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it's my 4th one... I just need one more and his blue will be really useful ^-^
Indeed. Stupid blue cover was a alliance reward so we miss out...
Also I can feel that people are fatigue or relaxing in the "The hunt" because I slowly creeping up in the ranks.
PalaceBrother
Member
I can't do anything more...
I've been constantly attacked every 10 min or so for 30plus points... not gonna drop my shield (which I put up nearly 8 hours ago) and risk losing points... especially since there is no way I will get a top 10
i can post the wall of shame for the event though
also
I worked my ass off in the Hunt and finished 5th. It's too tough to split between events that finish at the same time.
Duane Cunningham
Member
That last Hunt sub was a little light for me because I was focusing on Hollowpoint, but I'm still #42 overall in mine. I'd love to get that under 20 and snag all three Falcon colors, but I'm also going to be all in for those CMag rewards in the Doom PVP.
well purple is the alliance reward
I don't think I will be able to do quite as well in the doom event as I did in the widow... especially since I wont' be able to move up the rankings 11 hours in advance but just a few hours in advance so I will likely be attacked more...
I should be able to manage 500 or so points by going back and forth between my a team and b team though.
man... I just realized that the dr doom event is going to end at the same time as two of the hunt events.... freaken lame -_- I really don't feel like getting up at 7am on monday just so I can play puzzle quest for 4 hours *sigh*
oh hey they removed the shield training from the prologue... makes sense... but it was there for a few days while the new one was up... kind of sucks I was like two matches from getting 50HP... oh well.
I am not looking forward to the end of the Hunt since it looks like 2 of the Hunt events and the doom event are ending at the same time. I'm not sure which one I should be focusing on. Stupid D3 for ending things at the same time forcing us to pick and choose and not staggering them so we can actually do all the events.
Duane Cunningham
Member
Oh, bummer! I had just put about 1900 points into it a couple weeks ago, aiming for the Spideys at 3200 and 3600. The new one has a single Spidey at 3000, but I'll have to start over for it.
As I have said a few times to people
take the 1 star storm to the oasis map with 5 green and 5 red
and a thor with 5 yellow...
and you will see why a more expensive green move that gives you AP can be better than the cheaper green move that just breaks tiles
If you don't plan on actually using Falcon, I would try to go for the Doom event. As long as you are in the Top 100 of your personal bracket, you'll get 2 Falcon covers. Good enough for those future Falcon required events.
that's all I usually care about... just getting one cover from the big event...
the events that come shortly after I will work on to get more... especially since they will be part of the season and get me closer to that sexy 5k goal of 10 heroic tokens.
neurosisxeno
Member
I have gotten weirdly lucky on tokens the past 2 days. Got 2 Hulks, 3 Human Torch, 1 GSBW, and I think a LThor. I have been keeping an eye on the Doom event, I want those covers.
shaowebb
Member
Same. Noticed early that top ten get both a red and a blue cover for Classic Mags. Just pushed myself up to #4 . Gonna see in a few minutes If I cant force it higher using my Ares Daken combo while I let MN Mags/ Brazzers Storm rest (I enjoyed the nickname).
Edit: #2
PalaceBrother
Member
Yeah, something is up. In one day I got the new Cap, Human Torch, Invisible Woman and Psylock. That ain't normal.
Also 100 Yelena Belovas. That's normal.
Good Moonstone build? Not levelling her, but in case of mounds of XP lol. Currently 5/3/5 because of the luck of the draw. I feel like a 5 purple is a given.
Getting wrecked in this Doom tournament. All of a sudden everyone has brought out their Level 80 and above Dooms =[
Getting wrecked in this Doom tournament. All of a sudden everyone has brought out their Level 80 and above Dooms =[
shaowebb
Member
Good question. She's one of those "mileage may vary" characters folks end up with covers for. She's healthy, and she has some real threat abilities at high level...she just becomes irrelevant to other cast who can get damage or control space more easily than her so she doesn't show up much. If we ever get the right kind of utility character added to the game she may improve enough to do a build for if something can somehow make her abilities a bit stronger, but in general she doesn't do more than fill a slot when someone better is resting.
I'd say just hang onto her, and pour your levels into other folks to max them first before bothering. You likely wont need her or use her over the usual heavy hitters on any team. If someone here has some longterm experience with the character though Chime in. Moonstone is a bit of a leftover we dont see.
I think the optimal Moonstone build is 5/5/3. 5 purple because you want to switch any color tile and 5 red because that is her most powerful move, which sort of sucks when compared to other characters red moves though. Black should be 3 because not only is it pretty costly, it is very situational in that you need your opponent to have a countdown tile and I don't think they are used too often.
shaowebb
Member
Hoo man this is too many events at once. I popped in the last hour to try and run a top 5 in the PVE and I think i did okay...kind of a race there at the end. Since I dont have enough heals to setup my main team and push Doom after that I used the rest of my guys while waiting for heals to take on one of the 2 simultaneous PVE going on alongside doom and got it into top 3 before running out of crew to use. Now I need to wait so I can push rank on Doom for those MAGENTOS and hope that I still have enough folks left to try and pull rank on both the other events at the same time before they finish out. All this while finishing my last chapter of Engineering stuff today.
Puttin' in my work in between college for ya guys. Generally, I only have an hour or two between stuff so using it on this is about all I know I can invest time in and not end up too invested to finish my work (like when I start doing art and then look up and I've spent 6 hours CG modeling)
Puttin' in my work in between college for ya guys. Generally, I only have an hour or two between stuff so using it on this is about all I know I can invest time in and not end up too invested to finish my work (like when I start doing art and then look up and I've spent 6 hours CG modeling)
shaowebb
Member
Yeah, I feel the same myself. Taking on characters with full team oneshots isn't matching players to their rank. Honestly a team like that should never exist. Just make them have decent attack but lower cost of attack. If that proves too fast through playtesting for teams to effectively compensate for and blockade then increase the cost slightly but increase their health to keep the challenge high.
I'd love to work for D3 to have strategy meetings. Playing strategist and testing things in this game is something I've really gotten a chance to enjoy over the past several months as I finished out college. Sadly though I'm an Animator and if there is one thing this game doesn't need is a different artist. The one they have is perfect and outside of that their isn't a high enough demand for other artists to justify onboarding another. Besides. I love my career in industrial work! Lets me develop my own games at no risk and I have a sweet 7-3 work schedule with guaranteed weekends off. Once the semester ends i'll actually have enough time to work on games and unlike other indie folks have the stable income to really pour hours and funds into it without having to kickstarter it or release it early to pay bills.
Duane Cunningham
Member
YES!!! I finally drew a Spider Man!! After all this time I've finally unlocked him! Purple, btw.
Always great to get a Spider man. Congrats.
I'm only missing Purple myself. Hope I get it soon.
shaowebb
Member
Fuck. I'm getting hit with some ridiculous rubberband ai cascades right now. Anything the computer does goes on until they fuel up and hit at least 2+ moves a turn. On turn 2 I got hit with Call the Storm. On turn 4 I got hit with it again.
My win/loss ratio must be too high after doing the doom tourney and 2 PVE's. Not certain how things are gonna end for me knowing its doing this right now.
My win/loss ratio must be too high after doing the doom tourney and 2 PVE's. Not certain how things are gonna end for me knowing its doing this right now.
Same. Getting full health chars killed on turn 3. That just happened to me. They are literally ruining the game. It stopped being fun awhile ago. The casino aspect is the only reason I'm still coming back. And and this point, I'll be damned if they ever get another dollar from me.
shaowebb
Member
I'll probably hang on awhile longer. Still holding out hope for Iron Fist, but I'm not gonna lie...after the 9th when finals are up I'm turning it on full with development of assets for my own game. I wont be givin a shit about much else for awhile.
neurosisxeno
Member
Boosted OBW was both a blessing and a curse. I must have an absurdly high W\L since I was playing like 40 matches in a row without using a health pack the first couple times around. Just about every match is Impossible for me, save the character exclusive ones that are only hard and have level 100-128 characters >.<
Oh thank you guys. Hope we can get the Red Magneto cover.
it's actually the purple cover we get from alliance (which is the one I am missing on mags... ideally after this event my mags will be 4/4/1 which will make him usable and temping to buy a red cover on lol)
Duane Cunningham
Member
Arg. 37 on the Hunt, but my point rewards are so low and enemies so high that going forward that I don't think it's possible to hit 20.
Oh well, time to hit Doom hard for the final hour, I guess.
Oh well, time to hit Doom hard for the final hour, I guess.
Yep. I'm just about done with the game. This last event and level scaling have really soured me on the whole experience. One-shotting whole teams, ridiculous chains, dead character's after a couple turns, etc. I was top 2 in the overall Hunt bracket for the last 4 days. Now I'm top 5-6 because I can't win a match anymore. The matches I do win give me 200 points when I need 5000 to catch back up. The matches that would give me 700-800 points, I'm lucky if I can kill one character.
The whole game now based too much on luck. Matches are either a luck struggle or you're wiped out before you can do anything. It's boiled down to eating bad beats and hoping you're luckier than the next guy.
I truly believe the devs don't have any idea what they are doing in a real world game sense. Its like they just shove out stuff and see what sticks.
All you really have to do it look at how completely broken level scaling that is. They really just turned up the numbers and didn't give any consideration to how exponentially better higher level AI is compared to normal levels. A level 200 is not two times better than a 100 level as simple match suggests. The raw match damage, plus AI boosted chains, plus extra damage from whatever special abilities just doesn't fit when pitted against your characters. It's just harder for the sake of being harder with no real idea of the consequences.
I hope it gets better, because they are about to lose me. It sucks to say that after 180 some days of playing, but sadly it's true. Randomness and extreme difficulty are stifling it. The game just isn't fun to me and is more frustration that it's worth.
The whole game now based too much on luck. Matches are either a luck struggle or you're wiped out before you can do anything. It's boiled down to eating bad beats and hoping you're luckier than the next guy.
I truly believe the devs don't have any idea what they are doing in a real world game sense. Its like they just shove out stuff and see what sticks.
All you really have to do it look at how completely broken level scaling that is. They really just turned up the numbers and didn't give any consideration to how exponentially better higher level AI is compared to normal levels. A level 200 is not two times better than a 100 level as simple match suggests. The raw match damage, plus AI boosted chains, plus extra damage from whatever special abilities just doesn't fit when pitted against your characters. It's just harder for the sake of being harder with no real idea of the consequences.
I hope it gets better, because they are about to lose me. It sucks to say that after 180 some days of playing, but sadly it's true. Randomness and extreme difficulty are stifling it. The game just isn't fun to me and is more frustration that it's worth.
Oh right.
You definitely want 5 blue. The infinite blue is no joke especially paired with a max out patch.
You don't need to be top all the time... Try to take it easy. That is what I did with this tourney. I mean I just did most of the nodes at most twice.
platypotamus
Member
I can't even tell you guys how long it has been since I got a cover I gave any fucks about. I'm so hard up for covers I started collecting Bagman At the rate I'm going, I think I'm going to end up unable to spend ISO on levels anymore soon because I've got no one else to level.
Ok, not THAT soon, but seriously the last time I got a cover that did anything for me was the event that gave the first black panther covers.
At the rate I'm going, I think I'm going to end up unable to spend ISO on levels anymore soon because I've got no one else to level.Ok, not THAT soon, but seriously the last time I got a cover that did anything for me was the event that gave the first black panther covers.
i've actually had pretty good luck in the last few daysI can't even tell you guys how long it has been since I got a cover I gave any fucks about. I'm so hard up for covers I started collecting Bagman
Ok, not THAT soon, but seriously the last time I got a cover that did anything for me was the event that gave the first black panther covers.
spidy purple
torch black
black widow from the widow event...
and soon I will just get a falcon
as for being hard up....
well I would just start recruiting the heroes I like again before bagman...
like lets see if I can get 3 max level two star widows on my team MWA HA HA
oh hey actual results after an event this is new
Duane Cunningham
Member
You gotta be kidding me. I got attacked like crazy and bumped down under 600 for Doom... Now I won't even finish top 50 at all! The alliance CMag will be the only one I get
You gotta be kidding me. I got attacked like crazy and bumped down under 600 for Doom... Now I won't even finish top 50 at all! The alliance CMag will be the only one I get
that sucks... could you have shielded to prevent this? or was it one of those cases... you were gonna shield at a certain amount but each time you got near it you were attacked
?Level scaling is pretty broken and unnecessary, but I guess that's more of a high level issue. Getting a ton of deadly events means I just won't do them. As long as they keep putting more characters in this game, I can see myself still playing it. Going hard in on every event means you're just asking to burn out.
I actually didn't have much issue with level scaling this time around... one match that got to level 200 (that I used boosts and jumped into a top 10 finish thanks to
) but in general my matches were level 80-120 which is fitting for my team.granted I took top 35 or so basically just doing the first match early on, and then doing the 3 character needed events like 3 times each lol (I except on the map with the dino as you need to do his match to A. be awesome and B. get a good number of points)
That is what happened to me. Started off big in the event and then they started getting into the 200s and I couldn't keep up. I did end up 31st though so I get a falcon at least.
akilshohen
Member
keep getting nothing but black moonstone. at this rate, I might as well give her a slot.
yeah I have been flooded with her, but I already have a complete one at level 40 or so.
She is decent for dark avengers are female events. the shame is that with a few tweaks she would actually be a solid character.
Red stay the same
purple make it so you can choose the swap and that you always deal the damage
black... cut cost in half or so, or give it a solid thing that happens when it doesn't effect a tile.
Telosfortelos
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