The Hunt: March 10 - 16

Vankysher

Griv74 wrote:

I was able to do full clear twice with Magneto/Storm/Ms.Marvel. The nodes that look a bit hard I add some boosts to start the fight with 2 blue/purple/green/black AP.
In the two clears I used 4 health packs though...

Next refresh I'll probably skip 1 or 2 nodes... lvls of the opponents are getting a bit too high for a 2* roster

I used the same team on one of the nodes that was lvl 127/128 and went in with no boosts.
The starting board was ridiculously in my favor and I cleared it easily barely taking any damage.
I look at the node again and it jumped up levels to ~140.
Needless to say I feel your pain but I decided to abandon the characters that are boosted and find a non-boosted team close to the node level.
Been absolutely brutal as I keep running out of health packs before clearing an entire sub but I can report that all the nodes I've been doing this with have not increased in levels at all.
It does appear that the essential nodes aren't scaling since my GSBW is boosted to 130 (having put zero iso into her) and using the other boosted toons to clear them has had no noticeable effect.
All this to say that during the final clear, I'll abuse Stormneto enough to have those levels start increasing but it won't matter since the new subs will start at my base level again.

ynglink

Events like this make me miss Goon nodes so much. At least they can give you breaks on getting attacked even if they scale crazy high.

Unknown

This is about to get worse with the Rags buff. I get that there's always something going on, but buffing a character in the middle of a 4* character launch when they're prominently featured on enemy nodes is very different than buffing them in the middle of a PVE offering GSBW for the 37th time.

Vankysher

Ben Grimm wrote:

This is about to get worse with the Rags buff. I get that there's always something going on, but buffing a character in the middle of a 4* character launch when they're prominently featured on enemy nodes is very different than buffing them in the middle of a PVE offering GSBW for the 37th time.

You mean like they did with Dr. Doom?
Shocking

Unknown

I may be in what sounds like the minority (people willing to put up with this event to earn atleast one cover). I am in a Top 50 PvE alliance, so there's some extra incentive to place well for at least two covers.

My concern is with how high maintenance The Hunt is, I barely have time for Dead Pool Dailies and the featured PvP. I would hate to have a chance at top 10 or even top 50 in The Hunt, but be forced to neglect other parts of MPQ due to how the event eat up heath packs...and time!

Unknown

Okay, finished grinding down the end of the Alaska sub. Time to go take a much deserved break...oh hell, Savage Lands just opened. Okay, got my first clear done there. Time to go take a much deserved bre--...well **** me running, it's time to go do a clear on Florida. Damn these nodes are a pain in the ****. Okay, got that done. Time to go die now. See you in hell, MPQ.

lukewin

EDIT

nevermind, it was always 36 hrs, i just remember that it was by itself for the last 24 hrs, so i thought it was 24 hrs, wishful thinking

The Savage Land is 36 hrs this time. Previous times, I believe it was 24 hrs only.

Unknown

This event isn't fun at all. My team is getting destroyed in almost every node despite having a higher level roster against the opposition. How are we supposed to manage multiple sub sections running concurrently

Unknown

Ben Grimm wrote:

This is about to get worse with the Rags buff. I get that there's always something going on, but buffing a character in the middle of a 4* character launch when they're prominently featured on enemy nodes is very different than buffing them in the middle of a PVE offering GSBW for the 37th time.

Aside from the nodes where Rags is getting fed green... I think he's a whole lot easier to fight now. On his own he's rarely getting to 14 green to hit the whole team. Red is...not very good. And blue? Sure, temp heal yourself all you like. Ooh, a couple nice charged tiles for me to match? Sweet, thanks.

Marty17

The same. Not sure whether that it's repetitive or the fact that some missions are WAY overly scaled that's it's nearing impossible to beat unless you equip boosts (which I want to avoid in doing), never mind beating it again in 8hrs time. I'm nearing my last 2 progression reward & see where I'm going from there. Saying I'm not enjoying this event is an understatement, as when I get up the next day, I actually dread to part take in it, the only solace is the in return & DDQ keeping me satisfied & enjoyed.

Nylarx

Now that one of the enablers for Match 5s is scheduled to be nerfed, interest in Prof X should drop, so now we don't have to play like madmen...right?

One can only hope.

Unknown

I now play just for top 50, mostly for alliance...
Prof X was good only for winfinity, so enjoy your 4* Falcon if you want to waste your resources to make him usable (I would like to say playable, but not sure about this anymore).
There is no point for 4* if they are not better than 3*.

Unknown

j12601 wrote:

Ben Grimm wrote:

This is about to get worse with the Rags buff. I get that there's always something going on, but buffing a character in the middle of a 4* character launch when they're prominently featured on enemy nodes is very different than buffing them in the middle of a PVE offering GSBW for the 37th time.

Aside from the nodes where Rags is getting fed green... I think he's a whole lot easier to fight now. On his own he's rarely getting to 14 green to hit the whole team. Red is...not very good. And blue? Sure, temp heal yourself all you like. Ooh, a couple nice charged tiles for me to match? Sweet, thanks.

Yeah, I think I've changed my mind now that I've fought him a few time. He's actually easier to fight now. No more of the infinite loops that seemed to happen before.

Unknown

Ben Grimm wrote:

j12601 wrote:

Ben Grimm wrote:

This is about to get worse with the Rags buff. I get that there's always something going on, but buffing a character in the middle of a 4* character launch when they're prominently featured on enemy nodes is very different than buffing them in the middle of a PVE offering GSBW for the 37th time.

Aside from the nodes where Rags is getting fed green... I think he's a whole lot easier to fight now. On his own he's rarely getting to 14 green to hit the whole team. Red is...not very good. And blue? Sure, temp heal yourself all you like. Ooh, a couple nice charged tiles for me to match? Sweet, thanks.

Yeah, I think I've changed my mind now that I've fought him a few time. He's actually easier to fight now. No more of the infinite loops that seemed to happen before.

Indeed. Also, in fights with both Rags and Daken the AI tends to save up blue AP for lightning rod instead of chemical reaction, which is really good when they are in the level 200s

squirrel1120

Thugpatrol wrote:

Okay, finished grinding down the end of the Alaska sub. Time to go take a much deserved break...oh hell, Savage Lands just opened. Okay, got my first clear done there. Time to go take a much deserved bre--...well tinykitty me running, it's time to go do a clear on Florida. Damn these nodes are a pain in the ****. Okay, got that done. Time to go die now. See you in hell, MPQ.

Missed that humor around here.

I have had the worst rng in the savage land essentials. I was down to 0 health packs for the first time since... idk, before xmas? Talking strictly pve of course... Daken hitting for 3.5k on 5 blue AP doesn't help anything, and I thought things would be easier once I noticed the AI seemed to be saving for Rag's blue... but there is no easier when they keep dropping the most dangerous colors in from the top for free with no way to prevent it. So annoying.

Other than those obnoxious cascades, Patch (166)/ GSBW (100) and tiny thor (94) have been a pretty fun team to play. Patch tanks the majority of colors, gsbw grabs purple when its 'safe', and both yellow and purple lead into green for that nice big bang. I only grabbed my 5th GSBW green when it came up in DPD, and this is the first event where she's come out to play. I may take her along on purpose in the future now, especially since she'll be the proper 5/3/5 after the pvp alliance reward rolls in.

The biggest negative through this event is the people that have quit, or mostly stopped playing because they think they want to, due to the character nerfbat swinging wildly. I hope our alliances that usually fall in the T10-T50 range will be able to stay in that T50 range... but its tough when your vets start leaving because they just dropped cash to get into the endgame to have the game changed only a few weeks later.

JamieMadrox

Shout out to EpicBeastmode who is consistently 580 points ahead of me. Grind on you tinykitty. I guess doing a clear two hours too late hurt me more than I thought it would. My only hope now is that you suffer some unfortunate game disaster that makes you miss a clear.

Unknown

Jamie Madrox wrote:

Shout out to EpicBeastmode who is consistently 580 points ahead of me. Grind on you tinykitty. I guess doing a clear two hours too late hurt me more than I thought it would. My only hope now is that you suffer some unfortunate game disaster that makes you miss a clear.

Ha I was thinking the same about you!!! My Saturday is shot got some bday parties to go to so my clears will be garbage so I will end up bowing out in the end and I will limp to the finish so don't worry about it, im sure first will be locked up by you pretty soon.

JamieMadrox

EpicBeastmode wrote:

Jamie Madrox wrote:

Shout out to EpicBeastmode who is consistently 580 points ahead of me. Grind on you tinykitty. I guess doing a clear two hours too late hurt me more than I thought it would. My only hope now is that you suffer some unfortunate game disaster that makes you miss a clear.

Ha I was thinking the same about you!!! My Saturday is shot got some bday parties to go to so my clears will be garbage so I will end up bowing out in the end and I will limp to the finish so don't worry about it, im sure first will be locked up by you pretty soon.

Now that's funny because I have a refresh of Savage Land at 1am which I'll hit, but I'll be two hours late on my clear of Alaska (7am instead of 5am), I'll hit my Savage clear at 9am, and I've got running to do in the last two hours of the Savage sub so I'll not get nearly as much done on it as I'll want and my first clear of Florida will be delayed by at least 30 minutes. It may even out in the end and we'll be right back where we are now. Neck and neck.

slidecage

rocks back and forth. only 3 more days only 3 more days.

i can see why the PVE is dying. i mean you have to check in every 3 to 4 hours play for an hour. even if you did that every 6 hours that is 4 hours per day 5 day event

= 20 hours min of play time. what do i earn 1 4 star cover if im lucky 100 Hp and some crystals


take that time and push it into a PVP and your going to get anywhere from 6 to 18 covers 600+ hp and a ton my crystal.

I jumped on the 4pm est time today and played around 2 hours ended up in 8th got 2 covers and 100 HP and 2000 tokens. for 2 hours of work its more then i will get out of playing this for 5 days LOL

dkffiv

j12601 wrote:

Ben Grimm wrote:

This is about to get worse with the Rags buff. I get that there's always something going on, but buffing a character in the middle of a 4* character launch when they're prominently featured on enemy nodes is very different than buffing them in the middle of a PVE offering GSBW for the 37th time.

Aside from the nodes where Rags is getting fed green... I think he's a whole lot easier to fight now. On his own he's rarely getting to 14 green to hit the whole team. Red is...not very good. And blue? Sure, temp heal yourself all you like. Ooh, a couple nice charged tiles for me to match? Sweet, thanks.

Overall I think we're taking a lot less damage than we used to and his double green feeder node is much less frustrating than the GSBW or Ares/Jugg green feeder nodes. I'd rather know a mediocre AoE is coming than the inevitable **** of a red into green cascade followed by several 4 and 5 matches in a row. Its infuriating when the computer gets loludon'tgetaturn combos (looking at you Venom with purple feeders) and you just stare at the screen for 30 seconds as the AI does 10k+ damage.