Dark Avengers Heroic: June 27 - July 3

mohio

Sumilea wrote:

My nodes in main do not look rubber banded to me - no odd point numbers so its either of you main leaders or it is weak.

Same here. Went ahead and cleared them all. Got 2200. Should get me she-hulk since I'm at 93k now. Either there's no rubberband or it kicks in further from the leader than usual. I thought maybe they'd do the prodigal sun route of only rubberbanding a couple nodes but doesn't look like it

Katai

Grindfest is a grindy.

I've been farming everything I can and I'm still 20,000 points from the top 20.

Even if I play for the next 12 hours straight, there's no way I can get that many points without doing 10,000 matches at 1 point per node.

wade66

Made it to 89k before the end of sub. If my math is right, I should be able to pull 13th with 101k, just barely getting she hulk, provided I don't get scaled out of any nodes. The venom/juggernaut node and ares/daken/sentry node in the last sub becoming unbeatable may have screwed me though.

Unknown

Sumilea wrote:

EvilSonGoku wrote:

Sumilea wrote:

My nodes in main do not look rubber banded to me - no odd point numbers so its either of you main leaders or it is weak.

How's it going Sumilea? Where did this Todd Bridges come from to steal #1 in our sub? I finished sentry fight 30sec too late for it too count but we were 3 pts apart. That was close. Good luck on rest of pve. I think I can cruise these last 12hrs since I have a 22k lead over #10.

I miss timed that mission also finished in about 30 second late. Oh well not that I ever pull anything good from the covers. I am thinking I not trying for top 2 and also just flop into top 10. Currently at 98.6K so one more clear will push me over 100K. I could use a few more IW covers but not like I can level her up.

If it makes you feel better, I got all 2* **** for my tokens so I hear ya. The 100hp was my main goal.

mouser

Chimaera wrote:

Pretty sure there's no banding on the main nodes.

At 94k+ after 1 clear and at those values still going to have to play pretty tight for that shulk cover. It's in range clearly just as long as I don't mess up.

HailMary at 90k in my bracket may not be able to get there.

At any rate locked top 10 I guess.

Grinding everything to 1 point will net you 6,630 points. So you're safe to make 100k.

Unknown

HairyDave wrote:

Bowgentle wrote:

Will give it half an hour before I make a clear, just in case points do change, though

Just a friendly warning, "Call Him Ragnarok" features the big fella and a couple of green feeding goons.

The AI decided that a Sniper Rifle was the best way to go instead of Godlike Power for me but it has the potential to be much messier.

And yet more 2* rubbish from event tokens - the only gold I've seen in the last two weeks was a black Loki

Very much this. Only rare I've pulled from a pack since season 3 started was a couple out of the season 3 10-pack and even that was Doom, Grey Suit, and Loki. :-/

HairyDave

I shall sleep and see if the rubberband is kind in 8 hours or so. I'm 30th now and I'd like to stay there (I suspect top 20 might be out of reach).

mouser

Unless some rubber band kicks in later, with the current node values maximum theoretical points would be 17,680 if you could time everything perfectly and complete nodes in 0 seconds.

Realistically a hard core grinder might be able to get 13,000 to 14,000 with running a clear every refresh and grinding to 1 at the end.

Unknown

Pretty sure I've gotten more usable 3* from standard tokens in the last week than I have from event tokens. Pulled the final GSBW purple yesterday from a standard to fully cover her. Got a Lazyshield the other day, who was my first 141 and built correctly, and just now pulled a red LThor who is also maxed, albeit built wrong with 5 red already. That will be 2 or 3 red LThors I've sold while only having 3 yellow. Alas.

Unknown

So I'm way behind the leader. Do I go through the nodes now, then let them refresh for 2 and a half hours and go again, or wait a while, or...?

mohio

RichHurtz wrote:

So I'm way behind the leader. Do I go through the nodes now, then let them refresh for 2 and a half hours and go again, or wait a while, or...?

Your only hope is to play as optimally as you can and hope others don't. That means play now and every 2.5 hours until the end and grind like crazy for the last hour.

Unknown

Katai wrote:

Grindfest is a grindy.

I've been farming everything I can and I'm still 20,000 points from the top 20.

Even if I play for the next 12 hours straight, there's no way I can get that many points without doing 10,000 matches at 1 point per node.

And its good thing? Why the hell you should be able to get higher position than someone who was playing more than you and isnt able to play during final hour?

Bowgentle

These final nodes feel like a really cool victory lap, nice and easy.

THIS is how a 7 day event should end, not with a mad scramble that invalidates all previous days' efforts.

Thank you, devs.

Unknown

I'm at 93.5k after my first clear (about an hour ago), so I think I'm good for 100k. I've got about a 2500 point lead on #11, so playing pretty close to optimally (I think I can manage it for a half day) should keep me in the top ten, which is all I care about. I've already sold one Yellow IW today (from a LR token) since I've got three of them already and don't feel like I need a fourth.

NorthernPolarity

Phantron wrote:

NorthernPolarity wrote:

Phantron wrote:

If there is RB on these nodes it'd be like Prodigal Sun where you only get rubberbanding if you're already mathematically eliminated from contention.

It looks like there's about 2K base points total? So you can do about 14K in 12 hours for doing everything (2K X 4 + 6K for final clear) and that's a pace better than what you could've gotten in a sub. I'm guessing if you had 90K before the sub ended you're in a good position to hit 100K.

I'm currently at 68k in my lazy bracket where 10th has 56k, so I guess this means that I can peace out on the rest of the event since theres no chance that that guy is going to be playing optimally. I do miss out on a she-hulk cover for joining late, but this sentry cover security is more than worth it. Laziness ftw!

So I'm guessing you're not seeing any RB either? They somehow managed to set the base value of these nodes roughly inline with what you'd expect for a final sub, since the last sub I did about 10K/12 hours, and this could be up to 14K (would require insane playing but in theory possible) and that's consistent with the design of later events being worth more, without completely invalidating everything you did prior to that.

Yeah, no RB at all. Gonna have to start to think harder about joining after the first sub if the final reward is something meaningful, but then again I doubt that the reward would be good enough for me to spend an extra 3 days or so worrying about playing PvE optimally. This not having to do anything during the last 12 hours and minimal grinding during the first 2 subs feels pretty good after hearing accounts of people on this forum playing a lot more than I have and complaining that they can't hit top 10.

Unknown

mohio wrote:

RichHurtz wrote:

So I'm way behind the leader. Do I go through the nodes now, then let them refresh for 2 and a half hours and go again, or wait a while, or...?

Your only hope is to play as optimally as you can and hope others don't. That means play now and every 2.5 hours until the end and grind like crazy for the last hour.

Alright. I know I pretty much don't have a shot at... any decent rewards, progress or overall, but I guess I'll still try.

Unknown

You guys have some nice brackets, I'm at 95K right now and I'm in 20th in my bracket.

Unknown

I guess I never figured out the right way to play this event. And I wound up forgetting about the end of the last round. So my point total is just pure garbage...

Unknown

Encourage everyone you know to join the next PVE as soon as possible.

Then wait 24 hours before joining personally.

Unknown

HairyDave wrote:

I shall sleep and see if the rubberband is kind in 8 hours or so. I'm 30th now and I'd like to stay there (I suspect top 20 might be out of reach).

There is no rubber banding you get 2.2K every 2 hours 24 minutes and however many nodes you can kill at the end. (Checked on my alt account they 100K behind and see the same value nodes)

I will do two more clears before bed and then can wake up at my normal time and not have to fire up the computer at 4am. That will keep me in the top 10.