Prodigal Sun: Oct. 2 - Oct. 9

Unknown

This event has the hardest scaling I've ever experienced. I believe they have set it too high.

These events are often used to showcase the talents of the new character, as well as those who are boosted. I can see how such a goon-heavy map would utilize Doc Ock very well, except even a maxed and fully covered DO would still die before he could get enough AP.

This is only day two, and even my best teams fall one after another against these levels. I have at least one featured character at close to max level. Still not strong enough.

FierceKiwi

Vertigozooropa wrote:

This event has the hardest scaling I've ever experienced. I believe they have set it too high.

These events are often used to showcase the talents of the new character, as well as those who are boosted. I can see how such a goon-heavy map would utilize Doc Ock very well, except even a maxed and fully covered DO would still die before he could get enough AP.

This is only day two, and even my best teams fall one after another against these levels. I have at least one featured character at close to max level. Still not strong enough.

Really a unleveled Doc with just a Black cover slays (he's got the others they're just useless) he passively makes attack tiles while matching away CDs and then you use someone else to throw out some strike tiles.

CrookedKnight

The biggest problem for him is that he needs five blue covers to destroy countdown tiles with that move, and it's not possible to get those covers without great token luck or spending a bunch of money yet.

Unknown

Pylgrim wrote:

IReallyHatePVP wrote:

I...Don't know what to do on this one. Join early to grind for the , or try to crash in at the end for , , & ?

One thing for sure: it's one or the other. No to keep up after jumping in, because tinykitty essential nodes...

You have it the other way around. Grinding is what gets you placement rewards, if you're interested in Spidey. Progression rewards can be nailed with judicious abuse of rubberbanding.

If you time things right, the rubberbanding and abuse of the mechanics of PvE can easily get you both progression and placement with a much smaller effort.

CrookedKnight

My first event token so far nets me a ! Specifically, I get .

I guess I had it coming after the Diet Coke crack.

Unknown

I did a full clear when I got home from work yesterday; since then, I've just been hitting the essentials and the three easy nodes. If this goes typically, it'll start paying off in a day or so - as long as I get 105k and a mess of tokens, I'll be happy.

Unknown

is it me or does it feel like there is no rubberbanding went to bed sitting a 3rd place, woke up and still at 3rd place

Unknown

papa07 wrote:

Camping this weekend, so trying to time my entry next week.

4 - 36 hour sub events
1 - 36 hour main event

Is that how the 7.5 days goes? Thanks.

Can any of our PvE experts confirm/deny? Thanks.

westnyy2

Doc Ock rocks for this PVE. I've paired him with Patch and Laken. His black ability has shut down the goons and allowed me to use 0 health packs. I did my first run without him and wiped on the third node. He will be garbage in PVP but at least he will have some usefulness.

FierceKiwi

papa07 wrote:

papa07 wrote:

Camping this weekend, so trying to time my entry next week.

4 - 36 hour sub events
1 - 36 hour main event

Is that how the 7.5 days goes? Thanks.

Can any of our PvE experts confirm/deny? Thanks.

I'm not sure anyone can say with certainty at this point since last time it was run it was 2 days longer it seems.
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7703&hilit=prodigal+sun&start=60

I'm also almost positive this was completely sub based last time.

loroku

Two Muscles and a Don!?!? Are you KIDDING?

If I had to hand-pick the hardest possible board in the game, that would be it. With my still-young roster, I have characters boosted to about level 95-ish, and the goons are level 75-ish. There's no way that's going to happen - not without a perfect board for at least 10-12+ matches. I BARELY squeaked by the Don + 2 Thugs; those guys can set up a countdown that does 1k damage EVERY TURN (and my characters have 5k or less health boosted). And two Muscles are worse! I still can't beat the two Muscle node in the 3rd stage of the Prologue, and those guys are only level 27. ...Why did people like this event again? (Oh right - free 3* cover.)

So I saw someone mentioned above there's a two Muscle + Punisher node as well. Can someone give a quick description of the rest of the nodes past the 3rd one in the first sub so I know what I'm missing? Just trying to figure out if it's worth throwing tons of boosts at the problem or if I'm just going to run into multiple more 2 Muscle nodes, i.e. more impossible nodes, so I may as well just stop there.

Also for those saying Doc Ock black is great - well, yeah he is. Congrats! You're one of the top 2% who actually have that cover. The other 98% are struggling.


For those tracking how many people play this game, I started my sub about 20 hours past the opening bell and was about 600th, and it filled up to 1000 in about an hour. So there are still at least 1000 people joining every ~3 hours or so, even after the huge push at the beginning.

Unknown

CrookedKnight wrote:

The biggest problem for him is that he needs five blue covers to destroy countdown tiles with that move, and it's not possible to get those covers without great token luck or spending a bunch of money yet.

Ding!

Unknown

loroku wrote:

Two Muscles and a Don!?!? Are you KIDDING?

If I had to hand-pick the hardest possible board in the game, that would be it. With my still-young roster, I have characters boosted to about level 95-ish, and the goons are level 75-ish. There's no way that's going to happen - not without a perfect board for at least 10-12+ matches. I BARELY squeaked by the Don + 2 Thugs; those guys can set up a countdown that does 1k damage EVERY TURN (and my characters have 5k or less health boosted). And two Muscles are worse! I still can't beat the two Muscle node in the 3rd stage of the Prologue, and those guys are only level 27. ...Why did people like this event again? (Oh right - free 3* cover.)

So I saw someone mentioned above there's a two Muscle + Punisher node as well. Can someone give a quick description of the rest of the nodes past the 3rd one in the first sub so I know what I'm missing? Just trying to figure out if it's worth throwing tons of boosts at the problem or if I'm just going to run into multiple more 2 Muscle nodes, i.e. more impossible nodes, so I may as well just stop there.

Also for those saying Doc Ock black is great - well, yeah he is. Congrats! You're one of the top 2% who actually have that cover. The other 98% are struggling.


For those tracking how many people play this game, I started my sub about 20 hours past the opening bell and was about 600th, and it filled up to 1000 in about an hour. So there are still at least 1000 people joining every ~3 hours or so, even after the huge push at the beginning.

You, sir, need to be introduced to OBW

Vankysher

ark123 wrote:

loroku wrote:

Two Muscles and a Don!?!? Are you KIDDING?

If I had to hand-pick the hardest possible board in the game, that would be it. With my still-young roster, I have characters boosted to about level 95-ish, and the goons are level 75-ish. There's no way that's going to happen - not without a perfect board for at least 10-12+ matches. I BARELY squeaked by the Don + 2 Thugs; those guys can set up a countdown that does 1k damage EVERY TURN (and my characters have 5k or less health boosted). And two Muscles are worse! I still can't beat the two Muscle node in the 3rd stage of the Prologue, and those guys are only level 27. ...Why did people like this event again? (Oh right - free 3* cover.)

So I saw someone mentioned above there's a two Muscle + Punisher node as well. Can someone give a quick description of the rest of the nodes past the 3rd one in the first sub so I know what I'm missing? Just trying to figure out if it's worth throwing tons of boosts at the problem or if I'm just going to run into multiple more 2 Muscle nodes, i.e. more impossible nodes, so I may as well just stop there.

Also for those saying Doc Ock black is great - well, yeah he is. Congrats! You're one of the top 2% who actually have that cover. The other 98% are struggling.


For those tracking how many people play this game, I started my sub about 20 hours past the opening bell and was about 600th, and it filled up to 1000 in about an hour. So there are still at least 1000 people joining every ~3 hours or so, even after the huge push at the beginning.

You, sir, need to be introduced to OBW

I must stink as I still wiped twice even with OBW (3/5/3) or the RNG just hate me.

loroku

ark123 wrote:

You, sir, need to be introduced to OBW

Oh, I have an OBW. She's actually one of my best 2* characters, amazingly, with 6 covers (1/2/3). That puts her at level 39 with <1500 HP.

That's like 1 Muscle AOE.

Unknown

Vankysher wrote:

ark123 wrote:

loroku wrote:

Two Muscles and a Don!?!? Are you KIDDING?

If I had to hand-pick the hardest possible board in the game, that would be it. With my still-young roster, I have characters boosted to about level 95-ish, and the goons are level 75-ish. There's no way that's going to happen - not without a perfect board for at least 10-12+ matches. I BARELY squeaked by the Don + 2 Thugs; those guys can set up a countdown that does 1k damage EVERY TURN (and my characters have 5k or less health boosted). And two Muscles are worse! I still can't beat the two Muscle node in the 3rd stage of the Prologue, and those guys are only level 27. ...Why did people like this event again? (Oh right - free 3* cover.)

So I saw someone mentioned above there's a two Muscle + Punisher node as well. Can someone give a quick description of the rest of the nodes past the 3rd one in the first sub so I know what I'm missing? Just trying to figure out if it's worth throwing tons of boosts at the problem or if I'm just going to run into multiple more 2 Muscle nodes, i.e. more impossible nodes, so I may as well just stop there.

Also for those saying Doc Ock black is great - well, yeah he is. Congrats! You're one of the top 2% who actually have that cover. The other 98% are struggling.


For those tracking how many people play this game, I started my sub about 20 hours past the opening bell and was about 600th, and it filled up to 1000 in about an hour. So there are still at least 1000 people joining every ~3 hours or so, even after the huge push at the beginning.

Use a purple/blue booster. That's almost always at least one blue activation guaranteed and from there you can just keep matching. It's not guaranteed but it helps a ton.
You, sir, need to be introduced to OBW

I must stink as I still wiped twice even with OBW (3/5/3) or the RNG just hate me.

Ducky

Is anyone else's Crossfire node scaling ridiculously quickly? Just from last night it has gone from 264 to 323. I don't even remember what it was when the sub opened, but I know it was lower than 264.

It's starting to get a bit ridiculous.

Vankysher

DuckyV wrote:

Is anyone else's Crossfire node scaling ridiculously quickly? Just from last night it has gone from 264 to 323. I don't even remember what it was when the sub opened, but I know it was lower than 264.

It's starting to get a bit ridiculous.

Mine scaled to Hard a few hours back and Maggia Assault IV did the same.
Sub opened about 23 hrs ago.

Vankysher

Hail of Bullets just wiped my team of
Bloody 3 cascades in a row and Punisher had AP out the wazoo.
Stupid Molotov cocktail killed every one once I had 1 muscle left at ~ 500hp as soon as I made 1 match per character.

I need to take a break.

Unknown

Why the hell is the Sentry not boosted in his own event?