Thick As Thieves: Jan 26 - Feb 3

CrookedKnight

fmftint wrote:

Is Family Reunion 7 EVER going to be retuned to make it even close to a fair fight? Classic Magneto force fed yellow and blue, nuking you at best every 5th turn and killing your damage every 3rd.


That's right I forgot, this is FUN!

How to balance Family Reunion 7: Join the event after the first sub is over.

hex706f726368

loroku wrote:

fmftint wrote:

How many TESTS have become a permanent fixture after one run? PVP time slices, PVE time slices, shield cool downs...
Why should node refreshes be singled out?

Exactly?

The point is that people didn't like that so they asked them not to do that. So they didn't, and people got mad anyway when they didn't do the thing they'd specifically asked them not to do. Seems like D3 just can't win for losing.

When D3 establishes that trend, people will stop complaining. This is the first occurrence of a test just being a test (that I recall). From many players perspective, the trend has to look somewhat anti-player whether to keep or back out a new feature, so people are complaining. If tests truly become tests, you have to give the player base as much leeway as you gave D3. It's taken them quite a few features to understand how to do a test. Let's give the players more than one before condemning them.

Unknown

Good luck to all forumites in the 4th slice/first bracket. I see you Phantron on top10 leaderboard!

nihilium

Little question about rubberbanding in this event.
I mostly want that yellow thor cover, can I join some days late and still get it or will it be a "grind every node from the beginning reward".

or is it too early to tell?

Quebbster

nihilium wrote:

Little question about rubberbanding in this event.
I mostly want that yellow thor cover, can I join some days late and still get it or will it be a "grind every node from the beginning reward".

or is it too early to tell?

Do you have a Thor? If so, you don't need to worry about reaching it. Even without Thor it is likely doable with a late start. I can usually get twice the points needed for the final progression reward when the event ends...

nihilium

Thx

And I do have thor, but hes 2/2/5 ... which is why I sooo want that cover ^///^

But even more I want not to grind ever 3 hours for 6 days... bahhh v.v

Unknown

That Magneto node...The only person in 2* land that can handle it is probably Ms Marvel. Red+Yellow overwriting tiles, but even that's too slow.

I used Ares/Storm/OBW...completely lucked out killing Magneto early, but it still ended up being a pain after IM one shot Storm with his blue. Any tips for 2* rosters in the future battles?

Unknown

Mau-- wrote:

That Magneto node...The only person in 2* land that can handle it is probably Ms Marvel. Red+Yellow overwriting tiles, but even that's too slow.

I used Ares/Storm/OBW...completely lucked out killing Magneto early, but it still ended up being a pain after IM one shot Storm with his blue. Any tips for 2* rosters in the future battles?

Throw Hawkeye in with Ms. Marvel, if you have him. Her yellow increases the chances of Speedshot going off.

Unknown

Mau-- wrote:

That Magneto node...The only person in 2* land that can handle it is probably Ms Marvel. Red+Yellow overwriting tiles, but even that's too slow.

I used Ares/Storm/OBW...completely lucked out killing Magneto early, but it still ended up being a pain after IM one shot Storm with his blue. Any tips for 2* rosters in the future battles?

I used Thor/OBW/Storm and boosted purple/blue. Attack Magneto first and let Thor get hit with IM blue. He can take the damage. Thor's green will do a lot of damage to the entire team and that could be the difference maker. I'm not saying it will be a walk in the park, that team downed me during my first stab at it, but using the above mentioned characters actually worked for me.

Good luck

Leugenesmiff

locked wrote:

I will be playing every single refresh (pre-joined shard 4 as usual), but I will be hating it and myself, and will be looking back longingly to 8 hr refreshes.

Hope devs aren't looking at meaningless metrics to judge whether some change is good for the game or not, since even someone like me understands that an event with 3 hr refreshes for a brand-new character is going to be played very actively and will likely see much more pure playtime/event length than the previous event with 8 hr refreshes.

Do you mean besides when you're asleep or do you set an alarm and wake up in the middle of the night to play?

ZootSax

Koko81 wrote:

Mau-- wrote:

That Magneto node...The only person in 2* land that can handle it is probably Ms Marvel. Red+Yellow overwriting tiles, but even that's too slow.

I used Ares/Storm/OBW...completely lucked out killing Magneto early, but it still ended up being a pain after IM one shot Storm with his blue. Any tips for 2* rosters in the future battles?

I used Thor/OBW/Storm and boosted purple/blue. Attack Magneto first and let Thor get hit with IM blue. He can take the damage. Thor's green will do a lot of damage to the entire team and that could be the difference maker. I'm not saying it will be a walk in the park, that team downed me during my first stab at it, but using the above mentioned characters actually worked for me.

Good luck

Thanks, Koko. That node was giving me fits, but Thor/OBW/Storm did it for me, too. IM's blue could one-shot Thor at my levels, but I got lucky and he only used it once to down Storm. I brought some Ragnarok (for damage/green generation) & Moonstone (damage w/red tiles) teamups, which helped. Luck also helped a lot, too, so good luck to all

Unknown

Koko81 wrote:

Good luck to all forumites in the 4th slice/first bracket. I see you Phantron on top10 leaderboard!

I pretty much already screwed up because I thought I can do 3 clears really quick instead of joining late and hope I get into a good bracket, and I forgot there was the Magneto + Don node.

JVReal

So after Coercive Field every 3 turns like clockwork, and 2 Magnetized Projectiles in between, I finally down Magneto. Then I think I'm clearing up some of these protect tiles so I can do more than 1 pt damage to Iron Man, when he starts spamming his Armored Assault and pent up Red for Repulsor Blast... He finally killed all my guys because you can only last so long doing 1 pt damage no matter what kind of match you do.

3* Thor, 2* Ms Marvel, OBW. OBW never got enough purple to steal the AP, only blue to heal me and extend timers 1 time.
Ms Marvel got to use her Red twice, but could only clear 3 protect tiles when there are 15 on the board... stopped using that and just used 3* Thor's red for the sheer damage to push through the protect tiles, 3 less protect tiles aren't going to help when he dumps 9 more every 3 turns.

Going to try again with 3* Thor, Classic Storm, OBW or Daken or whoever. Only have 2 boosted characters this time. Thor is only at 85, with 5/0/1, he can go as high as 91, but I don't want to screw up my MMR for PVE by upping him too high. If I have all my 2* at 94, would it hurt me to level 3*Thor up to 91?

EDIT: Finally beat it with 3*Thor, Classic Storm and OBW... though Storm didn't last long enough to let out an attack. OBW was taken out by a Don Trap, Thor was the lone survivor with 4K health left. I'm content to skip it from now on if I don't need the points or if they are too low to be worth it. A node like that should have a higher point value so we feel more compelled to beat it for reasons other than pride.

Unknown

There's nothing really fancy you can do on the Magneto node. If your scaling is sufficiently high you'll usually lose to someone potentially on turn 3 to a Magnetic Translocation, but unlike say, Deadly Shot, he's not certain to use it so you can't just quit whenever he has 10 blue either, not to mention playing that means you have to win the game by turn 3-4 which probably isn't happening very often. If you're lucky you'll just take an Ultra Feron Beam at around turn 7-8 instead of 2 Magnetic Translocations. If you're super lucky you might have some Cook the Books instead of either blue ability being used.

Unknown

Phantron wrote:

Koko81 wrote:

Good luck to all forumites in the 4th slice/first bracket. I see you Phantron on top10 leaderboard!

I pretty much already screwed up because I thought I can do 3 clears really quick instead of joining late and hope I get into a good bracket, and I forgot there was the Magneto + Don node.

That node will be the death of me! But why are people doing clears before the 3hr refresh? Is there something new that I don't know about? I started exactly at 12pm eastern time (start of event) did my full clear and I'm ranked 98th.... The nodes will refresh in 35 mins for me... but people already have almost triple my point total...

Unknown

Koko81 wrote:

That node will be the death of me! But why are people doing clears before the 3hr refresh? Is there something new that I don't know about? I started exactly at 12pm eastern time (start of event) did my full clear and I'm ranked 98th.... The nodes will refresh in 35 mins for me... but people already have almost triple my point total...

Maybe because they can't play during other time?

Unknown

Phantron wrote:

Koko81 wrote:

That node will be the death of me! But why are people doing clears before the 3hr refresh? Is there something new that I don't know about? I started exactly at 12pm eastern time (start of event) did my full clear and I'm ranked 98th.... The nodes will refresh in 35 mins for me... but people already have almost triple my point total...

Maybe because they can't play during other time?

That was my first hunch but ive never seen so many people double/triple clear their nodes! This event is gonna be one helluva race

lukewin

Koko81 wrote:

Phantron wrote:

Koko81 wrote:

That node will be the death of me! But why are people doing clears before the 3hr refresh? Is there something new that I don't know about? I started exactly at 12pm eastern time (start of event) did my full clear and I'm ranked 98th.... The nodes will refresh in 35 mins for me... but people already have almost triple my point total...

Maybe because they can't play during other time?

That was my first hunch but ive never seen so many people double/triple clear their nodes! This event is gonna be one helluva race

Won't be too much of a race after you hit the 3rd clear at full refresh. If you miss any refreshes though, their 2x/3x clears will pay off for them.

scottee

They just announced that 8hr will be permanent starting with the next event. Everyone seriously needs patience and to chill out.

Unknown

Is there something going on with point scaling? I'm on a fresh bracket in slice 1 and top points should all be 1960, but there are 2 people with 1965, one with 1959, two others with 1958. Not that it makes any difference, just wondering why it's happening.