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I got so excited when I saw gold when I got the highly trained token then......daredevil purple ugh

I was gonna level patch then black panther is coming up. I already have 3 black so if I get one more I get 4. But I have one less cover for him than patch. Leaning towards black panther any thoughts?

Unknown

My patch is 4 3 3

hex706f726368

Conundrum Kid,

Yeah, I'm bad about not checking names too. I just look at the 3 victims and go. Got to slow down and think about my alliance, although I think so far I've not run into any of you directly.

John,

Here's my $0.02:

After using a buffed BP in the last round of subs, I wasn't all that impressed with him. Mine is only level 51 - 2/2/2, so that may be part of it. Just felt like his black took too long to collect and was only hitting ~1700x3 (buffed). HIs blue I used rarely, probably only if I didn't have a character with a blue power on the team. It didn't seem to stop much and didn't last long. The yellow was also a rare hit. I can only recall one time where I had 60+ env. tiles, so I got to drop 4x83 (buffed) strike tiles. That was fun, but way too infrequent. Too often I found myself on jungle or desert and choosing to wait on his yellow so as not to burn the already collected env. tiles so they could power better options. I think he was buffed to ~117. I'm sure if my BP started out with more covers or more levels I may not have such a low opinion, but in contrast, my Psylocke is level 50 - 3/2/3 and I felt like she was a bad **** in the first round of subs.

I don't have a usable Patch (yet!), but he seems way more attractive.

Here's my request for alliance opinion:

I've had an influx of Hood rewards recently, so I'm at 15 - 3/3/3 with a level cap of 89. With the outlaw PvP tourney happening this weekend, I'm tempted to level him up, but I'm not sure how much. I have enough ISO banked to push him to his cap, but that would run my ISO reserves very low. I'm probably going to level him somewhat, just not sure how much. Got to make sure I keep the upcoming events in mind. The BP rewards are interesting. If you keep BP a couple levels ahead or positioned ahead, he will tank for the hood.

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JohnGalt wrote:

I got so excited when I saw gold when I got the highly trained token then......daredevil purple ugh

I was gonna level patch then black panther is coming up. I already have 3 black so if I get one more I get 4. But I have one less cover for him than patch. Leaning towards black panther any thoughts?

BP and Patch are both good but they have their pros and cons.
BP has a really good black, but that's about it for his powers. Although he does have good health and his colors fit in with other good 3*
Patch on the other hand can just about solo a lot of teams, but his powers are situational, and you have to be careful when using him. Also, he only has two actives, and red and green overlap with a lot of other good characters.

Ideally you can level both, because I think they'd work really well together.
Looking at your roster, I'd recommend Patch. First off, you have more covers. He absorbs damage like a pro, and he can dish it out just as well. One warning though; if you're using him in an event where another red/green character is powered up past him, "The Best There Is" is anything but.

hex706f726368 wrote:

I've had an influx of Hood rewards recently, so I'm at 15 - 3/3/3 with a level cap of 89. With the outlaw PvP tourney happening this weekend, I'm tempted to level him up, but I'm not sure how much. I have enough ISO banked to push him to his cap, but that would run my ISO reserves very low. I'm probably going to level him somewhat, just not sure how much. Got to make sure I keep the upcoming events in mind. The BP rewards are interesting. If you keep BP a couple levels ahead or positioned ahead, he will tank for the hood.

Personally, I'd save my iso. Maybe level him a little, but he's not going to turn into a powerhouse by lvl 89. Basically, you just want him to steal AP for you. He's not a bad character, but I feel like when this event is over, you'll wish you had used that iso on another character that you might use more often.

Unknown

I had a similar situation this week where I wasn't sure if I should invest in BP or LT. BP does better team damage than LT, but LT is more aggressive with his other options. BP's other moves are too frail in comparison, where you won't activate his yellow unless you have enough Env. tiles (and who's focusing on collecting Env. tiles when you are busy getting other colors that matter) and his blue, while sounding nice, is as vulnerable as Molotovs and blues are better used with Spidey, CMags or OBW. So you really have him on your team for just his blacks which when running Doom during the Sim, it seemed like it took forever to get blacks on the board.

LT on the other hand, he has his own green generator, and if you pair him up with GSBW or MStorm, it's a green machine team. My only hesitance with maxing LT is that he takes over Patches colors, which renders Best There useless and negates Patch as a tank. So if you don't have LT or don't plan on using him, Patch is a great way to go.

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hex706f726368 wrote:

I've had an influx of Hood rewards recently, so I'm at 15 - 3/3/3 with a level cap of 89. With the outlaw PvP tourney happening this weekend, I'm tempted to level him up, but I'm not sure how much. I have enough ISO banked to push him to his cap, but that would run my ISO reserves very low. I'm probably going to level him somewhat, just not sure how much. Got to make sure I keep the upcoming events in mind. The BP rewards are interesting. If you keep BP a couple levels ahead or positioned ahead, he will tank for the hood.

In my opinion, Hood's main role is to stay in the background while your other targets dole it out, so leveling him up will start to put him in the forefront. If you have 3-5 blue in Hood, he's good sitting in the background. As he's not overtaking any colors on the board, a PvP enemy can't target him and he can go on stealing. His yellow isn't that helpful until you max that out as 5, and his black is only really helpful when you have teammates putting out countdown tiles. In PvE, he's going to be a squishy target no matter how much you level him. So right now, since you don't have max covers to make him super useful, I'd focus on your hard hitters.

BigOldBob

i would also level patch first. he can tank, the matches are faster, his abilities are cheaper and he combos nicely with im40, hulk and loki. bt has only one nice ability in a colour which you can poorly generate faster.

with hood you have to ask you the question for what do you wanna use him. in pve mode u want him at low lvl because you only need his stealing abilities. for pvp escpecially lighning rounds i would bring him as high as possible for more hitpoints.

Unknown

Many thanks for the very thoughtful replies. I will prioritize patch

Unknown

So on the topic of whether or not to level Patch, this was my most recent fight in the simulator:

I had taken out Storm and Daken, so it was my team versus a lvl 230 Devil Dino.
*Prehistoric bite* My OBW is taken out. Then he gets a lucky cascade to get another 6 green
*Prehistoric bite* Now Thor's dead. It's down to Patch with under a thousand health versus Devil Dino with over 12,000 health.
Wolverine: "You call that a lot of damage? You barely killed any of us."
*Best There Is* KO, and Wolverine is eating dinosaur steaks tonight

Unknown

Awesome story that cinched it for me

hex706f726368

demiurge really wants me to dump that ISO into the hood. got my 4th yellow cover from the 300 point progression reward event token. 4/3/3 now and in 20th. I'll see if I can finish top 10 as he is, would really like to get some more black for BP to see if I can make him more useful.

hex706f726368

And I just realized this morning that I'll get the 5th yellow as a daily progression award in a week.

Unknown

I pulled the trigger on the iso dump into the Hood. He's only 3/3/3 but up to 89. Not sure how I'm feeling about it yet. Maybe I should've saved the 60k or so iso for BP. Incidentally, we're 49th alliance rank in Unholy Outlaw.

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clean_cut_hippie wrote:

I pulled the trigger on the iso dump into the Hood. He's only 3/3/3 but up to 89. Not sure how I'm feeling about it yet. Maybe I should've saved the 60k or so iso for BP. Incidentally, we're 49th alliance rank in Unholy Outlaw.

Yeah... and we've been around top ten for previous events. I'm thinking that a lot of our guys (including me) don't have very good Hoods in their rosters.

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Conundrum Kid wrote:

clean_cut_hippie wrote:

I pulled the trigger on the iso dump into the Hood. He's only 3/3/3 but up to 89. Not sure how I'm feeling about it yet. Maybe I should've saved the 60k or so iso for BP. Incidentally, we're 49th alliance rank in Unholy Outlaw.

Yeah... and we've been around top ten for previous events. I'm thinking that a lot of our guys (including me) don't have very good Hoods in their rosters.

Well, I'm 18 right now, unshielded. I'll make another push or two for a top 10. On another note, very minor yay. I 5/1/5'd my lvl 66 Daredevil with the PvE red progression. If they ever decide to make him useful, I have a nice head start.

Unknown

I paid to max out Hood's blue so I could stand a chance in this tourney. He's only lvl 25 but I managed to climb up to #1 with 911 pts. I want that BP!

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Knock3r wrote:

I paid to max out Hood's blue so I could stand a chance in this tourney. He's only lvl 25 but I managed to climb up to #1 with 911 pts. I want that BP!

Grind-tastic!

Unknown

Good work on this iteration of the simulator, team! It was a pleasure to add cap's yellow to the red and blue covers I got from the individual bracket results. Be interesting to see if we have a chance to pick up more covers anytime soon, initial results on his red damage and protect tiles suggest he might be worth leveling.

Unknown

Yeah, it looks like his powers scale much better than 2* Cap. I'd be interested to see what his max red damage is.
I also got my 5th Invisible Woman cover, so that's something.

Rye555

So glad I got a 1/1/1 Cap That 1100 point Patch looks tempting in Fearless Defenders, might have to grind.