How to Advance?

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I've been playing for about two months. I have 20+ characters, but only my 1* Black Widow maxed; the rest are mostly in their 40s with covers awaiting ISO. Wolverine, Thor, and OBW are my highest, at 72, 65, and 65 respectively.

I was loving the game up until TaT, when I hit a wall. Unable to do anything there, I sat out the event hoping the next one would be better. I guess technically it's better, since I can finish two rounds instead of only one, but seriously, how the hell am I supposed to get ISO to level anyone enough to compete? It feels like high-level players are getting higher, and everyone in the middle is just screwed. At least new players have the Prologue to get rewards from, but I milked that back in December.

During Hulk, I was able to make huge advances leveling my characters, but now... my options seem to be Shield Training, grind 20 ISO in Prologue, or see if my random luck is better than the computer's random luck in Thor. Is there something I'm missing? And no, I'm not going to pay a bunch of money toward a game that's this frustrating. If I knew things would improve, I'd stick around. But if this is the new state of the game, I'd prefer to know so I can uninstall and move on.

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The matchmaking algorith and also the scaling is currently broken, has been said. No mor information however (apart from that a bandaid patch did not seem to help.).

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The devs want us to go for breadth, not depth. Stop buffing your Widowed Thorverine, start pumping up your other characters. You probably don't need to worry about pumping the Dark Avengers too much, they're always the enemies. (these could be famous last words, lol)

As far as the events go, just give it a bit of time. MPQ's having a rocky moment, they're trying to make it so that folks who have nothing better to do can't just grind their way to victory in PvE events with obscene point pools to make both the P2W players and normal folks look like ponces, and it's turning into a real trial of a balance problem. Have a bit of patience, let them figure it out, and then we should all be able to come back and have a blast.

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starsrift wrote:

The devs want us to go for breadth, not depth. Stop buffing your Widowed Thorverine, start pumping up your other characters. You probably don't need to worry about pumping the Dark Avengers too much, they're always the enemies. (these could be famous last words, lol)

As far as the events go, just give it a bit of time. MPQ's having a rocky moment, they're trying to make it so that folks who have nothing better to do can't just grind their way to victory in PvE events with obscene point pools to make both the P2W players and normal folks look like ponces, and it's turning into a real trial of a balance problem. Have a bit of patience, let them figure it out, and then we should all be able to come back and have a blast.

I am trying to do just that. Give me ISO so i can do that please.

Yes, they're trying to make it so that folks don't hit the end game. Problem is, there will always be folks who are like that. Always trying to game the system. Always trying to minmax their entire team. What is the population of these people? 1%? 5%? Very small. Cater to the masses who are still level 40 instead of level 999. Sure, we noobs will get a trouncing but everytime we win, we get like...what, 10 covers we never had and 50,000 iso. Something that will benefit the masses and not the 5% of the endgame players.

As far as things are going is, them trying to fix the system is making it so that the minmaxers are the only ones benefitting the system being broken. If the developers just concentrate on making a fun and fair game, all problems will be solved.

That being said, I'm sure no one is working on any patches right now. I mean, it's freaking superbowl sunday! No go buy the chips and the guacamole and lets sports more than the other team so that we can put more balls in the basketgoals or something.

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Unfortunately, this event is so broken not even the high level players are getting much. They're faced with every mission stuck at lvl 230, and without any good dps char available for the event its 30+ min per battle even if you manage to beat them.

The only ones benefiting from the "dynamic scaling" system they've introduced seems to be new players with all lvl <20 chars...

kensterr

Anyone who has 5 blue Spidey and decent gsbw seem to be doing well, along with those lucky enough to get low level mobs due to mpq's broken code,

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What's your position in the leaderboards and how was it for previous tourneys?

While it is broken for you, it is also broken for many others, so placemeng may stay more or less the same.

They acknowledged Thick as Thieves would get adjusted for future release, so I do expect the next event to be better.