shade_tree wrote: Managing your roster and your health is part of the game, both PVE and PVP. We already have several major match advantages - we get to add boosts, choose TUs that always make sense, and we're playing against a really stupid AI: take away the health management aspect and where's the challenge?
RWTDBurn wrote: I would think the new MMR system is going to absolutely rip up the 2* - 3* transitional players such as yourself that have 1 or 2 maxed 3*s. Before you had some 2* - 3* mixed teams that you could make some ground on, now you are getting thrown in with all the maxed 3* teams that are licking their chops when they see your team. I think your group has it the worst. You finally work yourself out of being the smallest fish in a big lake and get to do some feeding on small fish yourself only to get moved into a smaller tank where you are once again the smallest fish. So congrats on all your time and hard work paying off! If this MMR is here to stay (I keep telling myself it's all a nightmare and it will go away soon), you might want to at least try and level Lazy Daken, Patch, or Blade. The 2 3* characters you have maxed are among the slowest healers in the game. Daken, Patch, and Blade all heal extremely fast and/or have true healing so you can stay in the battle longer and get back into it sooner.
raisinbman wrote: RWTDBurn wrote: I would think the new MMR system is going to absolutely rip up the 2* - 3* transitional players such as yourself that have 1 or 2 maxed 3*s. Before you had some 2* - 3* mixed teams that you could make some ground on, now you are getting thrown in with all the maxed 3* teams that are licking their chops when they see your team. I think your group has it the worst. You finally work yourself out of being the smallest fish in a big lake and get to do some feeding on small fish yourself only to get moved into a smaller tank where you are once again the smallest fish. So congrats on all your time and hard work paying off! If this MMR is here to stay (I keep telling myself it's all a nightmare and it will go away soon), you might want to at least try and level Lazy Daken, Patch, or Blade. The 2 3* characters you have maxed are among the slowest healers in the game. Daken, Patch, and Blade all heal extremely fast and/or have true healing so you can stay in the battle longer and get back into it sooner. luke cage/groot/kamala/patch/daken/blade will all go very far in terms of sustainability(hope I didn't miss any)
RWTDBurn wrote: If this MMR is here to stay (I keep telling myself it's all a nightmare and it will go away soon), you might want to at least try and level Lazy Daken, Patch, or Blade. The 2 3* characters you have maxed are among the slowest healers in the game. Daken, Patch, and Blade all heal extremely fast and/or have true healing so you can stay in the battle longer and get back into it sooner.
grunth13 wrote: raisinbman wrote: RWTDBurn wrote: I would think the new MMR system is going to absolutely rip up the 2* - 3* transitional players such as yourself that have 1 or 2 maxed 3*s. Before you had some 2* - 3* mixed teams that you could make some ground on, now you are getting thrown in with all the maxed 3* teams that are licking their chops when they see your team. I think your group has it the worst. You finally work yourself out of being the smallest fish in a big lake and get to do some feeding on small fish yourself only to get moved into a smaller tank where you are once again the smallest fish. So congrats on all your time and hard work paying off! If this MMR is here to stay (I keep telling myself it's all a nightmare and it will go away soon), you might want to at least try and level Lazy Daken, Patch, or Blade. The 2 3* characters you have maxed are among the slowest healers in the game. Daken, Patch, and Blade all heal extremely fast and/or have true healing so you can stay in the battle longer and get back into it sooner. luke cage/groot/kamala/patch/daken/blade will all go very far in terms of sustainability(hope I didn't miss any) I don't understand why ppl think Kamala is a great player/character. She is not a true healer and by the time you get enough ap to start throwing abilities, the AI may have gotten a few good hits on you with cascades and its own abilities which will make her hurt quick. Blade makes the game faster for us, but only if the board is full of red, otherwise he is no better than BP or hulk etc because he will take some significant damage also.
CybrGamr wrote: RWTDBurn wrote: If this MMR is here to stay (I keep telling myself it's all a nightmare and it will go away soon), you might want to at least try and level Lazy Daken, Patch, or Blade. The 2 3* characters you have maxed are among the slowest healers in the game. Daken, Patch, and Blade all heal extremely fast and/or have true healing so you can stay in the battle longer and get back into it sooner. I have done some work on LDaken and Patch because they do truly heal (sold a 130 Sentry and 94 Wolvie for ISO to help level them). Here is what I have next: 5/3/5 Doom at 120 5/4/0 CMags at 115 (475 straight days and still can't get the third cover - before they changed him I used him with CStorm - awesome blue generation into Wind Storm ) 3/5/4 Spidey at 110 5/1/5 Patch at 110 3/2/3 Daken at 100 3/5/4 LazyCap at 100 5/5/3 Hood at 100 5/3/1 Hulk at 95 5/3/5 Torch at 70 many choices but still missing a couple of covers - ISO not exactly easy to come by but working very slowly with the DPD every day...
RWTDBurn wrote: Do you have any 3*s maxed and if so, which ones? If you don't have any maxed out yet, then I would recommend you focus on LazyCap as you are 1 cover away from being able to max him (with the best build for him as well) and he does a solid amount of damage once he gets rolling. He's a very good 3* to start off with. Even after you get a bunch of 3*s maxed L Cap can still be very usefull in PvE so he will be around for the long haul. Doom would be my second priority after that followed by Patch (hopefully you could pick up another cover or two by then) and then Hood to support them. If you have a few of the top tier 3* maxed such as Thor, then I'd make Hood my first priority.
CybrGamr wrote: shade_tree wrote: Managing your roster and your health is part of the game, both PVE and PVP. We already have several major match advantages - we get to add boosts, choose TUs that always make sense, and we're playing against a really stupid AI: take away the health management aspect and where's the challenge? This WAS true many months ago - true healing removed a large part of that strategy - now the CPU hits so many cascades that you can play the safest match denying all the main colors the CPU needs and still get hammered on the first cascade that gives him all the colors he needs to hit you with three abilities on the next turn. It is damn near impossible to get out of a match now with no damage, especially when facing equal level opponents. If you have more than a half dozen 166's, you then do have some flexibility in roster management - I have 166 LThor, BP, GSBW and Pun - four matches into PVP, they are all hurting and need health packs. I wish the game still existed the way you described it...
shade_tree wrote: CybrGamr wrote: shade_tree wrote: Managing your roster and your health is part of the game, both PVE and PVP. We already have several major match advantages - we get to add boosts, choose TUs that always make sense, and we're playing against a really stupid AI: take away the health management aspect and where's the challenge? This WAS true many months ago - true healing removed a large part of that strategy - now the CPU hits so many cascades that you can play the safest match denying all the main colors the CPU needs and still get hammered on the first cascade that gives him all the colors he needs to hit you with three abilities on the next turn. It is damn near impossible to get out of a match now with no damage, especially when facing equal level opponents. If you have more than a half dozen 166's, you then do have some flexibility in roster management - I have 166 LThor, BP, GSBW and Pun - four matches into PVP, they are all hurting and need health packs. I wish the game still existed the way you described it... I guess my experience is different from yours - I find the AI laughably predictable and easy to beat and look for ways to make matches more challenging; did the DDQ final node this morning with Bagman/MBW/She-Hulk just for kicks. If they were to dumb it down even more by taking away the one advantage that the AI has, starting each match at full strength, then it would just be Superhero Candy Crush.
raisinbman wrote: Uh.....Yeah. I'm gonna say you're an anomaly. Most players don't have this experience.
CybrGamr wrote: RWTDBurn wrote: Do you have any 3*s maxed and if so, which ones? If you don't have any maxed out yet, then I would recommend you focus on LazyCap as you are 1 cover away from being able to max him (with the best build for him as well) and he does a solid amount of damage once he gets rolling. He's a very good 3* to start off with. Even after you get a bunch of 3*s maxed L Cap can still be very usefull in PvE so he will be around for the long haul. Doom would be my second priority after that followed by Patch (hopefully you could pick up another cover or two by then) and then Hood to support them. If you have a few of the top tier 3* maxed such as Thor, then I'd make Hood my first priority. Updated list: 3/5/5 LThor at 166 5/3/5 BP at 166 5/3/5 GSBW at 166 5/3/5 Pun at 166 5/3/5 Doom at 120 5/4/0 CMags at 115 (475 straight days and still can't get the third cover - before they changed him I used him with CStorm - awesome blue generation into Wind Storm ) 3/5/4 Spidey at 110 5/1/5 Patch at 110 3/2/3 Daken at 100 3/5/4 LazyCap at 100 5/5/3 Hood at 100 5/3/1 Hulk at 95 5/3/5 Torch at 70