Let's call it bad luck
h4n1s
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At the end of last PVP I was grinding to get last +23 points to my final score which would bump me to to 25 (2 hulk covers yeah..). The node I was approaching was rather easy - maxed OBW+MStorm. But I wanted to seal the deal so I used +3 to all colors boosts.
My team - OBW (full), Xforce (188 lvl , 2-2-5 build), featured colossus (60 lvl, 1-0-0 build)
1st round - I matched three, formed a cascade of 5 rainbow matches (great start!). But opponent got similar cascade leading to multiple matches of blue gems, with the Espionage on board his first round granted him enough AP to fuel the Wind storm which happened the very next round finishing my OBW (ouch) and stunning my XForce... long story short the fight ended in 3 minutes, I lost over 20 points.
Bad luck.
So there were 4 minutes left till the end of PVP - I used +3 to all colors & +100% match damage, to make a quick battle. Revived my OBW and XForce and started over (again 2* opponent). The AI got couple of nasty cascades, the fight took over 7 minutes and even though I won with Xforce as last man standing (>1500 life), it was too late to count in the results, so I finished 48th (pfew) in my node.
What looked as easy win fights ended up as pretty tough matches. I am not very often user of boosts in general, so I was surprised.
Is this just bad Karma/luck for using boosts or did anyone else also experienced similar situations when using boosts?
My team - OBW (full), Xforce (188 lvl , 2-2-5 build), featured colossus (60 lvl, 1-0-0 build)
1st round - I matched three, formed a cascade of 5 rainbow matches (great start!). But opponent got similar cascade leading to multiple matches of blue gems, with the Espionage on board his first round granted him enough AP to fuel the Wind storm which happened the very next round finishing my OBW (ouch) and stunning my XForce... long story short the fight ended in 3 minutes, I lost over 20 points.
Bad luck.
So there were 4 minutes left till the end of PVP - I used +3 to all colors & +100% match damage, to make a quick battle. Revived my OBW and XForce and started over (again 2* opponent). The AI got couple of nasty cascades, the fight took over 7 minutes and even though I won with Xforce as last man standing (>1500 life), it was too late to count in the results, so I finished 48th (pfew) in my node.
What looked as easy win fights ended up as pretty tough matches. I am not very often user of boosts in general, so I was surprised.
Is this just bad Karma/luck for using boosts or did anyone else also experienced similar situations when using boosts?
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It was just bad luck.
Happens to me all the time, with or without boosts (though it certainly stings more if I wasted some boosts).0 -
My first comment would be sorry man, but you just had some seriously bad luck.
My second comment would be I don't think you should be using X-Force as your only source of offense with that few covers in green and black.0 -
flnn1 wrote:My second comment would be I don't think you should be using X-Force as your only source of offense with that few covers in green and black.
He's the best I have at the moment serving that purpose (and his yellow can be also nice offensive skill if needed). My 3* chars are far away from being maxed and those which are closest are not much useful at this point of time (except hulk, but he's rather defensive monster)0 -
Covered at 2/2/5 your X-force is more like an X-Farce. You'd be better off using a fully covered 2* Ares/Thor. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Even at 188, your X-Force with so few covers just isn't doing the damage that a fully covered 2* could do.0
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LavishDragoon wrote:Covered at 2/2/5 your X-force is more like an X-Farce. You'd be better off using a fully covered 2* Ares/Thor. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Even at 188, your X-Force with so few covers just isn't doing the damage that a fully covered 2* could do.
but 5 on yellow instaheal him, making him pretty nasty defender (over 7k health in beginning + heal). To it, even not maxed, his surgical strike does pretty nice board shakeup with a not so desired color (as green or red is). He's certainly better than Ares, but arguable on 2* Thor, I agree.0 -
h4n1s wrote:LavishDragoon wrote:Covered at 2/2/5 your X-force is more like an X-Farce. You'd be better off using a fully covered 2* Ares/Thor. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Even at 188, your X-Force with so few covers just isn't doing the damage that a fully covered 2* could do.
but 5 on yellow instaheal him, making him pretty nasty defender (over 7k health in beginning + heal). To it, even not maxed, his surgical strike does pretty nice board shakeup with a not so desired color (as green or red is). He's certainly better than Ares, but arguable on 2* Thor, I agree.
All you're doing is making your matches last longer. You shouldn't be surprised that the last match lasted 7 minutes, you're missing a lot of damage with that setup. Just to understand, going from 3 to 4 green covers doubles the damage output of the X-force ability. Probably it's better for you to keep using Ares or Thor. Still lot of healt but with definitely more ****-kicking power. Especially in the final minutes of a tourney, you want someone to quickly end the match, regardless of the damage you sustain0 -
Kappei wrote:h4n1s wrote:LavishDragoon wrote:Covered at 2/2/5 your X-force is more like an X-Farce. You'd be better off using a fully covered 2* Ares/Thor. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Even at 188, your X-Force with so few covers just isn't doing the damage that a fully covered 2* could do.
but 5 on yellow instaheal him, making him pretty nasty defender (over 7k health in beginning + heal). To it, even not maxed, his surgical strike does pretty nice board shakeup with a not so desired color (as green or red is). He's certainly better than Ares, but arguable on 2* Thor, I agree.
All you're doing is making your matches last longer. You shouldn't be surprised that the last match lasted 7 minutes, you're missing a lot of damage with that setup. Just to understand, going from 3 to 4 green covers doubles the damage output of the X-force ability. Probably it's better for you to keep using Ares or Thor. Still lot of healt but with definitely more ****-kicking power. Especially in the final minutes of a tourney, you want someone to quickly end the match, regardless of the damage you sustain
You got a point there.0 -
h4n1s wrote:At the end of last PVP I was grinding to get last +23 points to my final score which would bump me to to 25 (2 hulk covers yeah..). The node I was approaching was rather easy - maxed OBW+MStorm. But I wanted to seal the deal so I used +3 to all colors boosts.
My team - OBW (full), Xforce (188 lvl , 2-2-5 build), featured colossus (60 lvl, 1-0-0 build)
1st round - I matched three, formed a cascade of 5 rainbow matches (great start!). But opponent got similar cascade leading to multiple matches of blue gems, with the Espionage on board his first round granted him enough AP to fuel the Wind storm which happened the very next round finishing my OBW (ouch) and stunning my XForce... long story short the fight ended in 3 minutes, I lost over 20 points.
Bad luck.
So there were 4 minutes left till the end of PVP - I used +3 to all colors & +100% match damage, to make a quick battle. Revived my OBW and XForce and started over (again 2* opponent). The AI got couple of nasty cascades, the fight took over 7 minutes and even though I won with Xforce as last man standing (>1500 life), it was too late to count in the results, so I finished 48th (pfew) in my node.
What looked as easy win fights ended up as pretty tough matches. I am not very often user of boosts in general, so I was surprised.
Is this just bad Karma/luck for using boosts or did anyone else also experienced similar situations when using boosts?
This was my entire day yesterday. I even lost to OBW/2*Wolvie/lvl60 Colossus with my full Patch/CMags/lv100 colossus. And become worse at the end of the tourney while using sentry... every match the AI got a cascade that took out my attack yellow tile. i m starting to think the AI cheats! lol0 -
h4n1s wrote:What looked as easy win fights ended up as pretty tough matches. I am not very often user of boosts in general, so I was surprised.
Is this just bad Karma/luck for using boosts or did anyone else also experienced similar situations when using boosts?
Lost 4 straight after just hitting 1100 to get the black Colossus cover. Got hit during my hop plus the point damage from my losses knocked me down to 1031. Managed to somehow scrape by a win in my last hop to finish at 1061 but it wasn't pretty. Of course, I would have liked to have made top 5 but I got the covers I wanted and figured there would be another day. A similar thing happened to me last pVp too after i managed to scrape my way to 1300 for black X-force cover. What can i say, Lady Luck likes to play with me
As for the boost connection, i'm a huge boost addict but i can't really say if my losses are connected to my abuse outside of me taking bigger risks. i will admit, boosting makes you cocky, makes you feel you can take on anyone so once you get hooked you will probably take on bigger risks for bigger rewards. i do need to re-examine my play style though and as mentioned in one of the guides, you may be doing yourself a disservice in the long run as you won't have the Iso to build your roster. but it's your choice. although i'm still struggling with my boost addiction, i don't regret it.
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fight4thedream wrote:h4n1s wrote:What looked as easy win fights ended up as pretty tough matches. I am not very often user of boosts in general, so I was surprised.
Is this just bad Karma/luck for using boosts or did anyone else also experienced similar situations when using boosts?
Lost 4 straight after just hitting 1100 to get the black Colossus cover. Got hit during my hop plus the point damage from my losses knocked me down to 1031. Managed to somehow scrape by a win in my last hop to finish at 1061 but it wasn't pretty. Of course, I would have liked to have made top 5 but I got the covers I wanted and figured there would be another day. A similar thing happened to me last pVp too after i managed to scrape my way to 1300 for black X-force cover. What can i say, Lady Luck likes to play with me
As for the boost connection, i'm a huge boost addict but i can't really say if my losses are connected to my abuse outside of me taking bigger risks. i will admit, boosting makes you cocky, makes you feel you can take on anyone so once you get hooked you will probably take on bigger risks for bigger rewards. i do need to re-examine my play style though and as mentioned in one of the guides, you may be doing yourself a disservice in the long run as you won't have the Iso to build your roster. but it's your choice. although i'm still struggling with my boost addiction, i don't regret it.
I've definitely developed a boost addiction as my roster has leveled up and most cover drops are just ISO. 2* Storm and Mags with a +3 B/P boost can pretty much take down most teams outside of very high leveled ones. Often it's with very little damage as well.
But it's crossed my mind that there's a secret trigger to favor the enemy with cascades, or it leads to being attacked more in pvp, or leads to the game rating my roster much higher than is warranted. Paranoia is free with addiction.0
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