Marvel Puzzle Quest Support Group

Because someone out there understands why you're matching tiles at four in the morning to get a grey suit Black Widow cover.

seriously though: the slow burn RPG elements plus the morphine drip accomplishment of clack clack clack is terribly addicting

Aptly titled thread

omg this is an important thread

btw why is everyone down on Daken? his "ramp up everyone's power with green matches" crossed with "heals a bunch given enough yellow tiles" combo works pretty well for me

my go-to grouping at the moment is Thor-modern Black Widow-Daken, although Thor/Cap-Baghead Spidey-classic Storm is a good backup lineup. I'm also finally starting to see some utility in modern Hawkeye now that he has more than just Avoid

Daken stops being useful except as a support character once you boost your core guys into the 40s in my experience, but then I haven't beefed him up yet

From prior thread:

thor - lv 71 - 5/4/4 max
iron man 35 - lv 50 max - 5/4/4 max
storm modern - lv 50 max- 5/5/3 mx
iron man 40 - lv 47 - 3/2/1
black widow modern -lv 40 max - 5/5 max
juggernaut - lv 40 max - 5/5 max
cap murrica - lv 27 - 4/4/5 max
hood - lv 25 - 2 yellow
storm classic - lv 24 - 5/5/3 max
daken - lv 19 - 5/5 max
spider man classic - lv 18 - 1 yellow, 1 blue
ragnarok - lv 23 - 1 green, 2 red
wolverine astonishing - lv 16 - 2/4/2
hawkeye - lv 15 - 5/5 max
venom - lv 15 - 5/5 max
magneto NOW - lv 15 - 2/3/1
black widow grey suit - lv 15 - 1 purple
loki - lv 15 - 1 black
bullseye - lv 12 - 4 black
moonstone - lv 9 - 3/1/1
black widow original - lv 8 - 1 /1
hawkeye modern - lv 6 - 4/1/2
spiderman bagman - lv 6 - 2 purple, 1 blue
yelena - lv 1 - 5/5 max

with a pair of extra slots. only characters left to acquire are doom (which they're giving away in a day or so?), magneto classic (that guy is a bitch in pvp, i wannit), x-force wolverine and invisible girl. i'm only 125 points away from a third slot so having a complete character collection by next week is possible... yay?

i am impressed with how much leeway the game gives you to character build and collect. i have not yet spent any money whatsoever.

oh fuck, they just released the punisher.

lol yup.

still focused on getting those Black Widow Grey Suit cards from the weekly tourney though

oh wait. it's a story mode thing, so i don't have to use my A team. nice.

cool. i'm 8 ranked in the iron man tourney

these story modes are awesome; they give a ton of bonus points.

lol I'm playing two separate teams on my phone and my iPad; IIRC my phone Daken is around lvl 27 and my iPad Daken is around 37? 38?

anyway once you cross lvl 20, he starts having enough stamina to weather enough attacks for you be able to stick him in the back to heal when he gets low, but then for every green match that happens he throws two pretty powerful strike tiles out there for every free red with no upper limit AFAICT, meaning that your main attack guy suddenly starts hitting everything like massive sledgehammer after 2-3 turns with a good board full of green. then add in Thor who has one power that fills in green tiles and one power that fills in yellow tiles and Daken is basically indestructible unless your tank gets taken out or someone can one-shot him

this is on iphone?

haha dude, it sure is

I don't like using Daken because of his annoying animations on green match. it fucks with the click click click pleasure. if in tennis, during a nice series of volleys, the ball would stop in mid air occasionally, and the player would do a triple back flip and shout. "ta da!", then resume the volleying...that would be annoying. that's Daken

lol true

i've been playing on pad so didn't even know about the phone option. THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SUPPORT GROUP

these new story missions are CRAZY easy and offer lots of bonuses; worth plowing through

and yes i am playing this while typing in a thread about it, why do you ask

hahaha yes that is the Daken animation but the payoff of having the ball suddenly be 10% heavier for your opponent is worth it IMO

btw can I say X-Force Wolverine is surprisingly powerful even with only one power at lvl 1? utility-wise he is kind of unversatile but he packs a surprising punch and is a good "I'll use him to mop up while I wait for my A-line to heal" character

I'm also surprised at how much more useful bagman Spidey is becoming, although he's not as good in PVP as I want him to be

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/photos/abe-simpson-gif.gif

you'll be back

i've been playing on phone the whole time. FOOL!

most of the 4* lv.30 characters are pretty useful as fodder for a while, just because of the HP

I seem to rely in juggernaut. Because of the hit points and I use the red power when I'm in a bind. I hate myself for it though.

damn, the final board of the new story mission is a daken/venom/yelena, all at level 230
i may pass

oh man i hate those super overleveled missions. but i guess it gives us a goal for supergrinding

I am generally rocking Daken lvl 50ish + Wolverine Classic lvl 50 + the tournament special character (and if he's not available, lvl 40 jug, or lvl 40 thor).

Wolv + Daken is just sickening, each green matchup boosting dmg + every 6 green doing dmg AND boosting dmg... basically if I can survive the first few rounds (which I usually can if I swap between my "tank" jug/supplied character and the wolfy twins) I'm doing 300, 400 damage per crappy 3-match and tearing through dudes (with the occasional wolv slash red attack thing for insult).

Added bonus: if the twins are taknig damage, stick them in the back, let the supplied char take damage, hit for whatever crap damage + INSANO BONUS DAMAGE, twins heal

Double added bonus: instead of using health packs on daken/wolverine, enter an easy prologue fight, do low damage but let them heal to nearly 100%, tada! faster than waiting for them to heal regularly & more economical than burning health packs (and since you don't have to burn health packs on supplied characters, i can basically fight every 5m with no health packs used as much as my heart desires)

waiting for health packs used to be the biggest drag on my ability to play but now it's making sure my battery isn't going to die 2ce a day

so bad

^^^ this is a strategy I aspire to but I am really enamored of Widow's ability to steal gems and freeze ppl

btw, the publisher forum for the game is a good place to get strategies and is fairly civil
http://www.d3pforums.com/viewforum.php?f=3&sid=025668e1c04b6aa393455576747a7e82

major change to classic storm just took effect today from:
Raging Tempest - Yellow Passive
(PASSIVE) Any time a teammate takes > 20% of their health in direct damage, Storm invokes a wall of elements. It damages the enemy team for 125 and generates 4 Red AP.
to:
(PASSIVE) Storm surrounds her team with a whirling tempest that unleashes fury when provoked. If a team member is damaged for 20% of their max health, it deals (x) damage to all enemies. If every team member is below 50% health, damage increases to (about 6.67x).

this is pretty important in that
1) storm HERSELF being hit triggers tempest which means the only ways to beat her without taking damage is to chip away or stun her
2) no more red ap bonus
3) though it's not clear by the above, it's apparently notably less damage for each tempest hit than it used to be

including Storm herself as a trigger SUX so they better have dropped the damage

it's a nerfing intended pretty much to force you to heal more often.

nothing is funnier than watching a modern Storm duel, has this nerfed that?

you mean does it loop back and forth with hits? dunno!

the only ways to beat her without taking damage is to chip away or stun her

or kill her with one attack

(my wolverine claws do 1325 now, plus the strike tiles, can get up into the 1500, 1600 range easy)

definitely feels weaker. i was wondering what happened to that ability. i assume this will cut down on the storm counterattack ping-pong, which usually resulted in insta-kill for one member

Spider-man classic's purple ability was basically changed to a weaker version of Bulleye's, which is nice, because it was useless without the other ability to create Web tiles

lol I said modern when I meant classic, glad you knew what I meant

I ran into that in a PVP battle and got pwned massively but it was so funny I didn't mind that much

(I promptly stopped using classic Storm as an A-lister as a result but it's still good comedy, ping-ponging Tempests until a Storm dies)

my juggernaut/iron man 53/thor team does pretty well if i ALWAYS start them with a red/yellow boost in iron man 53 pvp. one red match lets thor do a 950pt hit which kills the weakest support member, i can generally match two or three yellows in the next four rounds to get off a 1500pt hit and then we're down to killing the opponents 53 who really can't put together an offensive without LOTS of time or a bunch of those yellow recharge specials... which is where juggernaut's green screen clearing charge comes in handy. also, with all three packing plenty of hp, i can get away with about six or seven fights without healing and maybe 20 or more before i run out of first aid packs.

btw, if you're not using the boosts in pvp get to it because REAL MARVEL PUZZLE QUEST STARTS HERE

damn, the final board of the new story mission is a daken/venom/yelena, all at level 230

hahaha what dicks

(sic) "Osborn's lackies are everywhere."

this is so petty but i wish the writing was better in this. all this sounds like bickering high school kids.

well that's like 60% of Marvel interaction IME so

yeah but it's more like the bottom 30% of that 60% in here
stark continually bitching about his cars

you're right, it's really, really terrible. those early Prologue missions were especially awful

it's like a 12-year-old's imitation of Bendis banter

lol I just kept imagining RDJ saying the text and lolling

also like how Hawkeye and Iron Man are basically interchangeable attitude-wise

spidey is deeply unlikeable. like moreso than hickman avengers even.

it's a little confusing because it feels like they're doing the Doc Ock characterization, which wouldn't have been in place circa Dark Avengers time

thank u 4 getting on my level with this immensely dumb conversation, i genuinely needed it

so has anyone completely beaten the original story mode to get all the "chance to win" stuff? i'm down to the final 11 in the dark avengers mission board.

just got taken down by a m.storm / m. black widow combo each with only ~100 hp left and both totally weak. they got my team in a loop with sting / mistress of the elements / lightning strike / hailstorm and repeat that went on for like 30 turns without me getting a hit in.

xp yeah, i beat it. as implied, the whole thing is just a prologue for these special mission setups like Unstable Iso-8 or The Hunt that we're seeing right now. the Ragnarok mission at the end was a bit of a pain when I did it the first time. overall the rewards aren't so great except for the Hero Points

at least they fixed it so you get those rewards faster, jfc it was bad before that update

it's still bad, but less so

sorry, let me rephrase: not "beaten" the missions; i mean beaten until they don't give any special reward at all? or is that what you mean?

i HATE HATE HATE when the pvp loops come in... unless of course, i'm the one looping

I'd sat 90% of the time when I'm trying to get those last rewards on a mission I get the stupid 20 crystals. And hurt feelings.

I feel you but click click click who caressssssssss

forks: oh no, i've still got a bunch of rewards to get. but i'll probably never bother to finish it - even SHIELD training at least gives you a chance of 70/140 iso; getting 20 iso instead of a reward is a huge slap in the face

diggit. i'm trying to beat it all why because ocd click click click

after the 50th time you get a 20 iso reward you'll pack it in! nah, i'll get back to it eventually too.

currently have the #1 spot in my Iron Man 40 tourney - man, it's a lot of work to stay on top. kinda dreading that i'll have to do this for another 24 hours, lol

haha just as I'm reading these last comments, I got a reward of 20 crystals

obviously I didn't click click click right, must click click click again

Bullseye: "This is all a diversion Stark. That's why we're spread out."
Iron Man: "Cool story Bro."

Seriously, can ANYONE else write this please

I admittedly laughed in delight when I read that because I knew how it would be received here

haha me too!!

"Cool your pants Black Widow!"

also lolled at the cool story bro comment

waiting for Juggernaut to talk in lolcat speak after too many headbutts

HOLY FUCK DEVIL DINOSAUR
all is forgiven

#1 on the iron man tourney when i left the house for dinner with my girl, came home two hours later to discover I placed in the 20-25 range grrrrrrrr

i feel ya bro. you gotta be on that shit like a hawk

most annoying thing was that i was at 1086 when i ran out of health/first aid and figured okay i'll come back later to get that sweet sweet spiderman cover at 1100
picked up the pad an hour later and i was down to 895
so angry much sadness many yells

placed no 1 in my tourney -- tanked in a bunch of lightning rounds as suggested and i had a real nice run of it.

now my bracket is pretty rough for the thor event tho :-(

all those covers still don't make my grey suit bw any good though!

can't figure out a good strategy for the thor event. all the battles seem to take down my health more than half, so i can't tear through a few teams on a single health pack.

god i wanted that Spider-Man cover so bad but competition was too fierce, i could barely break 1000 without getting knocked down again

great omg moment in devil dinosaur

Thor tourney is savage

the issue is that any thor over lv 60 is gonna fuck you up if you leave him for last and if you don't take out the other two, the computer will loop special attacks. I've played four matches and am ranked 120 or so which is crazy high considering, so i think most people are sitting this one out and focussing on the story missions where the point totals for the top ten are just ludicrous

i've had ok success with thor/wolvie/mBW in thor, but not great. i keep getting matched against like level 75 thors.

see i just got my thor to level 83 but it doesn't matter because with the buffs on this any moderately leveled thor is a beast

okay, i think i've figured this out: go in with thor at max level, daken and storm classic with +3 all and +3 red/yellow buffs. then either:
one shot kill the weakest guy with your red, knock out the second with your yellow and rush to knock out thor with all speed
or
red/yellow attack on thor below level 60 knocks him out and then take out the two weakers at your leisure.

at 37 and rising

that's totally the opposite approach that I have (which isn't consistently effective)
use the two weak enemies as targets until they die, using that time to build up ammo. prevent CPU from getting Red and Yellow gems which you need anyway.
unleash Classic Storm's blue power which stuns for 4 turns at max power, hopefully at that point you have enough to launch a few Red attacks and a Yellow Thunder Clap from Thor, and he's pretty much dead then

this strat would probably work with modern black widow instead of modern storm, actually

using storm and daken allows you to match greens when red/yellow aren't available for buffs and eventual AP recharge/screen clear storm attack

going in with a full red attack with thor means that you're two yellow matches away from knocking out a level 70 thor; i can generally finish a match in under a minute if i get a few lucky breaks. Made it to 25 on my ladder before i pushed my luck with a too-low-health thor and got my whole crew killed; taking some time off for sanity/gym/dinner

life is the moments between marvel puzzle quest

i like daken and modern storm pretty well as a combo. grab all the green and build up strike tiles, then use storm's green to grab a bunch of different ap, then hopefully you have enough to let thor's red/yellow loose. there's a bit more chance in this approach, but the powers complement nicely.

anyway, this strategy assumes you have your own lv 85 thor and humblebrag humblebrag

truly the humblest of brags tbh

at 5 on my ladder. taking a break there to do alaska again.

savage land is tough to level unless you are super focused on it i'm finding
god i wish we could league up so that we could all be doing group pvp. i never see ilxors on my potential kill list

Alaska reset, time to jump back in

in the... which tournament was it? double shot maybbe? i pushed up to 500 right before close to get another model 40, then realized i needed thor cards more than grey suit black widow... needed #26 instead of #25. i was #25. tried to quickly lose against a couple of low-score teams and yield immediately... did it twice, checked again... like 30 points.

everyone underneath me was tanking for thor too.

maybe this is a sign he's too good or bw grey suit is too bad.

I doubt it was intentional tanking - towards the end of the tournament everyone bumrushes and points go down super fast if you're in the top brackets

20-25 were around 480-485; 26-30 were 455-460. big gap... maybe i thought it was intentional because I was doing it intentionally.

I'm having a blast in savage, won an impossible match with the default level 6 Hawkeye, my l25 Raggie, and my l29 modern Black Widow, because I got a cascade giving me enough forests to do the super forest thing, a sea of red, which caused major cascading and AP gain and in particular both fed my Raggie to do 4 red blasts -> change to green, followed by another super forest thing, repeat until victor. I am still glowing.

also got a model 40 blue cover today on a standard cover draw, highlight of my week

i want some ragnarok covers like nobody's business

high level doom looks like a motherfucker as well.

got that doom cover in resupply this week, so now I've a 2 black cover l25 doom. three attack tiles! he'll be nice in a buffed villain round.

my son has a raggie with both red and green covers, so jealous

(this thread is what convos in my house are like these days btw)

heh. my rag has 2 red 1 green; 2 more red and we're in business

OMG stop giving me Red Modern Hawkeyes, The Hunt Heroic card generator

Oh god I figured out how to play this, bye bye outside world.

Welcome to your Doom!

After burning way too many health packs last night, I decided to stop playing risky at all in the Thor tournament. Every match, I use the +1 to all AP stockpile boost, and an extra damage boost. Within 5 turns I can run my Iron Man 40 Recharge v2 (3 Red + Blue AP for each countdown tile) -> Modern Storm Blue Stun power (Stuns target for 4 turns, ~1200 dmg to enemy team) -> Clean up with Thor's Red and Yellow strikes. Easy peasy.

Ugh hate fighting against Daken (my entire roster is under level 15), now I have to play the Waiting Game Hungry Hungry Hippos.

breaking 200 in the hunt events is really hard. luckily i just have to break 400 to win the heroic token, which is all i really care about.

2 heroic tokens today, 2 hawkeyes

shhfhejfdejbdgsyjf

right??

What's the strategy for selling/keeping covers when your roster is maxed out? I have a 2-star Dark Hawkeye who's hard to level up because I can't find any covers for him, and I have a Juggernaut cover I'm waiting to recruit.

4 hawkeyes. i don't even know.

i was at #1 on thor tourney while i was playing ten minutes ago, down to my final health token, ahead by 60 points. watched a bit of the jags/saints. Came back to find I am #6 and down by 55. I think i need to hang back and do a final push in the last half hour of this. very frustrating. i think the issue is that the higher up on the rankings you are, the more points you're worth and the more you lose when you get downed in pvp

argh, been playing for an hour and this is maddening. from #1 to #12 like a goddamn yo yo. And I'm winning every match!

lee: grind for hero points until you can buy more slots! its worth it to try to hang onto everyone i think. or that's just the obsessive in me...

new fun combo -- wolvie + rag. he powers up the strike tiles, and rag's red ability keeps feeding him green. i bet daken rag would be lotsa fun too (the advantage of wolvie is if you don't have another use for the green, then his strike tiles are way stronger, and you can build up a bit of green and each successive attack gets stronger).

(forks: some good advice i saw is to hang back a bit before you jump into a tourney because then you end up against more casual players -- there's v. little forward action in my competition bracket at all. also note that who you're matched against seems determined by your win/loss rate, etc. but who you're bracketed against is different, and seems just determined by when you first compete in the event)

this same advice doesn't seem as useful in hunt, where holding back just seemed to give me less capacity to catch up with other players, since its all about hitting the repeating missions every time they regenerate points.

(also argh this game ate my life)

thanks for the suggestions clover; i will wait for future tourneys.

fought my way up to #2 in the final minutes, underestimated my opponent and went in with a too-low health thor, no more first aid, okay i'm at #2 at least with three minutes
currently at #7 with a minute on the clock. goddammit.

finished "top ten" so i guess i can live with that.

clover, what's your full lineup? i'm at:
thor - lv 85 max - 5/4/4 max
iron man 40 - lv 51 - 3/2/2
iron man 35 - lv 50 max - 5/4/4 max
storm modern - lv 50 max- 5/5/3 mx
black widow modern -lv 40 max - 5/5 max
juggernaut - lv 40 max - 5/5 max
daken - lv 34 - 5/5 max
cap murrica - lv 27 - 4/4/5 max
Doom - lv 25 - 2 black
hood - lv 25 - 2 yellow
storm classic - lv 24 - 5/5/3 max
magneto NOW - lv 22 - 2/3/1
spider man classic - lv 18 - 1 yellow, 1 blue
ragnarok - lv 28 - 1 green, 2 red
wolverine astonishing - lv 16 - 3/4/2
hawkeye - lv 15 - 5/5 max
venom - lv 15 - 5/5 max
black widow grey suit - lv 15 - 2 purple
loki - lv 15 - 1 black
bullseye - lv 12 - 4 black
hawkeye modern - lv 9 - 5/3/3
moonstone - lv 9 - 3/1/1
black widow original - lv 8 - 1 /1
spiderman bagman - lv 6 - 2 purple, 1 blue
yelena - lv 1 - 5/5 max

Working on leveling up daken to max, any recommendations of characters that might be worth trying to level higher if i have the covers already? does wolverine start getting good around lv 30? venom? any of the hawkeyes?

i guess i'm missing, jim lee magneto, invisible woman, punisher, wolverine x force and DEVIL DINOSAUR (cmon they gotta make him available at the end of this tourney) and i have four open slots and 75 coins so i should be able to keep a full roster indefinitely if i keep grinding.

is it because i'm an addict that having enough room for new covers has never been an issue? i would highly recommend NEVER spending coins on anything but new cover slots.

I was at #7 with one minute left. figured I could sit back.
five minutes later, i get the message that I finished "Top 25" - WAAUUUGH.

Classic Hawkeye is worth leveling up a teensy bit just because he's so good for those Hammer missions with his tile destroy abilities

they've been more generous with the coins lately - until the last week I was having a really hard time keeping pace

I levelled modern Hawkeye to 41 and in The Hunt his red ability hits all enemy combatants for something like 2390+K

Don't use him (or Cap) against Yelena though, she will gank your countdown tiles

post yr lineups if you are truly part of this sad brotherhood imo

too much to read man!

but i will say i have every card besides Classic Magneto (Jim Lee) and Punisher

thor - 70 - 3/5/5
iron man 35 - 50 - 5/5/3
c. storm - 44 - 3/5/5
m. storm - 43 - 5/4/4
m. hawkeye - 43 - 5/5/2
daken - 43 - 5/5
cap - 41 - 5/5/3
iron man 40 - 41 - 3/2
m. bw - 39 - 5/5
grey bw - 39 - 1/2/3
astonishing wolvie - 38 - 4/2/1
invisible woman - 30 - _/_/1
rag - 28 - 2/1
c. spider - 28 - _/1/2
loki - 25 - _/2
c. magneto - _/2/_
c. hawkeye - 22 - 5/5
doom - 20 - 3/4
mn magneto - 16 - 2/1/1
hood -15 - _/_/1
moonstone - 14 - 1/2/1
bullseye - 13 - 3/1
venom - 11 - 5/5
jug - 10 - 5/5
o. bw - 8 - 1/1
bag-man spidey - 6 - _/1/2
yelena - 5 - 5/5

i can now take my doom all the way to 77 -- not sure if its worth investing in him much tho.
other candidates are grey bw, cap (mainly just use him as a b-team tank), jug, or iron 40.

other than that i guess i'll keep working on daken and wolvie.

if i come out of this next tourney with some spideys maybe he'd step up?

modern hawkeye in hunt is great, yeah. also really just pays off to use him with critical tiles where he hits for huge damage.

once his red and blue are fully leveled they only countdown two and their odds of hitting are almost tolerable.

they do great of course once you clear the main enemy and are just against goons that don't move tiles.

and lol yeah yelena destroyed me the one time i tried to use countdowns with her.

Doom looks to me like a good investment as a third stringer.
i definitely want to level up spidey; that looks like a big time play extender
How does invisible woman play?

well just green ability alone sux + she only has 1020 health at that level. i only use her when forced to by hunt missions.

her yellow looks sorta useless too.

i can imagine she'd be solid against special tiles if i had her ability to lock specified tiles, but as is she's not useful for anything yet.

i got invisible woman with the green ability too. same problem Spider-Man's purple ability used to have - you need the bubble making power to not make that power useless

wanna put in a strong recommendation for levelling up yr juggernaut
that green power takes two matches and can be a lifesaver. he's a good alternate option for storm.

kinda curious about leveling strategies too. I've been focusing on leveling up my intro characters and then beefing up individuals for specific tourneys as necessary but there's a lot of other options... feeling like it's a bad idea to try to broadly level everyone as there's just not enough iso to make that work unless you are gonna pay for it. most of these characters don't really show what they can do until you get them heavily levelled. Obviously with the 2/3/4 star guys that's dependent on covers but some of the early characters seem universally ignored; you never see anyone playing a yelena or a venom in pvp.
just started moonstone in the baddie tournament and she seems utterly pointless at low level but may be a monster when properly leveled...

i look at the level cap. i know that lvl 85 cap will be a monster someday. most of the 1* chars cap out at 40, except for notably Storm and Iron Man 35. so it doesn't feel like worth investing in most of those guys. juggernaut i'm tempting just because of his HP soak. but who knows, maybe Lvl 40 Venom has enough HP to make him worth while too

at least at 2* you can go up to lvl 85 with cards maxed out. i'm maxing out any character 3* and above to the best that I can. only maxed out Thor at the 2* lvl, and almost done w/Classic Storm (I think I'm around 77-ish)

you're 100% right on not broadly pumping everyone, imo, though this is what I did when I started out, so I have a lot of lvl 15-25 characters hangin' around, semi-useful, but i feel like i would've been better off focusing on a few

surprised nobody's started an MPQ wiki yet. With P&D there's like three wikis out there with all stats, i'm sure this is coming soon with stat charts and what not for every character

btw this Dark Avengers tourney pretty much sucks for me, my best available char is a lvl 28 Venom. i'll just focus on The Hunt

It sucks but it's gonna suck for most everyone; I got a me vs lv1 Venom only last night

I am enjoying the BIG tournament but then again I have a 25-30ish moonstone, 50ish daken and 15 ragnarok (puled last night from a standard pull, stooooked -- just wish it wasn't green). good enough t beat people lvl 1 yelenas and bullseyes anyway.

The only Dark Avenger I have on my phone team is a lvl 27 Daken

I'm currently ranked #49 in the Bad Is Good tournament; if no one on the opposing team is over lvl 20, I can solo them and usually end up with full health

This character is ridiculously OP in some ways.

I'm thinking that I should maybe start over because I'm still at a sufficiently low level and am pretty sure I spent some Hero Points on things other than roster slots.

i wouldn't worry about it; they give out those coins with solid regularity. any of the 1 and 2 star guys aren't hard to find in game within the story missions so if you temporarily lose, say, black widow or hawkeye or either storm or juggernaut or yelena or venom, they're easy to get again when you have the space later.

I've spent about 300 hero points on covers, and one of those tries paid off big time (wolvie x force) so

I'm not hoarding characters so I don't care so much about roster spots.

WANT PUNISHER btw

playing bad tourney is a pain with two dakens; each match takes more than twice as long and is rigorously boring. hard to find pvp players who aren't using him.

still lolling that I am managing to hang around the mid 40s of my bad tourney with a solo Daken

I just started playing this and my understanding is pretty weak. The coins in-game are the freemium bit of it but you still earn them occasionally and need them to level up (unless you get another cover), the purple crystals let you power up within a level, and apparently you only get a certain number of roster slots?

The only really confusing bit so far has been where I've played a level a couple times and obviously defeated every enemy, had no losses, and there's still not a checkmark on that location. Is there a list of goals for every level somewhere so that I can "complete" them?

click on the missions, they will usually say something like "1/4 rewards" or something like that with a flashing icon in the lower right corner showing which of the objective rewards you've gotten

also don't use coins to level, use them to buy roster spots

right. and you don't need to get all the rewards for the Prologue missions, just beating it once is enough to unlock the next set of levels. but you'll eventually want to go back and grab those rewards, ya know, because OCD.

DJP, take that Daken all the way!!

props to dan for convincing me daken was worthwhile; ahma level that fucker all the way up next methinks

surprised nobody's started an MPQ wiki yet. With P&D there's like three wikis out there with all stats, i'm sure this is coming soon with stat charts and what not for every character

Surprisingly hard to find, but I think this is what you mean: http://marvelpuzzlequest.wikia.com/wiki/Marvel_Puzzle_Quest_Wiki

complete character power list: http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=129
max stat lists: http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=590

I am really shocked by how much of a bad-ass modern Hawkeye is in The Hunt

if he has Avoid and Blast Arrow, you can basically use him to destroy all three characters at once

hm. i'm at 5/4/3; maybe i need to level him higher

i have a purple cover but was holding out for the fifth red attack... am i doing it backward?

it's hard to want to use any red attack but thor's when he gets 2k damage from two red matches

Hawkeye is ridiculously boosted in The Hunt, it's pretty awesome
Avoid (Purple) kinda sucks. I lvled it up to 5 without thinking, feel like it's kind of a waste.
Thanks for those links, will check out soon.
Savage Land reset, but you knew this.

im, uh, kinda finishing savage land now.

in normal circumstances, Thor > modern Hawkeye
in The Hunt, a modern Hawkeye with 4 red can hit every opposing character for something like 2700 dmg each in one attack if you successfully protect his countdown tile
right now I'm targeting a 5/5/3 build for him

oh, that red hits ALL enemies? yeah, that changes things.
i guess i'll shift my levelling from daken to mod hawk up to 20 or so and then go back and forth.

Sitting in or near the top 10 in bad is good since the onset, nobody seems to want to mess with my bottom-feeder rag, mid-level moonstone and 51 daken.

i like these actually-restricted missions more than the "buff" missions, means people actually have to try new people -- all i have learned so far is that i need more rag covers to make him useful & i dunno if moonstone will ever be good

Yelena looked completely useless until I fought her with modern Hawkeye and she kept fucking up his countdowns; now I want to level her specifically to neutralize anyone using modern Hawkeye in PVP (baghead Spidey has a similar usage with his counter increaser and I think regular Spidey can also fuck with countdowns?)

they really need to fix environmental effects so they scale.
100 hp for +5 ap is a game changing no-brainer, 50hp bonus for hot dogs is some bullshit.

Moonstone's Gravity Warp ability is pretty good, (make a 4/5 match with special tile swap or get a free critical hit), the others i'm iffy on. Haven't leveled her past 15-ish though.

lol yes Hot Dogs for 50hp

I look at that map is a neutral environment tile - hot dog isn't very useful and it takes forever to get that Narrow Alleyways super special or whatever it's called

oh man I hate the hot dog board so much

OTOH the board with the free critical tiles is my jam

loled irl re: 50hp hot dogs

nominate "50hp bonus for hot dogs is some bullshit." for ILG board description

that change everything to red special is crazy good.

now that there's nobody boosted in the tourney, i'm having to train myself out of making env tile matches as much, since without the boosts they're not as important (for the critical skill especially)

argh, these fucking hunt heroic covers are all characters i do not need. bad karma.

thor and hawkeye, thor and hawkeye thor and hawkeye GIVE ME A GODDAMN SPIDERMAN YOU SPITEFUL TABLET

brazenly entering competitions with daken at 40% health bc "he'll get it back in the fight"

brazenly entering competitions with daken at 40% health bc "he'll get it back in the fight"

lol hate this so much when playing against him, took me forever to figure out to save him for last and then unload with saved-up specials.

"took me forever and people smarter than me pointing delineating the strategy," rather.

i tend to hammer on him first b/c i hate his strike tile skill, but maybe that's a bad idea

also he's the one overleveled guy on many teams so after i take him down its all mopup

Right now, if I see a 40+ Thor in PVP I'm all "nope *skip*"

i'm at 9 on my ladder but man i gotta skip a lotta heavy hitters. 38 daken, 28 rag, 20 bullseye

bullseye's adamantium bones ability is a (super-annoying) counterpoint to daken's pheromone ability so i usually go after him first. i can deal with daken, because it usually gives you priority on the pheromone pop, so often i'll get 2 and he'll get... less than 2? because all of the red tiles are accupado

haha, "accupado" i am so tired

having a bullseye with no purple powers is very aggravating

haha that's the definition of useless

it's that or moonshadow and he has... well, more hp

The Hunt all-nighter? xxxp

i tend to hammer on him first b/c i hate his strike tile skill, but maybe that's a bad idea

I'm underpowered and focusing mainly on the PvE missions, but hitting him in the early rounds is kind of inefficient because of his healing. If I leave him alone (or at least until I have enough AP saved to finish him in one turn), I can avoid all the counterattack/healing nonsense.

if you see an opportunity to starve him out via killing yellows, he basically kills himself pretty quickly too. used that against a stronger daken recently (sacrificing my own daken in the process, somewhat) and it was pretty easy. won't always work though, especially if you get lots of isolated yellows around the bottom of the board

only a strategy ot use if the board is already close to good for it

i am not the only one having problems getting a good draw here:
http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1167

having a bullseye with no purple powers is very aggravating

I'm enjoying having Bullseye (with purple power) in the Dark Avengers tourney; just pop a few purples & the enemy does 1 damage against me. ANNOYING AS HELL but I win

The Punisher (Dark Reign)
3 Star Rarity (Rare)

Max HP: 5800
10 / 52 / 11 / 60 / 12 / 67 / 4.0x / 4

Molotov Cocktail - Black 7 AP
The Punisher lobs a bottle of liquid mayhem. Damages the enemy team for 59 and converts a random basic color tile to a Red Countdown tile that spreads fire every 2 turns, converting a random basic color tile to a 12 damage Red Attack Tile.
Level Upgrades
Level 2: Increases Attack tile damage to 15.
Level 3: Increases initial team damage to 89.
Level 4: Increases Attack tile damage to 18.
Level 5: Reduces Countdown to 1.
Max Level 5 - 557 damage, 113 damage Attack tile

Judgement - Green 8 AP
The Punisher unloads his arsenal. Destroys a 3x3 group of tiles, doing damage but not generating AP. Chaos creates an opening, converting a basic color tile to a strength 12 Strike tile.
Level Upgrades
Level 2: Increases Strike tile strength to 14.
Level 3: Creates 2 Strike tiles.
Level 4: Increases Strike tile strength to 17.
Level 5: Creates 3 Strike tiles.
Max level 5 - 104 strength Strike tile

Retribution - Red 8 AP
The Punisher draws his sidearm and finishes what he started. Damages the target for 118. If they are below 20% of their max health, he downs them.
Level Upgrades
Retribution
Level 2: Increases base damage to 177.
Level 3: Downs target if their health is below 30% of max.
Level 4: Increases base damage to 236.
Level 5: Downs target if their health is below 40% of max.

That Retribution skill is gonna SUUUUUUUCK at max... "downs target if health is below 40%" yikes!

ha, that was exactly the bit my eye was drawn to

also, bring on the Frankenpunisher alt

yeah I was drooling when I first saw the Pun's stats, even at just 1 cover I could see how they were gonna scale

guessing it'll be a while before he starts dropping from tokens though

wait, so are the rewards linked to specific goals, or do you just replay that level a few times until you get one reward each time?

the latter. you're going to get A LOT of 20iso wins though.

is the reason i'm getting nowhere in savage land that i need a well leveled mod hawk?

IMO yes

my preferred team when possible is Thor + modHawk + Daken; if I can't use Daken, I'll sub in another buffed event character (either classic Spiderman or grey Black Widow)

nah you don't really need him. his boosted dmg is good but I usually end up using Thor for the tough missions

that said, you probably have his abilities maxed out so why not

I've also been surprisingly successful with Thor + modHawk/Daken + baghead Spidey

i've been riding with thor/daken/juggernaut but it occurs to me that dooms black ability + daken's buff + thor's offense might equal profit

thor + modhawk is all you really need. the third really doesn't get to do anything. i use an iron40 or something just to soak up some damage.

hm. don't really have the iso to level modhawk past 20 and he's not that great at that low level

and doom WOULD be great if his black attack didn't take 12 ap. i generally win before he's half full.

pretty sure that doom's black won't stack with daken's tile. otherwise daken + modern storm would be disgusting.

i think maybe the daken strike tiles stack once per all the fists hitting?

i'll attempt to test this at some point... that would be not bad but i imagine it wouldn't be as otherworldly as one might hope (or rather, it'd be dwarfed by all of the insane-o damage you're already doing)

neat, they do stack. not super helpful tho because A) if you're using daken the way i use him at least, nearly all of your red tiles are already non-basic from pheromone; secondly, with only two of doom's tiles (right now anyway, i assume he makes more as you level his skill) they disappear right quick. daken's come so quick and so often that there are always a couple on the board i find.

makes modern storm/wolverine with max hailstorm and max green on wolverine seem incredibly interesting tho :O

doom's black ability alters red tiles, not black ones, weirdly enough

prob so as to not clash with daken i guess

guess I'd better start working on Daken (though fuck that animation forever)

I have a modern storm with max hailstorm & I'm poised in the Hunt to have 4 green on Wolvie; stoked about that combo too

my main team now is Thor l58 (4-4-5), model 40 l57 (4-1-2), & astonishing Wolvie l49 (2-4-4)

can't stress enough how Wolvie's heal is the business

Is it just me, or do different characters have different amounts of time to resurrect? Maybe it's based on * level, definitely not on character level, but it seems like lower rarity characters recover faster. I'm talking about after death - once they reach the "HP heal" phase it just goes by HP total. Unless I'm imagining things.

no you're right. i'm finding it's much smarter to use your first aid to heal the high level guys than to wait. first aid takes a half hour. thor takes six.

by first aid, do you mean health packs? trying to see if there's some other way to heal. I have like 40 health packs right now (I know, I know, I guess I don't play enough?)

It's too bad that the timeline is set during the Dark Avengers story, otherwise I'd write the developers and ask them if they'd consider a mission branch involving Pizza Dog

there's no way to sync progress between devices, right?

I don't think so? I see that as a plus though as I can test a grouping on one device and see if I like it or not without screwing up my bracket position on the other

I'd like syncing. And some goddamn retina graphics on the iPad.

^^ that too

Is it just me, or do different characters have different amounts of time to resurrect?

Might have mentioned this but this is a huge reason I roll out Daken and Wolvie so often -- even now at level 50ish if they're 50% hurt they're still only an hour to heal. (plus i can heal them in easy venom prologue matches by just hitting for low damage and healing).

they SORTA did retina graphics for the pad... just not the playing area strangely enough.

the important part!!

plus i can heal them in easy venom prologue matches by just hitting for low damage and healing

Yeah, I've been spamming this mission when I haven't felt like waiting in the 1.5-2 hour window I have to play this crack game on weeknights.

Got an Iron Man Model 40 and Classic Magneto in Standard Token draws today. I'm a True Believer!

more hawkeye. more thor. goddammit.
daken up to lv. 52

Last night started feeling the consequences of my leveling Storm up too high. Poor Ororo, RIP.

saw this thread blow up, installed game, played game, am very confused

we call that "Stage 1"

there are lots of things happening. i feel like the game is yelling at me. something about the punisher? and then assembling the dark avengers?

Biggest thing holding me back right now is the lack of hero points. There just aren't enough to get all the covers that I need.

adam, just keep playing the early levels until you can beat some more levels, then keep beating those multiple times.

then dig yourself a shallow grave and bury everything you've ever loved in it
then lightning rounds

oh yeah lightning rounds. what on earth was i thinking, leaving my phone away from me for an hour.

buffed Doctor Doom is MEAN; my three attack tiles do 147 per turn EACH

The names they came up with for obviously fake player slots in these tourneys are terrible
freerangeC@ge
WannaBeSkrull
HAIGUYZDOOM

i tank in all lightning rounds now. win one, then play with weak characters and resign right away. can't tell but i think it helps get me weaker opponents in the serious tourneys.

i've never gotten above 200th place in a lightning round - competition's too brutal. any success?

actually, i think the trick is that you play any round - whether you win/lose - with scrub characters, you get matched with other scrub teams and then you can kick their ass when you retaliate. so it's best to start out with your weakest teams and steadily use your stronger ones only if you have to

then again, this doesn't always work either

Grr!! I had time for a handful of games tonight so I tried for some covers and hero points. Guess what i was rewarded with instead.

Otoh, I did stage a 1 vs. 2 bad guy battle in which I came from behind top win with an unleveled Dark Hawk that had no use for AP.

accidentally played this with the sound on.
never again.

I keep getting that Bag Man Spider-Man alternate. I sold it and it came back!

keep him, he's more useful than he seems!

yeah Baghead Spidey kinda rules

Hmm. I got 2 extra red Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men cards) from the Bad is Good tourney. My Wolvie is currently 5/3/2 (G/R/Y). Seems like the Yellow (Healing Factor) ability is the best one to have, Green is maxed out (Feral Claw). Should I listen to my gut and sell off the two Red cards I have and hope I'll draw three Yellows in the future? Or is just foolishness... is the Red ability worth leveling up to 5?

Personally I like having the red at five, I am hoping to go 5/5/3. I feel that the healing works often enough, and if you're not counting on getting every yellow tile for some other reason, you can just avoid breaking them and heal. The cost/effect of the red attack tho (at stage 5 and level 50, i think it's 12 tiles for 1400 damage, plus any damage you gain from your feral claws on the way) is pretty great.

Typically on the forum tho people say it's best to roll 5/3/5, which I get. TBH I probably went 5 red because I got them first. But I don't feel like I've "ruined" the card by any stretch, the minmaxing on individual skills doesn't seem to make a HUGE difference in most matches. HP and damage are really key aside from a few covers (eg. Storm 1, Storm 2, etc).

I tihnk my wolvie is at 4/5/2 at the moment and I am not terribly disappointed with his lack of healing ability.

You're probably right about the ability balance. Though, I would be REALLY bitter if my maxed out Classic Storm had maxed Yellow (Passive counter) vs. Blue (Stun), especially after the nerf to the counter ability. The Red attack sounds better than I initially thought, though. I have a week to waffle on this decision.

Note on Yellow: My bigs right now are Iron Man Classic 40 and Thor, both which have key Yellow abilities, but Wolvie will make my B or C team anyway.

I mean Iron Man Model 40, o'course

Apropos nothing, I wonder if they cleared the rights to use that Kirby cover for Devil Dinosaur

They probably own them lock stock and barrel anyway

Wait wait wait

I think my sarcasm meter is 100% broken

Devil Dinosaur is ACTUALLY in the game???

WAIT

THIS GAME IS ON STEAM?

OH NO

Yes on both counts. Hahaha!

I've been leery of not using covers for characters I like; I have Thor at 5 green covers and at level cap, but I'd have liked to have yellow at 5 instead. but I got the green drop first. it's changed the way I play a bit but I like that, a serendipitous way to try a different way of bashing Hammer peons

I'm at 2-4-4 on Wolvie. I don't use the red power much because I'm usually using Thor also with him and Thor's red bash is the sauce, especially buffed

here's how OP modern Hawkeye is in The Hunt:

I was playing the penultimate Alaska* fight with the lvl 136 Pyro and lvl 97 Daken and got enough red and blue matches to set Hawk's red and blue countdown tiles. While they went off, I used is purple and blue match strength to down the Pyro; the turn after the Pyro went down, both countdowns went off and 1-shotted the rest of the team, including the lvl 97 Daken.

I love this character in this event and I will be very sad when it ends. Also for the love of god someone give me an Invisible Woman card.

* I think it's Alaska? the first Hunt board

I just got modern Hawkeye and he seems awesome. Plus, I can only hope for Pizza Dog

I keep getting my ass beat hardcore by Daken, every time. Need to figure out what is up with that.

my maxed thor is 3 on red and my classic storm 3 on green. regret both -- the classic storm more.

i'm all about critical tiles in the hunt. match em with purple or blue hawkeye and i can do 2700 damage. a few of those and i can take down an entire team.

this is why I love the crit tile board so much; if you can get a crit off an environmental tile match, you can spam the board with crit tiles and wipe a team out in one turn

Reached the final reward level of The Hunt (30,000 pts) to get that Iron Man Model 40 Red card.
what am i doing with my life, he says to himself

He's winning, obviously.

feeling a little, dare i say, burnt out on this just now

it's hard, with all the events, to feel like you're making progress. & getting a bunch of shit draws sags my spirits.

of course then i played since i posted

this is probably as close as i'll ever come to playing an mmo

Eh actually doing decent in this bad is good thing. Bullseye protect tiles, and my jacked up venom, and rag make it pretty easy so far.

https://24.media.tumblr.com/b04241c5d70491a115e7737d882b21a5/tumblr_mxpkhuXgLv1qbypg1o1_500.jpg

tatted across my belly

It's like a slap in the face every single time.

y'all get it now

also hawkeye/black widow draw again and again

at least have the decency to give me modern hawkeye, you asshole game
(or pizza dog)

We're all in an abusive relationship.

Most of this is old news for a lot of you but i actually learned a thing or two:

Environmental Tiles
These are the tiles that aren't a solid color and have some design on them that goes with the background behind the characters.
The number of AP generated by matching them is determined by the highest environmental damage - if your highest character is 4, then a 3 match gives you 12 environmental AP (EP?)
Critical tiles multiply the number of tiles you receive. If your crit is 3x and your environmental number is 4, a 2 tile, 1 crit match would yield (4 + 4) * 3 = 24 environmental AP
They aren't randomly chosen, in a given PvP or PvE event, the same missions or sections of the room always have the same tiles. Standard PvP, the top is the computer room, the left is the forest and the right is the city
The max number of environmental AP you can have is 400

Covers
Covers are needed to raise your character's level
The max covers you can apply to any one color of a character is 5
If a character has 2 color abilities, you can max both of them out - 10 covers or 5/5
If a character has 3 color abilities, you can only apply 13 covers yielding 5/5/3 or 5/4/4 in your chosen combination
Once you find/win a cover you can use HP to increase that color or wait until you find/win more

Matching
Matching 4 or more tiles in a row/column will destroy all of the tiles in that row/column
Matching 5 or more tiles in any shape (T, L, +) will yield a critical tile and give you an extra turn

Didn't realize about the different shapes with 5 matches!

Should I continue to hammer on one mission in the vain hopes of grilling hero points, or should I move on top new missions?

if it's still unchecked in your rewards list for that mission, keep grinding. besides you have another 36 hrs~ to do the other set

Meant prologue missions, not featured missions. :-/

btw that crit multiplier is really why modern Hawkeye rules so hard, get a 4 or 5 tile environmental crit in the lab and it's game over

this is such a depressing thing to do and i am actively embarrassed doing it but the only way i feel i am continuing to make progress in this godforsaken treadmill of pointless timewasting is to chronicle my SHOOPERHEWO ROSTER in excruciating detail. it is a coping mechanism.

thor - lv 85 max - 5/4/4 max
daken - lv 62 - 5/5 max
iron man 40 - lv 51 - 4/2/2
iron man 35 - lv 50 max - 5/4/4 max
storm modern - lv 50 max- 5/5/3 mx
black widow modern -lv 40 max - 5/5 max
juggernaut - lv 40 max - 5/5 max
mod hawk - lv 34 - 5/4/3
magneto NOW - lv 22 - 2/4/2
ragnarok - lv 28 - 1 green, 2 red
cap murrica - lv 27 - 4/4/5 max
Doom - lv 25 - 2 black
hood - lv 25 - 2 yellow
storm classic - lv 24 - 5/5/3 max
bullseye - lv 21 - 4 black, 1 purple
spider man classic - lv 18 - 1 yellow, 1 blue
venom - lv 16 - 5/5 max
wolverine astonishing - lv 16 - 4/4/2
hawkeye - lv 15 - 5/5 max
moonstone - lv 15 - 5/1/1
black widow grey suit - lv 15 - 3 purple
loki - lv 15 - 1 black
black widow original - lv 8 - 1 /2
spiderman bagman - lv 6 - 2 purple, 1 blue
yelena - lv 1 - 5/5 max
plus FIVE open spots. I may need to take a break after the hunt.

sitting on a red astonishing wolvie cover cuz i dunno if i wanna go 5/4/5 or 5/5/3 instead of 4/5/4

Ha w should the cap'n be used? Just doest seem to work in most combos I've tried.

Cap works best as a support character doing chip damage and pumping tiles back into other characters IMO; like, you use him to do bits of dmg and hopefully set up a cycle where his he keeps returning piles of red and blue to you so that you can fire off your big dmg characters like Thor. Also his protect ability can be a lifesaver and he has enough HP to be an emergency tank if your big guy goes down

you could probably make yourself close to invulnerable using a levelled Cap and Bullseye together

his protect ability is useful for forcing critical 5-gem combos (see also Magneto Marvel Now's blue power and Black Widow Grey Suit's green power)

cap's blue ability is great just because you can loop stuns by getting one blue match in-between activations, they'll get off one attack from that character every three turns. it's a great shutdown tool

yes, that's how I use cap: pump stuns & red blasts for little cost. and his yellow protect gets so strong that regular attacks won't beat you down (those protect tiles don't help much though when a buffed Thor brings the hammer down)

I think maybe I've gone off the deep end; I started a spreadsheet to get a statistical sample of drop rates from Standard tokens. Please tell me somebody's already done this on the internet so I can stop myself.

Does the hunt Florida keep resetting for anyone else? Not that I'm complaining, I just bang through the trivial/easy missions again for more crystal.

nhex: http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1227
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ai8adEfc_eHKdE9UbExIY29Xc0pESlRkbXNYMDJyREE#gid=1

also: http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1285

bless you forks

The numbers are actually a little better than my gut estimates. 2* drops at 14%, 3* drops at 3%. I would've guessed worse, but after all those Modern Black Widows and Classic Hawkeyes that's all I can remember.

Amazed that nobody in that sample group got a 4* Wolverine - that was actually one of my earliest drops, though of course I never got another. Invisible Woman hasn't been out for that long.

i've gotten a pair of NOW magnetos recently and that was kinda awesome

Btw, it's easy for them to add player motivation by just making more super hard PVP events and adding characters...

Puzzle & Dragons has this formula on lockdown, they can just copy them exactly for success. P&D even does cross-IP events every so often just to add more monsters (i.e. they just did a Batman: Arkham Origins event with Joker, Batman, Catwoman and Robin pets). They have probably about 1,000 monsters now - don't see Marvel having a problem coming up with an infinite slate of characters and events just on their own. But the bread and butter is the events that happen every single day, multiple intersecting tournaments lasting hours, days, or weeks, some for specific hours of the day, it's pretty nuts.

They haven't released sales numbers but it's hard for me to imagine this game hasn't lured a ton of whales already/isn't super profitable

Marvel NOW Magneto pretty underrated, I think - rarely see him in teams but his abilities are pretty nice

what would Pizza Dog's abilities be, beyond being adorable

NOW Magneto looks a monster levelled up; as soon as i finish daken, that's where I'm going

you guys REALLY want me to read Hawkeye don't ya. well... ok fine i'll pick up this volume 1 from the corner of my room and finally read it

omg dude, no lie Hawkeye is HANDS DOWN the best Marvel book right now

It's basically everything I didn't realize I wanted in a mainstream superhero comic book

obviously he swipes the red/yellow tiles off the board as he steals the pizza
xp

it would be funny if they put in an animation when his HP hits zero where, instead of greying out like the other characters, he runs off with Kate Hawkeye

Pizza Dog turns all red and yellow tiles on the board into pizza, eating them and regaining 29 health per tile. He eats the tiles so completely that they do not generate AP.

Looking at that workbook again, just noticed they had extra sheets for the other types of tokens, nice. Sad LOL at Hunt Heroic tokens with Thor 44.5% drop rate.

my hunt heroic drops have all been hawkeye & thor, ugh

Gods I woke up 2 hours early today because I was thinking about this game.

Misc
- Fixed another occurrence of Events appearing greyed out when they should be active
- Ability UI sounds when full are now 100% less ear shattering

hahahahaha

accidentally played this with the sound on.
never again.

― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, December 11, 2013

i cannot play this game on my iphone and also listen to beyonce on my iphone.

this is serious

whuh. orange.

wait i figured out how to turn down the sound in the settings all is well

Daily deal is 100HP for a Heroic token. Still feels like a waste, but I don't really need any more roster spots at 28, so it's kinda tempting...

DYING FOR HP.

haha you'll pay and get a thor i guarantee its not worth it.

lol so the update seems to nerf buffed hawkeye's huge critical bonus.

Yes I noticed this ;_;

draws seem much better since the patch? I got a Spidey classic on a standard token today and an Invisible Woman (!) on a hunt heroic.

Slow on the uptake: finally realized how useful Bag-Head is when fighting Yelena's bodyguards! Before I was getting pwned when their timers went off.

But: ZOMG ONLY FIVE DAYS UNTIL MY MAGNETO, BLACK WIDOW, ETC. COVERS EXPIRE click click click!!!!

man, really annoying to wake up and see I went from rank 17 to 294 in The Hunt. I want that Punisher cover, dammit! tap tap tap

Euler: I also got a Spidey this morning on a Standard token. Woohoo!

yeah my draws seem better too. pulled another thor on heroic, but my standards have given me a magneto, and a wolverine at least.

not sure how i feel about the doom tourney.

My girl has started asking "are you clucking?" When she sees me on the pad

Lol, "clicking"

tell that technically, you are not clicking anything

I'm really high in the doom tourney (like 16 or 17?) but I figure I'll fall rapidly once the hunt ends tonight alas

otoh I'm presently in position for a PUNISHER cover in the hunt but I'll still be jolly if I pull the triple Wolvie covers (+ get enough hero points for a roster spot for IW)

playing with a level 47 doom paired with wolvie/daken (both in the 50s). i can get destroyed on a bad board, but with a good one i can clean up with very little loss of health. the really nice thing is all the boost tiles can starve out doom's attack tiles.

i'm #1 on the hunt, dunno how well that'll hold out.
i have three red wolvie covers, would prefer two yellow to get that up to 4.

grinding relentlessly to assure my top 50 status in The Hunt. ends in about 75 min

I want to grind but no missions are left; slipping into the 200s, ugh

Finished at five, maybe twenty points out of top three

Grrrrrr

Finished out at about 37; feels like a lot of work for a bad place, but that's what I get for daring to play other games / do other things besides play this yesterday. Booo. At least I'll get a Punisher card

xp that bites!

Got my red and green cards cant complain

I need more events. Doctors orders sucks.

Yes

currently 2 in it!

It is giving me an opportunity to grind. 20 ISO-8 at a time.

First featured PVP that I've tried in earnest, was thinking that 400 points would be within each... then I found out that the points and opponents get harder the higher you climb. >_<

Broke 400 anyway in Doctor's Orders! Considered going for top 10, but that's a 70+ point gap and I just got destroyed again.

my first top five finish! was #1 most of the day but things get nuts right at the end

nice

How sad is it that I'm looking forward to the Xmas break so that I can really start grinding.

PS I think that prologue PVP is actually a good place to grind: you get to select who you face to a degree and, more importantly, know what rewards you're going to get -- even if it turns out that it'll take the same number of fights to earn them as you would need when playing PVE, because you have an objective measure (the PVP points) to track your progress.

The current PVP weekly is basically the same thing as SHIELD training anyway, since there's no roster fill-ins, boosts or restrictions. It is a good source for 70/140 iso rewards if there's nothing else going on.

i'm enjoying that! good for 400 points at a 5 healing pack grind.

Current lineup is magNOW / thor / daken. that makes purple/blue/red/yellow/green ap weaponized, green matches put out attack buffs and if i can arrange for daken on the front line he will heal most of his damage back. i'm finding that to be a good mix and am slowly levelling mag throughout the tourney.

if i see another 85 thor / 85 classic storm i am going to barf gems

i start with +3 all/+3 red and yellow /+3 blue and purple. so before the match starts, i do thor's red attack and can generally follow up with the yellow in about three moves. That's enough to take out a high level daken or storm. By then i can play mags purple and two blues with the bonus on that and by turn five or six i generally have one character left to beat, minimal damage and am most of the way to rebuilding a thor red/yellow attack.

xp lol that's me with the 85 Thor/Storm. GRIND!

is this down? I'm having repeated server issues.

workin' fine for me

Works for me. I'm getting my ass handed to me in this no holds barred event.

fixed, home router issues.
604 pts and #1 ranking on this one. i need to tank something soon for sure tho.
i'm curious to see if i can get to 1400 and get invisible woman that way. i think i can add about 300 points per sitting and i lose about 150 between sittings... so if I do five more sessions...

problem is that the rewards DROP precipitously when you're in the pole position... all my fights give like 8 points now.

the trick is to keep hitting skip until you hit people that a) have more points than you or at least similar points to you (to give a good payoff) or b) are at least so underwhelming compared to you that they won't retaliate and take back 30 pts for the paltry 8 you got.

tempted to sit this one out entirely because wow not thinking about playing this game for a whole day is like "hello life, where did you go".

probably a good idea in the long run

this tourney is kind of a drag

Hopefully enough of people think that so that I can come in and clean up.

Would I be a sucker if I actually shelled out for this game? I have a Magneto cover that's going to expire in just under two days, then a while bunch of covers a few days after that.

You're always a sucker if you shell out for any F2P game honestly, but if you do it, do it as a gesture of support for a quality product rather than starting a gambling addiction. Also, wait until the last day possible, you never know when you'll suddenly be able to get Hero Points.

LOL a gambling addiction that won't return any remuneration. Ok, if I'm in a bind, I'm willing to send my Bullseye packing.

Got invisible woman on a heroic recruit card tonight. Wasn't expecting that.

Points in this game are the only real currency. Don't listen to the haters.

You're always a sucker if you shell out for any F2P game honestly

I don't know if I agree with this. MTX like this typically exist to save the user grinding time. That's the case here -- you could buy 100 points, or you could place in the top X number in two tournaments. One of these requires a lot of upkeep. One costs $X. You're paying to more quickly access the game. If, say, they set it up *just so* that you got that card but had no spot for it and had to pay but they used the ruse of "oh, it's random!" then yes, that would be a "sucker" making move.

Point is: it's there to let you accelerate without the grind, but the grind is also fun.

I'd say fuck bullseye anyway tho. He's a boob.

dudes who make this game hiring for a prod now

want to move into prod in the next 18 months or so

in a real funk @ my job atm

omg want to apply so bad

is cambridge mass nice? i'm canadian i don't know anything

go for it!

we're allocating green cards for marvel puzzle quest development? I guess I can agree that's crucial

i agree, go for it, what's the worst that can happen? life is already crushing disappointment

the game is straight-up designed to even have a grind/acceleration eased by paying unlimited amounts of cash, so yes you = sucker for buying into it. i'm not even 100% against it if the game is good, but let's be honest about it, it's horrific business model akin to gambling. you're not even buying cards directly, you're buying slot machine tokens!

i don't see this in the same category as "pay x to unlock features you'd normally get later in the game" since there is no endpoint in this model. (this is merely slightly distasteful rather than evil)

if you offered me two red rags for ten bucks, i would likely take you up on it.

let me clarify

lol no canadian i know who has moved to the states for work thus far has gotten anything more than a temporary work visa
green cards not flowing for vg development

can we work a swap? I kind of wanted to live in canada for a while

forks, you're a disgusting pervert

lol there's ILG's new motto.

immortality is mine

I'm starting to get the feeling of why am I playing this, and to what end with this game. Still very addictive though.

Ragnorak is really stupidly strong, isn't he? they've GOT to nerf him, right? meanwhile I want Rag cards so badly, forks otm

I have been steadily accumulating Moonstone cards, have her up to 2-2-4 now. not sure what I think of her yet though? her countdown steal seems useful but it's at 17 black. her red blast is getting useful. kinda thinking she's like a captain america, kinda general purpose. curious though.

Moonstone might be useful? Great, that's another roster spot I'll have to create.

somehow got her at 5/5/3, maybe wish i specced for more black but... eh, she has a decent red blast, that benefits from hoarding reds on the screen, and... not... much... else. decent hp, decent damage, nothing to write home about.

she's about 10-20 levels behind my lead 4 guys (wolv, daken, thor, IM40) so I use her when I'm out of health packs and need another person.

More useful against PVE and countdown guys due to the black ability, but, the 17 cost makes it kinda out of reach (and you can probably do much better with so many other characters with 17 of any color gem)

the purple switch ability could be useful to fuck with enemy specials? haven't used her yet except to tank but as I steadily accumulate cards, I'm keeping an open mind

I have three venom covers in my cache, is it worth working him up? I've sold a zillion covers but I'm having second thoughts (but blah @ 1 star heroes since they get so hard to level)

strong venom can be a total pain to play against, but i'm not sure how good he is on offense.

i was getting really tough opponents on "no holds" (all maxed thors + typically a maxed I40 or cstorm at least) then the lightning rounds came around again. so i did the usual -- win one fight, then play the next with the weakest team i can muster, resign, and yield, then wait to be taken down a few more notches.

two rounds of this, and now i'm getting matched up with teams in "no holds" where the avg level is 33.

feel sorta terrible about how effective it is

moonstones purple is totally useless

venom on offense is pretty wack, good pairing with a well leveled spiderman tho

i was using moonstone for a bit with bullseye and daken in the dark avengers tourney to good effect. against a daken or a bullseye i could typically use purple to take out an enemy tile and also do some damage. rarely got to use the red on the other hand.

Moonstone's purple is good against attack tile characters like Doom or Daken, since you know what color it's gonna be (unlikely say, Iron Man 35's defense tiles or Captain America's various abilitises). I have her maxed out but I'm not sure I'll get around to her for a while, still working on cap after hitting my current max on Iron Man 40 (right now L79). Might switch over to Daken or Wolvie, they seem more usable in the short term.

my wolvie (astonishing) has 5 green cards, so feral claws costs 4; he is a savage beast now. wish I had a daken to team him with; well, I have one but he's only level 8 (after I sold a bunch of covers).

I'd spend real money for a permanent heal speed upgrade; when I hit it with my top team and then get bashed, either I run health packs or I wait, and the latter means I put it down for a few hours. so I can see paying e.g. $5 to speed that up...as long as it's not just to get a finite number of health packs

like I'd like to support the developers by giving them real money for the game but I don't want to buy scratch off lottery cards and get a bunch of black widow moderns for my moolah

Kind of regretting my decision to sell off all my Classic Hawkeye covers, now that I'm stuck on some Maggia missions.

kind of agree w/you Euler

haha don't worry Leee you'll get a million back in token draws soon enough

running daken/wolvie/modern hawkeye now. only need to heal when i screw up and let a thor get the best of me.

Was #2 in the No Holds Barred tourney this morning - wanted that spot, since I'd rather 3 Grey Widow cards rather than one Invisible Woman - but of course, by luck or by tanking, I shot up to #1 lol

This was five minutes before the end of the tourney btw. Damn you, work interfering with my MPQ rankings

I didn't realize it was ending so early, finished in the top 50... got a black widow classic blue (cool), and a black widow MODERN purple? wtf? i feel bamboozled

so to make sure i'm clear on the clover strategy, i don't throw any matches in the no holds tourney, but throw all sorts of matches in the lightning rds?

Man, this game is invading my dreams! I dreamed that I made two consecutive 5-matches, I was so happy.

will m -- you win one match in the lightning just to get in the game. then you play a second match with a very bad team, and yield.

this means that your very bad team will be the one others will go up against, and they will pick away even more of your points.

and this in turn will give you way easier matches in the main tourney.

this is an interesting strategy, will try

i think it works. but I don't throw matches deliberately, I just fight using as underpowered teams as possible. even if you win, you'll still get matched up with lower levels. it's not a bad system actually - gets people to use more of their weak characters, gives more chances to noobs to fight

i've never forfeited, though in some cases I lost the first chance and won the second, still ended up getting easier fights in the main tourney. Downside: less points, as you'll get players lower down the ladder.

Is that a viable strategy for all PVP events (i.e. does that include SHIELD Training)?

yes

Awesome! Will try that tomorrow night, when I don't have a life again.

one of us! one of us!

lol never thought that was in question, but thanks!

Definitely coming around to the church of Daken, my lvl 47 is tearing it up

have been leveling mine up too, based on this thread

though my wolvie is also tearing it up, rarely comes out of a battle with any hp gone, have gotten my way into the top 3 in the no holds barred tourney without going nuts on health packs or boosts, just pumping away with wolvie + either thor or model 40 + classic storm. a couple of feral claws (each wolvie strike tile now boosts damage by like 53 or so) & even dumb pink tiles are doing 200+

I find that combining IM40 with my wolvie 5/5/3 is a nice new development, because I can collect yellow for recharges and get those red attacks off without too much disruption of all of my red attack tiles. Occasionally break red tiles when they're Daken attack tiles (mine usually) and replace them with newer, better wolvie ones when possible. Have been consistently getting 600+ match 3s near the end of long matches.

yes, and the model 40 rechange also pumps blue which helps classic storm with those nasty wind storms. or iron man's blue attack (which I got another cover for last night!)

I literally did not know it pumped blue until you said that. Haha. Is that a later skill thing? My IM40 is still 4/0/1.

yeah maybe you get it with two covers? mine is 5-2-2

oh man at recharge 3 you also restore 2 green; will be even more tops with wolvie

yup, that Recharge ability is incredibly nice

At first I assumed I just didn't notice the blue recharge because I never had guys with blue powers out, but needing to level up makes more sense.

Can't wait to get some more Magnow bits, he's only like 1/1/0 (or 1/1, is he 2 power? I assume not) and he seems interesting. Even brought him at level 8 to some tough fights for that awesome blue power.

Also saw "Kingfish3of3" one rank above me last night in no hold barred, good to know that A) other ILXors representing (i assume) and B) someone is apparently THREE TIMES MORE addicted than I am

wow, my A team just got flambéed by a modern storm / black widow combo (plus a model 35 but he didn't do much)

modern black widow, I should add

i have magnow at level 40 5/4/2; he's fun to play with. Purple attack hits for 400 or so and sets up and instant blue attack.

i am finding classic storms at level 70 or so to be monsters with that blue attack... one hit that takes 1500 on every team member? sheeeeesh.

yeah my classic storm is at l49 and does 813 on all 3 PLUS a three turn stun.

<3 that ability so much, the only thing really that made her worth maxing out

Typical strat with a classic storm/thor combo for me now is
A) if max level, skip
B) if less than 20 pvp points, skip
C) otherwise, ramp up dmg on thor, relenting only when red builds up to rage kill storm in one shot, hope he doesn't get a chance to pop, uh, any of his stupid goddamn powers

otm

getting that way with raggie too; such a pain when he's cycling red + green blasts

somehow my ipad has mostly characters that all use the same tile colors, worst strategy ever

one match away from beating a dude, getting to 600 in no holds, battery dies, counts as a forfeit, and i get beat up by someone with like 0 points by the time i recharge phone.

just got taken down by a m.storm / m. black widow combo each with only ~100 hp left and both totally weak. they got my team in a loop with sting / mistress of the elements / lightning strike / hailstorm and repeat that went on for like 30 turns without me getting a hit in.

I was laughing at you before, now I'm laughing with you. ._.

Modern Storm/Modern Black Widow loop described can get REALLY nasty

Hulk!

oh shi

i like this!

I need punisher for one of these. Where was it??

Hey, they gave Black Widow (Original) a new passive power

WANT PUNISHER

not sure about Hulk yet; seems like a harder-to-play Juggernaut

actually he seems way better - his passive ability creates green tiles, his green ability does more damage per opponent's green AP stored up, and the red ability does more damage per green tiles on the field (like Moonstone's red), so Hulk wins out except where the opponent is snatching up all the green and using it immediately (notably, Wolverine)

Punisher close-up face is hilariously awful-looking

ok I'm sold

loving my buffed Wolvie in this thing. like 2700 per red slash, healing closeish to 300 per turn. I'm doing like 800 an attack on tile matches by the end

Huh, you can only do the Hulk missions 2 or 3 times now before you no longer gain points for them. I'll probably grind them out for the rewards, but you get so few points, I wonder how you're supposed to climb the ladder on these. I assume there'll be more missions coming over the week.

the 3 l160 sniper mission is BRUTAL. 6 turn countdown to do like 7000 damage. I was downed.

Bag-Man Spider-Man rules all, my friend.

i swear i take one day off from this...

Oh I think I get it now. You can have multiple people tied for #1 on the leaderboards for the Hulk boards; there's a clear, finite number of points you can get, and you hit #1. The reward is two special tokens; should be the easiest way to get Punisher and Hulk cards.

i GREATLY prefer that method. there's a specific way to win and it rewards grinding.

i have come around to the idea that the right way to play this is to level when the long term bonuses are good. So wolvie is gonna get a major boost in the next week. Here's this week's lineup:

thor - lv 85 max - 5/4/4 max
daken - lv 69 - 5/5 max
iron man 40 - lv 51 - 4/2/2
iron man 35 - lv 50 max - 5/4/4 max
storm modern - lv 50 max- 5/5/3 max
magneto NOW - lv 42 - 5/4/2
black widow modern -lv 40 max - 5/5 max
juggernaut - lv 40 max - 5/5 max
mod hawk - lv 35 - 5/5/3 max
wolverine astonishing - lv 32 - 5/4/2
ragnarok - lv 28 - 1 green, 2 red
cap murrica - lv 27 - 4/4/5 max
storm classic - lv 25 - 5/5/3 max
Doom - lv 25 - 2 black
hood - lv 25 - 2 yellow
bullseye - lv 21 - 5 black, 1 purple
spider man classic - lv 18 - 1 yellow, 1 blue
punisher - lv 18 - 1 green, 1 red
venom - lv 16 - 5/5 max
hawkeye - lv 15 - 5/5 max
moonstone - lv 15 - 5/1/4
black widow grey suit - lv 15 - 3 purple
loki - lv 15 - 1 black
black widow original - lv 8 - 1/3/1
spiderman bagman - lv 6 - 3 purple, 1 blue
yelena - lv 1 - 5/5 max

5 open spots, looking forward to an invisible woman and hulk in a week. kinda pissed that i accidentally spent 300 coins on a heroic cover purely on accident.

just maxed out nevada without difficulty. canada is not going to be doable, even with a great team.

not true -- i just did canada and if i can, you can. the only mission that gave me trouble was the snipers one, where i lost one hero per fight. damage boosts helped a bunch there. doing wolvie, cap, spidey

um, if i maxed out nevada and was just at #1, how come i'm now at #5?

and yeah, i just beat all the canada scenes once. i guess it is beatable but it's gonna eat up all my health packs.

plus it looks like there's some arcane system at work to determine where the placement comes when everyone's at #1. I sincerely hope they just give EVERYONE the #1 spot who maxes out the rewards; very lame otherwise.

what tripped you up in Canada? the sniper mission?

points are regenning on missions now, just slowly.

yup, you're right. REALLY slowly - some of the missions I maxed out last night are still coming up empty

recommend using the +20% damage against Canadians

in canada i was mostly scared off by levels but also yes, snipers. it also took until the end of the hulk conflicts for me to realize thor's attacks should be saved for one lengthy megabarrage as hulk has that passive "create three green when hit for 5% of health" bonus.

am now in the 40's on both missions. No regen of any mission points anywhere! Kinda frustrating.

okay, from the d3 forums:

ZzzWolph wrote:
Confirming its 12 hrs to regen
It's 12 hours from when you first start playing a level
I started late, and mine haven't reset yet...
Because the sub events run 24 hours you can do two runs. you should do the first as soon as possible and the second as late as possible to be on the safe side ^^

Mommson
Since rubberbanding doesn't seem to be occurring in the sub events, it seems like the thing to do is to hold off on the main event missions, but not so much that you miss any sub events. That probably means doing them about 11 hours after they appear and blowing through the sub events immediately to get a refresh on them. Early birds won't get a chance to compete until new main events show up.
In the end, like other rubberbanding events, it'll be part crapshoot, part grinding, and part irritatingly cautious timing that wins the top ranks, not any measure of skill.
But hey, big ISO event rewards are back!

that second comment confounds me

how so? i think he's talking to hardcore nuts

Wondering if my keeping IM35 artificially low (L30) is hampering my ability to adequately get through some of the PvEs. I've got 5K+ ISO that I've been keeping in inventory until I unlock higher-powered covers.

Son, burn that Iso

you got to give to live

seriously.
btw wolvie/daken/thor combo at high levels is VICIOUS why have i not been doing this. i am occasionally ending pvp in two turns.

Thanks, yall!

wolvie/daken/thor combo at high levels is VICIOUS

WELCOME 2 THE DARK SIDE

i just cracked 1000 on the "no buff" pvp matches before i ran out of health/first aid. Letting it sit for two or three hours to regen and hopeful i can (maybe?) sprint to 1400 to get those two spideys and invisible woman covers. everyone is focusing on hulk, maybe i won't get ganked for 400 points while i rest as per usual.

lol i just did the same thing! such a grind though, really hard to get any matches that over 15 pts, just slowly crawling up the ladder.

I'm top 10 in the "no holds barred", doing the same as you guys there. can't make much more Hulk progress anyway w/o Punisher dammit

New Weekend Tourney up: 3* characters only

1 Wolvie, 1 cap from my Hulk tokens. Pff.

Do I use the 200HP I got from the tourneys to buy another Hulk token? (uuugh damn you F2P!)

Dammit, forgot to tank again. Another Invisible Woman green card, ah well, I'll take it.

Oh God Romania.

Ughhhh. I was 3rd place around 5pm, got on the subway from work, by the time i got out I was out 100 points and in 12th or so. I played a couple matches, got back into the top 10, but was invited to a birthday party for a close friend. So of course I go to the birthday party, and of course I don't check my phone, but the entire time from 7-9pm I am thinking "I am dropping and dropping." End up checking my phone around 11, and yeah sure enough "you finished top 50." I hate that this distracted me from GOOD TIMES WITH FRIENDS. a little bit of me wanted to show up late to play more puzzle quest.

THIS GAME IS FUCKING POISON.

if like me you read this thread before downloading the game, THERE'S A REASON WE'RE CALLING IT A SUPPORT GROUP

last two posts painfully on the mark as i had the exact same experience while watching an excellent concert and then an excellent movie

I'm not gonna lie, I've been playing it constantly during work. (I hate my job anyway.)

Got a roster spot, should I take original black widow or dark avengers moonstone?

black widow's stun is pivotal and useful before you can one/two hit kill baddies and moonstone is more meh for me so i recommend the former

Original Black Widow, especially now that they gave that new passive

oh, duh: original black widow. yeah, she's got real juice.

got 3 bw original covers instead of one gray suit in the no holds barred tourney & was not upset

I'm going back and grinding some old levels, and now I've pretty much killed/injured my whole lineup. All 22 of them. I always have trouble with the maggiano.

Left this alone (mostly) (heh) yesterday, log back in this morning to see that I'd lost almost 200(?) points in SHIELD, some days I wonder if I'll ever reach the 1000 point plateau.

But on the bright side, I've buffed up my IM35 and got lucky getting another Jug cover so that he's a level 25 now, and with the right boosts, it looks like I can handle the Yelena/Maggia missions without enduring a massacre! Early yet, but I've been able to score 50 HP and a second C Storm cover!

I'm not as far as a long as most of you, but here's my team:

Thor - 37 - 3/3/3
Wolverine - 36 - 2/4/2
Iron Man M35 - 32 - 5/4/4
Storm Modern - 31 - 5/5/3
Juggernaut - 30 - 5/5/0
Venom - 30 - 5/4/0
Hawkeye Modern - 30 - 2/3/2
Invisible Woman - 30 - 1/0/0
Black Widow Modern - 29 - 5/5/0
Bullseye - 29 - 4/0/0
Storm Classic - 27 - 2/3/1
Black Widow Grey - 25 - 2/0/0
Captain American - 24 - 1/3/1
Magneto - 22 - 2/2/1
Iron Man M40 - 21 - 2/0/0
DOOM - 18 - 2/0/0
Ragnarok - 15 - 1/0/0
Spider Man - 15 - 1/0/0
Bag Man - 14 - 2/1/0
Black Widow Original - 6 - 1/0/0
Daken - 6 - 1/0/0
Hawkeye Classic - 5/2/0

Some regretful leveling up early on. I rely on the top 4 a lot. Trying to move up classic storm.

got a Raggie green cover on a standard draw today! 2-1, level 28 now. got a green Wolvie cover, at 5-4-4 now so maxed, level 61, but feral claws at 3 green is nuts. he does 900+ per feral claws after a few pops. against Hulk it's funny with all that green

Thank yall for shaming me against buying HP, I'm kind of sick of the game ATM.

is it just me or have the last couple sets of Hulk Missions from this morning and tonight been more brutal than usual - i could barely beat some of them the first time w/all the big boosts (All AP, All dmg, Dark Avengers+), lost many times to the top missions

Someone mentioned on the D3P forums that it might be worth it to hold your Hulk tokens that you get from this until Hulk is unlocked in the greater tourney - that'll probably happen in the next day, given the rate that the meter is progressing. Right now you can't get a Hulk card from those tokens at all, just the other four (Spider-Man, Cap, Wolverine, Punisher).

hm, that's super smart. given i just need two yellow wolvies/punisher/spidey and have just gotten a cap and a green wolvie, i think i'll do that

new scoring system is baffling now; i have a hard time cracking the top 1000 on the first Hulk set, despite playing constantly

yeah, it's a bad look

Oh god I got into a 1v1 Grey Widow (L15) slapfight in the 3* event, much hilarity ensued, I thought I was styling when I whipped out my pistol shot ability, putting myself in the physical damage lead and then my opponent busted out GW's sniper ability, BOOM, single shot kill.

Woo hoo, everybody gets a Hulk!

YOU get a hulk and YOU get a hulk and

I didn't get a hulk.

Wait. I got a hulk.

YOU got a hulk!

My queue gets a hulk. No roster space hulky.

Where's my elephant Hulk?

got Hulk, got Big Pun on a draw, f yes

Hes not a hulk he just click a lot

my characters on my phone aren't strong enough to win any bouts in that hulk thingy yet. do I need to win one to get a hulk? :(

You have to beat the mission "A New Ally" on the main Hulk set; the enemies are level 20 each. You got 4 and a half days to grind a team that's worthy - DO IT

Agreed. If you noticed my many exhortations about the weakness of my roster, you might be pleased to know how easy it was to get the Hulk cover if you have the right strategy. (Though TBH what I'd ~really~ like is a Shulkie cover.)

lol got a Hulk and a Punisher in quick succession after beating "A New Ally"

Any strats for that final Juggernaut mission? Brutal.

got two Puns from the 3 star tourney, so now I've Pun at 1-2-0, l28. can see him being a mainstay eventually

still rocking through Hulk missions with my now l70 Wolvie, but sheesh, Ragnarok is an awful enemy

- Points per mission have a rubber banding effect depending on your overall placement (ignoring brackets). This means that if your score is lower than the average for the position that you're in, your missions will be worth more compared to others in that same position. IE, if Bracket Alpha's 1st place has 750 points and Bracket Zeta has 500, Zeta's 1st will gain more points from missions to equalize brackets. This will filter down to lower ratings as well, since naturally in that case, 50th would necessarily be lower in Zeta compared to Alpha. This has the effect of allowing brackets to push higher as a group to achieve the further out rewards.

yeah, i HATE boosted Ragnarok

huh, re. brackets, that just makes it even sweeter to end up in a shitty bracket, no? or do you GET more points for beating opponents for higher scores? (supposing we're talking about PvP & not e.g. Hulk missions)

Sorry, Hulk missions

Weird, they just added extra stages to Greenland and Canada.

Amazon too

oh, ok

I'm bummed that I've stopped getting points in the Canada missions, even while I'm watching my ranking still slipping down