Imo, best HP usage (after slots) is shields. They reverted/lowered the price back again.
Yep if they lowered the price again. I've placed top 5 in every tournament since they implemented them.
Imo, best HP usage (after slots) is shields. They reverted/lowered the price back again.
Why does this run so poorly now? I have an iPhone 5 and it's chunky and slow. It's like someone didn't even play test it versus the last one.
Look like all the missions are repeatable but their levels also rises the more times you fight them.
They also drop to 1 after two tries. They definitely refresh though, as I woke this morning to moar moar pointes!!!
I'm sitting pretty good,I'm #1 in my sub with points still to be had in most of my missions. I'm going to sit on them until the very end. Hopefully, I'll have some free time to do some last minute grinding.
I took the recommendation of a few others players and started the last mission first and worked backwards. Never grinding one mission down to 1 point.
It's is stupid the player is forced to play CSI detective each event trying to figure out how scoring works.
So getting first the missions that give more score, because even if completing missions reduce the score in a percentage, you got the biggest ammount possible of points.
Yeah, this has been a feature of their rubber-banding for a while now. With The Hunt event you wanted to be hitting the 1000 point missions before the 200 point ones. While it would be pretty easy to assign rubber-banding point values to missions such that there's very little reason to worry about the order in which you're doing them, it looks like the system in place comes up with a single rubber-banding factor on the basis of whatever they care about this time and just multiplies the base point value of all missions by that. This is recalculated constantly, so as you play missions and get points the multiplier decreases.
I feel like the lack of transparency is intentional. They really want players who pay close attention to not have a big advantage. That's why they keep changing up the system. But the downside is that, since doing well requires doing very counterintuitive things, placement in at least the first sub-event is rather random. And then after that it's dominated by players who pay attention, unless they put in such extreme rubber-banding that extremely casual players do well in particular sub-events by virtue of not playing most of the sub-events. So I don't think this is working out for them.
Edit: What's worrying me is that the levels on the dudes in the main event mission are going up as I do the sub-event missions. So am I going to have level 200+ guys from the get-go in the next sub-event, or does the whole thing reset?
Pretty sure I got first; waiting on prizes.
And the first mission in the new sub-event has level 135/136 guys for me
I got to busy playing out in the snow wit. Y kids, only had. 2o minutes to grind at the end and came up just short of first. Crap.
Beat the lvl 230 twice and some lvl 200 guys ended up nr 5 with 914 points this is rough.
I got first with I think 995. Second had 950.
My Patch is now 3/3/3 and level 66 out of 89. It's worth noting that at level 51 he basically has the same stats as a level 85 Astonishing Wolverine with their respective boosts. Diminishing returns are hitting hard. At level 66, boosted Patch has 6280 HP and does 73 damage per green tile. Level 18 Patch already has 4451 HP and does 54 damage with green tiles.
So really it's all about the Patch covers rather than levels. Healing Factor goes from useless at level 1 to ridiculous at level 5. Berserker Rage (bugged) eventually gives you 12 strike tiles. Best There Is adds strike tiles and doubles in damage as it levels.
I just decided "hell with it, I'll drop $2 on one of the "patchwork" pack, support the devs and hopefully get him. I got Bag-Man.
Just a friendly hint: those PvE point totals(when challenging AI opponents) are often wrong, especially if you rack up 3 or 4 wins in a row. If you check the top 10 in your bracket in between each victory, it will update your potential point totals.
That way you're not battling some 200 lvl opponents and thinking you're getting 18 points, when you actually get 1.
Damn, so how am I supposed to get a Patch if I don't already have him? To place high enough in these sub events to get him, you have to play the Patch-required battle. It's a catch 22.
I just decided "hell with it, I'll drop $2 on one of the "patchwork" pack, support the devs and hopefully get him. I got Bag-Man.
I know you dont want to get rid of Hawkeye but placing a crit isn't as powerful as how fast you can rack up straight up damage with healthier guys.New player here, but is it just me or does this game become a bit of a grind when you hit the 20s or so? I'm sort of sandwiched between AI battles being a bit too damaging if you get caught with the wrong initial board set up and quickly getting obliterated in PvP after making small headway trying to make up for the ISO-8 that's harder to get in SP.
Maybe it's my team set up, as I've been putting pretty much everything into only 3 characters. Been rolling with Iron Man (35), Storm (Modern) and Hawkeye (Classic). I think I'm at the point where I can't power through this any more. Any suggestions for what I should put my ISO-8 into at this point? I also have:
Black Widow (Grey)
Thor (Now!)
Hawkeye (Modern)
Magneto (Now!)
Venom (Dark Avengers)
Black Widow (Modern)
Juggernaut (Classic)
Storm (Classic)
Really tough decisions in this game for who to keep I feel. Like, you might get a good hero from a reward but won't be able to use it in a team configuration unless you basically start from scratch levelling it again, and even still it might be forever until you find another cover to get the powers to be competitive enough to use instead of your basic heroes you have an abundance of covers for.
EDIT: And I really don't want to abandon Hawkeye. Being able to place a critical anywhere has saved my ass multiple times in pretty much every battle. At least I hope there are comparable powers out there.
New player here, but is it just me or does this game become a bit of a grind when you hit the 20s or so? I'm sort of sandwiched between AI battles being a bit too damaging if you get caught with the wrong initial board set up and quickly getting obliterated in PvP after making small headway trying to make up for the ISO-8 that's harder to get in SP.
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Yeah I sort of looked towards Iron Man as fulfilling a lot of roles. He just can pump damage through three different colours (Yellow not as efficient as it is for say, Thor, but still), be a bit of a tank and all, but I figured I might want to specialize my team more, at least for the time being. I might just invest in Juggernaut for the time being but I'd rather have a long term solution so I'll look at Venom. I'm not necessarily attached to any of these characters (function over form!) but I do want to be efficient. I'll take what you said into consideration. Iron Man/Storm/Venom seems like it would give me a lot of options.I know you dont want to get rid of Hawkeye but placing a crit isn't as powerful as how fast you can rack up straight up damage with healthier guys.
Ironman Storm is great. She feeds him and if you get her going on Green its pure gold. Thor would be my go to suggestion as he is a healthy, high damaging, battery but he is on the nerf list so I dont think he's a good call till we know more.
Out of your lineup the easiest tank I know of to wreck with is Juggernaut. His red and green go down to a cost of 6 each and he can hit for over a grand. equip an Ap plus to red and another of the all color and you can essentially cripple teams as a lvl 20 player if you are playing things within your range. Only nuisance is he plays better with Black Widow than your Storm/Ironman combo because he uses both the green she needs and the red they both need. He essentially makes Ironman just use his yellow all day. He doesn't battery but if you were just using Storm to clear tiles and not setup damage then he's fine to come aboard. Just take your pick of whether to use his green to smash or wait a few turns to go for her battery tile clearing move.
Juggernaut isn't a permanent solution though. He peaks at around level 40 as the damage he inflicts on himself with his red ability no longer is worth the tradeoff as teams become healthier and stop going down to just 1. At low level though he is a QUICK way to rack up some Wins and build up some good shit for the rest of your team.
Best alternative to Juggernaut then is either Black Widow or Venom depending on who you insist on keeping. Widow can stun for up to 5 turns and steal AP and she uses Blue and Pink which wont interfere with Ironman. She's a glass house though and since you have no battery some matches will still be problematic as her stun is amazing, but I have no idea if you can KO who you need in that time. If nothing else she gives you the health lead needed to close the gap so long as you dont put her in front or pop her tiles when you see the opponent is loaded with an ability about to fire...she cant take hits. Plus if you are using her for the stun that means Hank's blue wont be around to KO for you. She works but not with Hawkeye.
Venom is healthy, has a stun uses pink and black and can stun and the stun gets longer with each green web tile he makes. The green will fuel Storm and if he has enough his already strong as hell Devour black ability which is cheap will KO folks straigth up...which is rare but he still hits the 600+ damage at low levels fast.
My suggestion is try Juggernaut for quick wins, or Venom. Black Widow is boss even though I hate the bitch in comics. I sadly dont think Hawkeye should be your big focus though...there are others who have abilities that will stomp folks as well. Try a few teams. But those 3 are your best to level...Thor would be the top choice but again he is suspect till further notice.
Are you sure about the replaying for cards thing? I always assumed you couldn't because it would be easy to farm Hero Points. In fact after reading this I just redid one mission to try and get more Hawkeye cards and it gave me 20 ISO each of the 7 times. Didn't know you could only have 10 of the boosts (I'm the type that will usually hoard stuff until I absolutely need it) so I'll make sure to make use of them then.First, some generic advice that you might already have figured out. You can replay missions you've already beaten for the rewards; covers are particularly valuable. You can only ever apply 13 covers to a character; this is an issue for three-skill characters and you need to figure out how you want to build them. HP should be saved up and used for roster slots. Health packs regenerate at a rate of 1 per 35 minutes if you have fewer than 5.
If you're already doing that, you may just be in for a grind. I think at around that level I was abusing the missions where the game gives you a Spider-Man ally to heal up. Be sure you're using boosts liberally; you can only ever have 10 of a type and the game hands them out pretty often. The only boosts that are really valuable for something other than PvE missions are the +AP ones.
The main problem with your team is that you have no blue coverage in skills or damage and questionable black coverage in skills (depends what level Hailstorm and Storm are). Hawkeye is probably decent now, with lots of covers, although his abilities are expensive at lower levels. But you're right that level trumps most other factors, and you're unlikely to get use out of Grey Widow anytime soon (although it's a rare cover and you probably don't want to throw her out if you can help it). IM35/Storm/Widow is a pretty standard early team because they cover all the colors and offer pretty strong control.
IMO Modern Storm is easily the best 1* character overall and is the one you ought to be focusing on, if there's any way to get more covers. Her green and red skills become much, much better as you apply more covers to the character and let you turn small amounts of AP into lots of AP of other colors, multiplying what your other characters can do. She's the only one I have at level 50 and I was using her alongside 2* characters for quite a while. Widow is a very strong support character because her blue eventually stuns a character for 5 turns (and their teammates for 1).
Edit: Also, if you can keep up at all you ought to be trying your hand at the PvE event going on now. Don't worry about placement in the rankings, but you're likely to get pretty good rewards on new missions which appear (so far) every day with enemies that start out around level 20, and the game sometimes gives you an ally going in which is a lot stronger than what the basic enemies are (this event is such that the enemies get stronger the more missions you play).
Yeah, this has been a feature of their rubber-banding for a while now. With The Hunt event you wanted to be hitting the 1000 point missions before the 200 point ones.
Are you sure about the replaying for cards thing? I always assumed you couldn't because it would be easy to farm Hero Points. In fact after reading this I just redid one mission to try and get more Hawkeye cards and it gave me 20 ISO each of the 7 times. Didn't know you could only have 10 of the boosts (I'm the type that will usually hoard stuff until I absolutely need it) so I'll make sure to make use of them then.
Iron Man has a blue power that does decent damage, it just takes a lot of AP. I sort of slept on Storm's red and built it around black to get that extra punch every time I hit, the damage for red didn't seem too crazy or worthwhile when you have Iron Man's red doing straight 300+ damage. Will look into a respec, now that you describe the advantages.
Yeah I sort of looked towards Iron Man as fulfilling a lot of roles.
Are you sure about the replaying for cards thing? I always assumed you couldn't because it would be easy to farm Hero Points. In fact after reading this I just redid one mission to try and get more Hawkeye cards and it gave me 20 ISO each of the 7 times.
I haven't been paying much attention, so when am I supposed to play these new events? As soon as possible? Should I not be grinding all of the last level missions? Two end missions now for the current event, the enemies are all 230...and I have to use my under leveled OBW or Spiderman. This will be super frustrating if this is the norm from now own.
It's really feeling like the rich get richer with the game at this point. I'm now to where I don't feel like I can compete without spending money, and I'm not spending money. Well, not at the rate they want me to spend it. Eight or nine dollars, or whatever the conversion is, is too much for one cover level.
Yeah I sort of looked towards Iron Man as fulfilling a lot of roles. He just can pump damage through three different colours (Yellow not as efficient as it is for say, Thor, but still), be a bit of a tank and all, but I figured I might want to specialize my team more, at least for the time being. I might just invest in Juggernaut for the time being but I'd rather have a long term solution so I'll look at Venom. I'm not necessarily attached to any of these characters (function over form!) but I do want to be efficient. I'll take what you said into consideration. Iron Man/Storm/Venom seems like it would give me a lot of options.
Which Black Widow are you referring to specifically BTW? Modern?
Ironman's blue is awesome, does high damage and can stun, but its main purpose (at least for me) was always the damage. If I was playing a heavy board control team of stuff like Storm, Thor or even Juggernaut's green meant for clearing massive tiles I'd just hang out until he got it. Long term though its not something to depend on as you can grab AP boosts before a match to boost much stronger tools in other characters and have better play. For example, boosting Thor's yellow at the start is always advisable and is more useful than the Ironman Blue IMO. Its a great move, dont get me wrong, but it shouldn't be your go to damage attack due to its cost. Its best to have him as an all arounder and use a cheaper high damage tank for your damage. Your Venom will do fine for that since you want to rock him so AP boosts should likely go to your Storm or Venom...in all Honesty Storm is the one on your team to boost because once she gets going she almost completely self sustaining on fueling your whole team with a ton of AP for their abilities.Are you sure about the replaying for cards thing? I always assumed you couldn't because it would be easy to farm Hero Points. In fact after reading this I just redid one mission to try and get more Hawkeye cards and it gave me 20 ISO each of the 7 times. Didn't know you could only have 10 of the boosts (I'm the type that will usually hoard stuff until I absolutely need it) so I'll make sure to make use of them then.
Iron Man has a blue power that does decent damage, it just takes a lot of AP. I sort of slept on Storm's red and built it around black to get that extra punch every time I hit, the damage for red didn't seem too crazy or worthwhile when you have Iron Man's red doing straight 300+ damage. Will look into a respec, now that you describe the advantages.
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Random extra note, but this game is actually really, really well made. Menus, toggles, everything have really well made touch contacts and everything. The UI is super slick and really does make me want to play it more because of how painless it is for me to do what I want to do.
So I'd say time it to the longest you can wait before three doable refreshes. Since they seem to now be lasting 26 hours and you can only do two before it drops to 1, it's actually not too bad.
Yep, I realized that if you wait, the score of the missions go up... except if they are at 1.
I got surpassed by someone that came from nowhere, and climbed up to 804. I'm still on 692, and I don't have enought points left to reach 800 (even if I optimized the scores). I suppose that this guy only played the 2 starting missions and then waited 20 hours to make grow the missions score to the top, and played them optimizing the points even better than me.
I hate when the best practice to win is to wait.
Yep, I realized that if you wait, the score of the missions go up... except if they are at 1.
I got surpassed by someone that came from nowhere, and climbed up to 804. I'm still on 692, and I don't have enought points left to reach 800 (even if I optimized the scores). I suppose that this guy only played the 2 starting missions and then waited 20 hours to make grow the missions score to the top, and played them optimizing the points even better than me.
I hate when the best practice to win is to wait.
Yeah I've also learnt to not bother playing the game until the final hours of an event. With rubber banding in PvE, I just do those near the end instead of grinding constantly for minimal points, and with the constant attacks in PvP requiring the need for a shield, I just do the event 3 hours out from the end so I can just buy the cheapest shield.
It's pretty poor game design when the best course of action is to not play the game for most of the time.
Ugh. I really want a green Patch from this sub-event that just ended. I ended in first, but only by 9 points. A second place finish isn't worth much since I don't want more than 3 covers in his red anyway. But if I do get this green, then he'll be maxed out after Army of One finishes up. Waiting impatiently.
So what is your build?
Hah.. Came up just short of first again. This time by 4 points.
I have to heavily rely on Spider-Man which makes the battles last looong,