Unstable ISO-8 - Oct 17 - 24

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kalirion wrote:

Why exactly are people with 3* rosters grinding this much anyway? Do they really want the new 2* that badly? It's not like the next PVE where she'll be essential will introduce a new 3*.

People might just enjoy playing the game, though it's hard to imagine this being the reason when scaling is as bad as it is right now. Some people want to compete just for the sake of competition too.

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gambl0r312 wrote:

That Congo node has Lvls 395 for me, and it took THREE Sentry bombs within the same fight to take it down, ugh

I always imagine the 395s will be talking about PvP in their spare time and wonder what kind of wimps die to a single World Rupture combo.

Vankysher

gambl0r312 wrote:

kalirion wrote:

Wiped once and had to retreat 3 times (with a near dead Cap so effectively a wipe anyway) on level 342 Congo. Last time was with ISO boosts.

Looks like I'm going to need to go in fully boosted to stand a chance (and probably wipe anyway.) No, its not worth it point wise, but if I don't do it this will be the first PVE node in a long time that I've been unable to beat at least once. Honor is at stake here!

That Congo node has Lvls 395 for me, and it took THREE Sentry bombs within the same fight to take it down, ugh

I have yet to touch Congo simply b/c of Venom.
I did Iso-8 Raiders a few times before I scaled out after the 2nd clear.
Looks like people in my bracket have slowed down as I only lost one spot as I wait for my health packs to regen.

eaise

People are really fighting for the new character. I have 90K and im barely in top 20. Is this the same way all the other brackets look?

loroku

eaise wrote:

People are really fighting for the new character. I have 90K and im barely in top 20. Is this the same way all the other brackets look?

Top 10 are ~92k to ~97k on mine.

That's the problem, actually: that's NOT the way all the other brackets look. As someone said earlier, randomly getting into the "right" bracket can make these events 10 times easier.

But yeah, lots of people are trying hard on this one, especially considering doubling the top progression reward can barely net you the top 100 in some brackets.

Personally, I also find it weird that the top 100 alliances get a cover, then the next tier is top 2500 (50 HP). Seems like there would be room for more steps, but then again I guess top 2500 is probably "top 10%" or so. Top 100 is likely close to "top .5 %".

CrookedKnight

kalirion wrote:

Why exactly are people with 3* rosters grinding this much anyway? Do they really want the new 2* that badly? It's not like the next PVE where she'll be essential will introduce a new 3*.

It actually is going to introduce a new character.

BrandonE

I'm only a 2* player, but I'm enjoying the heck out of this.

I'm 12 in my bracket with just north of 90k (leader Hokenz). I hit the thug/hitman/hitman node all at lvl 282 with my cstorm/mhawk/mnmags (all maxed) with no boosts and won. Mhawk was down, due to a sniper rifle, and cstorm only had 108 hp, but once the AP train got rolling, there was no stopping them. Lightning storm to mag flux to polarity shift back to lightning storm and mag flux with the occasional windstorm. Serious killing power, and so much fun.

EDIT: Also took down the lieutenant/pyro/pyro level after waiting only long enough for mhawk to be resurrected. With 73 hp for mhawk, 700 for cstorm and about 1500 for mnmags, I took that one down at lvl 197 without losing a team member. FUN!

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kalirion wrote:

Why exactly are people with 3* rosters grinding this much anyway? Do they really want the new 2* that badly? It's not like the next PVE where she'll be essential will introduce a new 3*.

It's grind here, grind for Lazy Storm, or don't play.

Also, the next PVE will introduce Blade.

BrandonE

Ben Grimm wrote:

kalirion wrote:

Why exactly are people with 3* rosters grinding this much anyway? Do they really want the new 2* that badly? It's not like the next PVE where she'll be essential will introduce a new 3*.

It's grind here, grind for Lazy Storm, or don't play.

Also, the next PVE will introduce Blade.

Will lazy storm be essential in the Blade PVE too?

Ebolamonkey84

Anyone else wish you could get TUs from goons? I would love being able to lay down a 3 turn CD tile that does 4988 damage for only 4 AP, or two 1369 strength strike tiles for 6 AP.

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BrandonE wrote:

Ben Grimm wrote:

kalirion wrote:

Why exactly are people with 3* rosters grinding this much anyway? Do they really want the new 2* that badly? It's not like the next PVE where she'll be essential will introduce a new 3*.

It's grind here, grind for Lazy Storm, or don't play.

Also, the next PVE will introduce Blade.

Will lazy storm be essential in the Blade PVE too?

The Hunt only has one featured character in recent iterations, though there was a time where The Hunt had 3 different essential characters for the 3 essential nodes too.

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Ebolamonkey84 wrote:

Anyone else wish you could get TUs from goons? I would love being able to lay down a 3 turn CD tile that does 4988 damage for only 4 AP, or two 1369 strength strike tiles for 6 AP.

0 AP for Deadly Shot would be pretty hilarious too.

actionzeke

papa07 wrote:

CrookedKnight wrote:

This is why my 3* characters are staying in the 94-100 range until I get a fully covered PVP-optimal team and the ISO to bring them to 166 immediately. Being in the intermediate range screws you out of both.

With the anny iso, I just took my main group from 110 to 120 last week. This would be LCap, Hood, Hulk, Torch, Psylocke, Sentry, and Patch (13 covers); Falcon (12 covers; Panther (11 covers); Daken (10 covers); and X-Force (8 covers).

With that group, PvE is still reasonably scaled (usually 1 or 2 boosted from that group) and PvP keeps getting easier. It's when you only have 1 or 2 characters leveled high above the rest that screws you in PvE

I've been doing well on PVE lately, but all my 3s were under level 80. I now have LCap at cover max and level 93, and I'm seeing the biggest scaling in any PVE, maybe because it's no subs, or because my LCap is nicely boosted. Still manageable, but I now have about 1/2 of the nodes that I wipe or spend too many health packs on to make it worth my while.

GrimSkald

Ebolamonkey84 wrote:

Anyone else wish you could get TUs from goons? I would love being able to lay down a 3 turn CD tile that does 4988 damage for only 4 AP, or two 1369 strength strike tiles for 6 AP.

Muscles are so out of proportion with anyone else it's ridiculous. The first time I played that node in the prologue with them in it I thought "what the hell?!?" It wiped me out so fast my head spun. I didn't come back to it for quite some time to collect the rest of the 2* Thor covers.

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It has been 25 hours since I joined my bracket, and in that time we've gone from 110 to 690 players. The speed at which players are being added to the bracket has dropped from 31/hour for the first few hours, to an average now of 23 an hour. If that pace continues it seems unlikely that this bracket will fill. The possibility of a little tiny bracket at the very end seems quite low now.

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Ben Grimm wrote:

kalirion wrote:

Why exactly are people with 3* rosters grinding this much anyway? Do they really want the new 2* that badly? It's not like the next PVE where she'll be essential will introduce a new 3*.

It's grind here, grind for Lazy Storm, or don't play.

Also, the next PVE will introduce Blade.

Wait, 2 PVEs in a row introducing a new character?

CrookedKnight

The blog post announcing Blade talks about how having him on the roster opens up the supernatural side of Marvel for story content. Maybe they're pushing him out in advance of a Halloween PvE?

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CrookedKnight wrote:

The blog post announcing Blade talks about how having him on the roster opens up the supernatural side of Marvel for story content. Maybe they're pushing him out in advance of a Halloween PvE?

They've been saying "So and so character really helps open up new places for the story to go" and right now it all just sounds like noise. We STILL don't have new PVE content - I'd like to think it's coming sometime before the end of the **** year.

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GrimSkald wrote:

Ebolamonkey84 wrote:

Anyone else wish you could get TUs from goons? I would love being able to lay down a 3 turn CD tile that does 4988 damage for only 4 AP, or two 1369 strength strike tiles for 6 AP.

Muscles are so out of proportion with anyone else it's ridiculous. The first time I played that node in the prologue with them in it I thought "what the hell?!?" It wiped me out so fast my head spun. I didn't come back to it for quite some time to collect the rest of the 2* Thor covers.

I still think the strike tile value on Threaten has an extra digit on accident. I remember running to them and the first time and it's like 'what the...???' I think Tommy Gun used to do way more damage too, not that it was needed, but that was nerfed in TaT in the first iteration of scaling because Muscles was one shotting entire teams.

eaise

RefinedBean wrote:

They've been saying "So and so character really helps open up new places for the story to go" and right now it all just sounds like noise. We STILL don't have new PVE content - I'd like to think it's coming sometime before the end of the **** year.

I think I read somewhere on the forums that new PvE would come out this December. I might be wrong though