Lord of Thunder - July 23 - 27 - Season XVII

Moon Roach

LORD OF THUNDER:

This Event:
Modern

New Characters:
:jeangrey: All New X-Men
Scott Lang
This Week:

Unkillable
Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Grey Suit
Classic
Indestructible
Hero for Hire
Modern

Dark Avengers
Dark Avengers

Modern
Modern

Single Player Rewards

1. All rewards from the previous rank +
2-5. 5000 , 100 ,
6-10. 2000 , 100 ,
11-25. 1000 , 50 ,
26-50. 1000 , 50 ,
51-100. 500 , 25 ,
101-200. 500 ,
201-300. 250 ,
301-400. 2x Standard Token, 140
401-500. Standard Token, 70

Progression Rewards:

25. Standard Token
50. 100
100. +3 All Boosts
200.
300. Event Token
400. 25
500. 1000
575. 25
650. Event Token
725. 50
800.
850. 1000
900. Event Token
950. 1000
1000.
1300.

Alliance rewards:

1-2. 5000 , 250 ,
3-10. 5000 , 100 ,
11-25. 3000 , 100 ,
25-50. 2000 , 100 ,
51-100. 1000 , 50 ,
101-250. 1000 , 50
251-500. 500 , 25
501-1000. 500
1001-10000. 250

Ending Time Countdowns

Slice 1
Slice 2
Slice 3
Slice 4
Slice 5

edit: Frelling spoiler / star space problem. Again. And missed out Luke Cage in powered up this week.

Quebbster

Looks like a slow start for the season for me. Only thing I need is the Thing cover and I am not going to go for 1300 points anyway. I guess I'll skipthe first four events or so and come back when there's a Hulkbuster cover at 1000 points...

Malcrof

Looks like my 5/5/2 hood is going to remain 5/5/2.. why is that black so unattainable for me.. really odd cover to be missing.

Unknown

Hood is on DPQ rota on Aug 14th if schedule is true to form regardless so worth the grind nope. DPQ is spoiling us sometimes with easy treats.

TxMoose

Malcrof wrote:

Looks like my 5/5/2 hood is going to remain 5/5/2.. why is that black so unattainable for me.. really odd cover to be missing.

hood black is one of my holes too at 2 covers. along with and panther black and hulk black. those are all at 2 covers and all that I'd really like more on (only one more on hood but 3 more on the others) - and all black. hmm....

started this event last night and as much as I love thor, gotta say that not thrilled about the event. with him and doom boosted (lots of thor/doom/third), that is a ton of health to eat through and slow characters and I found matches taking forever and requiring health packs because one of the strong abilities always seems to go off before you get them down. one time lost thor and loki and doom was down to 1K health, but still won. I don't see hopping working much and I don't schedule my Saturdays around shields, so probably will just try and push towards the end.

spectator

hmm, who to accelerate, doom with scarlet witch or thor with kamala khan. Or maybe just stick cage in for huge hp and protect tiles

Orion

spectator wrote:

hmm, who to accelerate, doom with scarlet witch or thor with kamala khan. Or maybe just stick cage in for huge hp and protect tiles

Thor accelerates himself. I've been using Cage, and She Hulk to steal the protect tiles of all of the other Cages that I've seen. If my Doom was better, I'd be using him instead of She Hulk.

mr_X

Both my Hood Thor are finished and I have five black for Iron fist. So no luck either with the covers lately.

Unknown

Has anyone else felt that the point scaling in this season's first tournament got HEAVILY adjusted? I thought I would finally get to max my X force but it was ridiculously impossible. As soon as I hit 900 points I couldn't que a single match over 10 points. Even while I won 3-4 of those, I would get attached once or twice for 40-55 points each, meaning even playing well and using a health pack sparingly, it was impossible to crack 1k. If they felt like they were giving out too many four stars last season I get it, but this completely puts a grinder like me out of business. twice I was fought and won the match to put me over 1k only to find I got attacked for -150 and -180 points. I actually got so frustrated over a stupid phone game that I was swearing at my S6. I hope this isn't the first step towards MPQ crossing the "pay-to-win" threshold.

Unknown

Woah! Actually lucked out in this PVP for a change. Two hours before the end got into my bracket to see that it's a tough one (I'm mainly using my 2* roster, my 3*s are nowhere near effective yet). Grabbed that progression recruit token and inside... found a shiny new Hood! Then squeezed my way into T100 and lo! my Hood is now at 3-5-2, ready to steal anything that is stealable. Nice.

GurlBYE

ideal_insomnia wrote:

Woah! Actually lucked out in this PVP for a change. Two hours before the end got into my bracket to see that it's a tough one (I'm mainly using my 2* roster, my 3*s are nowhere near effective yet). Grabbed that progression recruit token and inside... found a shiny new Hood! Then squeezed my way into T100 and lo! my Hood is now at 3-5-2, ready to steal anything that is stealable. Nice.

lucky, i crept into the top 100 and shielded and everyone else raised the bar and now i'm in the 200's jealous with my 2 yellow hood covers I got from 2 vaults wondering how/why they haven't adjusted the 3 star transition yet.

i wondering If I should start jumping in closer to 1 hour instead of 3 like I did this time.

cyineedsn

dreamsson wrote:

Has anyone else felt that the point scaling in this season's first tournament got HEAVILY adjusted? I thought I would finally get to max my X force but it was ridiculously impossible. As soon as I hit 900 points I couldn't que a single match over 10 points. Even while I won 3-4 of those, I would get attached once or twice for 40-55 points each, meaning even playing well and using a health pack sparingly, it was impossible to crack 1k. If they felt like they were giving out too many four stars last season I get it, but this completely puts a grinder like me out of business. twice I was fought and won the match to put me over 1k only to find I got attacked for -150 and -180 points. I actually got so frustrated over a stupid phone game that I was swearing at my S6. I hope this isn't the first step towards MPQ crossing the "pay-to-win" threshold.

It sounds like when you were trying to make your push to 1000, either you were the highest scorer at the time, or everyone else at 900+ was already shielded. That's just sort of luck of the draw. (Obviously, I have no idea what the situation really was at the time.)

The typical advice is to shield, and wait until you can find higher point targets to queue up. Or, wait and see if there are other unshielded high scorers before you make your push to 1000 so that you don't get stuck trying to win 4-5 10 point matches.

meekersX

I didn't notice any scaling differences myself. Unless you have a particularly good roster, I don't think it'd be possible to get to get to 1k on 10 point matches. Usually I have to shield at least once before 1k, and spend time lining up some 40+ point matches to hit 1k before getting hit.

Also, don't wait too late in the event to make your push. It seems harder to line up these matches the later in the event you wait. Fewer high point people will remain unshielded, and this also increases the number of attacks you will receive as well.

Unknown

I did try to break the barrier twice before the final push, the first as early as 2 days out. Yes, I was top three both of those times, so I know that affected the matches I could draw, but it still seemed lime a significantly steeper climb than it ever had before. Even if the high scorers were shielded, I should still have drawn matches against them, correct? They just would not have lost points when I won. If I'm in first or second I should still be able to draw matches against a top 10 opponent for more than single digit points.

Quebbster

dreamsson wrote:

I did try to break the barrier twice before the final push, the first as early as 2 days out. Yes, I was top three both of those times, so I know that affected the matches I could draw, but it still seemed lime a significantly steeper climb than it ever had before. Even if the high scorers were shielded, I should still have drawn matches against them, correct? They just would not have lost points when I won. If I'm in first or second I should still be able to draw matches against a top 10 opponent for more than single digit points.

No, once you shield you stop showing up as a viable match. Only those that queued you up before you shielded can attack you.

GrumpySmurf1002

The good: Set a new personal high with 1512.
The bad: I didn't finish top 5.