Phumade wrote: GrimSkald wrote: Hrm. This will be the first yellow Hood I've seen in litterally months (I missed the first MPQ vs Deadpool.) My Hood is currently at 2/5/5. Think I should respec toward 5/5/3 or leave him at 3/5/5 - which is where he'll be at the end of this event... 3/5/5/ for PVP. the 5th black is a game changer for Sentry bombers. At 5black, hood can immediate trigger all WR CD tiles after placing Sacrifice strike tile. No risk of having the AI match away the tile, or do anything to delay WR. 5/5/3 for PVE. The twin pistols can be used to get rid of CD tiles, its like Captain America but with a bigger range. I think its a bit expensive to cast, but it can be a game changer in goon nodes. edit Lots of people have commented on this question, so I'll just clarify one thing. 3/5/5 for Sentry bombing. the 5th black is a game changer for Sentry bombers. At 5black, hood can immediate trigger all WR CD tiles after placing Sacrifice strike tile. No risk of having the AI match away the tile, or do anything to delay WR. 5/5/3 for PVE. The twin pistols can be used to get rid of CD tiles, its like Captain America but with a bigger range. I think its a bit expensive to cast, but it can be a game changer in goon nodes. 4/5/4 if you want hood black to power a non World Rupture countdown tiles. The 5th reduces all CD by 1. World rupture is the strongest beneficiary of 5 black. Captain America's only generates 1 or 2 CD tiles at a time so 4 Black is more than sufficient to speed him up. 3 Black can be very effective as long as you are not trying to speed up the 8+ CD tiles created by World rupture.
GrimSkald wrote: Hrm. This will be the first yellow Hood I've seen in litterally months (I missed the first MPQ vs Deadpool.) My Hood is currently at 2/5/5. Think I should respec toward 5/5/3 or leave him at 3/5/5 - which is where he'll be at the end of this event...
locked wrote: Phumade wrote: GrimSkald wrote: Hrm. This will be the first yellow Hood I've seen in litterally months (I missed the first MPQ vs Deadpool.) My Hood is currently at 2/5/5. Think I should respec toward 5/5/3 or leave him at 3/5/5 - which is where he'll be at the end of this event... 3/5/5/ for PVP. the 5th black is a game changer for Sentry bombers. At 5black, hood can immediate trigger all WR CD tiles after placing Sacrifice strike tile. No risk of having the AI match away the tile, or do anything to delay WR. 5/5/3 for PVE. The twin pistols can be used to get rid of CD tiles, its like Captain America but with a bigger range. I think its a bit expensive to cast, but it can be a game changer in goon nodes. edit Lots of people have commented on this question, so I'll just clarify one thing. 3/5/5 for Sentry bombing. the 5th black is a game changer for Sentry bombers. At 5black, hood can immediate trigger all WR CD tiles after placing Sacrifice strike tile. No risk of having the AI match away the tile, or do anything to delay WR. 5/5/3 for PVE. The twin pistols can be used to get rid of CD tiles, its like Captain America but with a bigger range. I think its a bit expensive to cast, but it can be a game changer in goon nodes. 4/5/4 if you want hood black to power a non World Rupture countdown tiles. The 5th reduces all CD by 1. World rupture is the strongest beneficiary of 5 black. Captain America's only generates 1 or 2 CD tiles at a time so 4 Black is more than sufficient to speed him up. 3 Black can be very effective as long as you are not trying to speed up the 8+ CD tiles created by World rupture. edit: no 4s for Hood, period. I argue that 5 yellow is king in PvP, too (X-Force and soon 4or both loooove maxed Pistols), and can even dig you out of those nasty 'got 20 yellow and no green at all' situations when Sentry-hopping. Sure if you are already boosting all AP on your Sentry-Hood games, you might as well spec 3/5/5, but for all intents and purposes, 5/5/3 is much more versatile and useful. Even considering the PvP-only 5/3/5 Falcons and 4/4/5 She-Hulks. (If you see those, you probably already have a cover-maxed X-Force in addition to Sentry, and X-Force doesn't have 16 CDs to speed up.)
tuscan panty raider wrote: Well on the down side someone earned the golden dunce cap for further buffing up the unfair joke that is wolverine aids-force.. On the up side i can work on my hood so i can have an extraordinarily cheap character to make other players' in game experience annoying.
ComradeVS wrote: Deadpool was/is in X-men according to Wikipedia.
wymtime wrote: tuscan panty raider wrote: Well on the down side someone earned the golden dunce cap for further buffing up the unfair joke that is wolverine aids-force.. On the up side i can work on my hood so i can have an extraordinarily cheap character to make other players' in game experience annoying. I like my super Patch with 10k health. I have him and Daken tanking for LStorm. Storm is now doing massive damage with level 5 hailstorm and strike tiles. I can also rotate in Psylock and DP as needed while my true healers stay alive.
gmpunkx wrote: How is the world does my 249 Patch, 218 Psylocke and 141 Cstorm lose to a 94 Ares, 130 CStorm, and 141 MMags?! That is so stupid.
ark123 wrote: mnmags cstorm can kill anything in the game if boosted and relatively lucky.
FaustianDeal wrote: I don't want to say the rewards for this event aren't optimal, but I have to question the logic. Hood is the 3-star prize, and XForce is the #1.. Once I topped 1,000 in PVP last night I started seeing exclusively xforce/hood/deadpool teams. (coincidentally this was also what I was running at the time). I criticize the rewards because it feels to me like 2/3 of the dominant team for this event are in the rewards. The people most likely to be killing it don't need these rewards. More accurately, the people who could most use these prizes have to fight through a wall of reminders of how badly they need them. Failure for them means knowing the cards they needed are going to be sold by people who didn't need them. If the reward logic established here holds for Nefarious Foes, Sentry will be the placement prize and Hood will be the 1100 progression - and again - winning them probably means you didn't need the prizes. Admittedly: 1 - XForce is always great, but at 400+ levels he is too good in a way that is almost funny 2 - Hood is part half of sentry-bombing, so he figures prominently in 'winning' for lots of events - so its hard to award him in a round where he isn't substantially affecting the outcome. Next time let's do better about having the rewards less likely to be prominently featured the best teams for the event. Like Fury and Avengers cards for an X-Men event, and vice-versa. Hereoes awarded for Villian features and Villians for a Hero feature.
FaustianDeal wrote: If the reward logic established here holds for Nefarious Foes, Sentry will be the placement prize and Hood will be the 1100 progression - and again - winning them probably means you didn't need the prizes.
scottee wrote: The 4* covers are on a rotation. Nothing special about this PVP. Hood is always seen at the top levels. It's better that they're awarding his covers than not. Otherwise, they'd never offer them.
DrStrange-616 wrote: Is anyone else not getting notifcation of attacks? I lost 100+ points overnight, but there were no notices.
FaustianDeal wrote: DrStrange-616 wrote: Is anyone else not getting notifcation of attacks? I lost 100+ points overnight, but there were no notices. I left an 1100 point score open for attack overnight (I am not bothering to shield this early for an off-week event) and when I woke up this morning I had a notification of ~150 points, but the summary didn't add up to that number... I used to get multiple pages of notices that would add up to the indicated total. About an hour later, another ~100 points of loss and a single page summary that, again, didn't add up. Since then, I have gotten iOS notifications of losses that haven't popped up in-game. My score is dropping indicating that the hits are being recorded and counted against me, so that part is working (is that a 'yay' or a 'boo'?). Something does seem amiss in the in-game notifications for attacks.
ark123 wrote: wymtime wrote: tuscan panty raider wrote: Well on the down side someone earned the golden dunce cap for further buffing up the unfair joke that is wolverine aids-force.. On the up side i can work on my hood so i can have an extraordinarily cheap character to make other players' in game experience annoying. I like my super Patch with 10k health. I have him and Daken tanking for LStorm. Storm is now doing massive damage with level 5 hailstorm and strike tiles. I can also rotate in Psylock and DP as needed while my true healers stay alive. I don't see a reason to use mohawk. Even scaled she seems inferior to BP to me, specially factoring in strike tiles.