The Hulk Event Discussion Thread

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  • Unknown
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    Total grindfest. My mob levels ranging in 100-180, I was able to get up to top 1 both my subs and top 5 in overall now... but it just takes too much time, about 3 hours a day - 30 hours total give or take. I definitely need to reduce to 1h per day max, or I'll burn out for sure icon_e_confused.gif

    I really do appreciate that subs now last 26 hours, sliding each day by 2 hours to accomodate each time zone and player needs in turns democratically like I suggested a while ago icon_e_smile.gif
  • Unknown
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    So I'm not the only one getting 230 for every. single. match. Am i? I have actually been getting very very bad boards lately and its really pissing me off. I see everyone else saying they close and restart and are getting lower levels ect. ect. I have a pretty decent roster but 230 everytime is just soo annoying. I'm not sure I can do it for another 8 days.
  • Unknown
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    Il Palazzo wrote:
    Total grindfest. My mob levels ranging in 100-180, I was able to get up to top 1 both my subs and top 5 in overall now... but it just takes too much time, about 3 hours a day - 30 hours total give or take. I definitely need to reduce to 1h per day max, or I'll burn out for sure icon_e_confused.gif

    I really do appreciate that subs now last 26 hours, sliding each day by 2 hours to accomodate each time zone and player needs in turns democratically like I suggested a while ago icon_e_smile.gif

    You and Twysta are in my main bracket. I'm waaay down since I'm being real lazy. Just hoping for a top 1000 finish but it might not happen if these bouts of laziness happen too often icon_mrgreen.gif
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
    I'm away for the weekend, so raking in the points before I leave.
    Aiming for a top 1000 finish for this event as well icon_e_smile.gif
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
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    Il Palazzo wrote:
    Total grindfest. My mob levels ranging in 100-180, I was able to get up to top 1 both my subs and top 5 in overall now... but it just takes too much time, about 3 hours a day - 30 hours total give or take. I definitely need to reduce to 1h per day max, or I'll burn out for sure icon_e_confused.gif

    I really do appreciate that subs now last 26 hours, sliding each day by 2 hours to accomodate each time zone and player needs in turns democratically like I suggested a while ago icon_e_smile.gif

    You and Twysta are in my main bracket. I'm waaay down since I'm being real lazy. Just hoping for a top 1000 finish but it might not happen if these bouts of laziness happen too often icon_mrgreen.gif

    There is no main bracket, everyone is in it!
  • Unknown
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    Twysta wrote:
    There is no main bracket, everyone is in it!

    Forgot it was unbracketed, my bad icon_e_biggrin.gif
  • mouser
    mouser Posts: 529 Critical Contributor
    Woo Hoo I'm in Twysta and Il Palazzo's bracket also icon_e_smile.gif

    Ground my way up to 16th in the main. Ugh I really really hate 150+ level Daken....
  • kensterr
    kensterr Posts: 1,277 Chairperson of the Boards
    Twysta wrote:
    There is no main bracket, everyone is in it!
    If there is no main bracket then it means I'm the xxx best grinder out of 81563 players? icon_e_smile.gif
    (xxx is the placement)
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I hardly play in this event and by now there isn't a single node with enemies above level 100.
    Also I shot up in my subbracket... I feel almost dirty for rubberbanding so hard.

    Though I must admit, it's quite relaxing not to care as much about ranking well in this one. I'm just planning to get some of the rewards from the nodes and play casually until the next event.
  • Unknown
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    pandaberry6 wrote:

    Those snipers are really rough. Do you have a Thor? He is buffed and could help with shielding for a bit. Modern storm might be better in that fight instead of c. Storm since she requires less matches before using her abilities. Hope this helps!

    I have Thor, level 10 or so. Above the mentioned characters I have only a few Common characters on max level. So the lineup I'm using are my absolutely best characters.

    I also know I can retreat, but by the time I would need to retreat, at least one of my characters are in bad enough shape (ofc I'm talking about matches against villains here) to not survive the mandatory damage.

    Again, as I said, I wouldn't mind if these enemies would come on the last day of the event, but this early is very counterproductive IMO. Maybe it is just my MMR, but I definitely not enjoying playing. A game should be first and foremost: fun.

    I also wouldn't mind to fight these crazy fights if there would be better loots to motivate me. Or at least guaranteed loots. I don't want to suffer through these fights for 100 Iso, which is actually 20 Iso, more often than not.
  • Unknown
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    Although I posted before that the level of enemies is ridiculously high for low-mid tier players, I also like to be fair. When the game allows it I run Ares-OBW-Punisher and I didn't have much trouble with the enemies, barely using any boosts. For the most part, goons were maxed at 200-230 while villains were 80-120. I think it is the composition of the teams we face this time that made the experience easier. Although the Sniper team can KO a member in 1 hit there are ways to fight them (at least for those who have OBW). What I noticed is that the snipers will have only 1 CD tile out in any given time so I suggest you not to match that tile, even if it is possible, until the countdown drops to 1-2. When the game begins try to match any other color leaving only green so you have ready matches when the CD drops too low. OBW helps a lot by delaying a CD from triggering if no obvious match is available and Ares deals good damage with yellow (you will want to match yellow tiles to make more room for green on the board) so he also helps a lot. Punisher an finish any enemy that drops too low. The same strategy works for the soldier team too but you have to be careful of 2 colors and their abilities are cheaper so I had more trouble with them. Hulk matches were the easiest. All you have to do it deny him red. Denying him green will also help, but even if he uses his green ability once you shouldn't have trouble as long as you have a high health hero with you. Overall, I had less trouble with these subs than I did in the BP event.

    Since I stopped caring for the main, I will focus on the subs in this event. I will do a single pass 4-5 hours before the end and I already notice significantly lower levels in this location set. The 3 missions that are open in each location are 60-80 level and I doubt they will give me trouble, so perhaps players will weak roster should do the same and let the 3* Thor to players with high tier rosters.

    Edit: The tips are for missions that were part of the first location set but still apply to future teams with similar composition.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    So much grinding. May have screwed up my refresh times on these subs, but I'm good for main bracket.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Dun think i am able to place top 50 for both sub seeing the event end at my time line about 3 am... well den screw this i am going to bed...
    as least my overall ranking at bracket can maintain at top 1000 for the thor... as least get a cover for the next coming event icon_mrgreen.gif
  • Unknown
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    jozier wrote:
    So much grinding. May have screwed up my refresh times on these subs, but I'm good for main bracket.

    Given how little difference there is between finishing high or low in the subs (it's always a token + ISO except at the very top) as long as you're in the top 800, I think it makes sense to focus completely on the main
  • eidehua
    eidehua Posts: 521 Critical Contributor
    Started a day late, missing first subs since I didn't have time, and now it seems like I can't catch up with the sub event scaling (?) instead of the main event scaling. Though my first token was a blue BP so that's good lol
  • radav
    radav Posts: 117 Tile Toppler
    I hate Ares... Can't really say anything more then that. If he's over 200 he can pretty much just 1 shot any of my good characters with god damn onslaught... Then you have to worry about sunder or god forbid he gets off rampage. So annoying. I had no trouble during the Simulator event pulling enough blue tiles that I could keep things under control with Spidey but ever since then I've had some really bad luck in the harder fights.

    With that being said my interest in getting 3* Thor is near zero so I'm focusing more on getting shots at pulling Hulk. As much as I'd love to be getting 4 tokens a day I can't really bring myself to do the grinding it will take to finish that high so I'm trying to do top 100 in 1 sub and top 4 if I can swing in it in another. 10 more days of having to deal with level 200+ enemies the entire time makes me cringe. Really wish they could just spread things out and keep the super high level stuff in a 1 or 2 nodes per map.
  • darkmagearcanis
    darkmagearcanis Posts: 401
    Anyone else notice that the H.A.M.M.E.R. Snipers abilities only cost 0 AP to create CD tiles? Is this in error?
  • Unknown
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    darkmagearcanis wrote:
    Anyone else notice that the H.A.M.M.E.R. Snipers abilities only cost 0 AP to create CD tiles? Is this in error?

    The snipers are weird - one of them (no matter how many there are) will create a tile whenever there isn't one on the board. There should always be exactly one on the board; if you destroy it they'll put another down next turn, but you also shouldn't ever see two of them.
  • Unknown
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    Ben Grimm wrote:
    jozier wrote:
    So much grinding. May have screwed up my refresh times on these subs, but I'm good for main bracket.

    Given how little difference there is between finishing high or low in the subs (it's always a token + ISO except at the very top) as long as you're in the top 800, I think it makes sense to focus completely on the main

    Totally agree. Not to mention that with Hulk events the subs will start getting dominated by late-joining rubberbanders, so it's best to prepare yourself for that mentally now. Oh man, do I miss those 500HP Ares sub rewards.
  • Unknown
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    walkyourpath wrote:
    . Oh man, do I miss those 500HP Ares sub rewards.


    It's hard (now) to believe those ever existed. It was my most 'profitable' week in MPQ ever.

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