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Think of leveling magneto marvel now. His purple is awesome.

yep yep

Lvl 85 OBW :) :) :)

I am destroying the missions without Dark Avengers in ISO-8 event using AstWolvie, OBW (both max) and a lvl 28 Punisher. Molotov Cocktail has gone from being useless to ridiculously amazing, especially if you can roll three of them in succession

magnow is a very good sub for obw with spidey it turns out. his red and blue are barely ever useful tho.

its back to 230s all the way in iso-8. i'm locked in for 3rd place in the 1star tourney at least, so 3 more psy coming my way. in the pve i'm hanging onto #8 by a thread. i'd love to pull 3 black panthers but given that i may have to actually accomplish quite a bit of actual things this week, not sure if i can pull it off.

check back in 20 mins before tourney close, i've been passed up down to 6ths. unshield, 3 quick fights and i'm at 4th, but with 3 unshielded people below me all on the move. one more fight, i shield again and now i'm unintentionally sitting at first.

no game this stupid should be this exciting.

The problem with Magneto Now is that his blue skill is crap, and there are much better red skills. His purple is awesome obviously. I'm using him in this event but I don't know if I'll ever bring him out when he's not powered up.

Just squeezed in a quick bout at the Moonstone/Daken/Ragnarok bout in Algeria using Cap/AstWolvie/MagNow. Nothing went right from the start, watching all the tiles fall in exactly the right order for them to match - particularly greens which all went their way so there are a lot of strike tiles which they're taking out better than I am. Finally I catch a break and with the match that knocks out Moonstone I get Red for AstWolv - run the green power for max strike tiles then hit with red and Daken is gone, but Raggie's first hit wipes out Cap. I'm chipping away but AstWolv is nearly gone and Raggie has over 1500 left - I'm resigned to the fact I'm not going to make the red match with him so check MagNow's red and it's just enough so I hit that for the three turn countdown.

I figure since I'm in there I might as well hit the blue too since I might get some benefit from it. The game puts it RIGHT NEXT TO THE RED as a 1 countdown with no way of matching or separating them far enough. WORST GAME EVER.

Then Raggie uses his ability on his turn that takes out the two centre columns WHICH INCLUDES THE BLUE AND NOT THE RED. I stay alive for one more turn then the red damage kills him. BEST GAME EVER.

I'm using Mag Now for nothing but his purple. Blue is saved entirely for OBW and CStorm. I may use his red if I'm bored.

OBW/CStorm/Mag Now is just a fun team to run. Once you get it rolling, you can obliterate any of the countdown timer teams.

That is exactly the team I'm rolling now.

dammit I don't have MagNow purple, maybe that's why I've been wondering what the big fuss is about him

got my ass served to me last night when I ran OBW/CStorm/MagNow (with my shitty MagNow); lowlight was like aldo's without the raggie column smash. I DIED

MagNow's red isn't bad if you don't have anyone else using red, which I don't when I run OBW/MagNow/Spidey, which allows a whole bunch of blue to feed whichever of OBW/Spi's skills I want to use at any given moment (and occasionally just do one-turn-countdown 1-2k damage attacks)

yeah that was my sitch, I just didn't have the power to win that one. came back later with cap and smashed it.

my l~60 OBW + l~60 CStorm + my maxed Cap have been rocking nicely in the iso-8 tourney. running red with cap turns out to be a pretty steady way to wreck havoc; and getting yellow just leads to an unexpected mid battle battalion of shields that means I take essentially no damage from there on out.

yeah when cap's been required i've been able to use his red as a countdown destroyer with reasonable efficiency. not anyone i'd ever drag along by choice still.

i've had so many wipeouts with the last batch of Brotherhood missions

So I got three heroic tokens from this latest ISO8 level thing. And then I proceed to pull three classic storm covers, a character I've already maxed out.a jkldfjklasjdkfl ajfuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafuck.

Forget it Jeff, this is MPQ.

As it stands, I may have to take a break from this game for a while, so the most I'm going to get to do with it is to sell expiring covers.

Cost 2500 ISO to create an alliance??? I got none to spare.

I'm feeling pretty burned out too. Probably not gonna stop though...

At least respec got into the patch today

"Event time is now handled by the server"

wait, what? I could have been exploiting this shit?

What's the best Ares build?

Damn, every boost is retired except for Critical.

I'm tempted to start an alliance, but I want to confirm first that you can hold more than 5 people - otherwise it feels like kind of a waste

xp yes, people were exploiting it

Every boost? Except critical?? that sucks. Makes mags now more essential though.

I hope they have some more of those levels with all 230s. Sure didn't need boosts for those.

Yeah, there are new boosts but all the ones you've won to date are now dead.

Anybody without a levelled Psylocke is going to struggle on the new pvp according to my first three fights.

They like to do these tourneys right after a new character has been introduced, as they shouldn't be too many high-leveled Psylockes out there yet... for now

yep, worked all day no time to hit the refresh. fell to 14. guess i gotta resign myself to only 2 covers here, at best.

or maybe i should stop playing it and work on all the other stuff i have to do in my life.

What's the best Ares build?

― Euler, Monday, February 24, 2014 4:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

5 yellow, 4 green, 4 red. this is universally agreed on.

or maybe i should stop playing it and work on all the other stuff i have to do in my life.

Pfft.

What's the best Ares build?

5 yellow, 4 green, 4 red. this is universally agreed on.

thanks! I'd been sitting on a red ares in case this was true.

ladies and gentlemen, please join your new guild: ILX-Factor

wait only five members?
JUSTIFY YOUR ENTRY

omg this 5 members thing. i bet the forums are blowing up

also here:

**OG BWidow - *85 of 85 (max) - 3/5/5 (max)
**Thor - *85 of 85 (max) - 5/4/4 (max)
**Wolverine Astonishing - *85 of 85 (max) - 5/4/4 (max)
***Spidey - *77 of 77 (141 max) - 3/2/3 (5 left)
**Daken - *69 of 69 (max) - 5/5 (max)
**ModHawk - 67 of 85 - 5/5/3 (max)
**MagNow - 58 of 85 - 5/5/3 (max)
***IM 40 - 55 of 89 (141 max) - 4/3/2 (4 left)
***Punisher - 51 of 64 (141 max) - 1/4/2 (6 left)
*IM 35 - *50 of 50 (max) - 5/4/4 (max)
*ModStorm - *50 of 50 (max) - 5/5/3 (max)
***Ragnarok - 43 of 64 (115 max) - 3/3 (4 left)
*ModBWidow - 40 of 40 (max) - 5/5 (max)
*Juggernaut - *40 of 40 (max) - 5/5 (max)
**Ares - 38 of 45 (85 max) - 2/0/5 (6 left)
***Hulk - 35 of 77 (141 max) - 5/0/2 (6 left)
****Invisible Woman - *34 of 34 (230 max) - 1/1/0 (11 left)
***Doc Doom - 33 of 41 (115 max) - 3/1 (6 left)
***Classic Mag - 33 of 41 (141 max) - 3/0/1 (9 left)
**Classic Storm - 31 of 85 - 5/5/3 (max)
***Wolverine Patch - *30 of 30 (141 max) - 2/1/1 (9 left)
****Wolverine X-Force - *30 of 30 (230 max) - 1/0/0 (12 left)
***Hood - 28 of 41 (141 max) - 3/0/1 (9 left)
***Loki - 28 of 38 (115 max) - 2/2 (6 left)
**Cap - 27 of 85 - 4/4/5 (max)
***Grey BWidow - 25 of 77 (141 max) - 3/0/4 (6 left)
**Moonstone - 21 of 85 - 5/3/5 (max)
**Bullseye - 21 of 53 (69 max) - 3/5 (2 left)
***Daredevil - *18 of 18 (141 max) - 0/1/1 (11 left)
*Venom - 16 of 40 - 5/5 (max)
*Classic Hawk - 15 of 40 - 5/5 (max)
**Bagman - 7 of 53 (85 max) - 4/2/3 (4 left)
*Yelena - 1 of 40 - 5/5 (max)

4 open slots, 350 HP.

At your service, commander Derp.

btw just got a DD on a standard draw, my first. FUCK YEAH

i admit, i love how under the new PVP system when you get those random victories

i took the last spots, sorry snooze bros

due to not unlocking the new boosts i decided to try and hit this round unboosted (all 230s, basically). didn't emerge from a single fight without one casualty, but nailed them all without a loss. i guess everyone else is reeling/attiring too because this shot me back up to #10 in my main bracket. still haven't tackled a few or the "character required" missions, but at least got thru the core progression. one fight vs. dark avengers i lost patch and psy both so poor spidey was left facing off against a 230 juggs with no strike tiles on the board, whittling away 25-120 pts each hit but miraculously maintaining enough blue to keep that stunlock on. next fight i ran spidey/magnow/patch vs. the dark avengers and a lucky cascade knocked out my patch early on again, with _all three_ 230 da still left, and mags with only 400 life. magnow's purple kept spidey fed, and the red, when he could pull it off was clutch as my only damage ability at all. man that was a slow grind.

so i appreciate that sorta challenge at least, though maybe not in every single fight.

i think i need a new strat, or a team w/better synergy than Iron Man 40/Spidey/Punisher - it's a crapshoot if i can get past the Lvl 150 stages, and 200-ish forget it. And this is with a maxed Spidey and a 128 IM40!

yeah im40 and punisher don't really have much to offer in the goon fights -- there, board control matters way more than pure dps. i imagine they'd be good tanks against dark avengers tho?

looking at your roster, spidey/obw/pun? or spidey/cmags/pun? heck, spidey/daken/obw?

my formula is always spidey + one damage dealer + one other support character of some sort.

Wireless connection is spotty @ home, this may be a fortunate turn of events.

i do even worse against the DA teams, they slaughter me w/DPS before i can get a web loop going
i kind of look at Spidey as the support character, since he's all healing/defense. problem i see with pairing him w/OBW is that you have that blue overlap and deciding which level of heal you want
both my Mags are pretty low, like 40-ish. you're right though, i need a better attacker in the mix

i don't launch into a web loop until i acquire a ton of blue usually. that's why i need either obw or cmags or the like. i never use her blue. instead i use her espionage and purple to deny abilities and feed spidey -- careful play can keep the DA from getting enough AP to set off any really significant moves, and if you notice they have enough to launch something rough, you lock down _just that person_. similarly against daken it pays to have a green user (like patch, or i guess ares would work too) and you _just_ lock him down whenever you want to collect green. once he gets a few strike tiles out he's deadly, so denying those is key to ever winning those fights.

i agree spidey is support, but to take on those massive teams you need the synergy of two different support players and to play basically defensively, mitigating their ability to demolish you until you've acquired enough AP to take them down quick.

The main advantage of patch in this situation is that once he gets out his green, you don't need too many turns of stunlock to knock down the opposing team. obw has double synergy too because with espionage damage she can make those strikes hit twice. I've taken down 5000 hp at once with the right lucky cascade.

I'm basically alternative with Magsnow/OBW/Storm and Magsnow/OBW/Thor. RIP Wolvie, finally.