Marvel Puzzle Quest Support Group

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