The Locke'n Lounge *Alliance Chat*

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Sorry to see you guys go

As I said a few months back, I too am burned out. I do, after all, have 303 days played as of today. I know I'm not being as active as I could be, not nearly. I still enjoy playing and don't plan to quit entirely, but my activity level will continue to fluctuate. I do feel bad sometimes for maybe letting you guys down. So my offer still stands that if you need my place for a more active member, feel free to boot me. (Maybe a message first would be nice though I wouldn't want to log on and just be like hey!)

metallicajake01

hello everybody!

will be out of town tomorrow after work til sunday, sorry to be MIA out of the gate but this is pretty much the last of all weekend plans for summer.

I even busted out the calendar and only come up with sat 9/6 -9/7 I will be out for sure (wedding)

Stay classy Locke'n Lounge!

Thanks!
-Jake

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Jake--

I can't help you with tanking, never figured it out myself.

My biggest piece of advice would be not to judge characters on how the AI performs with them. Especially Classic Storm. Her blue freeze ability that attacks all players is one of the best 2* attacks and her yellow passive defense has won multiple matches for me that I shouldn't have taken. You've got Ares--if the AI used him as well as you do, how much harder would he be to beat? Try running her with MNMags and using his purple to feed her blue--they eat PVE goons alive.

Malorick

Hi Metalikajake

I will try to respond to your question.

How do I know when to tank?
I was not able to figure out about how tanking is working. I have the same problem in pvp I can go up to 600-700 but after this I can attcked and loose some point but now I have more 3* and I am able to put a better team in defense and can less attacked and now my hero is boosted in the pvp and this make a difference and I can less attacked.

Do I level my 3* or not level my 3*?
Now that I have more covers for them I have started to level them to use the boost of the pvp and this is really helping and it also help in the pve. I have started to level only the one used in pvp or pve and have bring a couple of them close to the range of 100. Even if I have few hero close to 100m I didnt see a increase in difficulty in the pvp.

PvE
I am doing all the sub node a couple times ideally I try to do it every 2,5h but with work its not possible. But even if I do some in the morning and after when I return from work and later, I am able to do well. I don't waste my health by trying difficulty node, I repeat by doing the essential node with hero and I gain more point there. I am trying both but pve is easier for me since I just need to play a lot and I am able to finished top10 almost all the time and now I have more cover and become stronger. For pvp is more difficult but I do anything to help the alliance I started by doing 300-400 and now its more 500-600.

Any other hot tips you guys got for me?
I am still using OBW+Thor or OBW+Ares or Daken+Ares, Daken+Wolverine, Ares+MN Mags. classic Storm. But now my hulk, psylock, ragnarok, the hood are part of my team since they are at level 100. I didnt really liked Bulleyes, but Cap was usefull in pve against goon and he his boosted often. Tiny torch should be usefull byt I didnt spend iso to use him but It seem to be good.

Also by doing pve and pvp at the same time, majority of the time I dont use the same hero, so when I am waiting for health for my hero that I am using in pve I play with my the other hero in the pvp.

metallicajake01

The Watcher:

Ha! Glad to know I'm not the only one. I'm going to start leveling c.storm, thanks for the tip, I hadn't looked at it like that too closely before but i have lost my share of matches to "2200 damage to everyone, i'm almost dead and stunned, ****!".

If the AI used Ares as well as I do you're right, he'd be a lot more formidable. He's the last 94 I got so I've used him the least. When I see him as a possible enemy he's intimidating, but you're right, AI don't play him well at all and as long as match doesn't go on exceptionally long he is a pushover most of the time.

Malorick:

3*
Hey thanks for the info! Are you saying lvl them to 100 or so they're 100 buffed?

PvE
At this point I'm definitely stronger in PVP, I ran to 600 in about 1.5hrs last night I think. I did switch back and forth too focusing on the PvE we were doing worst on when my gravy points ran out and that did help alot, I barely used all my health packs last night and could've probably strung it along longer if I had more time. Ahhh cap for PvE that makes more sense, I see his cost and the countdowns and am like how am i supposed to make this work effectively but PvE makes more sense, and you're right, he is buffed an awful lot!


I did end up taking an almost 100 point loss in the night even though I tanked when I started getting paired with high level teams, maybe I should've tanked twice? Anyway, I'm hopefully getting off early and am going to try and clean up the apt and squeeze in a few matches before we leave for outta town.

Thanks!!!

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metallicajake01 wrote:

I barely used all my health packs last night and could've probably strung it along longer if I had more time.

You're lucky. I have to use at least 2 health packs after every fight. What kinds of teams are you seeing? All I'm getting are different combos of max level Mags, 3*Daken, Hood, Lazy Thor, Sentinel, Ares. Over and over and over. Against my team of Ares, Mags (still missing covers) and Doom. I end every fight wiping sweat off my brow and with a sigh of relief. I basically get 2 or 3 fights in and then have to wait for health packs to recharge.

metallicajake01

Hey Pumkin!

I only have 94s right now and still get paired with low 2* at the beginning of events then get put up against straight 94s then it starts creeping to just over 100 then its maxed characters. Usually I can get to around 500-600 before I start seeing people I can't beat. Once I start taking negative points I'll usually tank once and carry on. Shield if I really need the covers otherwise just try to get as high as I can then take the -100 that I'll inevitably receive as my reward for doing well lol

Another piece that has helped alot is throwing in daken, wolverine, ares, mn mags in before I use thor+obw exclusively, this saves massively on health packs. Once I start using thor+OBW and matches start seeming sketchy that I'll make it out ok with a good amount of health I've been spending ISO on blue and purple power ups then using 3 every match. Then I only need two matches for AP steal or a heal. This has helped me string things along well so as to end my session when I want to end it and not after 2-3 matches that are rough and all my health packs are gone. I don't like taking away from what I get to lvl guys up but the ISO still keeps going up so I don't think I'm using that much.

Starting later in the events has helped me alot too. I started the fury one last night and got up to 682 which is the highest I've been in a while, and shielded for the pun covers (got 6 now so he's my highest all color 3* again). I didn't realize how my HP I'd be getting from being in a decent alliance, very nice!

favabear

I'm going to repost the message I just sent to Malorick for you guys.

Hi Malorick,

I want to apologize for handling this situation so poorly. I just got back last week from a month long work trip and have been trying to get my life started again. The reason I haven't gotten back to you is because I really wasn't sure to handle the situation. I've started to write this message several times only to cancel at the last minute.

I kind of let myself get overwhelmed by the guilt of the lurch I've put you guys in, which made it hard to communicate openly. Making this decision has been difficult because:
A. Despite the fact that I've been inactive the past couple of months, I do enjoy this game and I've enjoyed my home here. Some of the people in this alliance were those I recruited in the very beginning with a modest dream, and the memories of building this thing together and getting to know everyone really make me want to stay.
B. I paid for almost all of the roster slots out of pocket; a huge investment that I haven't recouped. Letting the alliance go after doing that is a little painful.
C. Although I appreciate the offer to re-invite me if I start playing again, it doesn't seem realistic. You'd have to kick someone to make the room, and that's hard to justify and pretty unfair. So I'm figuring this is for good.

But ultimately, I really don't know when I'll be able to be active again, so I've gone ahead and left the alliance. I'm sorry I let this go this long, but I hope that this will give you what you need to push over the bubble. Best of luck and take care.

-favabear

I'm sure some of you are getting tired of my long apologetic posts by now, but I hope you can forgive me (both for the post and the transgression). I think if it weren't for the whole "RL" thing I'd be having an great time with you guys.

Kick **** and be awesome.

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favabear wrote:

I'm going to repost the message I just sent to Malorick for you guys.
I'm sure some of you are getting tired of my long apologetic posts by now, but I hope you can forgive me (both for the post and the transgression). I think if it weren't for the whole "RL" thing I'd be having an great time with you guys.

Kick **** and be awesome.

If I were you, I wouldn't feel bad for any kind of "lurch" you left us in. I'm sure I don't speak only for myself when I say you leaving is much more of a bummer than having you disappear for a while. There seems to be a rotation of 5 slots or so that keep emptying and refilling. So please do, if you start playing again, check back with us! I too remember the beginning fondly and know how much work you put into getting this alliance off the ground. Hugs And F that RL nonsense always ruining everybody's fun

Unknown

Hello,
Im replying to a pm Malorick left me. Im having to do it here because it wont let me reply back to him via pm im guessing because im new since I just registered here a day ago. But im wanting to see if the spot is still open and if I can still join? I couldn't find the alliance in the game so I wasn't sure if I was spelling it right. But let me know

Unknown

Hai there!
Seems I can't reply with a Pm yet.
If the alliance invite still stands I would be interested. But can't search in game, something is weird with my kbd.
If it's still of interest to have me, please send invite to FabbroJ

Unknown

I tried joining but was kicked, so ill go ahead and accept a different offer ty for your time

Unknown

Malorick,
I tried joining again but it says I have to wait since I tried joining earlier. So pm me if u want me to join still if not so I can accept another offer k?

Malorick

Good job Alliance!

We finished 115th in the first pve of season 5 with a score of 1 177 217 pts with a average of 59k by member. I know it was a long pve, but we have learned that we can finish in the top 100 in pve this season. We have also learned that anybody can be competitive, Liro and kriEv are great example of how you can be competitive in pve even with a weaker/starting rosters. I think we should focus on pve since it's our best bet to finished in top 100.

People that had a busy schedule and where not able to play anymore have left us so we can be more competitive. Now, we have new blood in the alliance and we should continue on that momentum to help us get new cover so we can advance faster in our transition from 2* to 3* and be competitve also in the pvp. Even in pvp we are not that far away since we finished almost in the top 150 and we had 2 member that where not playiong at all, now this is past and I can see only better thing for us.

Don't forget that if you know that we will not be playing or go in vacantion, just let us know beforehand, we all have real lives outside of MPQ so no stress, Any contributions will be good it's better to have low performance than no contribution for several consecutives events.

Don't forget that in order to succeed as a group we cant have a few people carrying the weight of people who arent trying at all. If everybody have set of 300 points on all PVPs, we will get the top 100 rewards of free 3* covers! We find this to be a good minimum that is easy to achieve in a short period of time, and also a good minimum to set for yourself anyway since it is when you get your free event token from progression rewards.

And thank you to anybody that keep updating the statistic for the alliance it's really helpfull.

Malorick Commander of Locke and Load

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Who are these heroes, who continue updating alliance spreadsheet?)

Unveil yourself

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intelligent wrote:

Who are these heroes, who continue updating alliance spreadsheet?)

Unveil yourself

Told you it should be locked lolol
Whenever I look at it, I make sure to revert to the previous revision history, just in case I screwed something up inadvertently.

Malorick

Another close one! That rubberband cost us the top 100 reward, we were playing really good until the last hours where we where dropping position after position even if we were playing until the end. Only two members have played below 50k.

I don't know what we should do to increase our performance, any idea? Did the missing 50k will have been enough to make the top 100? I think we did pretty well,even with my score of 59k I have finished only 12th and I have almost played every 2.5 hours (except at night) since it was a long week-end for us and also I grinded like crazy in the last 2 hrs.

We finished 119th in with a score of 1 054k pts with a average of 52k by member and I think we had a really good participation of almost everybody.

Malorick Commander of Locke and Load

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A guy in the event thread posted that the rank 100 alliance score was 1,078,088. So yeah, we were right there. If everyone is able to participate, we should be good.

Malorick

We were so close, any idea, tips, advice to improve the alliance?

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Malorick wrote:

We were so close, any idea, tips, advice to improve the alliance?

The idea is very simple - though we position our ally as more or less casual one, we need to track who is going to be more casual at the time of event lasts. And switch this member with another one from the pool of "other casual players". Of course for such strategy we need to fill this pool with appropriate members, whom are quite difficult to find and there is a need to have some communication with them (and with current ally members too) to move in/out quickly.
Also this approach gives possibility to members to have a rest during some events, cause event rewards might be not so important for them (for example the one with daredevil ).

This idea driven by my strong belief that it is easier to change ally member instead of trying to motivate him/her. We are all different and live in different tempo.