DDQ 2* nodes w/ underleveled/covered chars

Cousin Simpson

I'm curious to know if the 2* nodes are regularly beatable if some/all of your lineup is under-covered and/or under-leveled. The reason I'm asking is because I'm hoarding my 2* covers, but so far I haven't been able to collect 13 of any one character in two weeks before they expire. I was wondering if for example I could just sell my 144 Thor and replace him with 1/1/5 version and still polish off DDQ.

famousfoxking

Cousin Simpson wrote:

I'm curious to know if the 2* nodes are regularly beatable if some/all of your lineup is under-covered and/or under-leveled.

I regularly accidentally leave my 1* team in place for the first 2* node, just because I'm not paying attention. The match takes a little longer, but I've never actually had a problem with it.

Calnexin

It's been a long time since I tried, but it's possible. I certainly wouldn't recommend it - With max-champs the nodes go really quick, and I haven't lost since getting the core team to ~ 85. Attempting it with lower characters could result in failures and health pack expenditure if that day's opponents happen to be tough. You might not be able to do those nodes back to back anymore.

Given how many of them you already have max-champed, though, you can probably rely on 1-2 of them to carry the load while you bring the others back up.

jojeda654

You probably could, but I'd say it's easier to wait until you have the Iso and covers to immediately get the replacements to lvl 95.

I sold almost all of my 2*s. I was left with a lvl 100 Bagman, and Human Torch and Moonstone, both at 13 covers and lvl 35. I wasn't able to complete any DDQs using them. Now, I could've attempted to win with the 1*s that I did keep. I also could've slowly dripped Iso into them, but I really didn't have the patience to do either. Overall, I only missed about 5 DDQ days, so I wasn't really worried. It did help that double iso was running at the time...

mpqr7

All of my 2*s are now championed. So when one of them gets max-champed, I'll wait for a new cover of it to arrive, then sell the max-champ and then immediately re-roster that new cover. That will still leave me with plenty of other championed 2*s to beat the ddq nodes with.

CT1888

I have only had 3 X 2* for a while, and sold my Magneto and Storm when I had about three covers of each to re roster. All I really needed was my 144 Ares (though I've come close to wiping a couple of times). Can often do it more or less by himself.

avs962

Up until last week, Ares was the only two-star I had ever maxed. I never had any significant trouble clearing ddq. Now I sold Ares and have a 102 Thor, and some others at level 15. It's a bit rougher now, but I'm still overall successful

Shemhazi

I would love to know how some of you folks come by all of these 2* covers. I'm up over 100 Versus mode matches won now, and have gotten a grand total of 3 2* covers.

hodayathink

Shemhazi wrote:

I would love to know how some of you folks come by all of these 2* covers. I'm up over 100 Versus mode matches won now, and have gotten a grand total of 3 2* covers.

By doing other modes. Between PvE, occasional PvP, and opening my tacos, I've pulled about 60 2* in the past 2 weeks. And I have a stockpile of about 220 standard tokens if I want to try to get a few more.

Bulls

Ive sold all my 2* when they've changed prices as I was in desperate need of that iso and imidietly lvled up cap am (2nd worst 2* after bagman?) as I had 3 of his covers in que. Even tough it was kinda difficult but for 2 days in a row Ive managed and then 2nd 2* got to champ lvl and it became much easier. Keep in mind that you can greatly help yourself with good TUs: rulk gives you cheap aoe that clear whole wave, 553 gr gives you either cheap aoe that cleats wave as well or red dot that will ping them down to death one by one. Nova gives you 7mana pewpew that takes down one target and leaves you with strong strike tiles that will carry your underlvled 2*. There's probably more useful TUs but those mentioned with boost to TU mana makes them usable after two 3maches

mckauhu

I just recently sold ALL my 2*,s but was collecting 10 heroic and 50 std tokens to replace them after. So I got the characters back + a few others than previously. I missed just once DDQ 2000 iso reward and now that I have my 2* Thor at lvl 55 and Storm around same level, I have no problem beating them. Big help is my alliances team ups to finish the job done. My first attempt today failed, but I think can handle it with my second attempt...

Shemhazi

aesthetocyst wrote:

Shemhazi wrote:

I would love to know how some of you folks come by all of these 2* covers. I'm up over 100 Versus mode matches won now, and have gotten a grand total of 3 2* covers.

I rake in 90-120 2* covers a week. They come from everywhere:

PvE progressions
PvP progressions
Sim matches
LR matches
Standard tokens
Heroics (including daily deals)
Event tokens
Taco vault
Event vaults (including daily deals)

LRs are the top source. Play all LRs to 250pts or more.

I have heard reports of players going thru periods of receiving nearly zero 2*s. I am really hoping I don't catch this disease....!

My problem is that I'm still working on maxing my first trio of 2*s, so what I can successfully complete is somewhat limited. For example, some days I can get through the first 2 DDQ nodes, but a lot of times, getting through the second node is just out of reach, depending on type of enemies are in the waves.

As for LRs, so far I have been able to reach 250 one time. Most times, I can get up to around 180, but after that, the teams are all way out of my reach for beating. I was hoping that the individual match rewards would be a good source of 2* covers, but is where RNG is failing me at the moment. I recently tracked 100 matches in Versus mode, and here are my results:

68x 70 ISO-8
10x 140 ISO-8
4x 250 ISO-8
15x 1* Covers
3x 2* Covers

Needless to say, progressing to a team of maxed 2*s has pretty much been a standstill for me.