yeah I'm skipping the 2 stars entirely
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 8 January 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
I championed 2* Storm and OBW with my extra HP... and now can't draw a cover for either of them to save my life.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 8 January 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
Buffed Bullseye's black power is pretty insane in the current PvE.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 9 January 2016 00:08 (eight years ago) link
The 2* champion rewards stink compared to the 3* rewards. The upside is that it's easy to get 2* covers. If I could do it again, I'd put off championing 2*s until after I did all my other characters.
I've been using 3* Bullseye too. He's great in survival mode and his green is a lot of fun.
― remove butt (abanana), Saturday, 9 January 2016 02:04 (eight years ago) link
agree but for those of us in the transition phase who have maxed all relevant 2* but have not yet maxed any 3* it's not all bad
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 9 January 2016 03:41 (eight years ago) link
Finally beat buffed Cmags with 309 health left; managed to get just enough yellow to call in the Avengers to save my ass
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Saturday, 9 January 2016 07:05 (eight years ago) link
Mr. Fantastic blue, soldIceman blue, now 1/3/1IMHB red, now 2/3/25* Phoenix red! 0/0/2
ten 3*s championed as well as both of my 2*s.
― remove butt (abanana), Saturday, 9 January 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
Relinking this for discussion: http://mpq.gamependium.com/ddq/
Wondering if I should bother leveling my L.141 Invisible Woman (1/4/5) for her DDQ level next week.Also kills me that I have 2 Falcon cards I can't use to Champion, as my Falcon is around L.121 (need 85K+ ISO to 166 him), same will be the case with the upcoming Bullseye.Maybe I can get Kamela to 166 in two weeks. Decisions decisions.
― Nhex, Saturday, 9 January 2016 23:17 (eight years ago) link
I beat the DDQ with what was then my 115 3/2/1 Invisible Woman, though it took a bunch of tries. You might be able to save your ISO for something else and keep yours at 141.
With your Falcon and Bullseye covers, I've already had to sell a Mohawk, a couple Spidey, and a Bullseye. I know that I'm not going to get all the ISO to level these folks, so I just sell them when they're a few days from expiring just so I don't have to worry about them anymore.
I'm making an effort to get another 55K in ISO within 4 days before my Deadpool cover expires so that I can champion him.
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Sunday, 10 January 2016 02:51 (eight years ago) link
the reason behind "championing" is exactly the panic you're feeling, they want you to BUY BUY BUYI'm staying unfazed on that end. I'll buy more cover slots if I must but that's where I draw the line.
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 January 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link
today's legendaries
5* Logan blackCarnage greenX-23 purple
― remove butt (abanana), Monday, 11 January 2016 00:29 (eight years ago) link
v. nice
― Nhex, Monday, 11 January 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link
Grinded my way to the Season XXII Heroic 10-pack. Never had a chance of ever making the 2000pts for SHIELD Simulator.
― Nhex, Monday, 11 January 2016 05:04 (eight years ago) link
Got five *** chars out of it, so I'll continue to be grinding ISO to Champion GSBW, Mags, Luke Cage... probably won't 166 Gamora.
― Nhex, Monday, 11 January 2016 05:06 (eight years ago) link
I pulled my first Phoenix. Got 2 or 3 Carnages, can't remember. Got an awesome Hulk.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 11 January 2016 06:09 (eight years ago) link
Got a Magneto cover so I championed him and got a Wilson Fisk
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 11 January 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link
Pulled an Iceman from an Enemy of the State token, which is nice because now I can play those nodes. BUT! I need 75 more HP for the roster slot. Still refusing to sell any characters.
― Nhex, Monday, 11 January 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
Come on, how badly do you need to keep 2* Bullseye on your roster?
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Monday, 11 January 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
SO BADLY.
― Nhex, Monday, 11 January 2016 19:34 (eight years ago) link
haha
I've been considering keeping a rotating 2* slot reserved for whomever the required character for a particular event I'm playing is so I can nuke the ones I have no intention of level capping; seems like a best-of-both-worlds situation as dumping a maxed 2* instead of championing him/her seems like a waste of potential resources.
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Monday, 11 January 2016 20:47 (eight years ago) link
that makes sense. ironically tho the characters i'd probably sell are ones i maxed, because the ones i use for deadpool aren't maxed (well, cstorm and hawkeye aren't maxed. cmags is. that team is lol, even at 94/50/40 levels.)
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 11 January 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
but like why even have 2* thor AND 2* wolverine what am i even doing
Yeah, I sold my 2* Wolverine a few weeks ago (and Ares even earlier before that) because I needed the space and red/yellow/green was already taken care of by Thor.
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Monday, 11 January 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
MagNow/MHawkeye/<random third> are hilariously awesome for DDQ; POLARITY SHIFT/SPEED SHOT FTW
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Monday, 11 January 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
i like cstorm as the third bc it's like "oh by the way if you aren't loled enough by the polarity/speed combo, here have a wind storm lol stop moving
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 11 January 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
but yeah my next addition (which will no doubt be another random 4* i don't have yet, because those are useful atm) will prob replace wolvie 2*. he was my dude back in my 2* days but now that i have become a firmly 3*-4* man it is time to put away childish things
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
xp: yeah, championing may make me bump Ares from my 3rd spot for her; I always worry about her low health and Ares is great for "I've taken all the green on the board, have a giant Onslaught nuke"
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
side note, i've been saving taco tokens since the conversation weeks ago about saving them... just before the savory thing ended, i had like 40, i was like "ooh let's just open 4 for fun" (even though i am planning to save until 50)... second one opened nick fury, didn't open another, felt good
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:05 (eight years ago) link
I had over 60 tokens across events and DDQ saved and opened them all once championing went live, with the logic being that anything I couldn't use could be sold to get ISO to champion more characters
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
currently at 41+52 on DDP tokens. don't know why haven't pulled trigger yet...
― Nhex, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
Lot of forumites are championing Ares because they say he scales up ridiculously, though I'm not that tempted to re-build him. Also CStorm champions out Mohawk, who champs out Goddess Thor, which is why I'm even thinking about sinking 100K+ ISO in Mohawk. xxxp
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
I had over 60 tokens across events and DDQ saved and opened them all once championing went live
v seriously considering this, i'm slowly champing out my 166s as they go on the DDQ right now though, there's been a stretch where it's all ma dudes. i've got stever, big pun and patch over the next ~7, then it's taco time.
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:12 (eight years ago) link
I'm 80K away from maxing Mohawk ;_;
Actually I think my next champions is going to be 2* Daken because I've championed 3* and I can pipeline the covers and get to the X-23 covers faster
it's kind of hilarious that so many people soft-capped IM40 at 5/5/2 and then they put Hulkbuster covers on his champion mode
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
is hulkbuster that good?
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
Current known OP team is Teen Jean + Hulkbuster
― Nhex, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:27 (eight years ago) link
what is soft-capping
― polyphonic, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
Not taking a character all the way to 13 covers
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:32 (eight years ago) link
not maxing bc adding the third point makes him worse not better
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:32 (eight years ago) link
*pfffft* I 166'd IM40 back in the early days and never looked back
― Nhex, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:36 (eight years ago) link
ftr I disagree with soft-capping because I don't have time for that level of min-maxing, plus I feel like no one actually gets that the most effective use of IM40 is to Recharge, drain your other AP colors while he's stunned, and then hit his blue/red which will still do just as much damage but not be as expensive overall because you've already used the AP you had in other colors; I've used him to singlehandedly destroy 3* teams, especially when he's buffed; having 3 in Recharge helps you fuel the inevitable green user on your roster who will help tear down opposition while IM40 is stunned and the remaining HP on most 3*s that you'd face will end up so low after the red/blue hammer that you can mop them up in 1-2 turns even if you ignored the AP drain
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
i definitely get the 552 build, it's what i had for a v long time (due to lack of covers, not intentional) and i do miss the speed, getting 8 yellow took a lot less effort. but yeah, i don't mind now, especially b/c i have good green guys now, which i didn't then.
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
i was kinda thinking about using the rewards as a way to feed my 4*s (e.g. champ 94 thor, get more 166 thors, get red hulks) but then i realized i would still need ~97 more 3* thor covers to get the third red hulk, lol.
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 11 January 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
Was thinking something similar and came to the same conclusion. Feels like the aim is to buff up your 3*s so they are usable until you get a competitive 4* team... which will still take quite some time to covermax, even with more opportunities for Legendary tokens.
― Nhex, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
I guess I'm still the only one out there repping for 5 Yellow in IM40, because I love that ALL COLOR BOOST POWER
― Nhex, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:57 (eight years ago) link
the third point makes him worse not better
huh! his third yellow makes him worse?
― polyphonic, Monday, 11 January 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
That's the conventional wisdom. I disagree, mostly because I think ppl are evaluating him in a vacuum instead of in concert with other characters
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:06 (eight years ago) link
I'll be taking IM40 from 5/5/2 to 5/5/3 just for champion rewards. I rarely use him.
The current character to soft-cap the level of is Prof. X, because 3*BW/Scarlet Witch can dictate the AP from his match-5 passive if his level is low enough.
Today's legendaries: Red Hulk green, first cover; Carnage black, now 1/2/4.
― remove butt (abanana), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
fwiw the mpq wikia has 553 way out in front of 552. xp
― nerd shit (Will M.), Monday, 11 January 2016 22:11 (eight years ago) link
I use the hell out of my 5/5/2 IM40 because I pair him with Lazy Steve to set up the big shield combo, which is incredibly useful in PVE (except seemingly this current one where I cannot get yellow matches quickly enough).
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link
― polyphonic, Monday, January 11, 2016
hey i just report the news. that's the rationale.
i only have 2 blue im40 covers so i have no opinion one way or the other and i'm forever thinking of opening up the roster slot.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 01:13 (eight years ago) link