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Health Pack Saving in PvP

So I recently equipped a L3 Carols Communicator (maxed at L150) to Grocket for the 44% chance of the 2 Strength 600 protect tiles at the start of battle for PvE. And it works wonders against tile movers and those annoying Mindless Ones reducing a ton of damage.

But tonight I found out it's also useful for saving Health Packs in PvP, esp for Bishop teams (or anyone who soaks damage). I used Grocket in the Black Cat PvP and he was down to 500 health when I switched to do my final clears in PvE. After doing the easy nodes I suddenly noticed he was almost back to full 14K health. Then it dawns on me, the Rank 3 heal of 43% chance for 2K health is true heal and not burst!

So if you are a Bishop user in PvP this is the support for you. Once he gets down in health rather than using a health pack just put him with Grocket in the easy nodes of PvE and match a few of Grockets strikes and you'll fully heal him. Yes, it takes a couple of minutes time (like playing the prologue for healing used to do for Patch/Daken etc) but if you are short on health packs this is a great way get Bishop back into the game.

KGB

KGB

Re: What will come first? CL10, PVP Supports or UI Updates?

Where is "none of the above"? I am at the point of believing that NONE of those things will ever happen, and the game will just keep going until enough players leave and it shuts down.

The game is on autopilot in terms of features. Yes, there are good recent characters but the investment required to implement big changes is probably not there as players fall away.

Look at the SCL7 player counts in bracket tracking sheets and you'll see that we are not building a playerbase anymore.

Twisting my arm....I picked new DDQ nodes because it requires the least amount of work and is an avenue to expand rewards if they wanted to do that.

bluewolf

Re: Spider-Man: Far From Home Celebration! (6/24/19)

Oh, come on now, why act like this is something new?
Anytime we have a specific celebration, all relevant characters are pointed out, across all SCLs.
(Scl1-2 people will be getting relevant characters too... While you might not care, some marvel or spidey fans will be starting out now... there's no vet criteria to use the forum for information)

Ed_Dragonrider

Comic cover for Hawkeye (Ronin) does not depict Clint Barton

While the comic cover chosen for Hawkeye (Ronin) does depict the Ronin costume, it actually depicts someone other than Clint Barton wearing the costume. Instead it depicts Maya Lopez, the first Ronin.

Here are some alternatives that do depict Clint Barton as Ronin:

New Avengers #27

Image: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/d/d8/Dark_Reign_The_List_-_Avengers_Vol_1_1_Second_Printing.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/312?cb=20170716011807

Dark Reign: The List - Avengers #1 (second printing)

There are a few other covers out there, but focus on multiple characters.

jamesh

Re: What gives with the mana cost of this set?

I think they've deliberately moved away from large-scale converters.

Ramp spells have always been a conundrum. As ramp power increases, card balance effectively decreases. What matter is it if a card costs 14 or 19 when I can just Rx or HoP myself into cascades of mana at will? Games are faster, more dangerous, more able to be looped and combo’d.

Thus, if they want to slow the environment down, the best way to do it is to limit ramp spells. However, when that occurs, the power shifts from the player to Greg, because limited ramp drastically inhibits player ability to dig themselves out of a hole. When Greg explodes for 70 mana into a board full of creatures, and all you have in hand are a couple of gates, how do you make up the difference?

This is a problem endemic to their base concept: They took a game based on linear mana progression and converted it to one with randomly imbalanced mana gains.

madwren

Great job with the last batch of 4*!!!!!

Starting with 4* thanos, Ronin, Sabertooth, and now Blackcat, it’s been a great run of chars. I’ve been using them in SIM and found them to be incredibly versatile against a lot of different combos. In particular, I found Ronin to be much more versatile than I expected.

1v1 Blackcat is really dynamic and will be a fantastic COTT match.

Ronin is a great third partner that wipe out enemys. My only real complaint about Sabertooth is that I wished match 3 were processed BEFORE the 3x3 explosion, but otherwise I found him to be easy to use and consistent in his output.

i’ll be Keeping an eye open for opportunities to earn these covers.

The new new designer deserves an attaboy, for new mechanics and chars that integrate well with the existing meta. They will never replace an existing 5* combo in a mandatory featured event, but they are absolutely a great option in 3x3 matchup

@Brigby
@IceIX

Phumade

Re: I love Magic: The Gathering - I don’t want to play it

I like the limited format. That, in and of itself, has potential.

The problem was, there wasn't an intermediary step down from what players had gotten used to. For months, we’ve been living in a cancerous meta fueled by degenerate cards and combos. Everything was pushed to be faster, faster, faster.

To go from that to nerfed BSZ and an almost ramp-less environment (we still have..Gates), combined with 6-hour refreshes so we’re playing:

longer games
more often
for fewer high-placement rewards

That’s quite a system shock.

madwren

Re: 4* releases are now a waste of everyone's time and money.

At the heart of ending the 4* bloat, making the 5* the next viable resource tier, and the creation of a 6*; all boils down to the fact the devs completely skipped the place that the 5* tier should have been slotted.

Making 5s so overly powerful has backed them into a corner where a 6* tier just doesn't seem feasible.

My idea imo is to eliminate or merge the 1* tier into the 2*. 3* stars becoming the new 2s and 4s the new 3s.

Create a new 4.5 tier between current 4s and 5s. Slightly more powerful but stops current 4* dilution and bridges the power gap between current 4s and 5s.

Therealsmkspy

Re: Thoughts about Vanguards (was - Greg and Vanguards)

morgue427 said:

now new players having that card and the chances are even lower, and even with veterans guess what already full decks need van killers as a default.

If you're playing answers you need an answer to vanguard supports and to non-vanguard supports; that's two cards.

One thing I hate about the latest phase of MTGPQ design is the decision to subdivide supports into subtypes. What, am I going to play FOUR different answer cards in my ten card deck? No, I'm going to play Demolish. Print as many cards that affect Enchantments or Artifacts as you like; I'm still just going to play Demolish.

starfall

Re: Worst 4* character in the game?

For me it comes down to Talos or Emma Frost. IMO, they share the spot. Talos does absolutely nothing, though at least he has a stun. And whatever Emma tries to do is irrelevant since she takes 3 centuries to get there with her active powers + multi-turn repeaters. You can't speed her up with feeders, since you still have to wait for the repeaters, and they have the survivability of wet tissue paper. And even if you can get through all that, what she does is so very underwhelming that you're questioning why you've bothered to build a team around her in the first place. At least Talos has a stun?

Flaptain also takes ages, but at least when he gets around to it he has a nuke. BW plays well as a support character to characters with a cheap stun like Iceman, Kingpin could at least feed someone else's yellow (pity there are so few good active yellow users in the 4* tier), Jubilee has amazing synergy with Lady Thor, Namor is just meh rather than terrible and you can at least do something with Prowler or Lockjaw on Carnage teams.

AlexR