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.
Quebbster wrote: 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...
ZeroKarma wrote: 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!
Bowgentle wrote: 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.
Ben Grimm wrote: What kind of lead would someone need with, say, 12 hours remaining, over the current tenth-place person, to guarantee (or close to) top ten in this? My slice finishes at 9 am tomorrow morning for me; I go to bed 10-11, and I will probably be able to play a little tomorrow morning, but not uber-grind, before work. I'm trying to figure out if I can lock this up tonight just in case. I was around 40k ahead of #10 at lunch.
Phantron wrote: Ben Grimm wrote: What kind of lead would someone need with, say, 12 hours remaining, over the current tenth-place person, to guarantee (or close to) top ten in this? My slice finishes at 9 am tomorrow morning for me; I go to bed 10-11, and I will probably be able to play a little tomorrow morning, but not uber-grind, before work. I'm trying to figure out if I can lock this up tonight just in case. I was around 40k ahead of #10 at lunch. I remember it was like 6000 points for hard so that'd be 9000 * 5 cycles = 45000 points. Then there's rubberbanding and that you can potentially clear more at the end for about 2 more cycles worth of points. Although it's extremely unlikely to lose a 40K lead, there are enough points that you can't rule this out as impossible.
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.
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.
simonsez wrote: It's awesome that the opposing teams have access to abilities and teamups that we don't.
raisinbman wrote: simonsez wrote: It's awesome that the opposing teams have access to abilities and teamups that we don't. Then you probably are furious when you face Gorgon, eh?
simonsez wrote: raisinbman wrote: simonsez wrote: It's awesome that the opposing teams have access to abilities and teamups that we don't. Then you probably are furious when you face Gorgon, eh? Please explore the difference between not having access to a character and not having access to an ability.
GrumpySmurf1002 wrote: But that's also assuming someone can reasonably full clear the hard sub 9 times in 12 hours, which is unlikely for someone trailing by 40k to begin with.
raisinbman wrote: Characters don't bother you but abilities do? And I thought I had heard everything...
Sumilea wrote: The best picture will have been at the end of the second sub. If you had 40K lead then over 10th chances of losing it would be close to zero with any amount of effort if however you were 20K behind tenth and so far worked harder on these subs than the other guys in the top 10 your chances of holding on to top 10 are slim.
simonsez wrote: raisinbman wrote: Characters don't bother you but abilities do? And I thought I had heard everything... You think I've been losing sleep over never getting to use Maggia? If you think it's fine that we have to face a Doom with a 3rd power when ours can't have one, that's fine. I disagree. Just stop extrapolating my point to include things I'm not talking about.
Phantron wrote: GrumpySmurf1002 wrote: But that's also assuming someone can reasonably full clear the hard sub 9 times in 12 hours, which is unlikely for someone trailing by 40k to begin with. I'm sure you'll be fine with even half of that lead (20K) but you never know if a bunch of PvE hardcores secretly acquired all the accounts in your bracket and decide to teach someone a lesson! I'm actually in a pretty similar situation too so I do hope that 40K is enough as that's roughly the margin I have over #10 as well.
mohio wrote: I don't think I would mind all that much if it were specifically intended as an introduction or highlight of his new power (similar to how 3* daken was an enemy right before we won him) but the way this is done is just an oversight and unintended consequence of the update coming out in the middle of the event.