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rush4093 wrote:

How many are really interested in the GSBW covers in the other pvp? If some of us are interested I'll make a decent push in it, otherwise I may not try very hard, she doesn't really interest me all that much. Also seems a bit weird that captain has the big buff icon but his stats don't look to be buffed at all.

I have interest since I need to build my 3* covers and GSBW is considered to be a good 3* character from what I've read. Although as much as MPQ is fun, we all need a break or it'll stop being as much fun. I would not resent you at all for sitting the upcoming PVP event out. In a way I really think the future update that will show everyone's score offers limited upside, but that's a different topic.

The Finn wrote:

For TBTI we ended up 36 on the alliance rankings--not bad at all! Well done team.

I boosted like CRAZY the final 30 mins to end at 772 pts. Crazy crazy run but so much fun--really exciting finish! Unless i got attacked without a notification i should have snuck into top 5. The guy I pushed out of top 10 lost a cover and is probably royally pissed off after having been shielded so long. Adds to my enjoyment hehehe

This was a fun event!

Nice job. Me and my only viable character ended up in the top 25 with almost 600pts so I'll take that. Congrats team on a top 36 finish. I hope to now score some massive points for the rest of the PVE point and see if I can get another lazy cap cover.

The Finn

youngjk22 wrote:

Nice job. Me and my only viable character ended up in the top 25 with almost 600pts so I'll take that. Congrats team on a top 36 finish. I hope to now score some massive points for the rest of the PVE point and see if I can get another lazy cap cover.

I only had one viable node as well--only a.clawdude. No xforce, lvl 20 patch boosted to 40... I ran almost exclusively a.clawdude, fat thor and c.mags the whole event.

All my rewards have come through already. Yippeee

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In TBTI I shielded at #5 with 751 and I thought it would be enough since I had a 150 lead from the #10, but sadly it wasn't for a top 10. Finished top 25.

GSBW is one of the 2 heroes I have with only 2 covers (the other is Ragnarok), so 'd like to get her since she is not offered too often as a reward, but I'm still not sure how hard I will push. My MMR is crazy in pvp because I have never tanked in a tournament except in LRs. This would be a good tournament for me to do that, but I can't pass on the opportunity to get her covers.

Can someone confirm that the nodes in pve refreshed 36 hours after the last time and not 24?

The Finn

Ouch Narkon! It was super competitive this event at the end for whatever reason.

I want a GSBW also but question how much i would actually prioritize/use her...

As for the timing, no clue--I never pay attention to the refresh schedules and just play when I can.

Quick question for all--will you guys be 1-upping your capt americas? I have him at 2/2/2 and can take him to 51. He would be immediately useful for these two events and likely many in the near future. I am tempted... Thoughts??

Edit: I have no self control apparently, I spent just over half my iso store, about 16k to get him from 20 to 51. Will report back how he plays, though his abilities seem to ramp only after you get the third cover...

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Narkon wrote:

In TBTI I shielded at #5 with 751 and I thought it would be enough since I had a 150 lead from the #10, but sadly it wasn't for a top 10. Finished top 25.

GSBW is one of the 2 heroes I have with only 2 covers (the other is Ragnarok), so 'd like to get her since she is not offered too often as a reward, but I'm still not sure how hard I will push. My MMR is crazy in pvp because I have never tanked in a tournament except in LRs. This would be a good tournament for me to do that, but I can't pass on the opportunity to get her covers.

Can someone confirm that the nodes in pve refreshed 36 hours after the last time and not 24?

How do you determine how much points you are ahead mid-tournament?
I recognized while still winning I did not rise considerably the last few rounds.
At least the last PVE refresh time was 36 hours.

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The Finn wrote:

Quick question for all--will you guys be 1-upping your capt americas? I have him at 2/2/2 and can take him to 51. He would be immediately useful for these two events and likely many in the near future. I am tempted... Thoughts??

Edit: I have no self control apparently, I spent just over half my iso store, about 16k to get him from 20 to 51. Will report back how he plays, though his abilities seem to ramp only after you get the third cover...

I consider him dependent on the presence of enemy's powerful special tiles, up to one per turn. (Pair with Patch?)
Seems to me that will often be Countdown Tiles, so you need red or blue at 5.
(Wolverine X-Force yellow, Ares yellow, some Hammer and Maggia thugs, ...)
Currently Dev may feed him because of the movie.
If you can't use Spidey and still want to freeze one (maybe two) opponents, that's a use also.

If they include him in Lightning Rounds, you get part of your ISO back there

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rush4093 wrote:

How many are really interested in the GSBW covers in the other pvp? If some of us are interested I'll make a decent push in it, otherwise I may not try very hard, she doesn't really interest me all that much. Also seems a bit weird that captain has the big buff icon but his stats don't look to be buffed at all.

As far as i know she is the only one I have no cover of yet, would like to get 1/1/1 for possible later use. Am kinda Widow fan.

My LCap is buffed insane, would like to have the skills of my old Cap or any Mags instead but can't leave him out.

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Got my 3 captain covers last night, and... Well holy hell. I've been struggling to stay top 50, I'm now 4th. XD

Not so fussed on gw myself, but I'll always push for the token, and if I see we're close to the alliance boundary I'll put in a bit more for it. Gj to everyone now letting us place for covers tho. Next stop are the bigger hp pools - nice to see we managed top 50 last night

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The Finn wrote:

Quick question for all--will you guys be 1-upping your capt americas? I have him at 2/2/2 and can take him to 51. He would be immediately useful for these two events and likely many in the near future. I am tempted... Thoughts??

The problem with Cap is that even if he is super buffed, he is not the hero who will win you matches. I have 40k ISO left and I may drop some on him just to make sure he doesn't die often from aoe attacks, but that's all I am spending on him. If only that yellow was cheaper.

Timwalk wrote:

How do you determine how much points you are ahead mid-tournament?
I recognized while still winning I did not rise considerably the last few rounds.

If you are talking about pvp, I just checked the player rank tab and saw the difference from the #10 at that time and I felt that 150 lead was enough. If you are talking about pve, there is not a definitive way to make sure where you are. Usually, if you check in the last minutes before the missions refresh you can tell where you can expect to land in the final ranking, but rubberbanding complicates things. Someone may play only in the last rotation and get ahead of you; especially if you don't grind effectively the last nodes of an event.

rush4093

Narkon wrote:

The problem with Cap is that even if he is super buffed, he is not the hero who will win you matches. I have 40k ISO left and I may drop some on him just to make sure he doesn't die often from aoe attacks, but that's all I am spending on him. If only that yellow was cheaper.

Looking at captains stats with max covers and levels I have a hard time finding another character I would use over him. I feel the ideal team would possibly be lazy Thor, lazy cap and the upcoming lazy daken. There is the annoyance factor of daken healing and putting down strike tiles. For Thor you would use yellow and green obviously, both of which have their damage amplified by strike tiles. Captain covers blue and red. His blue at max puts out a 291 damage protect tile which will wipe out pretty much all match 3 damage and his red looks to hit for over 3k damage. The fact that both return the ap is also huge. It may take a few rounds to get things going, but once you start collecting ap the damage would be poured on pretty fast with that team.

I'll definitely be entering the tournament for captain. My widow is only 2/0/2 so I could use the covers and it looks like the tournament after that will feature her. I just don't know that I will really level her much at all. I'd rather save the ISO for other characters.

The the recent set of new nodes did show up after 36 hours. There's also the random node that shows up at strange times throughout the day. I'm gonna assume they will go back to 24 hours now since the new nodes appeared a whole number of days before the end of the event. Unfortunately it doesn't look like points are increasing all that much so I really don't know how anyone will reach even that first captain cover. Top in my bracket just broke 30k, I'm still sitting quite a bit lower since I haven't done my clear yet.

The Finn

My immediate reaction on new capt is it takes way too damned long to build his powers up. I used the yellow a few times and it is awesome to see all the match damage against you be 1 1 1s but it takes TOO LONG. Plus he doesn't play well with fat thor, who I'd rather give the yellows to as it typically gets me to call of storm.

So while I can't Say I am regretting the decision to put iso into him, i think he won't fit my playstill. I like to minimize damage and control the board with c.mags. With new captain, you are guaranteed to take a ton of damage as you build up ap....

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rush4093 wrote:

Looking at captains stats with max covers and levels I have a hard time finding another character I would use over him. I feel the ideal team would possibly be lazy Thor, lazy cap and the upcoming lazy daken. There is the annoyance factor of daken healing and putting down strike tiles. For Thor you would use yellow and green obviously, both of which have their damage amplified by strike tiles. Captain covers blue and red. His blue at max puts out a 291 damage protect tile which will wipe out pretty much all match 3 damage and his red looks to hit for over 3k damage. The fact that both return the ap is also huge. It may take a few rounds to get things going, but once you start collecting ap the damage would be poured on pretty fast with that team.

If he is maxed, that is another story. I am talking about the current build which is 2/2/2 at best (mine is even worse with 2/2/1). If I max him I will probably level him to use him as a tank and for his blue, but until then I'd rather keep my ISO for an emergency. It's not that much anyway; close to 40k.

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Narkon wrote:

If you are talking about pvp, I just checked the player rank tab and saw the difference from the #10 at that time and I felt that 150 lead was enough.

Thank you.
Correct, I was referring to pvp then. Will keep my eyes open for a player rank tab.

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The Finn wrote:

Quick question for all--will you guys be 1-upping your capt americas? I have him at 2/2/2 and can take him to 51. He would be immediately useful for these two events and likely many in the near future. I am tempted... Thoughts??

Edit: I have no self control apparently, I spent just over half my iso store, about 16k to get him from 20 to 51. Will report back how he plays, though his abilities seem to ramp only after you get the third cover...

Had to break shield at the end to squeeze into top10 (780+) to reach 2/2/2 for Lazy Cap. I'm unlikely to put ISO into him unless I see a buffed Lazy Cap makes significant difference in the PVP. Hulk, OBW and c.Storm doing all the work in PVE so he's just filling in for the Essential nodes.

rush4093 wrote:

Looking at captains stats with max covers and levels I have a hard time finding another character I would use over him. I feel the ideal team would possibly be lazy Thor, lazy cap and the upcoming lazy daken. There is the annoyance factor of daken healing and putting down strike tiles. For Thor you would use yellow and green obviously, both of which have their damage amplified by strike tiles. Captain covers blue and red. His blue at max puts out a 291 damage protect tile which will wipe out pretty much all match 3 damage and his red looks to hit for over 3k damage. The fact that both return the ap is also huge. It may take a few rounds to get things going, but once you start collecting ap the damage would be poured on pretty fast with that team.

But that leaves purple and black out which is easily picked up by c.Mags, GSBW, Psylocke and Black Panther on the opposing team. I like Cap as well, but my issue with him is that his colour spread is not that exciting and the cost to set him up for his utility is 3~4 tile matches + 2~3 turns. That said, if you do pull off his abilities, the opponent better hope he/she has board control mechanics on his/her side.

My bracket broke 30k as well for the PVE but that yellow Lazy Cap does seem impossible to reach.
As for the Lazy Cap PVP, I'll probably enter it less than 24 hours to the end and push for a position that awards HP (no need for her covers) or more if the Alliance is hovering around 50. The GSBW reward will probably come in handy for the upcoming Hollowpoint Kiss PVP(?) but if it's a rehash of Widowmaker, then I think OBW will continue to dominate (at least for those in the 2*-transiting-to-3*MMR brackets)

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hehe, #9 in pve after my last fight.
I always pick the node with the most points first, hope that is ok.
That way I have 2 nodes still untouched.
The single new node switched in 12 hours after refresh.

The Finn

Good news, MPQ support is amazing especially as they're working on the weekend. They have made jewomy a regular member. Please don't repromote him until we figure out what to do. Narkon, handing it back to you to decide on nextf steps.

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The Finn wrote:

Good news, MPQ support is amazing especially as they're working on the weekend. They have made jewomy a regular member. Please don't repromote him until we figure out what to do. Narkon, handing it back to you to decide on nextf steps.

This is great news and they deserve a big thanks. Now, I am fine with keeping jewomy around until we have a member show interest and can afford one of the last 2 slots. Jewomy has not contacted us, but there is no reason to lose any points he contributes. I would also like to avoid, if possible, kicking someone a few hours/days before the pvp and pve end.

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Wholeheartedly agreed there narkon

Nodes getting pretty tough now. Running c.storm (65) with max obw and Thor. Worked pretty well this far, but god damn, taking 2k damage from a mere thug pistol is hurtful, let alone if I don't down a muscle before a threaten goes off.

I'm just thankful there's no many dons - high hp and easy to avoid damage, perfect for restoring that cheap pistol pop, even if he constantly tried to steal blue.

The Finn

Tarquos wrote:

Wholeheartedly agreed there narkon

Nodes getting pretty tough now. Running c.storm (65) with max obw and Thor. Worked pretty well this far, but god damn, taking 2k damage from a mere thug pistol is hurtful, let alone if I don't down a muscle before a threaten goes off.

I'm just thankful there's no many dons - high hp and easy to avoid damage, perfect for restoring that cheap pistol pop, even if he constantly tried to steal blue.

If you like living on the edge, get storm and obw to <50% health then position thor to take some pistol shots for massive raging tempest fun. Makes the match end quick, for better or worse.

Seems like a lot of folks are taking a break after a surprisingly challenging clawguys event. In my capt america bracket 500 pts lands you in the top 10. I am hovering around there but not even motivated to shield or worry about retaliations. We'll see where I end up.

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I am using OBW/Patch paired with Punisher or Captain when he is needed. I have kept myself in the top 5 in pve, but the lack of sub rewards and the fact that all missions since the start feel the same makes this event extremely boring for me. I finally beat the Don/Yelena/Venom and it was a close one. The only one standing was Punisher with less than 1k health who took down Venomwith his red.

My C.Storm is only 25 level and I have the ISO to level her, but I've never found much use for her since I started using OBW. Storm's stun is great but if you start with a board that lacks blue you are done. I find OBW's blue much more useful since she gives you the same number of turns as the Stun to deal with problems and affects all CD instead of just those of the stunned enemy. I also need the green AP to feed Punisher's Strike tiles or in more rare occasions Patch's green if I need to take someone down quickly. It could be that Storm's build is 5/5/3, but Tempest needs you to plan around taking a ton of damage and I hate doing that. I prefer a strategy that leaves my team ready for the next match and not half dead.

In pvp I am #8 with 500 and so far no one has attacked me or even retaliated. Calm waters for now.