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Agreed on strike tile synergy but the change to his healing to stop him from being competitive with the 3* tier has in practice made him almost useless in the 2* tier. The amount he heals based on a yellow match is almost never enough for him to get out of whatever danger put him in the zone where his healing is triggered and, in my experience, he only lasts one or two extra rounds before dying anyway and doesn't do enough damage (aside from his expensive red) to make an impact in that short amount of time.

OTOH, if you can protect him, his strike tiles can make OBW's black glorious; I've just had a much better experience with Ares being able to recover when things unexpectedly go south since he has three damage powers and is more likely to be able to take someone with him on the way out.

Good point on Wolvie!

I mean, I haven't had him (or Ares for that matter) on my roster since the middle of last year, so my memory of him may be tilted towards his pre-nerf days.

I have 4 2 stars now: obw, ares, storm, and wolvie. I keep 2 star Wolvie both for nostalgia and because they use storm enough in deadpool daily that it's nice to have a third to plug in.

mostly agree with DJP's advice, though I would roster Hood as a priority, maybe ahead of OBW since her covers drop steadily.

lately i been living dangerously w/ thor cmags and obw as my only 2*s after deleting hawkeye. the occasional ddq where i have to go in with only two characters is thrilling. haven't yet had to solo one but i probably could w/ anyone other than cmags

fwiw, i have been living/dying on the win the three star character daily deadpool with lazy thor or thor / OG Black Widow / Daken or lazy daken so you might wanna pocket OGBW as a priority

xls update:
86 characters rostered, 5 open roster slots
missing **** - x23, spidergwen, nova, quake, punmax
missing ***** - spideyblack, surfer, logan, green goblin

champed *** - pun, patch, lazythor, magnow, falcon, grey widow, IM40, spidey, torch, hulk, doc doom, lazy cap, luke cage, loki, iron fist
champed ** - thor, hawkeye, wolvie, ogbw, storm, daken, bullseye, ares
level 141 or higher - psylocke, daredevil, black panther, mohawk storm, lazy daken
all two and three stars cover maxed except for Colossus (missing 1), Beast (1), Blade (2), Doc Ock (5), Vision (....11)

I'm (stupidly?) opting to champ out my remaining two stars in between champing three stars at 141 when they show up with a cover. Almost got original Cap to 94.

here's my updated roster:

https://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/djperry1973/

After seeing what a leveled OML can do, I have decided he is my #1 ISO priority even though I don't have any red covers yet (I beat a team with him at 3-something with all three powers and he almost singlehandedly beat me after he transformed; only a last-minute Cage uppercut/stun and IF's strike/attack tiles saved me)

shifting to the four star tier is where I'm really stymied; I only have xforce wolvie at 8 covers, thor goddess / nick fury / invisible woman at 6 cover, star lord at 5, kingpin and elektra at 4. Everybody else (and there's 20 of them!) are 3 covers or less.
What do I need to do to start building a 4 star roster? Play PVP competitively?

lol you still have Bag-man. xp

i'm gonna champ bag man! it's gonna happen!

I had a 5/5/3 lvl 66 Bag-man who I sold to make space for a 4*; this is iteration 2!

Forks, I didn't use PVP to get my 4*s up (https://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/Cousin-Simpson/), instead I grind for the legendary tokens and try my durndest to beat the DDQ 4*.

xp lol omg you

also can I just say "nerf Hulkbuster"? I mean I know you can stun him to death but he reliably 1-shots at least one member of my team whenever I fight him (and I don't want to prioritize a character with 30+K health first because then I can't get anybody down)

I would say that 2* Wolvie is useful for a 2* roster -- when Ares and Thor are beat up, he can fill the hole (and heal himself), plus his strike tiles synergize well with OBW.

― Jenny Ondioleeene (Leee), Tuesday, April 19, 2016

OBW/BP/2* Wolverine has been my Enchilada team since forever

I had a 5/5/3 lvl 66 Bag-man who I sold to make space for a 4*; this is iteration 2!

I still can't over this; you're easily our most decadent MPQ player.

lol @ MPQ decadence

Though I should be pumping all my iso into 4*s and maxing out my 3*s at this point, i'm often just champing my old 2*s out of boredom/wanting to not trash all those damn 2* reward covers

Hulkbuster is one of those characters where using his powers as soon as they're available is a good strategy, which means the AI is pretty good with him.

I've been lucky with my distribution of 5* covers -- 9 Phoenix, 6 Logan, 2 Surfer (one a daily reward), zip else.

I think I'll take a break from the game after this Drax event.

Feeling another wave of burnout myself. I can't believe I put hours into the Deadpool PVE and still didn't make the Top 100 today... It's like gimme a damn break MPQ

I've hardly been trying in the deadpool pve & I'm like 21, good bracket I guess, probably b/c I almost never bother with pve.

I'm kinda more into this right now than I have been for a while. champed dumb doc oc this week, got my first quake. next: 3 star storm.

made it - 99/100 :D

CM Punk wrote a Drax comic? weird!

Got a Drax too, just did each node once. That's my kind of PVE! Didn't get anywhere near the command points.

Green Goblin's yellow is pretty damn useful, he makes Scarlet Witch that much more pwnsome.

Another DDQ4* where the featured character can go invisible. I beat it on my second try, pulled an XFW (champed now!).

Also got my 10-pack:
Red Thing
Green Ghost Rider
Purple Iceman
3* Punisher
Squirrel Girl

Not bad!

i now have four legendary tokens just sitting there and i am itching to open them so bad but have no room :/

I got my 10-pack, which was 1 She-Hulk and 9 2* cards. Worst 10-pack I've gotten in a looooooong time

Which 10 packs do you guys get?

You win a 10-pack of Heroic Tokens for reaching a total of 4000 points in each season's PVP events.

3 legendaries today: IW, Cho, Miles Morales. lol @ me

10 pack a bunch of 3 stars, nothing better.

Civil War starts soon. From what I read you have two branching paths to choice, but points accumulated only go to one team or the other (Cap or Iron Man). Since the event runs twice, should we focus on Cap for the first time and Iron Man the second? (Especially since Winter Soldier will be available first, and War Machine later).

Jumped a gun a bit, we have 7 days

I say we flip a coin

I beat the 4*DDQ with Miles at 2/0/0 and got a Phoenix purple. Later today I got another Phoenix purple from CP. 2/4/5.

My season 10-pack was rocket & groot and 9 2*s.

I haven't gotten a 10-pack in months... too focused on PVE

New character releases every 2 weeks make me wonder if this is some kind of last gasp to wring out as much money from players before the plug is pulled.

What? Nah they always pump out new characters when movies come out - they just scheduled it correctly this time. It would been better if Hulkbuster/Scarlet Witch/Quicksilver/Vision all came out when Avengers 2 did, for instance

Not sure what the deal was with Howard the Duck tho

BTW I hate the current PVE type where you can only use 15 or so of your roster

Absolutely. And none of the good 4*s either.

Howard was an april fool's day thing iirc

Iron Man 46 looks great. Cap 1 and Winter Soldier don't.

Nothing is as frustrating as having a 0/5/1 Iceman and pulling a blue cover from legendary tokens

I know the feeling too well

did the 0 -> 2000 thing in the shield sim yesterday to get the 4 star pun. I wish all pvps were like as doable as that, which is to say: I wish they wouldn't buff any of the good 4 stars in pvp.

Jeepers, Euler! How long did that take?

most of the battles were for 75 points so not that long? I played periodically over the course of the day. didn't have to heal much because I ran Silver Surfer and Xforce so heals galore and I just swapped whoever for purple: Kamela Khan, Iron Fist, Doom, Gray Suit, etc., lotsa possibilities. lost about 2-300 in retals overnight but still ended top 50 in season in my bracket despite my lame pvp scores all season. got a ten pack, mostly 2 stars and no 4 stars, so whatever.

my starlord now is at 4-2-5 and he is...not that bad?

daily deadpool kind of a bitch today

Cap or Iron Man?

I'm voting Cap

Balance of Power? Cabbage, Howard, and Invisible Woman. ;)