__Underscore__ Alliance: 20/20 Chat

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Ah...The Best There Is...finally an event where I can dominate. Currently sitting at 500, with no end in sight. It's weird to see attackers bouncing off me, for once.

Unknown

reset in every 8 hours? I am killing everything til the nodes in 100ish. Should I beat til 1 and wait for reset?

The Superior Wilson

I've been letting them get down to about 100. Each time I've been able to rubber band back into the #1 spot. Interested to know if they do reset every 8 hrs. If so I'll adjust my playing time and will grind more.

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Did my first real all 230 goon match last night (excluding a laughable 230 demolotionist and double bomb tech one I did previously). Fully boosted with a 104 C storm 105 lazycap, and 85 OBW it still took two tries. Now I understand why people hate scaling so much.

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Skoll W wrote:

Did my first real all 230 goon match last night (excluding a laughable 230 demolotionist and double bomb tech one I did previously). Fully boosted with a 104 C storm 105 lazycap, and 85 OBW it still took two tries. Now I understand why people hate scaling so much.

In my (arguably limited) experience, modern storm is superior to classic at clearing HAMMER mobs, since her red allows for more matches (in addition to the environment gain and damage), and green is cheaper and clears more tiles (unless you're able to save up over 16 green before having to use it). C. Storm's blue is great, but so is OBW's blue. And yellow can also be good, but it's very situational (as in, you're getting destroyed by mass aoe and can't stop the attacks).

...but maybe you've already trader her away; she just has so few hitpoints.

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My 2 cents. I think one of the most underused 2*s in the game is Magneto Marvel Now. He is my ONLY level 85 2*. I still use him in all of these goon fights. Optimal build is 3/5/5. Blue does not do signigicant damage and the countdown is too long. Red generates 25AP with only 1 turn countdown plus it deals ~2000 damage. But, his purple is what shines. Purple generates 5 blue wherever you want. It is often very easy to make 2 critical tiles based on what's already on the board. And one shot of that will always let you get off Storm's Blue AoE attack. Sometimes it will gen enough to get it off twice. And that means 2 characters stunned for 4 turns. Before I went 3*, my team was ALWAYS MagnetoMN, StormC, anyone else, usually Thor, Ares better.

I know it takes time to build characters and all. I'm just suggesting that if you have the ability, MagMN is not to be ignored. Thankfully for me he's been one of the least popular characters in the game.

Now that I've moved 3*. All of these fights go down Punisher, Spidey, MagMN. Mags feeds spidey blue to keep the stunlocks going and Punisher does all the rest. When I'm forced to use Lazy Cap, MagMN's red is what does all the killing. I get a few Yellow Criticals out of LazyCap. It's slow. But I don't die. I don't use health packs.

I've had a few unlucky cascades. But in general, have been able to heal my way out of it. It took me a while to get a 5 Blue spidey. Cannot express how great of a character he is. But he can do absolutely no damage himself.

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Yes, 2* magneto goes very well with 2* storm and pretty much you can win all pve & pvp events with these two. My regular line now is 2*magneto/2*storm/lazy thor and until i got three 3* max i am going to stick with these two.

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I agree 2* magneto works very well here but I pair with 2* obw she can use blue to increase the counter as well as heal. With either lazy Thor (especially on ISO as he has had his powers increased) or ares to do most of my damage. With these being used normally come out of most battles with full health.

Ps keep up the good work everyone. Let's give some of these so called "bigs guns" a fight.

Unknown

Yeah my biggest bottleneck is every single ** cover reward from tourneys and tokens are for colors I don't want. I don't know how many red Thors, yellow Caps and C Storms, and blue MN Mags I've trashed so far. I should probably just start applying them and respeccing later but whatever.

The only reason I failed that first 230 goon match was the Don putting all of his countdowns out of my reach and no blue tiles dropping. Had 10/11 blue for wind storm with 1 turn left on a black CD

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I've been running Spider-Man, Punisher, and BWGS. BW's purple skill has the same effect as MN Mags. It can take awhile to get off, but I can always get 2 if not 3 crits with it. With all the green it generates I can use her sniper rifle, which hits everyone for at least 3300. A little retribution from Punisher finishes the job. Her pistol is also good for board control if I haven't managed to stun lock everyone with Spider-Man.

As far as when to clear the Unstable ISO nodes, I've decided to clear them at 11pm EST and 11am EST. starting them at 10:30 or 11pm means other people have been pushing the points up for me all day and gives me the most rubber banding possible. Then it gives my stacks 12 hours to reset before 11am, where I can push again for the most points possible. This was my strategy during the last event, and I was in first at the end of each sub-event. Seems to have held true with this event, as I was in first when the new missions showed up today. Carrying this logic through, I should be very near the top when the event ends 5 long days from now.

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Should eke out a top 20 finish if everyone in my bracket continues on at about the same performance. Not sure how they expect us to get some of these progression rewards, #1 in my bracket only has 14k points.

Kind of sucks that almost every one of these new character reward tourneys has **'s that would actually be useful to me as lower placement rewards. I'm pretty sure a green Ares cover would help me progress a lot more than a Torch that will sit in an unusable state for at least the next month.

I guess that's the life of a mid tier player .

Edit: Wow that came across as really whiny.

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Skoll W wrote:

Should eke out a top 20 finish if everyone in my bracket continues on at about the same performance. Not sure how they expect us to get some of these progression rewards, #1 in my bracket only has 14k points.

Kind of sucks that almost every one of these new character reward tourneys has **'s that would actually be useful to me as lower placement rewards. I'm pretty sure a green Ares cover would help me progress a lot more than a Torch that will sit in an unusable state for at least the next month.

I guess that's the life of a mid tier player .

Edit: Wow that came across as really whiny.

Remember, with each daily reset, the point values increase. By day 6, some of those nodes will be worth 5k each.

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Finch999 wrote:

I've been running Spider-Man, Punisher, and BWGS. BW's purple skill has the same effect as MN Mags. It can take awhile to get off, but I can always get 2 if not 3 crits with it. With all the green it generates I can use her sniper rifle, which hits everyone for at least 3300. A little retribution from Punisher finishes the job. Her pistol is also good for board control if I haven't managed to stun lock everyone with Spider-Man.

As far as when to clear the Unstable ISO nodes, I've decided to clear them at 11pm EST and 11am EST. starting them at 10:30 or 11pm means other people have been pushing the points up for me all day and gives me the most rubber banding possible. Then it gives my stacks 12 hours to reset before 11am, where I can push again for the most points possible. This was my strategy during the last event, and I was in first at the end of each sub-event. Seems to have held true with this event, as I was in first when the new missions showed up today. Carrying this logic through, I should be very near the top when the event ends 5 long days from now.

This is my new team as well. Finally got my BWGS 5/3/5. Was looking for a 3 star replacement for MagMN and she's the one. I agree with your strategies. Solid across the board.

Sucks however that I'm going to miss a refresh before the noon hour. Oh well.

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This morning convinced me that 11pm and 11am EST are the way to go. I played for about 45 minutes around 11am and got back to first and stayed there until the new missions popped up. In the past I've spent a lot of time grinding PVE nodes down to 1 point. I've spent comparatively very little time playing the Simulator and this event; ended up 2nd overall in Simulator and looking to end this event very high. Feels a bit cheap, but this seems to be the best strategy. The fact that I'm not grinding means most of my missions are still "trivial" or "easy". I also didn't see a single 230 enemy during the entire Simulator event since I was only playing missions 4-5 times max.

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Man, this Wolverine event is just so good. I don't know if it's my recent tanking, or what. But I'm sitting in first place with 778, almost 200 points higher than second place.

If only the first prize was X-Force, rather than Lazy Susan.

(I know she's not lazy, but still. bleh.)

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Warrition wrote:

Man, this Wolverine event is just so good. I don't know if it's my recent tanking, or what. But I'm sitting in first place with 778, almost 200 points higher than second place.

If only the first prize was X-Force, rather than Lazy Susan.

(I know she's not lazy, but still. bleh.)

Ho how i wish i have a bracket like that, my bracket is brutal for me.
Leader have more than 1000 points , top 10 minimum at 600 points.(at the moment)
Top 5 is 3 member of SHIELD , 1 of deadly venom and 1 of another godlike alliance.
First time it hapenn to me , i'm at the 12 place, but it's freaking hard to go higher.
It's like each time i win 50 points i lose 60.
I guess it's bad luck , i'll do the maximum for the alliance , but it sadden that i'll maybe won't finish top 10, been a long time.

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sephi63 wrote:

Warrition wrote:

Man, this Wolverine event is just so good. I don't know if it's my recent tanking, or what. But I'm sitting in first place with 778, almost 200 points higher than second place.

If only the first prize was X-Force, rather than Lazy Susan.

(I know she's not lazy, but still. bleh.)

Ho how i wish i have a bracket like that, my bracket is brutal for me.
Leader have more than 1000 points , top 10 minimum at 600 points.(at the moment)
Top 5 is 3 member of SHIELD , 1 of deadly venom and 1 of another godlike alliance.
First time it hapenn to me , i'm at the 12 place, but it's freaking hard to go higher.
It's like each time i win 50 points i lose 60.
I guess it's bad luck , i'll do the maximum for the alliance , but it sadden that i'll maybe won't finish top 10, been a long time.

When did you enter the tourney? Curious to know when all those High end alliance members started their brackets.

I started my bracket by fighting one seed team 2 days ago right around midnight.

Currently #1 at about 650 with only one other guy in contention. There are still 300 pointers in the top 10. I only care about a top 10 spot in this one. So, likely shielding up for the remainder.

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When i enter the tourney , there was 1 day and 17 hour left i think.
Usualy i start when it's the last day , it was good timing for me for the last 10 event or so to finish top 10.
I just checked my placement, drop from 12th place to 59th with 185 points lost in the last 6 hours.
What a punch in the face lol, i hope i'll be able to grab at least 1cover .
Edit: top 10 have 715 minimum , damn.......

Unknown

i am doing so bad on this wolverine event with all 3 versions of wolves in very low levels. My bracket is also tough to beat as top 10 are all in 700 range now~~ prolly shield my 450 for the alliance and move on to ISO event

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Sorry guys, I'm doing lousy in the wolvie event, didn't get hit enough while tanking for a decent mmr. Hopefully people will actually hit me in the next few LR's. We all seem to be playing hard in the Iso 8 event though, I think we were ranked 5 last time I checked. Great job everyone.