Anniversary - Balance of Power - 15 - 17 Oct

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I am surprised no one has posted any new threads for the new events. Normally people have those up days in advance.

orbitalint

mrnohnaimers wrote:

Is there such a thing as good defensive team for this event? You'd have to be ridiculously unlucky not being able to take down any opponent team with a team of Hawkeye + Storm + MM Magneto with even modest boost.

In this format, while they can take down anyone, I'd jump at the shot to play that team assuming they are at 25 points or higher for me. They just don't have the hit points to make me worry about a longer game and AI defense doesn't know how to use those 3 to boot.

It's not so much who can win but who do you want to slog through. 21k of jugg? 18k of hulk? 16k sentry? 13k BP? Yeah, you'll win but I could probably take down 2-3 matches of MNMags/CStorm/Hawkeye in the same time it takes you to chew threw the big guys I choose. If someone wants to beat me, fine, but my defensive team is more for skip factor than anything else. I'll get an occassional win on my climbs but once I hit 700, anyone can beat anyone and it is about minimizing the time investment for me.

GrumpySmurf1002

mrnohnaimers wrote:

Is there such a thing as good defensive team for this event? You'd have to be ridiculously unlucky not being able to take down any opponent team with a team of Hawkeye + Storm + MM Magneto with even modest boost.

As in a team that can get you defensive wins? Not reliably, as you said, there are offensive teams like MagStormEye that can chew through anything. Defense in this is getting skips.

Kicker with MagStormEye is that you're cannon fodder compared to other rosters, so if you're worth any kind of points, you're going to get hit hard.

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mrnohnaimers wrote:

You'd have to be ridiculously unlucky not being able to take down any opponent team with a team of Hawkeye + Storm + MM Magneto with even modest boost.

Or just a little unlucky against a team with Hood and/or OBW + damage dealer like Juggs. If you can't get that 9 purple, you're a sitting duck. I've gotten a few defensive wins from guys like that.

Edit: Hmm, my over the 9 hours I was at work, my unshielded Juggs/Hood/OBW team managed to score me +17 in defensive wins around the 600 point level. And this is a rather good offensive team, aside from requiring a variable healthpack upkeep depending on how quickly the first 9 blue come in.

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I'm still debating whether to renew shields when they drop at about the 5 hour mark or just abandon this thing. I wish I hadn't thrown up the 24-hour, but it looked like I had a shot at the top 5 at the time, and I wanted that red magneto. Now it's out of reach. Might push for the anniversary token at 900 to cap off "waste HP on anniversary tokens" week.

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mrnohnaimers wrote:

Is there such a thing as good defensive team for this event? You'd have to be ridiculously unlucky not being able to take down any opponent team with a team of Hawkeye + Storm + MM Magneto with even modest boost.

Picked up over 100 points in wins with no losses with I was calling Team Romance Novel.
Shirtless guy ( ), Fabio ( ), and some nice big .

For the final climb I switched to with some boosts but no boosts. Left 5-6 fights in a row with about the same health I went in with, even after WR+sac.

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I think this LazyDaken+Hood+Sentry team lucking into a Bird Strike teamup is the worst thing that has ever happened in the history of MPQ

I still managed to win though, Hail Headbutt

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Got over 900. Got a Moonstone for my efforts.

Anniversary tokens pretty much sucked for me. I think, aside from about 11 purple Dinos, I only got 3 usable covers out of them. And that's out of a lot.

There's a valuable lesson here: Never try.

Especially in PVP.

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Ben Grimm wrote:

Got over 900. Got a Moonstone for my efforts.

Anniversary tokens pretty much sucked for me. I think, aside from about 11 purple Dinos, I only got 3 usable covers out of them. And that's out of a lot.

There's a valuable lesson here: Never try.

Especially in PVP.

I think if people stop at their first Devil Dino and quit trying to get anniversary tokens at that point they'd come out ahead. Wish I thought of that myself!

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What's this giving up stuff!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep-xgd_eETE

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Wow, this is gonna get ugly - glad I'm not involved:





I just need to worry about keeping my top 10 spot which is in danger, but even if I lose it no big deal.

HairyDave

Ben Grimm wrote:

Got over 900. Got a Moonstone for my efforts.

Anniversary tokens pretty much sucked for me. I think, aside from about 11 purple Dinos, I only got 3 usable covers out of them. And that's out of a lot.

There's a valuable lesson here: Never try.

Especially in PVP.

That's 11 more Dino's than I've gotten

I think I've got one usable cover out of all of mine - a single Colossus

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The past week's PVPs and PVEs have made me appreciate the heck out of Hawkeye. Without him, I would probably have had half the points I managed to scrounge from this.

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I enjoyed this balance of power far more than the last one, where they only hit 270 if they were fully leveled up. Really allows transitioning players who didn't have maxed chars to use non-maxed chars, at least early on.

atomzed

daibar wrote:

I enjoyed this balance of power far more than the last one, where they only hit 270 if they were fully leveled up. Really allows transitioning players who didn't have maxed chars to use non-maxed chars, at least early on.

I like this version of BOP for maximum playing as I can try out different characters which I have max cover for. Since I am unlikely to use iso on them. It's kinda fun to try out she hulk and dp (especially dp with him dropping whales).

However I absolutely hate BOP for scoring purpose. Each battle was a struggle and no matter which team I put up for defence, I was getting hit left right centre. I eventually just stick to sentry bombing-cum-shield-hop as that was the safest method. Once I hit my target of 1100 (for my last purple dino cover), it was such a relief that I didn't try anymore.

So glad that I got that last purple.cover, since my 10 pack gave more 2 red covers which I have maxed out on. Would have been very irritating if I have a 12/13 cover dino.