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got two gold ** tokens from the last two events, and just drew them: a Psylocke & a purple MagNow! things are looking up around here

so in the spirit of that:

iron man model 40 - l91 - 5/2/3
thor - l85 max - 4/4/5
captain america - l85 max - 5/3/5
wolvie astonishing - l85 max - 5/4/4
black widow original - l68 - 4/3/5
storm classic - l62 - 5/3/5
hulk - l53 - 5 green/1 black
daken - l51 - 5/5
wolvie x-force - l50 - 1 red/2 yellow
spidey classic - l48 - 1/4/2
storm modern - l41 - 5/5/3
ares - l39 - 4/4/5
iron man model 35 - l38 - 3/5/5
ragnarok - l37 - 2/2
hawkeye modern - l33 - 5/4/4
invisible woman - l32 - 1 blue / 1 green
black widow modern - l30 - 5/5
juggernaut - l28 - 5/5
punisher - l28 - 1 black/2 green
moonstone - l25 - 4/4/5
doctor doom - l25 - 2 black
magneto now - l20 - 4/2/1
loki - l19 - 2/2
black widow grey suit - l15 - 2 green
hood - l15 - 1 yellow / 1 black
daredevil - l15 - 1 blue
psylocke - l15 - 1 red
bullseye - l14 - 5/5
bagman - l6 - 3/1/1

*** Patch 	L102	2/3/5
** O. Black Widow 	L85 	3/5/5 max
** C. Storm 	L85 	5/5/3 max
** Captain America 	L85	3/5/5 max
*** Doctor Doom 	L77 	5/2
** N. Magneto 	L74 (of 85)	4/5/4 max
** Bullseye 	L69 	5/5 max
** Daken 	L69	5/5 max
** Moonstone 	L53 (of 69)	2/4/5
*** Spider-Man 	L51 	2/0/3
*** Loki 	L41 (of 53)	1/4
*** The Hood 	L38	2/2/0
*** The Hulk	L38 	3/0/0
*** Daredevil 	L38 	2/0/2
**** Invisible Woman 	L34 	0/1/1
** Ares 	L32 (of 61)	3/2/5
**** X. Wolverine 	L30 	0/0/1
** M. Hawkeye 	L30 (of 46)	1/4/3
*** Iron Man M40 	L30	2/1/1
*** The Punisher 	L28 	2/0/1
*** Psylocke	L28	2/0/1
*** G.S. Black Widow 	L25 	0/2/0
*** Ragnarok 	L18 	1/1
** Thor 	L16 	2/1/1
** A. Wolverine 	L14	2/0/1
* M. Storm 	L11 (of 50)	5/3/5 max
* Iron Man M35	L6 (of 12)	3/1/1
* M. Black Widow	L1 	0/1

Still no Classic Magneto :(

Okay, Nhex i know but who is Jex, Jheath and Scv in the ILX-Factor group? Lemme know or I'm gonna kick you and invite ILX joinees

Jheath = Jeff

Scv = s.clover?

dan, you're not in?

kick Jex tho so I can join :-D

Yo soy Jex

I would have joined as either djperry or Maggott, depending on which team I wanted to share with others (djperry is a stronger team but Maggott is named after Maggott)

so Euler, Jeff, Sclover, Nhex and me? Is that accurate?

yep

Yes, I'm in.

is it still max 5 ppl? boo urns

it's a dumb restriction for sure

hopefully it'll open up shortly

otherwise: WARRING ILX FACTIONS

btw I feel so dumb for having mostly ignored OBW until this current tourney, because she is amazing. think I said she will be nerfed but I dunno, her hp are pretty low, so I'm not sure about that anymore

running OBW + CStorm + someone tanky is working out really well for me. call me captain obvious, sentinel of liberty

yep, djp otm on who i is.

I maxed OBW out thanks to this tourney and i want to make an alt that is 5/3/5 instead of 5/5/3 (the joy of running different teams on different devices, lol)

my OBW is 4-3-5 and I'm gonna go for 5-3-5, because I'm killing it on the purple drain already & the cycling with 5 purple is going to be sick

I'm going to respec my OBW to 3/5/5 once I get a cover. Currently 4/5/5, which is fine, but now that I'm using magsnow purple all the time, the 4 isn't really needed.

4/5/5? I'm reporting you!

doh, 4/5/4 I mean.

yeah, mine's at 5/5/3 right now... am I misremembering or did OBW not have a black power when I started her? I feel like I had her at 5/4 before I even noticed espionage...

Yeah, she was a two-power character at first.

Got an xforce wolvie on a standard pull. Now I just need to get lucky about 8 more times.

i've had a particularly shitty run of token pulls; I don't think i've gotten anything that i could use in about a week.

landed a hulk red and i'm now 5/2/5. whoo. also just placed not great in psy tourney but still got a blue mags, putting me at 4/5/1 which is usable finally, if barely so.

(cmags that is)

Maybe because of all the bugs from the past week, but a bunch of my standard tokens got converted to Heroic tokens today (like, 18). Not as good as the Assault Team special tokens I should've gotten, but still, better than nothing.

CStorm/MagNow/Spidey is a FANTASTIC team

Fighter/resource gatherer/healer

yer right, it's a GREAT team, i'm pumping more iso into Mags Now

who tanks in that team?

storm, i would guess

Spidey, essentially. You go for as much blue and yellow as you can, throwing out enough Spidey stuns to slow their dmg output to where it's manageable for the team and so that when their first character drops, you can heal back up to full. If you can take down that first opposing member without losing anyone, the match is effectively over and you win because you can then use Spidey to stun-lock the other two opposing characters and heal incidental damage while generating tons of blue with MagNow's purple, using CStorm's green to periodically reset the board (and gather extra tiles).

also with that combo there's no interference or backlash with MagNow's red, which is a rigorous backhand to whomever you are trying to burn down that can trigger fantastic cascades for you

all that's missing is a character for black; if Punisher's Molotov Cocktail targeted black instead of red I'd consider swapping out CStorm for him because if you can get three up that put an attack tile on the board every turn, your damage output gets silly (although it feels much more effective if you have Pun grouped with a strike tile character, esp. Daken or AstWolvie because it seems that every tick gets that bonus dmg and you can get to the point where a turn with a single match knocks off well over 1K)

(CStorm does end up taking the most dmg initially but I suspect some of that is due to my character levels: 61 CStorm/51 Spidey/32 MagNow)

(89)IM40-(85)OBW-(71)MagNow = i spend more than half of every match w/ 30 blue AP

yeah that sounds nice

I have rediscovered 2 star wolvie during the last couple of days: his strike tiles + OBW espionage makes for a nasty & quick beating.

maxed my OBW at 77 this morning; need need need a purple cover for her & feel the desperation to spend 500 hp to get it. 500 hp that I don't have...but could...ugggggggh

both of those

guess I oughta work on my MagNow!

IM40/OBW/MagNow sounds like a great combo as long as you can absorb the damage output (which I guess you can given OBW's heal; as long as she's alive, your team is alive) but I am getting way into the damage mitigation-style you can play with Spidey (similar to how I didn't find my niche in WoW until I discovered the discipline priest healing build, which spent more time preventing damage from happening than it did replenishing health)

btw Captain + OBW + Spidey would also be good for damage mitigation: use Spidey to get purple to build up shields, feeding OBW purple, which you use to get yellow to get Cap's shields. at l85 & 5 yellow covers, you get four shields *each* covering 150 damage.

I've been running this with cstorm instead of Spidey but I oughta level spidey up and try to run this

hmm yeah, I guess if Cap is suppressing dmg, you don't actually need Spidey's heals; also Cap's shields would last longer that Spidey's stuns

you do miss out on the ability to control the entire board, though, which is the other thing I love about rolling stuns on the opposing team

I rarely play with a hp tank. Just haven't felt the need to.

you could roll stuns with spidey's blue though; like you're not even relying on cap's blue shield in that strat

ran cap + thor + OBW last night in the russia battle with three l+120 mutants; OBW got taken out early by a merciless crush, then took out one of the baddies but next lost thor to another merciless crush, so just had cap against two; but I'd acquired enough red to take out one of the two baddies, and had enough blue to take out the next merciless crush, then cycled enough blue and red to wipe out the last baddie. it was slow but exhilarating

you could roll stuns with spidey's blue though; like you're not even relying on cap's blue shield in that strat

aren't you using blue with OBW to patch up from dmg if you are facing non-NPCs? I agree that if you are facing countdown goons with no names that having a direct heal is much less important

W/this strat I usually end up "tanking" with Storm, as it's a mad rush to collect blue and purple at the beginning to fire off Wind Storm. Spidey's web is usually saved for the end to kill the last guy (usually Daken) and heal