The Gauntlet: Dec. 10 - Dec. 15

hamsingame

What did you all beat the last node with? I'm against 395 thor/dp/xforce, and xforce, 3 thor and deadpool are three of the characters i use a decent amount.

I was about to beat it (well, maybe) with Punisher retributing a < 40% thor 4 when Deadpool jumped in the way and proceeded to take less damage than his black's damage threshold...

Is it unreasonable to expect that either a) he takes how much the originally executed target was going to take or b) it doesn't trigger if the base retribution damage is below his Life of the Party threshold?

loroku

Reading these forums, it's like people are playing a different game. I guess they are, really.

The gauntlet is fun in that you aren't directly competing with others, but that's where the fun stops. The nodes are so spectacularly hard that you still need a really, REALLY good team to even have a chance. As a 2* player, I don't have the team variety or sheer power to get through most of these nodes. Haven't finished a single gauntlet to date, although in the last one I was lucky enough to have some of the powered-up characters and made it into the third sub (wow!).

For example, I'm stuck about halfway through the 2nd sub on the Ares / Daken / Storm node. Turns out, Ares + Daken is the best combo I have, and Storm + Mags is my 2nd best. After that, I have... 2* Wolverine? Unpowered-up 2* Thor? These guys got me chewed up and spit out, mostly by Ares. Don't think I'll get much further, and judging from the comments previewing some of the sadistic nodes down the line, doesn't sound like that's a bad thing.

And for everyone talking about not having to refresh constantly... Well, you don't have to refresh the same 10 nodes over and over, but you DO still have to play constantly - every time your health packs come back up, or else you'll never make it. Someone already gave this advice earlier in the the thread, but you have to play a LOT to make it because a lot of the nodes are just dumb luck - even moreso when you're a 2* person. So you need to play often, just not exactly every 2.5 hours or whatever people do.

Loved the comment about Deadpool - ha! Been playing for months and never gotten a single Deadpool cover, much less 5 pinks. And I do have about 40 characters, mind you. But each time they release a new one - i.e. every week or two - it makes the odds of getting a Deadpool go down, both from packs and from events. So, yeah. Glad you already have one, cause most people don't.

Anyway, this game is getting less and less fun for me because not only am I not progressing, I'm actively going backwards every week or two. Maybe they'll figure out how to fix the reward structure sometime. Maybe not. But this thread just reminded me of how different peoples' experiences are, especially those who are already doing well.

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loroku wrote:

Reading these forums, it's like people are playing a different game. I guess they are, really.

The gauntlet is fun in that you aren't directly competing with others, but that's where the fun stops. The nodes are so spectacularly hard that you still need a really, REALLY good team to even have a chance. As a 2* player, I don't have the team variety or sheer power to get through most of these nodes. Haven't finished a single gauntlet to date, although in the last one I was lucky enough to have some of the powered-up characters and made it into the third sub (wow!).

For example, I'm stuck about halfway through the 2nd sub on the Ares / Daken / Storm node. Turns out, Ares + Daken is the best combo I have, and Storm + Mags is my 2nd best. After that, I have... 2* Wolverine? Unpowered-up 2* Thor? These guys got me chewed up and spit out, mostly by Ares. Don't think I'll get much further, and judging from the comments previewing some of the sadistic nodes down the line, doesn't sound like that's a bad thing.

And for everyone talking about not having to refresh constantly... Well, you don't have to refresh the same 10 nodes over and over, but you DO still have to play constantly - every time your health packs come back up, or else you'll never make it. Someone already gave this advice earlier in the the thread, but you have to play a LOT to make it because a lot of the nodes are just dumb luck - even moreso when you're a 2* person. So you need to play often, just not exactly every 2.5 hours or whatever people do.

Loved the comment about Deadpool - ha! Been playing for months and never gotten a single Deadpool cover, much less 5 pinks. And I do have about 40 characters, mind you. But each time they release a new one - i.e. every week or two - it makes the odds of getting a Deadpool go down, both from packs and from events. So, yeah. Glad you already have one, cause most people don't.

Anyway, this game is getting less and less fun for me because not only am I not progressing, I'm actively going backwards every week or two. Maybe they'll figure out how to fix the reward structure sometime. Maybe not. But this thread just reminded me of how different peoples' experiences are, especially those who are already doing well.

Define "months". I'm on day 131 and I've 5 166s, 8 other 3*s with 9 or more covers over lvl 100, every 2* that matters at 94, 4Thor and xforce at 5 and 7 covers respectively, then most of the other 3*s over 6 covers(one being DP). I finished the Gauntlet in two days.

Sword user

For example, I'm stuck about halfway through the 2nd sub on the Ares / Daken / Storm node. Turns out, Ares + Daken is the best combo I have, and Storm + Mags is my 2nd best. After that, I have... 2* Wolverine? Unpowered-up 2* Thor? These guys got me chewed up and spit out, mostly by Ares. Don't think I'll get much further, and judging from the comments previewing some of the sadistic nodes down the line, doesn't sound like that's a bad thing.

Loroku, I'm not sure what level you're up against, but it seems like it would be a solid strategy to try mMag/OBW/Thor with pink/blue boost if you're willing. You shoot for pink, convert to blue with mmag for heals or steal AP to hold to match damage, keeping in mind you want to play keep away with green primarily, blue secondarily, and yellow when you can, I suggest that you kill cStorm first. If you can keep them to match damage, this node should be doable, depending on your/their level. Not knowing what your highest level character is.

GothicKratos

I'm starting the third sub right now, and I haven't had much of a problem as a 2* player. There are indeed a few that involve some dumb luck, though, this is true. The only one I remember really getting stuck on was the She-Hulk/Hulk/Sentry node near the end of the second sub. I had to try that one five or six times before getting it.

Full disclosure, I do have a pretty deep 2* roster, (as it can be for a 2* player anyways), and most of them are max leveled (except Thor, Ares, Daken, and Storm). Here are the combinations I use (theses are all 2* characters, unless otherwise noted);

Daken/Wolverine/(x), (x) usually being Black Widow, Ares, or Thor. (3*) Psylocke can be good here too, if you have Red and/or Black covers. No need for boosts and lots of sustain. 90% of my nodes were done with this.

Magneto/Hawkeye/Storm. I use Crit Boosts with +1 Rainbow and +1 Blue/Purple if need be. If your Storm is down, you can sub out the AP Boosts for Match Damage Boosts, and use another character - I prefer Daken's or Wolverine's Strike Tiles to compliment the Boosts - and just focus Purple.

Black Widow/Human Torch/(y), (y) is usually Wolverine, Ares, or Thor. Focus Red and Blue, Black and Purple are secondary (unless it's goons - sometimes I focus Purple over Blue - but really there's not many goons here).

loroku

ark123 wrote:

Define "months". I'm on day 131 and I've 5 166s, 8 other 3*s with 9 or more covers over lvl 100, every 2* that matters at 94, 4Thor and xforce at 5 and 7 covers respectively, then most of the other 3*s over 6 covers(one being DP). I finished the Gauntlet in two days.

WOW.

I'm at day 98; I just checked. My highest level character is 70, although I have 6 2*s that are cover maxed, and enough ISO to max 2 of them to 94 if I didn't mind scaling myself out of PvE stuff. (Technically 7 are cover-maxed, but one has the wrong coverset. Actually, no - 2* Cap and Moonstone are also cover-maxed, but they don't count.) My highest 3* character has 7 covers; next-highest has 5. I have 23 3* characters and their average number of covers is 2.7. Of the "good" characters, I have 3* Thor at 7 covers, and that's it. (Currently overshadowed by a cover-maxed 2* Thor.) None of the other characters have enough or the right covers to really be powerful, and I've not invested ISO in them, anyway.

Most importantly, in the last 98 days I think they have introduced 10 new characters? (It's at least 10.) About one per week, on average. And each character they introduce makes my goalpost move a bit further away.

I have no idea how you've played for one month longer than me and gotten 5 166s and all that other stuff. I mean, I play a good amount - although to be fair I have slacked off a lot in the last few weeks because the game progress is going backwards, like I said. I also never buy covers, although I don't know what you do. I've never been in a top 100 alliance, either. Maybe you do those things? Also I'm sure having a full month on me - back before the new character-per-week stuff started - made a big difference. That's another month of not having the goalpost pushed further away, when you could actually achieve something.

I have a friend who introduced me to the game who's probably about 131 days and he's about where I am as well, but he's strictly a free player. I did drop some cash for roster slots - in my opinion you have to - but that's it. I don't regret it but I'm sure not going to spend anything else until this game changes significantly. (Don't think they'll notice.)

Edit: Thought I'd mention the only 4*s I have are 1 Dino from the Anniversary (yeah, just 1) and 2 black 4* Wolvie covers from opening standard and/or heroic packs. These are actually a detriment to me at this time since they are 100% useless and just take up roster space.

loroku

Sword user wrote:

Loroku, I'm not sure what level you're up against, but it seems like it would be a solid strategy to try mMag/OBW/Thor with pink/blue boost if you're willing. You shoot for pink, convert to blue with mmag for heals or steal AP to hold to match damage, keeping in mind you want to play keep away with green primarily, blue secondarily, and yellow when you can, I suggest that you kill cStorm first. If you can keep them to match damage, this node should be doable, depending on your/their level. Not knowing what your highest level character is.

70 is my highest non-boosted, and my sim 21 node is level 94-95. Thanks for the advice; I'll try it and let you know. (I don't mind to spend boosts since I have a zillion of them. I probably don't use them enough, given that.) I've been trying to work 3* Cap. Marvel in there just because she's boosted to 133 for me, and that gives her 6800 HP they have to chew through, but since she only has 2 covers, I guess I should try for better powers rather than just HP. Also 2* Wolvie boosted to 100 has nearly the HP of 2* Thor at 70, and much faster powers. I may sub him. Killing Storm first was always the plan; then Daken with a nice Wolvie red + something else before he can heal. The issue is that Ares gets his green eventually and then BAM - someone's dead. Or he gets red and everyone is suddenly almost dead. Or he gets yellow and that can really ruin my day. Ares is just good! No wonder I use him so much...

mohio

hamsingame wrote:

What did you all beat the last node with? I'm against 395 thor/dp/xforce, and xforce, 3 thor and deadpool are three of the characters i use a decent amount.

I was about to beat it (well, maybe) with Punisher retributing a < 40% thor 4 when Deadpool jumped in the way and proceeded to take less damage than his black's damage threshold...

Is it unreasonable to expect that either a) he takes how much the originally executed target was going to take or b) it doesn't trigger if the base retribution damage is below his Life of the Party threshold?

Mine aren't quite to 395 (370-ish maybe? They're currently 383, but probably went up some after finishing the essentials afterwards), but I used max LCap, max Hood, and 115 GSBW (to get active green/purple, and board control with purple). I went ahead and boosted r/y and b/p and brought a team up I didn't end up using. I managed to deny everything I needed to and probably got one or two lucky match-5s into GSBWs purple, which cascaded me into a bunch of matches. From there it was pretty easy since I had LCap on line and deadpool out of the way so he couldn't be the life of the party.

loroku

loroku wrote:

Thanks for the advice; I'll try it and let you know.

Oh wow, that was a bloodbath. I actually did much worse, sorry! Ares got his green (it's only 2 matches!) and killed Wolvie pretty quick; his yellow got Mags to critical a few rounds later, and he went down soon after, even though I matched it away. Then they just matched OBW down. I got Storm but never even hurt Daken - you can't kill him without being able to do 3800+ in one round, and my guys are level 70. Only my boosted Wolvie can manage that (or Ares, who I can't use).

Don't forget that even if I get green, that's still 2 strike tiles per match for them. OBW's pink ability was more useful at the time so I used pink for her instead - Mags never even got an ability off. Actually no one did but Widow. Trying to get Mags to feed her blue is still a good idea in theory, but when you get your first downed character in a maximum of 5 or 6 turns, it just can't come together fast enough. Thanks, though! Maybe if they were all max level it would work better. The field would be more even, that's for sure.

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loroku wrote:

ark123 wrote:

Define "months". I'm on day 131 and I've 5 166s, 8 other 3*s with 9 or more covers over lvl 100, every 2* that matters at 94, 4Thor and xforce at 5 and 7 covers respectively, then most of the other 3*s over 6 covers(one being DP). I finished the Gauntlet in two days.

I have no idea how you've played for one month longer than me and gotten 5 166s and all that other stuff. I mean, I play a good amount - although to be fair I have slacked off a lot in the last few weeks because the game progress is going backwards, like I said. I also never buy covers, although I don't know what you do. I've never been in a top 100 alliance, either. Maybe you do those things? Also I'm sure having a full month on me - back before the new character-per-week stuff started - made a big difference. That's another month of not having the goalpost pushed further away, when you could actually achieve something.

I have a friend who introduced me to the game who's probably about 131 days and he's about where I am as well, but he's strictly a free player. I did drop some cash for roster slots - in my opinion you have to - but that's it. I don't regret it but I'm sure not going to spend anything else until this game changes significantly. (Don't think they'll notice.)

Yep I did buy covers - specifically, I bought 2 yellow covers to bring my patch from 4/4/3 to 4/4/5 (later I got another green to respec). Using Patch as a clutch I went on to perform really well in pve, regularly, and when it finally hit 166, I started not being attacked as much in pvp, which allowed me to join a top100 alliance - IMHO there is no better character to max first than Patch (after that, LDaken if you find the covers, or LThor) . After learning about tanking and focusing on learning the specifics of pvp, I started showing up in the top 25 semi-often. I would do PvE religously (still do), after learning exactly the best approach to each format by researching past events in the forums. That's how you're gonna get most of your hard covers for a while - from sub tokens in pve. Just keep it up. Before you know it you'll be maintaining 700 on pvp and top 10-5 in pve, which allows you to join a top 50 alliance. From there on, you'll be getting more HP than you're spending, which means you can buy critical covers when you have to. Learn how to use shields. Talk to people in the forums (most people here are really nice). Even if you don't have an alliance, slave over PvE and offer your services as a merc - that's how I first got into a big time alliance (5D), which eventually lead me to my current kickass alliance.

I've sunk a total of 50 bucks in the game.

Edit - it should be said that I have an unhealthy level of competitiveness when it comes to PvE. Skrulls is the first alliance I've been in where I wasn't the lead score of the alliance by more than 20-30% points over second place. Bear in mind that 3* covers do come from PvP. PvE is a lottery with nice prizes, but PvP needs to be your bread and butter if you want to progress in the game.

Sword user

Oh wow, that was a bloodbath. I actually did much worse, sorry!

I'm so sorry to hear that!

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Sword user wrote:

hbhr_bustagus:

I advise that you try Patch/GSBW/MHawkeye in the following manner:
Boost g/b, boost all, boost b/p
-Target Loki and Match purple
-Read the board, this Deceptive Tactics is critical, get 12 green from it and _at least_ 2 crits, preferably one crit being a 'move' crit (ie deceptive tactics generates a crit, you move a tile to get a crit).
-Take r match or block 4/5 crits (just stall for 1 turn to let mhawkeye's timers to tick)
-Use Berserker's Rage 2 times _this should pretty much kill loki_, mhawkeye will have almost all of the purple occupied with CD tiles, so it minimizes their strike tiles
-Watch mhawkeye's tiles kill cMags
-Mop up with 6-10 green strike tiles

Flaw with this is that if Loki is still alive, he has filled all the green with his ap steal timers, so you don't get any attack tiles from Berserker Rage until he is dead

atomzed

mohio wrote:

hamsingame wrote:

What did you all beat the last node with? I'm against 395 thor/dp/xforce, and xforce, 3 thor and deadpool are three of the characters i use a decent amount.

I was about to beat it (well, maybe) with Punisher retributing a < 40% thor 4 when Deadpool jumped in the way and proceeded to take less damage than his black's damage threshold...

Is it unreasonable to expect that either a) he takes how much the originally executed target was going to take or b) it doesn't trigger if the base retribution damage is below his Life of the Party threshold?

Mine aren't quite to 395 (370-ish maybe? They're currently 383, but probably went up some after finishing the essentials afterwards), but I used max LCap, max Hood, and 115 GSBW (to get active green/purple, and board control with purple). I went ahead and boosted r/y and b/p and brought a team up I didn't end up using. I managed to deny everything I needed to and probably got one or two lucky match-5s into GSBWs purple, which cascaded me into a bunch of matches. From there it was pretty easy since I had LCap on line and deadpool out of the way so he couldn't be the life of the party.

I have a similar set up, except I have Lcap, Ldaken and Hood. I went in with iso boosts of blue/purple, and red/yellow.

Basic strategy is to deny green first, while aiming to get enough red and blue to get lcap shields going. Once shields are going, then the win is inevitable.

Hood helps.to keep the AI under control. Ldaken are used to clear green and also to take hits (such as ALOTT).

Sword user

papa07 wrote:

Sword user wrote:

hbhr_bustagus:

I advise that you try Patch/GSBW/MHawkeye in the following manner:
Boost g/b, boost all, boost b/p
-Target Loki and Match purple
-Read the board, this Deceptive Tactics is critical, get 12 green from it and _at least_ 2 crits, preferably one crit being a 'move' crit (ie deceptive tactics generates a crit, you move a tile to get a crit).
-Take r match or block 4/5 crits (just stall for 1 turn to let mhawkeye's timers to tick)
-Use Berserker's Rage 2 times _this should pretty much kill loki_, mhawkeye will have almost all of the purple occupied with CD tiles, so it minimizes their strike tiles
-Watch mhawkeye's tiles kill cMags
-Mop up with 6-10 green strike tiles

Flaw with this is that if Loki is still alive, he has filled all the green with his ap steal timers, so you don't get any attack tiles from Berserker Rage until he is dead

That's a good point...you'd have to survive enough turns to kill Loki, or stun him with MHawkeye, a luck-filled proposal either way. You would match some of them away with the move-match crit, though...maybe not enough, though.

And here I thought I was being clever.

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Im assuming you meant mhawkeye ? I sell too many good cards.
who should i delete to make room for him ? Wanna drive here and just play the game for me too ?
Lmao sry guys, wish i joined the forums when i first started this game lol
My flaw is i think no card is useless if you bring the right back up it'll do wonders
is gsbw a good 3* to lvl ?
I havnt been lvling hulk for that reason. So his anger will kick more often
but punishers black over powers hulk atm so he'll die first and im left with big hp but a semi situational offensive game

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Ok so im on the 3rd section of the gauntlet and I have decided it is impossible to pass. Im at Falcon/sentry/Hood and nothing I try remotely works. Sentry's supernova and world rupture are a 1 hit kill to basically my entire team and with Hood's ability of stealing AP, i can hardly lay an attack before im all dead. Any tips to pass this?

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TropicYeo wrote:

Yeah, sim #42 is pretty much a joke to me now. The guys are close to level 400, my team are punching bags against them. Oh well

Not sure it will help at this point, but:
1. I used Storm/MMN/Hulk for sim 42. I boosted purple + all, prioritized Xforce first, Thor second. Deadpool died from the repeated Wind Storms, fortunately and I never focused on him as MMN was denying purple. I monitored the enemy AP every turn, if I knew an attack was coming, I put Hulk out front. My MMN died from Thor's yellow power, but Hulk/Storm managed to squeak out the win.
2. Two of my alliance mates used Hulk/BP/Hood. Apparently Hood helped. My mate said only Thor got of one blue stun move before the end. A second alliance mate struggling on this node also tried this team and won. I wouldn't have guessed on this team combo, but apparently it has some merit.
3. I'm getting the impression that the Gauntlet nodes increase in difficulty (i.e. level) for every node you clear. My sim42 was level 285-6 when I beat it, but after finishing essentials 16-18, my sim42 increased to level 303. What this suggests to me is that it is preferable to complete the primary path first, saving the essentials for last, in reverse order of difficulty (e.g. do sim 29-42, then essentials 16-18, then 13-15). I may use this strategy next time around. This strategy also applies to PVEs in general, like Heroics, where the scaling eventually locks you out of completing nodes.

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loroku wrote:

WOW. I'm at day 98; I just checked. My highest level character is 70...I have no idea how you've played for one month longer than me and gotten 5 166s and all that other stuff.

Loroku, ark's progress is indeed impressive. I play a ton, and he's ahead of me: I'm at day 162 with four maxed 3*'s, another 3 at lvl 150, 6 max 2* and 12 more 3* in the 90-100 range. A total of 467 covers in 52 chars.

His advice is correct. The hands down best thing you can do to accelerate your game is to get into a top100 alliance. Aside from that, I do recommend buying key covers (e.g. Patch yellow) if you can manage it. It also really helps. While I agree that Patch is a top tier char to aim for, it can be very difficult to get his covers (I still have zero red and run him 3/0/5). For this reason, I'd recommend building Lazy Cap and Hulk. Lazy Cap covers seem much more readily acquired for whatever reason. He's top tier in PVE, and PVP viable, so he and/or Hulk might be a good stepping stone to other high tier PVP chars. I use Hulk and Lazy Cap more than any other characters, even now. Also, max out Storm/Mags. They will be essential for hard nodes in many events, a real game changer.

I hope you stick out the 2-3* transition. Many of us have been there so you're not alone. I wasn't able to complete my first Gauntlet, but completed these last two. Never give up!

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loroku wrote:

ark123 wrote:

Define "months". I'm on day 131 and I've 5 166s, 8 other 3*s with 9 or more covers over lvl 100, every 2* that matters at 94, 4Thor and xforce at 5 and 7 covers respectively, then most of the other 3*s over 6 covers(one being DP). I finished the Gauntlet in two days.

WOW.

I'm at day 98; I just checked. My highest level character is 70, although I have 6 2*s that are cover maxed, and enough ISO to max 2 of them to 94 if I didn't mind scaling myself out of PvE stuff. (Technically 7 are cover-maxed, but one has the wrong coverset. Actually, no - 2* Cap and Moonstone are also cover-maxed, but they don't count.) My highest 3* character has 7 covers; next-highest has 5. I have 23 3* characters and their average number of covers is 2.7. Of the "good" characters, I have 3* Thor at 7 covers, and that's it. (Currently overshadowed by a cover-maxed 2* Thor.) None of the other characters have enough or the right covers to really be powerful, and I've not invested ISO in them, anyway.

Most importantly, in the last 98 days I think they have introduced 10 new characters? (It's at least 10.) About one per week, on average. And each character they introduce makes my goalpost move a bit further away.

I have no idea how you've played for one month longer than me and gotten 5 166s and all that other stuff. I mean, I play a good amount - although to be fair I have slacked off a lot in the last few weeks because the game progress is going backwards, like I said. I also never buy covers, although I don't know what you do. I've never been in a top 100 alliance, either. Maybe you do those things? Also I'm sure having a full month on me - back before the new character-per-week stuff started - made a big difference. That's another month of not having the goalpost pushed further away, when you could actually achieve something.

I have a friend who introduced me to the game who's probably about 131 days and he's about where I am as well, but he's strictly a free player. I did drop some cash for roster slots - in my opinion you have to - but that's it. I don't regret it but I'm sure not going to spend anything else until this game changes significantly. (Don't think they'll notice.)

Edit: Thought I'd mention the only 4*s I have are 1 Dino from the Anniversary (yeah, just 1) and 2 black 4* Wolvie covers from opening standard and/or heroic packs. These are actually a detriment to me at this time since they are 100% useless and just take up roster space.

It's really interesting to hear how other relative newbies like myself are doing. I am at day 91 and thanks to Balance of Power I have just covermaxed my Captain America (4/4/5 so not optimal, but certainly useable). I have Doc Ock at 9 covers (yay, I keep pulling more out of my tokens...) and then my highest three are Falcon, Captain Marvel and Psylocke (5 blue...) with 8 covers each. Out of the 2*s I have Ares, Black widow, Daken, Hawkeye, Magneto, Storm and Wolverine maxed. So while I am not quite ready to transition to 3* land yet, I am certainly making good progress. In one month time I won't have 5 3*s covermaxed, but I can probably lvl up two 3*s to 166 so gaining covers through pvp will be much easier. I finished the gauntlet yesterday evening only using my 2*s and it was very doable. Sure, some nodes were nasty, but that's part of the fun. Don't underestimate the amount of difference proper booster useage can make!

So yeah, all in all, my experience has been much different to yours. Like Ark I play pve religiously and that has been the source for most of my covers so far. I did pull a fair few three stars from tokens, but about half of them seem to be Psylocke blue or any Doc Ock cover, so I wouldn't say I have been extraordinarily lucky in that regard. Since I always score well in pve I looked for (and found) an Alliance that shares my current pve focus, so that's one extra cover per pve event.

Curiosity

I have hit an absolute brick wall on Sim38.

Loki/Jugg/Mags are L235 and I rarely make it past about six turns. Mags kills anyone with Blue and anyone other than Hulk with Red, and seems to get them off pretty quickly every time.

My options:
Hulk 5/3/5 L166
Punisher 3/5/5 L166
Patch 3/5/5 L166
Mags 5/3/5 L166 (though obv not this time)
Hood 5/5/3 L143
XForce 3/3/4 L138
IM40 5/5/3 L136
Grey Widow 3/5/5 L130
IW 5/5/2 L114
Storm 5/3/5 L110
Falcon 4/5/2 L110
Doom 5/4 L106
LThor 0/2/5 L102
Panther 5/4/2 L100
Daredevil 5/3/5 L100
LCap 2/5/5 L100
LDaken 1/4/4 L97
OBW 3/5/5 L94
2*Storm 4/5/5 L94
2*Thor 3/5/5 L94
Then a load of others without much in the way of covers or levelling. Like a 2/1/2 L66 DEADPOOL etc.

Any ideas? Just go for Patch/Hulk/Hood and hope I get lucky?