Respect the Respec!

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edited February 2014 in MPQ General Discussion
Four heroics netted me: Moonstone Red, Thor Yellow, Bagman Yellow, Ares Red.

First glance - aww ****. No 3*s (and I have no full cover 3*). All covers are for chars I have maxed.

But wait - we can Respec now. Can I use any of these? Oh yes...

Thor, my current partner in crime for OBW and my lvl 101 Hulk, gets respecced from 4/4/5 to 3/5/5. That's 9 green generated from his yellow, people. Awesome!

My Ares, who is circling mid-50s At the mo, was 4/4/5. But Onslaught was never my favourite power, as I don't like giving AP to the enemy. Quick respec - boom! 3/5/5. Much more useful as a Thor back-up.

OK so the Bagman and Moonie were useless. I'm still loving respec!

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  • NorthernPolarity
    NorthernPolarity Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    allorin wrote:
    Four heroics netted me: Moonstone Red, Thor Yellow, Bagman Yellow, Ares Red.

    First glance - aww ****. No 3*s (and I have no full cover 3*). All covers are for chars I have maxed.

    But wait - we can Respec now. Can I use any of these? Oh yes...

    Thor, my current partner in crime for OBW and my lvl 101 Hulk, gets respecced from 4/4/5 to 3/5/5. That's 9 green generated from his yellow, people. A. wesome!

    My Ares, who is circling mid-50s At the mo, was 4/4/5. But Onslaught was never my favourite power, as I don't like giving AP to the enemy. Quick respec - boom! 3/5/5. Much more useful as a Thor back-up.

    OK so the Bagman and Moonie were useless. I'm still loving respec!

    You should probably respec your ares back to 4/4/5 when you get another green. 5 red only matters during a 5% health window (30% as opposed to 25), which is just super conditional to actually matter. 4 green actually increases the damage by 25% all the time, and his green is pretty amazing at finishing off the opposing teams last green user.
  • MarvelMan
    MarvelMan Posts: 1,350
    I concur with specing Ares back to 4/4/5. Unless buffed that window is ~200 hit points....to small to matter. And having the extra damage on green to off the last green user is awesome as I generally have extra green (no Patch).
  • Unknown
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    Thanks for the advice guys, I appreciate it. (Maybe should have sought forum opinion before respeccing, but hey ho.)

    I guess my thinking was my go to Greens are either Hulk or C Storm. I'm looking for good partners for them. Thor is a godsend (har har) for his Green generating ability. If Thor is down and I'm out of or conserving health packs, I can see Ares being a useful sub. But would I ever use his Green? I haven't maxed him yet, he's only lvl 54, but Hulk's Green seem like the preferred option for similar damage, plus boardshakeupability (my word for the day).

    No?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    It was nice to swap my C. Storm from 4/4/5 to 5/5/3, my Cap to 3/5/5 to make him more useful for PvE with two CD tile killers, and where he seems to get buffed a lot (also a required cover for a recent mission), took Thor to 4/5/4 (1 more green and he's set), and I'm hanging on to a purple Spidey just in case. I'm glad they got the feature implemented so quickly and so well.
  • radiopy
    radiopy Posts: 326 Mover and Shaker
    + 1.

    It's a feature that was begged for by us players, but it also wasn't shoved down our throats (i.e., high/any cost, constant posts about "SEE, WE DO LISTEN!"). Mad props for that.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Could've finish off Thor but freaking Green cover automatically went to my roster. :/
  • kidicarus
    kidicarus Posts: 420 Mover and Shaker
    One negative side effect of allowing respecs is that we're probably going to see a lot less build diversity when min-maxing comes into play.
  • Unknown
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    MikeyMan wrote:
    Could've finish off Thor but freaking Green cover automatically went to my roster. :/

    Err how did it automatically go to your roster if you had a Thor?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    MikeyMan wrote:
    Could've finish off Thor but freaking Green cover automatically went to my roster. :/

    You should not buy excess roster slots until needed or if you do fill them immediately with 1* cpvers from gray tokens to avoid this very problem.
  • Dragon_Nexus
    Dragon_Nexus Posts: 3,701 Chairperson of the Boards
    I love the new system.
    Threw me at first because I didn't know it was coming already. "Wait...how can I trail Storm in red? I've already maxed her out. Is there a glitch and I can make her go 5/4/5? =P" then I tried it and it let me swap. So good.

    Now I don't have to worry about saving covers, I can just use them and level my guys up and wait for the right combination to come along, instead of gimping them while I wait for the last two covers of something, like I did waiting for two Classic Storm Greens to show up.
  • Unknown
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    I like that it lets me Respec for a specific event and then switch back.

    I sucked a few blue covers off MN Magneto and maxed his red and purple for this event only because I want that AP more than I want to destroy all my nice strike and web tiles and add 19 minutes to the battle. RNG has made it so that I have plenty of spare blue covers to swap him back.
  • Zifna
    Zifna Posts: 170 Tile Toppler
    Respecs made this game 2x as fun for me, no joke. As a mid-range player just starting to build out her roster, it was really frustrating before to get a cover for a character I really wanted to level, and have to discard that cover because it was an ability that I wasn't planning on maxing.

    Now I can use the cover for a while and swap out when I get something I want more. Excellent. icon_e_smile.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Dragon_Nexus wrote:
    I love the new system.
    Threw me at first because I didn't know it was coming already. "Wait...how can I trail Storm in red? I've already maxed her out. Is there a glitch and I can make her go 5/4/5? =P" then I tried it and it let me swap. So good.

    Now I don't have to worry about saving covers, I can just use them and level my guys up and wait for the right combination to come along, instead of gimping them while I wait for the last two covers of something, like I did waiting for two Classic Storm Greens to show up.

    Yeah, that's it for me. My Hulk is 5/4/3 because that's the covers I've been lucky to get. If I get another Red, I will use it, while keeping my fingers crossed for at least one more black.

    It's a lot more relaxed way to play. Plus, you can get your char to max lvls, and THEN the correct build? Awesome!
  • NighteyesGrisu
    NighteyesGrisu Posts: 563 Critical Contributor
    yeah, respeccing is great. I was actually surprised there were not more posts/threads about this as people have been moaning about it for months, but I guess they were too busy switching the moaning to the 'skip tax' icon_e_wink.gif.

    Props to the OP icon_e_smile.gif

    I, too, am glad it was implemented like this. I could finally max my OBW even if this isn't the build I plan on using (still missing the 5th black) and I could max my spidey, even though I'll probably switch that 4th yellow to purlple eventually (though that depends on the upcoming nerf as well). Now you can just use every cover of a char you get until you max him, and then start worrying about the correct build..awesome.
  • Unknown
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    It is a great system, I have finally to switch a couple of my heroes to a preferred build after making early mistakes. Although to contradict an earlier poster it is not possible to make use of every cover and then switch them around later. I have still had to throw away covers on heroes who are not maxed due to that particular colour being at 5. My OBW for example is at 5/1/1 and all I get are purple covers!!! Same with Cap and Wolvie yellow. So it is still quite hard to make the perfect build waiting for random cover drops you want but clearly it is a much needed and very welcome feature, thank you devs icon_e_biggrin.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    The PACman wrote:
    It is a great system, I have finally to switch a couple of my heroes to a preferred build after making early mistakes. Although to contradict an earlier poster it is not possible to make use of every cover and then switch them around later. I have still had to throw away covers on heroes who are not maxed due to that particular colour being at 5. My OBW for example is at 5/1/1 and all I get are purple covers!!! Same with Cap and Wolvie yellow. So it is still quite hard to make the perfect build waiting for random cover drops you want but clearly it is a much needed and very welcome feature, thank you devs icon_e_biggrin.gif

    At least now you can put in covers as soon as you get them, letting you level up your characters and increasing their survivability and usefulness while you wait for the right covers.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    NighteyesGrisu wrote:
    yeah, respeccing is great. I was actually surprised there were not more posts/threads about this as people have been moaning about it for months, but I guess they were too busy switching the moaning to the 'skip tax' icon_e_wink.gif.

    We aren't so good dogs, right? The 3 hour effort of a feature that should have been there in the first place getting deployed after just 2-3 month delay and not even when massive character changes were made requiring it instead of selling at half price, and we are not loud enough with praises? Shame on us really. Even more for moaning about taxing the broken MMR too.
  • Unknown
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    Kappei wrote:
    The PACman wrote:
    It is a great system, I have finally to switch a couple of my heroes to a preferred build after making early mistakes. Although to contradict an earlier poster it is not possible to make use of every cover and then switch them around later. I have still had to throw away covers on heroes who are not maxed due to that particular colour being at 5. My OBW for example is at 5/1/1 and all I get are purple covers!!! Same with Cap and Wolvie yellow. So it is still quite hard to make the perfect build waiting for random cover drops you want but clearly it is a much needed and very welcome feature, thank you devs icon_e_biggrin.gif

    At least now you can put in covers as soon as you get them, letting you level up your characters and increasing their survivability and usefulness while you wait for the right covers.

    Oh yeah, I love it for the most part but i still have no option but to throw away OBW purples for example which is a shame cause I really do pull more than my fair share of those lol

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