nice
got a blue + yellow Spidey, feelin good
― Euler, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
Steam says I've put 100 hours in. Here's my roster.
Black Widow ** - Lvl 57 - 3/4/4Iron Man * - Lvl 48 - 5/3/5Storm * - Lvl 45 - 5/4/4Wolverine ** - Lvl 36 - 3/5/1Spider-man *** - Lvl 28 - 2/0/1Juggernaut * - Lvl 26 - 5/5Black Widow *** - Lvl 25 - 0/2/0Hulk *** - Lvl 25 - 2/0/0Thor ** - Lvl 22 - 3/1/2Magneto ** - Lvl 21 - 0/3/0Storm ** - Lvl 19 - 2/1/2Daken ** - Lvl 15 - 4/2The Hood *** - Lvl 15 - 0/1/0Cap America ** - Lvl 8 - 0/1/1Hawkeye ** - Lvl 8 - 1/0/1Bullseye ** - 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?
― zanarkand bozo (abanana), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
model 35 isn't strong enough for the bigger battles imo
classic storm > modern storm
― Euler, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
IM35 kind of falls in line with Captain America as an HP tank with good support abilities
― Nhex, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
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
― Euler, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
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.
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
I am still waiting for the opportunity to level up any of my two, three, or four star cards.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Euler, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:56 (ten years ago) link
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
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 20:01 (ten years ago) link
even better if you can pile up enough yellow matches to roll two Recharges at once
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
otm
― Euler, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
euler: heh, i'll keep looking out for "Jex" to stomp...
poly: every time there's a lightning round or opportunity to get a Standard Recruit Token, hit it (even it's just two battles in a lightning round), you'll get a 2* card or better about 15% of the time. Through the Hulk levels and the various lightning rounds I've grabbed about 200 Standard tokens and only 20 Heroic, so your best strategy is to keep going after Standard Tokens until you can start placing in tourneys
djp: yup, that's what i'm doing with a maxed Thor, so I use the reds for him, the greens for wolvie, and yellow for recharge or thor finisher
― Nhex, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
you'll get a 2* card or better about 15% of the time.
That has not been my experience thus far.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 20:19 (ten years ago) link
yes, when using thor + model 40 it's tough to decide whether to hit the recharge or go for the thunder strike. I find myself doing the latter a bunch because it's so fun to bring down 2000+ damage in a hit (augmented by the bazillion wolvie strike tiles I've placed by then)
― Euler, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link
xp Of course, you'll get a ton of 1* cards before a 2* or 3* so it feels like forever. On my own 187 drops that I've tracked:
82.89% 1*13.37% 2*3.74% 3*
Those guys at the D3P forums' numbers are similar:
Chance of 1* 5168 83.03%Chance of 2* 898 14.43%Chance of 3* 158 2.54%
― Nhex, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
The Hunt repeat, new Ares card incoming. Didn't that character die in Siege? Boosted Hulk weekend tourney, too.
― Nhex, Friday, 10 January 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
this whole game takes place during Dark Reign, which happened before Siege
― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 10 January 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Thankful for this update. Sucked grinding that one double shot tournament.
― Jeff, Friday, 10 January 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
xp ohhhhhhh duh. right!
― Nhex, Friday, 10 January 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
Not sure if anyone actually reads these but I had a few spare moments at work and didn't feel like actually finding myself something productive to do. Is this as meaningless as posting your fantasy sports team...?
** Wolverine - 5/5/3 - lvl 85***Iron Man 40 - 5/2/2 - lvl 85** Thor - 3/5/4 - lvl 65** Daken - 5/5 - lvl 62** Original Widow - 5/5/2 - lvl 55** Moonstone - 5/5/3 - lvl 45***Spider-man - 0/2/3 - lvl 40* Juggernaut - 5/5 - lvl 40***Hulk - 4/0/2 - lvl lvl 32** Captain America - 5/5/3 - lvl 31****Wolverine - 0/1/0 - lvl 30** Magneto Now - 2/3/1 - lvl 30* Iron Man 35 - 5/4/4 - lvl 30* Mod Storm - 5/4/4 - lvl 26***Dr. Doom - 2/0 - lvl 25***Ragnarok - 2/0 - lvl 25** Hawkeye Modern - 5/4/3 - lvl 23***Punisher - 0/1/2 - lvl 18***The Hood - 1/1/0 - lvl 18***Grey Widow - 0/1/0 - lvl 15***Loki - 1/0/0 - lvl 15***Magneto - 0/0/1 - lvl 15** Classic Storm - 5/5/2 - lvl 10** Bag-Man - 2/0/0 - lvl 6
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Friday, 10 January 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
Is this as meaningless as posting your fantasy sports team...?
yup! also why everyone loves it
― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 10 January 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
will m ballingdo you run with moonstone much or was that an accidental levelling?
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 January 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 January 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
haven't gotten a daily reward in three days now, wtf
― Euler, Friday, 10 January 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
oh dude, they changed that! see the little green thing in the right corner of the menu screen? You gotta click that. Also you apparently have to take part in at least one battle, no freebies anymore.
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 January 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link
right, but I've been clicking each day (after many battles lol me) & it says I've already gotten the daily reward. suuuuucks
― Euler, Friday, 10 January 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
sounds like a bug
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 January 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
yep, no idea what to do about it. you get what you pay for, I guess
― Euler, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I've gotten one every day.
― Jeff, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
maybe put in a trouble ticket via the mail icon? the people on the d3 forums seem to suggest the devs are regular responders
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
do you run with moonstone much or was that an accidental levelling?
I use her as a sort of backup character, mostly levelled her during the all-lady tournament because my xx connection was a goddamn joke and i was kinda bored of levelling my mains.
She has much more HP than I expected, and her purple skill is kinda nice -- hits hard if there's nothing to teleport, and if there's only one thing to teleport, you can set it up to explode upon landing. Very handy when big strike/prot/etc tiles are climbing up yr butt. Her red blast is very very powerful as well (at 45 it is often doing more than 50% of lvl 85 wolv's red, assuming there are a bunch of red tiles on the board -- mix with IM40's recharge and wolvie to get red gems without click click clicking reds, and preserve the on-board reds due to the big damage boosts).
While she's not at the top of my priority list right now, I am definitely not bummed if I have to use her. My #1 focuses now are levelling OBW and MagNow (if I get more covers) but she's definitely a nice cover to have when I'm not using those two + IM40 + wolvie.
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
hm. i kinda disregarded her.focusing on original widow but unsure who i go to after that... hulk? im40? magnow? hadn't thought about moonshadow
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link
filed a mail ticket, we'll see
looking at the forums, looks like people are up in arms about a Raggie nerf.
― Euler, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
about fucking time imo
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
oh thank fucking god, dude was WAAAAY overpowered
― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
actually, now that i know we're doing the hunt for nine days, i'm gonna bump up modhawk and finally get him into the sixties.
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
agreed! I was jealous of people who had him powered up. not anymore!
devs say next changes will come to:
Invisible Woman (Classic)Thor (Marvel NOW!)Wolverine (X-Force)Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men)Hawkeye (Modern)Magneto (Classic)Spiderman (Classic)
― Euler, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
i think they're gonna start nerfing the 2ap fighters following rag. that shit is overpowered and then some.
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
unsure who i go to after that... hulk? im40? magnow?I would rate magnow and im40 above her, esp. for mag's insane purple power & im40's recharge. dunno about hulk, you can probably ignore moon for the time being if you have those guys on deck tho.
Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men)uh oh
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
who else has a 2ap attack? I will cry when they nerf my wolvie's 3ap green attack though
― Euler, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
^ otm feral claws are my jam
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
fully leveled spidey has a two ap blue web stun that is basically the endgame attack
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
oh shi
― Euler, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
so basically: 2 blue matches = 3 turn stun
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
Spidey's stun stacks with more with each web tile on the board (+1 web tile placed per stun, stun 1 turn per web tile already on the board) so it gets into a pretty sick self-loop. if they up it to 4AP i think it'd be fine
i'm guessing they'll tone down the dmg on the feral claw strike tiles, at a certain point they get ridic. Ragnarok is broken as all hell so it's about time, i'm agree
getting the same bug as Euler, guess I'll email 'em
i'm still IM40. i'm tempted to go with Mags NOW! or O-Black Widow soon. i can buff some more 2/3* characters but i feel like, why bother if i can't get them to at least Lvl 85?
― Nhex, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:37 (ten years ago) link
read: still lvling IM40 - currently at 109. i could complete him with a blue card, but i really want to get recharge to 5 cards.
lol, ares character image is just the most ludicrous looking bit of illustration
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link
also FUCKING INVISIBLE WOMAN NEEDED
i mean in the gamenot as some sort of a sex thingnever mind