The Hulk Event Discussion Thread

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  • NorthernPolarity
    NorthernPolarity Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    Man, you guys and your grinding every node down to 1. Currently 200ish in the main bracket, so it looks like the 1 clear sub strategy works pretty well. Ended up grinding more than I liked cause I wanted to beat Twysta in the hard sub: not bothering with the easy sub anymore.
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
    NorthernPolarity wrote:
    Man, you guys and your grinding every node down to 1. Currently 200ish in the main bracket, so it looks like the 1 clear sub strategy works pretty well. Ended up grinding more than I liked cause I wanted to beat Twysta in the hard sub: not bothering with the easy sub anymore.

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    I was getting itchy fingers so decided to finish my clear a little early. Hopefully still get top 5!
  • NorthernPolarity
    NorthernPolarity Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    Twysta wrote:
    NorthernPolarity wrote:
    Man, you guys and your grinding every node down to 1. Currently 200ish in the main bracket, so it looks like the 1 clear sub strategy works pretty well. Ended up grinding more than I liked cause I wanted to beat Twysta in the hard sub: not bothering with the easy sub anymore.

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    I was getting itchy fingers so decided to finish my clear a little early. Hopefully still got top 5!

    I would if the tokens were event tokens because I really want BP, but normal heroics isn't worth doing those BP missions without Spidey.
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited March 2014
    I'm starting to hoard mine right now. Time will tell if I have to the patience to wait til BP is available or not.
    I'm at about 340 standard tokens right now and 5 heroics.
  • ClydeFrog76
    ClydeFrog76 Posts: 1,350 Chairperson of the Boards
    NorthernPolarity wrote:
    Man, you guys and your grinding every node down to 1. Currently 200ish in the main bracket, so it looks like the 1 clear sub strategy works pretty well. Ended up grinding more than I liked cause I wanted to beat Twysta in the hard sub: not bothering with the easy sub anymore.

    *pfft*

    I haven't done that for a long long time.
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
    Yeah I'm actually pretty disappointed that there's no event tokens being awarded for a chance to get more BP covers icon_e_sad.gif
  • fedlex20
    fedlex20 Posts: 303 Mover and Shaker
    Well, top 100 on both subs...
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Quick question, does anyone know if the new nodes are non-repeatable?
  • Bacon Pants
    Bacon Pants Posts: 1,012
    Twysta wrote:
    Yeah I'm actually pretty disappointed that there's no event tokens being awarded for a chance to get more BP covers icon_e_sad.gif

    I agree, the Heroic Tokens I've pulled from this event have been garbage. At the start of the event I pulled a Hulk cover that I needed from the corresponding Event token. Since it has switched to general Heroic tokens I've gotten a bunch of 2 stars that are completely useless.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    So there are now 4 new nodes each with 4 rewards. There are 2 at 1000 points, one at 1200 and one at 1500. My guess is that the points on these are 'one and done' but I'm hoping someone else will do it first and let me know if that's the case so I can simply do them now and move on.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    dtm7817 wrote:
    So there are now 4 new nodes each with 4 rewards. There are 2 at 1000 points, one at 1200 and one at 1500. My guess is that the points on these are 'one and done' but I'm hoping someone else will do it first and let me know if that's the case so I can simply do them now and move on.

    There are stacks, but there is no way to tell if they refresh just yet.
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
    Looks like they're repeatable - at least stack wise.
    Just did the first node for 1k points.
    It's now worth 800.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Ughhh for crying out loud I just want this event to be over. Is there no peace to be had? God I hate this event now.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Well, my two Heroic tokens both gave me regeneration covers: black Daken...and yellow X-Force!
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Having these missions repeatable is going to be painful.

    There's really no reason to not do these immediately though because the overall leader is so far ahead of everyone it's hard to imagine the missions ever going below 10X, and if you're at a position where that's possible you're probably set for top 200 anyway.
  • morgh
    morgh Posts: 539 Critical Contributor
    edited March 2014
    Everything at ~220-230 level, the desert stage forces you to use hulk (have a 2-cover one)... oh the joy of being able to do nothing for a whole day :S

    EDIT: oh ok... one desert stage is free-formed and another stage is pretty easy even though 230 (Yelena+Moonstone+Bullseye)
  • NorthernPolarity
    NorthernPolarity Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    Yeah no. Currently ranked #213, I think I'm just going to do one pass and see how it goes. I doubt there are enough people that are crazy enough to grind these every 8 hours.
  • ClydeFrog76
    ClydeFrog76 Posts: 1,350 Chairperson of the Boards
    Vairelome wrote:
    Well, my two Heroic tokens both gave me regeneration covers: black Daken...and yellow X-Force!

    Grats. I got two Moonstone Gravity Warps.

    BRB, shooting self in balls.
  • Bacon Pants
    Bacon Pants Posts: 1,012
    Lyrian wrote:
    ClydeFrog76 wrote:
    Ben Grimm wrote:
    I'm at about 700th place at about 196k points. I'm hoping to stay in the top 1000; I've only been able to do three missions this time (the two BP ones and the easiest Easy one). My highest leveled guy is 76th and I don't think I have any other missions less than about 160th level. I ground down the easy BP on to 1, and might do the hard one one more time (I think I've done it 4 times) but I"m starting to run really low on boosts and don't want to completely run out.

    The last couple days of this have been one of the most tedious experiences I've ever had in a game. It's not remotely fun. If I was stuck in a lower band with no hope of getting up to the next, I"d have just stopped playing it entirely by now. I'm getting no enjoyment, no satisfaction, no sense of accomplishment. It's just the sunk cost fallacy in action; I don't want all this tedium to have been for naught. If this game continues to use this system I may just stop playing it. The occasional very challenging mission can be fun, but "m getting nothing but them, and that's just not the game I want to play. If that's the game that you're going to insist on this being, I think I'm going to have to find something else to play. I'm just not getting any enjoyment out of this.

    You and me both, mate. I'm teetering on the brink of giving up because I'm just not having fun anymore. The high level DA missions this time around were the last straw; stun-locking is quite possibly the most boring way to play a game that I have ever encountered. But you have to do it, or you just can't win the fights.

    This game is broken and it's so very sad. I still get a kick out of levelling my guys because I'm a fanboy from way back, and I'm still kind of enjoying PVP, but I don't want that to be the whole experience. It's Marvel, it deserves great PVE; and while this scaling and rehashing the same fights over and over again is going on, it's just not getting it.

    I had so much fun in the prologue, and I have NO IDEA why they're not looking at doing more chapters like that any time soon. It doesn't make sense to me. This competitive PVE structure is sucking the life out of everything.

    +1 here as well.

    Today has been highly frustrating as well. Struggled to clear each mission in each sub once when they first opened last night, went to bed, woke up in the morning, struggled to win once against the BP missions as everything else was beyond deadly. Went out for the day. Couldn't beat anything tonight via normal means. Just broke down and cleared a single mission once with MStorm + Thor, and said 'F... this. I am not doing this again all night like in the Simulator'.

    Trying to stay awake 40 more minutes for the opening of the last round, but probably going to lose. Basing an educated guess based upon the level of "Osborn's New Scheme" as a proxy, if I go to bed, the nodes will be leveled beyond unplayable by the time I wake up in the morning short of using one of the three ways to achieve a near infinite stunlock. icon_e_confused.gif

    This issue really needs to be fixed ASAP.

    Playing characters I WANT to play and level up, even if highly suboptimal for an encounter is fun and generates enjoyment of the game. icon_e_smile.gif

    Playing character I HAVE to play to win ANY encounter because of broken mechanics is NOT fun and is WORK. icon_evil.gif

    People do not operate games to perform work. The feedback loop of requiring broken mechanics to win encounters, which in turn further drives levels higher and higher, is highly destructive to the long-term viability of the game.

    I agree with all of this...Spidey is going to be asking for Overtime pay soon, he's getting a workout these last few subevents. I don't have to much else to add but this. I put the game down yesterday and started reading a book...Doing so probably killed my chances at going for a top 200 finish, but F it. I got sucked into the book and ended up reading a hundred plus pages (Lee Child - Echo Burning for anyone that cares)
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    NorthernPolarity wrote:
    Yeah no. Currently ranked #213, I think I'm just going to do one pass and see how it goes. I doubt there are enough people that are crazy enough to grind these every 8 hours.

    Famous last words.

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