The Simulator (April 19-24)

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  • Adrock1020
    Adrock1020 Posts: 44 Just Dropped In
    raisinbman wrote:
    is anyone else's sim tokens being weird? mine auto-went to the 'stockpile' screen even tho the event is still active

    Yeah mine did the same thing after the sub-event ended. Kinda weird. I assume the drop rates stay the same though.
  • dkffiv
    dkffiv Posts: 1,039 Chairperson of the Boards
    Adrock1020 wrote:
    raisinbman wrote:
    is anyone else's sim tokens being weird? mine auto-went to the 'stockpile' screen even tho the event is still active

    Yeah mine did the same thing after the sub-event ended. Kinda weird. I assume the drop rates stay the same though.

    Drop rates change per sub. The current featured has a higher % than the other 2
  • Adrock1020
    Adrock1020 Posts: 44 Just Dropped In
    dkffiv wrote:
    Adrock1020 wrote:
    raisinbman wrote:
    is anyone else's sim tokens being weird? mine auto-went to the 'stockpile' screen even tho the event is still active

    Yeah mine did the same thing after the sub-event ended. Kinda weird. I assume the drop rates stay the same though.

    Drop rates change per sub. The current featured has a higher % than the other 2

    I thought once a token went to the "stockpile" it kept the same drop rate it originally had. (That statement doesn't include the wackiness of the Taco Token rotation, obviously)

    It's hard to say without that handy little question mark in the corner.
  • The Simulator usually has one token per round with whoever is featured in that round having a higher chance of showing up, so while they all look the same, they're actually 3 different tokens and the only one that you can buy is for the current round, so the one you get from last round goes to stockpile.
  • Loftus
    Loftus Posts: 79 Match Maker
    Jesus christ the hard node with iron fist, ares and blade is **** impossible. I think ive had one wipe in about 30-40 matches prior, now just had 3 wipes in a row on it. Iron fists constant damge plus blade drowning me in strike tiles and ares spamming onslaught the second he gets a whiff of a green match is completely destroying whatever i put in front of them. Doesnt help no matter how careful i am i'm getting cascaded like crazy. Got hit with back to back nightstalkers after they did one 3 match and ended up with about 40 ap. ugh.

    I had my eye on some cap covers but doesnt look possible now. I know i should have done a few easier node runs first but the first wipe annoyed me so much i went straight back for revenge. God i hate fighting against iron fist.
  • Loftus wrote:
    Jesus christ the hard node with iron fist, ares and blade is tinykitty impossible. I think ive had one wipe in about 30-40 matches prior, now just had 3 wipes in a row on it. Iron fists constant damge plus blade drowning me in strike tiles and ares spamming onslaught the second he gets a whiff of a green match is completely destroying whatever i put in front of them. Doesnt help no matter how careful i am i'm getting cascaded like crazy. Got hit with back to back nightstalkers after they did one 3 match and ended up with about 40 ap. ugh.

    I had my eye on some cap covers but doesnt look possible now. I know i should have done a few easier node runs first but the first wipe annoyed me so much i went straight back for revenge. God i hate fighting against iron fist.

    I used mega Whales on him. I thought about that fight for a while and didn't see any remotely reliably way to beat that one.
  • Adrock1020
    Adrock1020 Posts: 44 Just Dropped In
    Phantron wrote:
    Loftus wrote:
    Jesus christ the hard node with iron fist, ares and blade is tinykitty impossible. I think ive had one wipe in about 30-40 matches prior, now just had 3 wipes in a row on it. Iron fists constant damge plus blade drowning me in strike tiles and ares spamming onslaught the second he gets a whiff of a green match is completely destroying whatever i put in front of them. Doesnt help no matter how careful i am i'm getting cascaded like crazy. Got hit with back to back nightstalkers after they did one 3 match and ended up with about 40 ap. ugh.

    I had my eye on some cap covers but doesnt look possible now. I know i should have done a few easier node runs first but the first wipe annoyed me so much i went straight back for revenge. God i hate fighting against iron fist.

    I used mega Whales on him. I thought about that fight for a while and didn't see any remotely reliably way to beat that one.

    I got some lucky cascades and managed to beat it with Patch/Hulk/Loki.
  • Arimis_Thorn
    Arimis_Thorn Posts: 541 Critical Contributor
    Loftus wrote:
    Jesus christ the hard node with iron fist, ares and blade is tinykitty impossible. I think ive had one wipe in about 30-40 matches prior, now just had 3 wipes in a row on it. Iron fists constant damge plus blade drowning me in strike tiles and ares spamming onslaught the second he gets a whiff of a green match is completely destroying whatever i put in front of them. Doesnt help no matter how careful i am i'm getting cascaded like crazy. Got hit with back to back nightstalkers after they did one 3 match and ended up with about 40 ap. ugh.

    I had my eye on some cap covers but doesnt look possible now. I know i should have done a few easier node runs first but the first wipe annoyed me so much i went straight back for revenge. God i hate fighting against iron fist.

    I was able to Hulk Bomb it on my second attempt. My first Hulk Bomb attempt got completely destroyed, as did several other team combos I tried. I got lucky in that Blade got 2 Thrist tiles right away so IF's attack tile was triggering Anger from the get go. That fed Green and many Berserker Rage's and I was able to finally pull it off. Highly doubt I'll go back for another round no matter how big a payoff it would be.
  • Loftus
    Loftus Posts: 79 Match Maker
    Glad to see it wasnt just me who found that node tough! Ive been using 2* storm/thor/moonstone, only had trouble with a prof x node previous to that one due to him placing his invisibility tile in a tough place to get to. I almost had the iron first node on one attempt, had only storm left alive and if they had hit with one less cascade she would have survived and wiped out all three members of their team with her yellow counter. Feeling better though as i realised the event has a day left, i must have glanced over and seen the current rounds timer of a few hours rather than the events. Hopefully no iron fist next round lol!
  • Loftus wrote:
    Jesus christ the hard node with iron fist, ares and blade is tinykitty impossible. I think ive had one wipe in about 30-40 matches prior, now just had 3 wipes in a row on it. Iron fists constant damge plus blade drowning me in strike tiles and ares spamming onslaught the second he gets a whiff of a green match is completely destroying whatever i put in front of them. Doesnt help no matter how careful i am i'm getting cascaded like crazy. Got hit with back to back nightstalkers after they did one 3 match and ended up with about 40 ap. ugh.

    I had my eye on some cap covers but doesnt look possible now. I know i should have done a few easier node runs first but the first wipe annoyed me so much i went straight back for revenge. God i hate fighting against iron fist.
    1 node should not prevent you from top 150

    use hulk
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Thank pasta that the Hulk and IM 40 required rounds are over. Mystique is much more fun. I am using Iron Fist/Professor X on the essential nodes and just criticaling things until they die. Another fun team, Deadpool/Mohawk. Will try MMN/Mystique on my next refreshes, see if that's still good (should be), especially with Mohawk instead of X-Force.
    Holding top 2 still without much issue.
  • mu7an7
    mu7an7 Posts: 34
    Job done.
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  • Loftus
    Loftus Posts: 79 Match Maker
    raisinbman wrote:
    1 node should not prevent you from top 150

    use hulk

    As i said above i derped and thought the event was ending a few hours ago.. with one round to go i should comfortable get top 100, was just hoping for a top 20 or something icon_e_sad.gif

    Unfortunately this is the first event in a long time where i don't happen to have any of the three required characters meaning i can't do any of the special nodes. Baring in mind i'm currently ranked just inside the top 150 i think i'd be way higher if i happened to have hulk. The positive is that the one time i don't have any required characters is what appears to be the least played pve event so it doesn't make me suffer too much icon_e_smile.gif
  • This is almost ridiculous. I snagged a top 5 in the hard sim without even doing a full clear(3 essentials+the ISO branch). Those essentials with IM40 were stupidly hard.
  • I managed top fifty in the first hard sub only doing two nodes, once each, but I wasn't able to get away with that in the second node. I had to do three, that time.

    Actually, I probably could have done it with two, if I had just skipped the 1 node and only done the two essentials. But that's not what I did.
  • Marty17
    Marty17 Posts: 503 Critical Contributor
    Anyone got any tactics against icon_ironfist.pngicon_cyclops.pngicon_shehulk.png?
  • Loftus wrote:
    Jesus christ the hard node with iron fist, ares and blade is tinykitty impossible. I think ive had one wipe in about 30-40 matches prior, now just had 3 wipes in a row on it. Iron fists constant damge plus blade drowning me in strike tiles and ares spamming onslaught the second he gets a whiff of a green match is completely destroying whatever i put in front of them. Doesnt help no matter how careful i am i'm getting cascaded like crazy. Got hit with back to back nightstalkers after they did one 3 match and ended up with about 40 ap. ugh.

    I had my eye on some cap covers but doesnt look possible now. I know i should have done a few easier node runs first but the first wipe annoyed me so much i went straight back for revenge. God i hate fighting against iron fist.

    A couple of things.

    First, Iron Fist, as with Luke Cage, is in his current form, unbalanced / unfair / overpowered. Googling them together one sees things like this:

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    So it is in some manner no surprise given that they will likely make their debuts on the big or small screen soon. There is no excuse though to make 1 guy who shuts the match down with a protect tile, and another who stacks the deck with a strike tile automatically, out of the gate, without fail.

    This brings me to my greater point about this simulator. I've not had a particularly bad time with it and I think it is because of my overall strategy for character development. I have a nucleus of 166 3 star people, but have focused on getting as many 3star characters to 100 or more as possible. This has payed huge dividends in things like pvp, and this simulator - since you almost always have the feature / essential character at a high level. I have a 166 hulk, I have a ( otherwise useless ) iron man at 110+, I have a mystique at 110+ - so in this case, these "essential" nodes have been much easier because I have a buffed essential character.

    I otherwise have no use for mystique, but doing her masterstroke souped up with her disguise power is nasty, and easy to get to for a quick 4500 damage.

    Getting back to my strategy of getting as many 100+ as I can.. another reason for this is that since d3 has exhibited a capricious habit of nerfing and buffing characters I don't want to get fooled AGAIN.

    I'd love to throw all my iso at cage and fist, but at some point they'll have to be "balanced" and I don't want to spend time and money on them only to rule the roost for 3 months until they get ultimo nerfed.
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    So, I managed to wipe with GT on a "trivial" node.

    Awesome nerf........ awesome scaling........ :slow clap:
  • Hulk, Punisher, and Prof X seems to be able to beat Iron Fist somewhat reliably. Put Hulk in front so you get green on match 5 from the Anger triggered by Iron Fist, and if Blade puts down some strike tiles you can trigger Anger on match damage too and then it's just about spamming Judgment over and over again and hopefully getting a lot of extra Master Plans from the Angers.
  • StevO-J
    StevO-J Posts: 751 Critical Contributor
    Tried the Prof. X/Devil Dino/StarLord node in the final normal sim twice. First time I downed Prof. X with some difficulty then proceed to get owned by StarLord's red and Dino bites. Decide to try again while thinking 'It's rated easy so this was a coincidence, I can beat this'. Should not have done that, really should not have done that... *insert meme here* Got beaten into the ground while mainly watching my screen, as the match took forever with DD waving his tiny arms and Prof. X's passive firing every turn icon_lol.gif I'm throwing the towel on that one, I can really do without the losses on a so called easy node.

    I don't need the rewards, maybe I'll see if I can get top 10 in the normal sub for 50 HP but, but otherwise I'm satisfied getting top 50 for a few tokens. Luckily I'm not the only one taking it easy, only playing 2 nodes on the hard sub could very well be enough to end top 50, that's nice for a change I have to say.