Marvel Puzzle Quest Support Group

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

whaaaat, definitely champ her over those two!

Hulk is already at level cap and Colossus has a couple of covers in the wings that are going to expire unless I sell them. I'm running my priority list entirely based on what I've drawn and who is closest to level cap, otherwise I would have been dumping all of my ISO into SWitch/KK/Blade for the past month

(as an aside, I wish Hulk's damage output went up as his HP went down)

Nhex otm! Prioritize KK! I just sell all Colossi when I get them.

i champed doc doom and lazycap, working on im40 now. Then Power Man and Psylocke.
i'm scheduling based on deadpool daily delivery so that everybody who is cover maxed at 141 can be built out within 11 days of receiving a cover.
sadly, this process suggests i'll champ out my roster sometime in mid 2017

i kinda stopped championing 3*s, slowly building up my Lady Thor instead
though i did get two Mohawk Storms from the last PvE, i need 90k to max her... tempting nonetheless

Just worked out my champ schedule for the next ~40 days, I'm at a "nice" spot where I have 6 rares at 13 covers, and the ones below are at 11 so it'll take some doing to get them to "14," so they're not going to surprise me by jumping the line.

plus their ddqs are pretty evenly spaced out. Iron Fist cover 14 in 3 days!

also yesterday I finally replaced my oft-broken phone with a new one that is bigger. I can state with confidence that when you get a bigger phone, mpq looks bigger

I sold my level 144 2* Storm to get enough Iso to level up Thing for the 4*DDQ. Got another XFW, now level 273, sigh.

IW is champed. She gave me a green Iceman, now 5/4/3. Now that's a character.

Champed LazyCap. I was going to concentrate on leveling 4s and 5s but none are really competitive coverwise.

Beat the Thing node on my last try last night, got a red X-23!

Also covered all the 3*s after winning a Vision cover, and tbh he doesn't seem that bad in practice! He'll probably work really well with Cage and Fist.

goddammit who do i have to five match to get a goddam vision!

it's too bad you can't do an alliance archive/trade and give your unwanted covers to someone else in the alliance