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Oh shit. I think the update wiped out my account :(

It's temporary UNLESS YOU DELETE THE GAME. DO NOT DELETE THE GAME.

http://forums.d3go.com/discussion/64314/known-issue-do-not-update-to-r126-updated-5-8-17

Update: I spoke with the development team, and it appears that players are only temporarily unable to access their saved game data. You can rest assured that all of that data is still backed up on their servers.

Update 2:
Players' saves are unaffected. Anyone that downloaded R126 already will have their save progress restored once they update to the next build. (New build of R126 for iOS) Please do not delete the game in the meantime.
If anyone has deleted their game, they will have to work with CS to restore the game save if they did not connect their game to Facebook previously.
Players who downloaded R126 on iOS already will be unable to connect to the game until the issue is resolved.
Those players should be able to play on a R125 iOS device or an Android R125/R126 version of the game until the issue is resolved.
iOS Players who haven't updated to R126 can make progress normally.

oh thank goodness.

ok 126.1 is out, whew

i updated my roster: https://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/mordy/

looking for advise specifically -

a. who do you guys think i should be bonus'ing? right now i have it set to black bolt for 5*, iceman for 4* (bc he's vaulted so i otherwise can't get him), and dr strange for 3* (bc he's great at clearing pve nodes)

b. i'm just about ready to crack into my 1708 CP (pulled a 1000 HP from the deadpool daily and opened a bunch of my LT's - so now I only have 14 left) - what should I spend them on? classic legends exclusively? that would equal about 85 classic legend tokens.

Iceman is still great but there are several newer characters that I would chase down before him because their new mechanics and synergy with other characters make them monstrously great assets:

- Medusa: her passives make you really, REALLY difficult to kill unless you can nuke characters down
- Wasp: it's super unfortunate that she just left the token pool because her yellow makes anyone who produces strike OR protect tiles into a terrifying nightmare
- C4ge: his yellow will start hitting like a freight train after a couple of casts; add in IF and he also erases a good chunk of match dmg, pair him with Wasp and you can flip his protects to strikes and go ham
- Bl4de: see C4ge, only it's his passive that creates strikes and the synergy with Wasp that makes him terrifying
- C4rol: anyone who has countdowns and special tiles is turned into a terrifying monster by her yellow passive, plus her green passive gives you free AP in your most powerful color
- Coulson: mostly because his passives are all insane countdown-based things which drive C4rol and turn her into a tile-buffing nightmare
- Peggy: again, too bad she is out of tokens because her yellow passive breaks the other team, her blue hits like a truck unboosted and her red is respectable, too.

Black Bolt is a decent choice for 5* but do not underestimate how useful Thano5 is with that black passive; on lower-level enemies, you can end the game in 1-2 turns. In longer games, the stun component can/will save your life and the self-damage is negligible if you are running with self-healing characters (I usually go OML/SS to maximize basic match damage but anyone in the 3*/4* tier can heal themselves back to full if the match lasts long enough).

Medusa, Bl4de, C4rol and Coulson are all still in the token pool too, so you have the potential to get a bunch of their covers and finish them faster if you make one (or more) of them your bonus hero. (C4ge is also still in but is the next to go once 4* R&G get added. BTW, word on the street is that 4* R&G is great because he can throw down four beefy strike tiles at the beginning of the match.)

i'm closest to champing blade (8 covers) so think i should focus on him? medusa only have 4, carol 3 and coulson 4.

also dumping all my CP into classic tokens is a good gameplan?

In order of awesomeness, I'd probably rank them:

C4rol
Medusa
Bl4de
Coulson

C4rol is great by herself, as she can create strikes and then buff them off of her cooldown (which also has a dmg component); pairing her up with other characters with faster cooldowns and better strikes makes her terrifying

Medusa is dependent upon special tiles to show how terrifying she can be but if they exist, watch out

Bl4de's strike generation and the damage frenzy he goes into once you get enough red are reason enough to chase him; he's a little less flexible than others but pair him with someone who generates red and he can start wrecking boards

Coulson has some interesting side-effects but I mostly rate him because pairing him with C4rol and someone who generates special tiles is hilariously OP. I was running Wasp/C4rol/Coulson during the cooldown bug and it was hilariously overpowered; every power you fired caused Coulson to put down a cooldown, which would eventually trigger a C4rol buff, plus Wasp's protect/strike switch on yellow buffs, plus get enough blue and Wasp gives you a rolling 1-turn cooldown, plus Coulson's purple is a tile switch that charges the tiles before switching them, letting you refill yellow practically on a whim so you can trigger Wasp's tile flip, plus the purple passive will make your cooldowns expire faster once you get enough teamup AP, again triggering C4rol's buff faster. Add onto all of this the fact that cooldown expiration was causing a point of damage that you could buff with strike tiles and it was absurdly overpowered; I have none of these characters championed and they were DESTROYING PVE enemies that my scaling had leveled up to the range. Even without the cooldown bug, you can get your match damage to the point where within 3 turns, a single match will give you 2-3K damage.

If you are mostly looking to beef up your 4*s rather than chasing 5*s, go for classics. If you are trying to get the newest 5*s, go for latest.

unless you're trying to go 5 star, yes

I was playing around with 4* R&G's green because of the cute animations against a boosted PvE team that had Juggernaut on it. Juggs hit his Unstoppable Force and blew up a bunch of tiles, including my green cooldown; somehow, this did NOT cancel the free match from Baby Groot and I kept getting a free match at the beginning of my turn for the rest of the match. It is possibly the best bug I've encountered; I have been looking through the forums to see if anyone's reported it but, if anyone HAS seen it, they are keeping it to themselves.

I saw someone mention that on an fb group. I think d3 knows about it and are fixing it. til then tho, funnnn!

apparently you can also overwrite the tile with your own powers (starlord, cap, etc) to the same effect

when is it time to champ a 4*? my blade is ready (and i have 2 covers on the vine) but it's my only 4* ready. i've got enough iso to champ 2 4*'s (my next closest is gwenpool at 10 covers). should i wait until i can champ 3x chars? or can i just champ the blade now? or will that kill my scaling?

i mean i was only champing my 3s to get covers to champ my 4s, i say go for it!

if you own any 5s at all i think your scaling shouldn't change much?

recently I finished covering Prof X (since champed), Iceman (level 261 now I think, should be champed in three or four days), and Hulkbuster (will start after Iceman). It's been a long time for those! For Iceman I used bonus heroes with Mystque and Iceman, and bought the 3600 hero for hire a couple of weeks ago. For Hulkbuster I just needed two colors and I got them from Model 40's second HB cover + hitting 900 in a recent PVP. Of the non-vaulted 4 stars, the main one I still want is Pun. Nova and Quake would be nice too, and I guess Peggy is now vaulted too, but I guess I'm on the verge of just accepting that non-vaulted 4 stars are going to be slow developers here on out.

I just cramped Luke C4ge and Spider-Woman. Spider-Woman + C4ge + 3Fist = lol you can't hurt me

alright so i champed car4l + bl4de. hopefully i can round up the iso and champ medusa (12 covers) soonish. my coulson, gwenpool, riri, luke cage + spider-woman are all at 11 covers.

this blade/carol/cyclops combo for the current pvp is fantastic. bc we both have cyclops red is the strongest color for both so every time they make a red match my team gets red (which fuels blade) and then does a ton of damage to the other team.

Marvel.com: Let’s talk about her kit. What is this new Gamora all about?

Josh Austin: Gamora’s first ability is called Deadly Strike and it costs 10 Red AP. Gamora uses her sword to swiftly strike the enemy landing a deadly blow. This power deals damage to [the] targeted character and creates a Red Countdown tile that deals damage each turn to the targeted character.

The second power is called The Most Dangerous Woman and it costs nine Black AP. Here is the power where Gamora uses her sword to take out her opponents permanently! This power creates Purple Attack or Strike tiles and has a Passive that at the start of the turn, if all the Purple tiles are friendly specials tiles, Gamora removes them and downs the target.

Gamora’s last power is called Incapacitate and it costs six Blue AP. Gamora knocks out the enemy, giving her allies an opening. This power stuns a target opponent and has a Passive that whenever an enemy is Stunned, creates a Purple Attack or Strike tile.

... uh

G4mora, Thano5, someone who eliminates color tiles (XPool/Quake?)

get 9 black AP
blow up all purple tiles
wait for new purples to appear (may come in cascade on the same turn)
cast Gamora black (purple strikes/attacks + 1 down)
Thano5 black passive casts (free multiple-K AOE with stun boosted by Gamora strike tiles)
Thano5 match (high match dmg on purple/green/black)
get more black

maybe instead of pure board control, you grab someone who can heal or send ppl airbone as the third to mitigate sustained Face Death dmg

I expect G4mora to be nerfed within a week

I thought I had the perfect combo with G4mora/Ant Man because I didn't want Thano5 to murder my 0/1/0 G4mora in 2 turns but trap tiles don't count as special tiles. BOOOOOOOOOO

OTOH her instakill is fantastic if you can get it to go off, as evidenced by the loaner node in The Hunt; can't wait for her PVP

oh also as an aside, RNG gifted me enough Hulkbuster covers to get him to 5/5/3, followed shortly by a 14th cover picked up from event progression, so by the end of the week I will have a champed Hulkbuster and 12 champed 4*s overall (XFW, IW, Flaptain, C4ge, Peggy, Spider Woman, Mr F, Thoress, Elektra, Quake, soon Hulkbuster)

I also have Bl4de covered so he will be my next champ after HB, who I prioritized so I wouldn't waste the 14th cover. I'm one cover away from Wasp (5/3/4), 4Cyke (5/2/5), Fury (4/4/4), Gwenpool (5/4/3) and Ironheart (4/3/5).

Has the ISO flow changed since I stopped playing?

Nope! Although they did just change PVE progression rewards to give you a ludicrous amount of command points

aaaand just covermaxed Wasp, Gwenpool and Riri (managed to champ HB on Wed)

I think maybe I should chill on opening tokens for a little bit, at least until I get the 1.3M ISO I need to champ the characters I have in my queue

very tempted to dump my maxed 2*s but that wouldn't get me nearly close enough to champ everyone (would get me Wasp though, only need 90K to finish her)

I have almost 400 cp now, soooo hard to wait. But I want the guardians 4 stars to be drawable before I go. I've champed iceman and now am working on hulkbuster (l250ish now). Then I dunno. Either one of the other two I already have maxed covered (Electra and ghost rider) or by then maybe I'll have one of the new ones ready to max.

I love my 2 star farms btw

Too bad about the ISO, that's probably the biggest obstacle for me playing again. Oh well, I beat the Crash with my 130 3/5/5 Drax yesterday, so I'll just keep dipping into DDQ every once in a while.

What is Plan C and do I want to grind for that sweet 200 ISO progression?

It's fun but the rock beast thing nodes are tough! P good ISO yes

270d Hulkbuster today, champ tomorrow, then I gotta decide. Only need two covers to champ Peggy, have +400 CP but maybe I should wait for her as a bonus hero rather than dumping 240cp directly.

this damn game has been keeping my three star widow at 5/0/5 forever and finally gave me the third cover! But now I've gotta get all those command points to level the middle one up so I can champ this sucker and use the handful of useless covers it was giving

Arrrrgh

It's fun but the rock beast thing nodes are tough! P good ISO yes

So no guaranteed cover? :(

Yes guaranteed cover of Gamora!

yeah worth it for that

I don't care all that much about a 5-* Doc Ock in general but this green ability is 100% bonkers:

The last power costs 13 Green AP and is called Cunning Scheme. Doctor Octopus generously creates a nuclear reactor to power the city, but secretly rigs it to blow. Place a 10-turn Nuclear Reactor Countdown tile on the board that deals damage to each enemy.

The power then becomes Phase 2 and costs eight Green AP. Doctor Octopus’s generator powers hospitals. Upgrade the Nuclear Reactor tile to give a burst of health to each friendly character each turn. This power also has a Passive ability that if the reactor is matched it gains 11 Green AP. If it’s destroyed, this power becomes Cunning Scheme. After using the eight Green AP this power then becomes Phase 3.

Now when this power becomes Phase 3, it costs six Green AP. This power upgrades the Nuclear Reactor tile so that it deals damage to each enemy each turn. There is a Passive that if the Reactor is matched it gains 14 Green AP and if it’s destroyed, this power becomes Cunning Scheme again. If the player is able to spend the six Green AP, this power becomes Final Phase.

Final Phase is a Passive! All his work has led Doctor Octopus to this perfect moment. If Doc Ock’s Nuclear Reactor is matched away when its timer reaches “1,” he wins the battle! If Doc Ock’s Nuclear Reactor is matched at another time, gain 18 Green AP. If it’s destroyed, this power becomes Cunning Scheme.

https://news.marvel.com/games/66023/piecing-together-marvel-puzzle-quest-doctor-octopus/

So basically:

- 10 turn countdown that costs 13 green AP that does dmg every turn
- if you can get and spend 8 green AP before it goes off, it will start healing your team
- if you can get and spend 6 green AP before it goes off, it will do damage again
- if you can get and spend 6 green AP before it goes off, it goes into a passive mode where, if you can match it when it hits 1, you automatically win

wut

seems kinda unlikely the final ability will ever get used... 10 turns minimum plus however many turns it takes to accumulate 33 green = almost certainly can get the job done quicker just burning down hp. maybe it's more relevant at 5* bracket where chars have tons of hp?

maybe in that wonky "everyone is maxed" season they have going right now

or pair him with coulson and someone who generates green (and has v low cost skills to fire to trigger coulson)

Pair him with Flaptain and GSBW
Chase purple so GSBW can flood the board with green
Put out his countdown at 27 green AP
Cycle to phase three
Chase purple for GSBW and blue so Flaptain can decrement the countdown drop his countdown
Cycle to phase 4 once you have enough purple to build a match on the tile
Chase blue until the countdown hits 1
Deceptive Tactics wins the match

Hopefully at some point you've thrown out Flaptain's yellow so most of the incoming damage is neutered aside from unavoidable nukes

hoarding CP makes me itchy and sad

I only have 71 and I still want to spend it so badly

I wish you could give it to me

alliances would be so much more useful if you could bank resources

I had a bunch of Nova covers die because I couldn't use them; I would have loved to have given them to someone else

also would love to not waste the Agent Coulson cover I got when I broke down and opened a legendary token last night

btw, boosted C4ge vs Sentry is hilarious

if C4ge is out in front (I'm running him with 2* Human Torch and and an underleveled C4ptain Marvel, so he is covering something like 5 colors + TU) when Sentry casts Sacrifice, C4ge immediately eats the strike tile and replaces it with a shield, leaving the AI with a net gain of 1 pt of match dmg and a bunch of points of self-injury.

I don't think I've used a single health pack yet in my PvE crawl, mostly because none of the characters are capable of AoE-ing the squishier members of my team and my boosted C4ge floods the boards with shields faster than damage can come in on him; it's great #TeamC4ge

Drew my 475 CP, now leveling my newly 5-4-4 Bl4de

oh I just champed Bl4de yesterday

Bl4de + C4ge = passive fun times, your third almost doesn't matter (I've been having fun with Wasp using her yellow to flip and buff their tiles; it's great because you usually have more shields than strikes initially just because of how Bl4de and C4ge work, so 5 yellow after C4ge blankets the board and suddenly all of your match dmg is 4K a pop, plus usually by that point Bl4de is bloodlusting like silly)

I have to say, I adore a lot of the newer 4* characters. M4rvel, Wasp, Medusa, Coulson, Bl4de, C4ge, C&D... all of them rule in one way or another and help blunt Iceman & Peggy (the passives in particular make Peggy a lot less scary than she had been)

I crave Medusa but I'm still three covers away I think. Glad she's still drawable.

Ugh I'm invested in playing again because like a genius I opened the 11 legendaries that I had, and of course now I'm out of roster spots. After rostering Panth5r and C&D, my queue has 4* R&G, 5* Hawkeye, and 4* Fist, PLUS 2* Daken whom I'd sold since last farming him. I'm at 945 HP, so I'm on the hook to get another 2155 HP (or really 1155, since I apparently still have a single-cover dupe Phoenix that's just taking up space).

I've also got Bl4de fully covered, but only at 70. DJP, whom do you like to pair him with? 3* Cyc? I can't remember who else makes red tiles anymore.

I'm still rocking Wasp + St4lord, is that still viable? It seems like it is in PVE.

st4rlord is my staple 4* this past month

I don't actually worry too much about pairing Bl4de with a red generator. Basically, I hope for red on the board but if I don't get it, I just use his green AOE and hope for side healing. If the board does have a bunch of red on it, he goes nuts pretty quickly. I like pairing him with C4ge because he is a protest monster and then either Wasp to flip the strikes/protects so we have a better ratio (C4ge almost always has more shields out than Bl4de has strikes) or Carol to buff like silly off of her black. I've also used Medusa as a third but she is way undercovered and underleveled for me.