Thick as Thieves (1 Apr - 8 Apr 2015)

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  • Clyve
    Clyve Posts: 91
    Anyone else having an odd amount of trouble with Scotland Yard IX (the essential with Ares, Juggs, and Moonstone)? The few times that I've run it now, I've lost a character or two. Not used to that for essentials. I guess it might have to do with a one-covered Kamala, but maybe I should switch off of Stormneto. Storm's stun is nice though to delay/prevent a headbutt...

    Thoughts?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Clyve wrote:
    Anyone else having an odd amount of trouble with Scotland Yard IX (the essential with Ares, Juggs, and Moonstone)? The few times that I've run it now, I've lost a character or two. Not used to that for essentials. I guess it might have to do with a one-covered Kamala, but maybe I should switch off of Stormneto. Storm's stun is nice though to delay/prevent a headbutt...

    Thoughts?

    That's because your opponent is Juggernaut and Ares, 2 of the strongest characters in the game at levels the AI gets them.
  • Unknown
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    Took almost 4k damage from a sunder with ares having 80 health left.

    Ares = aids.
  • optimus2861
    optimus2861 Posts: 1,233 Chairperson of the Boards
    Clyve wrote:
    Anyone else having an odd amount of trouble with Scotland Yard IX (the essential with Ares, Juggs, and Moonstone)? The few times that I've run it now, I've lost a character or two. Not used to that for essentials. I guess it might have to do with a one-covered Kamala, but maybe I should switch off of Stormneto. Storm's stun is nice though to delay/prevent a headbutt...

    Thoughts?
    Against both Ares & Juggs, you're just going to eat at least one health pack when you're done. There's not much way around it. You either eat an Onslaught or two, or a Headbutt or two. Or Juggs decides to smash the board up a couple of times and you eat a nasty cascade. Leading to an Onslaught or a Headbutt. Rinse & repeat.
  • SnagglePuss
    SnagglePuss Posts: 702 Critical Contributor
    optimus2861 wrote:
    Against both Ares & Juggs, you're just going to eat at least one health pack when you're done. There's not much way around it. You either eat an Onslaught or two, or a Headbutt or two.

    The first move double 5 line match cascade, leading to sunder then onslaught by move 2 was a big hit on the health packs.
  • optimus2861
    optimus2861 Posts: 1,233 Chairperson of the Boards
    I just ran that node again and wiped hard with Cap, Magneto, and Kamala. Wasn't even close.

    Then I used OBW, 2* Thor, and Kamala, and won it. OBW's blue was essential after Thor ate the first Headbutt, and the extra boosts of health from Kamala's yellow helped big-time. Thor's health bar was about 3/4 green by the end.
  • Malcrof
    Malcrof Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    optimus2861 wrote:
    Clyve wrote:
    Anyone else having an odd amount of trouble with Scotland Yard IX (the essential with Ares, Juggs, and Moonstone)? The few times that I've run it now, I've lost a character or two. Not used to that for essentials. I guess it might have to do with a one-covered Kamala, but maybe I should switch off of Stormneto. Storm's stun is nice though to delay/prevent a headbutt...

    Thoughts?
    Against both Ares & Juggs, you're just going to eat at least one health pack when you're done. There's not much way around it. You either eat an Onslaught or two, or a Headbutt or two. Or Juggs decides to smash the board up a couple of times and you eat a nasty cascade. Leading to an Onslaught or a Headbutt. Rinse & repeat.


    make it too easy, people complain, make it too hard, people complain...

    As long as you can get some purples and take out stone first, Doom owns this board. Jugs and ares could care less about them, allowing trap damage to get monstrous.. already have my 4 rewards from this board, 153 3Thor, 130 Doom (5/1/4), and Khan, who scales to 156 (2/2/1)
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    Malcrof wrote:
    make it too easy, people complain, make it too hard, people complain...
    I think you mean, "make it too easy, Phantron complains, make it too hard, everyone else complains"
  • Quebbster
    Quebbster Posts: 8,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    I found that Kamala, X-force and Steve Rogers make an excellent team for essential nodes, even against high leveled Juggs/Ares. Kamala basically feeds X-force green AP...
  • Punisher5784
    Punisher5784 Posts: 3,845 Chairperson of the Boards
    With my current score of 30k with more than half progression remaining to reach KK, I decided to look back at the last time Thick of Thieves was ran.

    It was back in January, which I believe was before they switched to 8hr refreshs. The final progression reward was for 3* Thor at 60,000 (see below). I remember I barely reached it! I thought they lowered the progression to accommodate the 8hr refresh but maybe they overlooked this?

    400. Standard Token
    700. 100 iso8.png
    1000. +20% Damage All redtile.pngyellowtile.pnggreentile.pngblacktile.pngbluetile.pngpurpletile.png
    1500. 250 iso8.png
    2000. healthpack.png
    3000. 2* icon_captainamerica.pngyellowflag.png
    5000. +1 All AP yellowtile.pngredtile.pngpurpletile.pnggreentile.pngbluetile.pngblacktile.png
    10000. 250 iso8.png
    15000. 2* icon_hawkeye.pngpurpleflag.png
    25000. Recruit Token
    30000. 250 iso8.png
    35000. 2* icon_storm.pngyellowflag.png
    40000. 1000 iso8.png
    45000. 50 imcoin.png
    50000. 500 iso8.png
    60000. icon_thor.pngyellowflag.png
  • Scoregasms
    Scoregasms Posts: 373
    Lol, this is basically what we've been talking about since Page 2 of this thread. Though, sad to see no Reds coming in to clarify now that they are back in the office.
  • Philly79
    Philly79 Posts: 422 Mover and Shaker
    Clyve wrote:
    Anyone else having an odd amount of trouble with Scotland Yard IX (the essential with Ares, Juggs, and Moonstone)? The few times that I've run it now, I've lost a character or two. Not used to that for essentials. I guess it might have to do with a one-covered Kamala, but maybe I should switch off of Stormneto. Storm's stun is nice though to delay/prevent a headbutt...

    Thoughts?

    I have been using 108 xforce, 94 obw, & kk buffed to 145 with 2y/1p/1g. also using g/b & p/b ap boost. make any purple matches and zap their ap before they get a chance to fire anything off. Focus on Jugg first, then ares, then finish moonstone. xforce b & g hits take about 3k per hit so not too bad.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Scoregasms wrote:
    Lol, this is basically what we've been talking about since Page 2 of this thread. Though, sad to see no Reds coming in to clarify now that they are back in the office.

    They're too busy implementing next week's 4* character and ignoring the clusterf*** that is PVP right now
  • Various38
    Various38 Posts: 101
    The top progression is really going to be hard if I don't get the Kamala from the token. I know Kingpin is completely out of my range at this point, so it's not even worth trying anymore. This is all with semi-optimal play. I've never missed the progression since I started on PVE, but I'm crossing my fingers on this one. I have 2 days and 5 hours left with only 19808.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Various38 wrote:
    The top progression is really going to be hard if I don't get the Kamala from the token. I know Kingpin is completely out of my range at this point, so it's not even worth trying anymore. This is all with semi-optimal play. I've never missed the progression since I started on PVE, but I'm crossing my fingers on this one. I have 2 days and 5 hours left with only 19808.

    Looking at top scorer in my bracket, they're 10.5k away from progression, too. It's not just you, bud.

    An event where players have to play 6/7 days for progression? Yeesh.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    If you have 50K at the end of Scotland Yard that should be a fairly comfortable pace to hit 65K. Looking at my bracket the top 10 will hit that easy and I can't see any further below. I'm guessing most people aren't going to do significantly better than 15K in the last day of Scotland Yard (that'd be close to 4 total cycles) so you can that as a very rough estimate.
  • atomzed
    atomzed Posts: 1,753 Chairperson of the Boards
    simonsez wrote:
    Malcrof wrote:
    make it too easy, people complain, make it too hard, people complain...
    I think you mean, "make it too easy, Phantron complains, make it too hard, everyone else complains"

    I think it is, "make it too easy, everyone complains about how difficult it is to get top placement ; make it too hard, the new players complains".
  • dkffiv
    dkffiv Posts: 1,039 Chairperson of the Boards
    I'm at 55k and should probably hit it by the end of third sub. Final sub is only 24 hours so if points aren't massive I could see it being fairly difficult to hit.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    dkffiv wrote:
    I'm at 55k and should probably hit it by the end of third sub. Final sub is only 24 hours so if points aren't massive I could see it being fairly difficult to hit.

    I hope the points are massive. I'm at 40k(haven't been playing optimally, but c'est la vie) and need 20.5k in the next 24 hours. Looking at bracket leaders/overall leaders, I haven't slacked too much - its just the points for grab are just low.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I thought I remember there being nodes that were 2k individually last time, though that may have been with rubber banding.

    I'm currently at ~58k - I ground 6 nodes down tonight because I won't have time to tomorrow morning - and feeling pretty confident about hitting 65k. Less confident about getting top ten, but I think top 50 is close to a lock at this point.

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