
  Daredevil uses his Radar Sense to avoid his enemy's assault and strike at their weaknesses. Converts up to 3 random enemy Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles to basic tiles and deals 71 damage for each tile converted.
  Level Upgrades
  Level 2: Deals 109 damage for each converted tile.
  Level 3: Deals 131 damage for each converted tile.
  Level 4: Converts up to 4 Strike, Protect, or Attack tiles to basic tiles.
  Level 5: Converts up to 5 tiles, dealing 180 damage per tile.
  Max Level: 574 for each converted tile.

Design & Playability Thoughts:
Daredevil loses the AP steal, but gains the ability to directly punish the enemy for using special tiles. The relative lack of active abilities at the 3* level also means that this ability can be fairly easily charged and held in reserve for when Doom brings out a Summon Demons or Falcon decides to Bird Strike.

Now I read this.... Im getting so pissed off at falcon throwing Birdstrike left and right. WIth him leveled up to 200+ even with only 1 damn protect tile on the board any match damage I make goes down to 1, even a full blown red attack from Steve is halved. Im currently stuck at sim 35, OBW, Falcon, Cap marvel. Oh its getting pissy, even though only Cap Marvel has offensive capabilities the other 2's match damage does more than enough to hurt me. Oh and there's a node in there with a Falcon & Doc Ock, works fine for the computer AI, especially boosted into the 200s.

 

[gravel]

I'm getting wrecked on 25.  Hulk, Daken, and Beast.  I don't know how they get the cascades they do.

 

[downsouthtigger]

I'm getting wrecked on 25. Hulk, Daken, and Beast. I don't know how they get the cascades they do.

When it comes to magic cascades, Beast and Daken have their methods:

As for Hulk, well....

 

[slidecage]

how does season work  work. I mean if i play and get 300 points tonight but then are attack and attack and attack and lose 100 points tonight. I know on the shield i fall back to 200 but does my season point total also fall back to 200 or  would it stay at 300 and  i will just keep moving up.

love to get a 10 pack but i think im still way too new to even come close to getting 4000 points in a season. if the attacks keep pushing you back.

got  232 points for tonight  

 

[downsouthtigger]

Yep in a season you get attacked you lose points.  Its always fun because you have the pvp tournaments and the simulator that run during the season.  Both of them you can be attacked and lose points. Normally with the amount of tournaments during a season you could just play for 300 pts each one & make it.  I think if you're missing points here or there you can make up for it in the simulator.  Honestly most of us try for 300, since thats the tournament token reward, as a baseline.  If you make any of the higher progression rewards then thats gravy.  So yes you can make the 10 pack, as long as you keep

 

[gravel]

Thanks for the explanation DS.

Green Rocket/Groot at 3000 in the season, so that's nice.  Also, I have that red 3* Thor in two days.  So that's at least a couple covers I can look forward to.  Maybe I'll even get a cover I can use from the 10-pack this time.  My Deadpool is only level 1 for purple, so I don't think the whales strategy will work too well.

 

[HuBu]

out of 23 tokens - i got another yellow falcon, blue spidey, and blue hood.

 

[britton_draws]

I used up ALL of my Deadpool points a few events back when I was having a hard time. I literally instant won like 6 matches it was great but now the point gains are fairly low and I forget to use him every day that getting a whole bunch of insta-whale-wins stored up takes a while. I wish the higher level your Purple, the less Deadpool points it cost to use it.

And yeah I am really shocked at Daredevil. I started putting some ISO into him but sheeing as he was in the 50s when they patched him just now it will be a while before he is very usable. For those that have had him at decent levels already, how is he holding up? Also I am curious what they new ideal build is with him now that everything has changed. While his red does crazy damage, I am leaning towards perhaps 5/5/3 and keeping him as primarily a support character. What do you guys think?

 

[kojubat]

I saw that while playing sim 33 or 34, I was like wait a minute I havent set off any trap tiles, why is Daredevil using his abilities. Then I red his description in game. Im like what? Only red uses trap tiles? This will def change some things!

I like the new power layout. His Purple will be great against Maggia goons and Daken as well.

Wait... He becomes Patch's second best friend. Throw a Berserker Rage into a Radar Sense, and

My Deadpool is only level 1 for purple, so I don't think the whales strategy will work too well.

I think the idea is that you spend Deadpool points to get past a node you just can't win after multiple attempts, since that's the Instant Win button.

 

[kojubat]

Also I am curious what they new ideal build is with him now that everything has changed. While his red does crazy damage, I am leaning towards perhaps 5/5/3 and keeping him as primarily a support character. What do you guys think?

I already have him at 5/3/5, and I think I will keep him that way. He isn't going into my primary squad any time soon, but I like the idea of Patch/Spidey/Daredevil. Build up purple for protection first, then start making green and red matches. Kick off green then purple, do much damage. Any red you get along the way is gravy.

The difference between 3 and 5 in blue is a slightly faster countdown and an extra AP when you match it. Considering I rank Stun powers fairly low in my play style, that may also play a part in my spec. Additionally, it's a random placement countdown, so no guarantee it'll last long enough to matter.

 

[britton_draws]

I already have him at 5/3/5, and I think I will keep him that way. He isn't going into my primary squad any time soon, but I like the idea of Patch/Spidey/Daredevil. Build up purple for protection first, then start making green and red matches. Kick off green then purple, do much damage. Any red you get along the way is gravy.

The difference between 3 and 5 in blue is a slightly faster countdown and an extra AP when you match it. Considering I rank Stun powers fairly low in my play style, that may also play a part in my spec. Additionally, it's a random placement countdown, so no guarantee it'll last long enough to matter.

Hmmm that is a good point. Mine is actually 5/5/3 already right now and so I am obviously just keeping him as is for now regardless. I definitely don't see him replacing anyone regularly but it will be nice to have a backup support Purple/Blue user.

 

[hpbbes]

I was sitting on 6 tokens and opened them last night. Finally a 3* (blue Steve) after so much crap. My daily today was yellow classic magneto. That's 2 3*s in one week!

I'm going to be tanking a lot this season. My mmr has to be ludicrously high.

 

[kojubat]

I just opened all my 17 Heroic tokens I had banked. I got two 4* characters (both I could use - Fury purple and Thor yellow) and one 3* character (Storm, sold off). Very odd distribution.

Also opened my first Gauntlet token and got a Blade cover, so that was nice. I'm about 75% done with the second tile.

I have 85 standard tokens staring me in the face. Might wait until I'm watching TV or something.

 

[downsouthtigger]

I was sitting on 6 tokens and opened them last night. Finally a 3* (blue Steve) after so much crap. My daily today was yellow classic magneto. That's 2 3*s in one week!

I just opened all my 17 Heroic tokens I had banked. I got two 4* characters (both I could use - Fury purple and Thor yellow) and one 3* character (Storm, sold off). Very odd distribution.

Also opened my first Gauntlet token and got a Blade cover, so that was nice.

Glad you guys got some stuff you can use. Im already missing the last pve where I was getting 4 heroic tokens & 10 standards a day.

Looks like Thunder has been passed the luck torch as I saw he got a Groocket (yellow!) & another Gamora. I rode my wave and back to the standard crap. Gauntlet tokens, crap, standards, crap, even played balance of power for a token, crap but after about a week of 2 heroics a day I knew that trend wouldnt continue. Maybe shouldve waited for this season for Groockets & Gamoras, oh & saw that they took out Black Panther, aka just Tchalla, since Daredevil is now the man without fear.

I might be done with the gauntlet, seems like too much effort for 1 green loki. I dont have anything left but some HP & Iso, but thats how the guantlet works. You get to that point & you're just like ehhhh I'll do something else. Also I like challenge, if the hard gauntlet was a challenge then Id be more happy with it. We say this everytime they run it though. Pushing characters past the 200 level isnt challenging, its just a massacre. When the enemy ca.n do 1K damage with only match damage? Yeah, not even mentioning that 1 hit kills. Ohai level 266 Juggs and magneto, what? You have enough red & will headbutt me 3 turns in a row killing my team? Yeah no thanks, like Balance of power aka everyone has a juggs. Also the reason I gave up on that.

Just waiting for new PVE or something to get excited about. Not starting the season off good, She hulk for Steve tourney, uh no thanks. I think her and beast need to have a pow wow and talk about how to get reworked or something, seems to have worked some for Daredevil.

 

[eldergamer]

I'm not seeing that many Juggs in the Balance of Power. I'm up to nearly 400 points and sitting in 70th place. One  Steve cover for me I might push for two. Seeing plenty of Ares and Dakens. Nice thing about everyone being at 270 is that many of my two stars are getting a chance to play. They haven't seen action in months.

What's weird in Balance of Power is the character select screen. Most of my two and three stars are on my second screen.  Are the sorting characters by number of covers?

The real trick is figuring out which rainbow team to use.

I tried  Thor/Steve/Blade and that was decent.

Steve doesnt really have anything to do besides his blue power. Thor's red and yellow takes priority. So that's kind of underwhelming.

Thor/Psylocke/Magneto works as well although all mags really does is try and make cascades with his purple.

 

[HuBu]

My combo has been Ares/OBW/Spidey - Shieled @ 48th with 466 pts.

 

[britton_draws]

The real trick is figuring out which rainbow team to use.

I tried Thor/Steve/Blade and that was decent.

Steve doesnt really have anything to do besides his blue power. Thor's red and yellow takes priority. So that's kind of underwhelming.

Thor/Psylocke/Magneto works as well although all mags really does is try and make cascades with his purple.

Steve's Red should be taking priority WAY over Thor's. Double the damage output and can get the AP back and can *maybe* cause a cascade.

If you are using Thor and Steve, Hood is the best third I have found. Thor takes Yellow and Green for damage, Steve takes Red for damage and blue for defense and stuns for when damaging Hulk and such. Then you have Hood stealing AP keeping the other team;s powers down and then you use his Black right after you throw down Steve's moves to both do damage and hasten your AP return.

 

[HuBu]

For the Steve PVP event, I am trying Steve/Falcon/Hood

Might try something different since Falcon's Inspiration doesnt really add dmg because no strike tiles are produced.

 

[ltrain23]

For the Steve PVP event, I am trying Steve/Falcon/Hood

Might try something different since Falcon's Inspiration doesnt really add dmg because no strike tiles are produced.

I like Steve/Pun/Falcon for that very reason. Every color has an active power, and Falcon only goes to the front on purple matches. Insp powers up Pun's strikers early, then Steve and Falcon's Def tiles late. I just wish I could get Falcon higher than 104.

 

[HuBu]

I like Steve/Pun/Falcon for that very reason. Every color has an active power, and Falcon only goes to the front on purple matches. Insp powers up Pun's strikers early, then Steve and Falcon's Def tiles late. I just wish I could get Falcon higher than 104.

I will give that a try.

 

[kojubat]

Elektra inbound as a Purple/Black/Red 4*: http://marvel.com/news/video_games/23811/piecing_together_marvel_puzzle_quest_elektra

New goon type appears to be the Hand, as expected.

Purple is She-Hulk's blue. Black sounds like a trap that actually works against the AI. Red would be great if it wasn't red. I'm kinda 'eh'.

However, she gets awarded in a regular PvE starting this Monday instead of Season reward, and we get a new story for Christmas week. Because PvE over a holiday is a great idea.

 

[ltrain23]

However, she gets awarded in a regular PvE starting this Monday instead of Season reward, and we get a new story for Christmas week. Because PvE for a 4* over a holiday is a great idea.

FTFY to increase sarcastic intent

 

[HuBu]

FTFY to increase sarcastic intent

And the reward bracket is raised also for this event to rub salt on the wound.

 

[ltrain23]

I was clicking too fast, but I think I just got 1000 iso and 100 HP because season VIII ended early. You should all be expecting that as well.

 

[HuBu]

Just got it.

Just need 1 yellow and 1 red to max out Rogers.

Starting to transition to all 3* main team.

 

[sidlon]

I like Steve/Pun/Falcon for that very reason. Every color has an active power, and Falcon only goes to the front on purple matches. Insp powers up Pun's strikers early, then Steve and Falcon's Def tiles late. I just wish I could get Falcon higher than 104.

The main problem w/ Pun/Falcon is that it takes a while to get strike tile laid down. I've gone through most of the gauntlet so far w/ variations of LDaken/Falcon/X. (where X is someone like Patch or Hulk who can use the green matches) Match green & yellow, and watch the strike pool grow.

 

[kojubat]

I was clicking too fast, but I think I just got 1000 iso and 100 HP because season VIII ended early. You should all be expecting that as well.

Huh. The initial rewards were supposed to be for anyone who was in the last time slice. Guess they just decided to give everyone a benefit.

What you got was based on your season score:

For the players who selected the last time shard for the Eight Is Enough Event and thus could not add those final points to their overall season-ending scores, we will be providing the following (based on points earned before the Event ended);

• 2-3k Point Range - A Beast (Classic) Animal Inside cover
• 3-4k Point Range - one 10x Heroic Pack token
• 4k-Plus Point Range - 1k Iso-8 and 100 Hero Points

Essentially, if you already got your ten pack, you got ISO/HP. If you put in at least 2k points, you got the next progression award you could have earned. Not sure if they kept that lower limit in.

 

[britton_draws]

haha looks like with that I will get nothing anyway from them fixing that. My Season score was like 500 or something I believe. Brolying it up still with the new time things still : P haha

 

[slidecage]

haha looks like with that I will get nothing anyway from them fixing that. My Season score was like 500 or something I believe. Brolying it up still with the new time things still : P haha

mine was like 800 and got the beast

 

[britton_draws]

mine was like 800 and got the beast

Signed in again just now to check and I didn't get anything : / Womp oh well. Not like I will be using Beast any time soon and if he is required anytime mine is already 4/3/2 which is enough to get him by at least hah

 

[eldergamer]

Steve's Red should be taking priority WAY over Thor's. Double the damage output and can get the AP back and can *maybe* cause a cascade.

If you are using Thor and Steve, Hood is the best third I have found. Thor takes Yellow and Green for damage, Steve takes Red for damage and blue for defense and stuns for when damaging Hulk and such. Then you have Hood stealing AP keeping the other team;s powers down and then you use his Black right after you throw down Steve's moves to both do damage and hasten your AP return.

Unfortunately, I only have one cover in red. 3 in yellw an 2 or 3 in blue.

Never been a big Hood fan either. I really liked my Psylocke/Falcon match. (Shame falcon doesnt quite have enough HP) Toss in a Hulk or someone for green damage.

 

[slidecage]

agrrrrrr  i cant wait for monday hopefully a new pve will start in the story side. the thing that is up now is so based on pure luck i given up on it.

 

[hpbbes]

Landed a doc oc, mystique and Steve (reward from Balance of Power) yesterday. About 4 more weeks of this and I'll call it even.

 

[sidlon]

FYI, shield hopping is being clubbed to death:

http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20202&p=263718

Not that I ever planned to hop, but an 8hr wait after using a shield seems like overkill.

 

[eldergamer]

I always forget to buy shields or under estimate the likelyhood of me being attacked. Dropped from 40 to 64 in the balance of power tournament last night. Still got one yellow cover. Would rather have another red.

and reward for the Steve PvP is She Hulk. another character that I have a few covers in but never use and am not that interested in.

 

[britton_draws]

FYI, shield hopping is being clubbed to death:

http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20202&p=263718

Not that I ever planned to hop, but an 8hr wait after using a shield seems like overkill.

They are making me not want to play this game more and more.

 

[kojubat]

FYI, shield hopping is being clubbed to death:

http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20202&p=263718

Not that I ever planned to hop, but an 8hr wait after using a shield seems like overkill.

In my opinion, this will have a low impact on most of us - nobody gets the scores that shield hopping enables, with the exception of when one of us goes crazy for a top finish.

All this does is stops people from chaining 3 hour shields. If you plan to throw an 8 hour shield to get some sleep, then push a few matches before shielding for an early morning end time, you're fine. Worst case, you spend a little more HP to grab a longer shield than you need if you absolutely must shield again when a three hour expires. I guess maybe this would have a bigger impact if anyone wanted to shield during Lightning Rounds or if they ever bring back the twelve hour buy-in PvPs.

Does anyone chain three hour shields? I've only done it two or three times, and never more than two in a row.

EDIT: Now that I think about it a little, it might affect the availability of high value targets. If there aren't 2k+ scores in the game, finding valid targets after the 900 line might be harder. Hmm.