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Marvel Heroes 2015 |OT2| I have, like, a Gazillion heroes
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Ploid 3.0
Member
Oh Gaz, you sonuva gun.
OMG OMG hahaha
Baron_Calamity
Member
ok, I'm not playing today.
N
Noray
Unconfirmed Member
Both pretty good pranks. The dataminers in particular, gg.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Oh Gaz, you sonuva gun.
That is amazing.
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
shame that only 1% of the playerbase will get the drop if it uses the same drop rate but ofcourse it wont cos the items shit
just rubbing salt in the wound because they couldnt release achievements on time which has a gunranteed reward of a gem of kursed if you kill him 200 times.
nice to see they wasted there item budget on that too
just rubbing salt in the wound because they couldnt release achievements on time which has a gunranteed reward of a gem of kursed if you kill him 200 times.
nice to see they wasted there item budget on that too
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
-Queen of Hunting, delirious, and talking to a computer
This sounds like a kepow post
You do not want to be like kepow, trust me.
yes let's plan for it!
Frostinferno
Member
Won't be able to make tonight.
N
Noray
Unconfirmed Member
Listen to him, Queen. You don't want to be like him.
I'm down for Raid tonight, probably.
You're not supposed to break the 4th wall like that.
I used the end of the Big 10 event to level some characters to whom I wasn't particularly looking forward.
First, Gambit. I found his ranged tree to be pretty solid, in particular the simple stacking mechanic of Dead Man's Hand. But his melee tree is a mess, clunky and with powers I'd never take. The one power in that tree I liked, Staff Slam, is tagged as energy, which is a pretty big deal given all the sweet gear to which hybrid characters have access. But it's wasted if working both types of damage into your rotation isn't fun. I could see Gambit being quite fun with a revamped bo staff tree, but as he is now, I think I've had my fill.
Next I leveled Taskmaster. I found him to be pretty fun in that I could make a solid build out of mixing all different skills: melee single-target spirit dump, wave of arrows, shield bash, pistols with a high rate of attack. But he definitely felt limited in his all-around capabilities and straight-up DPS. At first I was frustrated, but then I realized it's because I'd become spoiled by playing Juggernaut and facerolling everything. So I started treating Taskmaster as an increased difficulty mode, actually looking at the boss affixes and moving out of their attacks. I enjoyed him overall, but with the uber power levels of recently reviewed characters, Taskmaster feels left far behind.
Finally I got Nova to 60 as well. The pulsar mechanics were as wonky as I'd heard, so I abandoned them early on and built entirely around the rocket and melee trees. Surprisingly, there's a quite fun melee/movement character under here. Nova has Nightcrawler's Blink Strike (which I hate as a skill) and Brimstone Beatdown in addition to a melee basic of essentially the same effect. But the single target spirit spender, Cosmic Combo, is much more fluid than Nightcrawler's; you can smoothly transition between foes and drop an entire pack like in this famous panel:
First, Gambit. I found his ranged tree to be pretty solid, in particular the simple stacking mechanic of Dead Man's Hand. But his melee tree is a mess, clunky and with powers I'd never take. The one power in that tree I liked, Staff Slam, is tagged as energy, which is a pretty big deal given all the sweet gear to which hybrid characters have access. But it's wasted if working both types of damage into your rotation isn't fun. I could see Gambit being quite fun with a revamped bo staff tree, but as he is now, I think I've had my fill.
Next I leveled Taskmaster. I found him to be pretty fun in that I could make a solid build out of mixing all different skills: melee single-target spirit dump, wave of arrows, shield bash, pistols with a high rate of attack. But he definitely felt limited in his all-around capabilities and straight-up DPS. At first I was frustrated, but then I realized it's because I'd become spoiled by playing Juggernaut and facerolling everything. So I started treating Taskmaster as an increased difficulty mode, actually looking at the boss affixes and moving out of their attacks. I enjoyed him overall, but with the uber power levels of recently reviewed characters, Taskmaster feels left far behind.
Finally I got Nova to 60 as well. The pulsar mechanics were as wonky as I'd heard, so I abandoned them early on and built entirely around the rocket and melee trees. Surprisingly, there's a quite fun melee/movement character under here. Nova has Nightcrawler's Blink Strike (which I hate as a skill) and Brimstone Beatdown in addition to a melee basic of essentially the same effect. But the single target spirit spender, Cosmic Combo, is much more fluid than Nightcrawler's; you can smoothly transition between foes and drop an entire pack like in this famous panel:
On top of that, he's got a dash that leaves AoE puddles like a Thraddash Torch, a signature that removes spirit costs, another dash that actually has some AoE damage, a toggle that synergizes his movement and melee skills... I could definitely see myself returning to Nova after my leveling days are done. Give me a Cannonball enhanced costume and it's a given.
xrayregime
Member
I'll be on.
Frostinferno
Member
Getting rid of Pulsars would be lame. What they need to do is heavily expand on them in a meaningful way. I may have mentioned it before, but I'd really like to see them give unique effects for combinations of Pulsars detonated (like Invoker from Dota, for those familiar with him). Like for example if you detonate Unstable and Supermassive Pulsars together, enemies are stunned after being pulled in by the vortex. Or if you detonate Supermassive and Magneton Pulsars, you cause Magneton to do all of it's damage at once, but only at 75% the total amount. Cool stuff to make you think, you know? I'm sure with some thought there could be some really cool ideas.
I get what you're saying and I think that works for a created character like Invoker but pulsars don't fit the character's abilities in the comics. It's just bizarre to be proc'ing traps with certain abilities on a character that has no business deploying them. Rider is all about movement and brawling, having to think about pulsar placement/use them for optimal dps does not compute.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
He's fairly meh at the moment, but will eventually get a decent QoL-style review once all of his component heroes get theirs, so they can just pull from the pool of updated/better skills to replace his current ones. Cap is done, Hawkeye is soon, and Daredevil and Spidey are sometime later this year (I hope.)
ThirtyFour
Member
50% off all Taskmaster stuff right now it seems to celebrate his release this time last year I guess.
I'm not gonna bother with it as I've never really liked how he turned out.
Edit: Also I guess this is the April Fool's Day thing from Gaz: https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/185846/april-1st-update-coming-soon
I'm not gonna bother with it as I've never really liked how he turned out.
Edit: Also I guess this is the April Fool's Day thing from Gaz: https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/185846/april-1st-update-coming-soon
xrayregime
Member
They'll never be able to top last year's April Fools posts.
ThirtyFour
Member
That's true, probably why they didn't try. This years is OK but very safe.
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
that raid is not ready
Ivan A Nguyen
Member
Downloaded the game today. I can't wait to get home from work and boot it up tonight. HYPE!
Frostinferno
Member
Presumably his parents.
Ivan A Nguyen
Member
It took a lot of thought and some good mispronunciation.
Ivan A Nguyen is my play on words for "I wana win". I-van-A and Nguyen is pronounced "when"
I tried my best to get think of a name that would cause people to think this.
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Noray
Unconfirmed Member
If you're gonna hang out here, just assume everything kepow says ever is a troll
Mind blown.
ohhh actually this is clever and I did not expect that lol. Had no idea that's how u pronounce nguyen
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
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Noray
Unconfirmed Member
that was just a regular ol' shitpost, sorry Queen, you have you step up your game
am i classed as a troll now too lol even tho i wernt trolling with my posts
I don't think voicing your concerns / dislike at the game is viewed as trolling by anyone
is that new? never worked before
Ivan A Nguyen
Member
Turns out my old Hawk Eye was still there at level 3. Not too bad but it felt really under powered. The first wave of drops really helped out but I ate a lot of damage when it came to bosses. I can't wait to unlock Iron Man.
BTW, how lame is it that a man who can stick to walls has trouble holding on to a tablet that he just saw almost get swiped moments ago?
BTW, how lame is it that a man who can stick to walls has trouble holding on to a tablet that he just saw almost get swiped moments ago?
Finally, that is what I was waiting for.
No one knows, the market is throwing a fit with how they're actually obtainable right now. I haven't been on today, but it seemed like they were down to like 4 or 5 gotk, but that might have just been the usual lowballing that tradechat always does
Lord Phol
Member
Hmm 5 goks aren't that bad, but I don't want to be underpayed if that's the case :d.
N
Noray
Unconfirmed Member
There was no raid last night was there? I logged in around 2AM my time and there were 4 people on.
I would wait on gorillas. Despite all the drops there are more people trying to buy gorillas than sell them, to take advantage of panic sellers. Also take the time to reroll it to 600+ ideally.
The price will not rebound to what it was before, but I'm also not going to drop all my gorillas for peanuts. In the end BiS is BiS and good gorillas will always have value.
We did a green at the scheduled time but didn't have enough to red without pugging a lot.
The price will not rebound to what it was before, but I'm also not going to drop all my gorillas for peanuts. In the end BiS is BiS and good gorillas will always have value.
We did a green at the scheduled time but didn't have enough to red without pugging a lot.
Hoya Destroyer
Member
Necklaces dropping in Midtown? I might start playing again soon. I havent found a necklace so far.
ThirtyFour
Member
Nah, any level 60 can get in.