Unstable ISO-8 - July 18-24

HairyDave

walkyourpath wrote:

Red Panda wrote:

I wonder why this PVE event doesn't seem to offer the +50% damage boost?

I think that's just for Heroic events. Seem to remember maybe there was one for Simulator once?

I think The Hunt or Brotherhood had one as well didn't they?

Unknown

DrUnpleasant wrote:

As of this morning there was just 2100 points covering 1st and 100th place in my bracket. That's stupid. End of.

The way this entire event has been going leads me to feel fairly confident that for a week long event it's all going to come down to my alarm going off at FUN 'O' CLOCK (3:30am, maybe 4am) for the final hour long grind.

Not great.

This is what always happens when event scores are allowed to rubberband off the global event leader for extended periods of time.

The longer this occurs, in combination with slowing point gains as a result of level creep, results in everyone obtaining the same score in the end.

The inevitable conclusion is that the winners of the event are those that are able to win the difficult nodes in the last 30 minutes of the event. Everything else before then really doesn't matter because the global leader cannot pull away ever from the pack because the everyone else's rubberband is based off him/her. Thus, the harder the leader works to keep the lead, the easier it becomes for everyone else to catch him/her.

Case in point: I am able to keep up with the leaders (within reason [Top 20-50]) without ever touching the insanely leveled nodes because of rubberbanding and grinding the essentials and easier nodes.

Ducky

And with the node switch almost all of my nodes are 395.

Unknown

Cracked 40,000 for the event, so now my Cap is 1/1/1. Sitting 65th ATM; 4400 behind 1st.

dr tinykittylove

Wurgh, tinykittyland. I tried to do one last clear before the node switch and first avenger at the same time and also tossed the unlevelled babies in the lightning round pot to grind the seed teams for iso. Ticking heal clocks everywhere. Decided to give up and shield in pvp for top 50, and took a break to prepare for the node switch.

Now, after one clear of everything except 198 Rags/Venom/Muscle (I'm just not going to touch them...), I'm in 6th at 46318. 1st is only 47413, I tinykitty feel bad for them. Still 1 day 9 hours to go, this is insane. I can actually see the levels tick up as I clear the nodes.

orionpeace

I feel ya.

My Congo (Muscle/Rags/Venom) is level 217. And my highest level character, unpowered, is 94.

My scaling is through the roof. No way I can sustain my top 20 spot through the end.

Unknown

Ehhh... my Congo is 395, others are either little less or over 300. Could be worse, I suppose... gonna be tough last day. I doubt I can hold on to my top20 rank.

Unknown

What are you guys doing to have the nodes that level? I am currently just in the top 50 and will be starting my push at 12 hours to go but Congo is only lvl 120. In fact currently I have 5 Trivial and 6 Easy nodes, which should leave me in a good spot for the mad finish in the last 30 minutes when PatchNeto makes his first appearance of the event.

orionpeace

Sumilea wrote:

What are you guys doing to have the nodes that level? I am currently just in the top 50 and will be starting my push at 12 hours to go but Congo is only lvl 120. In fact currently I have 5 Trivial and 6 Easy nodes, which should leave me in a good spot for the mad finish in the last 30 minutes when PatchNeto makes his first appearance of the event.

I have 4 max leveled 2*: MMN, oBW, Wolverine and cStorm.

I have been mostly clearing with MMN/cStorm. My objective is to clear with zero damage on all Maggia nodes.

Apparently, that works against me over the long haul.

danikalil

Now here 395 phew! So far I can make it into top 5, but my scaling is killing me .. Playing PatchNeto and hulk .. The only time I used Storm she was dead in minutes .. Today I'll still do the nodes once and tomorrow focus on the ending.

rawl316

This pve sucks and is brutal.

I wish they at least had subevents so that we could earn cards, iso, and hp.

MarvelMan

My nodes are 300+ and Ive been suiciding my roster. I have to be doing something wrong somewhere.

I wouldnt mind having nodes that are harder except that the extra time they take is a drag, plus the rewards arent any better and even the match 3 damage is painful. Not to mention a 350 Venom's Devour is ridiculous.

Unknown

At least most of the new nodes are goon only. Levels are skyrocketing as a result. I really hope that there will be no new set of nodes, otherwise I shot myself in the foot with 395 enemies across the board. Not that it matters unfavorable EU ending time will screw me over anyways

Ducky

Community scaling will drive a lot of people to not being able to play the last day, I think. Working as intended?

Unknown

Somebody has playable nodes, I keep dropping 5 or 10 places in the rankings every 3 hours.

Unknown

Bleh, Im not even goign to try for placement - too much stress with this one. Ill just grab my 2 Cap covers and be happy with it

Unknown

Anyone else noticing the upper right node switching from "Moonstone" to "Maggia in Greece"? I've fought Greece a couple times and immediately after winning, it switches to Moonstone

Unknown

Red Panda wrote:

Anyone else noticing the upper right node switching from "Moonstone" to "Maggia in Greece"? I've fought Greece a couple times and immediately after winning, it switches to Moonstone

Yup.

So I'm not crazy then, that's good to know.

danikalil

Red Panda wrote:

Anyone else noticing the upper right node switching from "Moonstone" to "Maggia in Greece"? I've fought Greece a couple times and immediately after winning, it switches to Moonstone

.

This happened to me too. I thought it was just my imagination.

Unknown

So if one had a choice of joining now or in 12 hours approximately, which would you suggest?