Pwuz_ wrote: Konman wrote: Technically, dinosaurs are not reptiles. Can't believe no one else is harping on this. What's wrong with you people? Probably because "Devil Dinosaur (Proto-Avian)" doesn't have the same ring to it. We are talking about a video game based on a comic series prominently featuring superhuman & mystical powers. How much scientific accuracy do you expect?
Konman wrote: Technically, dinosaurs are not reptiles. Can't believe no one else is harping on this. What's wrong with you people?
Konman wrote: Pwuz_ wrote: Konman wrote: Technically, dinosaurs are not reptiles. Can't believe no one else is harping on this. What's wrong with you people? Probably because "Devil Dinosaur (Proto-Avian)" doesn't have the same ring to it. We are talking about a video game based on a comic series prominently featuring superhuman & mystical powers. How much scientific accuracy do you expect? Aliens, mutants, alternate dimensions...totally possible. Calling a dinosaur a reptile...factually inaccurate. Should also have feathers, but that's a nit pick I suppose.
Quebbster wrote: Konman wrote: Pwuz_ wrote: Konman wrote: Technically, dinosaurs are not reptiles. Can't believe no one else is harping on this. What's wrong with you people? Probably because "Devil Dinosaur (Proto-Avian)" doesn't have the same ring to it. We are talking about a video game based on a comic series prominently featuring superhuman & mystical powers. How much scientific accuracy do you expect? Aliens, mutants, alternate dimensions...totally possible. Calling a dinosaur a reptile...factually inaccurate. Should also have feathers, but that's a nit pick I suppose. Blame Jack Kirby for that one since Devil has never been depicted as having feathers. Is he still from another planet or did they retcon that?
grey_zealot wrote: Hi. Question: Will Devil Dinosaur ever be offered again for the random cover purchases? Still hoping to get a red cover, but I haven't seen DD in the "drop rates" of any offer in awhile. Thanks for any help.
vudu3 wrote: I'm currently 3/5/5 and will get another green cover from my daily reward in about a week. I'd really like to respec him to 5/5/3 but there's no way I'm going to buy the last cover. Should I go 4/5/4 and hope another green cover is offered sometime in the future or just keep him at 3/5/5 to make purple slightly less terrible?
vudu3 wrote: Because going from 3 green covers to 5 increases damage by 133%. I think it's kind of ridiculous to give that up. By your own simulator analysis, going from 3 purple to 5 purple increases the chance of a cascade from 22% to 35%. Given that more often than not a "cascade" is a single match-3 it just doesn't seem worth it. We all know that Prehistoric Bite just doesn't compare with X-Force but biting for 2.5K damage isn't horrible (359 damage/AP); biting for 1.1K damage is (153 damage/AP).
NorthernPolarity wrote: vudu3 wrote: I'm currently 3/5/5 and will get another green cover from my daily reward in about a week. I'd really like to respec him to 5/5/3 but there's no way I'm going to buy the last cover. Should I go 4/5/4 and hope another green cover is offered sometime in the future or just keep him at 3/5/5 to make purple slightly less terrible? Why are you moving away from purple? The whole point of Dino is to be a defensive deterrent, and increasing the cascade potential on his purple (viewtopic.php?f=14&t=18598) is the best way to randomly win you games. Look at it this way: a random 7 ap, 2.7k damage chomp or bite isn't going to be as game winning as a lucky cascade from purple. Given that purple is the only skill on defense that you know will 100% go off, it seems crazy to go anything but an X/X/5 build.
john1620b wrote: vudu3 wrote: Because going from 3 green covers to 5 increases damage by 133%. I think it's kind of ridiculous to give that up. By your own simulator analysis, going from 3 purple to 5 purple increases the chance of a cascade from 22% to 35%. Given that more often than not a "cascade" is a single match-3 it just doesn't seem worth it. We all know that Prehistoric Bite just doesn't compare with X-Force but biting for 2.5K damage isn't horrible (359 damage/AP); biting for 1.1K damage is (153 damage/AP). I lucked out and got a 5/5/3 Dino from the anniversary covers, and I use him all the time. His damage ratio isn't great comparatively, but it's great for clearing low-level nodes in PvE. That's not really something you NEED him for, but it makes grinding much less boring when you can clear nodes quickly. If you're running strike tile generators, he even works for high-level PvE -- the low cost of his abilities actually makes them pretty good damage generators. If you're going for speed, you'll also almost never use his purple, because it generally just wastes your time watching the animation. Yes, it can be randomly useful, but in general it's not worth the time it takes. So, I'd definitely recommend switching him to 4/5/4, in the hopes that at some point you'll get a green cover, but that's based on how I use him. I like using him in PvE. For PvP, I don't think he's a very effective defensive deterrant. I never see (or use) a Devil Dino at high levels, especially now that most veterans have a fully-covered and leveled X-Force and 4* Thor.
NorthernPolarity wrote: I think you guys are undervaluing Dino's purple. What you're forgetting is that it costs 3 purple AP per cast. This means that if you cast it 3 times, level 5 will give you roughly 6 AP for 9 AP compared to the terrible 3.6 AP for 9 AP at level 3. 6 AP for 9 AP on average is roughly equivalent to a level 4 MQ blue, which considering how it costs a single purple match 3, is pretty reasonable. I envisioned that Dino's main purpose would actually be as a random board shaker in purple, since purple is very underrepresented in this game.
ayatorahxephon wrote: My Devil Dino is sitting at 4/4/4 .. I was planning to build him at 5/5/3 but ever since I read up at this forum, I found out that some people are using 4/4/5 ... What I experience is from my build anyway is that I always wish that his bite would do more damage as mine only around 1.4 k at the moment. I will get his last green/ red/ purple in 20 more days. His purple for me now only causes cascade like 30% of the time and in my experience, when the 1st time you used if it doesn't causes cascade, the 2nd and 3rd time wont either. I would really like to know how huge is the probability between 3/4/5 purple? Does the chances really goes up? I currently like using BP with him (complete colors) and I have X force, hood, Loki, Magneto, Nick Fury, Invi woman, thor, punisher, blade to team up with which made me wonder which is his best general build.. I guess might be 5/5/3 or 4/4/5 but I want to know the difference between a 3 purple and 5 purple.. can you keep spamming it until you get a cascade? I can say 4 purple can't cascade if you keep spamming it if the first time using it doesn't cause one
ayatorahxephon wrote: My Devil Dino is sitting at 4/4/4 .. I was planning to build him at 5/5/3 but ever since I read up at this forum, I found out that some people are using 4/4/5 ... What I experience is from my build anyway is that I always wish that his bite would do more damage as mine only around 1.4 k at the moment.