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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.

wolvie astonishing - l85 max - 5/4/4
thor - l76 - 4/4/5
iron man model 40 - l73 - 5/2/3
the good captain - l56 - 5/3/5
storm classic - l51 - 5/3/4
wolvie x-force - l50 - 1 red/2 yellow
hulk - l42 - 4 green/1 black
storm modern - l41 - 5/5/3
daken - l39 - 4/3
iron man model 35 - l38 - 3/5/5
ragnarok - l32 - 2/2
black widow original - l31 - 3/2/4
black widow modern - l30 - 5/5
invisible woman - l30 - 1 green
juggernaut - l28 - 5/5
spidey classic - l28 - 2 blue/1 purple
punisher - l28 - 1 black/2 green
moonstone - l25 - 3/4/5
doctor doom - l25 - 2 black
magneto now - l6 - 3 blue/1 red
loki - l15 - 2 black
hood - l15 - 1 black
bullseye - l14 - 5/2
hawkeye modern - l13 - 5/3/2
bagman - l6 - 1 purple

finding that starting with 1 green/black +3 boost I can beat anyone in the double up tourney with wolvie + model 40 + thor

hulk & punisher are gonna be fab if I can hang in there that long

I finally got all the rewards in the regular levels. Kind of sad, I don't like having to grind with the events.

Thor is prob a better tank but I just like spamming the board full of Daken tiles and then matching them away to make room for stronger Wolvie tiles while IM40 pumps reds

swapping between Wolvie and Daken and watching them heal up from dmg while the other one tanks for a bit is also fun

My level 38 original black widow is awesome, great for expedited healing. Just go to a lower level, focus and getting the blues and then use maxed out anti-gravity device. 500+ health each time.

And if you do it on a spidey level, you can use his yellow power as well.

I typically use "Rocket Men" in the Osborn chapter - it's 3 weak Hammer soldiers, I can usually get off one or two OBW heals in a run. Even if you get hit, it's only a few hundred HP. Any other good safe stages for this sort of thing?

I use venom - tall dark nasty. Just block him from getting black.

racist

hulk has a recharge thing?
― Nhex

I finally got all the rewards in the regular levels. Kind of sad, I don't like having to grind with the events.

Big reason why I quit. Back to lurking...

Recharge >>>>> Anger (not that Anger isn't useful, esp with Wolvie/Daken)

heavily levelled anger can knock out two players! I've been ganked by it a few times now.

yes, that's one of the reasons I think Hulk is gonna be a great team player, once I get him leveled a bit more

in my double up tourney I just got ahead of two people using shields; I guess it just locks your score, but not your place in the tourney, so you could still fall back. it keeps you from having to grind to keep your score, but it doesn't prevent others from leaping ahead of you. so it seems like an even dumber thing to spend ca$h on now than I thought before

I was just in a lightning round match where the other guy's HP doubled after the first turn. How'd that happen? I still won.

8 hours until tourney end, shields having noticeable effects: half the top 10 in my bracket have shields (and several who fell below), and this is the first tourney I've seen where people have hit the max pts for non-leaderboard rewards AND exceeded it - in this case, 1400pts for X-Force Wolverine. I may try to grind for this before I go to bed. #1 spot currently has 1682pts!

nhex War Journal:
Seeing as how I was able to get through the whole rewards ladder for Double Shot, I got that X-Force Wolverine and 150HP along the way. I grinded my way to #1 last night and bought an 8 hour shield, which cost 100HP, so I'm still coming out ahead. In the morning, pretty much everyone in the top 10 except one or two players were shielded, who were furiously grinding to get to #1. I ended up somewhere in the top 5, which is what I was aiming for, I just wanted a Blue Spider-Man card. (I've would've been happy with Top 15 just for that reward.)

Important thing to note is that when you or anyone is shielded, they can still be attacked - the shield just protects you from losing points (I saw that I was attacked once overnight, and would've lost 49 points, which would've knocked me down a tier). You still gain points for beating a shielded player, so you can keep attacking them over and over again and they won't lose points while you'll keep gaining them indefinitely. That's why the point totals have gotten so inflated. The great benefit of this is that it makes it much easier to grind your way through those guaranteed rewards.

nice

got a blue + yellow Spidey, feelin good

Steam says I've put 100 hours in. Here's my roster.

Black Widow ** - Lvl 57 - 3/4/4
Iron Man * - Lvl 48 - 5/3/5
Storm * - Lvl 45 - 5/4/4
Wolverine ** - Lvl 36 - 3/5/1
Spider-man *** - Lvl 28 - 2/0/1
Juggernaut * - Lvl 26 - 5/5
Black Widow *** - Lvl 25 - 0/2/0
Hulk *** - Lvl 25 - 2/0/0
Thor ** - Lvl 22 - 3/1/2
Magneto ** - Lvl 21 - 0/3/0
Storm ** - Lvl 19 - 2/1/2
Daken ** - Lvl 15 - 4/2
The Hood *** - Lvl 15 - 0/1/0
Cap America ** - Lvl 8 - 0/1/1
Hawkeye ** - Lvl 8 - 1/0/1
Bullseye ** - Lvl 7 - 1/2/0

Just sold a maxed Modern Black Widow for a few extra O. BW levels and a slot. Should I bother with IM35 and Modern Storm or should I just go straight to Wolverine/Thor/Daken?

model 35 isn't strong enough for the bigger battles imo

classic storm > modern storm

IM35 kind of falls in line with Captain America as an HP tank with good support abilities

model 35's shields are decent, I'll give you that. so are the good captain's, but his cost too much

btw I saw you again, Nhex, in PvP, but I skipped you this time since your team looks like a beast

I always have buyers regret when leveling up. Can never decide should I build up new people or just keep trying to max out my A team.

I've decided to follow a threshold strategy. Basically, I am picking a cornerstone character to level to a particular plateau (at this point, lvl 60) and alternating that with leveling characters I haven't maxed on cards yet to their current ceiling, with the idea being that I'll have a front line all about the same level with a bunch of backups at a high enough level to be worth using if a front liner dies, avoiding the need to use health packs.

I am still waiting for the opportunity to level up any of my two, three, or four star cards.

taking my wolvie to max made a huge difference in my success, so I've been putting most of my iso-8 into my other a-teamers, Thor & model 40. but they cost SO much to level that I get impatient and level up b-teamers like classic storm and captain america too. I want to be ready when they buff new heroes.

I seriously adore the IM40/Wolvie combo

pop a recharge, protect the countdowns, load up on strike tiles during IM40 stun, hit Adamantium slash, boom practically any opposing character you want to target is dead

even better if you can pile up enough yellow matches to roll two Recharges at once

otm