The Gaunlet: Villains, Heroes, & Finale 20 - 23 Sep

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I did Punisher + Magneto + The Hood for the level 395 Sentry/X Force/OBW. Since X Force benefits very little from levels it's not as bad as it could've been, though it was still very close. At the end I happened to have a Coercive Field up when he did World Rupture which helped a lot. In retrospect I probably should've used Coercive Force earlier because Punisher got killed by straight up match damage, and Espionage hurts a ton when it's level 395 level 5 black even without any other help. Use your black on Molotov immediately otherwise OBW will just steal it, but save the red and use Polarized Force over Retribution on OBW/X Force because their HP is relatively low even at 395 and Polarized Force + cascade is generally more damage once Judgment is out and you need to maintain the board that's favorable for Dormammu until you're down to just Sentry, as at that point you can actually try to deny his colors.

wafflefries

Xobyte wrote:

What genius decided it was a good idea to require a Black Panther in order to earn a Black Panther? That really pisses me off, and mars what has otherwise been a mostly good event. But that right there? That is horse ****.

This. When was the last time BP was the reward in an event? I can understand any of the recent rewards (Frank, Colossus, Beast, Mohawk Storm) but I've been playing for quite some time and hadn't seen BP featured during this time.

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I finally beat Sim 34 (Sentry, Punisher and 2* Storm).
Went with Ares, OBW and 2*Wolverine. Used a +3 Purple/Blue AP boost and went with lvl 140 Red Deadpool and 150 Black Dr.Doom.

I matched 2 quick Purples to have the steal ready. Stole when they got at least 2 in everything. Kept farming purple (and blue), shot two Anti-Gravity Devices and stole once again.
Even then Sentry still managed to get 8 yellows and put a Sacrifice tile. My heart almost stopped because that **** is ridiculous and doesn't even need World Rupture to wipe a 2* roster such as mine. Sentry, Storm and Punisher were lvl 150.
With amazing luck, it was created near another 2 yellos, i got rid of that thing in the next turn. That's what won me the match, really.
Wolvie killed Punisher with Adamantium Slash and Ares killed Sentry with 2 Sunders some time later.

Then the next one : Fury, Liutenant and Spy. This one i got extremely lucky and cleared on first attempt. Started again with +3 Purple/Blue boost. My team was : 2*Storm, 2*Magneto and 2*Wolverine.
Matched 2 purples and Magneto shot off Polarity Shift and Storm Wind Fury on Fury (lol) on turn 3. Kept damaging him and got him down with Feral Claws and the strike tiles. Lieutenant died with Adamantium Slash. Spy still hit my whole team for like 1,2k (****) and then went down some turns later.

And then i got the token. I didn't even really cared for that, was just happy to clear the two nodes most people seem to have trouble. Then i open the token.

Yellow Fury.

**** yeah!

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Guess I won't make it to the last node. However I already have a maxed Psyclocke although I do need a

Glad that my Daredevil finally can do some good. really nice performance vs Hulk, multiple traps triggered when Hulk is angry

DrNitroman

I just unlocked the final sub.
I still have essential nodes 11 & 12 to do in Heroes sub
As GSBW is the required char in essential 11 I took the opportunity and raised her to lvl 110
This kind of event promotes roster depth I think, so why not spreading a bit my iso?

Until now, I really enjoyed this event.
My progression was much slower in the 2nd sub than in the first, but regular and I'm feeling the challenge.
I'm not sure I'll manage to clear the finale because my teams need time to rest between fights...

...but I'm sure I will try seriously!

edit: et voilà, heroes sub completed! But she-hulk and colossus really kicked my ****... and twice!
I'm a bit afraid of the finale

poomermon

Phantron wrote:

I did Punisher + Magneto + The Hood for the level 395 Sentry/X Force/OBW. Since X Force benefits very little from levels it's not as bad as it could've been, though it was still very close. At the end I happened to have a Coercive Field up when he did World Rupture which helped a lot. In retrospect I probably should've used Coercive Force earlier because Punisher got killed by straight up match damage, and Espionage hurts a ton when it's level 395 level 5 black even without any other help. Use your black on Molotov immediately otherwise OBW will just steal it, but save the red and use Polarized Force over Retribution on OBW/X Force because their HP is relatively low even at 395 and Polarized Force + cascade is generally more damage once Judgment is out and you need to maintain the board that's favorable for Dormammu until you're down to just Sentry, as at that point you can actually try to deny his colors.

Haha. That actually worked just like you said. Used coercive force early to shield myself from match damage and then killed them in order of obw -> x-force -> sentry. I used +3 all ap and +3 r/y ap boosts. They never actually got even one ability off which is good because it probably would have been gg right there. Even when there was only sentry left I was super nervous since he could have wiped me with a single supernova. He got to 10 red ap but I was able to deny rest and hood reduced him back to safe levels. I had to take a couple of tries to beat the node and I realise I was quite lucky with board in my last match.

Edit: I actually got lvl 382 black X-Force tu from the match.

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Just wiped 3 times on Simulation 39: L299 Deadpool, Ares, OBW. Lacking my own Sentry Bomb, I'm probably gonna have to try to build one through Team Ups...

over_clocked

Kalirion: yeah alas you need a cheap strong AoE to beat Deadpool/Ares/oBW as Deadpool prevents you from killing oBW otherwise, and she's a healer. AI healing is totally OP unlike players' since the AI has unlimited health. Try bringing Daken/Patch/Falcon and carefully match damage oBW while denying purple. Occasional Ares powers/ALOTT, healers should be able to take. But you can also try to cStorm/MMN as usual.

As for the event itself: SMASHING.
20 iso rewards on lvl 332 nodes aren't inspiring in case you didn't get 500 iso the 1st time, and requiring BP to win BP is a bit silly as others have said, but not placing time/refresh constraints on us is appreciated dearly, and all small mistakes/oversights are easily forgiven. Thank you. This event has been a blast - a true challenge for all kinds of rosters.

I did use acknowledged top teams a fair bit (X-Force/cMagneto/Hood, Sentry bombing against nodes that had 10k-12k~ opponents and didn't prevent Sentry bombing directly, but I also got to use BP/Patch/oBW, BP/Sentry, Patch/cStorm, the trusty cStorm/MMN, GSBW/Hulk, GSBW/lazyThor, X-Force/oBW, lazyCap/Hood/IM 40, etc, etc. Even ran maxed Torchling/Doom/Mohawk against some easier defeated nodes while my primary heroes recovered. That team has attack tiles on every hero and also rainbow match damage which I only noticed afterwards xD

The lvl 332 Sentry/X-Force/oBW node made me scratch my head, say 'tinykitty you', and bring lvl 102 Deadpool with 1 purple cover and 28000 DP points saved. Also took my dupe lvl 48 3/4/4 Hood and Gold Bag-Man to provide... some defense against match damage. Forgot to take TUps or boosts, though. Felt fitting to use Wade again to lay my paws on the ISO looty; we both want ISO just as bad (will attach screenshots later).

In summary, I would kill to see more events like this where the game doesn't tell me when to join, when to play the last refresh, when to play, period. Amazingly liberating and refreshing. Small tweaks to scaling/rewards (please for the love of all that is holy and humane, get rid of 20 ISO non-rewards xD), some nice writing, instant classic.

over_clocked

Don't think we didn't notice some nodes taken directly from the latest Simulator (Torch/mStorm/Soldier, Falcon/A.Wolvie/Psylocke).

Ryz-aus

poomermon wrote:

I'm at the last node too. Lvl 383 (Hey at least its not max level) X-Force/Sentry/OBW. Any tips from someone who has beaten this node in high level? I can't use my go-to X-Force/Magneto or Sentry cheese and nothing else seem to have enough firepower to challenge these.

Hood, IM40, and Super Steve. Go after OBW first, and try to setup the Steve shield stun parade. Having im40 at 2y is best for this.

Unknown

Since R61 is not yet up, maybe the retribution trick with deadpool can have a last hurrah on that ares/obw/deadpool node. Whittle down obw and kill deadpool in one shot. Still, the node is by no means easy, but downing a full health deadpool with retribution is fun

Sandmaker

flnn1 wrote:

Since R61 is not yet up, maybe the retribution trick with deadpool can have a last hurrah on that ares/obw/deadpool node. Whittle down obw and kill deadpool in one shot. Still, the node is by no means easy, but downing a full health deadpool with retribution is fun

Yep, this is how I did that node. Can't say it was fun though... whittling down a 8k obw with match damage before she gets heal or steal off is much easier said than done.

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the Event is a good idea but it sucks.

Many from my guild cant get a 3* because they are missing a Charakter. And in all old Events everybody had the Chance 2 get at least 2 3*. And in this Event?
I am on map 3 and wipe my **** off vs Fury and 2 goons who give him pink ap....
This Event is less fun than every other in the last 3 month.

But it is a good idea.. But in a pure PVE everybody should have the possibility 2 achieve everything. This Event lack that, And so i hope there wont be any other of this Events.

over_clocked

Reward structure might be not perfect but the new event type is something people have been craving for. Don't like it, don't look. How can you stand all these 2,5 Versus events then that give out much more 3* covers and even 2 4* covers every 2,5 days??

xequalsy

Oh well, I loved the challenge of this PvE, but I am disappointed that I don't think there is anyway to beat the Punisher, Sentry, Storm node for my terrible roster since I depended on powered up Storm and Punisher to beat the other nodes (certainly the Storm ability destroys when the enemies are below level 100). Ah well, had fun before I came up against it - guess I might as well go back and farm the iso rewards at least.

Shame I can't get the last reward in the Heroes sub either, but at least they did design it so that you could get all the others only requiring Punisher.

yogi_

Just started this event earlier.

Hood / Sentry / Daken at the end of Villians keeps wiping me out - can't get past them. Never had such a dead roster.

Time for an enforced play break (sponsored by True Healing).

Really need to do some PvP event, but no alive roster. Uch.

GrumpySmurf1002

I dunno, sim42 wasn't so bad (opponents lvl 269)

Pwuz_

Ugh...37 is killing me...BP get's off his level 272 Rage of the Panther at that level and it's Game over. 3 Teams (including my A-Team) destroyed before I can knock even 1 of them out.

Oldboy

xequalsy wrote:

Oh well, I loved the challenge of this PvE, but I am disappointed that I don't think there is anyway to beat the Punisher, Sentry, Storm node for my terrible roster since I depended on powered up Storm and Punisher to beat the other nodes (certainly the Storm ability destroys when the enemies are below level 100). Ah well, had fun before I came up against it - guess I might as well go back and farm the iso rewards at least.

Shame I can't get the last reward in the Heroes sub either, but at least they did design it so that you could get all the others only requiring Punisher.

I used 2* wolvie/obw/tiny thor to clear this stage. Collect red for adamantium slash. Yellow and Green for Thor. OBW collects and steals blue and purple for aggressive recon and heal.

Oh and i boosted with ap +3 for all colours.

But i prob shld qualify that they were only abt lvl 160-170+

squirrel1120

I'm now a worse player/ have a worse roster than 846/1000 people in my bracket. >.< I keep throwing teams at that sim34 node, but even one small cascade on the enemy side and its game over. Best attempts are with obw, but if the purple and blue ever runs out, one smack with a power and she's gone.

Who decided a 2* roster should be able to beat lvl 180 enemies with full rainbow coverage and 4 aoe powers on 4 separate colors? I brought in hulk/obw on another attempt and was doing great... until a Freon beam TU one shot OBW. Because a group that outclasses my team by 246 combined levels needs teamup help. Meh

If I ever get past this before event end, does anyone know what node has to be cleared through to get GSBW ?