Wrecking Crew Break Room 20/20

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1008 in the lazy thor event. I would try to get to 1200 but it's kind of impossible tbh. I can only hit ppl for 10-15 points and a single person hitting me back will be 30-40. The pvp system really isn't conducive to getting to 1200 (done it once since they stopped you hitting shielded targets IIRC)

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Lokitty wrote:

Anyway, that aside, how is our banner going?

Interestingly I thought I would get more time to do it this week, but then a huge HR thing happened at work so I've been swamped with a lot of stuff. I'll try and post a few different concepts tomorrow and then we can finish one out that we all like.

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Alright, looking forward to it.

On a different note, the Hood PVP has alliance rewards: Black Panther
I want more covers, so I'll be pushing hard; to 900 for the HP, if possible.

kennardfr

It seems like most events will offer alliance rewards now, which ios for the best, except my MMR is rising dangerously and I may need to tank some time soon. Not this time though, I need Black panther covers too.

By the way I will be unable to play from tuesday to thursday nexwt week as I will be away for work. It will be after the present events so it should not be problematic for the alliuance.

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Yeah all the rewards here lately have been pretty good. Those lightning rounds have been about the only thing I have even thought about tanking in.

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If you want to tank just go into the prologue shield PvP and select your 3 lowest levels, insta retreat 3 times, rinse repeat til you are up to heroes you're actually planning to use. Retreating a 4th time downs the heroes so you have to wait out their downed timer.

LRs are better for that approach though OFC because 1 of the heroes is the default minimum level hero so you're only hurting 2 of your heroes at a time instead of 3.

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I didn't even know that they once upon a time allowed you to punch even while shielded. Ahh, if only they still allowed that, but that is somewhat broken. XD

Though, for the Hood event... I really don't know who would make a good team. Frankly, Hood's health is horrendous, which means I'll need to look for someone to tank over him. My own Hood's colors aren't developed enough to be really useful either, so I can't use the Daken + Ares combo like I had with Thor. Daken was real helpful in the Lazy Thor event.

I pretty much fell out of the Lazy Cap range. I missed wednesday and I'm down to 75 and unable to climb back up. Here's hoping that the people in my bracket will be less keen in the later rounds so I can climb over them again.

IxCptMorganxI wrote:

Interestingly I thought I would get more time to do it this week, but then a huge HR thing happened at work so I've been swamped with a lot of stuff. I'll try and post a few different concepts tomorrow and then we can finish one out that we all like.

No worries. I think we're in this for the long haul, so there's definitely time to work on it!

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bonfire01 wrote:

If you want to tank just go into the prologue shield PvP and select your 3 lowest levels, insta retreat 3 times, rinse repeat til you are up to heroes you're actually planning to use. Retreating a 4th time downs the heroes so you have to wait out their downed timer.

LRs are better for that approach though OFC because 1 of the heroes is the default minimum level hero so you're only hurting 2 of your heroes at a time instead of 3.

Could you explain this a bit? There must be something in the game that I'm not aware of, but I didn't understand this at all.

Has prologue shield PvP level any influence on other events?

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ippe74 wrote:

Could you explain this a bit? There must be something in the game that I'm not aware of, but I didn't understand this at all.

Has prologue shield PvP level any influence on other events?

From what I could understand (I'm still new at this), all PvP events contribute to your matching ratio, which people call the MMR. The more you win, you'll be matched against higher leveled opponents. It has little to do with your roster or what level your teams are. It's merely a win and lose ratio that determines the sort of opponents that you're up against.

Which is why, to get lower leveled opponents, people find PvP events they don't care about and lose. This is what they call Tanking, where you just set up a weak team which their purpose is to lose. People do that a lot in the Lightning Rounds since it's hard to realistically win anything worthwhile in them. Or, for faster effects, they take a team of weak characters, go to the prologue PvP, and lose. Fastest, of course, is to retreat. Do this a few times, it'll lower your MMR, and you'll once again be matched with lower leveled opponents in the matches that matter to you.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong anywhere in that.

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You got it correctly. I always tank using the retreat tactic. It's much more effective than a tank team could ever hope to be. With a borrowed hero, I run through most of my roster and sacrifice them. Takes around 10 minutes for me, and makes me fight 2* opponents in the 50s range at first. Easy to rack up the points if you're only up against opponents who have no hope of defeating you.

It almost feels like cheating honestly, but matchmaking is broken, so you might as well use it to your own advantage.

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Lokitty wrote:

I didn't even know that they once upon a time allowed you to punch even while shielded. Ahh, if only they still allowed that, but that is somewhat broken. XD

Though, for the Hood event... I really don't know who would make a good team. Frankly, Hood's health is horrendous, which means I'll need to look for someone to tank over him. My own Hood's colors aren't developed enough to be really useful either, so I can't use the Daken + Ares combo like I had with Thor. Daken was real helpful in the Lazy Thor event.

I pretty much fell out of the Lazy Cap range. I missed wednesday and I'm down to 75 and unable to climb back up. Here's hoping that the people in my bracket will be less keen in the later rounds so I can climb over them again.

No worries. I think we're in this for the long haul, so there's definitely time to work on it!

I'm running OBW, Hood, Patch although any decent damage dealer could replace patch really. My hood is 110 before the multiplier though, so he's 5k health in the event and hard to ignore cause he's 5 blue which is crippling when you're trying to build AP and OBW threatens with her purple so also hard to ignore. Last unholy outlaw that lineup got me a fair number of defensive wins which is nice.

If your hood is essentially dead weight I suppose anything works really. If you're not using OBW/spidey you'll need to wait on healing or use health packs of course. That's the main reason OBW is in my team since I have a few heroes that would let me win quicker and be more scary to attack. I'm just too lazy to prologue heal between fights

EDIT: and yes, your explanation of mmr and tanking is spot on as I understand it. I think Ice posted that they had reduced the mmr effect of lightning rounds but it still seems to work fine for me. Tanking is the main reason I have so many heroes i've left at really low levels (so they heal faster) and they'll get levelled when they get featured in an event probably. I have enough heroes kicking around that I can tank a lot and not touch the ones i'm actually using in PvE/PvP at the time which is nice.

kennardfr

And still only two stars, two Ares this time (at least I could use one) and no three stars in this event, it is beginning to be ridiculous. And Lazythor is the needed for the fourth round. It is nearly an insult to most of us who only have one or two covers for him, as we will be unable to compete at all. Even boosted, he is useless at that level.

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Then hopefully I'll be able to do some catch up for this. I still don't have any red covers for him, but I managed to snag 3 greens from the various events and he's boosted to a decent fighter. Ironically, my normal Thor has no green covers and maxed red and yellows (when I started, I sold my 2 greens because I had no roster space. I regret it a lot right now.)

Talking of Lightning Rounds.... are there no brackets for those? It's so hard to get to the tops for them, as opposed to these other events which I assume have brackets.

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Just topped 200k for the main bracket now. Am quite busy next couple of days so no idea how much more i'll get. Hopefully i'll get the 250k reward since these subs seem to be giving a lot more than previous ones.

kennardfr

Nearly unplayable for me with this cursed Lazythor. I am losing ranks quickly without being able to compete seriously.I will be sorely disappointed with the game if more than a week of hard work go to waste because they imposed Lazythor on the last round, the most interesting in points and thus decisive. I was top10 until yesterday, now I will have to fight to stay top50 because I have only one cover.

Well at least I am doing well on the Hood PvP.

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I already fell out of the top 75 due to round two. But that's okay, lazy Cap isn't as important and I could use the Widow covers more. Getting all three should max her out to the build I want.

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Calling a bet now that no one's gonna get that 300,000 pt Daredevil. Is it just me, or are more of the top prizes are just slightly out of reasonable achieving range these days?

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kennardfr wrote:

Nearly unplayable for me with this cursed Lazythor. I am losing ranks quickly without being able to compete seriously.I will be sorely disappointed with the game if more than a week of hard work go to waste because they imposed Lazythor on the last round, the most interesting in points and thus decisive. I was top10 until yesterday, now I will have to fight to stay top50 because I have only one cover.

Well at least I am doing well on the Hood PvP.

Yeah I've been finishing top 5 in each event, and have lost it all due to this stupid Lazythor. Oh well, gives me more time to work on these banners!

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Lee26 wrote:

Calling a bet now that no one's gonna get that 300,000 pt Daredevil. Is it just me, or are more of the top prizes are just slightly out of reasonable achieving range these days?

I wouldn't take that bet. The too person in my bracket right now has only 200k points with the second person still under 200k. Unread this event alone can give 100k points... I doubt it.

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Alright everybody, here's a link to three concepts I have for our forum signature. If there is anything you specifically like or other things you may want to see, let me know.


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