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

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    well im done for tonight, I hope im still at the top in my bracket.... although... is it worth winning steve rogers?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Pamizard wrote:
    well im done for tonight, I hope im still at the top in my bracket.... although... is it worth winning steve rogers?

    He really is useful for PVE events - not at high levels, but at full covers. At 5 red and blue, Lazy Cap deals strong damage, creates strong protect tiles, regenerates AP and overwrites enemy countdown tiles. He is underwhelming when boosted because his abilities depend on covers, not level.
  • Jathro
    Jathro Posts: 323 Mover and Shaker
    Pamizard wrote:
    well im done for tonight, I hope im still at the top in my bracket.... although... is it worth winning steve rogers?
    You can be sure he'll be featured in another pvp tournament soon, too.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Am i the only one who loves this event? I love to hate it. HATE HATE HATE HATE.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Can't believe I'd say this.. But I really wish I have a good leveled bagman for this event icon_e_sad.gif

    Those goons are flaming the lives out of me.. No good anti-goon with mhawkeye failing every CD tile he place and mstorm gathering environmental AP for 50HP heals icon_e_sad.gif
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    Also, it seems like they capped the ISO rewards to 70/100/200/token instead of the 250s and 500s
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I can't imagine who put together the lineup for this event and said "YUP LOOKS GOOD! " Garbage.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I don't get WHAT they were thinking with the "allowed" heroes for this event. It's like penalizing people who haven't gotten a bunch of covers of the new heroes allowed.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Spoit wrote:
    Also, it seems like they capped the ISO rewards to 70/100/200/token instead of the 250s and 500s

    Thanks for the heads up. That genuinely convinces me not to join until the last possible hour.
  • Bacon Pants
    Bacon Pants Posts: 1,012
    TheUnwiseOne wrote:
    Am i the only one who loves this event? I love to hate it. HATE HATE HATE HATE.

    You made me do it.

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  • Meto5000
    Meto5000 Posts: 583
    edited April 2014
    After all the money I've spent to play this game, such limited roster just feels like a kick in the teeth. The only way to win is either already have a 141 Black Panther or spend real money on purchasing covers for HT. Level 50 IM35, 70 Psylocke with 3/4/3 and a 110 torch wit 1/1/1 and I can't go more than 1-2 fights vs lvl ~60 enemies before blowing 3 health packs. I don't know about everyone else, but being forced to spend money to progress feels a lot worse than spending money to max out a cover you actually care about. This event **** sucks and it needs to be fixed.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Yea... This one sucks. Lazy prize, low payouts, high risk, and garbage roster choices for pve (except Storm, but she's only good for a couple hits). I think I'll go pay attention to my wife. She's slightly less aggravating and at least she's honest about wanting my cash. icon_lol.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Can someone post the base node values?
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    Ghast wrote:
    Spoit wrote:
    Also, it seems like they capped the ISO rewards to 70/100/200/token instead of the 250s and 500s

    Thanks for the heads up. That genuinely convinces me not to join until the last possible hour.
    Oh wait, never mind, that's just the normal mode. Hard mode has the normal payouts
  • optimiza
    optimiza Posts: 127 Tile Toppler
    Not sure if anyone has pointed this out yet, if you have 18 purple and a maxed Switcharoo, you can neutralize up to 4 countdown tiles.

    That having been said, this event still sucks huge orangutan ****.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    You guys have made me feel a little better. I just got my taint handed to me by Daken, Bulls***, and Ragnarok, but at least my scaling numbers aren't as crazy as some others'. Like, the team of Dark Avengers that beat hell from me were only level 130 and not twice that. I might even be able to clear that mission once, with some luck.

    And some time, of course, since every one of my C- and D-caliber heroes are lying unconscious on the street somewhere.
  • Infrared
    Infrared Posts: 240 Tile Toppler
    On the bright side of things, both Normal mode and Deadly mode have separate final rewards. This was not the case in previous events. That means you can win up to six Lazy Cap covers by ranking well. And mid-tier players who can't really get far in Deadly mode still have a chance at a final reward even if they only do the Normal mode.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I don't see the scaling would get out of hand in this event simply because the bad guys sure have no problem winning even at fairly modest level like 150s.

    Compared to Heroic Jugg, not having even Modern Black Widow greatly limits your options on crowd control. I tried to stun with Hawkeye, and let's just say that didn't go well at all. Although you've some decent options for offense, there's literally no support this time outside of Modern Storm, who is still limited like before since all the fights take place in the city environment.

    I'm getting a lot of mileage out of Defense Grid. It really matters a lot when you don't have your usual cheap bag of tricks. It slows down the bleeding against Daken, and buys you a lot of time against anyone else, and you definitely need time.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    ^ mStorm ain't limited, she boosts BP's strike tiles like crazy. But I have to touch Daken nodes myself yet. mHawkeye, don't fail me now. But who I am kidding, he's a liability with avoiding and shifting damage to his poor teammates.
  • Mawtful
    Mawtful Posts: 1,646 Chairperson of the Boards
    I got through about half the easy mission nodes this morning (AEST) before a flamethrower that I didn't see ticking down took out 2/3 of my team. So I didn't bother pushing any further.

    Had lunch much later than usual today, just got back (~3:45 PM now) so everyone had refreshed in the mean time. Using some AP boosts that I already had and toying with my roster got me progression through the rest of the missions - I was even able to stop using the boosts and still knock over missions.

    Black Panther + Modern Storm is a great combo. Panther isn't even over level 100 yet - he's close, about level 95 - but with 5 ranks in yellow he's putting out ~112 strength
    Strike tiles which kinda helps.

    I only managed 1 mission in Deadly Mode before wiping out again (thank you match 5's into multiple cascades so that Venom can chain Snares, extra turns and Devours). I think I might be OK with the "Easy" version of this event, how I feel about Deadly remains to be seen. In the end it will result in some extra rewards - if nothing else, that's ISO I can use to level up Panther some more.

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