The Hunt: Jan 21 - 26

yogi_

I think this is one of the first PvE's almost ever where the 3 powered up 3* characters are all really new.

There is going to be more than one player missing one or more of these characters.

Unknown

Am i the only one thinking taht 8h node is too much?

DrNitroman

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Moon Roach wrote:

I've grinded (ground?)

This! I had doubts about this so many times! English dictionary clearly states that it's actually ground... but, I don't know, it sounds so weird that I am very careful to never, never evoke my grinding activities of the past without using tricks!!

Imaginary Friend wrote:

DrNitroman, did you grind this node for a long time?

DrNitroman wrote:

_ Oh, yes actually I gro.. I gri... I mean, yes I did!!

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Unknown

Am I wrong in thinking that there is a node or two missing in Florida? I remember there being a couple more, including the one where Fury's double is taken by Ragnarok, but it wasn't showing up last night when I finished all of the available nodes.

squirrel1120

Fat Thor is just not meant to be a good character in my roster. He was a white whale of sorts when trying to save toons to my roster in the transition, I always seem to miss him in the few events he's been given, and I think I've only ever drawn him in a token once. Thus, even if I placed T10, which I eont, It'd only bring him up to 6 covers.

It takes forever but c.Marv w Mag.stique is a fun way to clear a node. Often have enough black to stun the entire team to make that critical move to keep things rolling, or to safely drop a magnetic flux.

ZeiramMR

I am taking this one much lighter than the Heroic (I will be busy with work and MAGFest). Basically the last progression and placing better than Standard tokens for each sub and I will be happy.

Unknown

squirrel1120 wrote:

Fat Thor is just not meant to be a good character in my roster. He was a white whale of sorts when trying to save toons to my roster in the transition, I always seem to miss him in the few events he's been given, and I think I've only ever drawn him in a token once. Thus, even if I placed T10, which I eont, It'd only bring him up to 6 covers.

I'm with you. I think I've only won 2 covers for him in events and pulled a lucky few otherwise, but mine was sitting at 2/1/4 when he got vaulted, so it'll be a long time before he's relevant for me, especially since I've barely put any ISO into him.

JVReal

Fievel wrote:

squirrel1120 wrote:

Fat Thor is just not meant to be a good character in my roster. He was a white whale of sorts when trying to save toons to my roster in the transition, I always seem to miss him in the few events he's been given, and I think I've only ever drawn him in a token once. Thus, even if I placed T10, which I eont, It'd only bring him up to 6 covers.

I'm with you. I think I've only won 2 covers for him in events and pulled a lucky few otherwise, but mine was sitting at 2/1/4 when he got vaulted, so it'll be a long time before he's relevant for me, especially since I've barely put any ISO into him.

I've got him at 4/0/0 before he was vaulted, no luck with any color but Red. Really would like to see a different color on him while he sits in my roster.

Unknown

To all the people saying that the 8hr refresh is gonna have tied scores and yada yada, I'm looking at the top 10 in my bracket and no one has the same score as someone else. Do you want 3hr refreshes on this event? I certainly don't.

Also, Daken-Ares-Venom is the hardest Dark Avengers lineup. Onslaughts and Chem Reactions going off every few turns, plus getting stunned so you can't do anything about it gets very irritating.

fmftint

itwasafridaynight wrote:

To all the people saying that the 8hr refresh is gonna have tied scores and yada yada, I'm looking at the top 10 in my bracket and no one has the same score as someone else. Do you want 3hr refreshes on this event? I certainly don't.

Also, Daken-Ares-Venom is the hardest Dark Avengers lineup. Onslaughts and Chem Reactions going off every few turns, plus getting stunned so you can't do anything about it gets very irritating.

Im seeing similar, separation from 1-10 in my main is 11k, 5-10 is 6k

As for hardest line up, Wait till Bullseye III in Savage Lands: Bullseye/Ares/Venom snares, onslaughts, devour, protect tiles
Rapid fire damage while yours worst case scenario is cut to 1/match

Unknown

In this event, it's like simulator. The top scores are separated by scaling, ability, and boost/health pack expenditure, not refresh time grinding. It'd be the same even if refresh times were 2 hours.

In an event where everyone can hit every node, the refresh times make the difference in score separation.

thanos8587

this event cant be a good indicator of refresh time rates. the sheer volume of nodes in this event (**** florida?) and the fact that they are overlapping is grinding down roster health much more than a conventional event, not to mention its boring as kitty due to the repeating enemies including the king of cheese ragnarok. i do like eight (3 would be a nightmare) but i do believe 6 or maybe 4 is going to be better.

Trisul

The nice thing is, you can wipe out on difficult nodes and just try again after regenerating health packs in 90 minutes or so, and recover some of the points.

Unknown

It's pretty simple.

It's going to boil down to who can stretch their health packs the furthest. If you can grind all the nodes to 1 point in 2 hours (you can't), you win. So most people will start doing double or triple clears around the 8h mark. Also if you don't have a combo like mnmags+mystique/cstorm/spider or mass protect tiles, forget it, you're out. People talked a lot about clearing after exactly 8 hours, but the difference between clearing early/late is nothing compared to entire sweeps at the last few hours.

Since the scaling goes crazy in the last few hours, this turns into who gets the luckiest with cascades/initial board.

Also people with rosters under lvl100 will probably be able to win with much **** boards, so there's a good chance top10 will have zero maxed xforces in it.

thanos8587

top 10 in mine, nine are solid three star rosters. 3 have 250+ xforce one of which is 270 xforce 270 GoT. this event to me favors a very deep roster not a 2* roster especially if you havent leveled say eight or more.

im kinda screwed in this event because my r&g is 0/4/2 and my gamora is 2/1/0, basically unusable. i got one squirrel girl cover. im hovering right under top 50 with moderate farm. there are some nodes im not even attempting due to low risk/reward. better off farming essentials for more points less risk.

Unknown

thanos8587 wrote:

top 10 in mine, nine are solid three star rosters. 3 have 250+ xforce one of which is 270 xforce 270 GoT. this event to me favors a very deep roster not a 2* roster especially if you havent leveled say eight or more.

im kinda screwed in this event because my r&g is 0/4/2 and my gamora is 2/1/0, basically unusable. i got one squirrel girl cover. im hovering right under top 50 with moderate farm. there are some nodes im not even attempting due to low risk/reward. better off farming essentials for more points less risk.

Is your shard over? Because current points is pretty much meaningless until the final 4h

ShanePHallam

Fievel wrote:

Am I wrong in thinking that there is a node or two missing in Florida? I remember there being a couple more, including the one where Fury's double is taken by Ragnarok, but it wasn't showing up last night when I finished all of the available nodes.

I felt the same thing this morning. Looked like I didn't have Divide and Conquer earlier and looked just now and it was there. I played it and got a **** ton more nodes. Maybe I'm just dumb and missed it (that's what I thought until I say your post and experienced the same thing).

Unknown

ZeiramMR wrote:

I am taking this one much lighter than the Heroic (I will be busy with work and MAGFest). Basically the last progression and placing better than Standard tokens for each sub and I will be happy.

This for me as well.

Skygazing

thanos8587 wrote:

top 10 in mine, nine are solid three star rosters. 3 have 250+ xforce one of which is 270 xforce 270 GoT. this event to me favors a very deep roster not a 2* roster especially if you havent leveled say eight or more.

im kinda screwed in this event because my r&g is 0/4/2 and my gamora is 2/1/0, basically unusable. i got one squirrel girl cover. im hovering right under top 50 with moderate farm. there are some nodes im not even attempting due to low risk/reward. better off farming essentials for more points less risk.

Currently sitting at 3rd, and I am absolutely nowhere near solid 3 star (My highest is a 2/2/1 66 CM.). Out of our top 10 it looks like two of the others have very solid 2* rosters, and one actually has a lower bunch than my own. The rest though are all solid 3*+.

So far the strategy is pretty much the same as Oscorp for me (and I actually managed to finish 3rd there). There may be 8 hour node refreshes, but between concurrent subs with high density and tougher opponents I've ended up playing every 3 hours anyway. Apart from literally 1 point I have hit fully refreshed points each time. So far health pack usage varies, using between 2-4 on Alaska and 4-5 on Florida where bullkitty seems to happen more often (looking at you last node Moonstone and your red cascades that nearly wiped me twice in a row).

We'll see how things go at the end of the first sub, and that'll be the judge of how hardcore I actually want to grind this out. To me it looks like a nightmare, as there'll likely be grinding right up til the end on Alaska, only for Savage to show up immediately after and exhaust resources even further before Florida refreshes 2-3 hours after. I'd kill for another cover for Thoress (still sitting at 1/1/1 from her first event) but I have a feeling it's not gonna happen. Hopefully I can at least lock down top 10 for LThor.

And for those curious:
A-team is 5/5/3 94 Ms. Marvel, 3/5/5 94 OBW, and 5/5/3 85 Wolvie
B-team is 1/2/1 55 Squirrel Girl, 1/2/1 55 R&G, and 3/3/2 52 MNMags

Unknown

ew Florida sucks.