Marvel Puzzle Quest Support Group

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.