PVE: Simulator (2016-08-18 to 2016-08-21)

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  • ZootSax
    ZootSax Posts: 1,819 Chairperson of the Boards
    This event reminds me of Gauntlet, at times, with how much a little bit of luck can make or break you. Against Spider-Man, Miles and Gwen in Sub 2 my first try was a miserable failure after the AI got a miracle cascade on the 2nd or 3rd match of the game. In the next game, however, my intended Hulk bomb (171 Hulk/171 Patch/144 Moonstone) "failed" to work as intended when a cascade of my own gifted me 18 green and 18 black, so with only six purple tiles on the board I ended up stealing all the strike tiles and coasting to an easy win. The thrill of victory and agony of defeat, I guess...
  • sambrookjm
    sambrookjm Posts: 2,163 Chairperson of the Boards
    ZootSax wrote:
    This event reminds me of Gauntlet, at times, with how much a little bit of luck can make or break you. Against Spider-Man, Miles and Gwen in Sub 2 my first try was a miserable failure after the AI got a miracle cascade on the 2nd or 3rd match of the game.

    I had something similar happen to me in the node before that one - Iron Fist, Scarlet Witch and Kingpin. I brought in Jean Grey (I always use her vs Scarlet Witch), figuring I'd get her blue to trigger off of a Match five from Scarlet Witch. Maybe two if I got really lucky. Her Psychic Feedback at LVL 5 did about 90% of the damage that match, as their team got four "natural" match 5s.

    I ended up using Charlie's Angels vs the Spider Group. My Prof X is a LVL 107 5/0/2. I took out Gwen first, ate a Venom Bomb, then took out Miles and then Spidey. Strangely enough, Scarlet Witch's ability never gave me a match 5. Fortunately, the board was covered in purple, so Black Widow got me at least a half dozen of them.
  • SnowcaTT
    SnowcaTT Posts: 3,486 Chairperson of the Boards
    Here is when I hit progression:

    1x hits on the one-time subs
    2x hits on main sub (haven't hit it yet today)
    6x hits on every trival node (including trivial essential).
    6x hits on every sub-1 hard node (didn't need health packs for PVP....)
    4x hits on every other hard node except 1x on the first two difficult today and 0x on Daken today (sub 3) [Hit progression on 4th hit of 2nd CP node and came to report]

    Progression pretty much had to be set at 4x clears or higher.
  • monsieurmojo
    monsieurmojo Posts: 370 Mover and Shaker
    There are a lot of points available in Sub 3, but good luck getting there. 18,860 with all essentials 4x each and the non-repeatable node x1. The nodes are especially fun today.
  • Smudge
    Smudge Posts: 562 Critical Contributor
    I haven't started sub 3 yet since I've been pretty busy at work, but I had been using my usual IM40/4Thor to power through sub 2. Once I hit the Rulk node, I had to get more creative.

    My Rulk is 2/5/2, so purple isn't nearly as beneficial to me as I only get 2 green from a Rulk purple. Instead of SWitch, I went with IM40/Rulk/Captain Marvel. I only ended up needing health packs on Marvel. She helped stun and tanked her colors so she'd use energy absorption quite a bit, IM40 powered up Rulk nicely, and IM hit pretty hard when needed.

    The group was surprisingly much more effective than I thought, and it was rainbow coverage to boot.
  • Wjohnson992
    Wjohnson992 Posts: 175 Tile Toppler
    Maybe they forgot Sim was 3 days when they calculated max prog. They forgot a PVE event for today.
  • Mechahamster
    Mechahamster Posts: 237 Tile Toppler
    Yeah, I'm getting progression by the skin of my teeth but it's way more effort than usual. Feels like they forgot a day icon_lol.gif

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