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  • Unknown
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    Got my final yellow patch (which also brings him to my ideal build) so it was worth the grind regardless of Cage for me.
    Finding the Sentry nodes harder than the Mystique ones, in terms of i can do a node or two of Hard but then need to wait for healing, and i can progress much less through Normal essentials. Odd that once again Normal nodes worth about as much as Hard.
  • Unknown
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    I think World Rupture needs to just be 12 green and destroy the tiles at where the CDs would've been doing damage equal to whatever damage it'd have done because trying to find a way around its interaction with strike tiles just doesn't work. Sacrifice is still plenty good except the time where you put it down and the first big cascade immediately wiped it out. Supernova is, as always, pretty hard to figure out when to use correctly but it's still one of the hardest hitting moves in the game.

    Not seeing any additional healing requirement. Sure Sentry takes all the damage instead of someone like X Force but that's always going to happen if your featured character is higher than roughly level 170 after boosts. At least he can take damage versus a lot of characters who cannot when boosted to these levels.
  • Unknown
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    @Phantron yeah depends on position in game/roster, my XF only 3/5/2 so i had been using Patch/Loki where Loki hidden under powered-up Mystique....this time around no way to hide Loki so end up using Sentry powers.
    Understand it probly a different world once 4* are your thing.
  • Unknown
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    I'm currently at 176k, in third place, 2k behind #1, 36k ahead of #10, and feeling fairly comfortable before the work week starts. I'm going to do what I can tomorrow and Tuesday (morning, since I'm in slice 1), but I think that, even stepping back a bit, I'm in very good shape for top ten. I think top 2 will be out of reach unless one of the two ahead of me backs off, given I can't play optimally tomorrow.
  • Unknown
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    I think I might be screwed. I'm at 169 and I can barely beat three nodes in Hard and if I'm lucky, one of them might be an essential. This scaling is horrendous.
  • Unknown
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    Phantron wrote:
    I think World Rupture needs to just be 12 green and destroy the tiles at where the CDs would've been doing damage equal to whatever damage it'd have done because trying to find a way around its interaction with strike tiles just doesn't work. Sacrifice is still plenty good except the time where you put it down and the first big cascade immediately wiped it out. Supernova is, as always, pretty hard to figure out when to use correctly but it's still one of the hardest hitting moves in the game.

    Not seeing any additional healing requirement. Sure Sentry takes all the damage instead of someone like X Force but that's always going to happen if your featured character is higher than roughly level 170 after boosts. At least he can take damage versus a lot of characters who cannot when boosted to these levels.

    World Rupture annoys me so much now. I understand Sentry was OP...but now everytime I cast greenflag.png(if I even try to cast it at all, usually another greenflag.png fares better) makes me wish I just double-sacrificed or redflag.png.

    But then again, when Rag and Spidey got neutered they're still in the lurch. I doubt Sentry will seriously be looked at for a longggg time.

    I casted World Rupture for the first time, successfully(meaning, Sentry didn't before it happened) today out of 20 or so tries since I used new Sentry. And I had to use Hood- blackflag.png.


    The only thing new Sentry does anymore is yellowflag.png , and as has been discussed, I might as well bring Black Panther for that...
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    Yeah, ignoring how he's featured a lot more, BP is pretty much universally better than sentry in every measure. RoTP and BP are both way better moves than supernova and sacrifice, at the same number of matches too, and while their 3rd powers are both rather worthless, at least BP's blue is cheap enough that maybe it could possibly be cast
  • Unknown
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    Spoit wrote:
    Yeah, ignoring how he's featured a lot more, BP is pretty much universally better than sentry in every measure. RoTP and BP are both way better moves than supernova and sacrifice, at the same number of matches too, and while their 3rd powers are both rather worthless, at least BP's blue is cheap enough that maybe it could possibly be cast
    Since I don't have many 4hor covers I've been using Sentry as my third in SHIELD Sim. XForce is a one man army and Sentry's got a heap of HP and, in Supernova, a great emergency button if the match goes sour. And Supernova out of nowhere is still one of the top ways to get a defensive win

    And it's not either/or - Sentry Daken BP is a really effective squad that can use WR and ROTP to great effectiveness on overscaled PVE nodes
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    AJRooke wrote:
    @Phantron yeah depends on position in game/roster, my XF only 3/5/2 so i had been using Patch/Loki where Loki hidden under powered-up Mystique....this time around no way to hide Loki so end up using Sentry powers.
    Understand it probly a different world once 4* are your thing.
    Do you mean to say you aren't using XF? 3/5/2 XF is about 3 times as good as Sentry
    Edit: okay, twice as good
  • ZeroKarma
    ZeroKarma Posts: 513 Critical Contributor
    If scaling is based on the boosted essential, then I'm very glad that I never had the chance to level up Sentry. Thus far, he is a meat shield that lets me gather red, green and yellow for X-Force and Thor. That has value in itself. I haven't used a single AP for him.

    I saw you in my bracket Moonroach! I thought, how cool to have a well-known forumite in my bracket. Just stay there in 3rd so I can relax! icon_lol.gif
  • Unknown
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    locked wrote:
    AJRooke wrote:
    @Phantron yeah depends on position in game/roster, my XF only 3/5/2 so i had been using Patch/Loki where Loki hidden under powered-up Mystique....this time around no way to hide Loki so end up using Sentry powers.
    Understand it probly a different world once 4* are your thing.
    Do you mean to say you aren't using XF? 3/5/2 XF is about 3 times as good as Sentry
    Edit: okay, twice as good
    No I meant in the sentry essentials.....with boosted patch....I am using him. Maybe wrongly.
  • GrumpySmurf1002
    GrumpySmurf1002 Posts: 3,511 Chairperson of the Boards
    Spoit wrote:
    Yeah, ignoring how he's featured a lot more, BP is pretty much universally better than sentry in every measure. RoTP and BP are both way better moves than supernova and sacrifice, at the same number of matches too, and while their 3rd powers are both rather worthless, at least BP's blue is cheap enough that maybe it could possibly be cast

    BP also has the benefit in that his third color is mostly a throw away color (blue) rather than the best offensive color in the game (green). Plus I happen to like defense grid. While protect tiles are mostly an afterthought, shutting down match damage does pay long term dividends.
  • Unknown
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    I think everyone in my group has given up on this pretty much. I have done the Essential nodes on Easy each, one time, in the past eight hours and have gone from 40 to 32 in my bracket.

    I guess the top 20 are still spending money or something, otherwise this is a bit of a bust for the devs I would think.
  • Unknown
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    These 7 day events are waaaaaaaaay too long.
  • orbitalint
    orbitalint Posts: 511 Critical Contributor
    hermanbloom wrote:
    I guess the top 20 are still spending money or something, otherwise this is a bit of a bust for the devs I would think.
    Except for the top 1 in my bracket who I am positive doesn't sleep and probably spends a ton on healthpacks for optimal clears (he's opened up a 100k lead on the rest of us top 10 folk), I don't think even top 20 are giving any money to this event. My bracket is practically dead with no movers, so, there is no need to do anything close to optimal clears.

    Scaling is a pain but for a 7 day event, I enjoy this much more than having to play every node every 2 hours and 25 minutes and grind when you want to sleep to hope to stay in the range for a new cover. Even for a 3 or 4 day events, that's way more disruptive to my life. I can actually play when I want or have the time. While awake, I think I went 12 hours each day this weekend without looking at MPQ, did a clear or two and went to bed and have barely moved in placement.
  • Unknown
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    orbitalint wrote:
    hermanbloom wrote:
    I guess the top 20 are still spending money or something, otherwise this is a bit of a bust for the devs I would think.
    Except for the top 1 in my bracket who I am positive doesn't sleep and probably spends a ton on healthpacks for optimal clears (he's opened up a 100k lead on the rest of us top 10 folk), I don't think even top 20 are giving any money to this event. My bracket is practically dead with no movers, so, there is no need to do anything close to optimal clears.

    Scaling is a pain but for a 7 day event, I enjoy this much more than having to play every node every 2 hours and 25 minutes and grind when you want to sleep to hope to stay in the range for a new cover. Even for a 3 or 4 day events, that's way more disruptive to my life. I can actually play when I want or have the time. While awake, I think I went 12 hours each day this weekend without looking at MPQ, did a clear or two and went to bed and have barely moved in placement.

    I'm #3 in my bracket overall, and I haven't spent a dime since March, nor have I done more than 7 missions in the hard sub, nor repeated more than two missions in it this go-round (and I'm #4 in that sub). Engagement is really, really low in this, despite the reward character being new.
  • Quebbster
    Quebbster Posts: 8,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    Mr Stoat of Agent Archer, any chance you could take your foot off the gas this last day? I notice that you, unlike me, have Thor fully covered already...
  • Colognoisseur
    Colognoisseur Posts: 806 Critical Contributor
    WARNING! on Hard Sim 09 the third power for Doom is active. He hits for 1755 a trap. It just went off at the end to down my Sentry.
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    It's awesome that the opposing teams have access to abilities and teamups that we don't.
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    Colognoisseur wrote:
    WARNING! on Hard Sim 09 the third power for Doom is active. He hits for 1755 a trap. It just went off at the end to down my Sentry.
    Oh carp.

    I really really really _really_ wish they would stop changing skills/other stuff in the middle of events.
    It couldn't have been _that_ hard to wait until Simulator was over.

    Well good thing I could pretty much stop playing now and still be good for first in Hard and T10 in the main.

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