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Thanks to the LoT tournament, I now have a 4/3/5 patch. ^_^ great job,everyone! My ISO income has been great lately too, what with alliance awards and the simulator. Stuff is levelling quickly.

I intend power up through the hood tourney right before it ends. I expect we'll do well there too.

Had a real exciting/disapointing moment with a highly trained token last night. Cashed it in, saw the 3* reward screen (yes!) 3* reward screen transitions to the hood cover (YES!) hood cover is black. (sigh) my black on hood is maxed.

Unknown

And Hood black is useless, my Hood only has 2 blue at the moment and so isn't really useable...

Great to see the team so high up in the rankings, let's keep pushing on!

over_clocked

I dunno, Ares with his Sunder quite loves Intimidation. Ditto Punisher, IM 40, maybe MMN, mHawkeye, Captain America. Cap only stuns for 2 turns while his blue CD is 3 turns, so using Intimidation on those ones could be really useful.

PuceMoose

Hooray, I opened a Heroic token tonight and earned a Red Punisher cover! He's up to a 3/1/3 now, so like my Patch he's creeping ever closer to being usable in a regular lineup. I had a chance to play for about an hour and a half tonight, and played most nodes in the simulator + hard mode, so that added a nice influx of points (about 35,000 or so). I was also happy to see my Hood team won twice (and lost thrice) on defense in the current Hood tournament - I rarely get defensive wins, so it was a pleasant surprise. 103 Classic Magneto / 66 (buffed level) Hood / 85 OBW is kind of an interesting team to play.

over_clocked

Puce Moose wrote:

Hooray, I opened a Heroic token tonight and earned a Red Punisher cover! He's up to a 3/1/3 now, so like my Patch he's creeping ever closer to being usable in a regular lineup. I had a chance to play for about an hour and a half tonight, and played most nodes in the simulator + hard mode, so that added a nice influx of points (about 35,000 or so). I was also happy to see my Hood team won twice (and lost thrice) on defense in the current Hood tournament - I rarely get defensive wins, so it was a pleasant surprise. 103 Classic Magneto / 66 (buffed level) Hood / 85 OBW is kind of an interesting team to play.

Do you have any green-red-yellow DPS/tank? Patch, Punisher, Ares, Thor, Wolverine if nothing else. They would make for a better third than Magneto because there's no reason to run oBW with Magneto, so many overlapping colours. While Hood/oBW can make any of your green/red/yellow DPS heroes 2x as good.
Or go pure damage and go Hood/Magneto/any green-red damager.

PuceMoose

locked wrote:

Puce Moose wrote:

Hooray, I opened a Heroic token tonight and earned a Red Punisher cover! He's up to a 3/1/3 now, so like my Patch he's creeping ever closer to being usable in a regular lineup. I had a chance to play for about an hour and a half tonight, and played most nodes in the simulator + hard mode, so that added a nice influx of points (about 35,000 or so). I was also happy to see my Hood team won twice (and lost thrice) on defense in the current Hood tournament - I rarely get defensive wins, so it was a pleasant surprise. 103 Classic Magneto / 66 (buffed level) Hood / 85 OBW is kind of an interesting team to play.

Do you have any green-red-yellow DPS/tank? Patch, Punisher, Ares, Thor, Wolverine if nothing else. They would make for a better third than Magneto because there's no reason to run oBW with Magneto, so many overlapping colours. While Hood/oBW can make any of your green/red/yellow DPS heroes 2x as good.
Or go pure damage and go Hood/Magneto/any green-red damager.

I do have an 85 Thor/Wolverine, but it's so easy to get spoiled on OBW's healing! It's nice not to have to run off to the prologue after every battle to heal. I imagine this team on defense is unpredictable, as there's no telling if Magneto will go for a (probably nearly useless, given the A.I.'s tile selections) protect tile skill, or a highly irritating Widow heal? Will you get abused by an Aggressive Recon, or slaughtered by a Magnetic Translocation? Meanwhile Hood is in the background, being his usual annoying hood self. His blue is only at level 2, so it's only blue and purple he can snatch now. It's a weird (and kind of fun) team to play, as you live or die by purple AP acquisition.

over_clocked

Oh, I see. I still encourage you to run green/red/yellow damager, since Hood may still steal blue and purple for oBW and she WILL abuse the enemy with Recon. I'm running Ares/oBW/Hood right now in the Hood tourney, Ares is pretty dangerous even lacking one cover and final 8 levels. My Hood tanks all his colours But on defense it doesn't mean much.

over_clocked

*looks at her Ares*
*looks at her buffed Hood*
*Ares has 77 levels and 4 860 hp*
*Hood has 158 effective levels and 4 860 hp*
- What are you, Robbins? A tank?

Unknown

734 in Hood tourney and shielded. Got struck by my own growing MMR, most matches either give a few points or are against 141 Spideys and CMags Need to tank hard, probably on LRs when they're up.

BTW I followed the locked's idea and ran Ares/OBW instead of my usual Wolvie/OBW. Pretty fun, especially considering that the buffed hero of the tournament is so frail and insignificant damage-wise, so one could either ignore him or fry him with a pair of nukes.

over_clocked

Well, Wolverine/oBW work insanely well thanks to the strike tile synergy, too. I ran Wolvie just now simply because he's maxed (also strikes) and Ares is not. We'll see if the Hood/oBW/Wolverine team can rack up any defensive wins over night. I adore the fact that they have no overlapping abilities, while they all have synergetic passives:
Wolverine - passive yellow (Hood's active)
Hood - passive blue (oBW's active)
oBW - passive black (Hood's active)
It's fool-proof. Ditto Ares and Thor instead of Wolvie since their yellow is still cheaper than Hood's and more likely to be used by the AI.

I got to the 600 pts prog reward, respecced MMN to 3-5-5 and now the only 2** cover I need is a green Ares. Bag-Man and Bullseye will have to wait when I can afford to have them too.

While Hood is definitely frail, the buff makes him look tanky compared to oBW

Edit: I gave it another thought, if you run oBW/Hood and have doubts about the third, it should be someone with 3 active abilities, two of which MUST be green/red, since Hood and oBW give you so much AP. Besides, you'd rather use awesome yellow abilities like Thunder Strike or Sunder over Twin Pistols, or Punisher's black over Intimidation (or both if you acquire enough black).

Unknown

For the Hood tourney the awesome combo of Wolvie and OBW is nerfed by the fact my buffed Hood takes over black and blue, leaving only purple for OBW Espionage. That was my line of thought before switching to Ares. And it fully paid off.

over_clocked

Oh yeh I forgot about oBW only having purple for Espionage.

Unknown

Big problem with obw and hood together is if by any chance you lose your third (someone meaty/tanky i hope) obw and hood just doesn't have the health to take much dmg. Granted you keep their aps level low, the chances of them taking dmg for blue/purp/etc is kinda risky too. If you are successful with that combo, be careful with leaving them ad your defense. People like to eat those kind of chars up for points.

M1Lance

I know I'm a little late to the party but good job grabbing that yellow Patch cover!

So now I have a 4/5/4 patch with a yellow and a green cover to spare. Was originally planning to respec to 5/3/5 but would 3/5/5 be better? My Patch is at level 90 right now so in order for red to be effective he will have to be around level 120 so that his tiles will appear over my 141 Punisher on red and green. With a spidey nerf coming (eventually), I feel that 5 green would be more of a burden than a blessing without the ability to continuously stunlock.

Thoughts?

over_clocked

It's said that level 4 Patch skills should be avoided (unless you have no more covers so far). 3/5/5 is safer, I would go that route myself.

over_clocked

The rewards are in and we're looking forward to getting free black Hulks in the new heroes-only tourney (nooooo. I had so much fun with the Hood. But he did his job and let me sit unshielded in top 10).
Thank you guys and gals

Unknown

Good, good, I need more Hulk covers. Heroes only means no Ares for me, so back to Wolvie/OBW. Not sure about the third one: most probably either Punisher (my highest-lvl hero) for his black and occasionally red, or Cap who is stupid but beefy. Yes, I have Captain America at max level thanks to the very first Hulk PvE event. He was buffed and I was a newb without many covers, in a desperate need of a levelled 2-star char. Sad story

Yet another idea for the third char is BP. With new covers from Hood tourney I could level him high. The question is: do I have enough ISO to do this? No idea I like BP's yellow and black, even used his blue once when a lucky cascade and nukes from a 100+ Rag got my OBW fried

over_clocked

I'm in severe shortage of ISO too, so if nothing else, I guess I will go back to Shield training to level my Psylocke some for the heroes tourney. She's the only 3*** besides the Hood who I can push to level 115, I think I will go Thor**/oBW/Psylocke for this tourney, subbing Punisher instead of Psy for downing the Hulk sometimes.

Unknown

I like Psylocke too but lack covers to make her useful unless she's buffed. Good black ability, red too. But in your specific setup she will compete for red with Thor, and the big guy likes to have all three colors to himself, chaining one ability into the next. Or do I get your battleplan wrong? I'm not a big expert on Thor, so I want to learn more.

over_clocked

Oh I barely use Thor's red, it's so mediocre. My Thor is obviously 3-5-5. So if Psy hogs red, I'm only agreeing with that.