If I knew at the beginning, what I know now -Rookie mistakes

SodaPopinski

Boldbrute wrote:

Worst thing I ever did was sell a half covered Sentry because i thought he was a stupid teamkilling character.

I did the same thing with Ares and Juggs in the beginning.....why would I want a character who hurts obw...right!

Ducky

I wouldn't have downloaded this soul stealing game!

Unknown

Oh yeah, and I sold a bunch of XForce covers because he was **** and I could totally use the ISOto level up my 1* Iron Man.

MarcusGraves

pulled like 2 green and 1 of what would now be surgical strike for XF back in the first like 3 months of the game.

"oh they'll never buff this guy" I said as i sold them, hur hur, joke's on me now.

Unknown

I wouldn't have installed this game.

945 Hours.... My gaming backlog is weeping.

Moon Roach

As of today; I wouldn't have paid to increase my alliance to 20 members.

lukewin

Just a few more, one insignificant, one pretty significant.

-Did not know max AP you could have was 30. Almost cost me in the final node of The Gauntlet yesterday.

-Sentry was one of my first high level 3* characters. I think I was able to hardcap him at 104, and I even lucked into having him at a 1/3/4 build. I could not see what all the fuss was about, because launching World Rupture was a not match ender, and my team took damage too. Wasn't until I read into it more, that you need to launch a Sacrifice tile to make the most of World Rupture. This was less than a month ago, that I figured this out. I have been missing out on so much.

If anyone has any free time and doesn't mind helping me out with PVP advice regarding tanking and roster advice, please visit this post in the Tips and Guides section http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=18409

Unknown

My two biggest issues as a newbie:

1. Understanding skill scaling. **** game?! Why would I ever want to swap Model 35 for Thor when the damage on his skills is soooo much better (Go go comparing a level 50 to a level 6/15).

2. Overcompensating for the above issue. 4*>3*>2*>1* ALWAYS. No reason to keep that level 94- we just picked up a 3*. Whoop it up!

3. Not understanding that it's ok to hurt my team too. I threw away 5-6 Sentry covers before I participated in an event where I got to use him....at which point I learned that he was boss hoss and it's a-ok to take a little damage to do a lot.

1 and 2 were the biggest culprits though. "Unfortunately" they've led me to have a roster of all 4* and 3*- which sounds good until you see that after my heavy hitters, the majority of my duders have just 1-3 covers each, or haven't had iso dumped into them.

Unknown

Buying the full 20 slots in my alliance tops any other mistakes I made as of mondays patch.

TLCstormz

THANKS FOR THESE, ya'll. I'm at 2 months in, and some of these are still confusing to me.

dider152

My biggest mistake would have to be spending almost $200 on this game, for health packs. It was my first PvE event, and I just felt that I had to get top 20. What I found is that maybe getting top prize matters for the follow up event that will use the character you just got as the essential, but past that, it's not really all that important. So now I just play as much as I want to (still managing top 20) without stressing out and without spending ungodly amounts of HP. Besides, completely losing health packs allows me to do other things.

Unknown

1. twice maxed ironmen, storm 1*
2. twice maxed moonstone 2*
3. got 2900 hp from anniv token, bought ten-pack blade and receive 10x 250 iso
4. cashed in one green xfart(current: 4 2 4+never use him)
5. rescpec daken into 5 3 5

and perhaps a couple mistakes in the foreseenable future.

Unknown

Sold my Doctor Doom daily reward to make room for another 3*, only to find out a couple of weeks later they they were adding a 3rd colour to boost him.

Unknown

Houtro wrote:

I spend the first two months thinking that when the downed countdown ended I would lose the cover... I so lost much much time!
And still spread a lot of

Wait..what? Care to explain this to me...this might be my "rookie" mistake.....

sc0ville

Qkslvr8216 wrote:

Houtro wrote:

I spend the first two months thinking that when the downed countdown ended I would lose the cover... I so lost much much time!
And still spread a lot of

Wait..what? Care to explain this to me...this might be my "rookie" mistake.....

When a character is "downed", they have a revival cooldown and cannot be used until that cooldown expires. The duration of the revival cooldown is based on their star level: ~5 minutes for 1*, ~20 minutes for 2*, 48 minutes for 3* and 1 hour 50 minutes for 4*. (those times are halved for anyone that has increased healing [ie wolverines, hulk, spider-man etc])


There is no other downside to "downed" other than being prevented from using the character and the character does not begin to heal until his "downed" cooldown expires. You do not lose the cover if you allow it to expire naturally, there is nothing to worry about other than it being non-playable for the duration. I remember when I first started playing the game I had the same concern and was really careful to not allow my characters to be downed. If they did get downed I would immediately use a HP to revive them out of that same fear. There's no reason to do this, if a character gets downed that you don't plan on using for a while, don't waste a hp on him, just use someone else and let him revive naturally.

alaeth

lukewin wrote:

-May have spent HP on some of those first covers, don't really remember, because I didn't understand how often covers would come around, but I did think that having higher levels would be beneficial.

-I did not know that healthpacks regenerated, well into having some fully maxed and leveled 2*s. Don't remember if it was a PVP or a PVE I was trying to get a cover for, and just decided to start burning thru healthpacks. Got below 5, when I saw the counter, and that's when I realized that healthpacks regenerated.

-On the same note, I didn't know you could buy most boosts with ISO. I rarely used boosts, and all of mine were maxed at 30.

Oh man, so much fail... The health one in particular. I hoarded health packs like mad, and just figured "that's the way the game is designed". It wasn't until I did the exact same as you (burned enough to drop below 5) that I realized the error in my ways.

Additional notables:

- sold Ragnarok covers at least 3 times to make space before other less favorable ones (Bag-man, etc)
- covered and levels "****" 2* rather than focusing on a core team of 2* transition
- threw every OBW cover away (AP steal? tiny extra dmg passive? pass... gimme Wolfie!) untill reading on the forums just how awesome she is
- burned HP on 10-packs (at least twice)
- bought ISO
- over-leveled lazyThor, now I'm struggling on PvE with only 3* at 166

stevenbrule

1) Like others, trying to jump from 1* to 3*.

2) Not doing events with free 3* covers (e.g. Hulk)

3) Waiting so long to get 2* Thor and OBW.

Other than that, I'm pretty happy with how I've been playing.

udonomefoo

Within days of starting the game I got a 3* Daken cover. I then threw away probably 12 2* Daken covers because - why would I keep those when I have the 3* version?

I'm now on day 108 and STILL just have one cover for that 3* Daken. I was using Thor and Cap together until I realized how dumb that was and started hoarding OBW & 2* Daken covers.

I didn't even know characters got "vaulted" until the new vault list came out last week. I thought I was just really unlucky.

Dragon_Nexus

kalirion wrote:

I wouldn't have installed this game.

945 Hours.... My gaming backlog is weeping.

I'm at 1487 hours. Git gud scrb.

Seriously though, this game is vampiring my existence ¬¬

I wish I'd noticed the cheap tokens in the anniversary event sooner. I think it was Wednesday before I noticed they were giving out a token daily for 50HP
Wish I hadn't made such a push towards maxing Punisher. Almost never use him now.
Same deal for Psylocke, really. I like her as a character but there's always someone who could use red or black better than her. Still, she's good for quick events if I'm taking out low level characters in a hurry.

TxMoose

Dragon_Nexus wrote:

kalirion wrote:

945 Hours.... My gaming backlog is weeping.

I'm at 1487 hours. Git gud scrb.

so where do you find the time log? i went to settings and poked around - couldn't find anything