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BUT. Note that in my research I've gotten 80% rates for 1* drops in Standard Recruit tokens. You can easily get 3-10 a day from these tourneys, so feel free to sell off any of your 1*s when you get fresh ones.

(assuming you haven't pumped ISO into those cards, obv)

Considering I just finished at 20 for the NML tourney with my lousy roster, coupled with the fact that serious players seem to be down on IW, I wouldn't put winning a tourney beyond reach.

That's assumimg you're willing to play this virtually nonstop for two straight days, of course.

I'm doing this Black Widow tournament now, and I must say that BW Original is great. Once I get a small stockpile up, I can prevent the other team from playing.

yeah, she is boss

My ISO needs have vastly outstripped my desire for card upgrades; anyone else in that boat?

yes but I'm so bored of boring card drops

& of my level / cover maxed Wolvie getting slain in one turn by Hulk

keep hope alive; I got a Doom off a Heroic Token and an Iron Man Model 40 off a Standard(!) this morning

bummed that my beaucoup powered up tokens have scored me a bunch of Wolvie and Cap covers, both of whom I've longed maxed

this hulk tourney is a beast

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fiero more like feral claws amirite

hit with an incapacitating flu means dinner and evening plans were called off and this is how i rang in the new year. talk about your anticlimax. ah well; i plan to go out tomorrow if this thing lifts. in the meanwhile:

thor - lv 85 max - 5/4/4 max
wolverine astonishing - lv 85 max - 5/4/3
daken - lv 69 max - 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 - 5/5/3 max
black widow modern -lv 40 max - 5/5 max
juggernaut - lv 40 max - 5/5 max
mod hawk - lv 36 - 5/5/3 max
ragnarok - lv 32 - 2/2 red
spider man classic - lv 30 - 1/1/2
cap murrica - lv 27 - 4/4/5 max
storm classic - lv 27 - 5/5/3 max
punisher - lv 26 - 1 green, 2 red
black widow grey suit - lv 25 - 2 green / 4 purple
Doom - lv 25 - 2 black
hood - lv 25 - 2 yellow
moonstone - lv 21 - 5/3/5 max
bullseye - lv 21 - 1 purple / 5 black
hulk - lv 18 - 3 green / 2 black
venom - lv 16 - 5/5 max
hawkeye - lv 15 - 5/5 max
black widow original - lv 15 - 3/4/1
loki - lv 15 - 1 black/1 purple
magneto classic - lv 15 - 1 purple
spiderman bagman - lv 6 - 3 purple, 1 blue
yelena - lv 1 - 5/5 max

... plus five open spaces and t-minus 125 coins to get a sixth. So at this point i've level maxed seven characters and cover maxed 15, leaving me missing covers for 15 characters (about 110 or so potential power boosts), along with two characters that I've still yet to pull: xforce wolverine and invisible woman.

I figure my next step will be to level up the guys i'd like to use when i pull more covers to their current max: ragnarok (to 38), punisher (to 28) and hulk (to 51). the last of those will obviously take the longest; from there, i guess i work on magnow or classic storm to get them up to max unless i pull enough spidey/ragnarok covers to start fielding them.

hulk tourney feels like it's been going on forever and i've been reengaging with demons souls (of all things) as an alternative to this endless click-click. i wonder when i'll finally burn out on this?

ah and that's a 5/4/4 wolverine there; he's done.

Using Original Black Widow and Modern Storm with maxed green, I managed to take down two Impossible-rated teams in one of the Hulk stages. Wow.

I've been afraid of using OBW because she doesn't have MBW's stun -- are you using her passive / AP stealing abilities to make up for that?

The add +4 to th countdowns is pretty sweet.

xforce wolvie on a heroic pull
also added a punisher and a hood through regular pulls
what's a man gotta do to get some spidey covers

I've been afraid of using OBW because she doesn't have MBW's stun -- are you using her passive / AP stealing abilities to make up for that?

Yeah -- let them have their turn, then steal their AP.

the espionage steal + damage bonus can be really good - i won't be surprised if it gets nerfed

xforce wolvie on a heroic pull
also had this abt 3h ago, from the heroic in the hulk pack, iiiiiinteresting

got one yesterday, leveled him up to 50!

you can do that with two covers?

is yelena any good?

3 covers, 1 red & 2 yellows

got it.

i've never seen anyone use yelena to any great effect yet; she's the one character I've not put a level in.

I immediately sell all yelanas.

I had one, started playing a bit, sold her to free up space. Now I keep getting more recruit tokens!

Ok, what about dark avengers venom?

AFAICT Venom is a damage sponge who can really hurt you if his damage is buffed but is otherwise ignorable

I should probably just sell all my recruit tokens right now

there is some glitch where the last mission on the Venom quest against Yelena and two maggia goons is saying it's "easy" which is completely friggin wrong for me

to the extent where the two 27 level goons can kill my characters in two shots :/

lol I eventually learned not to pay attention to the difficulty descriptions on the mission page.

How I got through those Yelena missions is to make sure to have MBW and M Storm, then match green and blue like a fiend to Lightning Attack/Stun them if I can't manually get rid of the countdown tiles.

Yeah, I died frequently in the mission called "Yelena Belova" while it was listed as Trivial.

omg I think I've actually kicked the game! I'm freeeeeeee.

running with obw, wolvie & spidey. Lucky match 5 lets me put up two tiles first turn. Next match kicks off a cascade. By the time its over, lvl 85 thor downed.

another fun win. buffed im40, wolvie, spidey. only gsbw left from the opponent team, full health. board fulla strike tiles. im40's three yellows kick in, setting off a cascade of matches knocking out gsbw before i make a single match.

i dunno about these "shields" for events; seems like a cheap way to make people need to buy in game currency

i thought so too, but it's not as bad as I thought, because you can't start any matches or you break the shield - so others can rank past you while you're inactive. i've already been going past people in the top 10 in my Double Shot tourney with shields. but i imagine by the last hour or so, all the hardcores will be shielded, so we'll see how bad the effect is

anyways, another week another pointless roster update:

thor - lv 85 max - 5/4/4 max
wolverine astonishing - lv 85 max - 5/4/4 max
daken - lv 69 max - 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 43 - 5/5/3 max
spider man classic - lv 41 (current max) - 2/1/2
black widow modern -lv 40 max - 5/5 max
juggernaut - lv 40 max - 5/5 max
ragnarok - lv 38 (current max) - 2/2
punisher - lv 38 (current max) - 2 green, 2 red
mod hawk - lv 36 - 5/5/3 max
black widow original - lv 30 - 3/5/1
wolverine xforce - lv 30 (current max) - 1 green
hood - lv 28 (current max) - 2 yellow / 1 black
cap murrica - lv 27 - 4/4/5 max
storm classic - lv 27 - 5/5/3 max
black widow grey suit - lv 25 - 2 green / 4 purple
Doom - lv 25 (current max) - 2 black
hulk - lv 24 - 4 green / 2 black
moonstone - lv 21 - 5/3/5 max
bullseye - lv 21 - 1 purple / 5 black
loki - lv 18 - 2 black/1 purple
venom - lv 16 - 5/5 max
hawkeye - lv 15 - 5/5 max
magneto classic - lv 15 (current max) - 1 purple
spiderman bagman - lv 6 - 4 purple / 1 blue
yelena - lv 1 - 5/5 max
and five open spots

still missing invisible woman, grumble grumble
building up original black widow to level fifty before turning attention to hulk. not seeing much point to IM40; still kinda a lame character to me.

the recharge ability is amazing. the rest of him is eh

i gather that with hulk. he's also a damage sponge though.
Original Black widow's powers seem pretty strong when leveled and a good match for thor/wolvie.
so i'm missing 215 potentially usable covers and have worked in 243. this fucking thing's endgame is endless and brutal.

sorry, i mean i gather the same is also true of hulk

endgame? lol there won't be any endgame until you just get sick of it. i'm surprised we haven't already gotten a new character/campaign since Hulk ended, but i suppose they deserve a vacation

i imagine you need lvl 100+ characters to beat those crazy lvl 240 missions they stick in the story episodes. the only one i have with another covers to get there is Iron Man 40 (at lvl 96), and i'm gonna need a lot more ISO for everybody

hulk has a recharge thing?

I feel like I need to know more Marvel lore for the boosts. Does Wolverine count as a mutant? How do I know who's in the X-Men?

they're pretty bad about that honestly - they really should make it more clear. i'm a hardcore Marvel Zombie and I'm not sure if the Anti-Brotherhood or Mutant boosts affect Juggernaut. (let's not even get into the "is Spider-Man a mutant?" thing)

I started playing IM40/Wolverine/Daken in the current tourney, which has been super fun (if I can get a double recharge, it is usually game over)

Also, they could solve the boost issue with icons on the character stat page pretty easily

the level 240 missions were totally doable with somewhat weaker teams, although you won't win every time -- i got them all the first hulk event at least once. wolvie + spidey + lots of boosts. it helped a bunch that wolvie and spidey were buffed for the event. the key against rags & overpowered juggs is to a) play defensively and just deny red matches as much as possible and b) know when there's enough red for a headbutt and make sure yr least essential character gets taken down by it. beyond that, build up strike tiles, and build up blue for stunlock. i also had a very dramatic match where everyone was taken down in my team but cap with about 200 health, and he was left facing juggs with maybe 2000 health? i had just enough blue to keep juggs in a stun loop and whittle him down.