Lightning Rounds(Goddess of Thunder Edition) Oct. 16/17th

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  • Ryz-aus
    Ryz-aus Posts: 386
    Six tokens so far, nothing good. Still, 20k ISO is pretty great and 50 hp is ok.

    Mainly climbing with patch/daken and swapping over to x-force late. Draw too many hits in upper 300s and 400s to get to 500, and I'm not shielding in a lightning round.

    Around 400 pts late all I'm seeing are forumites.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Spoit wrote:
    wafflefries wrote:
    So uh, anyone hit the 500 progression reward? I got #2 in my bracket with like 280. #1 had 420. My alliance mate got #1 in his with 350.

    Got a 2* cap and a moonstone for my trouble...
    Highest I got was 450, after which I was being hit for -50 for every match I was able to do, boosted, which weren't even worth 25 to begin with

    Locked did at least once. But she is awesome. She can hit 500 during regular LR. So I'm not measuring myself against her.
  • y2fitzy
    y2fitzy Posts: 255 Mover and Shaker
    First one I entered after half an hour, picked up top 5 with a score of 200 odd. But that involved pretty much constant play

    The one just finished, I entered with 15 minutes left and ended up in 7th with a score of 150ish.

    The word lightning has never been more appropriate. You just have to cram as many wins in, as quickly as possible. So MNMags is incredibly useful to have alongside. In fact, Lady Thor, Mags, Mawkeye may be the best combo for someone like me in 2* land

    However, now I've experienced these LR, I can't help feeling that it will take a lot more effort to get the 3 anniversary tokens I missed out on due to the combined Arms/PVE snafu.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    5 tokens thus far from LR, all 250iso. cant imagine anyone reaching 500...would be nice if the anniversary token progression award was lowered to 400.
  • KingDon
    KingDon Posts: 173 Tile Toppler
    Joined the LR with 2 mins remaining, did 1 round (using the classic 2* icon_storm.pngicon_magneto.png combo, ended up 1st for 3 x cardpack.png
    I managed to pull 2 x 2*'s and a redflag.pngicon_deadpool.png from the tokens so am happy about that.

    Also on a side, how great is the double iso rewards, this anniversary event I have gone from around 60k iso8.png in the bank to around 140k iso8.png
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Did my first one a couple of hours ago. Was leading by 70 up until the very last minute, and then got hit for -57 and dropped to 2nd. No Dinos for me this time, either. Dang.

    Oh well, loving the character. Tried a few different teams out. Patch + Daken worked nicely, with LadyThor clearing out the enemy strike tiles from Berserker Rage with her yellow. And CStorm's green is just deadly when there's a lot of charge tiles out, as I learned the hard way. Not sure if Lightning Storm counts triple on any destroyed charge tiles or if it was just a cascade, but I lost half of my team, plus the enemy got 18 red and about the same in blue out of it. icon_eek.gif

    OBW and Ares/AWolvie was alright, although she's a bit too squishy to tank 3 colours against Thorina, and I needed the blue to stun lock the enemy Thor, so no health restoration for me. Found I was only using her for a round or so with any kind of health at all, before having to swap her out. It's basically game over if you can get a good steal with recon though.

    On the whole, a great addition to the game, if maybe a little OP. Looking forward to picking up a few in random token drops soon. icon_lol.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Overall this finally feels like an anniversary.

    The LRs are very enjoyable and not very hard to get in t5 if you have a good 2* roster. It just requires fighting hard those last 30 mins. Guess what, nothing comes without effort.

    Thoress is awesome. If you get her charge tiles going there is no stopping her. She will have enough AP all the time to stun lock and wipe out everyone in the team. I love the character. She will take her place as one of the top, must have 4* along with XF. Btw, has anyone tried her with XF yet? Do they work together?

    The progression rewards feel unreachable, especially the 500 pts one. Considering you can get an anniversary token by ranking around 150-200 pts in your bracket, the 500 mark is completely off reach and over valued. Maybe make the 500 mark give 2-3 tokens and make 400 mark give 1. I will still not go for them because with my 2* roster, I am a good fish for the big sharks. I got to 200 and got pulled back down for -76 points in 3 attacks and then once again for another -30. I had to keep fighting for that T5, but it is doable. Again, the progression rewards should be better. Startanrd tokens don't cut it. ISO is good though.
  • KingDon
    KingDon Posts: 173 Tile Toppler
    Tried the same trick again, and BOOM....finished 1st.....although this time the 3 x cardpack.png equaled 3 x 2*'s (that is 5 x 2*s so far from 6 tokens....not that I am counting)
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    same here...entered with less than 10min left, finished first again. 8 tokens thus far but all 250iso sigh
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Managed to sneak in first three times with some good timing and tips from the forumites about logging in to vs the seed teams. 7/9 2*'s and 1 Dino/1 Cap. Pretty annoying considering the odds are meant to be like 40%. Though i cant complain about the whole week..Managed to get alot of covers so i can finally build my optimal tea.
  • Wobby
    Wobby Posts: 286 Mover and Shaker
    I was up around 400 -- then lost a match, and came out to see -200 ....
    Barely held on to top 5 after that... But got a token, and pulled yellowflag.pngicon_ms_marvel.png

    So that's pretty cool.

    Wish I had slept though.
  • KingDon
    KingDon Posts: 173 Tile Toppler
    Only managed to finish 2nd on this one, tried to sneak in a 3rd round with 1 min left but did not complete it in time, still from the 2 tokens I pulled 1 x 2* and 1 x yellowflag.pngicon_caroldanvers.png all in all, 8 tokens (2 x 3*s) and 6000 iso8.png is nothing to grumble about.

    Overall, been very happy with the anniversary week, pulled 2 x purpleflag.pngicon_blackwidow.png to be able to re-spec to 5/4/4 along with a yellowflag.pngicon_captainamerica.pngredflag.pngicon_deadpool.pngyellowflag.pngicon_caroldanvers.pngredflag.pngicon_daredevil.png 2 x purpleflag.pngicon_devildino.png and a bucket load of iso8.png
  • y2fitzy
    y2fitzy Posts: 255 Mover and Shaker
    Was top as the clock ticked to 0 minutes left

    Finished top 5 icon_neutral.gif

    Got a 2* Cap for my troubles icon_neutral.gif

    Nice to have 30k ISO to use at point though
  • CrookedKnight
    CrookedKnight Posts: 2,579 Chairperson of the Boards
    Joined my bracket half an hour in, and took first place comfortably with a score of 274. So yeah, that 500 point threshold looks kind of silly. But I'm not complaining at all - the placement tokens got me icon_nickfury.pngpurpleflag.png and icon_caroldanvers.pngblackflag.png - awesome!
  • GrumpySmurf1002
    GrumpySmurf1002 Posts: 3,511 Chairperson of the Boards
    Ok I give up.

    Was FourThor's build posted anywhere? I won't get to the LRs until later, and am curious about the hubbub.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    430 was my highest so far, but I probably could have got 500 if I didn't have to be at work for the last 15 minutes :/
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited October 2014
    GrumpySmurf1002 wrote:
    Ok I give up.

    Was FourThor's build posted anywhere? I won't get to the LRs until later, and am curious about the hubbub.

    Not yet. IceIX supposed to drop the info today.

    If I could get my screen shots to post on forum, I'd put it in here for you. Sorry. Hopefully, some tech savvy person will do that soon. If not, nonce might when he logs on today since he had ownership of that character thread.
  • loroku
    loroku Posts: 1,014 Chairperson of the Boards
    It was very nice of them to extend the good rewards to the top 20%. Unfortunately for people like me, top 20% of 20 or 200,000 is no difference - it's impossible.

    "More points in the pool" was the reasoning given for the 500 progression requirement for the bonus token; it's true, I'm sure, but "more points in the pool" really just translates to "more points for the leaders." Us newbies are still getting chomped so hard our heads are spinning. I've never lost 100 points in a Lightning Round before (only gotten more than 100 points like once or twice anyway) and it's crazy how fast it happens. Especially when I only got about 200 total over the course of the entire round, and lost half of them!

    4* Thor is pretty cool, though. I've never had to change my entire PvP strategy based on the loaner before, but getting her red is the #1 thing I have to do or else it's over. She blows away all my other characters so it's nice having someone who can hit, but again: gotta get that red before the AI does.
  • GrumpySmurf1002
    GrumpySmurf1002 Posts: 3,511 Chairperson of the Boards
    loroku wrote:
    It was very nice of them to extend the good rewards to the top 20%. Unfortunately for people like me, top 20% of 20 or 200,000 is no difference - it's impossible.

    "More points in the pool" was the reasoning given for the 500 progression requirement for the bonus token; it's true, I'm sure, but "more points in the pool" really just translates to "more points for the leaders." Us newbies are still getting chomped so hard our heads are spinning. I've never lost 100 points in a Lightning Round before (only gotten more than 100 points like once or twice anyway) and it's crazy how fast it happens. Especially when I only got about 200 total over the course of the entire round, and lost half of them!

    4* Thor is pretty cool, though. I've never had to change my entire PvP strategy based on the loaner before, but getting her red is the #1 thing I have to do or else it's over. She blows away all my other characters so it's nice having someone who can hit, but again: gotta get that red before the AI does.

    If you haven't already, read through this thread: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=17730

    Lots of people with very good advise on how to succeed in these things.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    If you're having trouble placing well, log on just before the LR starts, don't play until the last few minutes (enough time to win a match before it ends), pick a seed team, and score 25 points at the last minute. You should get top 5 about 25% of the time; if you time it right, you might be able to play with the odds a bit - but saving seed teams makes it much, much easier.

    If you really want to play with the numbers, throw a few boosts in, start 5-6 minutes before the end, and cram in three or four matches. Boosted against seed team might take 30 seconds even with lady thor to wear down if you pick cheap/high damage abilities.

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