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yeah I've had that too

re slanted against non-Americans: I think some of the earlier tourneys ended in the middle of the night USA time? so maybe they vary that?

it didn't seem like the action in the brotherhood tourney really heated up at the end, unlike the PvP tourneys which just get nuts in the last 20-30 mins

It seems to vary; most end at midnight for me (EST), others 7 am, others 5 pm, etc.

I hit the Brotherhood hard over he weekend so that I would be safely in BP territory, shows what I know. Obviously I didn't see the end, but I was watching the score a around me as I moved up and it felt like I was passing people who weren't playing. I suppose I should have realised if I was doing it then so were other people.

Everything for about the past three weeks has finished at 3-4am UK time.

Black Panther's black ability seems pretty insane. At level 100 it does 3000 damage to the entire team.

Is anyone actually coming out ahead when they're getting attacked overnight in PVP? Is it a change in scoring, or is my max OBW/Daken combo just that formidable?

Since they made it one and done, it's been a lot easier to gain those kinds of wins in PvP. You're probably catching people offguard, not expecting that to be a good combo - that's usually how I end up losing in PvP nowadays. You need a stunner or attack tile generator to kill Lvl 69 Daken, and you don't see him that often.

also if you don't manage to take down obw before she fires off a blue or purple you're often toast. and similarly if daken throws out a bunch of strike tiles and obw hits for double you might accidentally be toast.

the constant 230 grind in pve has now made me somewhat more comfortable with getting tossed against lvl 120+ teams in pvp. in my mmr bracket i'm starting to see lots of spidey/patch combos like mine. panther so far is sort of a scrub. but i have yet to run into a seriously leveled one. (hit one at 77 but basically kept him on stunlock. neither the blue nor yellow skills caused me the least bit of trouble).

accidentally left my phone at home, rip MPQ

not a bad time, there's only one PVP going on anyway

i'm finding taking one or two days of barely playing this per week is a good tonic to continue playing

OTM.

Nice breakdown on 1*, 2*, and 3* characters: http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3939

Disable the tutorial, using the gears icon on the splash screen, and you can save 50HP that you would otherwise be forced to spend on a Hawkeye or BW cover.

Argh I didn't know you could do this.

Good to know I haven't been pumping Iso into the wrong two star characters.

Starting to regret all those two star Daken cards I threw away

oh no the 50hp I wasted forever ago

I sold a bunch of Dakens, now I have him maxed, his covers aren't too hard to come by.

You'll get plenty of Dakens, don't worry
What do you guys think of his assertion that OBW should go 3/5/5 (weakest on AP steal Purple ability)?

that's what i did and i think she's awesome that way.
boosting the purple also makes the ap cost way higher.

I use her so much with magnow, I never need her purple anyway.

that too. one level away from maxing magnow out!

whatcha think for next: hulk (current 35, current max at 77) or classic storm (current 31, current max at 85)?
kinda feel like it's time to transition to 3 star fighters and there's a hulk battle on the way...

hmm.. Hulk will probably get a buff for that tourney, plus you'll probably get more Hulk cards at the end, so i say go for it

sold

You'll get plenty of Dakens, don't worry
What do you guys think of his assertion that OBW should go 3/5/5 (weakest on AP steal Purple ability)?

― Nhex, Tuesday, March 4, 2014 10:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

weakest on steal means fastest and most reliable to get it out. an early purple, even at less AP steal, will set you up great for the rest of the match.

Hmm, you guys sound right. Damn. Shouldn't have sold off that Black OBW card I got last week, I figured I would respec to 5/5/3.

at max black and max level, she hits for a bonus 122 points of damage every time she matches black/purple/blue

I wouldn't sweat it too much, because the flipside is that 11 AP isn't prohibitively harder to reach, especially with Espionage, which means at most 3 total matches (versus at least 2 at 3/5/5), and after you do, you're probably a couple more matches away from getting enough to trigger it again.

xpost yeah the strike tiles + 5 Espionage = true love

Really hope this spot holds in the panther tourney, in 6th place and need top 15 to get another blue cover for IM40... he'll be 5/4/2 if I get it :O

oh shit, three star Thor

Aw heck, I didn't get attacked so I might as well count that chicken before it hatches.

I don't think I've done one of these in a while....

95 / IM40      *** 5/4/2
85 / Thor      **  4/4/5
85 / AWolv     **  4/5/4 <-- dumb mistake, will respec back to 5/5/3
85 / MagNow    **  3/5/5
85 / OBW       **  4/5/4 <-- on my way to 3/5/5
69 / Daken     **  5/5 
69 / Spidey    *** 2/2/4
45 / Hulk      *** 5/0/3
45 / Moonstone **  5/5/3
40 / Juggs     *   5/5
38 / XWolv     ****0/2/0
34 / Hood      *** 2/4/1 <-- no idea why i hit so many hood covers...
32 / MStorm    *   5/3/5
32 / Doom      *** 4/0   <-- ;_;
31 / Cap       **  5/5/3
28 / Hawkeye   **  5/5/3
28 / Big Pun   *** 0/2/4 
28 / Psylocke  *** 1/2/0
25 / Rags      *** 3/0
22 / Ares      **  4/0/4
20 / Panther   *** 1/1/1
18 / Patch     *** 1/1/0
15 / GBW       *** 0/2/0
15 / Loki      *** 2/0
15 / Daredevil *** 0/1/0
15 / CMags     *** 0/0/1
12 / CStorm    **  3/5/5
 9 / Venom     *   5/5
 6 / BAGMAN    **  4/1/5

why does 3 star thor look exactly liek 2 star thor? am i missing something???

are they just making a new thor that is as good as the old thor, after nerfing the old one? ooooh people will NOT like that

At first glance, it looks like the exact same character with a higher level cap

got a blue model 40 cover after shielding up, so only +25 hp but now my model 40's at 5-3-3

ftr 2-star wolvie + high level OBW is BRUTAL, with strike tiles + 5 cover espionage = 1000 damage per purple blue or black hit

TS: OBW/2* Wolfie vs. OBW/Daken.

So with recent developments I'm going to stop putting ISO into my 2* Thor and instead work on my Astonishing Wolferine.

I gather magnow is good to use in PvP but as an enemy in this last tourney he never got off a hit on me; I was using the aforementioned black panther + OBW + 2-star wolvie and ate up blue and purple as my first priority, and without those he didn't do anything. I suppose he could have set off a red bomb but the AI never did; if it was l85 thor + l85 magnow (as was often the case) the AI would just use Thor's red instead of magnow's.

I guess my point is wondering about what teams are good in PvP not just as offenders, but as AI-played defenders, since losing in PvP seems to drop me 40+ points per loss

The AI is terrible at certain tile change abilities, like Mag Now's Purple or Grey Suit Black Widow's Purple, just throwing them out randomly. The only one I've seen that's actually good on defensive AI is Spider-Man, as the AI actually will wait until it has enough AP to throw out a few stuns to get a loop going.

I guess my point is wondering about what teams are good in PvP not just as offenders, but as AI-played defenders, since losing in PvP seems to drop me 40+ points per loss

As I mentioned upthread, OBW/Daken seems to minimize the point loss and even gives me some net positive points like 1 out of 4 nights. Also, the link I posted above sez that a Hulk with 5 black is one of the most intimidating presences that discourages people from playing against him. More within the realm of my experience, I'd say that an opponent with a Bullseye/Daken combo would discourage me from attacking, simply because of how annoying that team would be.

right, I get the intimidation thing, but I wonder if someone---d3p forum dwellers?---has worked out which teams are the best off in PvP on the defensive side, by which I mean which teams maximize your chances of winning PvP battles when the AI is playing for you.

obw daken seems better than 2* wolvie these days. the regen on daken works much better, and reliably spamming strike tiles means much more when paired with obw than wolvie's damage on top + ability to eventually toss out a bunch at once.

The one thing you're really losing is wolvie's red, so you don't have any strong finisher. so if your third has a high dps move than i think its worth it, but otherwise not so sure.

wolvie's red is massive in PvP though, since if you're up against a say l85 thor, OBW's purple can wear down the enemy's red, but can't stop it entirely; but if you get him down to ~3000 hp then you can take him down in one hit, before the red->yellow->green cycle begins

I don't understand quite what team you put up in PvP. Is it the last combo that you played? Or the combo that you play most often.

Guys, if you're about to lose, retreat! You won't lose all those points.

you lose points with a retreat too

not as many

DIE IN BATTLE, ONLY COWARDS RETREAT, HAIL AND KILL

I don't understand quite what team you put up in PvP. Is it the last combo that you played? Or the combo that you play most often.

Last played.

Not just last played, but last won. If you lose, I don't think that team goes up.

omg the rubberband scaling, so cruel. went from lvl 15s, closed the app to come back 15 minutes later, everybody's 150+

Ah, didn't know that -- thanks, Nhex!