The Hulk - Jan 7 - 11

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  • The RNG gods calmed down on the AI cascades, and most clears has been pretty smooth sailing. I only really have any trouble with the nodes that have both Jugs, Rags and a green feeder. Just the nature of those fights, with the high HP pools to destroy, and the high damage abilities combined with constant board shakes... I'm glad anytime I push through one of those nodes without heavy loss. Thank goodness rags uses his red sometimes instead of juggy. Even patch can get worn down pretty much by those powers being constantly used.

    I have finally gotten the hang of the Mag.stique combo. I think when available, Cage is going to be a pretty well liked third wheel. Even at lvl 53 & 3 covers (2 black, 1 red), he already can carry his weight in the combo. There is something immensely satisfying about 'jab jab cross'ing a 10k+ HP jugs into the ground at the end of a 50 action turn. Mystique and Cage will both get leveled as they get covers until D3 does something to bork the combo/trio. Unfortunately at this point in thier game, they sorta need the b/p AP boosts just like Stormneto did. I think that'll change when both mystique and cage start to be able to take hits better, and then even moreso when Mys and LC can fully cover Mags.

    I think my personal and alliance finishes will both be top 10/ top 50, so that's kinda cool. Never having had a decent alliance, I only just started looking at the reward tiers, and I'm surprised there isn't more separation like top 100/50/25/10/2. Instead its 100/50/2.
  • Cortez
    Cortez Posts: 27 Just Dropped In
    Holy smokes, the icon_juggernaut.png nodes are ridiculous, especially with icon_ragnarok.png. they're only lvl 100 but the cascades are crazy. Five red tiles followed up by another 6 green tiles into headbutt/crash.
    I hate the dark avengers because daken is most of the time also banned from my team.
  • Moon Roach
    Moon Roach Posts: 2,863 Chairperson of the Boards
    Maybe I've had a little too much exposure to Dora the **** Explorer. but every time I play a node with a sniper, I find myself thinking, "Sniper, no sniping".
  • Vankysher
    Vankysher Posts: 324 Mover and Shaker
    Cortez wrote:
    Holy smokes, the icon_juggernaut.png nodes are ridiculous, especially with icon_ragnarok.png. they're only lvl 100 but the cascades are crazy. Five red tiles followed up by another 6 green tiles into headbutt/crash.
    I hate the dark avengers because daken is most of the time also banned from my team.
    No joke.
    The Punisher essential node was a hopeless cascade of death for OBW as I tried to hold off the r/g powers as long as I could.
    Punisher was useless with a single greenflag.png cover & 2*Cap was obviously the wrong choice though he did manage to stun Juggs a few times & overwrite the pyro countdown tiles spawning.
    Couldn't kill the Pyro feeding both of them fast enough and down everybody went with nary a scratch on rags/jugs/goon.
  • Vankysher wrote:
    Cortez wrote:
    Holy smokes, the icon_juggernaut.png nodes are ridiculous, especially with icon_ragnarok.png. they're only lvl 100 but the cascades are crazy. Five red tiles followed up by another 6 green tiles into headbutt/crash.
    I hate the dark avengers because daken is most of the time also banned from my team.
    No joke.
    The Punisher essential node was a hopeless cascade of death for OBW as I tried to hold off the r/g powers as long as I could.
    Punisher was useless with a single greenflag.png cover & 2*Cap was obviously the wrong choice though he did manage to stun Juggs a few times & overwrite the pyro countdown tiles spawning.
    Couldn't kill the Pyro feeding both of them fast enough and down everybody went with nary a scratch on rags/jugs/goon.

    I did a clear about 30 min ago, and this was a troubling node. A short but dire cascade gave jugs 7 red fairly early. He headbutted punpun into the ground. I was at the point of no return anyway since the group was already beat up from power spam and match damage, so I gave it the old college try with OBW sitting at 500hp, and a 3/4 health psyduck. Much to my surprise, the duo managed to pull it off. I really dislike these icon_juggernaut.png / icon_ragnarok.png / icon_hammer.png nodes. I'm just so glad I didn't wipe, cause there weren't too many options left that could get it down, being the last node in the clear.
  • Zumdahl
    Zumdahl Posts: 19
    Moon Roach wrote:
    Maybe I've had a little too much exposure to Dora the tinykitty Explorer. but every time I play a node with a sniper, I find myself thinking, "Sniper, no sniping".

    Hah. Do they then stop their countdown tile?
  • Dragon_Nexus
    Dragon_Nexus Posts: 3,701 Chairperson of the Boards
    Story question.
    Bruce Banner was making a Gamma bomb, right? Hulk hides the parts of it and so on. What was it meant to do and how was it meant to do it? I can't imagine exposing Hulk to *more* Gamma radiation would be particularly helpful.
  • Story question.
    Bruce Banner was making a Gamma bomb, right? Hulk hides the parts of it and so on. What was it meant to do and how was it meant to do it? I can't imagine exposing Hulk to *more* Gamma radiation would be particularly helpful.


    He was going to use it to make a 4* Red Hulk. (Un?)Fortunately, we stopped him before he could do it and send the stats to D3 Developers...
  • AXP_isme
    AXP_isme Posts: 809 Critical Contributor
    This is probably a stupid question but... Why are there 1001 people in my bracket? Does that mean the last person gets no rewards at all or has someone been sandboxes mid event?
  • Story question.
    Bruce Banner was making a Gamma bomb, right? Hulk hides the parts of it and so on. What was it meant to do and how was it meant to do it? I can't imagine exposing Hulk to *more* Gamma radiation would be particularly helpful.

    The Gamma Bomb would buff She-Hulk to playable levels.

    OH NO D3 IS AT MY DOOR.

    HELP MEEEEEEEE
  • wymtime
    wymtime Posts: 3,759 Chairperson of the Boards
    Zumdahl wrote:
    Moon Roach wrote:
    Maybe I've had a little too much exposure to Dora the tinykitty Explorer. but every time I play a node with a sniper, I find myself thinking, "Sniper, no sniping".

    Hah. Do they then stop their countdown tile?

    Only after he says it 3 times icon_lol.gif
  • AXP_isme wrote:
    This is probably a stupid question but... Why are there 1001 people in my bracket? Does that mean the last person gets no rewards at all or has someone been sandboxes mid event?

    That means someone in your bracket is cheating. His score won't count for purposes of placement but they usually don't remove cheaters in the middle of an event.
  • Moon Roach
    Moon Roach Posts: 2,863 Chairperson of the Boards
    wymtime wrote:
    Zumdahl wrote:
    Moon Roach wrote:
    Maybe I've had a little too much exposure to Dora the tinykitty Explorer. but every time I play a node with a sniper, I find myself thinking, "Sniper, no sniping".

    Hah. Do they then stop their countdown tile?

    Only after he says it 3 times icon_lol.gif

    Maybe I've not had enough exposure to Dora the **** Explorer, but I did not know you had to say it 3 times. I'll give it a try. Who knows, it might even be an Easter Egg in the game. Now, where's that USB headset with the microphone...
  • Moon Roach wrote:
    wymtime wrote:
    Zumdahl wrote:
    Moon Roach wrote:
    Maybe I've had a little too much exposure to Dora the tinykitty Explorer. but every time I play a node with a sniper, I find myself thinking, "Sniper, no sniping".

    Hah. Do they then stop their countdown tile?

    Only after he says it 3 times icon_lol.gif

    Maybe I've not had enough exposure to Dora the tinykitty Explorer, but I did not know you had to say it 3 times. I'll give it a try. Who knows, it might even be an Easter Egg in the game. Now, where's that USB headset with the microphone...

    This sounds like a squirrel gorl ability, 12 green. Tiles swiped and owner stunned for a Three turn Dora episode
  • yogi_
    yogi_ Posts: 1,236 Chairperson of the Boards
    Just lost most of my usable roster to Lieutenant, Bullseye, Moonstone - I can't seem to get past them.

    Stupid protect tiles... while trying to kill lieutenant so he doesn't heal everyone.
  • yogi_ wrote:
    Just lost most of my usable roster to Lieutenant, Bullseye, Moonstone - I can't seem to get past them.

    Stupid protect tiles... while trying to kill lieutenant so he doesn't heal everyone.

    I've barely scraped through with patch, under leveled ldaken and loki who's even lower. The trick is getting through the potential damage powers of the trio before getting zerker rage, tbti and trickery all up in a turn. Murderous aim actually fell in a match 4 and match 3 in their primary colors. Then photo blast hit with a red heavy board. I saw patch dip as low as 300hp. Then everything went up on my side, and in another 7-8 turns it was done.

    What a pain in the tinykitty tho. If all their powers hit at once it's easy to lose patch, and it's kinda game over there if that happens
  • Dragon_Nexus
    Dragon_Nexus Posts: 3,701 Chairperson of the Boards
    Alexraven wrote:
    Story question.
    Bruce Banner was making a Gamma bomb, right? Hulk hides the parts of it and so on. What was it meant to do and how was it meant to do it? I can't imagine exposing Hulk to *more* Gamma radiation would be particularly helpful.


    He was going to use it to make a 4* Red Hulk. (Un?)Fortunately, we stopped him before he could do it and send the stats to D3 Developers...

    raisinbman wrote:
    Story question.
    Bruce Banner was making a Gamma bomb, right? Hulk hides the parts of it and so on. What was it meant to do and how was it meant to do it? I can't imagine exposing Hulk to *more* Gamma radiation would be particularly helpful.

    The Gamma Bomb would buff She-Hulk to playable levels.

    OH NO D3 IS AT MY DOOR.

    HELP MEEEEEEEE

    I'm guessing no-one actually knows then icon_razz.gif
  • Cortez
    Cortez Posts: 27 Just Dropped In
    yogi_ wrote:
    Just lost most of my usable roster to Lieutenant, Bullseye, Moonstone - I can't seem to get past them.

    Stupid protect tiles... while trying to kill lieutenant so he doesn't heal everyone.

    my MVP for this Event is Luke Cage. I have him only at 0/1/1 but his red protects me most of the time from match damage and his black makes a decent amount of damage for a single cover.
    In addition to that, i take obw and **thor, it's much easier as with wolfie or daken.
  • Moon Roach
    Moon Roach Posts: 2,863 Chairperson of the Boards
    Hidden Stash: Amazon III. I can't get past this.

    Rags fed by 2 snipers is Godlike Power every alternate turn. I can't kill him quickly enough. Aargh!
  • Moon Roach wrote:
    Hidden Stash: Amazon III. I can't get past this.

    Rags fed by 2 snipers is Godlike Power every alternate turn. I can't kill him quickly enough. Aargh!
    Agree with this.

    Ragnarol on this node is unstoppable - I'm making about 6 matches maximum before my team is eventually cascaded/green/redded to death.

    I've tried many team combinations and all are destroyed by this particular setup. I feel hopelessness - It's a health pack sink. AVIOD icon_redface.gif