Shield Training With Shields?

djpt05

I noticed most of the top ranked players in Shield Training are using shields and are ~2300. The max progression is 3K with some GSBWs along the way. Do you think most of us now have a chance to climb that high too?

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you get HP rewards from shield training so probably yeah. just keep leapfrogging to HP rewards.

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I just can't imagine what that looks like when you get to 2400. How many opponents can you actually find that will net you more than 15-18 points? Seems like it would be a long slog to 3000.

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Good good good. I should be ready to go get those Spidey covers after the Lightning rounds end.

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And just after I finished my Spidey. Damn. Only need green GSBW covers, too.

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Not sure if it is in reach or not. I was in first in SHIELD training for like a month and then since monday, I am down to 14th, with 10 people now over 2000 pts. I can't find anyone to fight worth more than 3 points. Not sure how these guys are moving up so fast.

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I was doing SHIELD training and using Captain America's three shield powers then I threw up my shields.

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Very doable... I just got too 2600 in less than 24 hrs. Grabbed my last two spideys and still number 3 lol.

At this point I may not even use shields now cuz I don't need widow.

I feel like this would be a good sink to focus on just for the prizes.

Overall 2 spidey covers, 8000 iso, 1000 hp plus sold off the wolvies.

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I must be unlucky. I hit a wall at 1500. Cold ony cycle through the same 4-5 players that all had less points than me. I just threw up a shield and hopefully people can use me to pull themselves up.

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As of this morning, a few people broke through the 3000 level of the reward tier.

I'm still shielded at 1500, hopefully I can break through my MMR limbo later tonight.

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Toxicadam wrote:

As of this morning, a few people broke through the 3000 level of the reward tier.

I'm still shielded at 1500, hopefully I can break through my MMR limbo later tonight.

I spun my wheels around that range for a while, but eventually broke through last night and ran up to 2500. This morning, after taking a few hits while sleeping, I ran the rest of the way from 2350 to 3000 (I still need green covers for GSBW). Very doable. 90% of the teams I saw at the top ranks were 2* teams, in fact. Did my best to hit shielded players as often as possible.

This will be a great transition tool now for mid-tier teams looking to break into the 3* range. 3 spideys, 3 GSBW, tons of HP and ISO along the way. Was totally worth it. Broken scoring or not, it looks like the shielding changes are allowing for a lot more progress and rewards in total for the community.

I just dropped my scrubs in, gang, so feel free to farm me for points!

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walkyourpath wrote:

I spun my wheels around that range for a while, but eventually broke through last night and ran up to 2500. This morning, after taking a few hits while sleeping, I ran the rest of the way from 2350 to 3000 (I still need green covers for GSBW). Very doable. 90% of the teams I saw at the top ranks were 2* teams, in fact. Did my best to hit shielded players as often as possible.
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I actually have you in my queue at 1597 points. You were the best opponent I could find last night before I went to bed.

What did you do when you were spinning your wheels, just grind through a bunch of opponents for 9-12 points each?

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Toxicadam wrote:

I actually have you in my queue at 1597 points. You were the best opponent I could find last night before I went to bed.

What did you do when you were spinning your wheels, just grind through a bunch of opponents for 9-12 points each?

I'd hit me now - It will adjust your points gained based on my current ranking. I'll probably be worth hella points! Might get you up into the next range of opponents.

I just kept cycling - popped some Deep Space 9 on Netflix and went on a skip marathon. After a loooooooong time I finally got a 20 pt. opponent.

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I'm grinding my way up, too, with a team at about 60 wolvie/60 OBW/20 thor. I just shielded for 8 hours at about 1250 points. I take 10-pt matches when they are really, really easy or quick (all-1-star teams, all-under-lvl 20 team) and only take harder matches when they are worth 15-20 or more. I may wind up pre-spending some of those HP on 8- or 24-hr shields, but I've had trouble getting any Thor covers at all, and I still need 3 green wolvie covers. Those are my main goals, but if I can keep it up and push into spidey (for whom I only have one cover, off the first half of Double Shot) or GSBW (for whom I have no covers at all yet), I will.

I'm shielded until at least this afternoon and probably until tonight, so if you're under 1250, hit me up. "wathombe" in-game, shouldn't be too hard of a 2-star team to down.

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I'm shielded at about 1820. Hit me up and pass me please. I can not find anyone worth more than 0-9 points. Any suggestions on how to overcome that? I'm hoping that tomorrow morning I will have some better options. Had to hit the same couple people a dozen times to get to 1800. Is my MMR too high or low?

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They removed the 500 HP rewards on the shield tourney and reduced all the ISO rewards. I knew I'd get screwed out of them.

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Toxicadam wrote:

They removed the 500 HP rewards on the shield tourney and reduced all the ISO rewards. I knew I'd get screwed out of them.

That's a shame. Really glad I rushed it while I had the chance. Sorry you missed out on that, but those ISO rewards are still decent, and if you don't have Spidey or GSBW maxed those covers are still valuable.

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walkyourpath wrote:

Toxicadam wrote:

They removed the 500 HP rewards on the shield tourney and reduced all the ISO rewards. I knew I'd get screwed out of them.

That's a shame. Really glad I rushed it while I had the chance. Sorry you missed out on that, but those ISO rewards are still decent, and if you don't have Spidey or GSBW maxed those covers are still valuable.

....for now

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Looks like they also took away the possibility to shield in SHIELD Training. or I'm having a bug (hopefully).

I don't have an option to shield, was waiting for someone to attack me so that the window will pop up and I'd click "shield yourself", but there's no such button.

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Toxicadam wrote:

They removed the 500 HP rewards on the shield tourney and reduced all the ISO rewards. I knew I'd get screwed out of them.

I think the ISO is the same--it didn't ever escalate to more than 1000 ISO in one award, did it? But yeah, the 2000-pt and 2500-pt awards have both dropped from 500 HP to 100 HP. That sucks.

"Hey, look at these great rewards, waaaay out of your reach! Oh, we'll give you this tool so you can get to them! Getting close yet? Getting close yet? Awww, now they're not there! Too bad for you!"

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Emeryt wrote:

Looks like they also took away the possibility to shield in SHIELD Training. or I'm having a bug (hopefully).

I don't have an option to shield, was waiting for someone to attack me so that the window will pop up and I'd click "shield yourself", but there's no such button.

Yipes, I just noticed that. I don't have the option anymore, either. I don't understand why they reduced the awards AND removed the ability to get to them. That bites.

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Emeryt wrote:

Looks like they also took away the possibility to shield in SHIELD Training. or I'm having a bug (hopefully).

I don't have an option to shield, was waiting for someone to attack me so that the window will pop up and I'd click "shield yourself", but there's no such button.

Holy ****, you're right. What a joke.


Congrats to the 30+ people that actually got to benefit from it.