PVE Heroic: Venom (2015-12-14 to 2015-12-17)

Zombionicdoom

I can't beat 'From Russia' Bullseye, Muscle, Yelena at lvl. 176 I'm actually disgusted at what a poor player I am

Inarius

Gimme a break, Carnage/Muscle/Muscle, just how am I supposed to beat this node when I can barely connect a few tiles before the threat ones go off and I'm downed by the animal instinct T-T

stop setting up these stupid nodes!

Akari

I beat the Doc Ock/Carnage/Venom node on second try with Patch Groot Mohawk - flood the board with Mohawk's tiles and Carnage and Doc Ock can't do too much. I got the CP on the first clear and I never want to fight this node again!

Azoth658

Is it me or do they need to change Carnage's animal instinct to only activate when a countdown timer completes and when non countdown abilities activate?

I mean it would still be painful but not half as ridiculous as it currently is!

ammenell

imo carnage nodes take care of themselves - i target carnage last, try to match enemy tiles, and my own tiles do good damage to carnages teammates

groot with 5 yellow covers helps immense.
i play him with patch and thor

Azoth658

ammenell wrote:

imo carnage nodes take care of themselves - i target carnage last, try to match enemy tiles, and my own tiles do good damage to carnages teammates

groot with 5 yellow covers helps immense.
i play him with patch and thor

It's a nice strategy but if the tiles fall in the wrong place groot can be down before you get that heal especially when two or three threaten tiles go off in the same turn.

I have found I've enjoyed playing with Groot a lot more after this event definitely need to pile some ISO into him.

jordanix

I usually play for the cp and thats it. Now I get that I have to play a node somewhere between once and 10 times before being rewarded with the because of how awesome the game is deigned. I even have extra incentive given that I'm sitting at 23 c-points.

But I cant do it. Those carnage/feeder nodes are brutal, even though my team are 240's vs lvl 130's. Bah-roken.

puppychow

For those carnage nodes, I've been using SheHulk, Mohawk, StarLord. Priority is getting Mohawk bk to flood the board first, deny red second, match pink third. Unfortunately, this is a heal pk intensive sub.

simonsez

puppychow wrote:

For those carnage nodes, I've been using SheHulk, Mohawk, StarLord. Priority is getting Mohawk bk to flood the board first, deny red second, match pink third.

And then carnage hits his green or Doc Ock hits his blue, and one-shots whoever you have in front.

Unknown

LT on Star-Lord node. 1* Storm was very useful in clogging the board.

Warbringa

Zombionicdoom wrote:

I can't beat 'From Russia' Bullseye, Muscle, Yelena at lvl. 176 I'm actually disgusted at what a poor player I am

Haha, I lost the first time I played this node too and was so frustrated. The AI just got a board and, not joking here, got 4 match fives in a row. Muscle spammed threatens and tommy guns and I couldn't stop him either and eventually Yelena used her black and purple powers back to back on me. Worst PvE defeat for me in a long time.

Played it again several hours later and wasted the AI with a neutral board lol.

Warbringa

DalekGAF wrote:

Good grief-

The Odd Trio
Carnage level 224
Venom level 225
Doc Ock level 224

Any help please?

My nodes for this are at 197 and I use Grocket (240), Magneto (153) 2Thor (150). All levels are after boosts as Grocket is maxed at 166 but my Magneto is only 110 and I am still looking for 5th blue cover as is only 4/5/4 right now, not optimal.

For me this node is easy with maxed Grocket with 5 blue covers. Rush blue to get his blue strike tiles and watch all of Carnage's attack tiles kill his team in a few rounds. Grocket blue and yellow powers (self-heal) are amazing for PvE. Magneto is good for his red (blue too but I prefer Grocket blue if I have the choice) and Thor is good for yellow/green powers. I have a much more difficult time with the node of Carnage and two muscles than this one. Threaten tiles with Carnage are terrible.

stochasticism

Shulk is a godsend for the Carnage and 2x muscle node.

Tatercat

Cousin Simpson wrote:

Ugh, I'm within striking distance (i.e. 8000 points) of the LT even after I decided to play this PVE casually, so now I'm contemplating grinding the third sub now (in fact, maybe they lowered the progression to entice us into playing more / burning through health packs).

I was in the same boat yesterday. Was casually playing just for the CP's and realized I was only 9K away from the LT. Ended up grinding it down and got a X-23 for my trouble, so it was worth it.

Still never got the CP though for Odd Trio.

Warbringa

stochasticism wrote:

Shulk is a godsend for the Carnage and 2x muscle node.

I didn't have much success with her because there were so many Carnage tiles out there it usually randomly selected his attack tiles instead of the Muscle strike tiles. So I just have gone with straight offense to try and take them down fast (can't use Patch with the Carnage attack tiles though). Plus my She-Hulk is only 3/3/3 but still nice level with the boost in this sub-event.

Cousin Simpson

Tatercat wrote:

Cousin Simpson wrote:

Ugh, I'm within striking distance (i.e. 8000 points) of the LT even after I decided to play this PVE casually, so now I'm contemplating grinding the third sub now (in fact, maybe they lowered the progression to entice us into playing more / burning through health packs).

I was in the same boat yesterday. Was casually playing just for the CP's and realized I was only 9K away from the LT. Ended up grinding it down and got a X-23 for my trouble, so it was worth it.

Still never got the CP though for Odd Trio.

Haha, I ended up grinding. I beat the two Carnage nodes after all (as costly to health as they were), but then ground all the other nodes without really trying to go for the CPs.

Got my LT and, DUN DUN DUN, pulled a black Carnage. VERY FUNNY THERE MPQ.