The Simulator (April 19-24)

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tuscan panty raider wrote:

raisinbman wrote:

tuscan panty raider wrote:

So here and other threads it seems that the new teenage muslim american character ( from her wiki bio - I'd never heard of her before ) is the current overpowered, unbalanced character to have.

Is she the new poster girl for D3 and should I work on ugrading her or will I be wasting my time and money like I did with Xforce and Ragnarok? I wonder.

Either way fully covered hulk, fully covered blade, mohawk storm are all I've needed here.

You've never heard of her yet you judged her so harshly before - its amusing how the chips fall

I've not judged her at all. She's an overpowered feature character. Stay strong.

So I don't need to go find your old posts and what they said vs what you just said? IE that you can't have an informed opinion on a character you don't know anything about?

Like I said previously, it makes me chuckle seeing the chips fall

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So I just lost and a hard essential went down 30 levels. New scaling algorithm? Do I just suck really badly?

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raisinbman wrote:

Drummerboycroy wrote:

FWIW, it was Moonstone. The fact that it matters so much leaves me dubious about how "scaling" even works, but that's another thing. Long and short, I don't possess a hero set that can beat a "normal" node. lol

Cheers!

DBC

Don't use moonstone.

Should I just go ahead and dump Moonstone? I keep her as a 2nd or 3rd tier character, but I've got (all 2*) Ares almost leveled, Thor done, Daken done, OBW almost done (all cards, waiting for leveling price drop), Storm and Magneto well on the way... and I could use the space for a Punisher cover.

Only problem is, I'm deep in the 2* portion of the 2-3* transition, with no 3* characters having more than 5 covers...

DBC

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Drummerboycroy wrote:

raisinbman wrote:

Drummerboycroy wrote:

FWIW, it was Moonstone. The fact that it matters so much leaves me dubious about how "scaling" even works, but that's another thing. Long and short, I don't possess a hero set that can beat a "normal" node. lol

Cheers!

DBC

Don't use moonstone.

Should I just go ahead and dump Moonstone? I keep her as a 2nd or 3rd tier character, but I've got (all 2*) Ares almost leveled, Thor done, Daken done, OBW almost done (all cards, waiting for leveling price drop), Storm and Magneto well on the way... and I could use the space for a Punisher cover.

Only problem is, I'm deep in the 2* portion of the 2-3* transition, with no 3* characters having more than 5 covers...

DBC

Some people use moonstone....but then again some people think bullseye is good and spiderman is bad(true story). Here are my personal views on characters: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=25844#p318510

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raisinbman wrote:

So I just lost and a hard essential went down 30 levels. New scaling algorithm? Do I just suck really badly?

It was always possible to lower scaling via losing but you've to lose in a way the game approves. Since losing is easy in Simulator, you get more than usual chances to see if the game likes the way you lose.

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Does QS works with IW's bubbles now ? I took his aoe when there was less than 4 locked tiles on the boards... and it destroyed the few locked tiles and all the bubbles...

I'm starting to hate Prof X

KingDon

Loving the casual nature of this PVE, I am doing one clear on easy and hard and am in the top 100 overall and finishing in the top 50 for the subs, even better from the 2 event token rewards I pulled a and .....back of the net =D

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Phantron wrote:

raisinbman wrote:

So I just lost and a hard essential went down 30 levels. New scaling algorithm? Do I just suck really badly?

It was always possible to lower scaling via losing but you've to lose in a way the game approves. Since losing is easy in Simulator, you get more than usual chances to see if the game likes the way you lose.

alright, note to self in order to reduce scaling lose to a high level sentry while using hulk 3*thor and hood

Malcrof

Thie event may be stupid crazy hard, but the tokens are doing great by me! I have spent actual $$ to get 40 packs etc.. (mostly from a $100 google play card i got from work, but some of my own cash as well), and never get any 4*'s, still transitioning to 3* , so it is not a big deal.

Then came my 3 gold tokens from Simulator.

4* Thoress
4* Thoress
4* Fury

Did they do something to simulator tokens to make us want to finish higher? That was unreal! Still not enough covers on either to bother leveling them, but wow, what a nice start! That doubled my total 4* covers in 30 seconds!

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So, color me officially lost...

This sub? All my nodes are scaled PERFECTLY to what my best could accomplish.

Trivials feel, well, trivial.

Easy is a bit harder, but I could grind them with possibly a health pack thrown in at some point in the overall grind-down,

Normals feel, yep, normal. Not likely I'd lose (considering I'm up against AI), but taking some appreciable damage.

Hard is likely going to be a wild ride, but based on the previous scaling and some luck, attainable.

Weird shift, but I'm not complaining.

DBC

simonsez

Drummerboycroy wrote:

Trivials feel, well, trivial.

I wish I could say the same. On the second set of subs, I just brought a 4* and two 3*s to a "trivial" node, and wiped the first time and barely won the second time.

On the plus side, it's liberating knowing there's no longer any point in trying to grind down nodes since my roster is no longer PvE-competitive.

puppychow

Malcrof wrote:

Then came my 3 gold tokens from Simulator.

4* Thoress
4* Thoress
4* Fury

Did they do something to simulator tokens to make us want to finish higher? That was unreal! Still not enough covers on either to bother leveling them, but wow, what a nice start! That doubled my total 4* covers in 30 seconds!

I'm glad to see I'm not the only player w/ a nifty haul from the simulator tokens. My haul from 5 simulator tokens (placement for top 2/top 10 individual):





I think I'll stop pushing for that top 2 reward now. . .

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I've gotten nothing but 2*s from the tokens so far. If I was putting real effort into this I"d be more annoyed, but I've been playing Contest of Champions and Tapped out more than MPQ this week.

SnagglePuss

2* and a GSBW,
Just usual luck of the draw.
Pulled a Doc Ock in DDQ... not sure what to do with that/.

Malcrof

SnagglePuss wrote:

2* and a GSBW,
Just usual luck of the draw.
Pulled a Doc Ock in DDQ... not sure what to do with that/.

If you have him already, and it is the second color of one you have.. get the HP buyback, since he was recently changed

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The second hard sub is totally destroying me, though I'm still tied for 1st overall (looks like #2 is just matching my score exactly because #3 isn't anywhere close) so I guess it must be destroying everyone else. Ended up using 2 Mega Whales in one clear (Iron Fist node, and then Widow/Hood/Punisher node because I happen to have a Whales TU and was definitely going to lose without Whales)

dswan3rd

Add to the list of players pleasantly surprised by the Simulator tokens...the two I had produced a 3* and a 3* - both were needed and GREATLY appreciated...of course I fully expect Round 2 tokens to give out BagMan now...

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Here's my Simulator token story to balance out all the good luck. I opened a bunch of them in a row and didn't pay attention to what they were, but I noticed one of them didn't display anything. Knowing that new covers are not cached (e.g. you load up game against Quicksilver in his event, it takes some time for him to appear), I figure even if it's Quicksilver it's still kind of useful so I went back to check my rewards, and found that I got a shining new Daken 2* who just had his cover art updated.

Arimis_Thorn

Congratulations. You've made your game ACTUALLY impossible.

Hard Node makes me want to punch a maternity ward full of babies.

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is anyone else's sim tokens being weird? mine auto-went to the 'stockpile' screen even tho the event is still active