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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!

U r teh nabisco of MPQ.

I.. provide cookies? Sure!

just got a black panther black cover off my hulk reward token, so I have him at 1 blue/2 black---his black attack is gonna be MEAN, no? I can see it crowding out cstorm's blue, esp since it'll team well with OBW's espionage.

nabisco == notoriously OTM (former?) ilxor!

not so much former as occasional; he's on staff for New York mag i believe

they really screwed up this event; just look at the leaderboard scores. i might just give up on the Hulk and focus on the PvPs

this scaling is terrible for me again. all 230s, basically.

i don't want your stupid *** thor anyway.

I hate fighting hulk.

I am working away in a town with no wifi and the always online requirement might break this for me. The last few days in Black Panther were ridic - if I was away for 30 minutes I could easily lose 40 points and always over 100 if it was an hour, which conspired to put me in the Cap zone.

Add to that the lighting rounds just screwing me over - my only pairups would be against level 2 and 3 1* characters, proper 200 hp jobs but they would still offer me 20 vps for them, who would then wipe out level 70 teams not just once but 4 and 5 games one after the other; then if I managed to sneak past them it would give me 230s. It just feels broken.

*** Patch 		L102		2/3/5
** O. Black Widow 	L85 		3/5/5 max
** Captain America 	L85		3/5/5 max
** M.N. Magneto 	L85		4/5/4 max -- will change to 3/5/5
** C. Storm 		L85 		5/5/3 max
*** Doctor Doom 	L77 		5/2
** Bullseye 		L69 		5/5 max
** Daken 		L69		5/5 max
*** Loki 		L64		2/4
** Ares 		L61		3/2/5
** Moonstone 		L53 (of 85)	3/5/5 
*** Psylocke		L51		3/0/2
*** Spider-Man          L51 		2/0/3
*** Daredevil 		L51		3/0/2
*** The Hulk		L47 (of 51)	4/0/0
*** Iron Man M40 	L46 (of 53)	3/2/1
** Thor 		L45		3/3/2
*** Black Panther	L43		1/1/3
*** The Punisher 	L41		2/1/2
*** The Hood 		L38		2/2/0
**** Invisible Woman 	L34 		0/1/1
** M. Hawkeye 	        L30 (of 69)	2/5/4
**** X. Wolverine 	L30 		0/0/1
*** G.S. Black Widow 	L25 		0/2/0
*** Ragnarok 		L18 		1/1
** A. Wolverine 	L15 (of 22)	3/0/1
* M. Storm 		L15 (of 50)	5/5/3 
* Iron Man M35	        L10 (of 45)	5/4/3
* M. Black Widow	L1 (of 2)	1/1

No
* most of them
** Bag-Man
*** C. Magneto where are you

Not much change since last week. My standard team for this Hulk event is Patch/OBW/Black Panther -- AP-using abilities in every color at last.

Kinda OT, but what's the word on the new Ms. Marvel title? I haven't bought a comic in forever.

Oh, and it looks like it's going to get hot in herre.

IceIX wrote:
    Psykopathic wrote:Darn. No new character hints :S lol
I'd spill, but I'm worried you all would be all "Flame on!" on me...

let's hope his art is better than Invisible Woman's

no boobs, no worry