Season XIV - May 1 - 24

So now we are down to one cover per 4* for the season alliance rewards? (we got a full cycle of Fury and 4* thor as pvp season alliance rewards, then 2/3 each for elektra and starlord, now just 1 prof x and on to kingpin. And presumably straight to Hulkbuster for season XV).

Semi off-topic:

I really don't understand how we are supposed to collect all 3 starter covers for 4*s (even if we are then supposed to buy the rest of them).

One needs to finish top 5 out of a 1000 person bracket to get all three in the intro pve. or top 1 of 500 in a pvp event. And reaching 1k in normal pvp events is definitely harder in the new meta, with longer matches, and more boosted opponents. Plus shield cooldowns and the thorverine nerf. (at least we have a .1% chance of any given given 4* cover in a heroic token!)

What is the intended progression from 3* to 4*?

TheWerebison · April 2015

Vhailorx wrote:

So now we are down to one cover per 4* for the season alliance rewards? (we got a full cycle of Fury and 4* thor as pvp season alliance rewards, then 2/3 each for elektra and starlord, now just 1 prof x and on to kingpin. And presumably straight to Hulkbuster for season XV).

Semi off-topic:

I really don't understand how we are supposed to collect all 3 starter covers for 4*s (even if we are then supposed to buy the rest of them).

One needs to finish top 5 out of a 1000 person bracket to get all three in the intro pve. or top 1 of 500 in a pvp event. And reaching 1k in normal pvp events is definitely harder in the new meta, with longer matches, and more boosted opponents. Plus shield cooldowns and the thorverine nerf. (at least we have a .1% chance of any given given 4* cover in a heroic token!)

What is the intended progression from 3* to 4*?

Intended progression is probably to be able to get 1000 points in pvp events. At least, that's what I always assumed.

Arondite · April 2015

*Sigh*

Terrible.

Unknown · April 2015

We should send in a petition to swap

for that elusive

. Nobody wants Quicksilver, at least that's the consensus in my alliance.

Unknown · April 2015

dathremar wrote:

We should send in a petition to swap for that elusive . Nobody wants Quicksilver, at least that's the consensus in my alliance.

Maybe it's a MPQ 1st world problem, but with a lucky token pull, I'm now at a 2/5/5

,but I've had

fully covered and maxed for at least half a year, so I at least can use the QS cover. Most of my alliance is the same.
Of the 18 of us in there right now (2 out mercing for the end of PVE since the rest of us didn't want to play) - our collective

stats:
Fully covered - 2
Covered and maxed - 11
Needing black (assuming a preferred 5/3/5/ build) - 4

Conversely, the number of us "needing" QS covers is substantially higher.

At least it's a newer character and not Mo-storm again, and on top of that, it's the cover that has been given out the least.

DrStrange-616 · April 2015

And those great SHIELD Sim rewards, too!

Unknown · May 2015

Maybe it's a MPQ 1st world problem, but with a lucky token pull, I'm now at a 2/5/5 ,but I've had fully covered and maxed for at least half a year, so I at least can use the QS cover. Most of my alliance is the same.
Of the 18 of us in there right now (2 out mercing for the end of PVE since the rest of us didn't want to play) - our collective stats:
Fully covered - 2
Covered and maxed - 11
Needing black (assuming a preferred 5/3/5/ build) - 4

Conversely, the number of us "needing" QS covers is substantially higher.

At least it's a newer character and not Mo-storm again, and on top of that, it's the cover that has been given out the least.

True, it helps both the vets and newer players when they reward a fresh character rather than an old boy like

. Guess I'm a little sour that Combined Arms is only awarding a black cover for top 5. RNG is RNG but its definitely strange that we tend to draw certain characters more often than others. And

is one of those rare spawns for me.

Unknown · May 2015

For those that actually read these posts: Season XIV just filled. Was 4993 2-3 minutes ago and now is full.

optimus2861 · May 2015

DrStrange-616 wrote:

And those great SHIELD Sim rewards, too!

And still no seed teams in the SHIELD Sim. One of my first available opponents is a trio of 3* 100-104 characters.

I have no idea how they can justify what they've done to SHIELD Sim. If I'm going to face teams at my roster level, make it worth my while; get rid of all those garbage 1* progression awards and bring the first HP award way down from 1000 points. If I need to slog through those 1* awards, then give me back the seed teams for the first 300-500 points or more. But don't **** in my face and try to tell me it's just raining.

I see 3000 points will be a struggle again this season. Sigh. At least DDQ is good for me this week. I even drew a bonus Cage black from a taco.

Unknown · May 2015

Can I just say, Season XIV is set to become, in my humble opinion, the worst yet.

Just starting Predator and Prey looks awful, matched against hellish teams that will drain my health just getting to 50 points. The Shield Simulator is the same, and NO WAY am I bothering to waste my best heroes and health to gain a 1* Storm that gets thrown away immediately.

Come on, D3, PvP used to be fun, this is just...terrible. Everyone thinks so, my entire alliance has not bothered even starting it. No chance getting to the magic 4000 for the reward pack, so please, please sort out this utter catastrophy.

fmftint · May 2015

As someone who has no one on the weekly boosted list at a playable level, this is just unbearable

Punisher5784 · May 2015

I'm skipping this season: between the new time slices, increased health, multiple buffed characters, no seed teams, scaled up opponents.. why bother?

I use to reach 300pts in 1 hour, now I can't even reach 200pts in 2 hrs.

I don't care for the 3000 progression for QS, I haven't cared this less since they had Beast at 3000 pts and they gave him to me anyway because they ended the Season early! The 10pks aren't worth the time, when I can spend less time gathering 3*'s from DDQ. I have every 3* except Doc Oct and Rags, both of whom I do not want so I'm always earning a needed 3* cover.

I hope they restore PVP back to glory because this use to be the place where I won/earned all my covers.

optimus2861 · May 2015

So I tried two matches in SW's PVP this morning. Since all I had to pick from were 94's and nothing else (and I have less than 100 points and am ranked close to #400), I gulped hard and tried an Ares node. Bad cascade. Monster Onslaught. OBW dead. Retreat.

Tried again. Another Ares node. Same. Damn. Thing. The game even taunted me. I saw Ares had 7 or 8 green, whatever it was, and it was my turn, and the only match on the entire board was black. OBW goes out front, Onslaught, dead OBW. Retreat again.

Oh yeah, I even had to hit "Skip" on some nodes loaded with 100+ 3* characters. Even a 166 LCap.

This. Is. Not. FUN!

I'm done with PVP until this abhorrent matchmaking system dies.

Unknown · May 2015

I'm in the same boat Optimus. Fought a Daken/Wolvie team for the SW PVP. My whole team was dead within 5 moves. Terrible cascade matches, turn 2 OBW dead. Turn 4 SW dead. Turn 5, all powers released and another 2 cascades left MNThor dead. If that wouldn't have happened I would have been at least in the T100. And got me a Beast cover.

raiderfan33 · May 2015

The matchmaking lately has been awful. Does anyone know the process behind the matchmaking?

Unknown · May 2015

_xdrew wrote:

I'm in the same boat Optimus. Fought a Daken/Wolvie team for the SW PVP. My whole team was dead within 5 moves. Terrible cascade matches, turn 2 OBW dead. Turn 4 SW dead. Turn 5, all powers released and another 2 cascades left MNThor dead. If that wouldn't have happened I would have been at least in the T100. And got me a Beast cover.

Same here.

A lot of Daken / Wolverine team.

TxMoose · May 2015

well, out of the 6 events so far (through trial by combat), I've been excited about only one reward - blade. spent hp on shields on that one and I needed them - very competitive. but the rest - meh. would have been saving me some hp (as a trade off for not helping me develop decent characters) but now I'm having to keep a dedicated roster slot open for stupid ** essentials, so hp I would be saving went there. hope the last part gets better character-wise. with r75 I have every character leveled to their level max (other than doc ock) up to my jumping off level of 104 and I have plenty iso to spare. please give me some useful covers d3.

edit: ps. thank you for r75 - along with ddq - those are the best 2 things that have been implemented since I started playing 169 days ago.

Malcrof · May 2015

Is it just me or is this season harder? I was at my 10 pack by this point last season.. still 700 away, ugh. Maybe leveling a bunch of chars to 112 from 102 (outside my 2 150's) was a mistake and threw off my MMR. but i am getting my tinykitty handed to me regularly.

skippytx · May 2015

I have the opposite opinion of many of you. This is my best season yet. No "wall" in PVP to hit. Yeah, you lose out on the easy track of seed teams and **** teams, but the matching is much better for someone in my situation. I used to get to 500 pts and hit a solid wall of 166/270 characters. That wall is gone, I've been to 650 pts before without running into a non stop buzzsaw of max teams. They still show up, but you skip them and a different team show up. There is no external force stopping me from hitting a certain score. If I wanted to spend the HP on health packs and shields, I bet I could hit 800+ points. Beforehand that was impossible.

The focus on roster diversity lately has also helped. There's a much wider mix of teams out there and you can use more of your characters. You don't have to worry about beating the same exact team over and over and over again. There's a little more strategy to it now.

The game is changing, just adapt your game to the new rules.

Arondite · May 2015

skippytx wrote:

I have the opposite opinion of many of you. This is my best season yet. No "wall" in PVP to hit. Yeah, you lose out on the easy track of seed teams and **** teams, but the matching is much better for someone in my situation. I used to get to 500 pts and hit a solid wall of 166/270 characters. That wall is gone, I've been to 650 pts before without running into a non stop buzzsaw of max teams. They still show up, but you skip them and a different team show up. There is no external force stopping me from hitting a certain score. If I wanted to spend the HP on health packs and shields, I bet I could hit 800+ points. Beforehand that was impossible.

The focus on roster diversity lately has also helped. There's a much wider mix of teams out there and you can use more of your characters. You don't have to worry about beating the same exact team over and over and over again. There's a little more strategy to it now.

The game is changing, just adapt your game to the new rules.

What does your roster look like?

Season XIV - May 1 - 24

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