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Other that that bracket time tends to end in inconveneint time for my schedule, I don't really have problem with this tournament, and I'm actually in a very bad spot in my main bracket (roughly tied with #2) so I actually have more to lose compared to most people.

I'm also grinding a bit more than I otherwise would to make sure I get the 8000 iso8 reward. Although history says I should be able to get it comfortably, I figure it's best to not take chances.

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I'm only just over 100k (1st in Main bracket) so I doubt I'll get the 8K ISO reward.

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Phantron wrote:

Other that that bracket time tends to end in inconveneint time for my schedule, I don't really have problem with this tournament, and I'm actually in a very bad spot in my main bracket (roughly tied with #2) so I actually have more to lose compared to most people.

I'm also grinding a bit more than I otherwise would to make sure I get the 8000 iso8 reward. Although history says I should be able to get it comfortably, I figure it's best to not take chances.

I don't reckon "roughly tied with #2" is all that bad!

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allorin wrote:

Phantron wrote:

Other that that bracket time tends to end in inconveneint time for my schedule, I don't really have problem with this tournament, and I'm actually in a very bad spot in my main bracket (roughly tied with #2) so I actually have more to lose compared to most people.

I'm also grinding a bit more than I otherwise would to make sure I get the 8000 iso8 reward. Although history says I should be able to get it comfortably, I figure it's best to not take chances.

I don't reckon "roughly tied with #2" is all that bad!

More stressful than say, being in 8th. Especially if you need/want the Invisible Woman cover.

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beezer37_84 wrote:

allorin wrote:

Phantron wrote:

Other that that bracket time tends to end in inconveneint time for my schedule, I don't really have problem with this tournament, and I'm actually in a very bad spot in my main bracket (roughly tied with #2) so I actually have more to lose compared to most people.

I'm also grinding a bit more than I otherwise would to make sure I get the 8000 iso8 reward. Although history says I should be able to get it comfortably, I figure it's best to not take chances.

I don't reckon "roughly tied with #2" is all that bad!

More stressful than say, being in 8th. Especially if you need/want the Invisible Woman cover.

Being in 8th is plenty stressful for me. You still get all three Psylocke powers if you come in #3.

Unknown

#1 in my main with 113k.
2nd has 110k.

3rd is 94k / 10th at 78k.

Me and #2 have been going back and forth all tourney slowly increasing out spread from the rest. Unless something drastic happens in the final round I feel pretty comfortable.

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Psykopathic wrote:

#1 in my main with 113k.
2nd has 110k.

3rd is 94k / 10th at 78k.

Me and #2 have been going back and forth all tourney slowly increasing out spread from the rest. Unless something drastic happens in the final round I feel pretty comfortable.

Psyko, if you don't mind me asking, how much time do you put in daily? I'm on 80k with about 3 hrs per day, but if I played any more I'd be hearing from the divorce lawyers!

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allorin wrote:

Psykopathic wrote:

#1 in my main with 113k.
2nd has 110k.

3rd is 94k / 10th at 78k.

Me and #2 have been going back and forth all tourney slowly increasing out spread from the rest. Unless something drastic happens in the final round I feel pretty comfortable.

Psyko, if you don't mind me asking, how much time do you put in daily? I'm on 80k with about 3 hrs per day, but if I played any more I'd be hearing from the divorce lawyers!

It just depends how busy I am. This tourney I've been playing 1 long session per day. I grind out points from highest scoring missions until my team or me just can't go anymore. After that if I get bored I'll grind out 500 ISO prizes from low point missions that I don't care about when they reset. Haven't really paid attention to how many hours. 3 per session prolly. So up to 6 if I do 2 sessions.

SolidQ

What do you use to beat Devil Dino + Punisher + Bag Man ?

Thor + OBW + M.Storm very easy beat dino (that for any round work). Because this is forest map and you generate massive ap

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locked wrote:

Yeah I'm curious, if one finishes just top 20-50-whatever in the current subs, can one count for lower levels next round? Or for the rubberbanding kicking in?

I'm not sure if/how placement in subs impacts enemy levels (my guess is it doesn't), so that's a little trickier to predict. As for rubberbanding, your placement in the later subs won't reflect how far behind the overall event leader you are - it's tough to tell anything from subs after the first round, because people joining the event late will often skew the picture in any given sub.

locked wrote:

So that one could, too, just keep floating around top 10 in main without paying too much attention to subs? Is that what you're doing?

Yeppers! For example, I'm leading in my main bracket by about 13K, but I get full rubberband multipliers at each refresh because the overall event leaders (who aren't in any of my brackets) are earning enough rank points. So, I'm essentially drafting on their grinds for max points right now.

I'll probably place highly in this and the last hard subs, but I'm really only focused on getting 3 covers for Psylocke with minimal effort. As my main bracket competitors get burnt out or hit the scaling wall, it means even less work to do to maintain/extend my lead. I'll probably miss out on the 250K ISO progression reward, but I can live with that.

Bacon Pants

I will break 100k sometime this afternoon...I've been poaching the hard mode this time around. I'm not even wasting my time with Devil Dino. I'd really like to get to 200K for Patch, hopefully I can pull that off.

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SolidQ wrote:

What do you use to beat Devil Dino + Punisher + Bag Man ?

Thor + OBW + M.Storm very easy beat dino (that for any round work). Because this is forest map and you generate massive ap

I have had reasonable success with OBW + mStorm + Daken and considering the lvl 85/35/ and 30 its a laugh when they beat lvl 200+ mobs. Its really touch and go some
times as OBW must have enough purple to stop dino getting 6 green but use the fact while the punisher is alive hes the one which will use green.

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walkyourpath wrote:

Yeppers! For example, I'm leading in my main bracket by about 13K, but I get full rubberband multipliers at each refresh because the overall event leaders (who aren't in any of my brackets) are earning enough rank points. So, I'm essentially drafting on their grinds for max points right now.

I just do the big payout missions when max rubberbanding is in play. Due to work and the reset time I can really only get one shot in each day. Max rubber banding just dropped of as I hit 112K points thats worth only second place in my band with every in the top 10 over 95K. I have no hope of making top 10 as I am away Wednesday/Thursday just hope to have enought points not to drop out of the top 50 by then. I wait a few hours then hit another 2 missions at max band before I call it a day.

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It's a bit daft when you may as well give up after the AIs first move, because it's now got so much AP you're going to get crushed.

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Psykopathic wrote:

It just depends how busy I am. This tourney I've been playing 1 long session per day. I grind out points from highest scoring missions until my team or me just can't go anymore. After that if I get bored I'll grind out 500 ISO prizes from low point missions that I don't care about when they reset. Haven't really paid attention to how many hours. 3 per session prolly. So up to 6 if I do 2 sessions.

Cheers. Just curious. I can't keep up with you big boys!

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Not sure if this was the design intention, but I've given up on normal mode. All the higher pt mobs in there are lvl 200+ for me, and it's not worth grinding out past the initial play for ISO bonus. The people ahead of me all have newb rosters, so I know they are seeing easy mobs due to MMR, and that won't change much in the near future, while I've already peaked. It would not take them long to do 1-2 clears, while it would take me at least a few hours to do the same.

Meanwhile, in Hard Mode, I initally noticed a lot of newb rosters at max pts.....but now I think the community MMR is catching up to them, because I have pulled into the lead, hopefully for good.

I guess this is a good way to separate the newer players from the ones with more advanced rosters, it will allow newer players to place well because it deters higher ranked players from poaching the normal tournament unless they want to grind.....but if that's the case, rewards should be different imo. Keep the heroic tokens for the normal mode, but the hard mode should reward 3* tokens (maybe diabolical?) for the higher levels.

I have a feeling alot of others are doing the same, because I have been able to maintain my #2 spot in the main bracket just by doing hard mode. I do think it's a good balance that the hard mode rewards roughly triple the points of normal mode.

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Is anyone even close to getting 8kiso reward or the progression rewards past 150k? I'm 3rd at 112k and 1st is at 122k. They look unacheiveable at this point unless you want to grind 24/7...

Bacon Pants

TheFallen wrote:

Is anyone even close to getting 8kiso reward or the progression rewards past 150k? I'm 3rd at 112k and 1st is at 122k. They look unacheiveable at this point unless you want to grind 24/7...

Someone by the name of Gapsule (highest character level 61 Daken) has 153,000. I have seen a lot of this person lately and haven't seen any of their characters level up.

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150k thats crazy. I've played much too much on the weekend won all my hard brackets, top 5 in the easy ones, consistently top 3 in my main and he has double my points

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Just got a blue C. Magneto from one of the standard tokens from mission rewards. Almost makes me want to continue grinding those low point mission until I get all their reward token... almost.