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Hm, interesting. I've only been attacked once all day, and I'm 597 and the #2 is 492. I'm gonna keep plugging away until I hit 725 or 850. Not sure if I should use a shield.
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Hm, interesting. I've only been attacked once all day, and I'm 597 and the #2 is 492. I'm gonna keep plugging away until I hit 725 or 850. Not sure if I should use a shield.
fair warning, it isn't uncommon to climb and barely be attacked but once you reach a certain point threashold you get destroyed.
I've lost track of the number of times I was climbing and not being attacked to only do one more match and be down 100+ points.
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Duly noted.
Also I just hit rank 8, how do I choose a favorite hero and who should I pick? I've got a nice bundle of tokens waiting.
To choose a favorite character you have to tap the heart icon on their cover in your collection. When you draw a token and get a character, there's a small chance of getting a bonus character too. For instance I have only listed Dr. Strange as my favorite 3* so everytime I happen to get a bonus 3* cover, it's always going to be Dr. Strange.
spatenfloot
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Do NOT use a shield. The ONLY thing you should spend HP on is roster slots.
Also, do not open any legendary tokens or spend CP until you have 3 stars close to being championed.
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Ok thanks. What does "championed" mean?
Who do you recommend I should favorite?
the two best 3 Star characters off the top of my head that I would recommend are Iron Man and Dr. Strange. Iron Man can quickly make AP for your other characters to use. Dr. Strange is really great for fighting in the PVE rounds.
When you reach the max level for a character you can "champion" them by spending some ISO. When you do this-you can use any future additional covers you recieve for this character to apply towards them and you'll get extra bonus rewards. It's hard to describe unless you actually see it in action-but you should definitely do so. When you champion a 2 star, the champion rewards will include 3 star covers. When you champion a 3 star, the champion rewards will include 4 star covers.
eh.... using a shield is fine as long as you are sure you will get that HP back.
if you are actually doing PVP using a shield is almost needed to get a good rank without mindlessly grinding for the last 2 hours of an event.
I think IF has a strong vote for best as well as his attack tiles can really speed things up.
and thanos is also really solid as his AOE skill hits hard and can really speed up things.
strange is great, but only really against goon nodes.
ironman is almost always great though
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Yay I got first place!
Thanks for the advice guys. But why should I only favorite 3* and not 5*?
Thanks for the advice guys. But why should I only favorite 3* and not 5*?
You won't pull a 5 star unless you are spending CP. As stated earlier you don't want to spend CP it will ruin your scaling. Focus on your 2 and 3 star characters, then you work on the 4 star transition (Ive been playing since game launch and still working on this transition.)
5 star is only if you want to dump $$$ and I mean $$$ into the game.
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Ah I see, the basic tokens only pull 1 2 and 3 stars. Makes sense, thanks!
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Why are there so many lightning rounds lol? I can't even finish the prologue because of all this other stuff to do.
PalaceBrother
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Standard tokens can pull 4* covers I believe....but the chances are incredibly low.
Triz is right...that 3-4 star transition is absolutely brutal.
Honestly, it's probably easier to just save and do the 5* transition, than the 4* one at this point. You just need to be able to do a few hundred pulls on the latest legends, and that should cover 2, possibly all 3 of them up.
Lightning rounds are 2 hours long. They only run 3 days a week.
Standard can't pull 4* any more. It's been tied to heroic tokens.
spatenfloot
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He is very new. After an event or two, he will lose the newbie brackets and shielding will not be something to concern himself with.
PalaceBrother
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Did they change this recently? When they first introduced Elite tokens I know they said Standards couldn't pull 4* covers, but then clarified to say that they could but the chances are incredibly slim.
Ha. My 0/0/2 Duck has zero chance. I can't believe people have fully covered Howards.
I only ever pulled one 4* from a standard token-a Nick Fury-and that was years ago.
when they changed how the odds show with bonus heroes the 4* stuff went away from standards as well.
im still just missing 2 5* right now and like 5 1* (even though I have 3 of them right now
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With all the lightning round madness I didn't realize there was a second substory for Juggernaut to do, lost some points there.
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Damn pretty sure I've joined the big boy bracket, starting to see 3 and 4 stars in Versus. No more first place finishes for me!
Unrelated, how do you guys feel about upgrading 1* Black Widow's Purple ability? I have the covers but it increases the cost of the ability and I'm not sure that's a good thing. Also how far can I level her without putting her in the front for collecting Purple and Blue?
Unrelated, how do you guys feel about upgrading 1* Black Widow's Purple ability? I have the covers but it increases the cost of the ability and I'm not sure that's a good thing. Also how far can I level her without putting her in the front for collecting Purple and Blue?
spatenfloot
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You shouldn't waste iso on 1 stars other than the one you plan to keep (iron man or jug probably). As soon as your 2 stars start getting covered, you won't be using them anymore except for DDQ.
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Is there a really strong 2* stunner? BW is really carrying me atm with her 5 turn stun
also the art is kinda dopey sometimes lol... they should hire the artists from Avengers Alliance, that game had some wonderful artwork
give me a few more months and i should have enough extra HP and enough standards to get 5 of the 1 star widow team ups with just blue covers lol.
PalaceBrother
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I never even thought of stocking those for team ups.
Spoit - you're probably the most specific with your asks. Who do you typically want? I'm usually sending 3* DP, 2* OBW or a covered 4* like XForce or Flaptain. I typically don't send HB because his red drains your stock and his black self-damages.
None of my 5*s are over 4 covers so I don't bother.
yeah 9 for a 5 turn single target stun that also stuns the other two for a single turn is solid.
I mean the only possible competition for that is the 6 costing ice man 4 turn stun that I am not even sure can be sent as a team up o.o;
I made a big post a month or two back, but speaking generally? Utility > damage. Stuns (MBW really is head and shoulders above everyone else at that), AP generation (OBW, GSBW, etc), and board control (JG purple, juggs, etc).
Otherwise, AoE damage is nice for lower level content, like blazing through DDQ. JG or DP are the best for those, because of their secondary effects (the boosted special tiles from her green are especially potent this week). Failing that, low AP 'poke' moves like DP or HT's red, or 4cyke's blue are more useful than slow, powerful ones. Since those you usually have other people on hand to boost the AP gen for. In your example, flaptain's yellow (as one of the only good protect/AP ratio moves) is way more useful than his red (which is really kinda mediocre without his yellow spamming the protect tiles in the first place).
But really, I'd take any random 3* or moderately covered 4* over 1 cover 5*s that do pretty much nothing.
spatenfloot
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Storm is the best 2 star stunner. It also has a nice AoE with it.
Just taking a quick skim, honestly? Most of them also need character levels to be useful. But otherwise, it looks like 3 or 4?
IM blue is decent board shake at 1, and GG's purple is theoretically useful whenever. But at the levels that we're likely looking at, things like SS are never going to be useful, and Dr strange's 3* version will almost always be better
Scarlet Witch has a massive stun but she is a 3 star.
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Thanks.
I was reading through their tips and found this:
But I haven't seen these. (I'm on Android) What do?
https://d3publisher.helpshift.com/a...s&f=what-is-s-h-i-e-l-d-signal-intercept&l=en
they seem to be broken for most people.
which for steam users is just delicious to see as they just widen the gap between steam and mobile >.>
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So for this new Hulk event, the full points refresh in 24 hours but the substory also ends in 24 hours. Am I missing something or are you just not supposed to get the full refresh this time
spatenfloot
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For 24 hr sub events, start final clearing about an hour and a half before the end or later if you can do it more quickly. You won't get full points again.
And by start, he means that you do every node 4 times to start the timer when the sub rolls over (24 hours before it ends), and then 'start' the final clear (the 5-7th clear of the node) at the hour and change mark before it ends
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Thanks for the tips guys!
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How do you unlock further sub events in PvE? Do you get a new one every day?
Also I have two Juggernaut tokens, can I save them or do I need to use within the next day? Cause I heard opening a 3 or 4* will fuck up my scaling
Also I have two Juggernaut tokens, can I save them or do I need to use within the next day? Cause I heard opening a 3 or 4* will fuck up my scaling
Usually it's a new round every day-you can check under the round and see how much time is left.
You can save your tokens if you wish-they don't expire, but covers DO expire in 14 days if you don't use them.
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Ok cool, thank you. I'm just worried because at the top of the screen it says "Jugggernaut: Heroic Time Left: 1d 6h" If I can still use the tokens after that countdown then what is the countdown for?
hodayathink
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It's the amount of time left until that vault expires. What that means is that right now, the vault is active, and you can see all the covers in it, and when you use the token you will get one of those 80 covers (and more to the point, the other 79 are still left for your next token pull). Once the vault expires, you can still use the token, but it will be from a vault that you cannot see the contents of, and said vault will reset after every pull.
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