so this week:
thor - lv 85 max - 5/4/4 maxwolverine astonishing - lv 85 max - 5/4/4 maxdaken - lv 69 max - 5/5 maxmod hawk - lv 55 - 5/5/3 maxiron man 40 - lv 51 - 4/2/2iron man 35 - lv 50 max - 5/4/4 maxstorm modern - lv 50 max- 5/5/3 maxmagneto NOW - lv 43 - 5/5/3 maxspider man classic - lv 41 (current max) - 2/1/2black widow modern -lv 40 max - 5/5 maxjuggernaut - lv 40 max - 5/5 maxblack widow original - lv 39 - 3/5/2ragnarok - lv 38 (current max) - 2/2 punisher - lv 38 (current max) - 2 green, 2 redwolverine xforce - lv 30 (current max) - 1 greenDoom - lv 28 (current max) - 2 black / 1 bluehood - lv 28 (current max) - 2 yellow / 1 blackcap murrica - lv 27 - 4/4/5 maxstorm classic - lv 27 - 5/5/3 maxblack widow grey suit - lv 25 - 2 green / 4 purplehulk - lv 24 - 4 green / 2 blackmoonstone - lv 21 - 5/3/5 maxbullseye - lv 21 - 1 purple / 5 blackloki - lv 18 - 2 black/1 purplevenom - lv 16 - 5/5 maxhawkeye - lv 15 - 5/5 maxmagneto classic - lv 15 (current max) - 1 purpleares - lv 13 (current max) - 2 yellowspiderman bagman - lv 6 - 4 purple / 2 blueyelena - lv 1 - 5/5 maxand four open spots
building mod hawk through this hunt tourney; hoping i can get him up to lv 70 and will then get back to Orig BW.i don't know why i can't get an invisible woman. is it my breath?playing this notably less; i have 25 medpacks. there was a time they would've all been burnt. they need a new tourney more than new covers at this point; starting to feel a bit stale.
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 January 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
seems to me like making new tourneys would be super easy compared to the work with developing and balancing a new character; we'll have to wait until the weekend to see, but i'm guessing it'll be a week AFTER this version of The Hunt ends that we'll see a new set of tourneys/story missions
do you still bother using Daken? i have him up to 55, not sure i want to bring him up to 69. same thing with my modern hawkeye, stalled him at 45, don't have the stomach to take him to 85. Classic Spidey's getting most of my ISO at this point
― Nhex, Monday, 13 January 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
yeah, i've mostly skipped daken now except as a backup character if thor is ailing. i'm seeing the benefit of modhawk, especially in this tourney. If i could get a few more spiderman covers i would absolutely use him.
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 January 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
daken/wolverine/thor is good for the midrange game; i'm wanting to take the next step and I'm pretty sure that's a blue/purple offensive/defensive to go with thor's red/yellow and wolverine's green. for now, that's modhawk, after this tourney it will be og black widow and if ANY covers come in i'd certainly like to cycle in spidey.
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 January 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
why the fuck not
wolvie astonishing - l85 max - 5/4/4thor - l82 - 4/4/5iron man model 40 - l77 - 5/2/3the good captain - l56 - 5/3/5hulk - l53 - 4 green/1 blackstorm classic - l51 - 5/3/4wolvie x-force - l50 - 1 red/2 yellowstorm modern - l41 - 5/5/3daken - l40 - 4/3iron man model 35 - l38 - 3/5/5ragnarok - l37 - 2/2spidey classic - l34 - 1/3/1hawkeye modern - l33 - 5/4/3black widow original - l31 - 3/2/5black widow modern - l30 - 5/5invisible woman - l30 - 1 greenjuggernaut - l28 - 5/5punisher - l28 - 1 black/2 greenmoonstone - l25 - 4/4/5doctor doom - l25 - 2 blackmagneto now - l19 - 3 blue/1 redloki - l15 - 2/1hood - l15 - 1 blackbullseye - l14 - 5/4ares - l8 - 1 green/1 yellowbagman - l6 - 1 purple
― Euler, Monday, 13 January 2014 21:29 (ten years ago) link
shit, meant
daken - l40 - 5/4
not sure how much further to level him? this thread was my main reason for leveling him; he seems underpowered to me but this thread was hype about him, but now maybe that's receding?
I def shouldn't have slept on hawkeye modern, that blue blast is fierce. & not just b/c of the buff.
def need a blue/purple backup to whoever I have tanking, so tired of feeling like purple matches are a waste
― Euler, Monday, 13 January 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
daken's great early on, but his usefulness peters out once you get your wolvie maxed. he was also key in the dark avengers tourney. i'd go with obw over modern hawkeye.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Monday, 13 January 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
is cap a legit tank when heavily levelled? or more of a solid second stringer?
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 January 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
wtf is with the "we powered up these characters for this tourney!" meaning that my hawkeye is normally under 1000 hit points but he has like 4k when the level loads
― mh, Monday, 13 January 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
I've been happy when the good captain is my tank, but mine's only level 56 so he's a second stringer for me now. maybe when he's stronger he'll be a first stringer; certainly those shield throws are essential in countdown boards. he's been buffed in so many tourneys that he's been well worth the level so far though, and I end up using him on my A team a bunch in those tourneys
― Euler, Monday, 13 January 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link
I've gotten sick of the PvP tourneys because I'm tired of fighting level 85 wolvie + level 85 thor in every fucking match. I'm guilty too! (well, level 81 thor right now, but same difference.) I think there's an easy solution to this: jack up the hp on some other characters, like say black widow and storm. as it is, I put others in battle & they're squashed before I get any real damage off. and it sucks to collect blue that you can't use. I'll win the battle but everyone'll end up hurt, and there ends up being no real strategy in it: just bash bash bash. which is ok! but it could be much better.
― Euler, Monday, 13 January 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
i have Cap maxed at 85; solid second-stringer for REAL FIGHTS. you need solid characters to survive while you build up your red/blue AP to get your loop on. once you do though, it's pretty nice - red ability hits for 1000+, and loop stun is extremely helpful in punching above your weight class.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
Current A-team:O. BW level 69 (maxed) 3/4/4Astonishing Wolverine level 62 3/5/3Mod Storm level 50 (maxed) 5/4/4
OBW with 4+ black goes very well with Wolvie. I want to replace Mod Storm with O. Storm but she's stuck at level 29 (2/2/2). I sold all my other single * characters for slots.
― zanarkand bozo (abanana), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 01:50 (ten years ago) link
If I need to sell off a cover to open up a roster spot (for my 3* Magneto), I shouldn't be too attached with my 4/5 Venom (unleveled), right?
― Neil Nosepicker (Leee), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 05:00 (ten years ago) link
nope, trash him
― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 06:15 (ten years ago) link
is astonishing (copping a squat on a rock) wolverine good?
― mh, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
yeah, one of my mains. max out green for sure, and red/yellow abilities both great too.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
currently sweeping up a lot of mid-20s teams in the tourneys using a classic storm/entry-level iron man combo plus whatever they give me
trying to power up my modern hawkeye, though
― mh, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
It's kind of startling how quickly Astonishing Wolvie goes from "meh" to indispensible
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link
is it... astonishing?
― mh, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
haha, i agree. when i first got him i thought he was junk and didn't bother
― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
damn u mh
― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
I've been using wolvie/OBW almost exclusively. Just easy to restore HP with them, so downtime is minimal.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
thanking u, mh
Daken/Wolvie is still doing really, really well for me as long as I play smart about matches; also if I'm in a mission event with NPCs those two can demolish basically anyone as long as there's a good tank to soak up incidental dmg. I plan to level OBW and Spidey nex to boost healing potential across all character combos.
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
I might level up moonstone for the hell of it since I'm going to hopefully have a bunch of her covers after these hulk tourneys
― mh, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
Moonstone seems like a dark horse weapon for the bad guy and all women tournaments
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
she is my james k. polk
― mh, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
your Napoleon of the stump
those single player missions where you can fight her at lvl 100 makes me wish you could actually level her up that far
― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
haha no kidding
― SHAUN (DJP), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
Has anyone ever beat these levels with the 240 level characters? I Won't even try.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
My A team got beat by the 120-120-120 team with Ares this morning, not even gonna try anything bigger than that.
― Euler, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
i was able to squeak by that 120/120/120 team twice - i lost at least 4 or 5 times to get luck out those two wins though, and this was maximum "stratagery" w/a lvl 110 Iron Man Model 40, lvl 85 Cap, and *sigh* useless lvl 53 Invisible Woman (required). had to rush to get IM40's recharge while Cap took the hits, hoping he wouldn't die long enough to hit his Blue stun power. At that level, Iron Man's Red Unibeam power does crazy boosted dmg (6000+) for this event
― Nhex, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
I beat the 240/240/240 today! And it forced me to bring Hulk. He was crazy upgraded though and I managed ot get quite lucky. Had my MagNow around 30 or 40, 85 Wolvie and 40ish Hulk (with like 8k HP due to the upgrades). +20% dark avengers, +20% green/black (further boosting hulk's already boosted strengths) and +3 all stock (i think). First play I managed to actually hit a few greens on a lucky combo, and I tihnk one red match, which meant I had 5 red (2 strike tiles per feral). By my third move I think I had 6-8 strike tiles out and I was doing nearly 1000 a hit. Mostly I'd try to hit more greens and blacks due to the damage and due to hulk being a HP soak... occasionally breaking to pop some purples (hitting magnow's superblue attack = crazy damage if the crit tile lands right). It was also the containment breach level which I think I used once.
I don't think Rag or Ares (my 2nd target) even used a special ability. By the time I got to Venom I was more or less 50% hulk, 50% mag, 100% wolvie... venom did crush the first two though, but for most of the match I had 12 strike tiles around 90 dmg per so I was cutting them down.
Would've been far harder with ANY other dark avenger tho I think. Esp Daken. He'd likely crowd me out on strike tiles and slice me to bits.
When I finished the match though... the hunt mission had ENDED. i thought i missed out on my points. But they were counted for the global and I think the level too! Because I hit top 100 hwne i tihkn i was supposed ot hit top 200!
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
i've beat the 240s a few times but found i don't need them to place where i want, so it tends not to be worth the effort.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
it's sick but i kinda did it for the thrill :( this game is a problem
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 05:17 (ten years ago) link
haha, i feel ya. but i'm still impressed you were able to beat it with such a low level team, even with the hulk buff!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 05:37 (ten years ago) link
Gah, I keep getting creamed by 125 rag/dak/moon. Just can't get rag down before he starts hammering me. And too many attack tiles from dak.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 14:15 (ten years ago) link
yeah, that's a mean motherfucker
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
It sucks because it makes me use punisher, who even buffed is worthless.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
I love Punisher and think I'm gonna love him more once I get more covers; the black attack is where it's at, I think.
― Euler, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
I like the character as is, but he needs some buffs. Red ability is great but not good enough to make up for all weak and easily ignored his green/black abilities are. They should be much stronger, especially compared to someone like Doctor Doom whose Black strike tile ability is just sick. My Punisher's at 50-something though.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 15:48 (ten years ago) link
ah, yeah mine's at level 28, so I'm projecting. also his black attack gets a boost from all the wolvie strike tiles I cast, especially the first area attack...and area attacks are kinda hard to come by in this game
― Euler, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
I do like Pun's Green attack, but it's random targeting so it's a crapshoot sometimes if that will hurt or help you
― Nhex, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
ha! Wolverine (Patch) is real; got accidentally leaked last week on the D3P forums, looks like he's the newest reward.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
oh shi
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
whoa!
― mh, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
they should give him a 50+ ability that instantly kills the entire opposing team
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
Black - "Best There Is at What I Do" Interior Monologue slows pace of the match by 1/2 for all characters (allies/enemies) but Patch
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
pleeeease add Mr. Fixit now and give a bonus if they're on the same team
― mh, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
Seriously though, they couldn't have gotten a better Patch cover than one that features Hulk more than Wolverine?
― Nhex, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link