Blue Shift - September 09 - 12 - Season XVIII

Moon Roach

BLUE SHIFT:

This Event:
Pietro Maximoff

New Characters:
:mrfantastic: Reed Richards
Sam Wilson Captain America

This Week:

Unkillable
Scott Lang

Wanda Maximoff
Classic
Steve Rogers Super Soldier
It's Me, Deadpool!
Otto Octavius

Astonishing X-Men
Dark Avengers

Dark Avengers
Classic

Single Player Rewards

1. All rewards from the previous rank + :mrfantastic:
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

Quebbster

What's a good slice to pick if you want to go for the 1300 point progression? I used to pick slice 1, but it seems to have dried up lately. I really want more Hulkbuster covers... And since my season position seems to be busted anyway I may not bother to shield after hitting 1300.

Unknown

What level should I leave prof x at to properly do the infinite?

Ludaa

A word of warning. I don't know how often everyone chooses to fight Xforce Deadpool, but take care when leveling your QS. Buffed to 210, his blue at 3 covers comes eerily close to setting off DP's black. Would make for some nasty surprises.

Vhailorx

Yup, I further confirm OJSP.

Match passives that trigger off a match trigger first for the matching team (human or ai). So you always want to be the matchor with 4 locked tiles, or matchee with 3 tiles. Same applies if you trigger a cascade. And don't bait the ai into making blue matches with 4 locked tiles on the board.

TxMoose

4 locked you want to match blue and 3 locked you want them matching it. I have that right? is it consistently applied every time?

Vhailorx

TxMoose wrote:

4 locked you want to match blue and 3 locked you want them matching it. I have that right? is it consistently applied every time?

So far it's been consistent for single matches. I am still trying to sort out how cascades/multiple matches work after being hit a couple of times when I didn't expect it. I think it works the same way, alternating firings starting with the matchor, but I haven't locked down the order yet, and things can get tricky if it's match, lock tile, cascade, match, lock tile, ??? Will update.

Pongie

For cascades, I see the tiles are created in order. So if you made the match and got another from cascade then you create 1 before AI create 1 and repeat. I think daken strike tiles work the same way.

Also got hit by someone with a high level quicksilver... close to 3k (2.8k) to the team.

lukewin

TxMoose wrote:

4 locked you want to match blue and 3 locked you want them matching it. I have that right? is it consistently applied every time?

I would say I believe this to be true. I endorse it 99.9%, on the chance I could be wrong. 4 locked, make the match, 3 locked, let the AI make it

Pongie

OJSP wrote:

It's quite subtle, but the Blue bar that says Supersonic will either swing from the left or right.. I've had 2 swinging from the left before 2 swinging from the right.

Never noticed that. I'll keep an eye on it during my next climb.

lukewin

OJSP wrote:

Btw, i've read somewhere, you intend to re-spec your Quicksilver to 5/3/5 after this event? even though his event is infrequent, wouldn't it be better just to keep him 5/5/3?

Correct. His event is infrequent, so that is why I am re-spec'ing. He is likely to be more useful to me, at 5/3/5, for PVE. He will be buffed the same weeks for PVP, but people are less likely to use him, outside of him being the feature, where you have to use him. So since I am more likely to use him outside of his event, I will re-spec for when he will be most useful to me. I thought 5/5/3 would be best, with blue being aoe and black being able to help blue go off, but last time he was buffed, I found that blue hardly goes off, so I'd rather have the increased damage in black and green.

Vhailorx

Pongie wrote:

OJSP wrote:

It's quite subtle, but the Blue bar that says Supersonic will either swing from the left or right.. I've had 2 swinging from the left before 2 swinging from the right.

Never noticed that. I'll keep an eye on it during my next climb.

From left = your supersonic

From right = ai's supersonic.

Unknown

Quebbster wrote:

What's a good slice to pick if you want to go for the 1300 point progression? I used to pick slice 1, but it seems to have dried up lately. I really want more Hulkbuster covers... And since my season position seems to be busted anyway I may not bother to shield after hitting 1300.

Did you join Slice 1 ? I am in similar position, want 1300 and looking for a right slice

Quebbster

X23 wrote:

Quebbster wrote:

What's a good slice to pick if you want to go for the 1300 point progression? I used to pick slice 1, but it seems to have dried up lately. I really want more Hulkbuster covers... And since my season position seems to be busted anyway I may not bother to shield after hitting 1300.

Did you join Slice 1 ? I am in similar position, want 1300 and looking for a right slice

I haven't joined yet. I focused on Smash hit yesterday and then the Gauntlet. I intend to focus on Blue Shift tonight.

lukewin

lukewin wrote:

OJSP wrote:

Btw, i've read somewhere, you intend to re-spec your Quicksilver to 5/3/5 after this event? even though his event is infrequent, wouldn't it be better just to keep him 5/5/3?

Correct. His event is infrequent, so that is why I am re-spec'ing. He is likely to be more useful to me, at 5/3/5, for PVE. He will be buffed the same weeks for PVP, but people are less likely to use him, outside of him being the feature, where you have to use him. So since I am more likely to use him outside of his event, I will re-spec for when he will be most useful to me. I thought 5/5/3 would be best, with blue being aoe and black being able to help blue go off, but last time he was buffed, I found that blue hardly goes off, so I'd rather have the increased damage in black and green.

Another factor I put in, team composition. Regarding AP gen; GSBW and Kamala Khan can create green tiles. Cap Marvel, Doctor Doom, Iron Fist and Mystique can create black tiles / add black AP; SW can create purple to feed GSBW or IF. A lot more synergy on the 3* tier to feed green and black powers. I think 2* Magneto is the only one that can create blue tiles. Hmm, might try SW and 2* Magneto in PVP, although probably only at the lower levels, since a 94 Magneto in PVP is gonna paint a big target on me.

Just realized before the retcon, that the trio is father and kids.

Vhailorx

Supersonic Update:

As stated yesterday, the processing order seems to be:

(1) Matchor's supersonic
(2) Process the match and any resulting cascades
(3) Matchee's supersonic


the problem is that step 2 can produce either another blue match, or match away an existing locked tile. In that case, the processing order seems to remain the same, but the second match maybe become nested within the first.

Consider the following scenario that happened to me earlier:

2 locked tiles on the board. I made a blue match that I knew would lead into a second blue match. I expected things to go my supersonic, ai's supersonic, my supersonic (Boom!), ai makes one more locked tile.

Instead, things went my supersonic, (I think) my supersonic, ai's supersonic (ouch!), (I think) ai's supersonic. I think there are only two possible explanations:

(1) The supersonics nest, so if you make a blue match that cascades into another blue match, the game processes both of your matches before moving on to the ai's mathces, or

(2) the cascade matched away an existing locked tile that I didn't notice, throwing off the odds/evens dynamic.

Sadly, I don't remember if there was one locked tile remaining on the board after that scenario happened. I am trying to recreate the event without much luck so far.

Additionally, has anyone found a sustainable team for this event? between supersonic and quicksilver spamming black and green when there are locked tiles on the board, this event has been chewing through healthpacks very fast (just about the only fast thing about quicksilver's design. . .)

Unknown

Quebbster wrote:

X23 wrote:

Quebbster wrote:

What's a good slice to pick if you want to go for the 1300 point progression? I used to pick slice 1, but it seems to have dried up lately. I really want more Hulkbuster covers... And since my season position seems to be busted anyway I may not bother to shield after hitting 1300.

Did you join Slice 1 ? I am in similar position, want 1300 and looking for a right slice

I haven't joined yet. I focused on Smash hit yesterday and then the Gauntlet. I intend to focus on Blue Shift tonight.

Lol, me too. Good luck getting there.

lukewin

Vhailorx wrote:

Additionally, has anyone found a sustainable team for this event? between supersonic and quicksilver spamming black and green when there are locked tiles on the board, this event has been chewing through healthpacks very fast (just about the only fast thing about quicksilver's design. . .)

I'm only in the 700s, but I've had plenty of success with my 140s, 553 QS, 355 LCap and 535 SW. I got to 740 yesterday, was just trying to grab the HP at 725, so I didn't push any higher. Had a def win for 10 pts, so stopped at 750. Was expecting to be in the 300s or 400s today, but to my surprise, only lost 7 pts, because out of 4 attacks, I won 3 of them. This has been the highest proportion of def wins of attacks, that I've ever had. Def wins were for +10, +11, +9 pts, attack was for -37 pts.

Vhailorx

lukewin, wierd! don't expect to see that many defensive wins with Lcap.

I haven't had much trouble climbing to 750 or so, but the pace of attacks has really picked up above that level. and with some bad luck you are eating a supersonic or 2 and that's 3 health packs to recover. May have to pop open some tacos while shielded to top up my healthpacks.

Also, final update on supersonic processing:

I can confirm nesting behaviour.

So assume 3 locked tiles on the board:

Case 1: I make a single blue match that results in no cascades. The result is match > my supersonic > new tiles arrive > ai supersonic (boom!)

Case 2: I make a blue match that results in a cascade into another blue match. The result is match > my first supersonic > new tiles arrive > second blue match > my second supersonic (Boom!) > new tiles arrive > ai supersonic 1 > ai supersonic 2.

So things get complicated. With 3 locked tiles on the board, you WANT to make a blue match that will cascade into another blue. But with 2 locked tiles on the board, you definitely do NOT want to do so.

Additionally, a match 5 only counts as 1 match for supersonic purposes, even if it is two side-by-side match 3s.

basically in mirror matches, you are going to get burned from time to time by unpredictable cascades, but so far I have gotten the best results from sitting leaving 2 or less locked tiles out on the board, or putting out a 3rd locked tile and baiting the ai into a blue match.

lukewin

I got over 1k before I put up my 3 hr. I thought I would be shielding at 996, but the match was worth 53 instead of 46. Shielded with a 3 hr at 1003. Debated on going for 1300. Only waited 35 min before I broke. Won 1 match, lost 1 match, won another. Now shielded at 1123. Got some juicy targets lined up, so I think I might be able to hit 1300 for the first time.

Wiped to a DP4 / Thing combo. Had enough red to toss 2 shields, and probably could've taken down DP4, and definitely should've, but was worried about triggering Thing's yellow. Survived one CdfW. The 2nd CdfW was followed by a Surgical Strike team up, which took down my remaining 2, LCap and SW.

Unknown

This truly matters only to me, but this event I hit a milestone....930 points. First time above 857.