New Personal Best

JamieMadrox
JamieMadrox Posts: 1,798 Chairperson of the Boards
edited September 2015 in MPQ General Discussion
I'm not usually one to openly brag in a non-funny way, but after last night I had to, I shattered my previous first shield score which was just over 1300 points (set last event) by shielding for the first time at 1859. I'd have broken 2k, but took hits from Ducky, Stringer Bell, and a random. Not calling them out; taking hits is part of the game and I know I dish out my fair share on climbs.

Anyways, thanks to Hulkbuster, Jean Grey, a points heavy slice, and good timing I was able to hit 70+ pointers from 0-1800+. Funny part is, I'm 6th in my bracket. I think it's time we separated the high end players from the lower end players no?
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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I'd be Line if I said I wasn't impressed.
  • Chicago
    Chicago Posts: 14 Just Dropped In
    I contributed to that by losing to you twice in a row. My roster isn't as strong as yours, but the cascades your team got in their first two moves gave me no chance. I was obliterated both times by the sixth or seventh turns.

    Anyway, I'm happy to have contributed to this milestone.
  • JamieMadrox
    JamieMadrox Posts: 1,798 Chairperson of the Boards
    Chicago wrote:
    I contributed to that by losing to you twice in a row. My roster isn't as strong as yours, but the cascades your team got in their first two moves gave me no chance. I was obliterated both times by the sixth or seventh turns.

    Anyway, I'm happy to have contributed to this milestone.
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  • TheOncomingStorm
    TheOncomingStorm Posts: 489 Mover and Shaker
    I wish there would be a "champions" pvp without time slices where the t500 season scorers battle it out for the best rewards offered in any event.

    In addition to placement rewards, offer a great progressive reward for every 300 points beyond the 1300 point reward along with a pipedream progressive reward for some insane amount (4000 maybe).

    I only ask hilights get posted sporadically like scores, win % with most used team comps for that player.
  • JamieMadrox
    JamieMadrox Posts: 1,798 Chairperson of the Boards
    TheOncomingStorm wrote:
    I wish there would be a "champions" pvp without time slices where the t500 season scorers battle it out for the best rewards offered in any event.

    In addition to placement rewards, offer a great progressive reward for every 300 points beyond the 1300 point reward along with a pipedream progressive reward for some insane amount (4000 maybe).

    I only ask hilights get posted sporadically like scores, win % with most used team comps for that player.
    Leagues.
  • Malcrof
    Malcrof Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    Jamie Madrox wrote:
    TheOncomingStorm wrote:
    I wish there would be a "champions" pvp without time slices where the t500 season scorers battle it out for the best rewards offered in any event.

    In addition to placement rewards, offer a great progressive reward for every 300 points beyond the 1300 point reward along with a pipedream progressive reward for some insane amount (4000 maybe).

    I only ask hilights get posted sporadically like scores, win % with most used team comps for that player.
    Leagues.

    Sweet 16 style it. First off T500, only T100 move on.. T100 , only T50 move on, T50 to T20, T20 to T10, T10 winner takes all.

    Due to lack of standard points, no shielding allowed, and random gauntlet style teams are in the mix, point values for those vary by difficulty level, cannot target the same player more than 5x in 1 day once you hit the T100.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    You think you're good??? Ha, I beat my previous best PVP Last night by a whopping 16 Points when I reached the promised land of 814 and claimed myself a Hulk cover - He is 3 stars you know? Pushed my Hulk up to a monnsterous 4,0,0 which I believe is the optimum build.

    Go me
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    Jamie Madrox wrote:
    Anyways, thanks to Hulkbuster, Jean Grey
    How'd you avoid triggering anger without a stunner? TU or 30 red?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    How'd you avoid triggering anger without a stunner? TU or 30 red?

    I'm guessing it goes anger > match 5 > team stunned
  • CrookedKnight
    CrookedKnight Posts: 2,579 Chairperson of the Boards
    Or green->purple->red with less than 30 AP but still a decent number -> dead Hulk and wounded everybody else. You can also just beat the **** out of Hulk and then use Mind over Matter to replace six pending Anger tiles with just one.
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    CrookedKnight wrote:
    use Mind over Matter to replace six pending Anger tiles with just one.
    Ah! I didn't even think of that. That's it.
  • moogles85
    moogles85 Posts: 187 Tile Toppler
    simonsez wrote:
    Jamie Madrox wrote:
    Anyways, thanks to Hulkbuster, Jean Grey
    How'd you avoid triggering anger without a stunner? TU or 30 red?

    It's Jamie Madrox. He gets angrier than Hulk and hulk backs down.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Congrats to you! I had the opposite experience. Was unable to break T100 with almost 700 points (personal best). Which has previously never been an issue for me.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I was in slice 2 and took 16th place with 1034. First place was 1479... how strange the values between different slices lol.

    Grats btw. Now they just need a 2k progression icon_razz.gif
  • AXP_isme
    AXP_isme Posts: 809 Critical Contributor
    I managed a new PB too, I got to 1k for the first time ever.

    I'm trying hard not to think about what a mess I made of shield hopping and how much HP I wasted because 1k! Woo! icon_e_biggrin.gif
  • Xenoberyll
    Xenoberyll Posts: 647 Critical Contributor
    Considering you took 62 points from me even though i was shielded and several others had been blocked by my shield already, this is not surprising... icon_e_wink.gif
  • TxMoose
    TxMoose Posts: 4,319 Chairperson of the Boards
    congrats Jamie. I too managed a personal best which is a miracle after last night. last night I struggled mightily. running 166s, I tried to tread water at 600. nope. so, starting my push from 490 at 12-13 hours from event end (usually somewhat quiet), hits started coming in at 700 and it hamster wheeled at 800. ended last night at 790 with 2 hops and event end left. kept a familiar name and a top alliances queued. very good morning hop up to 909 and another single match hop to 978 I had event end left. broke with 8 minutes left (to give time to retreat a bad start), did 2 matches and no hits came in. ended up at 1103 for a t50 finish. I had broken 1100 once before but server was down and I was ocd about being first back on and got several extra matches in late in that event that really shouldn't have happened, so I don't count that one. anyway, congrats. I just look forward to the day I can walk up to 1000 and 2-3 hop 1300. that looks so nice right now.
  • JamieMadrox
    JamieMadrox Posts: 1,798 Chairperson of the Boards
    To answer how I avoided triggering anger, it's basically a combination of all of the suggestions. Knowing how to use a team is as important as having the best team. 95% of the time I'll just save enough AP to grind down Hulk enough to punch him to death with HB. It generally looked like this:

    Overdrive
    (target hulk)
    Hulk-Proof
    Full of Surprises
    Mind Over Matter
    Repulsor Punch
    Match

    If Hulk is still alive the 2+ anger tiles from the punch, match, and cascade generally make a match 5 which kills hulk and stuns anyone else that may still be alive.

    Yes I boost.
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    Jamie Madrox wrote:
    Yes I boost.
    For you, +6 is hard-coded into the game, isn't it?
  • Orangecrush
    Orangecrush Posts: 119
    So, what you are saying is that xmen did a great job of creating points.

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