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

unimatrix

kensterr wrote:

Stop playing MPQ for 1 month maybe?

i don't know whether that will lower my so-called PVE MMR..
if it does, i can consider that.

i hate to disappoint my alliance team.. but hard PVE is just not do-able for me.

kensterr

unimatrix wrote:

RichHurtz wrote:

I just got my first Fired Up Token from this event!

It was a Hawkeye.

i got a bagman!
there should be an instant sell button for bagman.

ZOMG! I got Bagman yellow!

DD-The-Mighty

TheVulture wrote:

I know people say this every Heroic, but worst PvE event ever.
A terrifying glimpse into what the game would be like if every character were as bad as the bottom-tier ones - unplayable.

On the positive side, Human Torch is pretty awesome - there isn't usually a correlation between low health & high power (hence the strongest characters are often tough as houses), but Human Torch is defintiely a glass cannon with actual firepower.

Agreed on the Torch point. I unlucked out and and only got his green, but that move is quite clever. plop that bad boy down and keep feeding the beast. Pair it with strike tiles and a green generator and it gets sick. and its so cheap to redeploy if it gets taken out. His reds a bit disappointing but green and black make up for it.

As for this event. All of the heroics have kinda sucked. The low end bosses are way over leveled and break any balance they had in order to "challenge you" and It boils down to:
Do you have the right 3 guys cover maxed and leveled up high enough to match your secret MMR?
Do you have the latest 3* passenger to unlock nodes?
If the answer is no, then the event will blow. If its yes, then pray you don't see level 200+s and you may have a good time.

Unknown

You haven't seen red at 5 then. His black is by far the worse. Green is very good

DD-The-Mighty

beemand2g wrote:

You haven't seen red at 5 then. His black is by far the worse. Green is very good

true, i haven't. But Like both Caps Red and Blue needing a move to get to 5 makes it powerful but not great to me. Great powers start off strong and only get better.
I hope Torch scales better with levels, as opposed to covers.

morgh

Is just trying to keep within 2000 points of the bracket leader every day before the last 2 refreshes going to be enough for ranking >20 when the event ends?
(assuming I am going to do the highest value nodes at least once or twice at 15 hours before end and then at 2 hours before it ends)

Unknown

So can anyone confirm how long the resets are?

Unknown

There has hardly been any movement in my bracket it's as if we are all waiting for rubber banding lol. HT scales well I have him at 5/4/4,lvl 126. Buffed he's a little like patch the damage is scary but his health is a issue for me. He won't go on the defence team

morgh

You've spent about 12.500 HP (unless you got... umm... extremely lucky?) just to get him to 5/4/4 and you won't even use him much? ;D

Unknown

I spent 6000 hp on him through his featured tokens which drew a few blanks and got one red from progression reward token. Also reached 1100 in hotshot for his black so yea got quite lucky but my hp is pretty much depleted after cap and HT. I used to horde HP but thought I not blow it since I seem to be winning it a lot more every few days.

Unknown

On use, he'll be in my attack team I am not a fan of punisher, psylocke so that's why they are not levelled.

Unknown

i stiill have not finished one clear of the hard mode yet. meanwhile the top 5 in my bracket all have lv 50 IM 35 as their highest character.

why does every event have to swing so drastically one way or the other? ive kept top 100 with no work/ care about this event. i will do the same for the rest of this **** shitshow.

marc

Unknown

ihearthawthats wrote:

Phantron wrote:

As a sidenote I don't know why people continue to say that enemy levels don't depend on your roster.

Because IceIX said so. Personally, I'm wary of it. I keep my levels low and face low level enemies. Whether the connection is coincidental, I don't want to jynx it as levelling is irreversible. My personal experience has lead me to believe it does, and as long as I'm able to still land top 2, I won't level up.

A couple of facts:

1. First two repeatable nodes:
My main account:
* Normal Mode: lvl 34 and lvl 44
* Hard Mode: lvl 58 and lvl 68
Cleared Normal Mode once (burned 1-2healthpacks), Hard not started. No difference in lvls in Normal Mode before cleaning.

My second account (max lvl30, active for around 2 weeks, You can check it in the X-Poles Alliance - "the scAvenger"):
* Normal Mode: lvl 16 and lvl 17
* Hard Mode: lvl 30 and lvl 47
No nodes cleared in both difficulties.

2. I'm always trying my best. I did well in last 2 PvE:
* top 25 at least (can't remember) in Simulator, probably much better
* top5 in Unstable Iso
- I'm not using SpiderMan
- In Unstable I played rarely and only with full rubberbanding
- In Simulator I played every 12hrs, occasionally every 24hrs
- I'm trying to use OBW whenever possible

3. My team for Venom Heroic:
Psy lvl 80
Wolvie lvl 85
HT lvl20 powered up
MStorm 50
IM35 50
BP 55

My assumptions concerning scaling are similar to what I read on forums:

* the time it takes You to win a fight is taken into account
* the amount of hp You lose is taken into account
* your roster is not taken into account - I think it's more of the time You play. If You have quite a new account, the system probably takes it into account. Though I think it's more of pure time it takes to win, as low level chars need a lot of time to win.
* community scaling affects Your scaling but there is some difficult mechanic going on - looks like the better You are in clearing the nodes the more it affects You, but still I think it's marginal compared to Your personal scaling

On my second account I don't level my chars above lvl30, just to check if it affects the game (scaling and MMR) in any way.

Spider-man 6234

Well just opened up my first token reward. Let me see... gold? Yeah no bagman! Blue BP? Well better than bagman or any of the other two stars offered. (Wolverine is already fully covered)

fedlex20

So, every time i try to enter a node it says "check internet connection". Im using steam, and other games are running smoothly.
Connection is just fine, other pages are loading ok, no need to reset the connection. When it lets me select a node and i try to purchase a boost, it gets stuck when it the loading screen where it shows every heroes/villians logos... Anyone having the same issue?

Edit: Its working again, but i missed the last hour of the "12 hours"

The top ten in my bracket are made almost entirely of players with low level rosters, highest being a lvl 45 IM, or they dont have a fully lvled character. Scaling is treating them quite nicely.
Im in my fifth attempt against the Rags-Daken-Bullseye node. They are around lvl 80, i have a lvl 65 4/5/4 psyduck, lvl 40 1/3/1 bp, and a prebuff lvl 43 1/1/3 ht. Cant do it.

Unknown

Hi, can someone tell me how many hours is the refresh?

Unknown

I pretty much have to pop into prologue to heal after each fight. Enemies in normal are level 60-80, in hard 70-100. I'm pretty sure I'm spending more time in prologue healing than I am in the venom event.

This event seems pretty balanced to me but for some reason I'm really low in the bracket compared to other events. On normal I'm almost 400 and on hard I'm 100-ish.

The progression rewards seem a little hard to reach.

I think I like this event better than the Juggs heroic with the exception of MrRogers as the reward. I have no interest in him what-so-ever. I just want that HP.

Unknown

Milkrain wrote:

I pretty much have to pop into prologue to heal after each fight. Enemies in normal are level 60-80, in hard 70-100. I'm pretty sure I'm spending more time in prologue healing than I am in the venom event.

This event seems pretty balanced to me but for some reason I'm really low in the bracket compared to other events. On normal I'm almost 400 and on hard I'm 100-ish.

The progression rewards seem a little hard to reach.

I think I like this event better than the Juggs heroic with the exception of MrRogers as the reward. I have no interest in him what-so-ever. I just want that HP.

I feel your pain. I am constantly in prologue to heal. Not sure your roster but psylocke and Astonishing wolvie aint bad. Gather red and green and fire wolvie green, then use psylocke red. Wolvies strike tiles make her red cheaper to fire off and she has black.

Unknown

I've giving a few tries and I'm not able to kill the first node of the heroic deadly. My team is a mid level psylock, bp and ht, and my opp are lvl 308...

Unknown

I feel your pain. I am constantly in prologue to heal. Not sure your roster but psylocke and Astonishing wolvie aint bad. Gather red and green and fire wolvie green, then use psylocke red. Wolvies strike tiles make her red cheaper to fire off and she has black.[/quote]

I'll see your wolvie and raise you a Panther

I run:
HT (lv20) or M.storm (50)
BP (89)
Psylocke (117) - My first and only over 100 so I was super pumped when I found out she was in this event

My Wolvie has been quarantined at level 24 for the past 3 months. I don't know if I'll ever let her out to play.