Fresh Cut - August 2 - 5 - Season XVII

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  • TxMoose
    TxMoose Posts: 4,319 Chairperson of the Boards
    Malcrof wrote:
    ok, with a little over a day remaining in the event, not a single person in my bracket is over 1k.. i am ranked 33 with 530 points and unable to find worthwhile targets...

    I still have 6 health packs remaining, and my 3 chars i use are full health, should i continue to hit the 30 and under pointers and climb to around 650-700 and shield, or... take some lumps and wait for people to pass me?
    i'll echo meekers - wait a bit if all you can find is 30 pt matches. this one I made my push about 20 hrs left (last night) in the event because I wanted to give myself some flexibility due to really wanting the hb cover. that will use an extra 8 hr, going 8/3/8/3 to event end and since I was hit once towards the end of my push and I shielded at 850, i'll need the extra single match hop. I had a great 99 pt hop this morning after lining up some good matchups after I shielded last night and now I'm sitting at 993 with 5 hrs left and need to do one more match to finish the event, but its timed to where i'll need the 3 hour shield to finish

    usually when I care less about the **** cover I shoot for using a 3/8/3 shield plan (300 iso spend) and I make my initial push about 9-10 hours from event end. this allows plenty of points to get into the system, and still gets you outside the 8 hour mark (more activity then). do your push, 3 hr shield, then judge where you are and where you need to end up and how good your queues are and decide how many matches you need to get there, do the first hop at about 7 hrs to go (try to keep to 1-2 matches, but if all you care about is the **** and you are that far back and the first 2 matches go well, I've taken the chance and been successful once), then you can decide if you need the last 3 hr shield for a hop or maybe if you're close enough do a quick one at event end - gives you some flexibility.
  • Malcrof
    Malcrof Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    meekersX wrote:
    Malcrof wrote:
    ok, with a little over a day remaining in the event, not a single person in my bracket is over 1k.. i am ranked 33 with 530 points and unable to find worthwhile targets...

    I still have 6 health packs remaining, and my 3 chars i use are full health, should i continue to hit the 30 and under pointers and climb to around 650-700 and shield, or... take some lumps and wait for people to pass me?
    Personally, I wait for more people to climb higher. Sometimes if I'm bored I'll climb to 650 to get my token and inject more points into the time slice. Expect to fall 150 points or so from there, although retaliations make that easy to make back. Usually, I'll try to go from 600-900 in a single push ending with a shield.

    ok, hit 650, waiting patiently unshielded. By the time i get home from work, i should have full health packs again.
  • spectator
    spectator Posts: 395 Mover and Shaker
    Also bear in mind just because your bracket is low in points doesn't mean your time slice is. You can hit everyone in your time slice. Which slice are you in?
  • Malcrof
    Malcrof Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    spectator wrote:
    Also bear in mind just because your bracket is low in points doesn't mean your time slice is. You can hit everyone in your time slice. Which slice are you in?

    Ends 3pm tomorrow. shielded at 740, rank 17 currently.. ran out of targets that weren't max 4*'s
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    spectator wrote:
    Also bear in mind just because your bracket is low in points doesn't mean your time slice is. You can hit everyone in your time slice. Which slice are you in?
    PVP is a monster to navigate.....^^^^
  • spectator
    spectator Posts: 395 Mover and Shaker
    Seems wasteful to shield below 800 points. I'm in a different time zone so is that slice 4? I think 2 3 and 4 are meant to be quieter but my slice 3 went from no one more than 600 points to top 5 over 1000 in about 12 hours so don't give up hope. I think I only encountered two max 4* teams. Hb/carnage and jean grey with sw I think. I decided to hit 30 point teams instead.....
  • Dragunsk
    Dragunsk Posts: 16
    There is something very strange going on in this event. Twice lost to teams whose characters had levels 70, 104 and 104. I lost twice and my team was Psy 290, HT 240 and Loki 240. In this way it is impossible to do 1000 points. Sorry my poor english.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    spectator wrote:
    Seems wasteful to shield below 800 points. I'm in a different time zone so is that slice 4? I think 2 3 and 4 are meant to be quieter but my slice 3 went from no one more than 600 points to top 5 over 1000 in about 12 hours so don't give up hope. I think I only encountered two max 4* teams. Hb/carnage and jean grey with sw I think. I decided to hit 30 point teams instead.....

    You have xmen in slice 3... so not that quiet lol.
    I have 1008 points and I'm not even top 60 icon_neutral.gif
  • spectator
    spectator Posts: 395 Mover and Shaker
    number 10 finished at 1481, first was 2164. Thank god i wasnt after placement. I always thought the big alliances played 1 and 5.
  • Malcrof
    Malcrof Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited August 2015
    Sitting shielded at 966 right now.. feel free to dump points on me! 7 hours to go, will try for 1k for the 4th time ever in a couple hours.. hoping it goes well!!
  • slidecage
    slidecage Posts: 3,452 Chairperson of the Boards
    spectator wrote:
    number 10 finished at 1481, first was 2164. Thank god i wasnt after placement. I always thought the big alliances played 1 and 5.


    i took 7th with 642 pts woo
  • spectator
    spectator Posts: 395 Mover and Shaker
    Malcrof wrote:
    Sitting shielded at 966 right now.. feel free to dump points on me! 7 hours to go, will try for 1k for the 4th time ever in a couple hours.. hoping it goes well!!

    If in doubt, use a superwhale
  • Malcrof
    Malcrof Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    spectator wrote:
    Malcrof wrote:
    Sitting shielded at 966 right now.. feel free to dump points on me! 7 hours to go, will try for 1k for the 4th time ever in a couple hours.. hoping it goes well!!

    If in doubt, use a superwhale

    no whale team ups, had already thought about that, i have over 300k dp points saved lol. Figure if i can get one, bring in 2* marvel to pop off a yellow and get the team up AP and whammo!

    EDIT: I DID IT!

    WHoZVF9.jpg
  • Seantw05
    Seantw05 Posts: 77 Match Maker
    Malcrof wrote:
    spectator wrote:
    Malcrof wrote:
    Sitting shielded at 966 right now.. feel free to dump points on me! 7 hours to go, will try for 1k for the 4th time ever in a couple hours.. hoping it goes well!!

    If in doubt, use a superwhale

    no whale team ups, had already thought about that, i have over 300k dp points saved lol. Figure if i can get one, bring in 2* marvel to pop off a yellow and get the team up AP and whammo!

    EDIT: I DID IT!

    WHoZVF9.jpg

    Congrats Malcrof!
  • meekersX
    meekersX Posts: 334 Mover and Shaker
    Malcrof wrote:
    EDIT: I DID IT!
    Congratulations! It gets easier with practice, though it remains stressful. icon_e_biggrin.gif
  • Malcrof
    Malcrof Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    @sean and meekers, won't let me upvote you, so Thanks!!
  • spectator
    spectator Posts: 395 Mover and Shaker
    Good job. Welcome to the 1000 club

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