Roster Advice

Unknown

After playing A LOT in the Hollowpoint Kiss event, I have a little over 12,000 Iso-8 to spend leveling my characters up.

Right now, my Roster is:

4-Star
Lv34 Wolverine (X-Force) - 1/0/1

3-Star
Lv75 Wolverine (Patch) - 1/2/5
Lv48 Captain America (Steve Rogers) - 2/3/1
Lv42 Punisher (Dark Reign) - 1/2/3
Lv41 The Hulk (Indestructible) - 4/1/3
Lv38 Ragnarok (Dark Avengers Thor) - 2/2
Lv28 Human Torch (Classic) - 2/0/2
Lv28 Loki (Dark Reign) - 2/1
Lv18 Black Panther (Man Without Fear) - 0/1/1
Lv15 Black Widow (Grey Suit) - 1/2/0
Lv15 Doctor Doom (Classic) - 0/1
Lv15 Falcon (Mighty Avengers) - 0/1/0
Lv15 Magneto (Classic) - 0/1/0
Lv15 Psylocke (Classic) - 0/1/0

2-Star
Lv85 Black Widow (Original) - 3/5/5
Lv85 Storm (Classic) - 5/5/3
Lv85 Thor (Marvel NOW!) - 3/5/5
Lv77 Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men) - 5/5/3
Lv70 Magneto (Marvel NOW!) - 4/4/5
Lv69 Daken (Dark Avengers Wolverine) - 5/5
Lv50 Ares (Dark Avengers) - 5/3/5
Lv50 Captain America (Modern) - 4/5/4
Lv30 Moonstone (Dark Avengers Ms. Marvel) - 5/4/2
Lv14 Bullseye (Dark Avengers Hawkeye) - 1/2

1-Star
Lv50 Iron Man (Model 35) - 5/5/3
Lv50 Storm (Modern) - 5/5/3
Lv40 Black Widow (Modern) - 5/5

NorthernPolarity

Dump Yellow Storm and replace red thor with green thor. I'd cut Bullseye and Daredevil from your roster to pick up C. Mags and LazyCap covers: Bullseye in practice just doesn't do much, and he's much worse than the other covers you have.

Unknown

Good... god, I'll be happy when the names go back to normal.

Hmm... is there anyone else I should consider cutting aside from Bullseye? Just checking to see if you think there's anyone else. If not, I guess I could either cut him or see if I can get the HP to buy another Roster spot.

NorthernPolarity

RichHurtz wrote:

Good... god, I'll be happy when the names go back to normal.

Hmm... is there anyone else I should consider cutting aside from Crazyguy? Just checking to see if you think there's anyone else. If not, I guess I could either cut him or see if I can get the HP to buy another Roster spot.

Yeah, try to spend all your HP on roster slots till you have all the characters. It doesn't seem like theres anyone else that you can cut: all of your 2*/3*s seem pretty good.

Unknown

Alright. I'll just wait as long as I can and see if I can get more HP. And keep hoping I can get a Human Torch.

Cousin Simpson

RichHurtz wrote:

Good... god, I'll be happy when the names go back to normal.

Hmm... is there anyone else I should consider cutting aside from Bullseye? Just checking to see if you think there's anyone else. If not, I guess I could either cut him or see if I can get the HP to buy another Roster spot.

NorthernPolarity has it on lock: get rid of Bullseye, upgrade the green Thor, sell the yellow Storm, and try to get to the next HP roster plateau.

Unknown

Alright. If you guys are sure I should go with Thor's Green upgrade, I will. And I'm working on trying to get another Roster Spot. Already got 75 HP from... some events ending. Hopefully I can do well enough in the Human Torch event to get some more.

I'll update my list in a bit.

Unknown

Okay. I updated my roster for this morning to see if I could get some advice from everyone. Hopefully I can start getting more covers for the 3-Stars I have, though they've been fairly slow going so far.

Should I just try leveling up whatever characters as much as I can, or wait to see who gets a boost from the Heroic Venom and go from that for boosts? I'll probably keep doing either the LRs and maybe the Human Torch event for more Iso-8, as well as seeing if I could get lucky enough to pull an HT cover with an Inferno Token.

NorthernPolarity

There is no reason not to wait until tomorrow to see what heroes are featured: you wouldnt really benefit from leveling any of your guys today. Im guessing heroic venom will feature either thor or wolvie so you can base your leveling decisions off of that.

Dormammu

RichHurtz wrote:

Should I just try leveling up whatever characters as much as I can, or wait to see who gets a boost from the Heroic Venom and go from that for boosts? I'll probably keep doing either the LRs and maybe the Human Torch event for more Iso-8, as well as seeing if I could get lucky enough to pull an HT cover with an Inferno Token.

You want to avoid dumping ISO into characters you're not going to use (like your 4* Wolverine). It can be tempting to put Iso into three-stars, but if you're at the two-star stage it doesn't help you win fights. Keep in mind that a two-star character is going to be stronger than a three-star at the same level. My advice is to let your three-star guys sit until you have enough covers to level them past 85.

Unknown

Polarity: Yeah, I keep coming back to that. It would seem dumb if I leveled up one character, then a different one or two gets boosts that I COULD HAVE leveled up. I'm probably just going to keep working on getting more Iso-8 today.

Dormammu: You're probably right. I won't be able to do much with my 3-Stars until I'm somehow able to get more covers for them and get them up to better levels. I'll try to stick to just leveling up my 2-Stars for now.

Thanks.

Unknown

I've updated my Roster since it's been a while since I made this topic. Figured it'd be better than making a new topic.

Looking for advice now on which 2-Stars you guys think I should work on leveling up and maxing first? I figure it'd best to focus on those for now before trying to move onto 3-Star characters.

HailMary

You've already got a maxed Thor, OBW, and C.Storm, so you don't necessarily need to max anyone else. Ares + OBW is defensively more potent than Thor + OBW, because Ares hits very hard for low AP cost. AWolv's strike tiles have a bit of synergy with OBW's Espionage, so that's a viable option, too. However, he's far less generally intimidating than Ares.

I'd say that your safe 'n solid offensive pair would be Thor + OBW, and if you want to play a higher-risk game, then Ares + OBW or even Ares + Thor. For a full three-person complement, you can't go wrong with Thorverine + OBW, though swapping in Ares for Thor would, again, be scarier on defense.

So, if anything, max out Ares. He's quite intimidating.

Unknown

I hadn't thought about it like that. Yeah, Ares and OBW would work well together it seems. What sort of build should I go for with Ares?

And it sounds like i should focus mostly on Ares and Wolverine. Cool cool.

HailMary

I didn't have a usable Ares until I was well into 3* land, so I have no real experience playing him outside of the DA PVP tourney.

When I was researching optimal Ares builds, there seemed to be a good bit of consensus on 4/4/5.

Pats0132

Ares is either 445 or 535 both can be good.

ThatOneGuyjp189512

yeah 4/4/5 is definitely his best build as it maximizes the damage for green and red, red 5 only ups his health threshold when using it(25% to 30% which really isn't that much) and 5 green just lowers the cost to 5ap as opposed to 6 ap, which again, is just 1ap difference, it's extremely rare i'd use green at 5 ap as opposed to 6.

Unknown

Okay. I was wondering what the differences would be. Just the 1 AP cost doesn't seem too bad for Green, especially if it means Red will do more damage. It took me a while to get three Red Ares covers. Hopefully I can eventually find a 4th.