A-Force

kensterr

Guys - I'll be saying sayonara soon. It's been a great pleasure and honor to be in this alliance.

The demands of my work has finally piled up and I have less time to play than before. It's the sad reality of MPQ where playing casually will affect the alliance as well as own personal rewards.

Unknown

Kensterr,

It's sad to see you leave, We've been fighting together since the first alliance event ever. but understandable really, you should prioritize your work over mpq

Thank you for sticking with us for the whole 4 seasons

Good Luck! and all the best for your future endeavor. T____T

Unknown

hi, i sent request to joining this alliance pls accept :v , i need an active alliance

IGN: Gery de Brute
FB: Ivant Brave
PVE: frequent playing
PVP: 500-600 every season event

troubletown

My game handle is: Troubletown (email troubletown71@yahoo.com)

Looking for a causally competitive large alliance to join

Typically score 600-800 in the PVPs depending on which covers I need, and will progressively ratchet up those scores as I start maxing out my 3-star and 4-star characters.

My Season 4 score was ~10,000

Have every character except Nick Fury, and have been playing a lot with my 100-166 level Punisher, CMags, Hood team.

Also have maxed-out doubles of critical 2-star characters, including Classic Storm, Thor, Ares, CMags, OBW, Juggs which lets me rotate out characters without needing health packs, therefore scoring high in the events.
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Unknown

Hi Gery and Troubletown,

I apologise, but the last spot has been taken for now.

I'll contact u guys when there's a spot.

Thanks!

M1Lance

Hey new alliance-mates!

Thanks again to Pucco and the rest of you for letting me join the alliance. I've made a few posts in the alliance chat already but I'll use this thread to formally introduce myself. I'm an MPQ vet who's been playing almost daily since October of 2013. I was formally with [JUST] but over the past several weeks we lost some key members and could no longer keep up as a top 100 alliance. Casually hardcore is practically the definition of my playstyle: I try to play as much as I can when I can but I do occasionally have other life commitments, so I'll be sure to let you guys know when and if I ever need a short break. However you can usually count on me for a top 25-50 finish in most PVPs, and sometimes in the top 5 when I need the covers or have some extra time on my hands.

Glad to be onboard!

EDIT: For the purposes of event end-times I should also probably let you know I live on the East coast of the USA

mmrosek

Welcome M1. I just joined a week or so ago and am loving all the chat and top 100 finishes. Glad to have you on board. I'm on the east coast too, Charlotte NC.

Unknown

Hi Lance,

Great to have you with us too. You are 1 of the few october people that i know. Glad i'm not alone.

I'm sure many of us has real life obligations, thus making the alliance casually hardcore.

We as a team are geared more toward pvp since the rewards are better. We also try a bit harder for pve if there's new character (although in the end we complain about the slot cost )

Anyway, i live in Asia, some of our older member live in Asia. Many live in the US too. So our chat can be active all day round.

Unknown

Hey guys - bizzobox here. Trying to get some feedback for coordinating TU stockpiling. TU's are way more useful if you know what you have and can apply a strategy consistent with your main team.

Our go-to teams usually have high damage output and Health, but lack utility skills. If I could customize Black Panther with a 4th skill to bring to each fight, what would I want him to have? The idea is to load all 20 slots with the same TU (or 10/10 of two different TU's).

Within 2 TU matches, very achievable even with cascades:
1) Juggernaut - Unstoppable Crash - 6ap for board shakeup at 3* damage. 6ap board shakeup at 3* damage? Almost a lock to generate AP and do some good damage, and have a chance to clear some enemy CD/strike tiles.
2) Psylocke - psi-katana - 6ap - a quick get it out there hit that takes advantage of strike tiles from your main team
3) 2* or 3* HT - Flame Jet - 5ap - constantly does damage as long as you have green. Does not cost 5green to fire, unlike torch himself...stacks with strike tiles for a quick high dmg hitter. I actually love this skill. damage is irrelevant
4) OBW - Aggressive Recon - @level 1 - 5ap - quick AP stealer

Higher cost, but very useful skills:
1) IM40 - Recharge @2 - 8ap - loads up on red/blue. Feed c.mags and LCap, or HT/DP with lvl 1 Recharge. 2 matches with TU tiles to generate a potential 9 red ap. I play IM40 occasionally just for this skill.
2) mBW - Widow's Sting - 9ap: stuns target for 5 turns + teammates for 1. prevents damage while you gain AP, reduce healthpack usage
3) C.Hawkeye - Take Aim - 8ap: place a crit tile, which we could usually use to make a match-5 for another crit tile at 3* dmg. 8ap for a couple k damage plus cascades
4) Loki - Trickery - 11ap for enemy strike / protect tile conversion - always have a counter to strike tiles on hand.
5) mStorm - Hailstorm - 9ap that covers the board in strike tiles (defend against a World Rupture, assuming you can get 9TU before the ai gets enough green). damage is irrelevant.
6) Daredevil - blue or red @ 7ap - his red and blue only cost 7 and have a good impact on the game if it fires. Daredevil's skills are powerful, just too random to use consistently. makes a great bonus skill though.

The other ones that are suitable for TU's are from the glass cannons: convert their high dmg skills into TU's and send em in with the high HP heroes. Easy way to get best of both worlds.

The biggest suck for TU's to me is the randomness - it's difficult to develop a consistent strategy when my TU stash is all over the place. If our TU stockpile was consistent with our go-to team, we can use it to up our advantage. The idea is for alliance members to request TU's and load up, then move on. The criteria I'm using for this is: 1) low TU AP cost around 6...it's easy to get this many from cascades usually, 2) High utility for the skill, regardless of the TU char's level - these include stuns or board shakeups. 3) less-used characters so we don't mind having them out on patrol.

Thoughts anyone?

Unknown

I've been using more often now since R60, mainly because it helps me to make a more sustainable push for PvP and also eliminates the need to spend for boosts. The gauntlet is also a very good place to use especially on the finale part as a backup skill. Right now i almost always bring 3 to every fight, but i'm not gonna use them unless if i have to.

My favorite are:
5: yes it's a little bit random, but as thanos said before, it's magical
1-3: no need to explain here.
5: if you happen to have other strike tile generator in your team
5: a rare but effective damage dealer.
5: to help sentry or xforce
xforce 5: my favourite one when i can't use xforce.

Higher cost that i would use usually an AoE. I collected too many 395 lthor during last simulator, so i always bring one of his skill in case when i'm in a pinch. R61 will fix the cascade so definitely more chances to use them.

I think bringing and 1 AoE will be a very good strategy, but i'm too lazy to organize that

Unknown

I'm glad to see a discussion about TUs. I've been wanting to post something about this, but... lazy.

Bizzbox and Pucco already mentioned most of the good low-cost TUs. I just want to add some random thoughts:

- Can anyone confirm if level 4 Venom purple is available as a TU? If it is, I would put it on the top of my wishlist along with level 1 OBW purple. A stun for 4 AP can be very handy in case of emergencies or for dealing with Captain Marvel and the Hulk.
- Level 5 Spidey blue would be useful too if it's available as a TU.
- Level 5 Ares green can be a very effective nuke if you occasionally run teams that have Daken but no green active powers (e.g. Daken + Falcon + BP). And since Ares is a frequently featured enemy in PVE, high-level TUs are easy to farm.
- I would personally prefer level 1 IM40 yellow over level 2, just because blue is no longer a color I need often since Magneto got nerfed.

I keep an OBW with only 1 purple cover on my roster, and I send that out whenever anyone asks for TUs. Does anyone else have the same thing? I would like some useful cheap TUs too

Edit: another useful low-cost TU is level 5 Deadpool red. I should bring one the next time I face a level 330 Juggernaut in PVE.

mmrosek

Great ideas. I like the idea of stashing a 1 purple OBW. I'm going to add her next time I get a purple cover.

I'm chock full of LThor and Dino Bite TUs from the last pve. I like to keep a Dino loaded just in case. Some of my thoughts/questions:

-Is there anywhere to get OBW or mBW TUs in the prologue?
-I've cleared the first event "Tall, Dark and Nasty" in the 3rd prologue stage a couple times and got Venom's 4ap stun on the 3rd try
-Red Deadpool is a great TU I think. He's available in Sim 21 right now. 65% up to about 3k for 2 matches
-cStorm Wind Storm could be quite useful. 11 TUap is a lot, but I wouldn't mind sending her away for a while (although she's a Pve beast)

Unknown

mmrosek wrote:

-Is there anywhere to get OBW or mBW TUs in the prologue?

As far as I know, you can't get any because BW is never an enemy in the prologue.

mmrosek wrote:

-I've cleared the first event "Tall, Dark and Nasty" in the 3rd prologue stage a couple times and got Venom's 4ap stun on the 3rd try

Thanks for the info! That makes me happy. I'll start farming now.

Unknown

I started to collect obw purple lv 1 cover few weeks back and i will collect more. Will collect IM40 yellow lv 1 cover As well.

Unknown

Interesting discussion. While I don't have the gold to start collecting covers, I will invest 1 slot for a 1purple covered OBW.

Unknown

I'll also open up a roster slot for OBW 1 to supply teammate requests now that you guys pointed it out.

Never even thought of the 4ap Venom stun - thanks for bringing that one up.

BTW here's the list of patrol periods for characters. If we all load up with an obw 1, we can fulfill TU requests every 12 hours. Then next member can request TU's to stockpile. then rinse/repeat for other members. Do folks feel like this is too much work or can get annoying? I think it's well worth it. I feel like D3 put in a lot of work designing the TU / patrol system because they knew there's a lot of power in it. 's usually account for 14.2% of the board - it's definitely worth maximizing use for efficiency. Like Pucco, I've found myself using TU"s more than boosts nowadays. The randomness of my current stash just kills my strategy.

36 Hours
Nick Fury - 380

24 Hours
Black Panther - 280
Deadpool
Human Torch (Classic) - 275
Magneto (Classic)
Sentry - 280
Storm (Mohawk)
The Punisher - 280
Thor (Modern)
Wolverine (X-Force)

16 Hours
Black Widow (Grey Suit)
Captain Marvel
Daken (Classic)
Dr. Doom - 200
Falcon
Hulk
Iron Man (Model 40)
Loki
Psylocke
Ragnarok
She-Hulk
The Hood
Wolverine (Patch)

12 Hours
Black Widow (Original) - 180
Human Torch (Johnny Storm) - 180
Invisible Woman
Storm (Classic)
Thor (Marvel NOW!)

8 Hours
Ares
Bullseye
Captain America (Steve Rogers) - 145
Daredevil
Hawkeye (Modern)
Magneto (Marvel NOW!)
Spider-Man (Classic)
Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men)

6 Hours
Black Widow (Modern)
Storm (Modern)

4 Hours
Captain America (Modern)
Hawkeye (Classic)
Iron Man (Model 35)
Juggernaut
Moonstone - 85
Spider-Man (Bag-Man) - 85
Venom

2 Hours
Yelena Belova - 55

Unknown

I would love to participate in the kind of TU sharing program Bizzbox described.

Is anyone here interested in level 1 IM40 yellow TUs? If I manage to get an IM40 yellow from the Hulk PVP, I will put it on my roster for anyone who wants the TUs.

kidicarus

Sup guys? AFAIK 1y IM40 can't be shared - one of the first things we tried.

On R61 now, so TUs are going to be more important. Trying to get used to TUs but it's just a PITA trying to figure out what to use in every match.

Unknown

hey kidd. We're doing great. We actually collected lots of 350 in the gauntlet. I treat those as a backup plan really. Or as boost replacement for sustainable push.

I have level 350 windstorm

Thanks for the heads up on im40 yellow. I almost open up a slot for that.

I think we all somewhat agree that 1 is one of the more useful ones.

I personally like 5 , and 5

Unknown

What, no IM40 yellow TU? Bummer

My favorite at the moment is level 4 Venom purple--very useful and very easy to get. I would love to have some level 1 OBW purple TUs too, but until the alliance can come up with some sort of efficient sharing system, those are hard to come by.