Marvel Puzzle Quest Support Group

ooooor delete devil dinosaur, star-lord, howard the duck and carnage and roster them all?

i've been saving up deadpool tokens and i have 20 savory tokens and the current vault has a yellow invisible woman which iirc can be used to beat the 4* challenge when it comes up (and i have a iw cover already and it just got buffed?) -- what do u guys think, should i spend them all and try to get them (with the risk that i have less than zero spots in case i draw the miles)

lol Mordy I've stopped opening tokens too, not for roster-space reasons but because I've got quite a few 13-cover 4*s without the ISO to champ them.

Incidentally my current token stockpile:
Elite: 10
Heroic: 26
Legendary: 2
Savory: 16
Sweet: 71

To your actual questions: In your situation, Iceman, Cyclops, and Jean are among the best 4*s, you should try to accommodate them on your roster. The GR cover is expendable, sell it for sweet ISO.

I'd sell off:
DD
Howard
Carnage

DD and Howard are both gimmicky 4*s and their covers are only available at certain times during the year. Between the two of them, Howard does have more useful powers, but compared to Iceman, Cyclops, or Jean? He's definitely not worth keeping in a roster crunch. Carnage is probably expendable for you too (he used to be useful as a PVP scarecrow, but I've heard that's not the case anymore).

Keep Star-Lord. He's pretty good now as an AP accelerator.

Lastly, I would not open your tacos right now -- with only 20 banked, the odds of getting that yellow IW are very remote. (I believe the number of tacos you should hoard should be around 80-100 if you want a better than 50/50 chance of nabbing a specific cover from your vault.)

thk u :)

This is something dumb that I should know but: if I hoard taco tokens will they be used for the same vault I have now? Because my current vault has 2 four stars I don't care about presently.

hang onto them, when there's a new vault you can use those tokens on, you can shoot for the new pack of 4*s. just spend em when the vault is active (if it's in the stockpiled mode, it's straight random and i think includes the last pack of 4*s)

ok excellent!

I've got quite a few 13-cover 4*s without the ISO to champ them.

― Meighton Leeester (Leee)

Same here. Right now I've got Bullseye, Beast, Colossus and Gamora, with 11-14 days to make the ISO to champ them.
Any suggestions for how I should prioritize them, considering I might not earn enough to do all 4?

I assume you're talking 3*s?

My first thought would be this priority list:

Bullseye > Beast > Gamora > Colossus

Bullseye in particular can be hilarious if you pair him with someone who buffs special tiles and you use him to deliver death blows; you can flood the board with strike tiles surprisingly quickly, which will also power his purple and make it more likely you can continue flooding the board with strike tiles

Beast is great when buffed, mediocre unbuffed

As I understand it, Gamora is a good support character but I personally find her useless

I love the concept of Colossus and sometimes his yellow tank power is helpful for shielding fragile damage bombers but ultimately his powers are too expensive to rely upon

I'd like Colossus a lot more if his protect power was blue or red so I could pair him with a glass cannon and IM40. Are there even any yellow-generating characters?

Kingpin

(of course if you're using Kingpin I don't see using the generated yellow to power Colossus)

2 and 3 Thor also kind of generates yellow, but not reliably. 4* Cyclops might generate yellow, but that'd be kind of pointless.

Anyone try out MTG:PQ to see if it's any good?

champed my DPXF and 4 Jean this weekend! have seven champed 4 stars now.

I have 3 (XFW, Flaptain, IW)

Flaptain would be nice. I guess I'll champ IW too.

I have XFW, XFDP, 4 Jean, 4 Thor, Miles Morales, Star-Lord, and X-23.

Flaptain would be nice.

I just got clued in to this hilarious combo: Flaptain, SWitch, and Jean.

Dan, how do you like the buffed IW? Have you had a chance to flex her new muscles yet?

She isn't essential yet BUT she is much, much more useful than she used to be. Her powers now make sense; her yellow can give a brief respite to your entire team and her blue/green combo now goes after opponents' special tiles in a much more predictable manner than before AND gives you strike tiles to boot.

I drew my first OML red yesterday! now 2-2-1, with the black daily reward coming soon. he is now usable!

I will say this: the new IW is a gigantic PITA for an underpowered Quake to take down by herself

My Quake is 2/2/4, and I leveled her to 168, and I beat IW in two (undramatic) tries with a bunch of damage boosts.

Hmm. Mine is 3/2/3 lvl 168 and I could barely get her down to 50%.

which damage boosts?

+50% green, +50% blue, +100% all.

My General strategy:
* First priority is to deny green. Blue is a secondary color to deny.
* Save Quake's blue for getting rid of IW's strikes or invisibility tiles. If that doesn't get rid of them, Quake's green will be a last-ditch effort to match them away.
* You're smarter than the AI, so make smarter matches.

lol I actually switched to those dmg boosts to see if that was my downfall and got it on my 3rd attempt

Note to self, dmg boosts rule, you should use them

(before coming back to the thread I mean)

FYI, after complaining to CS about getting a 6th green Phoenix for my 5/0/5, they said that they'd only change the color of the queued 5* cover if the character comes from a Latest pull.

what do ppl think of Medusa?

I think that I want one (and so am grinding semi-seriously in the current pve)

Her purple at higher levels looks super rad.

I would very much love to run a Medusa/Carnage team

Team Tendril!

also lolling at the idea of her running into OML or Patch

just opened my 10-pack - all 2 stars and a 3 star cyclops (tho i needed a few of those 2 stars so not too terrible).

advice time!

i have 3 3* chars ready to be champed but reasonably only enough iso for one of them. cyclops i have 5 extra covers for that i could use after he's champed. captain marvel i have 2. blade i have 2. what do you guys think? thinking it's between cyclops + blade - and maybe cyclops just edges it out because he has so many more covers to use?

cyclops and blade are both pretty awesome and worth champing both at some point. i think cyclops also gets the edge for having 3 useful actives and blade's passive makes him fit only on teams not too reliant on red abilities
capt marvel can be put on the backburner

definitely Cyclops

I love Blade but Cyclops

Cyclops is top 2 or 3 three star, def him

i just champed rags the other day because lol

i have four left to champ... two aren't at 13 covers yet (strange and, embarrassingly, bullseye) and two are ready but prob won't get champed for a very long time (colossus, doc oc).

i'm at the point where i actually really need to be pouring iso into my 4*s! yay

it's fun to play with 4 stars when you've been running the same 3 stars for a couple of years. I did my usual last-minute 0->2000 shield sim thing, this time running with OML, DPXF and 4 Jean (mostly, swapped her with X-23 a couple of times). OML tanked 3 colors, someone would hit him hard, DPXF's passive would trigger & do almost 4000 damage, and OML would heal his damage in a couple of turns.

ended up getting the Medusa after a last day grind in the last PVE, & the blue Ant-Man cover for 900 in the She-Hulk PVP (having a champed 4 Thor helped a lot since she was buffed last week). I don't have any of this week's buffed 4 stars reasonably covered so I'll lay lower this week, still should be able to get the green Moon Knight in the PVE though.

The only 3s I have left to champion are Rags and Dr Strange. Changed Doc Ock is surprisingly awesome in the right situation/combination but not so much that he's an essential character. (Still the week both he and Carnage were boosted was hilarious.)

I can imagine he's fun but at this point I am just happy a) having all of the 3s, and b) champing the ones who give me covers for 4*s i might one day use. (the trade of 125k iso for a legendary token is no longer as attractive as it once was)

i don't currently have any 4*s at 13 covers that aren't already champed (only hulkbuster and xfw) but flaptain's at 12 so he's priority one. (he's also 4/4/4 so he can go 12 on ANY cover, which is a damn fine feeling). after that... invisible woman has 11, elektra has 10, 4thor has 11 (but it's 2/5/4), and after that... the >9 cover characters get into the weeds (devil dinosaur, anyone...?).

i imagine new 4s will enter the conversation by the time i get those three up to their level maxes, but if not, it's back to the "champing all of my 2s and 3s" mine for me!

I just realized that if I can put together 300K in ISO over the next 10 days, I can champ... Devil Dinosaur

lol

I got my first 3 star to level 200 yesterday, BWGS.

right now I just save ISO for whatever 4 stars I have decently covered are buffed for the week. today I spent 30k iso on getting Moon Knight to l147, which is like l250 buffed. I still have enough that if I happened to pull a Nick Fury purple (currently 5-5-2) I could 270/champ him right away. otherwise I slowly accrue 4 stars, like got a 3rd blue Wasp cover yesterday off the Fury Deadpool Daily Legendary token.

I got wasted by a champed Invisible Woman the other day, with the 4/5 star team in shield sim I mentioned above (OML, DPXF, 4 Jean), and she ain't bad. She got off an invisibility I couldn't match, and they took out my Jean, so I had no team damage to deal. Then she got off a second, and third invisibility, and I couldn't keep up, even with OML healing.

the new IW is deceptively dangerous now

why 10 days for devil D, djp? why the deadline?

That's when the first of the two extra covers I have for him would expire.