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  • xKOBALTx
    xKOBALTx Posts: 299 Mover and Shaker
    It took me some hours after getting back to read through that massive thread and test the waters. Here is the main thought that I had (other than, you know, hating the change):

    http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10239&start=940#p175400
  • awood227
    awood227 Posts: 34 Just Dropped In
    XKobaltX12 I agree with your point of having them cost ISO, but I have a bigger issue with the whole thing. First of all they announce this AFTER a huge sale on HP and ISO, which I know they made a boatload of $$ on. Secondly, they are almost always running a PVP and PVE event, some of which have the same buffed characters. The only way to be competitive in both is to buy Health Packs. I would rarely prologue heal if it wasn't the last couple of hours of a tourney or it wasn't for required heroes in PVE and PVP.

    Does anyone know how long it takes for a 141 character who is downed to fully reheal? IIRC, my lvl 100 punisher took roughly 8 hours before. If they are going to stand by this nonsense, and it seems like they are, they should go to independant health rates for characters. For example, I can loose my Punisher in the featured PVP, but then immediately go play with him in the LRs and if he gets downed there, I can still use him in PVE and he heals for each one based on the damage/downed time. There are so many viable solutions, but they opted for the cash grab.
  • mytisbrewin
    mytisbrewin Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker
    This change has got everybody posting which must indicate how strongly people feel about it.
  • xKOBALTx
    xKOBALTx Posts: 299 Mover and Shaker
    Yeah my play time has been limited, but I get the feeling that it will just piss me off more. I don't know how well I'll do in a single event right now, let alone two or three concurrent events.
  • mohio
    mohio Posts: 1,690 Chairperson of the Boards
    Yeah, my concern for myself personally is with the big push in PvP. For PvE I'm not too concerned since generally more teams are "viable" but also optimal play is to spread things out and lately my final push has been only an hour or so, which should be doable with 5 health packs in general. In PvP though, I essentially only have 2 viable teams, Pun/OBW and LT/LC. I could maybe play my 100 Patch with my 85 Mags, since they are almost cover-maxed, but that seems a little iffy to me. Anyhow, if I start my big push at like 400 points, but run into a couple bad boards or bad cascades, I could easily be forced to cut my run short of the 900+ points I am used to getting. This would then force me to essentially start over 3 hours later, or waste more HP in shields to get the same score I was getting before with just one shield. The problem is that even if I normally should be able to make it up to 900+, the few times I don't are going to be VERY frustrating, and cause me to have a pretty bad experience with the game.
  • mytisbrewin
    mytisbrewin Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker
    Its nice to see so many posting on the forums. Its just a shame that it is something negative which has provoked it.

    So I pretty much took yesterday off apart from beating on the seed teams in a couple of LRs for some ISO. I am curious to see how many points will now be needed to hit top 10 in PVP. I was looking at viable team combos from my near "max" characters that I could play and came up with the following:

    CMags & Patch
    Cap & Hood
    Spidey & Punisher
    Hulk & IM40

    It seems like a drop off after the first two and not sure if the last four are in the best combinations. Spidey and Punisher were my go to team for a long while, but I haven't really used it much since Spidey's first nerf. That leaves Thor & Black Panther both at 90 that need serious ISO investment, Psylocke is at 110 and then there is lvl70 Falcon I would like to work on for PVE now I have four in his blue. Daken who seems more than a little useful after these changes I need lots of covers for.
  • Unknown
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    I've successfully tanked at least - my maxed nodes are back down to a more manageable 2* range, but as a poor side effect I've done nothing in Hollowpoint Kiss... sorry guys, I've been less-than-stellar here lately (work certainly hasn't helped either), but hopefully a lower MMR means I'll be able to get 800-900 out of the next PVP. icon_e_smile.gif
  • awood227
    awood227 Posts: 34 Just Dropped In
    I've been slammed at work the last couple of days and the little bit I have been able to pick up in Hollowpoint Kiss has been completely erased by attacks. I had no idea a PVE had even started up again...I guess I have some catching up to do
  • mytisbrewin
    mytisbrewin Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker
    I said it in the chat, but with the changes and only DD covers being up for grabs I was happy if people didn't want to bother with hollowpoint kiss. I only started it today myself and it hasn't been too bad so far.

    I have no new PVE.
  • mohio
    mohio Posts: 1,690 Chairperson of the Boards
    Now you do! Kind of surprised and annoyed it's another Heroic as the Heroics don't really mesh well with the true healing change. Anyhow, don't forget on this one that the main nodes open up at the end, so only kill yourself in the subs if you're going for high placement there or are just having a blast throwing molotovs and whatnot. As for Hollowpoint Kiss, I'm trying to do well mostly just to help out our final season score, otherwise I'm not really trying to build a good DD, so it's no big deal to me if we miss out on top 100.

    Also, seems like a lot of us have Punisher pretty well-covered, but if anyone really needs that extra alliance cover speak up so we can try a little harder in the Blind Justive PvP.
  • Meto5000
    Meto5000 Posts: 583
    mohio wrote:
    Now you do! Kind of surprised and annoyed it's another Heroic as the Heroics don't really mesh well with the true healing change. Anyhow, don't forget on this one that the main nodes open up at the end, so only kill yourself in the subs if you're going for high placement there or are just having a blast throwing molotovs and whatnot. As for Hollowpoint Kiss, I'm trying to do well mostly just to help out our final season score, otherwise I'm not really trying to build a good DD, so it's no big deal to me if we miss out on top 100.

    Also, seems like a lot of us have Punisher pretty well-covered, but if anyone really needs that extra alliance cover speak up so we can try a little harder in the Blind Justive PvP.

    Does anyone know what, if any, would be the consequences of skipping this event until Sunday night when I get back from a camping trip? I imagine I'll be put into a bracket with other late joiners and the only negative will be that I'll probably miss out on progression rewards and also sub rewards. But really, the only thing I care about is getting the Sentry covers.
  • mytisbrewin
    mytisbrewin Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker
    I would agree with your assumption, I am not jumping in to this event too early. The subs are 2 days so I guess it depends if you want to get in on the end of the first subs or leave it until the second set, but that might depend on exactly what time you get back anyway. Hope you enjoy your trip.
  • Meto5000
    Meto5000 Posts: 583
    mytisbrewin wrote:
    I would agree with your assumption, I am not jumping in to this event too early. The subs are 2 days so I guess it depends if you want to get in on the end of the first subs or leave it until the second set, but that might depend on exactly what time you get back anyway. Hope you enjoy your trip.

    Also, I am extremely pumped for the next PvP featuring Punisher. Daken, Thor and 212 Punisher.

    So. Much. Carnage.
  • mohio
    mohio Posts: 1,690 Chairperson of the Boards
    While having a maxed Punisher would make that easier than others, I'm hoping they don't do it next and instead go into She-hulk. The way they had been doing new-release characters lately I'm surprised they didn't have She-hulk given out for this DD one, so people without her could hope to get her to finish up the PvE doing the essentials. Seems that's been the norm lately at least.
  • mohio
    mohio Posts: 1,690 Chairperson of the Boards
    Interesting change coming next week for hero levels. Cynical side of me thinks that just powering everybody up will make people take more damage and have to heal more. But then again all of our own guys will have more health as well, so maybe it's just a wash. Anyway, interested to hear what some of you guys think. Especially some of you guys further behind in the 2*-3* transition. Maybe it's not even worth commenting on until we see the changes first hand. As mentioned in the thread I am a little worried about the max 2* guys running into level 166s and seeing those huge health pools and just getting demolished.
  • noobprime
    noobprime Posts: 403
    All these changes they've gone into some kind of accelerated mode for the Dev team. I don't know what to think anymore honestly. I do know that I can't play as long anymore and have to use many more characters. Change is hard to deal with.
  • mytisbrewin
    mytisbrewin Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker
    Going to have to keep some ISO in storage to sort out the levels after they are boosted. I don't like 94, but there is nothing I can do about it. The lower levels I should be able to sort out.

    As far as the real effect I guess like most changes we will have to wait and see. I think it is supposed to affect people in the transition stage, but I see lack of 3* covers as being the biggest problem there. I like how they decreased the time taken to heal and then increased everyone's health pool. icon_rolleyes.gif
  • mytisbrewin
    mytisbrewin Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker
    We finished 116th in Hollowpoint Kiss.
    • Afroless 245
    • Awood227 605
    • Brain D 506
    • CeeEssGee 705
    • Danimal87 555
    • Darknite 536
    • Dinobot77 724
    • Dubsatron 665
    • Kithgar 931
    • Lavs23 1184
    • Limee 911
    • Mgmoehn 604
    • Mohio 1013
    • Neodyminium 371
    • Noobprime 467
    • PVPunisher 0
    • Sapphire 819
    • Telis 567
    • TY7586 553
    • XKobaltX12 737

    This is the third tournament in a row that we have missed out on the alliance cover, although we did only have 19 people playing again. Blind Justice is offering Punisher which most of us have so I would imagine we will not be pushing too hard for this one. Dark Avengers Heroic has Sentry as the prize so it would be good if we could get into the top 100 for that one.
  • Meto5000
    Meto5000 Posts: 583
    How are people finding PvP these days? Seems less competitive than I remember.
  • mytisbrewin
    mytisbrewin Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker
    We finished 77th in Blind Justice. This was our highest finish so far in season 2 so well done everyone.

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    • Afroless 518
    • Awood227 807
    • Brain D 523
    • CeeEssGee 730
    • Danimal87 748
    • Darknite 470
    • Dinobot77 524
    • Dubsatron 459
    • Kithgar 856
    • Lavs23 679
    • Limee 967
    • Mgmoehn 263
    • Mohio 1035
    • Neodyminium 630
    • Noobprime 438
    • PVPunisher 882
    • Sapphire 834
    • Telis 579
    • TY7586 74
    • XKobaltX12 871

    One Man Army is offering Doom covers which aren't great, but I would imagine quite a few people still need so it would be good if we could finish top 100 again. Let me know if you have any issues or problems.

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