Marvel Puzzle Quest Support Group

(at this point I realize that yes, my roster is silly and I have no grounds to complain about anyone who hasn't whaled out all to be damned)

hahaha ok ok grass/greener, but damn I still only have a two-red Phoenix which is barely usable. (Well, as "barely" as you can get with a level 270 5* character.)

it's kind of hilarious how OP SS seemed on first introduction and especially in that intro board where you had access to all of his powers and then as each subsequent 5* has come out, it's been apparent that a low level SS just gives you hit points with no actual utility in a fight beyond the boosted match damage (which shouldn't be discounted entirely but pales when compared to the utility of OML's black+yellow or Phoenix's green)

yeah maybe but SS has a plump heal in blue, a mostly useless color otherwise, is immune to stun, and his black fucks with the board in a good way. He's very solid.

Heroic 10-pack results: 1 Yellow Beast (champ), 1 Green Human Torch (champy champ), 1 Green Hulk (champy champy champ), rest two stars for the mill.

I drew a yellow Kingpin, an extra Cmags, a few useless three stars that I sold b/c lol @ 166 them : Captain Marvel, Daredevil, Mohawk Storm, and then two stars. But a good draw on the large.

drew a Thing & and an Ant-Man on legendaries.

was gonna try to get the green Iron Fist in the Hunt but I hate the grind of pve so much, can't be regular enough to stay at the top. wish they'd switch away from these "competitive" pves to events like the Gauntlet, play at your own pace, win each battle just once. the other pves are such ass.

For me, I can tolerate PvEs is the point scaling is higher, so I have to do less missions. PvEs like the Hunt where you have to do so many missions for such small point values drive me crazy, I can do all the missions and not make the top 500. So I give up after the first day.

PVEs with survival nodes are the best. They give off a ton of points and they're easy with the right characters.

I've finally done it: my IM40 is at level 167 now. ;_;

I think all of my 166 & 13-covers are now champed/167d except for panther (and he's already champed, just waiting for card 14)... was hoping i'd have a cool 4* to start pumping iso into by now, but no dice. :( all those legendary tokens spread super thin (although now I think I have at least one of like 3/4 of the 4*, so that's something)

The Elektra challenge was easy with 3/5/2. I think I beat it the first time around too.

new covers:
FalCap two blue -- I gave in and added him instead of tossing the covers again.
Iceman green (3/3/1)
Phoenix red (0/1/3)
Old Man Logan red (2/1/1) the best low-level 5*? totally usable.

I'm now out of maxed 3*s to champion.

The new Quicksilver is kind of crazy -- use 5 black AP, get at least 3 black AP back, repeat. Goes well with Iron Fist too.

phew, I don't know how to beat the elektra challenge with my 4-2-1, l152. any tips for that make?

deny purple. let him put out 2 red strike tiles then steal them. you'll need to have some luck.

yeah I can try that. I get frustrated when I have to try and try again, so I'll give a few more tries. I was getting smoked by his black attack more than the purple in the two times I lost. & I'm always, stupidly chicken to use boosts, because I'll "waste" them, even though I'm sitting at 30 in everything.

boost that shit, you'll thank us later (and get most of the boosts back within a week); I can get Blade down to 4K pretty reliably with a 127 2/2/2 Elektra and I'm pretty sure I can beat him if I can get my purple out earlier while denying his purple and sucking up black and red

I tend to hoard boosts not because I think I'll need them later but because I forget I have them

OML is totally the best low-level 5*, I love him to bits (and I don't even have any of his red covers yet)

yeah I'm so jealous of you with OML

I might try to run with my 2/2/0 Elektra a couple times, but I don't know if I want to put ISO into her and I'm ~very~ low in boosts (like 3 all-color match damages and under 15 all-color stockpiles).

my 1/0/2 elektra stands no chance. bah >:(

also i'm basically going for more or less the strategy above for roster management--i keep juggernaut for DDQ, my 2*s are currently a strong magnow/obw/thor and a hawkeye that i'll likely sell + a rotating door for "needed" characters for PVE points.

then there's the rest of my roster lol. i have all but 2 3* (vision/bullseye), all but 4 4* (carn/nova/mr.fan/venom), and all but one 5* (spidey), but they're largely sooooo undercovered that they're useless. aside from XFW, DD and IW my next most covered 4* is deadpool 4/0/1 and fury 2/1/2. kind of useless. SEVENTEEN 4*s at 4 covers or less!

i jsut realized that i gave the short-version of that whiny post upthread like 2 days ago

I just realized that championing is having the weird side-effect of KEEPING me from dumping ISO into my 4* characters, which is probably a good thing since I don't have enough covers for most of them to be viable outside of PVE/initial PVP rounds

OTOH I am seriously considering stopping my champion roll and putting as much ISO into OML as I can to make him more tanky (but OTOH with appropriate grinding I can max and champion Black Panther by this weekend and get another legendary token... hmmm)

I'm in the same boat. All Iso has been going into my 3*s.

I just took OML up one level to 271 and I see that the next level costs 3668 Iso -- but I looked it up here http://marvelpuzzlequest.wikia.com/wiki/Iso_costs and I see that the Iso costs just swing around crazily.

yeah none of that makes any sense to me

I just champed Panther, forget what I got from him, but the days of having like 100K ISO for me are over.

Anyway:

https://41.media.tumblr.com/ff8eec8f16897101787308cb86fb117b/tumblr_o1xwvmWFX81qbypg1o1_1280.jpg

This I did not expect, not with a 2/2/0 Elektra! Got another purple Red Hulk -- purple red, does that make him Magenta Hulk? -- to make him 0/0/3.

I love that the D in the screenshot is fading into the background, making it look like it says "OWNED"

Considering this match was a 106 vs. 270, OWNED is very appropriate! (The concentric circles in the middle of Blade's forehead make him look like Bullseye to me, which is even more apt.)

Got a L111 2/1/2 Elektra. Feel like I'm just on the cusp of a few lucky turns from beating it

Looking at the Quicksilver notes and not seeing what changed. did they just update the dmg?

black cost went from 11 to 9 (min 5), damage reduced
blue jackpot damage increased
green went from 10 to 8 (min 5), makes locked tiles instead of criticals, damage increased

using black when it's at 5 or 6 ap is super effective. he's a lot better.

ah, ok thx

You know what's incredibly frustrating? When you load up full boosts for one match and accidentally reuse that setup for the next match that you didn't need it for...

You're at a slight disadvantage from me I think because her black ability is actually more important than her red. Collect as much black sand purple as you can while managing the number of reds so that he doesn't create strike tiles till you're ready. If you have enough black above yes about to this once of his active abilities, Shadow Step the turn before to use his attack against him. And hopefully you have some purple banked so you can let him put out a strike tile and then steal it to increase the damage you do.

I always do that with three boosts, it's why I don't have any right now!

Stupid tablet, "above yes about to this once" should read "and he's about to use one." Anyway, hope that helps, though a kind board is even more helpful!

eh, i tried like five times. must as well pump Starlord or Ant-Man for next week

Leer OTM, you want to suck up purple to keep him from dropping his attack tiles and black so that you can give yourself respites from his damage that also hurt him, plus red to slow down his attack tiles and drop a Ballet of Death for extra damage. If you can steal a couple of his tile and stay behind Shadow Step, you're golden.

On the 3*s - yeah, I'm sitting on about 60K iso, not sure if I want to max more 3*s or pump them into my 4*s. I can send Lady Thor to 188, or should I max out the kinda OP Iron Fist or Scarlet Witch? Or other 3*s I just like, like Rocket & Groot.

Due to our mysterious benefactor I'm sitting on 167CP. I can blow 120 of it to get that final cover for my XFW, or wait a couple months for it to hopefully show in the Taco Vaults. Even then I'm not sure it'll be the right color. Plus I'm gonna need... 80k? iso to take him to 275...

Speaking of Taco vaults, I have tokens: 65/69. Indecision.

I ended up beating Blade after a few tries. Drew a useless IW (I have her cover maxed and will not level her further unless there's a buff).

Used cp for a legendary yesterday and drew Mr Fantastic.

GREAT DAY

Right now, since I'm in champion mode, I'm not bothering to hoard tokens to increase the chance of getting the rarer cards because I'm basically using my 2* roster as a resource farm (that occasionally returns CP and tokens) so very few, if any, of the covers I get feel wasted.

My current 3* strategy is to not worry about 166ing them until I get that first champion cover, at which point I grind ISO to level before the card expires. Currently working on Black Panther, next will be Mohawk Storm and Beast assuming the covers don't expire before I get to them. (also my kingdom for a Luke Cage cover)

Heh, Luke Cage is tomorrow's DDQ cover

well there you go

ddq is 7500iso/day, right? or something? and pve is probably another ~2500 or so, so 10k a day is a reasonable assumption?

i'm trying to plan my next spends (probably getting spiderman, loki, and GSBW to 166 for champs, since my 4* game still sucks) and i wanna know how long it'll take me... hopefully i can make the ISO before their upcoming DDQ cards expire (yes, I am planning quite far in advance)

also really hoping i can get card 13 for blade and iron fist so i can move them up the priority list (blade's 4/5/3 or something, so I'll hit his 13th at the end of Feb at the latest... but fist's 5/2/5, gonna have to get lucky there) :(

I am stuck at 12 covers for both Blade and Kamala and it's driving me crazy because I would 166 either in a heartbeat (buffed KK is hilarious esp when paired with pretty much any character with cheap powers (contemplating the hilarity of a Switch/KK/Devil Dinosaur team re: eternal healing mixed in with bursts of FUCK YOU dmg)

aw man, my KK is at 2/3/4:L41 so it'll be a long time before i get to have those kinda lols :(
(yes, level 41... I gave every 3* a level so they'd be ahead of juggernaut in my list, because i am a weird jerk who isn't afraid of prime numbers)

Man, if we could combine our rosters into a single Voltron-like behemoth, we'd be set, because my KK, IF, Blade, etc. are all champed (and my SWitch is now 5/3/5, only waiting to 166 her once I have the spare 37K and the 14th cover) (my Luke Cage and She-Hulk are next in line, I have a Shulkie in queue now, and two Lukes coming this week, and both are 153s), but I just pulled a black XFW (who's currently at 5/4/4), so unless I get 308K in two weeks, I'll have to eat the cover somehow.

heh thanks for spelling it SWitch, i was like what is that

Trying to 166/champ Deadpool because he was the only useful cover I got in this season's 10-pack. I rarely run up against him in PVP and never use him myself so I'm curious to see if it's worth it.

Probably not, but it's really fun to shoot off his whale power. The red power that takes off 40% health at max level is surprisingly effective too

Especially if you've got some big strike tiles out -- cheap and damaging red spam!

Finally buckled and bought 2.9 roster spots - I held out for probably two years? Thanks to the Alliance for enabling this terrible addiction

how did you buy 2.9 roster spots?

also i jsut smoked galactus with Blade, Iron Fist, and Falcon... my first match i managed to hit two blue matches, got the bird rolling, and after that I aimed for yellows to beef up IF's punch tile and Blade's thirst tiles. By the like 5th round I was just trying to mitigate Galactus's hunger while doing ~1500 damage a turn passively. Felt good