Yo soy Jex
― Euler, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
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)
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
so Euler, Jeff, Sclover, Nhex and me? Is that accurate?
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
yep
― Euler, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
Yes, I'm in.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
is it still max 5 ppl? boo urns
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
it's a dumb restriction for sure
― Euler, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:05 (ten years ago) link
hopefully it'll open up shortly
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
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
― Euler, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
yep, djp otm on who i is.
― eric banana (s.clover), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
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)
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
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
― Euler, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
4/5/5? I'm reporting you!
― eeeLuvium (Leee), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
doh, 4/5/4 I mean.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
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...
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 23:36 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, she was a two-power character at first.
― eeeLuvium (Leee), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link
Got an xforce wolvie on a standard pull. Now I just need to get lucky about 8 more times.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
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.
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
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.
― eric banana (s.clover), Thursday, 27 February 2014 05:35 (ten years ago) link
(cmags that is)
― eric banana (s.clover), Thursday, 27 February 2014 05:36 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Nhex, Thursday, 27 February 2014 05:54 (ten years ago) link
CStorm/MagNow/Spidey is a FANTASTIC team
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:30 (ten years ago) link
Fighter/resource gatherer/healer
― Jeff, Thursday, 27 February 2014 13:46 (ten years ago) link
yer right, it's a GREAT team, i'm pumping more iso into Mags Now
― Nhex, Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:07 (ten years ago) link
who tanks in that team?
― Euler, Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
storm, i would guess
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
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)
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
(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)
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
(89)IM40-(85)OBW-(71)MagNow = i spend more than half of every match w/ 30 blue AP
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
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
― Euler, Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:41 (ten years ago) link
both of those
guess I oughta work on my MagNow!
― Euler, Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
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)
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
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
― Euler, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
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
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
I rarely play with a hp tank. Just haven't felt the need to.
― Jeff, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
you could roll stuns with spidey's blue though; like you're not even relying on cap's blue shield in that strat
― Euler, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
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
― Euler, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
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
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
xp I guess you heal once or so with OBW but then you'll have control and you're set damage wise
nb I have not tried this strat
― Euler, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
fuck i really really want spidey's blue cards like maybe enough to shell out twenty bucks for it. all kinds of easy justifications.
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
Expand Alliances – Players will be able to spend Hero Points to expand their Alliance, adding more friends to their existing Alliance.
shouda guessed this
― Euler, Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
wtf. And then what does that get you anyway? More rosters to look at?
― Jeff, Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link
more friends to join your group. more bullshit really. but if anybody wants to join ILXFactor apparently we will soon have a cover charge
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
Alliance Leaderboards - Players will be able to see the rankings of the different Alliances within tournaments. Certain events will have Alliances-based leaderboards where your rank and rewards are based on the performance of your team in the event.
Private Alliances – Allowing players to create an exclusive Alliance that can only be joined with the Commander’s approval.
Chat – The ability to chat with other players in your Alliance to share tactics and discuss strategy.
― Euler, Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
holy shit CHAT
but looks like we gonna ride together soon so yay
― Euler, Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
can an alliance pool ISO so that expansion costs don't all hit one person?
― Wahaca Flocka Flame (DJP), Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
could do it like buying a round at a bar: I take this one, next person takes the next, and so on
― Euler, Thursday, 27 February 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link