Simulator - July 4 - 11

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If you have maxed Torch, Uber Daken and C. Mags then the fight should be no problem. I've cleared it three times now without sustaining more than a 1000 damage per character. Take out Sentry first, deny red, and grab green then blue. Once you have some strike tiles out and Mags self-sustaining blue creating match-5s and crit tiles, the match takes care of itself.

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Ghast wrote:

If you have maxed Torch, Uber Daken and C. Mags then the fight should be no problem. I've cleared it three times now without sustaining more than a 1000 damage per character. Take out Sentry first, deny red, and grab green then blue. Once you have some strike tiles out and Mags self-sustaining blue creating match-5s and crit tiles, the match takes care of itself.

I don't have maxed Torch, or CMags, but at enemy levels of 145 this one has not been too bad after I switched rosters. Maxed Patch, Daken, and a big ol' level 50 MStorm. Drop +3 Red if you want a faster fight, otherwise match a couple red and concentrate on Sentry. Desert works really nicely here.
Last time I cleared it Daken only ate one headbutt, even saving those Big Juggs for the end.

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Ghast wrote:

If you have maxed Torch, Uber Daken and C. Mags then the fight should be no problem. I've cleared it three times now without sustaining more than a 1000 damage per character. Take out Sentry first, deny red, and grab green then blue. Once you have some strike tiles out and Mags self-sustaining blue creating match-5s and crit tiles, the match takes care of itself.

Aaand... For people who have none of them anywhere near max?

Infrared

I'm having lots of fun with Path + Daken + Loki. And mine aren't even level maxed yet. Daken tanks all colors for Loki, so Loki basically never takes a hit unless he matches environment. Get some green and black, then throw out Berserker Rage followed by Trickery. I laugh at enemy Sentry's World Rupture doing 1 damage to me while hurting his own team. And laugh harder when I convert his Sacrifice tile into my own protect tile. As a bonus, no health packs are needed for this team. The scaling is probably going to kill me in the next round as a result though.

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RichHurtz wrote:

Aaand... For people who have none of them anywhere near max?

Brave Frontier sounds nice. I've heard good things.

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What's going with this crazy scaling? Together with 4 events ending at the same time, are we going to see a surge of health pack sales that D3P demands?

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I am going to be short of the 40K needed to try for the 150K progression reward - assuming the usual 25% up scaling each sub. Probably just going to drop back into the top 50 as red X force does not do it for me.

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I'm not staying up late for a 2*, so I'm aiming for top fifty in the subs. I suspect end times will make this an easy decision (the next one will probably be a noon endtime, which is even worse). 150k is probably out of reach, so I'm just going to accept that. Sentry is in the bag so I'll at least get one usable 3* cover out of it.

Ironically, this is the highest my alliance has ever placed, for some reason.

morgh

I don't care much for main but 3 x 200 HP and heaps of ISO actually do encourage me to play at least in the last 12 hours of each sub

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RichHurtz wrote:

Ghast wrote:

If you have maxed Torch, Uber Daken and C. Mags then the fight should be no problem. I've cleared it three times now without sustaining more than a 1000 damage per character. Take out Sentry first, deny red, and grab green then blue. Once you have some strike tiles out and Mags self-sustaining blue creating match-5s and crit tiles, the match takes care of itself.

Aaand... For people who have none of them anywhere near max?

Not sure what levels you're fighting against but from looking at your roster you do have some options. Your Patch seems pretty sturdy since he's got 5 in yellow, but with him not being buffed and missing some red and green, he may not be the best damage dealing option. Ares should deal a healthy amount of damage, and may end up taking colors away from Patch, who will heal off a bunch of regular damage.
Also, even though they're not buffed you could certainly run MNMags & Storm. Maybe with Punisher to down the bigger guys after they're frozen and whittled down to under 30%

ZeiramMR

Sumilea wrote:

I am going to be short of the 40K needed to try for the 150K progression reward - assuming the usual 25% up scaling each sub. Probably just going to drop back into the top 50 as red X force does not do it for me.

I may be in the running for the Daken, but the scaling is getting high enough that it's probably not worth the effort. My Daken is currently 3/3/1, so I could definitely use it, though.

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Sweet, lost my entire roster to IM40 + goons. Pretty hard to win when every other turn is Ballistic Salvo + Unibeam.
Thanks for the **** fight D3!

Edit: I think I'll just give up on the Simulator... I wanted the Sentry, but I don't think I'll be able to get close since I can't complete any matches. Actually, I just want to quit the game in general.

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I thought I wouldn't play as hard for the current sub-events, but since so many players decided to sit that one out, my rank immediately went up to the top after the first run. Several hours later...I was still ranked 2nd. -Grind protocol activated-

Tonight I'm running left and right, trying to keep those top ranks which are up for grabs due to exceptional circumstances. It's very exciting! Basically, this is me right now.

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I'm ~#15 in both right now and pretty much everything is refreshed. I'm going to try to do the absolute minimum I need to to keep top fifty. I"m not staying up late for a 2*.

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so, my enemies are already level 300 and i haven't even started the final grind yet.

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I don't have Daken so I can't do the essentials and I'm still currently sitting in 12th place in my group in normal. Will see if I can manage to latch onto a top ten spot during the last stretch.

Either way this event is already a win for me as I picked up another Sentry red cover from the 5000 progression reward token.

kidicarus

bloodwars wrote:

so, my enemies are already level 300 and i haven't even started the final grind yet.

Hey bloodwars, for some reason, you're always in my brackets and I'm going to wish you all the best. In this event, I'm taking it easy and relying on rubberbanding to play as little as possible to control scaling. What I will be going for however, is the 100hp placements in the subs.

Don't know what this proves but sim prep 1 and 2 are lvls 80 and 87 respectively for me. What are your numbers like?

edit: also sim 10 hard mode is lvl 179

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bloodwars wrote:

so, my enemies are already level 300 and i haven't even started the final grind yet.

Restart your app and see whether the levels going down.

It worked for me during thunderbolts mountain pve.

If it doesn't work, then well... your scaling is off the charts.

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I think the reduced competition is because essentials nodes are no longer the freebie points with enemies being around 50 levels lower than anything else. The highest point essential mission (and also highest point overall) is now around the second highest in level, and the two high point essential nodes have very nasty combination of enemies.

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Phantron wrote:

I think the reduced competition is because essentials nodes are no longer the freebie points with enemies being around 50 levels lower than anything else. The highest point essential mission (and also highest point overall) is now around the second highest in level, and the two high point essential nodes have very nasty combination of enemies.

Yeah, I've wiped multiple times with laken/HT/falcon on the essentials. And my hard sim 10 is 179 vs the iso mountain being 180, so the scaling is really about the same with essentials on vs off