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champion9782 wrote:

Moghwyn wrote:

Do you use Spidey or Widow to heal up before downing the last opponent?

yes nearly every match if possible spidey

Weird, that doesn't fit at all. Or maybe the question wasn't precise enough. Taking only Simulator fights into account, do you use Spidey or Widow to heal up before downing the last opponent?

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pasa_ wrote:

My easy sub leader's roster: IM35/28, BW/15, Storm/10 and 1-cover psylocke, BP, patch.

I think that player might be leading my hard sub too. I recall the roster containing nothing even remotely useful except a level 15 Black Panther.

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My "A" team is spidey patch + one
I aim to get 12 blues 9 green and proceed to finish match. I do almost always heal as long as a cascade doesn't kill them off.
I finished top 2 easy 1x top 50 1x
I finished top 2 hard 2x
I enter easy when I have hour + play as soon as I can
I do essential missions 3x each (roughly) I do all other missions 1x. Saving bottom row for last.
Through out the event time. I drop in do highest points quest
Try to push for #1 (however event 3 no one else is moving as 1 essential repeat at 1100 put me in top 5.)
When I am roughly 3 hours from finish I do every easy quest worth most points until they are roughly under 200. By this time I am #1 with 2 hours left.
I jump to hard mode do everything to and claim #1 do everything and essential multiple times. Roughly 30minutes left. I usually drop off to top 10 easy by this time. If my points for easy make it logical to push for b top 5 or 2 I'll continue to do missions in both events and do my best. Once I open up a 300+ lead (or less if points are worth under 125) I switch events. After every match I check whose in 3rd and decide what quest to do.
Also as of right now I am barely top 100 ooverall. By tonight I'll be #1.

Other strategies I always aim for lowest health or healer of a party. Especially hood then widow or against the goons/hammer whoever puts out the highest risk lowest counter. Aka thugs/lieutenant
By the time I generally get 9 greens and some blues I can usually beserk rage them +1 match it to death saving me 2 blues and easier to stun 2 guys.

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Just to update.
Just opened mpq in 15th easy. Only doing essential. 16k points. 3 essential are worth 887, 1100+ 2x
Hood is 148
Bw is 121
Update
Did essential and got to 1st 20181.
Wiped 1 time to hood bw
Finished 1 match around 50% vs venom/cmag
Used 4 health packs (not normal)

still same levels on hood/bw venom n mag r 122
Hawk and im 140 oish

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champion9782 wrote:

My "A" team is spidey patch + one
I aim to get 12 blues 9 green and proceed to finish match. I do almost always heal as long as a cascade doesn't kill them off.
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I enter easy when I have hour + play as soon as I can
I do essential missions 3x each (roughly) I do all other missions 1x. Saving bottom row for last.
Through out the event time. I drop in do highest points quest
Try to push for #1 (however event 3 no one else is moving as 1 essential repeat at 1100 put me in top 5.)
When I am roughly 3 hours from finish I do every easy quest worth most points until they are roughly under 200. By this time I am #1 with 2 hours left.
I jump to hard mode do everything to and claim #1 do everything and essential multiple times. Roughly 30minutes left. I usually drop off to top 10 easy by this time. If my points for easy make it logical to push for b top 5 or 2 I'll continue to do missions in both events and do my best. Once I open up a 300+ lead (or less if points are worth under 125) I switch events. After every match I check whose in 3rd and decide what quest to do.
Also as of right now I am barely top 100 ooverall. By tonight I'll be #1.

Other strategies I always aim for lowest health or healer of a party. Especially hood then widow or against the goons/hammer whoever puts out the highest risk lowest counter. Aka thugs/lieutenant
By the time I generally get 9 greens and some blues I can usually beserk rage them +1 match it to death saving me 2 blues and easier to stun 2 guys.

This is generally my strategy also. When the scaling was low, I would play with different teams for variety. When the scaling gets high, it is time to break out Spidey otherwise you can't go very long without burning through health packs.

Regarding grinding nodes, if I wait until the end of refresh times I can usually get away with only doing the featured character nodes. I inevitably will mess up one of the refresh times during the course of of a round due to life, work, etc, so I save the two paths for that time and grind those off cycle with the featured character nodes. That way I can still make some points but not interfere with the refresh of the high-point nodes. Just did about 3 matches on each featured character node in each mode. I'm currently sitting at 2 in main, 1 in easy, and 2 in hard. I won't need to play the Simulator again until about 1.5 hours from the end.

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In LOT I climbed to 436, that is #15 to my surprise.
In Sim played last 4-5 games before final, back to lead in composite with 152k, #2 in each sub -- both led by a nonsense-roster guy.

After tarot I''ll have 2.5-3 hours do deal with events, probably start with LOT going to #2 and shield up then forget and play the sims.

In hard community scaled the desert node to 210 already, the other 2 is way lower. This time left many virgin nodes -- in hard the ends of the chain, in easy all of them (but essentials...), think it will stay that way.

In last 2 sessions (+LOT) got excessive amount of **** boards, insane enemy cascades -- while my cascades were mostly allocated to the healing session. O,O. Hope next play will not be that rough.

Still couldn't figure how to use BP well. The 12 blacks is just not happening, often look at 11 for ages. In the rare case I have them the enemy team is only the last guy for long. Shot the yellow several times from spare AP, the sword had no significance and likely got matched away right next turn... So was acting like big body. This sucks.

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155k in Sim. Put some effort into reducing scaling, main nodes went from 163/193 down to 137/137. Not seeing much change though, probably just about cancels out community scaling on the popular nodes.

Scavenged the HP reward at 500 in LoT. Not going to put much more effort into it, no covers I need this time. Got attacked twice, won both, seems like Lazy Thor + Hood + OBW tend to get underestimated.

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It seem Hood tournament is with BP prizes, 3rd cover in alliance. Black is on the top, so guess most of us shall rumble on.

(some hints on well-working BP team still welcome

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pasa_ wrote:

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If you don't see me on MPQ for a while, well, guess. [not likely]

If anyone else is hit by the "endless install" problem, you must add 'Install Dir' registry entry (yes, with space between) manually then it actually launches. Lazy devs seem widespread.

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For Black Panther team, he's strong enough that you shouldn't have to worry much about offense and can actually think about setting up the team defensively.

You can't have a cheaper black user on the team, so that rules out The Punisher, Psylocke, or The Hood amongst the popular characters.

His yellow is cheaper than Thor's, so he can't be with Thor.

Other than that he has no special synergy I can see.

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Guess I shall wait till he's 141 and use with Doom after all... And keep him on the shelf in the meantime.

I see a good chance this is the last BP prize for some time, and people are supposed to get the 5th black for HP.

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pasa_ wrote:

Guess I shall wait till he's 141 and use with Doom after all... And keep him on the shelf in the meantime.

I see a good chance this is the last BP prize for some time, and people are supposed to get the 5th black for HP.

Doom is bad because Summon Demons is same cost as Rage of the Panther.

BP is strong enough that you shouldn't have to worry about not winning on offense. Certainly if you don't care about defense, he goes fine in any standard power team.

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Moghwyn wrote:

Scavenged the HP reward at 500 in LoT. Not going to put much more effort into it, no covers I need this time. Got attacked twice, won both, seems like Lazy Thor + Hood + OBW tend to get underestimated.

I got to 500 using the same team, and it was more fun as it was a nice change of pace from my usual teams. I did not have your luck on retaliations, but I wasn't too concerned.

Regarding BP, I think he looks better on paper than in practice. I always seem to have yellow and no environmental AP or lots of environmental AP and no yellow. Like pasa_ mentioned, it is easy to hang at 10 or 11 black (but it is a nice payoff when you can actually use it). I don't have max covers though, so it is hard to know. There are plenty of characters who only shine with full levels/covers. I do appreciate his tankiness.

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I mostly think in terms of offense that supposed to be fast, low damage on me and preferably fun.

On defense I'm okay with scary looks and whoever takes it on deserve the win. Fighting doom left me looking at demons way too often -- a shot with blue usually resulted 2 immediate matches and a 3rd picked up right on. If half of those go to BP it still looks more than just hoping the AI will gather 12 blacks any time soon, especially having a rainbow team. And the demons are not bad at all either even if not a team devour instantly.

Do we have any other black battery? Beyond hood and obw I already considered?

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I was just thinking that I've been fairly selfish and playing tourneys that benifit me mostly. That being said where would everyone like for me to grind for the rest of the day to help the alliance, LOT or simulator?

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Someone could look at our position in LOT. From the top of my head I'd estimate the yellow cover must be secure without extra effort.

Meanwhile when I looked at our LOT standings in subs a day ago it was 30-ish. That definitely can use every single point. But keep scaling in mind, we still have a full round. Those with big LT might allow more leveling (or already topped), with lesser ones playing safe might be better idea.

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pasa_ wrote:

Do we have any other black battery? Beyond hood and obw I already considered?

Doom, Technopathic Strike. And possibly Iron Man 40 with enough yellow.

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Lord of Thunder
I just grinded my way up to 716pts and #2. I have 2 S.H.I.E.L.D guys and 3 other from good Alliances in my bracket. It was pretty simple, even though I used generic LT, OBW and Punisher. I have maxed Patch, but want the ISO. I think I should end top10 which is perfectly fine, as the difference between top5 is only 500 ISO.

Combined, we have safe top20 in LoT, so welcome another 2000 ISO, 100 HP and Yellow Patch (I will respec mine with it).


Simulator
In Hard I'm 81 with 8900pts. I have full rubberbanding, so will start to grind shortly.
#1 is 25k pts, #10 is 19k, so I plan to reach top 20 in worst case scenario. All depends on the battles and health packs.

In Easy I'm 29 with 7400pts. I have rubberbaning at more than 4x, so probably after I finish Hard it will be even bigger.
#1 is 23k pts, #10 is 20k pts. same plan as above.

As for Alliance - we're #10 in Easy, but places 5-14 are pretty tight, so anything can happen. top10 is totally fine.
In Hard we'er #10 as well and I think we have safe top10. All depends on the last hours though (obviously).


Unholy Outlaw
Spend some ISO to level up Your Hood (I leveled mine to 70). All of us need to place well in the tournament, as BP rewards are sweet - he's in the top5 of all the chars currently (strong AoE, very high hp). So try to secure good position, as getting only 1 cover from Alliance rewards might not be enough. My BP is at 5 covers and at lvl 41, so I plan to win this. Especially as there's shiny Yellow IW for top1.
I suggest joining about 90-30mins till the end of the Simulator (try to find 5mins to win 1 fight), as all the Alliances will be focused on grinding Simulator at the time, so much of a chance for easier bracket.

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I'm #19 in hard with 22965 and #58 in easy with 16426. The hard has been...HARD for me so I have been concentrating on that and been dying as often as winning. As it pushes nearer to a close, I will make a run on the normal as I can win easier and use the rubberbanding in that one. That Hood fight just keeps sucking out the AP!

I was #4 with over 500 in LoT but got knocked down to 389. Hopefully I can get back in time tonight to make a push on it cuz I could still use the Patch covers.

Have fun guys!

Cooper075

I'm currently #1 in easy with 23028 and #7 in hard with 25310. I knocked out a quick pass this AM so now I'm just waiting until closer to the end to take advantage of the rubberbanding. I'm also #34 in LoT with 308 - don't need the Patch but the ISO will help leveling up Hood.