What would you have liked to know as a new player?

GothicKratos
GothicKratos Posts: 1,821 Chairperson of the Boards
edited February 2015 in MPQ General Discussion
Most of us are hardly "new", so I ask, thinking back to your beginning days, what pieces of information or jargon or terms or mechanic do you think you would have benefited from knowing sooner? I'm trying to create a list. I'm not really looking for slang names for characters (i.e. "Lazy", "4hor", etc) or acronyms.


Tanking, Grinding, MMR, Refresh Timers, Time Slices, Brackets. <=== Came to mind while I was writing this.
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  • jojeda654
    jojeda654 Posts: 1,162 Chairperson of the Boards
    30 AP cap.
    13 cover limit.
    Tile strength is determined by level. Upgrading a skill does not increase the damage done by matching that color's tiles.
  • Arondite
    Arondite Posts: 1,188 Chairperson of the Boards
    Buy roster slots, not packs.
    Take advantage of baby-brackets while you're new.
  • lukewin
    lukewin Posts: 1,356 Chairperson of the Boards
    Check Rookie Mistakes thread, link in my Sig, but health packs regen off top of my head
  • GrumpySmurf1002
    GrumpySmurf1002 Posts: 3,511 Chairperson of the Boards
    Don't level Yelena.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    how to learn more HP....than crazy PVE or impossible win PVP
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Tanking
    CENTER LEFT RIGHT character vs Icon coverage on the game board
    Refreshing in PvE to know the best times to grind.
  • PuceMoose
    PuceMoose Posts: 1,445 Chairperson of the Boards
    The only tokens worth buying started with an A, ended with a y, and had nniversar in the middle. Save your HP for roster slots and the infrequent shield. KEEP ** THOR AND WOLVIE - they will be mainstays in your PvE roster for a long time, as they are often buffed. Once you have oBW, Ares, Thor, Classic Storm, 2-star Wolvie at decent levels you can probably safely sell the rest of your 2-star roster (argument acknowledged for 2-star Magneto). Keep at least one 1-star - there's a pvp that requires a 1/2/3 star combo, so you don't want to be left out of the loop. The general consensus is Juggernaut, though you can likely induce some serious curses with one-star black widow as well, and Storm can still cause headaches.

    If at all fiscally possible, *never* sell a 4*star cover. X-force used to be a total embarrassment. We're talking cry-in-a-corner bad if you drew one of his covers. Now, he's the king of the realm, with his queen, TGT (though I think he's secretly scared of her, and who wouldn't be, for God's sakes? Good Lord, have you seen blue into red at level 270? It's enough to make a grown man weep) With that in mind , Invisible Woman is HORRIBLE! She's bad! I have a vague, fleeting hope that she'll get the X-Force treatment and transmogrify from worthless junk into brain-melting awesome in a future patch. Though it is entirely selfish I hope this happens, as I have an unusable X-Force at 3/1/2, but a potential monstrous IW at 5/2/5 - and I have the ISO to level her if they turn her into a rage demon instead of an invisible stain. I can't deny I'd enjoy turning X-forces into foul-smelling hairy stains with a 200+ IW if they change her into a dimension-shifting power player.
  • Pinko_McFly
    Pinko_McFly Posts: 282 Mover and Shaker
    That there is a skip button in pvp. I did not see that for months. Nor did I know that he alth packs regenerated. Spent months not playing pvp cuz of this.
    Day 190 something and I just learned u could buy boosts pretty cheap.

    I'd say those are good things to know
  • IamTheDanger
    IamTheDanger Posts: 1,093 Chairperson of the Boards
    For me, I would really liked to have known about the forum here before I started. Also would have liked to have known about rubberbanding.
  • GothicKratos
    GothicKratos Posts: 1,821 Chairperson of the Boards
    Thanks for all the input so far, guys. icon_e_biggrin.gif
  • Nellobee
    Nellobee Posts: 457 Mover and Shaker
    I wish someone had told me that they were going to assume a serious player was in a top 100 alliance.
  • smecher
    smecher Posts: 14 Just Dropped In
    I agree with many of the things already posted (specially the regenerating health packs), but I would like to add:

    In PvP, you don't actually play against live players. It took forever for me to dare entering these games because I was feeling that it took me too much time to think before each move, and I was afraid I would piss off veterans waiting on the other side icon_redface.gif
  • Moon Roach
    Moon Roach Posts: 2,863 Chairperson of the Boards
    I'll quote myself a little from the Q&A thread:
    I wrote:
    We've had a few guys join the alliance who have obviously just started based on the roster, and they've played for 2 days, then disappeared for 10 and I've kicked them. Obviously I have no feedback as to why they stopped playing, but I remember from my early days that there was very little around to help me figure out what to do to progress. Heck, I even thought PvP was real interaction with real people in real time, and being a shy squirrel who didn't want to be embarrassed by an 8-year-old who likes destroying noobs I avoided it for ages until I eventually found the forums and learned better. And seed teams? No idea.

    So, I'd have liked to know about the forum, and what seed teams were and how they worked.

    Perhaps "the AI will always match 4", and "the AI will never make a T- or L-shaped match-5".

    And "buying ISO is a bad idea". I've never done it, but it's certainly something new players should be made aware of. Though I can't see that particular nugget becoming part of the official help.

    Oh yes, there's help available from the options. Which is that strange button with gears on it.

    (Note, the help on Android is a little hit-and-miss (apparently PvP is asynchronous), the help on Steam is an email you fill in to ask for help. What's that about?)

    :edit: That a 1 cover 3* is rubbish compared to a fully covered and levelled 1*. The number of alliance members who have kicked decent 1* and even 2* because they got a 3* and didn't have roster space... Of course then they could hardly win a match, got disillusioned and frustrated, stopped playing...
  • DrNitroman
    DrNitroman Posts: 966 Critical Contributor
    smecher wrote:
    In PvP, you don't actually play against live players. It took forever for me to dare entering these games because I was feeling that it took me too much time to think before each move, and I was afraid I would piss off veterans waiting on the other side icon_redface.gif
    I had exactly the same reaction!
    And when I finally dare to try and saw the fights were against AI... I didn't understand how I was supposed to compete. I mean there was no shield, and the retaliations brought me back at my starting point after each of my attempts.

    Overall, the complete absence of comprehensive presentation in game of the game's rules led me to this forum. Here I was amazed by the sum of 'hidden' rules in this game!
    icon_arrow.gif Special thanks to Eddiemon and NorthernPolarity for their guides icon_e_smile.gif
  • lokiagentofhotness
    lokiagentofhotness Posts: 192 Tile Toppler
    i know this is common knowledge that everyone mentions, but for realz hoard your iso. i would be all I NEED TO LEVEL THIS 2* and my alliance mates were all "naw dude you gonna need the iso for the 3*" and they were right. never level more 2*s than you need, honestly.
  • GothicKratos
    GothicKratos Posts: 1,821 Chairperson of the Boards
    It's not really for anything official, so no worries there. icon_e_smile.gif Just gathering input for a bit of writing.
  • Infrared
    Infrared Posts: 240 Tile Toppler
    Skip nodes in PvP that are worth low points because it will be a net loss when they retaliate.
  • thanos8587
    thanos8587 Posts: 653
    seed teams and lightning rounds. what they were and how much you could gain (iso and 2* covers) fast just by getting 50-100 points off seed teams.

    i was two to three weeks in the game just playing story mode before i moved to versus. oh and never buy iso (im so ashamed). fortunately ive never bought tokens with hp.

    oh and when youre getting started dont buy standard tokens for 500 iso even though you think you have way to much iso.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    To find myself a good alliance earlier on. I spent pre-season time and the first two season pretty much carrying weak alliances single-handedly until I got fed up and joined Retribution for Season 3.

    When I started, not to spend HP on covers, rather save them for roster slots.

    Rather buy one specific cover if it's important than buy packs hoping to get it (though back then the odds were way better, that was in those glorious days of the guaranteed cover).

    Tanking, back when it still worked.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever buy tokens. Of any kind.

    Horde your ISO. Just because you have a lot now doesn't mean you won't wish you hadn't leveled Beast just because he was your most covered 3 star. You'll need all the ISO you can get once you get covers for characters that actually matter.

    EDIT:

    Also, I never knew the red tiles were from people attacking me. It always mystified me what these red tiles were that didn't cost a skip tax to skip. Then one day, after months of playing, I noticed the pop up and the retal tile had the same name on them.

    Not until then did it click.

    And not until then did I realize that attacking people worth less than 25 points meant that I would be a fat juicy target for them in retal.

    And I know a lot of people don't know this because I've gotten in many fights where I'll attack someone for 35, they'll retaliate for 15. Then I'll attack for 35 again. Then they'll retaliate for 20. Then I'll attack again for 30.

    They never realized that my attacks were not a coincidence and that they were actually causing themselves to lose points by retaliating every single time.

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