PVE: Simulator (2016-03-14 to 2016-03-16)

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  • nigelregal
    nigelregal Posts: 184 Tile Toppler
    My 2 strongest characters are Iceman and Thing so found that a bit tough.

    I love how Quakes green doesn't do the same loki type animation to shuffle board and waste time.
  • Tatercat
    Tatercat Posts: 930 Critical Contributor
    I hope the scaling appreciates me wiping twice on Sim 7. What really burns is I had two teams that are very capable of taking them out, but got RNG'd right in the Cho Hulk.

    1st try - Red Hulk/4hor/IM40. 1st match initiated a 5 tile match from the the unseen dropdown, and the cascade led to another 5 tile match, which THEN led to another 5 tile. 3 JG whammos in a row. By the time I was unstunned, C.Storm Wndstormed me and it was all downhill from there.

    2nd try - Out of health packs now, the reliable Patch/loki/c.Mags combo that people already have been using to great success on this board And it worked great!. Took out C. storm and had JG down to 2K in health. Just needed more green on the board before I did berserker rage then Trickery, so I fired Illusions. It caused a cascade into a 5 star match, which lead to loki's death. After that, Cyke just took control with two Uncanny strategists and then red and blued me to death.

    3rd try - frustrated now, went with the IF/Cage/Shehulk team I used in the last simulator, even though they aren't boosted like they were then. AND THE MIGHTY AVENGERS PULLED IT OFF! icon_e_biggrin.gificon_e_biggrin.gificon_e_biggrin.gif The heroes for hire are top 3*'s for reason, just make sure you go after Cyclops 2nd after C. Storm. You can manage JG well enough, especially with that Loki team.
  • itsmahvelbaby
    itsmahvelbaby Posts: 24
    this is a DAMN SHAME!

    up till NOW the rewards for sim were xforce wolv, and just now it turned out, thats actually not true any longer! i was grinding THE HELL out of sim, and manage to keep my 1st place since the beginning of the sim, because i figured i have a shot at t10 finish....


    i really did this very time consuming grind to get my final green cover, which is a gamechanger

    and i dont care, if demi wants to use xfw in the next pve, the rewards were shown for more than 24 hrs. so if anyway possible, can u at least change it this time and make xfw the reward again?
  • Tatercat
    Tatercat Posts: 930 Critical Contributor
    itsmahvelbaby wrote:
    this is a DAMN SHAME!

    up till NOW the rewards for sim were xforce wolv, and just now it turned out, thats actually not true any longer! i was grinding THE HELL out of sim, and manage to keep my 1st place since the beginning of the sim, because i figured i have a shot at t10 finish....


    i really did this very time consuming grind to get my final green cover, which is a gamechanger

    and i dont care, if demi wants to use xfw in the next pve, the rewards were shown for more than 24 hrs. so if anyway possible, can u at least change it this time and make xfw the reward again?

    What happened I think is they realized they couldn't have a Wolverine as an essential in Enemy of the State (the next PVE) since he's barred from use until a later sub (4th or 5th I think?) So it got switched.

    I really want Ghost Rider over XFW (and am grinding for it), but I still agree with you. I know the posts on this forum are subject to change, but if the character is featured as a reward in the in-game preview window the night before the event starts, it should be locked in. It shouldn't change after you've already chosen an ending time and are locked in.
  • Moon Roach
    Moon Roach Posts: 2,863 Chairperson of the Boards
    I hate Simulator as a player, but really like it for ideas of teams to try for myself.
  • madok
    madok Posts: 905 Critical Contributor
    Moon Roach wrote:
    I hate Simulator as a player, but really like it for ideas of teams to try for myself.

    So true. I've taken teams from previous sims into the next sim after they kicked my butt in that previous sim.
  • Inarius
    Inarius Posts: 139 Tile Toppler
    you might as well take advantage of mistique's powered up ver and go for icon_ironman.pngicon_ragnarok.pngicon_mystique.png

    you'll end up doing winfinites over and over since ragnarok will keep feeding her blue for you to spam over and over then finishing things off with her black and rags green

    the dmg is from the previous two battles before this node.

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    Quebbster wrote:
    Inarius wrote:
    The icon_iceman.pngicon_thing.pngicon_scarletwitch.png is a joke, you can easily defeat them with icon_magneto.pngicon_wolverine.pngicon_loki.png, just berserker rage SW, let thing make dem def tiles then use loki's black and take out the thing then it's game over for the rest.
    I tried that, but then Iceman stunned Patch and they took out Loki Before he recovered... I ended up Fisbusting it.
    Try going straight for purple to initiate loki's skill, most of the time you'll end up causing so many cascades you'll acumulate the ap you need in a flash. As you can see below, they had time to gather ap themselves but died before icon_iceman.png could cast any of his skills.

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    edit:

    seems like mags/patch/loki also works for the icon_jeangrey.pngicon_storm.pngicon_cyclops.png node

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  • Quebbster
    Quebbster Posts: 8,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    This last round I've been relying on 4* Thor, IM40 and Kamala Khan to clear the difficult nodes. You only need a single Recharge Before it's Hammer Time!
  • Figure15
    Figure15 Posts: 284 Mover and Shaker
    Day 2 sim 6 SW, IF, KP the computer really does not want to lose... Had it on the ropes, only IF left, then he gets a massive cascade and purple punches me to death.
  • bOmbast
    bOmbast Posts: 45 Just Dropped In
    After getting wiped over and over, I had more or less given up (mainly 2* roster with only a handful of useful 3* and a couple of seriously undercovered 4*) against my lvl 168 opponent.

    Then I tried this team, none of them fully covered: IM40 (4 redflag.png /3 blueflag.png /5 yellowflag.png , lvl 120), GSBW (5 greenflag.png /2 redflag.png /4 purpleflag.png , lvl 120) And Iceman (1 greenflag.png /2 blueflag.png /2 purpleflag.png , lvl 111).

    Got the last enemy (Cyclops) down to 1300 hp on the first try, then succeeded on the 2nd!

    Boosted red/yellow to get IM40s yellow going, then managed to keep JG stunned through Iceman during a couple of match 5s and it was relatively smooth sailing as I managed to activate GSBWs purple and green. Lost Iceman towards the end, but had both IM40s red and blue plus GSBWs green ready to finish Cyclops off last.

    Not the ideal team I guess, with IM40s red and blue interfering with GSBWs purple, but probably my best option for this round. Probably even better with fully covered heroes...
  • Tatercat
    Tatercat Posts: 930 Critical Contributor
    Round 3 confirmed, it is these same teams again.
    Tatercat wrote:
    If the 3rd Round repeats the last time they ran this, here's what we'll be looking at tomorrow:
    by Tatercat » Wed Dec 30, 2015 9:22 am

    Ok, final sub is worth 5360 pts. Here's the Hard nodes:

    Sim 04: GreySuitBW/She-Hulk/Capt Marvel
    Sim 05: Black Panther/Punisher/Bullseye
    Sim 06: Beast/Groot/Mr. Fantastic
    Sim 07: Red Hulk/ XF Deadpool/ Thoress

    Essential Venom: IW/Devil Dino/Antman
    Essential Bullseye: Patch/Carnage/Doc Ock
    Essential Moonstone: Kamala/2* Thor/ 2* Wolverine
  • Tatercat
    Tatercat Posts: 930 Critical Contributor
    BlackBoltRocks wrote:
    Aw so we won't get to face newer characters like Nova, Gwen or Quake herself. I was so hoping to come up against Awesome Amadeus

    You'll always have the loading screen. icon_e_wink.gif
  • Sluggo
    Sluggo Posts: 504 Critical Contributor
    Day 2's Sim 7 (4* Cyc, 4* JG, Storm, all at 280 for me), is pummeling my 3* roster.
    • At first I tried IF/SW/Thor, but using SW is playing with fire, since she tends to create match-5's for JG to wreck you with. That wiped me twice.
    • Then I tried IF/IM40/Thor, and got JG down to 2000 health before I fell into a random match-5 and she decimated my team.
    • I decided to cheese it with whales just to get the ISO for the first win, and used my 1-cover OML with SW and DP. And still wiped after SW created a match-5 and got DP killed before he could fire his purple. I finally got it on the second shot, but I'm not going to spend all my whales grinding that node down.
    • My latest attempts used IF/DD/IM40. First attempt I kept JG chain-stunned for 12 straight moves, as well as Cyc a fair amount of that time, but he still managed to one-shot someone almost every time he got free. Second attempt went worse.
    So I'm kind of stuck. Cy3lops has been my big gun for this event, but he's sidelined for this fight. Might just skip it. I can't help but feel my orphan single-cover 5*s are making a mess of auto-scaling for me.
  • BlackSheep101
    BlackSheep101 Posts: 2,025 Chairperson of the Boards
    When I run into tough fights like this, I struggle for a while, then remember to try Loki/Hood/some bruiser. Bait the AI into making 4-way matches to keep them AP starved, then take them out in order of most to least dangerous.
  • TxMoose
    TxMoose Posts: 4,319 Chairperson of the Boards
    looking at your roster sluggo I might try im40 torch daredevil, or im40 thor daredevil - I like torch better there for the red/green usage. will be dependent on how fast you can get yellow. stun with daredevil. not a lot of health with that team though. things will have to go right.

    blacksheep is right - loki/hood/torch might work well too. I'd say loki/hood/thor, but thor tends to lead to crits.

    against jean, especially if she's overleveled compared to your guys, you must stay away from crits. that means no witch, thor, etc. feeders like im40 are much better since they don't flood the board. you just have to keep her away from purple or all will be for naught.
  • TheWerebison
    TheWerebison Posts: 431 Mover and Shaker
    Dear lord, I hate Simulator. It has the sadistic groups of enemies you see in Gauntlet, but with the crippling knowledge that you have to do each node more than once.
  • TxMoose
    TxMoose Posts: 4,319 Chairperson of the Boards
    lol. sub 2 sentry and quake essentials rocked me in the lunch clear. if you don't bring someone to deal with protects, you cannot let falcap get yellow off or it might be over. next run is getting loki with sentry, but quake isn't strong enough to run a weak support like that. maybe jean with quake and a third.
  • Sambuca
    Sambuca Posts: 34 Just Dropped In
    TxMoose wrote:
    lol. sub 2 sentry and quake essentials rocked me in the lunch clear. if you don't bring someone to deal with protects, you cannot let falcap get yellow off or it might be over. next run is getting loki with sentry, but quake isn't strong enough to run a weak support like that. maybe jean with quake and a third.
    I used Kamala Khan's purple to keep turning the yellows into greens. I made sure he died first in the Sentry node, but in the Quake essential, PFX was too dangerous to leave up, so I killed him first and then it was a toss-up between Fury and Falcap. Luckily a 5-cover KK purple and Quake's blue at even 1-cover will let you deny yellow all day long.
  • bat_239
    bat_239 Posts: 48
    Just out of curiosity - what levels do you have for rulk, xfdp and 4tor node? I see lvl304, having a diverse 3star roster, few maxed 4stars and 5stars at their initial level... Using only non-buffed 3stars in pve though
  • bOmbast
    bOmbast Posts: 45 Just Dropped In
    bat_239 wrote:
    Just out of curiosity - what levels do you have for rulk, xfdp and 4tor node? I see lvl304, having a diverse 3star roster, few maxed 4stars and 5stars at their initial level... Using only non-buffed 3stars in pve though

    At 2nd clear, they are at lvl 183.

    My top 3 boosted: 198, 178, 169.
    Top 3 non-boosted: 133, 130, 128.

    Beat them with a team with level 198 (cstorm), 128 (MnMags), 120 (IM40).

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