Riggy wrote: walkyourpath wrote: Man, I would love to make a run up to 1200 for that red Psylocke, but there's not enough points in the eco-system right now. I'm at 944, and most matches are giving me 6-8. Can't see making it there before every retaliation is the equivalent of 20 wins to overcome. At least you can grab it pretty easily from round 2 of Mags Mayhem. Top 50 get red while I need to strive for top 15 to get the blue I need.
walkyourpath wrote: Man, I would love to make a run up to 1200 for that red Psylocke, but there's not enough points in the eco-system right now. I'm at 944, and most matches are giving me 6-8. Can't see making it there before every retaliation is the equivalent of 20 wins to overcome.
Roya PQ wrote: Ben Grimm wrote: I went to bed in second place, at a little over 600 points, unshielded, 50 or so points behind first. I woke up at about 670 points, in first, 100 points ahead of second. I had won three defensive matches in the night, two to the same guy for +30 and +28 points, and lost one to end up +58 for the night. I had debated throwing up a shield before going to work but now I want to see what happens. This has been a slightly odd tournament for me. I'm not complaining. Man that guy must have had revenge on his mind to lose twice to you hahaha.
Ben Grimm wrote: I went to bed in second place, at a little over 600 points, unshielded, 50 or so points behind first. I woke up at about 670 points, in first, 100 points ahead of second. I had won three defensive matches in the night, two to the same guy for +30 and +28 points, and lost one to end up +58 for the night. I had debated throwing up a shield before going to work but now I want to see what happens. This has been a slightly odd tournament for me. I'm not complaining.
Kamahl-FoK wrote: I've been getting attacked a lot more than I'd think in this tournament. And I'm successfully defending most of the time, it seems!
Ben Grimm wrote: I think that this may be a side-effect of the skip tax, in a couple of ways. I think for one, people are more likely to take a match that may be too much for them to avoid a skip, including retaliating, and for the other, since a lot of us are beating up on weaker teams rather than paying to skip them (I know I am, somewhat reluctantly), we're getting retaliated against by people who don't realize they're going to lose.
Vector Mangler wrote: Is it just me or are there a surprising number of high level Psylocke's running around in this tournament? Maybe I'm just in a weird MMR grouping but I'm seeing a lot of 50-100 Psylockes and have gone up against two different 141 Psylockes so far in this event. It's a bit surprising considering how recently the character was released. I was pretty proud of my 51 Psylocke, who is max level considering the 2/2/2 build I currently have, but I'm apparently small potatoes against the people I'm playing. Is Psylocke just that cool/popular that people are dumping HP into her indiscriminately? Or am I just seeing a weird edge case?
Vector Mangler wrote: Is Psylocke just that cool/popular that people are dumping HP into her indiscriminately? Or am I just seeing a weird edge case?
Kamahl-FoK wrote: Vector Mangler wrote: Is Psylocke just that cool/popular that people are dumping HP into her indiscriminately? Or am I just seeing a weird edge case? Well compared to Daredevil she's the bee's knees, and her red/blacks are fun and spammable enough to merit capping off if you're close (and impatient). She's a faster, lower-damage (overall) Punisher with a bit more narrow scope, but her attack tiles hit harder and her red can become fairly cheap in the long term (although I can never get 3 strike tiles to stick).
Emeryt wrote: 2hrs ago I started slowly grinding my way up, from about 350 (I lost about 150pts in the last 20hrs) up to 700 (2nd guy is shielding at 630, then there are 2 ppl above 500, the rest is 400+), when I wanted to shield for 8hrs. No retaliations, no attacks. Just when I hit 700, I got a cascade of attacks and dropped about 80pts. I was able to get some points back, but the attacks kept on comming. Finally shielded at 670 in #1, hopefully I won't end further than top5. EDIT: got hit, but won. at 690pts right now. good.
Ben Grimm wrote: Kamahl-FoK wrote: I've been getting attacked a lot more than I'd think in this tournament. And I'm successfully defending most of the time, it seems! I think that this may be a side-effect of the skip tax, in a couple of ways. I think for one, people are more likely to take a match that may be too much for them to avoid a skip, including retaliating, and for the other, since a lot of us are beating up on weaker teams rather than paying to skip them (I know I am, somewhat reluctantly), we're getting retaliated against by people who don't realize they're going to lose.