CareBearStare Alliance Thread

user311

See a few names missing from that list. Are you restricted right now on slot space or just haven't got them yet? Most of the teams I see in PVP land are OBW/Thor and C.Storm/MNMags. That's cause they are good pairs. Maybe work up those. I know its boring. Im adventurous though - I would secretly max out Bullseye.

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aaronschmiz wrote:

I'm purposely leaving my 2* at 76 or below (but considering moving them slowly to 80 to see what happens) so they don't max and send me to MMR Hell. (Based on the theory that once you hit 85 with a character, you get slammed in MMR)

Personal opinion, and not a statement about you at all, but I think this theory is bullkitty. You will be regularly fighting people with 2+ 85lvl characters soon if it's not already the case, why handicap yourself by cutting 10 levels of your own characters? /end rant (sorry, I see this said a lot on the forums for both 85, 100 and 141 and it's driving me crazy. Your enemies go up because you start winning more easily when you level covers up, and that's how the system is designed. You can totally run yourself into that tougher enemy range without levelling characters anywhere close to 85/100/141 if you win a lot through whatever other means than extra levels) /ok, really the end of the rant here, sorry JohnAaron.

The rest of my reply depends a bit on how ISO constrained you are. If you have a stash or a decent flow going, 2*Thor that you can sub in for Ares when he takes a beating and save on health packs. MNMags as a blue battery for Storm in PVP and OBW in PVE to deal with goons. MNMags purple is an amazing blue battery. You never use his blue, using Storm or OBW instead, and 4R is solid damage for fairly cheap that I find myself using it quite a bit when I can't have a good red user as my third. Don't go up to 5R, the longer countdown is NOT worth the extra damage.

If you have your heart set on 3*'s and have limited ISO flow, I'm a firm proponent of the "go where the covers are" philosophy. So that would be 3* Daken and Patch for the moment. They are both reasonable people to work on.

I'd propose you alternate feeding a 3* and a 2* as the 2*s would probably be of more immediate help.

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PSA Time!

We care about our Bears, and we understand that life happens. We also want people to feel comfortable taking vacations the way they want, and that means taking time off. Work happens, exams happen, life happens - we get it.

However, we think it's better for everyone if all the Bears are in the loop so we can manage our expectations and not be surprised by a lull. So I've created a public event calendar, and we ask you kindly to mark it off when you know you'll be away from the game for a period that's longer than a day or two.

The event calendar link is: http://teamup.com/ksf1c4d6d833b45d53

It is also linked permanently in the first post of the thread so you don't have to dig out this post every time you want to check it out. I've already put up the items I am aware of, and we ask you kindly to try to use it. If you're not comfortable with that, PMs to DecoyDuck, Tonzil or myself are still very much appreciated to let us know what are your plans.

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OMG! Ben! The Sunder bug is fixed in R55! OMG! OMG! *muppet flail*

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About the Patch covers, I could use one more red and certainly could use more yellow. Considering the alliance cover is green, it's all on me to get the covers I need anyway.

RWTDBurn

**** is going on with this game. I haven't seen the sub for the PvE since last night; half the time my chat messages won't appear; and PvP has matched me with 141 level teams almost constantly in past 3 PvP. I was still under 100 points in Magnetic Mayhem and getting paired up with 141 teams and my highest rated hero is 128. Hulk sad....

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Kamuuu wrote:

OMG! Ben! The Sunder bug is fixed in R55! OMG! OMG! *muppet flail*

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RWTDBurn wrote:

**** is going on with this game. I haven't seen the sub for the PvE since last night; half the time my chat messages won't appear; and PvP has matched me with 141 level teams almost constantly in past 3 PvP. I was still under 100 points in Magnetic Mayhem and getting paired up with 141 teams and my highest rated hero is 128. Hulk sad....

For the issue with the sub not displaying, many on the forum have had that, including me. The solution appears to be to replay the very first node of the main (the one that should be locked, but is now unlocked again). That fixed it for me, and most people.

Tried to tell you in chat, but I'm not sure you could see my messages.

RWTDBurn

Kamuuu wrote:

RWTDBurn wrote:

**** is going on with this game. I haven't seen the sub for the PvE since last night; half the time my chat messages won't appear; and PvP has matched me with 141 level teams almost constantly in past 3 PvP. I was still under 100 points in Magnetic Mayhem and getting paired up with 141 teams and my highest rated hero is 128. Hulk sad....

For the issue with the sub not displaying, many on the forum have had that, including me. The solution appears to be to replay the very first node of the main (the one that should be locked, but is now unlocked again). That fixed it for me, and most people.

Tried to tell you in chat, but I'm not sure you could see my messages.

Thanks Kamuuu. I have family stuff to do right now so I won't be able to play for another 1 1/2 - 2 hours. Sad thing is I've been home all day taking care of a sick kid so I would have been grinding it down to nothing and collecting all of the bonuses. Now I get nothing out of it and have likely lost my chance to finish in the to 10 in the PvE. I got the shaft on that one.

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@Burn, that sucks, but hopefully the kiddo is better or will be soon

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Kamuuu wrote:

@Burn, that sucks, but hopefully the kiddo is better or will be soon

Actually it sucks even worse now. The other kid came home sick so now both kids are down for the count.

I see some people saying the points for the nodes have doubled with the update as well. So what is actually fact and what is fiction here? I guess at this time I'll grind out the main nodes tonight and once they are low then I'll update and hope for the best. I'm hoping I'll still find a way to finish in 20-40 in the main so I can get both the red and green covers.

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Kamuuu wrote:

MNMags as a blue battery for Storm in PVP and OBW in PVE to deal with goons. MNMags purple is an amazing blue battery. You never use his blue, using Storm or OBW instead, and 4R is solid damage for fairly cheap that I find myself using it quite a bit when I can't have a good red user as my third. Don't go up to 5R, the longer countdown is NOT worth the extra damage.

Unless I got confused then I think you are mistaken Kamu. 5R for MN.Mags does not increase countdown timer. It's a 1 turn CD and the area of effect is greater on 5R compared to 4R. Level 5 red is much better cause it generates AP too.

As a steam user R55 is not available yet.

Also I completely failed to see that the sub was about to end. So I finished 322nd or something like that.

I'm pretty much only grinding two nodes in the main cause they recharge to 1K+ real quick.

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Milkrain wrote:

Kamuuu wrote:

MNMags as a blue battery for Storm in PVP and OBW in PVE to deal with goons. MNMags purple is an amazing blue battery. You never use his blue, using Storm or OBW instead, and 4R is solid damage for fairly cheap that I find myself using it quite a bit when I can't have a good red user as my third. Don't go up to 5R, the longer countdown is NOT worth the extra damage.

Unless I got confused then I think you are mistaken Kamu. 5R for MN.Mags does not increase countdown timer. It's a 1 turn CD and the area of effect is greater on 5R compared to 4R. Level 5 red is much better cause it generates AP too.

As a steam user R55 is not available yet.

Also I completely failed to see that the sub was about to end. So I finished 322nd or something like that.

I'm pretty much only grinding two nodes in the main cause they recharge to 1K+ real quick.

Ooops, indeed mistaken. It raises the AP cost, not the countdown time. Still not worth it in my opinion as 14 is a lot slower than 11 for the way I play with him, almost exclusively on goon nodes. 4R does generate the AP for the tiles it destroys, but it's a less of course since the area is quite a bit smaller (9 instead of 25).

Sorry, I made my spec decision so long ago I had forgotten the details.

danikalil

Has anyone updated to R55 yet? IF YOU HAVEN'T, DON'T DO IT!

Phew. Now, if you did, what are you planning on doing from now on? Switch to another game? Because, with what they did to us veterans, we might as well.

Be serious. We update, and our enemies' levels go up by 130?? In our IPod, which we haven't updated yet, they're still normal. It's the patch that does it.

Jan is so very sad. She spent days grinding carefully and accurately, managing scaling and rubberbanding, playing like a pro. And all of a sudden she updates the game to find out that her efforts have been nullified.

HOW THE HECK CAN WE FIGHT A C. MAGS / HOOD BATTLE AT LEVEL 269/270 WITHOUT SPIDEY????

Guys. This is the first move of D3 that can be called a proper "screw you" to old-timers. The other changes, though terrible, might have been rationalized if we wanted to (and don't we all want to?). But this one can't. It was purely and simply implemented to make sure the noobs get Mohawk Storm.

I'm speechless.

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Kamuuu wrote:

OMG! Ben! The Sunder bug is fixed in R55! OMG! OMG! *muppet flail*

Fought a match this morning against Ares.

The Sunder bug is not fixed in R55.

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Ah ah ah! *sob*

Why am I not surprised?

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My game updated to R55 without any prompting from me, at least according to the version note on the splash screen. I don't actually see any of the things that were supposed to have changed.

user311

This PVE, Im grinding and grinding because I want to see what Storm has to offer. I got myself into the top 5 of the main and actually won a sub. But then they went to opened up more nodes in the main that basically nullified my grinding. Then they released an update that makes it increasingly more difficult for me to grind. I wouldnt mind the difficulty if it was for the duration of the event - but at this point I have just wasted 4 days of my life. I won that sub and I got two tokens. One got me a Bagman and the other an MHawkeye. I killed myself in the sub for nothing.

Last night I was looking on the App store and seeing a lot of new games. Right now this MPQ is really stale for me. Unless I drop some serious money Im probably not going to ever get a playable Storm, Daken or any of the newer characters released latey. I'm exhausted from staying up late to meet tourny ends. I am constantly late to work because I feel a need to grind before work. Tomorrow Im gonna have to retreat during lunch to grind some more due to a midday ending.

I quit. Seriously. I will play until the Season ends and then I will retreat myself into seclusion to play on an extremely casual basis. My PVP score is lust mediocre so if you want to take this chance and replace me early I'm okay with that.

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It certainly is difficult to achieve the highest rewards much without putting tons and tons of time into the game, which annoys me as well. It's just a product of all of the rewards being given out based on your efforts vs the community's. I really hate that it has to be competitive like that. There's always going to be people with more free time on their hands than you and no good way to use it besides dumping it into this game. I was at a very similar level of frustration a few months ago because of all of this.

For me, the trick is just learning to accept that this is the way it is, you're not going to get all the best rewards (as long you want to live a normal life, that is). But you can still have fun with the game over the long haul. I mean, I can, maybe it's not that fun for you if you don't get all of that, and I understand that. But still, it's a game, and if at the end of the day you don't enjoy the time you've spent playing it then it's not doing its job and you probably should stop playing, or at least as much. I'm not suggesting I want anyone to leave, but getting your priorities straight in life paramount and you need to do what works for you.

One way or another, you seem pretty frustrated at the moment. Give it a few days before you make a final decision.

user311

Thanks for the pms. I am just burnt out from the non stop events. Don't want anyone to think Im pressured or anything from the alliance - I just don't know that I can dial it back and remain a contribution. I can try a couple other strategies and see how it goes. Images of a "no new characters" alliance which only plays when rewards are supplements to characters over 1 month old (like C.Mags but not Sentry) or a sub-alliance that people are rotated into in groups of 5 every Thursday. I dunno. I hate to just quit but given that I couldn't earn anything new outside of a large alliance and don't want to play all the events its a conflict. After 2 months I see no benefit to Seasons.