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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.