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Denial tends to be important in matches that last a long time -- if you can kill the enemy quickly, then your problem is solved. Also a good idea to have multiple teams you can use to fit the situation -- better a master of one trade than a jack of all/master of none.

My pairs/trios:

ModHawk works well with MagNow and SWitch and GSBW and KK. The two DDQ nodes that lock out 3*s, my team is almost always MagNow/Storm/ModHawk.

IF/Cage/CMags is a good trio, since Mags will cover the two missing active colors between IF/Cage.

Cyclops/Panther + a good black generator like IF and/or Doom

Deadpool/Gamora + a strike tile spammer (though in practice I've yet to get this setup working)

I'll still rep Daken/Blade/Falcon -- doesn't take long before you start doing 4-digit damage.

Falcon + anyone who makes strike tiles = good times

for deadpool daily, i have never not been able to cruise by with:
* - storm, spidey, juggernaut
** - two star storm, ares, MagNOW!
*** - cover du jour, classic mags, doc doom
cover node - lazy thor, lazy daken, OGBWidow

I use:

* - Storm, Jugs, IM35
** - ModHawk, MagNow, Ares/CStorm/OBW (depending on last node lockouts)
***/cover - (required char)/Falcon, IF, Luke Cage

who do you guys like to use against the ultron enemies? they completely shredded me in dpd the other day

Sometimes I switch to CMags/Loki because at some point you will cascade yourself into an infinite turn where you can murder the opposing team without relinquishing control. I intended to explore using Daredevil but... forgot

kill ultron goons in the order fighter -> gunner -> flyer. i just use 5* logan/if/cage for everything now. im40/steve/hood should work.

That's your action item for next time, please update your slides with your findings, thanks. xp

i just started playing this!! how do i join the allaince?? can i play too huh huh can i???

full right now, but i'll let you know if a spot frees up

(btw lol imagine if i kicked our mystery whale, can you even)

lollllll!

i can't even imagine how money D3 makes off this game. we're not anywhere near the top alliances, but people in our group are throwing down $20 every week on this game, and the whale is throwing down (multiple!) $100 purchases jut as often

oh god stevie, not you too

I haven't spent a dime on it. Like ... I would like to support them but none of the things you can buy seem worth it to me.

I'm happy with the $20 I spent...two years ago? that and selling my 166d Sentry let me 270 my xforce, which has made things more fun in the meantime. I don't see myself spending more on the game, although if it lasts until 2017, maybe one more time to support the developers.

I'm a little grumpy because I pulled another useless invisible woman on a legendary today, making it the third IW draw in a row with legendaries. I complained about this after the 2nd in a row and the support staff, um, listened to me, as a paying customer, and I can't complain about their...old...generous...man...reply...logan. still, I didn't want a THIRD IW after that.

you take the good, you take the bad
you take 'em both and there you have

invisible woman

... they actually gave you a free OML? daaaamn!

(hi-5 ulysses)

i am a support character

i'm still trying to figure out how this game works

here's a general guide for noobs

https://d3go.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=37373

actually, this one is probably a better one for a new user

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

the advice on characters is a little antiquated at this point but the general concepts are good

the core game mechanic is "match gems to damage the front character on the other team; first team to lose all of its characters loses the match"

as time goes on, you can build up a large roster of different characters, each with different health pools and different special abilities

the gems you match go into reserve pools based on their colors; as you collect more of them, different special abilities for your characters become active that can damage the other team, augment your teams offensive or defensive capabilities, heal your team from damage taken during the game, reconfigure the board, hide one of your characters from damage, or any combination of the previous

the game is about doing well enough to build up a roster of characters that you can level RPG-style and add powers to by collecting comic book covers based on how well/frequently you play

there's more but it's really just about playing through the prelude nodes to get some initial characters and a feel for how the game works before some of the wackier characters with weird powers are thrown at you

xp: or you could read poly's links

first, play through as much of the story stuff as you can. Each of the story events has multiple prizes that you can get for replaying them. However, I'd suggest not bothering with that. I wasted a lot of time doing that but all you get out of it is one-star cards and a little bit of ISO currency. You can always go back to them later if you're missing a particular cover. The good rewards are in the public events.

make sure to join an alliance to get some free stuff from your fellow players.

make sure to join each event. even if you don't win any matches, you get a little something for playing.

so much of this game is about just playing a little every day; in an alliance, that gives you extra ISO you can use to level your characters and just on your own, it gives you a stream of daily awards of ISO, hero points, cover tokens and actual covers to expand your roster and make your team stronger

Welcome Stevie, you will come to regret playing this game.

Like all of us.

huh that second link doesn't mention Iron Fist at all

also Falcon is amazing

Newest 5* is Green Goblin
http://marvel.com/news/video_games/25779/piecing_together_marvel_puzzle_quest_green_goblin

166'ed Bullseye this morning, should have enough ISO to champion him by EOD.

Championed him, Legendary was a purple 4* Jean (yippee!). Also made the progression for the Hulk PVE, pulled a red Ghost Rider. My lol.xls indicates that I am now 2/32+ in pulling 5* covers.

I also accidentally sold a 2* Storm cover today -- she's sitting at 126 (i.e. her next champion level results in a 3* cover). :(

Great thing about the IM40 buff is that I've been running KK now at 5/3/5 with LCap -- you had 5 purple before to power her green, but since IM40 is supplying that, why not get extra healing from your power spam now too?

Vision getting corrective lenses, i.e. buff incoming: https://d3go.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=40382

still just OK imo

though i wonder how good the Scarlet Witch/Quicksilver/Vision team is now

Just played a goon node with IM40/Patch/Daredevil (unfair!), very curious to see how this team fares against nastier enemies.

I got a 14th IW cover and so I'm trying to max her... possibly a waste of ISO, I know. I don't even use her when she's boosted. Starting at level 219, I calculate that I have to put around 13k ISO into her every day for 2 weeks. It's 4 days in and I'm doing OK, already up to level 248.

Carnage (2/2/2, 127) vs. Doctorpus was a lot easier than I expected! In descending order of priority, match green (deny and power up your own), blue (deny), and red (power up your own). Load up on as much red and green as you can (I boosted +2 red/yellow, +2 green/black, +2 all) and then let loose on a single turn, and hopefully you'll take a big chunk of life out of Ock.

mine is at 2-0-4, which would be great since the passive power spams tiles that doc oc can manipulate, and this build creates none of those. but only level 103, and that's not enough hp to win. I've tried 12 times, got him down to 4000 several times, so I'm confident that with more hp I'd win it, but I don't have the iso.

I championed 2* Bullseye o.O because even though I had four Quicksilver covers, three of them were expiring in a couple days and my ISO was only halfway to 166ing him.

My IW is at level 270 and she'll be championed tomorrow.
Nick Fury is sitting at 5/2/5 with two covers I can't use in my inventory.
I got two more Phoenix covers, bringing her to 1/2/4. I might start leveling her.
I like most of the alternate covers. They should stick with the new Kamala.

Ewww I don't like the new KK cover at all.

same

yeah me too.
i prefer the new black widow though.

New MBW is awesome.

Got my 10-pack last night:
GSBW * 2 (yay championing)
Doc Ock (can't use, probably going to sell)
Classic Storm * 2 (yay championing)

Rest were 2*s.

my strategy of championing every single 2* and 3* in my roster has been really, really satisfying; it's very rare for me to hit a completely unusable cover right now

also I've FINALLY fully covered Kamala Khan so guess who my next priority after I finish championing Hulk and Colossus will be