Marvel Puzzle Quest Support Group

Loki/Patch/C.Mags a classic combo. But if you don't have good chars to team him with Loki is kind of useless, and he will always be killed first
Deadpool's Purple ability is great, if you have that maxed go for it.
Spidey and Hood (w/AP Steal) are solid utility players at high level. Mohawk Storm probably is too but mine isn't too high
Skeptical on BP and Rags. Who goes well with Panther, besides obviously Iron Fist?

because i am a brute when i play this game, i have often found myself rolling patch/panther/fatcap. basically every color hurts them.

red: does lots of damage every 3 turns and erases enemy tiles
green: does lots of damage and sets up more damage down the line
yellow: does lots of damage with match-5s
black: does lots of damage to everyone
blue: stuns every 3 turns and erases enemy tiles
purple: jesus god no

are you guys 5-5-3 for falcon or 5-4-4?

5-5-3 Falcon, 3-5-5 Loki

I never really thought about BP/Loki/Steve but that's a hilariously powerful combo; I've been alternating between Loki/CMags/underpowered Patch (4-4-5 lvl 142) and 4-4-5 IF/153 Luke Cage (5-2-5)/Falcon

I'm for 5/3/5 Loki because Patch is still one of my most used and the idea of cleaning up all of the enemy's purple strike tiles is awesome -- I don't use Loki much at all, and even more rarely for his tile rearranging power.

Falcon is 5/5/3 for me as well, though. Defense kind of doesn't matter in MPQ.

The thing about the cascadepalooza strategy is that 75% of the time hitting Illusion will match away most if not all of your enemy's strike tiles and, if it doesn't, you've likely pulled enough purple to Illusion again to try to mop up the remainder. (You've also likely pulled in enough red and/or blue to trigger one of CMags' cascades to do some mopup as well.) You can then use Trickery to hit any of the leftover strike tiles and now most of the enemy team's abilities aside from giant dmg bombs don't hurt you.

It's not uncommon for the cascades to allow me to fire off abilities something like 7-8 times in a row. I decided to start playing this after the computer kept murdering me with Loki/CMags combos if I couldn't kill Loki quickly enough.

My flipside strategy is the escalating damage party featuring IF, Luke Cage and Falcon, where I basically get as many yellow matches as I can to make Luke's protect tile massively silly (I think I once got it up to 2.5K) and IF's attack and strike tiles equally silly (I think my best attack dmg per round was around 3K). Falcon's blue eats enemy special tiles, Luke's yellow is a massive nuke that usually 1-shots the most dangerous enemy or knocks him/her down enough for IF's attack tile to finish the job, and once you have enough black IF's purple is stupidly overpowered, especially if you have buffed strike tiles out.

I'm using IF, Cage, Falc in survival modes now -- it's faster than Blade, Cap, Falc.

Leee why sit on all that iso so long? I use it as soon as I can. of your list, I'd level in this order:

Loki 5/3/5
Hood 5/5/3
Deadpool 3/5/5
Black Panther 5/5/3 (wrong build: need 3-5-5 for him to be super)
--- here's a division between great and merely good ---
Captain Marvel 4/4/5
Mohawk 5/3/5
--- here's a division between good and middling ---
Spidey 5/3/5
lolRags 5/5/3

and really deadpool at 5-5-3 is what I was thinking, prolly swap him & BP in those builds

right now I am just leveling all my 4 stars to cap, which is pretty easy for the ones I have left. I'm aiming at 1000 in all pvps where I need the 4 star cover, but 1300 is too much for me.

I took my lady thor to 229 last week (5-3-3) and she's been fun buffed! can't wait to have 5-3-5 so the stun is better. her yellow is stupid though.

yesterday I beat the super blade board with my l~130 electra (4-2-1 I think?), took me four or five tries, eventually just jamming...purple? the one that steals enemy strike tiles and buffs them, that did it pretty fast, even at my crappy level.

I know ppl are down on Spidey now but honestly his ability to slow down enemy dmg via protect tiles and stuns can allow you to control the entire match with bigger dmg ppl, plus if something goes wrong you can fall back on his heal to give you an extra turn or two to pull things back together; also, you can usually permastun the other team once they're down to two members.

maybe in pve that works but it's too slow for pvp above 600 pts or so. when I see a spidey team come up in pvp I'm drooling like Venom

feel like i've stalled a bit.

6 2* near 94 but the covers i need to build my 3* team are few and far between. getting knocked out of top 100 by legit squads in PvP, stories rarely offer what i need, and Deadpool wave 4 is usually still too much for dat 3* cover.

is this a known plateau?

ftr I would never leave Spidey on defense because the AI doesn't know how to play him; similar problem with GSBW actually.

yup. but they go really well together on offense, since you can use Spidey to stall while building up purple/green for GSBW

Leee why sit on all that iso so long?

I have my preferred posse of characters and don't feel the need to sink ISO in others (e.g. Marvel, Mohawk), at least not till I can take them above level 100, but then sometimes I forget about them.

And yeah, I have Deadpool and Panther built that way because those have been the covers I pulled -- for the longest time I only had 1 black BP cover.

Deadpool wave 4 is usually still too much for dat 3* cover

Some 2* team compositions involve OBW, Thor, Storm, MagNow, possibly Daken. And make sure to stockpile AP during the goon waves.

Ideally you should be able to take out the 2nd and 4th waves without them getting an attack off, or very few attacks.
C.Storm seems good, since you can stockpile her blue for stuns, or OBW for delaying the trash waves to hoard AP.

feel like i've stalled a bit.

6 2* near 94 but the covers i need to build my 3* team are few and far between. getting knocked out of top 100 by legit squads in PvP, stories rarely offer what i need, and Deadpool wave 4 is usually still too much for dat 3* cover.

is this a known plateau?

Yeah you'll be in the weeds for a bit.

Check this guide for advice:

https://d3go.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3939

http://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/Cousin-Simpson/

Heh, I knew one of those sites would pop up for MPQ. Probably a lot of effort to maintain roster though?

Don't know, just created it because I was tired of not being able to remember what my IF and Cage looked like.

thx leee - i can sometimes pull dat cover out, just not consistently. yes, OBW figures heavily.
thx poly - good to know this is a known plateau. i'll keep grinding!

Slowly, slowly building my 4* roster. Lack of time/will to grind is a major obstacle.

http://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/millsnerd/

Gotta admit, I'm having a ball in the current tourney - Groot boosted to Lvl 250, Patch to 240, and of course 166 Loki along for the ride

huh, I lost 150 points over night, but it doesn't show me having any losses, nor any available retals.

I meant to post a link to this when I found it a few weeks back but forgot, lol

http://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/djperry1973/

So envious of all of you with your Professors X and Jean Greys.

You have 166ed Blade and Cyclops so I don't wanna hear it

http://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/Brilliam

i did one too

man that site was a pain to get working too. and i am looknig now and some stuff is messed up on it.

nvm it was only one cover missing from cmags.

also this made me realize there's only one 3* where i don't have at least one cover. sadly it's luke cage :(

http://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/Jex/

why not

http://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/OzBoz/

You have 166ed Blade and Cyclops so I don't wanna hear it

/humblebrag

http://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/josephcotten/

I don't have any fully leveled ***s or ****s whee

http://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/W4D3W1L50N/

Leveling Luke Cage currently, working out who to level next.

C. Mags, Loki, Beast, Psylocke, at least until you can get your Blade or Cyclops carded up

iron fist is very good even at 3/4/3

I don't have any fully leveled ***s or ****s whee

Your XFW is at a higher level than mine, dude!

Handy: http://mpq.gamependium.com/ddq/

^^ Real reason I put my roster on there IIRC.

whaaa how do they know!

So, cosplay.

givin' me bad memories of photo cover floppies

lol, those look terrible.

where are you seeing MPQ cosplay???? (please don't say "in the game")

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Take another look at your roster, Dan, it's been improved.

wait what

this is a fun thing to liveblog

oh ffs