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Would only take 68146 ISO!

Bubbled at #4 with 60ish points over 10th place (the lowest I hope to rank) and 35 mins left. Internal job interview in 5 mins. Will have to try to focus on interview & not on the pun cover I might lose. #priorities

had to hustle just to get to #24.
i've really lost the fire in the belly required to fight for some of these rewards.

ended up #16, because I got actively beat (like, in battles *I* picked) like 15 times in the last 14 hours or so. sooooo many horrible cascades + a l85 thor waiting to pop call the storm multiple times on me

at least I'll get one pun cover, even though the one I really want, the red one, was alliance only.

def want to say to people who say five blue cover spidey is "broken": I got beat with him sooooo many times. yeah if I scored a bunch of blue I was set, but most times I don't. maybe with spidey + OBW, but that's off the table when you're stuck with a low level char.

well by himself he's not a game breaker. but combine him with a tank and a solid support character and bam

ended up #16

Same here. We're slotted to get 1 Pun cover, right? I stumbled into a very competitive bracket, top 5 probably all over 900, leader and #2 over 1000, top 10 all over 800. Tried a last second push to get there, but just missed. At least it wasn't a feeding frenzy like PVPs usually are in their last hours.

I have ended up at 18 in my bracket and that was over 800 points.

5 blue Spidey + 5 purple MagNow = easy mode
5 blue Spidey + 5 purple/5 red MagNow = ultimate easy mode

i am very very very very very close on that stark salary purchase to max out covers for spidey, big pun and maybe one or two other characters then buy a half dozen open slots... maybe an alliance slot. it's not even about the money as i figure a hundred bucks dropped on this dumb fucking thing would average out to a quarter an hour so the price is fine. it's that it feels like cheating.

I'm confused - #9 in simulator easy, #1 in simulator hard, #38 in simulator total. So I'm in different brackets in different bits of the same tourney...

I have 5 blue Spidey + 5 purple/5 red MagNow

I guess I should try that team!

IME you're only boned if:

- your board is blue AND purple poor and you can't make enough blue matches to slow down the AI's burst damage until your first purple crit
- you're fighting a buffed Bullseye (and even then that's only about a 25% chance of boning because you can usually burst him down with specials and then use purple crits to wipe his protect tiles off the board)

what's a good third for that one? a tank, I guess?

someone with a good green ability - easy pickings (any Wolverine, Thor, Grey Suit Black Widow, Punisher, etc.)

yeah, Pun, that'll work nicely

It depends on what your playstyle, really; if you want a character to soak up dmg so Spidey can focus heal him, then go for a high HP tank (hi dere Thor). I personally like webbing most of the AI team and bursting them down with escalating damage, so I usually forgo tanks unless they're buffed for an event and go for other low HP/high dmg characters, because Spidey is usually preemptively keeping me from taking dmg anyway and then I can drop the hammer with various dmg dealers, my faves being heavy strike/attack tile characters (currently into AstWolvie or Daken because they also boost Spidey/MagNow dmg; Daken is IMO the best fit because all of his abilities are passive and you get so many strike tiles that it doesn't feel bad to suck some up for MagNow's red but AstWolvie gets you more dmg overall. If I had more covers, Doom and Punisher would also be in play).

OBW/MagNow/Wolvie is also a great team because Wolvie buffs OBW's extra dmg and you still have MagNow as a blue battery and a red nuker that clears the board for cascade city. In the last event where they were all buffed, I was running OBW/MagNow/CStorm and I steamrollered over every single opponent I fought.

yay, red Torch cover from my daily reward heroic token, now at 5-2-1

hey, asking for the google docs xls again, can't find it on thread?

Do you mean the one Will created with ISO and Max levels (and which I improved ^_~)?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Mrtpen52sXRfSf8eXWyDOkRrVQ-zBStu7cbx5UGkrC4/edit#gid=672147497

^^ My working copy, but you can download it and then add your own data in.

Loki rewards, gimme a break

Yeah fuck that but otoh I wanna use my 5/4/3 Pun and I want the black hulk cover from season 1 progression

Just got that btw :d

I'm 300 points away from black Hulk, I'm surprised at how reachable and how valuable these rewards are.

yes, and the proliferation of progression results right now gives the game new "one more turn" urgency

my buffed Pun is SO much fun to play; DJP otm on 3-5-5 l85 Magnow + my five blue cover l79 Spidey + my mondo buffed 5-4-3 Pun (~l190 buffed!) in the Pun tourney. yeah I'll merely rack up Loki covers but it's so damn fun

You're also doing a service to the alliance, don't forget.

i got to 615 pts on day one in that tourney, believe i'm knocked back down to 400 by now but damn, it's compulsively playable.

http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6622&sid=ca7858d0cc0cd58e03f0a13e413cfbc4

For example, if you run say The Hood + LT, while you can't expect to defend against Magneto with any reliability, most high end player will skip The Hood because he's pretty much the strongest defensive character in the game and it's a greater risk to fight The Hood over say, Black Panther.

orly?

I can see the argument but, given Falcon's powers, I can't see how anyone could be considered better than him once levelled. His one active ability effectively makes your team invulnerable!

(and then his main passive makes you both more invulnerable and hit harder)

Also his animations are long. Also it slowed my tablet to a crawl once his stuff got on board.

yeah, they gotta fix the suck my diiiiiiiiiiiick animations

BLACK HULK DOWN

Is that really a Heroic 10 pack at the 5000 point reward? I hadn't noticed, because that would have been ridiculous.

YES.

Of course they're probably all Dakens and purple MHawks.

Or, as I call them, 2500 iso.

lolz.

whoa, didn't even notice that reward. i'm at 3658 points, might as well push it

not lookngi forward to the inevitable 10 **s i get outta that heroic 10pack

seventeen days left!

thank you for alerting me to that reward, I will be much more diligent in playing season-related events (been screwing around mostly in the simulator when not passed out asleep or working)

if you don't take down a leveled hood first, he's really the worst.

but if you have a fast team, going against hood is way more manageable than any number of other combos...

i'm trying to gain ~100 points in the SHIELD simulator tourney per day, pacing myself up - currently 1028pts. besides, The Simulator seems difficult already to stay caught up - I've cleared all the levels for at least one reward, have to play pretty often to stay Top 50 in my brackets. Plus, the Pun tourney of course

"For example, if you run say The Hood + LT, while you can't expect to defend against Magneto with any reliability, most high end player will skip The Hood because he's pretty much the strongest defensive character in the game and it's a greater risk to fight The Hood over say, Black Panther."

I agree with this. Abilities can do a lot more damage than matches, and The Hood with 5 blue can prevent you from using any good ones until he's dead.

"(Falcon's) one active ability effectively makes your team invulnerable!"

It puts out protect tiles adding up to 714. The better 3* abilities do much more damage than that. e.g. Patch's red can do over 10000 damage.

I looked up the strongest attacks in the game.

Venom black: instant kill
Patch red: 13824
Hulk red: 11432
GS Black Widow green: 10008 (spread across team) + tile/match damage
Black Panther black: 9486 (spread)
Moonstone red: potentially 8992 but it will never happen
CMags purple: 8268 + match damage
Daredevil red: 7712
Lazy Thor green: 7710 (spread)
Ares green: 6210
CStorm blue: 5010 (spread)

I got the 10-pack progression reward -- it had 5 3* covers! including my 13th Lazy Thor cover, although I still want to get another yellow.

bnw! i'm here to shame you into playing!

Maxed out ares, just for the heck of it.

maxed Ares is tight

ugh, Loki matches.