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Bird Strike was generally useless to me so i guess that's a buff

are these super lightning rounds new? they're pretty cool - only like 20 ppl in them. i just finished #1 overall in one and scored 2 Fight and Flight tokens. (sadly got nothing too special out of them)

They had them way back in the day, they're so old they're new.

just staying in the top 100 for the The Hunt: Florida is requiring a herculean amount of grinding - i'm currently ranked #78 and i've practically had to clear the entire Hunt progression to get there.

hey forks, you coming back any time soon? cleaning house in a bit

I'm a clean tenant (ahem)

join now, ILX-Statix

just staying in the top 100 for the The Hunt: Florida is requiring a herculean amount of grinding - i'm currently ranked #78 and i've practically had to clear the entire Hunt progression to get there.

That's the game in a nutshell.

the grind gets more fun as you build a better roster though

generally have given up on competing, just in it to get shiny new cards every so often

^^^ this, although I went for it in the recent Civil War event.

I really hate that I keep forgetting that doing the last mission in the Dr Strange sub-events closes the event off to you

It shouldn't

I was in the Maggia sub-event, did my 4 clears on all of the other nodes except the Mordo one (because I don't have him) (bite me, RNG), did the last single-play node, got booted back out to the boss fight/sub-event screen with the Maggia node marked as completed.

The node but return to the main PVE page and you should still be able to access

My point is that I still had clears in the Maggia node I wanted to do later tonight closer to expiration time and I inadvertently locked myself out of it.

I can still access mine and I did the final boss

oic

never mind

champed my red hulk yesterday, that's my 12th 4 star champed. he is amazing, a tank that steals and self-propels toward a big team blast. I had an extra cover so I got a LT & drew an Iceman! now 4-4-1. getting closer...

also drew another 4 Cyclops cover, at 5-4-3 now. I'm thinking about buying the last cover for 120cp, since he's a top 3 4 star.

took my 3 Strange to 153 today, at 2-5-5, thinking about spending 20cp to get the last cover so that I can champ and then use the extra yellows I'm getting in the PVE. it'll be another LT. & he seems legit strong, with that yellow in particular, even for a 3 star.

Dr Strange is a BEAST, I love him

I've been running OML/Falcap/3Strange and just annihilating goon nodes simply by putting out strike tiles and then tanking with OML. When I want to start buffing, I burn yellow on Falcap's shields and then start matching blue, which both makes me invulnerable and makes the strikes that much scarier and Strange's passive that much stronger. It's glorious, I just wish we could have 4 characters selected so I could put 4* Captain Marvel in there, too.

yeah 4 Cap Marvel seems amazing, but I only have 1 cover of her so far.

I have drawn a dumb number of Spider Woman covers lately, can take her to 250 now, but she doesn't seem amazing to me.

I need ISO so badly right now, it's a good thing buying it with real ca$h is so absurdly overpriced

also yeah I champed Falcap and he's so fun, especially buffed, and especially especially when OML tanks for him. OML + Falcap + IW is a NICE team.

Spider Woman is getting a lot of PvE love on the forums for her black ability, which I have to say is pretty great even when undercovered.

nice, I'll have to look at that. I have it at 5 but haven't leveled her past 70 yet.

also drew another 4 Cyclops cover, at 5-4-3 now. I'm thinking about buying the last cover for 120cp, since he's a top 3 4 star.

If you have the ISO the champ him, this is one of the better opportunities to spend 120 CP. 4* Cyclops is amazing -- it's really between him and Icey IMO as best individual 4*.

do you not consider Peggy to be a standalone character?

Oh, I forgot about her! She's only ("only") 5/3/4, so I don't use her much.

https://d3go.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=56176&sid=a177c76308c3de3010d0abbc09cfa73d

I think I posted this before but this is good reading and lines up pretty well with the forum community's take on the 4* characters.

Hey, I posted on that thread!

BTW, I have 8 of the top 10 champed.

haaaaaa I just noticed that

I only have 3 of the top 10 champed. But Cyclops will be next. I can champ my Cho too, he's at 250 but fully covered. After that, I have Prof X, Spider Woman, and Thing at 12/13 covers (and Electra at 13/13 but blah). With an near-term daily reward my War Machine will be at 12/13 covers too. I just need ISO!

I have 1 of the top 10 champed ;_; it's Jean tho ^_^

I have Thoress at 5/3/5 but not enough ISO to champ; I need to recycle some of my maxed 2*s before I really focus on saving ISO to champ her. My next closest in the top 10 are Quake (3/3/5), Cyke (5/1/5) and HB (5/4/2)

dr. strange (3*) is so good. i don't even have him fully covered yet and he's still dominating pve nodes.

I just champed 3* Dr Strange and am basically hiding him behind OML and letting the goons kill themselves. It's kind of incredible.

I'll champ him tonight. I'm at 164. It took two days to go from level 40 to level 164! 3 star land is so calm...

i've gotten a lot of mileage out of dr strange / indestructible hulk / lazythor. dr strange just constantly destroys them and when one countdown does go thru i make sure hulk absorbs it so i end up finishing matches off a lot w/ a big call the storm.

btw who do u guys like more between these 3*'s: punisher, daken, gamora, mystique? i've got covers for all 4 (most for daken in case that's a tiebreaker)

Hmm.

In terms of how much I like them, I'd say:

Mystique
Punisher
Daken
Gamora

In terms of actual usefulness when played correctly, they're probably:

Daken
Mystique
Gamora
Punisher

I like 3Pun a lot but the game has outgrown his damage output and his most useful skill (green) blows up the board and often kills any strike/attack tiles he may already have out from previous uses of black/green. Also, the countdown from black will often get matched away before it can create any strike tiles. Red can be glorious against high HP enemies but it involves 3Pun surviving long enough to use it, which is not a guarantee.

Gamora is somewhat lackluster unless you can either get her tanking a lot of colors or have her relatively undamaged as the last character standing; at that point, she creates so many strike tiles that she turns into a monster but the problem is that getting to that point either means your other characters are dead or she is super beaten up from taking damage.

A lot of people don't use Mystique but her purple stun into her black nuke can generate a ludicrous amount of damage, especially when she's buffed. Also she can ruin the board for a lot of high damage enemies by overwriting red/green with black/purple.

Daken's true healing is fantastic and the free strike tiles he makes off of green matches will add up over time; I undervalue his blue and don't use it all that much, especially since I often use him with characters whose strike tiles I don't want taken away (R&G and OML, in particular) but it can be a good chunk of damage.

Generally agreed with that listing. Miss the days when 3* Pun was more viable

In a practical sense, I agree with each of the #1s DJP lists; I remember the days when I ran Mystique, Daken, and Patch: Stock up on black and purple, use her purple to stun one character, Berserker Rage (and hopefully Mystique's purple tile crowds out one enemy strike), then bring the hammer down with her black -- 10K+ unboosted damage right there. (And maybe her blue can cascade some of the enemy strikes away too -- I never tried that though). This trio is obviously slow, and you'll be using a lot of health packs on Mystique, but if you're playing PVP or something and one enemy is just a tank of health, they're a good combo.

I never use Gamora anymore unless I have to. Same with Lil Frank; the one remaining good thing about him is that he gives Max Frank covers.

And DJP: you should use Daken's blue with OML! He'll just spam new tiles!

Yes, OML would spam new tiles... if I had a fucking red cover for him.

(I mean don't get me wrong, he is surprisingly useful esp in PvE at 4/2/0 but GODDAMMIT I WOULD MURDER FOR A RED OML COVER)

Oh man, sorry! At least take heart in the fact that he is usable at all (you might remember me whining about my 3/0/3 OML), and that as the number of legendary pulls approaches infinity, you will get a red!

The Valentine's PvP has unveiled a surprisingly effective combo to me:

Mr. Fantastic/IW/XPool (all 3 are boosted)

Especially with his buffs, all of Mr. F's special tiles tend to survive for long periods of time, allowing you to wreak havoc with Imaginaut. Basically have IW make everyone go invisible, put out Imaginaut and match as many yellow/red/green as you can, mixing in more Invisibility casts along with Out of Bullets and IW's green nuke. Also throw out Countdown for What as much as you can so the AI can match it and hurt themselves while giving you extra green to fuel IW's nuke. Use IW's blue to speed up your damage or Mr. F's blue to slow down incoming damage, whichever one seems most appropriate.

I played this combo for about an hour last night, tearing through teams, and used 1 health pack on IW because her invisibility tile kept getting matched away and she got a little beaten up in one round. Most of the time, I was virtually untouched in each match and, if I was, I used XPool to tank so that I could use red to true heal him.

I am now happy that I champed both IW and Mr F ^_^

so as of the end of the dr strange event i have a following situation:

i have 1 roster spot (and 350hp so it'll be a bit of a grind to try and get the remaining i need to open another spot). i also have 1x Mordo cover (actually rostered so i could hit up his essential node but i'm not attached to keeping him in that spot), 1x totally awesome hulk due to expire in 9 days, and 1x IM40 cover that when i add it will produce a hulkbuster. the IM40 cover expires in 12 days. i'm thinking i should pick between Mordo and totally awesome Hulk for the current roster spot and then use the 24 days i have for IM40 + Hulkbuster expiration times to get another spot for him. thoughts? some of the other 1 cover 4*'s i have: jessica drew, x-23, nova, miles, luke cage (probably going to 2 covered soon bc of the gauntlet), jean grey, kingpin, iceman, and drax. i could recycle one of those if mordo + hulk are both worth rostering.

Mordo looks lousy to me (I have two covers now). But Drax is worse, no?

Depending on how long your commute is and how reliable your connectivity is, I think getting 650 HP over 9 days isn't too bad of a grind.

If you're going to dump anyone, dump Drax; he is the least useful of all the characters you mentioned. I personally would give Mordo a chance as I think he's too new for people to have really figured out how best to play him and I'd be surprised if he was as bad as Drax.

is it just me or are you guys getting only low point value, low hero levels for the pvp matchmaking?

I did too but still rode it to 900. It was decent for ISO too