Heroic Venom PvE Discussion Thread 4/10 - 4/17

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  • mags1587
    mags1587 Posts: 1,020 Chairperson of the Boards
    Yeah... there's no way I'm beating level 261 Venom + goons with my current available roster. Just wiped out 3 times. Levels are still at 261; hope that just means there's a delay in the decrease and not that you actually have to join a bracket before it applies. Thank goodness there's no new character introduced in this event.
  • KaioShinDE
    KaioShinDE Posts: 265 Mover and Shaker
    MerC 47 wrote:
    I would just like to know what kind of play testing goes into this? Does anyone at the office try and fight a team of level 400 enemies even using maxed characters that are allowed, let alone if you don't have level 141 Human Torch, Black Panther, and Psylocke?

    You see, the whole true reason they introduced scaling was so that they no longer had to test or think about balancing. Just let the machine do it all automatically and sit back. It's lazyness pure and simple, and all the talk about offering challenges is just pretenses and excuses.
  • Unknown
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    Riggy wrote:
    pandaberry6 wrote:
    Why are the graphics in heroic venom so fuzzy?
    Wow, the event has already turned you to the bottle, eh? Normally it takes the middle of a heroic mode event to get me to drink that much. Slow down, Pandaberry, there's still 7 days to go.

    Nahhhh... I can handle my *hiccup* liquor. Don'tyouworryaboutme.
  • Unknown
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    pandaberry6 wrote:
    Riggy wrote:
    pandaberry6 wrote:
    Why are the graphics in heroic venom so fuzzy?
    Wow, the event has already turned you to the bottle, eh? Normally it takes the middle of a heroic mode event to get me to drink that much. Slow down, Pandaberry, there's still 7 days to go.

    Nahhhh... I can handle my *hiccup* liquor. Don'tyouworryaboutme.

    pandaberry, your levels are at 230, don't you think you've scaled enoughI'LL TELL YOU WHEN IVE SCALED ENOUGH
  • Unknown
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    I think those of you that are seeing the high level baddies are the extreme players.

    I am a lot more casual and then I started Hard Mode, I saw 50- lvl opponents in the nodes.

    Basically you made it so you have hard battles (odviously you like it that way.)
  • Unknown
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    dragma wrote:
    I think those of you that are seeing the high level baddies are the extreme players.

    I am a lot more casual and then I started Hard Mode, I saw 50- lvl opponents in the nodes.

    Basically you made it so you have hard battles (odviously you like it that way.)

    Define "extreme players".

    My regular Venom was at about level 69 at the first node and my hard Venom was at level 187.


    I got past the first 5-6 missions on easy then got my **** kicked separately by the Daken node and the Bullseye node.
  • Konman
    Konman Posts: 410 Mover and Shaker
    LoreNYC wrote:
    I think 100 initial bonus in normal, 200 initial bonus in hard in the past

    I tried to check to see of this is correct, but I lost in the first Heroic node, now all my characters are dead, and I have no health packs. So I'ma just gonna have to take yer word fer it.
  • Unknown
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    kalex716 wrote:
    Are these bracketed?

    Should I wait to join 'till later?


    Yes it in groups of 1000. I am trying to decide if I enter after 36 hours when max rubber banding kicked it or wait even longer and not worry too much about the top progression rewards.
  • Unknown
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    Dormammu wrote:
    A couple of questions; I'm not fully familiar with these Heroic events just yet.

    1) Are the placement awards for each round, or the event as a whole?

    2) I'm assuming there is scaling, is there rubberbanding in the Heroic events?

    2.5) If there is no rubberbanding, is it best to get in early on the refreshes? Or do points increase along with the community scaling?

    The previous heroic had 2 independent rounds. It would be the same as running the same PvE event back-to-back and calling each run a "round".

    As with other recent PvE events, I believe there is scaling and rubberbanding.
  • Unknown
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    pandaberry6 wrote:
    Riggy wrote:
    pandaberry6 wrote:
    Why are the graphics in heroic venom so fuzzy?
    Wow, the event has already turned you to the bottle, eh? Normally it takes the middle of a heroic mode event to get me to drink that much. Slow down, Pandaberry, there's still 7 days to go.

    Nahhhh... I can handle my *hiccup* liquor. Don'tyouworryaboutme.
    I can see it now. By the end of the weekend, you're going to be locking threads left and right, moving everything to the Suggestions forum, and talking with the weirdos down at The Raft trying to sell them fitted kitchens.
  • Unknown
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    This is way too insane for my group of heroes. My frist node is 308 and the subsequent ones will be 400 before long. my bp and psylock aren't over 100 yet, and my human torch is a baby still.
  • NighteyesGrisu
    NighteyesGrisu Posts: 563 Critical Contributor
    great, both nodes end at 6am my time, which means I can forget a top ranking (and probably even any cap cover)...

    not that I think I could finish on top with a decent end time..my roster's not really up to par :/
  • Unknown
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    Sumilea wrote:
    kalex716 wrote:
    Are these bracketed?

    Should I wait to join 'till later?


    Yes it in groups of 1000. I am trying to decide if I enter after 36 hours when max rubber banding kicked it or wait even longer and not worry too much about the top progression rewards.


    I finished top 10 in Heroic Juggs by joining with 15 hours left, clearing all the high-point nodes I could, and then performing a final sweep 90 minutes before the event ended.

    I believe other, braver forumers have joined even later than me during Round 2 and still easily placed top 10.
  • Bacon Pants
    Bacon Pants Posts: 1,012
    I don't mind a challenge and I don't mind fighting high level opponents. What I don't understand though is why only the newest character is buffed. A limited roster of mainly subpar characters already makes it more challenging. Why can't they get a little buff too?
  • Dormammu
    Dormammu Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    The developers must be laughing their **** off when they include Bagman onto these heroic rosters. Like, serious heavy belly laughs.
  • Unknown
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    just started (just got home from work) and wowzas so glad i got torchy (my nickname for johnny storm xD) sadly i only have flame jet so hopefully its useful when he's level 105 boosted xD ha ha i probably play this today first before ranking myself back up for the hotshot event :/ im back at 288 there lol

    wish the other characters got buffed though especially for a new player like me
  • NorthernPolarity
    NorthernPolarity Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited April 2014
    Ghast wrote:
    Sumilea wrote:
    kalex716 wrote:
    Are these bracketed?

    Should I wait to join 'till later?


    Yes it in groups of 1000. I am trying to decide if I enter after 36 hours when max rubber banding kicked it or wait even longer and not worry too much about the top progression rewards.


    I finished top 10 in Heroic Juggs by joining with 15 hours left, clearing all the high-point nodes I could, and then performing a final sweep 90 minutes before the event ended.

    I believe other, braver forumers have joined even later than me during Round 2 and still easily placed top 10.
    I don't know if this is any different from just joining early and not doing any of the missions until the end. I worry with a strategy like that you'll be competing with people that had the same idea. Rubberbanding theoretically gets everyone to the same point total anyways, so there shouldn't be a difference between joining a later bracket versus joining an earlier bracket and not doing any of the missions until later.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Well, to be fair, Heroics are supposed to be the hardest form of PvE there is. Unlike the Sim where you have a ton of buffed heroes. I think I'm doing just what the game wants me to do, play a couple of games, suffer my best fighters' loss, wait for them to regen (since prologue healing is a carnal sin). There is no way I am going to spend healthpacks before the final day thanks to the crazy rubberbanding.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Yeah that second node with Venom, Lieutenant and Grenadier is fun...

    Stunlock, Heal, Stunlock, Heal, Stunlock, Heal, Rocket, Dead.
  • Unknown
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    gamar wrote:
    pandaberry6 wrote:
    Riggy wrote:
    pandaberry6 wrote:
    Why are the graphics in heroic venom so fuzzy?
    Wow, the event has already turned you to the bottle, eh? Normally it takes the middle of a heroic mode event to get me to drink that much. Slow down, Pandaberry, there's still 7 days to go.

    Nahhhh... I can handle my *hiccup* liquor. Don'tyouworryaboutme.

    pandaberry, your levels are at 230, don't you think you've scaled enoughI'LL TELL YOU WHEN IVE SCALED ENOUGH

    Hahahaha. I gave you rep for this, got distracted by something shiny, came back and tried to give you rep again...
    Forum: 1 ; Me: 0

    I might have a better chance against the 230 mobs....

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