Marvel Puzzle Quest Support Group

10 pack: kingpin yellow, at 2-0-5. a little frustrating because that ups the likelihood of a wasted cover. But I like the prospect of him being playable. He annoys me as an opponent.

New alliance just tipped me onto a new way of squeezing out a little more ISO from unwanted/unneeded covers. If you have two covers of the same color, start a new character from scratch and then level them up to level 49 -- you'll earn 466 extra ISO than just selling the covers off individually.

2000 (from selling) - 500 * 2 (from covers) - 534 (from leveling)

And if you have three covers of the same color, do the same thing, but level up to 62 to earn an extra 1466.

NOPE

WAHT? D:

add me nhexxxxx plz

tips for accumulating hero points for more roster spots? do you guys basically end up rostering every cover you get, or are you choosey?

depends on how far you are. never spend hp on anything else and you can more or less keep up. i'm at the point where i have almost every 3* and a good chunk of the 4* and 5*, and just enough 1/2* to keep me in the DDQ/a rotating spot for the PVE required 2*. actually had to sell one of my 2s yesterday to make room for a 4* (carnage, not v good but i don't throw 4s away as a rule in case they get usable... i'm still on the 3/4 bubble).

Current count for me per rarity (parenth = i don't have):

5*: 3 (2) (the new ones missing... goblin and black spiderman)
4*: 25 (5) (mostly newish ones missing... gwen, pun, fuck-a-duck, nova, quake)
3*: 39 (1) (fucking bullseye)
2*: 4 (10) (my three 94+ are cmags, obw, thor, and i also have one-cover storm for pve)
1*: 1 (7) (my boy jugs is all i need)

anyone cover-maxed a hero card yet?

what's a hero card?

champion, sorry

like taking a 2* to level 144, 3* to 266, etc

oh, you mean champ'd a 3 star to 266 or whatever? I'm not even close to that! I think my black panther is at 175 or 176 now, and that's my highest.

the closest i am is my OBW, who is at like... 127? I think? less than 20 more cards and she's maximum maximumed. Then I have to start sellnig her covers again which will be weird!

are the rewards worth it for champing 2 stars if you already have a working 3/4/5 star roster? I throw away a lot of 2 star covers, but I only have four 2 stars left: OBW, Ares, 2 star wolvie (for nostalgia) and 2 star storm.

I draw A LOT of Ms Marvel it seems

my problem is that i have no free spots but i have the following covers i need to recruit: 3x captain marvel, 1x ares, 1x doc octopus, 1x sam wilson, 1x howard the duck, 1x bullseye, 2x steve rodgers, and 1x wolverine. even when i get to 400 hero points (i'm at 275) that'll only give me 3 slots and i need 8. should i just spent a few bucks or are some of these totally worthless and not worth rostering? :/

Someone ran the math and you get back all of the ISO you spend on 2* and 3* champions plus extra hero points, tokens, and legendary points, so my strategy has been "champion everyone, no exceptions"

how does that work? once you max out a character you get more rewards?

yeah I'm even champing dumb ones like doc oc now but 2 stars? I guess it's only 5k iso, one deadpool daily basically.

oh good and i just opened up a human torch so that's another cover i don't have space for :p

people love Captain Marvel, I just think she's okay

Ares, Sam Wilson and Steve Rogers are all mandatory IMO (depending on where you are in the game; Ares is the best green/red/yellow 2*, Sam makes everyone who has special tiles that much better and Steve is a damage/stun machine, especially when paired with IM40 to accelerate initiating his powers)

which Wolverine? (3* is best IMO, then 4*, then 2*)

Doc Ock is situationally awesome; he can devastate a team that relies on special tiles rather than countdowns

no idea about Howard beyond IMO new characters should always be rostered because they tend to be overpowered compared to older characters

Which Bullseye? (2* is kind of nothing, 3* can be a monster on enemy waves)

Human Torch rules, esp 3*

lol so basically i need to roster all of them :p

the wolverine is 2*, bullseye is 2* too

I'd roster them in this order:

Howard
Sam Wilson (I assume 3*) (esp if it's yellow/blue)
Steve Rogers
Human Torch
Ares
Doc Ock
Wolverine (actually a decent character but kind of unnecessary when compared to Ares)
Bullseye

Someone ran the math and you get back all of the ISO you spend on 2* and 3* champions plus extra hero points, tokens, and legendary points, so my strategy has been "champion everyone, no exceptions"

That's if your character is already at their native max -- i.e. if you're starting from scratch, you'd lose ISO building them up.

Anyway, I've fully champed 5 2*s (OBW, Thor, Mags, Storm, Daken), and Hawkeye is next at 140. Highest 3* is GSBW (182).

down to my last six *** to cover max: one cover for quicksilver, beast and colossus; two for blade; five for doc ock and TWELVE for vision.

so how am i gonna get in the ilx alliance guysz

FWIW I like Vision, I've got mine at 173 I believe. xp

I've been been talked out of championing all my 3*s, on the reasoning that spending 120K ISO just to get a legendary token and the ensuing prizes is better invested in your 4*s.

I am currently leveling 3* Cyclops (lvl 142) so I can champion him; once that's done, I'm going to start leveling 4* Jean (5/2/1 lvl 131) and Iceman (0/4/1 lvl 74), then Nick Fury (4/2/2 lvl 131) and Elektra (4/2/3 lvl 127). Also looking at 4* Sam Wilson (2/1/1 lvl 82), 4* Deadpool (1/1/2 lvl 78), Thing (4/0/1 lvl 74), Hulkbuster (2/1/1 lvl 70), Prof X (1/1/2 lvl 70) and Kingpin (1/1/2 lvl 70)

might as well just level that hulkbuster/prof x/kingpin now, what'll that cost like 12 iso?

I've been resisting spending ISO on 4s until they are at a point where I could see myself starting to use them

I might use Prof X at 1/1/2 though

I'm spending ISO to max out my fours right now because I have so few of them that it isn't a big expense. I just championed Luke Cage and Cyclops and that obviously got pretty pricey at the end. It feels so nice to level up for like 100 iso instead of 2500 iso.

I think I'm going to champ my twos next. Might as well get it over with so I don't keep throwing those covers away.

really dunno what i am doing w/ my iso now. i don't have any cover-14s in the queue, but i will soon enough (currently have 6 un-champed 3* at 13 covers: storm, shulk, deadpool, psylocke, ragnarok, beast). also have some less-covered ones i could level up due to usefulness (switch 323, cyclops 135, kamala 434, qsilver 534?). about 80k iso just sitting there, gotta decide if i am going to champ the chumps or bump up the useful non-champs.

or i could just level xfw (cover maxed, level 190). every option feels like a C- decision right now. leaning towards psylocke and deadpool 3* champs, because maybe in 6 months i'll get a single damn 4* DP cover from them.

i have a batch of cover maxed level 141 three stars that i champion as i get a new cover; generally takes about ten days of play to get them to 166. in between those, i level the other three stars to 141 so that I can maximize them.
my spreadsheet is very busy.

mordy - i need to free up a spot for you to join. i'll post here later tonight, when I do so you need to manually join our alliance named ILX-Statix

IMO anyone who calls Shulk a chump just hasn't figured out how to use her

that green is DEADLY and the blue can render enemy special tile generators useless; throw in the red after the blue has given you some beefed-up strike tiles yowza

I was running through PvE with Shulk/Hood/Blade and it was ludicrous how few attacks the AI was able to levy against me

i use the word chump strongly, i just already have 17 champed 3*s so i don't ~need~ any of them as actual characters (more just to get those purple packs & eventually start generating more ISO or whatever)

i mean i have a champed iron fist and i keep forgetting to even use him because he's "only" level 168 which means he's on like my 3rd page of dudes and he's one of the last ones i champed

my go-to champ trio these days is iron fist+luke cage+IM40 or Patch or lazydaken or lazy cap
you can generally get through a whole PVE board without healing with them

I champed she hulk, the first in my "well I guess I need the legendary tokens" effort after finishing my first batch of champs. I loathe the green against me so I abuse it against them. She's good.

i just already have 17 champed 3*s

Ah well I have 33 champed 3*s. PS in case you can't tell I'm flexing in the mirror as I type this.

well whatever man i was busy kissing girls or playing baseball or whatever

i just ran the numbers, if i hadn't done those things i estimate i would probably have 34 champed 3*s right now so yeah i'm just saying

Only thing holding me back re: she-hulk tho -- totally awesome hulk rewards. at least 3pool & psylocke give 4pool, beast gives jean, storm gives ladythor... even rags gives x23. anyway, her next ddq isn't until april 28 so i have time (rags is soon, but seriously, fuck that dude... storm is april 23 so i can wait to see how my iso looks then).

it bothers me that i don't understand 60% of the posts in this thread and that they sound like eve shoptalk

I was kissing your mom AND championing my 3*s, so I'm still the winner, son.

Mordy: you should probably be happy you don't understand 60% of the posts in this thread, as that means you can still walk away

it's too late for the rest of us (he says while grinding ISO to throw more levels at Cyclops)

What's a good strategy to be competitive in season events? It seems like a big time suck to really compete if you're also doing DDQ/PVE/PVP.

damn leee u got me like

http://i.imgur.com/S4WBdrv.png

xp that's correct, it's a timesuck.

Do you prioritize non-event season pvp over pve?

Like, if you spend x hours on the pvp event how much time do you spend on SHIELD sim

I am sorry Will I don't know what got into me. xp

I try to get to 300 or 400 in all of the season PVPs (though realistically I only get to 101 more often), and then take a week in the SHIELD Simulator to get to 2K, which cumulatively has always been enough to get the 10-pack.