The Hulk Event Discussion Thread

HailMary

Jachdo wrote:

Missions... with enemies under 80? There is such a thing?

Heh, I just maxed my first 2* and haven't won all of my PvE fights (no intentional PvE tanking, though), so scaling.

That said, Greenland: Black Panther has L57's for me right now and Canada: BP has L53's, though Bolivia's lowest is L99's (on the BP level).

Be jealous.

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Currently I'm ranked 1345. This has been my strategy.

Whichever of the 4 subs I have the lowest rank in I go to. Once in the chosen sub I find the highest points missions. I just play whenever I feel like it and do this continually and have been doin pretty well.

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I'm currently at 58 on the main board with a hair under 117k, and I've mostly been bouncing from 30ish to about 200ish for most of the event. Unless scaling shuts me down entirely (which could easily happen), I'll probably finish in the top tier. I only have a single X-Force cover to date, so I won't cry about a second tier finish, though getting a second cover would be nice. My biggest goal has been maxing out the progression awards, and it looks like that will be quite doable.

The nodes I'm looking at are a mix of Hard and Normal, with scattered Deadly, though even the Hard nodes look like a "please stick your hand in this blender" experience. I've been using 4/4/5 Thor (haven't seen the fifth yellow yet) and 3/4/3 OBW with 5/5/3 cStorm added when no third character is required (all characters at their level caps). The MVP in my roster by a long margin has been my single black cover of BP; those nodes have seen the least community scaling and are always worth the most points by base value. Even when most of the other nodes have scaled out of reasonable range for my team, I can usually stay competitive by hitting the BP node 2-3 times.

The extreme value of one BP cover has been a little higher than I'm comfortable with, from a community standpoint. It's been very nice for me as an individual player, but I can tell that the difference between having one and not having one is rather large, possibly more than is optimal.

Scaling overall has been better compared to the most recent couple of events, though it's been offset by the inability to tank, as far as I can tell.

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4 subs that last for days is horrible. I'm very burned out by them.

kensterr

I have to keep using boosts for the ones featuring all DA lineup, especially with Daken and Bullseye combo. I wonder if the *** Thor covers are really worth trying to get.
Don't think I'll be able to hit the progression reward for Punisher red, which in the end might be cheaper for me to just spend 1250 HP. Scaling why u hate me so!?

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kensterr wrote:

I have to keep using boosts for the ones featuring all DA lineup, especially with Daken and Bullseye combo. I wonder if the *** Thor covers are really worth trying to get.
Don't think I'll be able to hit the progression reward for Punisher red, which in the end might be cheaper for me to just spend 1250 HP. Scaling why u hate me so!?

I bet Thor will also be the top reward of a tournament ending at the exact same time that the Hulk event ends. All will be well.

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kensterr wrote:

Don't think I'll be able to hit the progression reward for Punisher red, which in the end might be cheaper for me to just spend 1250 HP. Scaling why u hate me so!?

Dude, that's what I'm trying to reach as my short term goal. I'm just a little over 58k and maybe by tonight I'll hit 60K+. I figure with 5 days left, give or take a few hours, I should be able to get it. Hopefully after these four "unmanageable" sub events clear tomorrow, we'll have a few that will be doable. I don't bother with taking on level 100+ characters. I get squeamish just looking at 80+ ones. I hope I can place inside the overall Hulk event placement to grab a Modern Thor but, I don't think I'm gonna make it.

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Bolivia scaling is completely off the charts. There is only on mission that is doable. Most of them are all at 221-230 for me, not just mobs but the villains too. I only have one 85 (wolverine) and I have a sub 40 OBW, sub 40 thor, and sub 40 punisher. Completely insane/impossible.

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So... tired..... of..... subs..... ugh.....

Can't wait for this four sub madness to be over. Even just skimming off the top of each node is borderline madness.

ClydeFrog76

I haven't touched either Hidden Stash subs yet. The Black Panther required fight in Greenland is currently worth 3728 points. lol

kensterr

Marvelfreak wrote:

kensterr wrote:

Don't think I'll be able to hit the progression reward for Punisher red, which in the end might be cheaper for me to just spend 1250 HP. Scaling why u hate me so!?

Dude, that's what I'm trying to reach as my short term goal. I'm just a little over 58k and maybe by tonight I'll hit 60K+. I figure with 5 days left, give or take a few hours, I should be able to get it. Hopefully after these four "unmanageable" sub events clear tomorrow, we'll have a few that will be doable. I don't bother with taking on level 100+ characters. I get squeamish just looking at 80+ ones. I hope I can place inside the overall Hulk event placement to grab a Modern Thor but, I don't think I'm gonna make it.

The current and previous sub event got harder, else I was able to get anywhere between 10-15K points a day, which made me think the progression reward was attainable with my roster. I'm now close to 100K but spending lots of ISO and HP for boosts to get the high points mission.

Why I'm trying my best for Thor? Cos *** Thor/Hulk/C.Magneto does seem like a good combo. All colors covered!

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Vairelome wrote:

The extreme value of one BP cover has been a little higher than I'm comfortable with, from a community standpoint. It's been very nice for me as an individual player, but I can tell that the difference between having one and not having one is rather large, possibly more than is optimal.

Can't agree with you more. That's what I need to rank higher because apparently and obviously the BP levels are much easier and the payout for points is so worth it. So, without a BP cover, it's really difficult to make a decent placement in ranks. Unless of course if you're maxed out with ***or **** characters, which I unfortunately don't have.

Lanik wrote:

Bolivia scaling is completely off the charts. There is only on mission that is doable. Most of them are all at 221-230 for me, not just mobs but the villains too. I only have one 85 (wolverine) and I have a sub 40 OBW, sub 40 thor, and sub 40 punisher. Completely insane/impossible.

Can't agree with you as well. As I watch my overall points slide lower and lower in count, I only get more and more discouraged and disappointed.

kensterr

Not going to complain anymore, instead gonna ask for advice.

To those players who only use 1 or 2 boosted characters, who is in your team facing DA levels 150-230? I wanna L2P and build up my roster rather than blindly spending ISO and HP. Thanks!

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kensterr wrote:

Not going to complain anymore, instead gonna ask for advice.

To those players who only use 1 or 2 boosted characters, who is in your team facing DA levels 150-230? I wanna L2P and build up my roster rather than blindly spending ISO and HP. Thanks!

I'm trying to maintain a balance between other games and MPQ, so for the time being, to stick in the 3 modern thor covers bracket, I'm just doing events on the main page - and I'm only doing them until they're worth less than 400 points. I'm currently in the 1400-ish rank range, but keep in mind that I've got every single sub event rubber-banding like crazy, so that's an easy 10-15k with just one clear, and roughly 2.5x that if I grind them all down (which I won't do, might be lucky if I just do them all twice by the time they finish up tomorrow).

The roster I'm running is a 141 Punisher, 85 Original Black Widow, and then I change out my third between Magneto for goon fights (since his blue can just slap away problematic tiles), Hood if it's a low-level-enemy fight, and Spiderman if I have to be careful around something like a 230 Juggernaut. On the Black Panther missions, if they're low level (as they all seem to be now), Punisher, otherwise Spiderman and it takes forever.

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kensterr wrote:

Not going to complain anymore, instead gonna ask for advice.

To those players who only use 1 or 2 boosted characters, who is in your team facing DA levels 150-230? I wanna L2P and build up my roster rather than blindly spending ISO and HP. Thanks!

My Thor is maxed and boosted; my OBW is 3/4/3, level 61 and boosted; I also use either maxed unboosted Classic Storm or the required character. I could not fight a 150-230 DA node. I would just skip it and save the health packs. I think the scaling is overall better than the past couple events, but it has got out of hand in the past day or so. Sorry, I wish I had better advice to offer.

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Is the rewards still heroic tokens after the unlock?

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Jeremychen wrote:

Is the rewards still heroic tokens after the unlock?

Currently, yes, though the patch notes for the event say that The Hulk tokens should be replaced with Gamma Bomb tokens after the unlock. The notes don't say specifically whether the sub rewards will go back to being special tokens (I really, really hope they do), but the store token switch has not taken place yet.

If Gamma Bomb tokens show up as sub rewards, they may or may not affect the current 4-pack of subs; the devs might not want to "bait and switch" the token types mid-sub, even though I doubt anyone would complain in this particular case.

HailMary

Marvelfreak wrote:

Can't agree with you more. That's what I need to rank higher because apparently and obviously the BP levels are much easier and the payout for points is so worth it. So, without a BP cover, it's really difficult to make a decent placement in ranks. Unless of course if you're maxed out with ***or **** characters, which I unfortunately don't have.

I feel for ya, dude. I've got 2 BP covers from PvP placement rewards, and running Thor/OBW as my main team; BP missions are pretty much carrying my score. Also, make sure you grind whatever sub-unlock missions you can in the main. They're also on 8-hour refresh cycles.

morgh

The scaling of anything available to "the general population" is quickly getting out of hand... only the BP missions remain playable ;/ this sucks as hell - with a 79 thor, 75 oBW and 51 BP anything over 120-140 level is unbeatable ;<
(and yes - I refuse to boost - have constantly 0 ISO since I am leveling stuff... been playing for like 40 days now :S)

I've been wondering... do devs actually even read the things that people write? The vast majority is so fed up with broken scaling that it's no longer funny, and yet they keep on pushing it onto us without any tweaks to make it reasonable... the 'community' scaling is atrocious... my own scaling should be based on my own progress - not of 1999 other people in my bracket...

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Rubberbanding wouldn't be fair otherwise tho, then again people prefer to grind for their rewards on a lot of medium to hard fights instead of say doing very few very hard fights to maintain their score. As for boosts, 20 iso per color boost isn't that bad, prob should just save the iso to level your ** to 85 for the next event tho.
Still it seems to be shifting with scaling, used to be pve was the majority of the iso generator, now with 230 walls, pvp lighting rounds are the lions share of iso generation.
Its the same with the change from the old the hunt events.
People have long memories and are just pissed on the changes as their used to having a certain entitlement paid out in participation of the event.
Just from how the rewards are structured tho, the devs are moving away from that format that their used to, no idea why tho, they just are.

Seems strike tile generators are still great for most events, meaning a. Wolvie, patch, punisher.
Especially with the recent uber buffed choices of psy and bp, they take full Advantage of the tiles.
This event, its basically been patch rage, panther rage then psy or obw steal back to finish anyone left alive.
230s at max rubberbanding and high hp get boosted lvl 70 spiderman, lvl 1 venom and m.storm.
Your on a clock anyways against stuff like 230 DAs or jugs. Best to just devour them and retreat if the board goes bad. You only have to heal spidey anyways.