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

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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

Okay, what is the retribution trick? If the target is in the one shot kill level, Deadpool will jump in and take that one shot kill?

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Oldboy wrote:

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+

Thanks for the advice. Used oBW, aWolv, and lazyThor (all 94) to great success. My node was 159 for all three

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squirrel1120 wrote:

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 ?

If i remember correctly, either Sim 37 or 38. That's if you completed the essential nodes (like i did). I should warn you that when i completed the essential nodes (before Sim 36) i noticed that the levels for Sim 36 went up by 10 per character. So you might want to complete the Sims first before hitting the Essentials. Or you'll end up like me with higher level enemies to take down...

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Oldboy wrote:

squirrel1120 wrote:

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 ?

If i remember correctly, either Sim 37 or 38. That's if you completed the essential nodes (like i did). I should warn you that when i completed the essential nodes (before Sim 36) i noticed that the levels for Sim 36 went up by 10 per character. So you might want to complete the Sims first before hitting the Essentials. Or you'll end up like me with higher level enemies to take down...

Also, your ranking in this event does not matter. This event is just based upon total points for awards. You do not get anything for ranking, so don't worry about where you are in the ranking, just how many stages you can defeat

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JoshX wrote:

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

I've been using DD too, Kick to the FACE!!!

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dropped my whales whales whales on sim 40 in order to take out this near impossible jugg node at level 221.

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Evangilis wrote:

Also, your ranking in this event does not matter. This event is just based upon total points for awards. You do not get anything for ranking, so don't worry about where you are in the ranking, just how many stages you can defeat

It was used merely as a 'how I stack against how everyone else in my bracket is doing' measure. 846th of 1000 is pretty piss-poor, and that's all I really meant.

Psylocke is certainly out of reach for my roster and amount of time I can play before event end, but after about a dozen attempts, I finally passed node 34. RNG finally blessed me with a board that rained purple and blue for obw, including a 5 purp crit starting move. I had a point where I had two full AR's powered up ready to go, with no real amount of AP for it to steal. At that point, any cascade in the ai's favor went mostly to me. 3 CotS's is definitely the most I've ever fired off in a fight. After that node, the next two in the main line fell quickly under boosted (3b/p, 50% crit) Magnestorm/punpun, but then I wiped on muscle/a.wolvie/bp before I ever got a purple or blue match (dry board, enemy gained any viable match first when they appeared). I'm out of health packs, but I figure I can let everything recharge for 4-5hrs while I do things today and hit it again later.

I'm hoping I have just enough time/health packs to be able to tap GSBW . Sim 37 is @ lvl 206, while essential 13 is at 164, the latter locking out my MnMags... so we'll see. When a board goes good for Stormneto, it goes easy even on these deadly fights. When it goes bad, it sure goes bad in a hurry.

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Hardly anyone attacked me in Real Steel. Maybe they're all playing this PVE?

Just got wiped out in last Sim node of Xforce/sentry/obw. Used Pun/cStorm/Mnmags. OBW espionage damage is crazy! And that Sentry supernova...

Not sure if that black Psylocke cover is worth trying. Only this last Sim node and last 3 Essential nodes left.

Wondering if i should pour iso into GSBW (5/3/2) or Patch (4/3/4) to level up to 117 and 140 respectively. The rest are mainly 2* and half complete 3*

Any suggestions?

Edit. Never mind. Cleared it with a lucky board. Managed to Wind Storm early and got a few Match 5s. Followed by multiple Wind Storms and Molotov Cocktails and one Magnetic Flux.

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Evangilis wrote:

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

Okay, what is the retribution trick? If the target is in the one shot kill level, Deadpool will jump in and take that one shot kill?

Yes. Say you have OBW at 40% health left (or whatever the % is for your level of retribution), and you cast retribution on her (supposedly KO'ing her instantly), Deadpool will jump in and take the hit, and will be instantly downed even when at full health.

dr tinykittylove

I've not had time to play this as much as I would like, but I'm been enjoying mixing up my roster in unexpected combinations due to enemy team compositions benching my highest levelled characters.

Unexpectedly, support characters have turned indispensable when my non-maxed roster (handful of 140s) has to face teams 40-70+ levels higher. One of my favourites was the addition of spider-man against everybody's favourite sentry/daken/hood combo, which made world rupture relatively painless, and 3-blue hood apparently is good enough to turn an otherwise impossible match around.

And I only just boosted spidey to L91 and Hood to L81 too. But everyone already knows about these guys already.

What are the most hilarious team compositions that have worked for you? I have two.

1. I did in 172 colossus/beast/shulk with my 91spidey/121(including buff)BP and 108 Bagdevil. Spidey muted the match damage, BP added strike tiles, Bagdevil kicked beast and shulk dead, and stole ap twice. I fired so many powers on the stolen ap, oh my. My little trolls were barely dented at the end.

2. Much dicier but even more hilarious - I was distracted in the selection screen and entered sim 37 starring 225/6 2*wolvie/Muscle/BP with *drumroll* 140 Hulk plus 110 mnmags and 81 Hood. Hulk clapped wolverine off the stage, I fired an mbw stun tu when it looked like BP was going to rage, then between Hood and mnmags, they collected so much ap. So much ap. Endless claps, all three mnmags abilities, Hood yellow and black... they finished off BP and the Muscle like it was nothing. I love them both so much now.

How about you?

MaxGoof

Anyone have any good tips for Simulation 31 vs. XForce/Nick Fury/Thor? This combo is literally mopping the floor with me with their super-powered attacks.

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scaling is fine no matter how ridiculous it becomes but when you lose it should scale back and losing 3 in a row on 1 sim did nothing which is very depressing

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silverrex wrote:

scaling is fine no matter how ridiculous it becomes but when you lose it should scale back and losing 3 in a row on 1 sim did nothing which is very depressing

Great suggestion. now you just need to explain how this can't be abused. What they need to do is get rid of the Healthpacks and start everyone at full Health. We are still paying for Boosts.
(For Everyone who plays Hearthstone, this is like the Nax Heroics.)

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PPPlaya wrote:

silverrex wrote:

scaling is fine no matter how ridiculous it becomes but when you lose it should scale back and losing 3 in a row on 1 sim did nothing which is very depressing

Great suggestion. now you just need to explain how this can't be abused. What they need to do is get rid of the Healthpacks and start everyone at full Health. We are still paying for Boosts.
(For Everyone who plays Hearthstone, this is like the Nax Heroics.)

sadly you know something aint right when you can still lose a match with full boost heading in.

over_clocked

Some screenshots highlighting toughest nodes in the Gauntlet for me. Did not screenshot my multiple humiliating wipes but trust me, they were there
By the way, can the name of the thread be corrected, fsentell?

http://imgur.com/qhmq4jA,Ki8f9QU,xQAlwE2,aHra47H#0

ZeiramMR

I had a lot of trouble with Simulator 37, like other posters here. I eventually won with Punisher/Thor/Loki. Save up enough black to use Trickery against strike tiles, and you get breathing room for a short while. Just after finishing Wolverine, I still ate a hard-to-reach Tommy Gun that dropped Punisher and Loki, but Thor survived. It came down to gaining enough AP while avoiding Threaten cascade matches to finish off the Muscle.

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Started the Heroes sub last night and was getting crushed so I figured I'd wait until morning to try again. Had the second half of the main line plus the essentials to do this morning and made it through, no health packs left I think. Was the 10th in the bracket to finish all the nodes, which I thought was surprising given it was a bracket open at least 12 hours. The Villains bracket, I was 9th and that was playing a clear straight through with no waiting. Heroes was tough.

My maxed


Fully covered but generally not maxed:


Of those a few might be leveled enough to be useful:


Not max covers, but maybe useful?



Permanent level 40 with maxed covers club


Main teams, all

That has been doing fairly well, even against stronger teams. Patch/Daken generally don't need healing.

Sometimes have to run the PVP bomb squad:


For Essentials

- this one ends up with ridiculous strike tiles, more so than when using since Judgement is only positive so you can fire it off whenever it's ready.
or - BP means you don't have to use Sacrifice to kill with World Rupture, and since it gets spread out, you can cast it early instead of after the first turn of WR count downs have ticked down.

Need to break out more often since he's pretty beefy as well. Perhaps some goodness.


From what alliance mates have said, and others on here, the Finale is brutal. May try my hand at that a bit later today. Overall I'm super impressed with this PVE. Obviously there are still flaws and things that could be improved in the next iteration. It could even be used for future character releases (if at least one cover was set in a position that it could be obtained without doing the essentials). You've got 3.5 days to complete a full clear at some point. Might take some luck on the last few nodes. I think that's fine. No last minute grinding, no ideal clear schedules. You can either do it, or you can't.
Player Versus Enemies... not Player Versus EveryOtherPlayer

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Well, managed to beat Sim 39 with Punisher / Panther / Hood on the third attempt, and sim 40 with same team on first attempt. Got my HP reward, and am done with this health pack sink. My Psylocke is 5-4-4, and while 5-3-5 is probably better, it's just not worth it for me.

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Sim 36 was much easier than 34 and 35, maybe because both Cap and Thor are slow.

37 took me 3 attempts because BP being fed yellow meant a spam of strike tiles. Eventually i got lucky on cascades and used a double Wind Fury.

38 got down on first try.

39 took three tries. On the first i got absolutely destroyed by Ares. On the second OBW stole all my AP and healed and Ares cleared floor again. On the third attempt i focused on Ares. Kept him stunned with 2 Wind Furies and took down Deadpool and OBW died to AOE.

40 got down on first try. Kept Juggs stunned twice with Wind Fury but still took a 7k Headbutt. But i made my 800 HP Magneto take it

41 took two tries. On the first Bullseye made two tiles, couldn't get purple/blue for Wind Storm and lost.
On the second try i managed to get THREE Wind Furies one after another and kept the entire enemy team stunned. Even then Thor and She-Hulk survived. Bullseye died on the second Fury + crit tile. Thor was alive with like 2k HP. Got him down on the turn the stun wear off. Even then She-Hulk alone almost managed to turn the tides with Settlement (converting Punisher molotov countdown tile), healing with Reprieve and almost killing two guys with Power of Attorney. Eventually she got down but damn i got scared for a sec.

Now i'm waiting the healing for 42.

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wafflefries wrote:

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.

I was sitting on 30 standard tokens (since my ability to draw 3* seems to increase when I pull a bunch all at once), and just out of pure luck I pulled a BP out of that 30, allowing me to complete the Hero event. Of course, it was a BP which is the same as the progression award, but whatever.