Blue Shift - February 10 - 13

Moon Roach
Moon Roach Posts: 2,863 Chairperson of the Boards
edited February 2016 in MPQ Events, Tournaments, and Missions
BLUE SHIFT:

This Event:
icon_quicksilver.png Pietro Maximoff

New Characters:
icon_nova.png Sam "now I have an icon" Alexander

This Week:
star.pngstar.pngstar.pngstar.png
icon_cyclops.png Classic
icon_iceman.png All New X-Men
star.pngstar.pngstar.png
icon_punisher.png Dark Reign
icon_rocket.png Most Wanted
icon_storm.png Mohawk
icon_wolverine.png Patch
star.pngstar.png
icon_thor.png marvel NOW!
icon_blackwidow.png Original
star.png
icon_hawkeye.png Classic
icon_juggernaut.png Classic

Single Player Rewards

1. All rewards from the previous rank + icon_kingpin.pngpurpleflag.png
2-5. 5000 iso8.png, 100 imcoin.png, 2 commandpoints.png, icon_deadpool.pngpurpleflag.pngredflag.pngblackflag.png
6-10. 2000 iso8.png, 100 imcoin.png, 2 commandpoints.png, icon_deadpool.pngredflag.pngblackflag.png
11-25. 1000 iso8.png, 50 imcoin.png, 1 commandpoints.png, icon_deadpool.pngredflag.pngblackflag.png
26-50. 1000 iso8.png, 50 imcoin.png, 1 commandpoints.png, icon_deadpool.pngblackflag.png
51-100. 500 iso8.png, 25 imcoin.png, icon_deadpool.pngblackflag.png
101-200. 500 iso8.png, icon_thor.pngredflag.png
201-300. 250 iso8.png, icon_thor.pngredflag.png
301-400. 2x Standard Token, 140 iso8.png
401-500. Standard Token, 70 iso8.png

Progression Rewards:

25. Standard Token
50. 100 iso8.png
100. +3 All Boosts redtile.pngyellowtile.pnggreentile.pngblacktile.pngbluetile.pngpurpletile.png
200. icon_ms_marvel.pngyellowflag.png
300. Event Token
400. 25 imcoin.png
500. 1000 iso8.png
575. 25 imcoin.png
650. Event Token
725. 50 imcoin.png
800. icon_quicksilver.pngblueflag.png
850. 1000 iso8.png
900. Event Token
950. 1000 iso8.png
1000. icon_jeangrey.pngblueflag.png
1300. 25 commandpointsbig.png

Alliance rewards:

1-2. 5000 iso8.png, 250 imcoin.png, icon_deadpool.pngblackflag.png
3-10. 5000 iso8.png, 100 imcoin.png, icon_deadpool.pngblackflag.png
11-25. 3000 iso8.png, 100 imcoin.png, icon_deadpool.pngblackflag.png
25-50. 2000 iso8.png, 100 imcoin.png, icon_deadpool.pngblackflag.png
51-100. 1000 iso8.png, 50 imcoin.png, icon_deadpool.pngblackflag.png
101-250. 1000 iso8.png, 50 imcoin.png
251-500. 500 iso8.png, 25 imcoin.png
501-1000. 500 iso8.png
1001-10000. 250 iso8.png

Ending Time Countdowns

Slice 1
Slice 2
Slice 3
Slice 4
Slice 5


Previous Runs

2015 09 09 - Season XVIII
2015 04 19 - Season XIII

Comments

  • AsylumTKJ
    AsylumTKJ Posts: 149 Tile Toppler
    Don t know who to play...
    To many black/green users in the boosted chars.
  • Quebbster
    Quebbster Posts: 8,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    AsylumTKJ wrote:
    Don t know who to play...
    To many black/green users in the boosted chars.
    Iceman seems like a given if you have him at a decent level. He can use his purple to accelerate QS' passive and can use the blue AP collected. I suppose I'll use Cyclops as the third to get red/yellow coverage.
  • AsylumTKJ
    AsylumTKJ Posts: 149 Tile Toppler
    Quebbster wrote:
    AsylumTKJ wrote:
    Don t know who to play...
    To many black/green users in the boosted chars.
    Iceman seems like a given if you have him at a decent level. He can use his purple to accelerate QS' passive and can use the blue AP collected. I suppose I'll use Cyclops as the third to get red/yellow coverage.

    Infortunately, as you can see in my sign, my Iceman is not usable.
    I'va started with HB and IF, but not sure I will keep this team.
  • Quebbster
    Quebbster Posts: 8,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    AsylumTKJ wrote:
    Quebbster wrote:
    AsylumTKJ wrote:
    Don t know who to play...
    To many black/green users in the boosted chars.
    Iceman seems like a given if you have him at a decent level. He can use his purple to accelerate QS' passive and can use the blue AP collected. I suppose I'll use Cyclops as the third to get red/yellow coverage.

    Infortunately, as you can see in my sign, my Iceman is not usable.
    I'va started with HB and IF, but not sure I will keep this team.
    Didn't even notice that little link. Sorry. icon_e_smile.gif
    I see you have a pretty decent OBW, she might be worth trying out since she's boosted. You may even get Quicksilver to tank black and blue.
  • madsalad
    madsalad Posts: 815 Critical Contributor
    Ugh, Jean is the 1K reward? This means I have to actually try. Feh.
  • pabasa130
    pabasa130 Posts: 208 Tile Toppler
    madsalad wrote:
    Ugh, Jean is the 1K reward? This means I have to actually try. Feh.

    with 24 hours to go my slice's top scorer has 800 points.

    icon_cry.gif

    And icon_jeangrey.pngblueflag.png is the last cover I need too. *sigh*
  • ilikecake
    ilikecake Posts: 12 Just Dropped In
    I have never been so close to quitting this game. I want to cry.

    I want the stupid Jean Grey cover SO BAD. RNG has been particularly cruel to me on legendary tokens - I have max covers for IW and Elektra, but almost none for Jean, Hulkbuster, Classic Cyclops, or Iceman. And now that covers cost CP rather than HP, I'm unlikely to be in a position to buy any.

    I started my push last night and spent a bunch on shields. I stopped at like 950 then went to bed. 

    This morning -

    First fight - game lies about the team I attack and it only ends up being worth 6 lousy points. Shield again. 

    Second fight - gets me to like 990. Shield again. 

    All the teams the game is offering me now are super high level iceman/classic Cyclops combos. I have no boosted 4* toons. **** my life. 

    Third fight - Terrible match luck and I lose. Decide to fight again (big mistake). Win for 50 points, but also get hit like 7 times and drop to 910. Shield, but none left off cool down for 3 hours, and I'm unlikely to be able to play then, and the event ends shortly thereafter.

    I have been playing this game devotedly for 2 years and i have never been so frustrated and tempted to say that's it.
  • Monged4life
    Monged4life Posts: 420
    HAS the new matchmaking mechanic been tried out for this event instead of the Beast one they announced? Because I've not been offered any team worth more than 40 points for this, and every 40 point team is a jean buster from 600 points. I used to be able to climb to 800 before having to fight that every game! (before you ask, no I don't have a 5* rostered.)
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    Monged4life wrote:
    HAS the new matchmaking mechanic been tried out for this event instead of the Beast one they announced? Because I've not been offered any team worth more than 40 points for this, and every 40 point team is a jean buster from 600 points. I used to be able to climb to 800 before having to fight that every game! (before you ask, no I don't have a 5* rostered.)
    It's off season.
    Fewer people shield and hop at high points, fewer points trickle down.
  • Monged4life
    Monged4life Posts: 420
    Bowgentle wrote:
    Monged4life wrote:
    HAS the new matchmaking mechanic been tried out for this event instead of the Beast one they announced? Because I've not been offered any team worth more than 40 points for this, and every 40 point team is a jean buster from 600 points. I used to be able to climb to 800 before having to fight that every game! (before you ask, no I don't have a 5* rostered.)
    It's off season.
    Fewer people shield and hop at high points, fewer points trickle down.

    I suppose, I was hoping that would be counteracted by the fact they put Jean as the 1000 pointer.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    This is insane...quicksilvers insanely slow animation, why??? Does anyone in d3go do some test of this?. Or devs just, he lets make animations even longer, its fun to see 1minutes animation

    Hate this tournament...
  • Tatercat
    Tatercat Posts: 930 Critical Contributor
    BlackBoltRocks wrote:
    ilikecake wrote:
    I have never been so close to quitting this game. I want to cry.

    I want the stupid Jean Grey cover SO BAD. RNG has been particularly cruel to me on legendary tokens - I have max covers for IW and Elektra, but almost none for Jean, Hulkbuster, Classic Cyclops, or Iceman. And now that covers cost CP rather than HP, I'm unlikely to be in a position to buy any.

    I started my push last night and spent a bunch on shields. I stopped at like 950 then went to bed. 

    This morning -

    First fight - game lies about the team I attack and it only ends up being worth 6 lousy points. Shield again. 

    Second fight - gets me to like 990. Shield again. 

    All the teams the game is offering me now are super high level iceman/classic Cyclops combos. I have no boosted 4* toons. tinykitty my life. 

    Third fight - Terrible match luck and I lose. Decide to fight again (big mistake). Win for 50 points, but also get hit like 7 times and drop to 910. Shield, but none left off cool down for 3 hours, and I'm unlikely to be able to play then, and the event ends shortly thereafter.

    I have been playing this game devotedly for 2 years and i have never been so frustrated and tempted to say that's it.
    This is why i will never bother trying for 1000 again. Made that mistake, learnt my lesson.

    I'm just going to play like i always have: join in the final hour and aim for 600-700. Much less stress, and i actually get to enjoy playing. Which is what every game ultimately should be: enjoyment.

    I think of this quote from Game of Thrones quote every time I think of high end PVP and why I don't bother anymore:

    Littlefinger: "Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some, given a chance to climb, they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is."

    I think I've fallen into the broken category at this point, "never to try again". Quite content to just get my 300-500 point each event with Sheild sim to get to the 4000 pt progression reward of Heroic 10 pack. Anything more, just aint worth the climb, I'm fine with the illusions.

    UPDATE: BTW for those who don't watch GoT or read the books, Lord Littlefinger is one of the worst people in the series. He would be all about the PVP.
  • pabasa130
    pabasa130 Posts: 208 Tile Toppler
    ilikecake wrote:
    I have never been so close to quitting this game. I want to cry.

    I want the stupid Jean Grey cover SO BAD. RNG has been particularly cruel to me on legendary tokens - I have max covers for IW and Elektra, but almost none for Jean, Hulkbuster, Classic Cyclops, or Iceman. And now that covers cost CP rather than HP, I'm unlikely to be in a position to buy any.

    I started my push last night and spent a bunch on shields. I stopped at like 950 then went to bed. 

    This morning -

    First fight - game lies about the team I attack and it only ends up being worth 6 lousy points. Shield again. 

    Second fight - gets me to like 990. Shield again. 

    All the teams the game is offering me now are super high level iceman/classic Cyclops combos. I have no boosted 4* toons. tinykitty my life. 

    Third fight - Terrible match luck and I lose. Decide to fight again (big mistake). Win for 50 points, but also get hit like 7 times and drop to 910. Shield, but none left off cool down for 3 hours, and I'm unlikely to be able to play then, and the event ends shortly thereafter.

    I have been playing this game devotedly for 2 years and i have never been so frustrated and tempted to say that's it.

    I can fully empathize. I had the exact same experience a few weeks ago when I desperately wanted the Iceman cover. So here's a virtual hug for all the people in the same boat! icon_e_biggrin.gif

    It is unfortunate that the shield hop is utterly dependent on not failing, because the moment you miss a jump, it just goes downhill from there.

    Picked myself up for this cover (which I also desperately needed), and levelled up Hulkbuster and Prof X above 200 so as to be a scarecrow, which worked in a way. Timed shields for the jump from 800 to 900 then another for 1000. I did not get hit as much when I have a scary enough 4 star.png team, even if it was not buffed for the event. So my best advice or suggestion for you is to brush yourself off and try again in another event, with better knowledge of what went wrong, level up a good enough team (a level 200 IW is a good scarecrow, even unbuffed), and pray to RNGesus that you win the jumps.

    Good luck and all the best!
  • cyineedsn
    cyineedsn Posts: 361 Mover and Shaker
    pabasa130 wrote:

    Picked myself up for t So my best advice or suggestion for you is to brush yourself off and try again in another event, with better knowledge of what went wrong, level up a good enough team (a level 200 IW is a good scarecrow, even unbuffed), and pray to RNGesus that you win the jumps.

    Good luck and all the best!

    I know that you mean well, but for anyone beyond a 2* roster, a level 200 IW is not even remotely close to being a scarecrow. I'd even venture to suggest it's the opposite and it makes you more of a target, that's how bad IW is when played by the AI
  • pabasa130
    pabasa130 Posts: 208 Tile Toppler
    cyineedsn wrote:
    pabasa130 wrote:

    Picked myself up for t So my best advice or suggestion for you is to brush yourself off and try again in another event, with better knowledge of what went wrong, level up a good enough team (a level 200 IW is a good scarecrow, even unbuffed), and pray to RNGesus that you win the jumps.

    Good luck and all the best!

    I know that you mean well, but for anyone beyond a 2* roster, a level 200 IW is not even remotely close to being a scarecrow. I'd even venture to suggest it's the opposite and it makes you more of a target, that's how bad IW is when played by the AI

    Acknowledged. I was just picking up on his statement that only IW and Elektra are his only well covered 4*, and I supposed any high level 4* is better than none. I started levelling up my Hulkbuster to 210 a few weeks ago and since I started using him in PvP, hits against me dropped noticeably.

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