ISO-8 Brotherhood Aug 19 - 28

FierceKiwi

Phantron wrote:

FierceKiwi wrote:

Phantron wrote:

Why would they put him on PvP when the only guys winning PvP are the guys who are going to end up spending more than enough money to be able to max out Nick Fury while competing for covers they already have maxed out?

I'm not sure what's the reason to put him for PvE at this point, but if they nerfed Magneto you could expect a significant amount of revenue generated via health packs/boosts because the rate you've to fight the PvE encounters is not sustainable without him, and a lot of those nodes are hard enough to wear even Magneto down if you don't have Falcon and Daken both maxed.

Patch/Daken laugh at the idea of needing healthpacks to grind PvE even without Mags.

Patch isn't very good without Magneto, and Daken is limited by Falcon, not to mention he's unusable half of the time in PvE nodes that are DA themed.

Both of them aren't as good without their partners Mags/Falcon but they're still more than capable of handling their own. Daken being locked out frequently is a pain but he's abailable enough that he's a decent Patch fallback and since he's locked out of some nodes if he dies he dies no need to worry about wasting a healthpack.

CrookedKnight

saurus wrote:

That 11th place finish in the hulk is now a double kick in the nuts.

For the record, I had a full 2.5 refresh schedule the entire event, missing exactly five hours when I went out on a saturday. I played about as hard as you can expect and still didnt get a fury, but figured, hey, one fury cover is useless, and there is no way they would be insane enough to make him required...

That 11th hurt my soul and now double hurts my soul.

I was on a 2.5 hour refresh through most of the event, but I don't have any Punisher covers. I was less than 4000 out of 10th. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

Unknown

Unless #1 to your place are separated by less than 2500 points you missed a lot more than one cycle of refresh in this event, because 2500 is roughly the value of one 2.5h cycle for the last set of subs.

CrookedKnight

You fool, you probably got enough sleep every night! And/or didn't triple dip before bed.

Ebolamonkey84

My Patch is currently 3/0/4, my HT is only 2/3/5, and I've got one Fury cover, so I'm happy with all of the rewards for this. Hopefully enough people will sit out for me to get top 10.

Unknown

Once again I'm baffled with the devs choices in this PvE. Do the metrics show that players love 9-day marathons with **** prizes? I know I don't, not without proper incentive. If the prizes were even half-decent I might just jump in the first day (mainly for the ISO) and casually grind some progression points each day and eventually land somewhere in top100. But not this time. 9 days of mayhem and only top2 of each bracket get Fury? Screw this. I'll enter last day and grab whatever I manage. At least I'll spare myself those eight first days of mindless grind.

Time to focus on PvP for next week or so.

mohio

I will say the rewards are a little lackluster for me with already cover maxed patch and HT, but I'll be playing for hp and ISO in the subs. Doubt I'll get a fury since I'm starting vacation this weekend but probably wouldn't have gotten one anyway.

FierceKiwi

Ariakos wrote:

Once again I'm baffled with the devs choices in this PvE. Do the metrics show that players love 9-day marathons with **** prizes? I know I don't, not without proper incentive. If the prizes were even half-decent I might just jump in the first day (mainly for the ISO) and casually grind some progression points each day and eventually land somewhere in top100. But not this time. 9 days of mayhem and only top2 of each bracket get Fury? Screw this. I'll enter last day and grab whatever I manage. At least I'll spare myself those eight first days of mindless grind.

Time to focus on PvP for next week or so.

I love them most of the community ignores them for the most part and I can collect tons of HP/ISO.

Unknown

FierceKiwi wrote:

Phantron wrote:

Why would they put him on PvP when the only guys winning PvP are the guys who are going to end up spending more than enough money to be able to max out Nick Fury while competing for covers they already have maxed out?

I'm not sure what's the reason to put him for PvE at this point, but if they nerfed Magneto you could expect a significant amount of revenue generated via health packs/boosts because the rate you've to fight the PvE encounters is not sustainable without him, and a lot of those nodes are hard enough to wear even Magneto down if you don't have Falcon and Daken both maxed.

Patch/Daken laugh at the idea of needing healthpacks to grind PvE even without Mags.

You must not have played the last event or had laughable scaling. Jugg + 2 green generators laugh at the idea of not needing healthpacks

Phaserhawk

Is this the same ISO 8 where you can join late and rubberband to top?

FierceKiwi

Phaserhawk wrote:

Is this the same ISO 8 where you can join late and rubberband to top?

No that was Unstable ISO-8. This is the one with about 17 subs.

Phaserhawk

FierceKiwi wrote:

Phaserhawk wrote:

Is this the same ISO 8 where you can join late and rubberband to top?

No that was Unstable ISO-8. This is the one with about 17 subs.

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FierceKiwi

gobstopper wrote:

FierceKiwi wrote:

Phantron wrote:

Why would they put him on PvP when the only guys winning PvP are the guys who are going to end up spending more than enough money to be able to max out Nick Fury while competing for covers they already have maxed out?

I'm not sure what's the reason to put him for PvE at this point, but if they nerfed Magneto you could expect a significant amount of revenue generated via health packs/boosts because the rate you've to fight the PvE encounters is not sustainable without him, and a lot of those nodes are hard enough to wear even Magneto down if you don't have Falcon and Daken both maxed.

Patch/Daken laugh at the idea of needing healthpacks to grind PvE even without Mags.

You must not have played the last event or had laughable scaling. Jugg + 2 green generators laugh at the idea of not needing healthpacks

No I played it but by that time I was so far ahead of 3rd I could ignore that node if I felt like it. I think I did it for about half the refreshes. The 395 Hulk only nodes where a pain but some of that was my max Pun tanked so many of Patches colors.

Meto5000

Phaserhawk wrote:

Is this the same ISO 8 where you can join late and rubberband to top?

D3: Do not try and play around rubberbanding. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.
Userbase: What truth?
D3: There is no rubberbanding.
Userbase: There is no rubberbanding?
D3: Then you'll see, that it is not the rubberbanding that lets you place top 10, it is only yourself...and hitting each node every 2.5 hours for 9 days straight for rewards you don't need nor want.

Unknown

I guess the Fury essentials are aimed at players like me - good roster, not great. Have a few Fury covers around from alliance finishes but not spending any ISO or HP to actually make him playable. So having him in essentials actually gives me a reason to dust off the underleveled and underused for a few nodes now & then. I kinda like it.

Unknown

Meto5000 wrote:

Phaserhawk wrote:

Is this the same ISO 8 where you can join late and rubberband to top?

D3: Do not try and play around rubberbanding. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.
Userbase: What truth?
D3: There is no rubberbanding.
Userbase: There is no rubberbanding?
D3: Then you'll see, that it is not the rubberbanding that lets you place top 10, it is only yourself...and hitting each node every 2.5 hours for 9 days straight for rewards you don't need nor want.

It's good to laugh.

Humour is the only thing we have left to enjoy !

wade66

mohio wrote:

wade66 wrote:

Grrr... the one patch cover I need happens to be green, and without Fury, pretty much unobtainable. Ah well, what can you do?

You could join a top 100 alliance at the end? Mine has a little brother alliance and I know a lot of us don't need patch so we'll be swapping some guys in/out. Just a thought for you to try

I may try that, depending on my alliance standing. Fortunately there shouldn't be any other events ending with this one, so doing that shouldn't be detrimental to them as a whole.

Unknown

wade66 wrote:

Grrr... the one patch cover I need happens to be green, and without Fury, pretty much unobtainable. Ah well, what can you do?

Be in a top 100 alliance. A large number of the "top" alliances will probably be going easy on this one since it's unconscionable to require your 20 players who may already have patch maxed, to try and grind to stay up there for a cover that's still going to be insanely tough to get (Fury yellow), or covers they won't need (Patch). I'd say keep your eyes on the alliance forum and see if there's one with an opening as a hired gun toward the end of this.

squirrel1120

Will hit this normally until I go on vacation to northern Maine for the weekend where there is NO cell service where we'll be. Doubtful I'll rank the one patch cover that would start making him useful. No yellow makes him pretty useless. The iso will be good. Under 5k for the first time in months

Nellyson

GrimSkald wrote:

HawkeyeSucks wrote:

that is really tinykitty stupid. since when have they ever had a 4* essential?

Ugh. As a 2*-3* player, I agree, but I was expecting this since they have given him out for a few things.

On the bright side, he's the only 4* you will get from the Event Token packs.

My plan is to get what I can out of the instances (Heroic or Event tokens,) the HT cover at the max level, and 1 patch cover. If I do that, I'll be happy.

Totally my same thought process. I got royally f-ed in the A hard in the Hulk PVE....took 11th.....needed 10th....was in 7th the entire tourney.......yeah...not bitter! Only extremely vengeful! Hahaha...anyways, maybe I'll get some gleam of hope and happiness by pulling a Fury from one of the tokens I'm trying to win after each sub.