PVE: Thick as Thieves (September 28 - October 2)

lukewin

End times (Central Daylight Time):
Thursday, October 1st 6:00 AM / 11:00 AM / 4:00 PM / 10:00 PM / 1:00 AM on Friday, October 2nd

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Elektra (Essential) Iceman Mr. Fantastic The Thing Star-Lord


She-Hulk (Essential) Loki Mystique Captain Marvel Cyclops Daredevil


Wolverine (Essential) Storm Human Torch


Black Widow Juggernaut

Progression awards:

100:
500: 100
1000: rainbow damage boost
1600:
2600: rainbow AP stockpile
3900: 140
5400: Human Torch
7000: 140
9000:
11000: 140
13500: Wolverine
16000: 250
18500: 25
21000: 250
24000: She-Hulk
27000: 500
31500: 25
36500:
42000: 1000
48000:

Placement rewards:

1-2: Ant-Man + rewards for 3-10
3-10: Storm , 1500 , 50
11-20: Storm , 1500 , 50
21-50: Storm , 1000 , 50
51-100: Storm , 1000 , 25
101-150: Storm , 500 , 25
151-200: Black Widow , 500 , 25
201-300: Black Widow , 500
301-400: Black Widow , 250
401-500: x 3, 250
501-600: x 2, 250
601-800: , 250
801-1000: 250

Alliance rewards:
1-2: Storm , 2500 , 100
3-10: Storm , 2500 , 50
11-25: Storm , 1500 , 50
26-50: Storm , 1000 , 50
51-100: Storm , 500 , 25
101-250: 500 , 25
251-500: 250 , 25
501-1000: 250
1001-10000: 140

Previous runs

PVE: Thick as Thieves (July 16-21)
Thick as Thieves - May 7 - May 12
Thick as Thieves (1 Apr - 8 Apr 2015)
Thick As Thieves: Jan 26 - Feb 3
Thick As Thieves: Nov 19th - Nov 25th
Thick as Thieves - Aug 5-11

djpt05

Not sure if 44K is even obtainable... I've done 3 clears of the first sub (not optimal ) and I'm at 9K

Malcrof

djpt05 wrote:

Not sure if 44K is even obtainable... I've done 3 clears of the first sub (not optimal ) and I'm at 9K

Point values go up each node, and WAY up on the final, i think i hit 50k for a t50 last time it was run.

Trying to go off memory here, but keep trucking, you will snag it.

Kjeldbjerg

First clear of sub 2 gives you 3530, with one of the nodes being non-repeatable, so 3330 pr clear.

Quebbster

djpt05 wrote:

Not sure if 44K is even obtainable... I've done 3 clears of the first sub (not optimal ) and I'm at 9K

It always looks that way in the first sub. The points will rise...

Bowgentle

Quebbster wrote:

djpt05 wrote:

Not sure if 44K is even obtainable... I've done 3 clears of the first sub (not optimal ) and I'm at 9K

It always looks that way in the first sub. The points will rise...

Yeah, like in the last 50 PVEs, 25% increase from one sub to the next.
As soon as you've done your first clear in sub 1 you know exactly how many clears in every sub you need to do.

Malcrof

If i remember correctly, the hardest node in all of PVE (Business Partners) is worth like 800 points by itself.

rowdster

Best team ups for this event? I'm doing o.k. with 240 daredevil, 235 Cyclops, 234 she-hulk, but it seems like I could do better, needing just a little less healing to clear a set.

My ~strategy~ is to use cyclops yellow to get reds for DD, and occasionally she-hulk them with green, and a cyclops black if I get a good run. And sometimes I get to rarely stun with DD blue.

My "B" team is patch/loki with whoever, or patch/loki/falcon for the goons.

fmftint

Glad they took the Don out of the Magneto/IM node

TheRealJRad

djpt05 wrote:

Not sure if 44K is even obtainable... I've done 3 clears of the first sub (not optimal ) and I'm at 9K

I was wondering the same. I had to start late and missed one clear, but the points are really, really low. Hopefully, as others have mentioned, we see some bigger boosts in the last sub.

Currently have 9125. I did a double clear of the first sub last night and some grinding close to the end, then a clear of the second sub. I don't have A-Wolvie anymore and my Elektra is sitting on the bench, waiting for HP, so that probably hurts as well.

Unknown

Pve improved a lot. Now lack new scenarios and villains. No more tournaments a week. Thus other players have more opportunities to acquire new rewards. I play it by legendary token and sometimes for some 4-star reward. For me only lack the covers of 3 stars: Quicksilver, Vision and Kamala Khan.

rowdster

I seem to be getting along faster using Cyclops yellow to repeatedly red-bash with she-hulk. I have electra in the mix as well, but maybe there's a better 3rd team member?

Seantw05

TheRealJRad wrote:

djpt05 wrote:

Not sure if 44K is even obtainable... I've done 3 clears of the first sub (not optimal ) and I'm at 9K

I was wondering the same. I had to start late and missed one clear, but the points are really, really low. Hopefully, as others have mentioned, we see some bigger boosts in the last sub.

Currently have 9125. I did a double clear of the first sub last night and some grinding close to the end, then a clear of the second sub. I don't have A-Wolvie anymore and my Elektra is sitting on the bench, waiting for HP, so that probably hurts as well.

An old alliance-mate had 87k the last time this ran, though a majority of us were in the 60-70k range. There are big points later on, especially in the final sub. Don't sweat it; even without wolvie, you'll make it no problem

Matthew G

As far as teams for this event, I'm mainly sticking with my Cyclops (lv 89), Captain America (lv 142), and other character (ranges from 2* Human Torch (lv 150) to IM40 (lv 166) to tank red matches for Cap. or She-Hulk (lv 247) for her Green and Red abilities). It's been working pretty well for the stronger nodes.
On the lower level nodes, I stick with my 2* Daken (lv 94), 2* Wolvie (lv 150), and a misc. 2* in order to save on health packs and for the quick clears.
When my main team dies, I usually try to sub with GSBW (lv 166) and Scarlet Witch (lv 127) to farm Purple tiles. It has amazing synergy when you can finally get it going.
Other teams I've tried are Blade/Black Panther for their strike tiles and Doc. Ock. just because I leveled him up to 140 from the last event and I'm trying to justify it .

djpt05

I've been getting away with Astonishing Wolverine, Falcon and Black Panther for the most part

JVReal

I've been using Cyc, Mystique, and Loki/Falcon.

Played around with Shulk on a few of the goon nodes, helpful in draining that goon AP so the tiles don't get spammed so much.

OneLastGambit

Easy nodes :2* daken, thor, doom.

Hard :2* wolvie, C Storm, 2* Johnny storm

So far it's not been too bad

Akari

So far I've done really well in this PvE with She Hulk ~120, Cyclops 127, Surfer 270 (red). Cyclops pumps red to She Hulk, Surfer makes it so my regular matches do big damage, and She Hulk does basically all the work with damage, tile steal, AP drain. Works better because She Hulk only tanks green which I only match if there's nothing else.

For easier nodes I just play with lv91 IF and random other people.

Gorca

Any advice on the Anderson Bio- Technic VII?
My strongest characters are Cyclops, KK, IF, GSBW (maxed) and DD/ She-Hulk (near max).
I keep getting wiped when threaten goes off (791/tile at 207). Maybe I just have lousy luck getting matches but I end up getting overwhelmed pretty quickly.

Arimis_Thorn

Gorca wrote:

Any advice on the Anderson Bio- Technic VII?
My strongest characters are Cyclops, KK, IF, GSBW (maxed) and DD/ She-Hulk (near max).
I keep getting wiped when threaten goes off (791/tile at 207). Maybe I just have lousy luck getting matches but I end up getting overwhelmed pretty quickly.

I've been running Cyke & Loki (maxed) with She-Hulk (cover-maxed) and have been having no issues. Between Loki and She Hulk converting tiles, I find myself letting the Threaten countdown tiles resolve just so I can steal them.

OneLastGambit

I've cruised every node with my 2* Wolvie, Torch and Storm so far... just got to business partners and the who... man these are going to be very tough nodes even with boosted essentials