The Simulator: April 29 - May 6

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This event has been smooth sailing for me. My scaling is under control, main event levels are up to 69/70/69 and 72/72/72. I've kept it under control by not-over grinding any event for about 3 months and almost never healing/stunning in events.

I use my maxed 2* characters and sub 90 3* characters until they're all dead, no healing, no health packs, and only stun bullseye or daken. Then I switch to my main 3* characters to finish off the event.

I start the sub-events about 2.5 hours before the end and marathon until the end. I also use +3 AP 2 color boosts and some +50% heroic dmg ones in the final minutes.

I ended in 6th in both sub-events, and brought me up to 9th in the main bracket. The top 5 in my bracket are uber-grinders, so i don't ever expect to beat them, but really i'm just going for the 2 Falcon covers.

I do have the luxury of having almost all the 2* characters in usable ranges. (any who are not maxed are minimum level 50, so when buffed during PVE they are level 90).

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Just to post the current mission numbers even though the event is following the last one with just one sub less.

The current node values are now 50% above what that started at so the last normal subs are


Sim 1 - 75
Sim 2 - 105
Sim 3 - 150
Sim 4 - 180
Sim 5 - 75
Sim 6 - 105
Sim 7 - 150
Sim 8 - 255
Sim 9 - 255
Sim 10 - 225

Again the hard subs is twice these values.

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I always thought Daredevil was a joke, based on what people on here said about him. Facing him in the Sim though... damn, this guy hurts. 7 turn stuns? 5k damage a shot? Dude's wrecked my team every time I've faced him. Why do people say he's bad?

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So I was measuring my placement in the god of lies event to get the Ares cover instead of Doom so I could power him up instead of using my stocked HP for a new slot. Well I placed 23rd and 25th getting two highly trained tokens. One red Ares, now maxxed, and one yellow, so I suppose I don't have to worry about negatively affecting my season rating and can push for Doom. Just have to use my points to give a spot.

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wharrrgarbl wrote:

I always thought Daredevil was a joke, based on what people on here said about him. Facing him in the Sim though... damn, this guy hurts. 7 turn stuns? 5k damage a shot? Dude's wrecked my team every time I've faced him. Why do people say he's bad?

Because he requires the player to make silly mistakes to be useful? That's why he's useless against goons as they do not make moves.

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wharrrgarbl wrote:

I always thought Daredevil was a joke, based on what people on here said about him. Facing him in the Sim though... damn, this guy hurts. 7 turn stuns? 5k damage a shot? Dude's wrecked my team every time I've faced him. Why do people say he's bad?

Because in PVP he doesn't come at lvl 200 and a goon feeding him AP.

If his traps hit then he's deadly, but he's terribly inconsistent and unreliable. Why take him and hope for some trap to hit 1 out of 3 times when you can take someone like Patch and oneshot people.

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wharrrgarbl wrote:

I always thought Daredevil was a joke, based on what people on here said about him. Facing him in the Sim though... damn, this guy hurts. 7 turn stuns? 5k damage a shot? Dude's wrecked my team every time I've faced him. Why do people say he's bad?

Daredevil isn't wrecking you. HOOD is wrecking you.

Sure, a DD being fed by Hood and a purple-generating goon is scary, but think how worse almost any non-DD character being fed by lvl 200 Hood and a Goon generating their colors would be

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wharrrgarbl wrote:

I always thought Daredevil was a joke, based on what people on here said about him. Facing him in the Sim though... damn, this guy hurts. 7 turn stuns? 5k damage a shot? Dude's wrecked my team every time I've faced him. Why do people say he's bad?

Pay attention when playing against Daredevil, you have to know when he uses his abilities. Avoid environment tiles if he uses purple. Board cascade abilities can get you killed. At the start of the match, focus taking Red AP always, and bring characters who have damage alternatives to red so you can avoid red after he uses his red ability.

Daken and 2* wolverine can make things easier against him, if they place a strike tile on a trapped red tile, the trap is disarmed.

And always kill hood immediately.

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gamar wrote:

wharrrgarbl wrote:

I always thought Daredevil was a joke, based on what people on here said about him. Facing him in the Sim though... damn, this guy hurts. 7 turn stuns? 5k damage a shot? Dude's wrecked my team every time I've faced him. Why do people say he's bad?

Daredevil isn't wrecking you. HOOD is wrecking you.

Sure, a DD being fed by Hood and a purple-generating goon is scary, but think how worse almost any non-DD character being fed by lvl 200 Hood and a Goon generating their colors would be

Hmm, that could be it. I guess the board wouldn't be such a minefield without those 2. Surprised they haven't fixed that "enemy characters can use goon AP" thing... It always drove me nuts, since it never felt like that's what goon auto-AP was designed for. Also, I just realized they buffed Hood's blue to take all kinds of AP and not just blue/purple. Might try playing around with the guy again in lightning rounds.

SirKopath wrote:

wharrrgarbl wrote:

I always thought Daredevil was a joke, based on what people on here said about him. Facing him in the Sim though... damn, this guy hurts. 7 turn stuns? 5k damage a shot? Dude's wrecked my team every time I've faced him. Why do people say he's bad?

Pay attention when playing against Daredevil, you have to know when he uses his abilities. Avoid environment tiles if he uses purple. Board cascade abilities can get you killed. At the start of the match, focus taking Red AP always, and bring characters who have damage alternatives to red so you can avoid red after he uses his red ability.

Daken and 2* wolverine can make things easier against him, if they place a strike tile on a trapped red tile, the trap is disarmed.

And always kill hood immediately.

Yeah, the cascades are what gets me. "Oh sweet, Judgment's ready, let me just get some strike til... uh, ****, there goes Punisher." I didn't know about traps being disarmed by other special tiles though; that's interesting. I guess that does really trivialize him in PvP since the player can see your roster ahead of time and bring out the tile-layers.

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wharrrgarbl wrote:

Also, I just realized they buffed Hood's blue to take all kinds of AP and not just blue/purple. Might try playing around with the guy again in lightning rounds.

Maxed blue Hood always stole AP of each colour. (x-5-x)

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wharrrgarbl wrote:

I always thought Daredevil was a joke, based on what people on here said about him. Facing him in the Sim though... damn, this guy hurts. 7 turn stuns? 5k damage a shot? Dude's wrecked my team every time I've faced him. Why do people say he's bad?

You can't control when his moves go off, so people don't like the the lack of control. His moves hurt a lot, but they might go off and hit someone mostly dead, or never go off. Tile destruction abilities also destroy traps without triggering them. You can overwrite his trap tiles too, wolverine junior is particularly good at removing all the trap tiles. DD's not useless, but his abilites can all be countered pretty easily.

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mStorm eats Daredevil for breakfast - especially her red and black powers.

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now i wish i didnt get rid of my stupid thorborg for this event

now im stuck for this final two days not being able to do essential again like last time (since i didnt have Joki either just for this event too) so i'll probably be stuck at low ranks

Oh well least i placed 1st having falcon so i shall do my best in the end.

won two recruit tokens gave me stupid yelena twice but i converted her ugly butt into iso =P

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Pamizard wrote:

now i wish i didnt get rid of my stupid thorborg for this event

now im stuck for this final two days not being able to do essential again like last time (since i didnt have Joki either just for this event too) so i'll probably be stuck at low ranks

Oh well least i placed 1st having falcon so i shall do my best in the end.

won two recruit tokens gave me stupid yelena twice but i converted her ugly butt into iso =P

Are you somewhat close to 50k points? That's a red Rag just waiting for you to grab it.

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So devil dino + Crazy Scaling + Goon feeding him green = quick defeat

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WolfmanX25 wrote:

Pamizard wrote:

now i wish i didnt get rid of my stupid thorborg for this event

now im stuck for this final two days not being able to do essential again like last time (since i didnt have Joki either just for this event too) so i'll probably be stuck at low ranks

Oh well least i placed 1st having falcon so i shall do my best in the end.

won two recruit tokens gave me stupid yelena twice but i converted her ugly butt into iso =P

Are you somewhat close to 50k points? That's a red Rag just waiting for you to grab it.

right now im almost at 30k. If i keep playing it today on easy then do hard tonight i can probably get to it. I'm going out soon to go somewhere then i'll be home for the rest of the night. I forgot to do hard mode for round two because i was trying to do punisher to get 600 points to update cap but i got attacked at the end and last night i was working on the loki event to rank high enough to win ares to update him

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Anyone else still waiting on tokens? I didn't join until ~18 hours left, but I begin to get worried an hour and a half after the event ends. Someone please reassure me.

EDIT: Got 'em. All I needed to do was post here.

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3 tokens... **** results.

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I didn't touch second subs until today. Grinded them both till I was around #2-4 and left them about 3hrs till the end. Surprisingly, I ended in top10 and top5. And I'm #7 in General Ranking, so tell me one thing:

Why should I care about refreshes if I can achieve same results just playing near the end?

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Emeryt wrote:

I didn't touch second subs until today. Grinded them both till I was around #2-4 and left them about 3hrs till the end. Surprisingly, I ended in top10 and top5. And I'm #7 in General Ranking, so tell me one thing:

Why should I care about refreshes if I can achieve same results just playing near the end?

shhhhhh.... let them grind away