Marvel Puzzle Quest 4th Anniversary Details *Updated (10/10/17)

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  • n25philly
    n25philly Posts: 426 Mover and Shaker
    Almost lost in round 2 due to the constant placed in spots impossible to match instant death countdowns.  About ready to give up on this ****.  Why can't we just have fun events?
  • shardwick
    shardwick Posts: 2,121 Chairperson of the Boards
    I killed him with a mega cascade after a match five on the first turn, lolz. Won't be able to do that in the later rounds but for round 3 it was entertaining. "You're going to die muahaha!" Oh, hey, a match five. "No! Don't match that one!" Explosions everywhere. "Nooooooo!" 
  • broll
    broll Posts: 4,732 Chairperson of the Boards
    n25philly said:
    Almost lost in round 2 due to the constant placed in spots impossible to match instant death countdowns.  About ready to give up on this tinykitty.  Why can't we just have fun events?
    Wait till they drop from 6 to 4.  That's gonna be brutal...
  • DarthDeVo
    DarthDeVo Posts: 2,178 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited October 2017
    Death came for Bl4de, but that's the only one that's resolved so far. Right after that, I started running Switch, Coulson and Mr. F for maximum tile switching. Haven't really had an issue since. 

    It's not too bad so far, but still in the early stages of Round 3. I may change my tune in later rounds. 
  • Beer40
    Beer40 Posts: 826 Critical Contributor
    Easy peasy thru round 3, just the way I like it!
  • Player1575
    Player1575 Posts: 253 Mover and Shaker
    edited October 2017
    Very sneaky of you guys to price the anniversary vault at 500/5000/20000 without mentioning anything about it. Hopefully it's a trend that doesn't continue. 

    @Brigby any word from the devs on why they increased the price of tokens in the anniversary vault? 
  • broll
    broll Posts: 4,732 Chairperson of the Boards
    Player1575 said:
    Very sneaky of you guys to price the anniversary vault at 500/5000/20000 without mentioning anything about it. Hopefully it's a trend that doesn't continue. 

    @Brigby any word from the devs on why they increased the price of tokens in the anniversary vault? 
    I would assume it's the 80 vs 100 items in it.
    80:100 -  20% increase
    400:500 - 20% increase
    3600:5000 - 28% increase
    14000:20000 - 30% increase

    I'm just glad there was no increase on the daily deals.  I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've bought anything but the daily deals.  It's just throwing HP away to do otherwise...
  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    The vault is up for 11 days...daily deals are the way to go.
  • mega ghost
    mega ghost Posts: 1,156 Chairperson of the Boards
    So far I'm really enjoying Apocalypse! The first rounds are a cakewalk, which offers plenty of time to get a feel for his mechanics — when the difficulty ramps up he'll be fearsome, but not unbeatable.
  • Rick_OShay
    Rick_OShay Posts: 765 Critical Contributor
    Excellent boss challenge! Thanks for the clever design devs. 
    I had better say this now before I get into later rounds...
  • pandrek
    pandrek Posts: 14 Just Dropped In
    Congratulations, devs!!!
    I'm enjoying Apocalypse boss challenge very much!!! Nice job!!! :smiley:
  • jamesh
    jamesh Posts: 1,600 Chairperson of the Boards
    I had misread the description in the first post and assumed Death's countdowns would disappear when he did, but that's not the case :(

    Vulture has been pretty useful so far when paired with someone who sets the team's strongest colour to green or blue.  His AP generation helps take out Famine, and Hybrid Tech Slicer helps get rid of Pestilence's attack tiles and Death's countdown tiles.  I've also been running him with Cloak+Dagger, who helps with feed black (both to power Vulture, and match Death's countdowns) and adds more special tile destruction.  No idea how well they'll work in later rounds though.
  • PurdyPrince
    PurdyPrince Posts: 47 Just Dropped In
    What is the consensus on fan favorite tokens? I've read many posts saying it is not worth it but here is my situation. 2 of the 5* stars BB and Strange are in the tokens with increased odds since there isn't so many 5 Stars in this one. I have a hoard of about 170 tokens for LL which i will spend when Spidey leaves LL and around 2300 CP for anything else. Should I save the CP or should I go for it? What do you guys think?
  • Milk Jugz
    Milk Jugz Posts: 1,122 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited October 2017
    Just an FYI everyone. Someone mentioned in a thread somewhere about Kate Bishop's blue preventing enemy healing. IT WORKS ON APOCALYPSE!!!!! Need 12 blue to fire it, mine deals 7766 damage and makes a 5 turn CD tile that prevents him from healing. My KB only 150 5/4/4 (I imagine it does much better damage if you have her champed), she hides behind my Phoenix and Ock. Protect that CD tile and you don't have to worry about the horsemen or him healing himself!
  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    PurdyPrince said:
    What is the consensus on fan favorite tokens? I've read many posts saying it is not worth it but here is my situation. 2 of the 5* stars BB and Strange are in the tokens with increased odds since there isn't so many 5 Stars in this one. I have a hoard of about 170 tokens for LL which i will spend when Spidey leaves LL and around 2300 CP for anything else. Should I save the CP or should I go for it? What do you guys think?
    FF are the same odds as any other legendary token, 15%, with no CS swaps.  But diluted among 8 characters, instead of 3.  That is why people say stay away.  You'll get just a few for each character.

    For 2300 CP you will get 92 pulls.  That would get, if odds work out, about 13 5* covers.  So among 8 characters you could get 2 covers for 5 of them and 1 for 3 more. If you are close to finishing BB or Strange and have even cover distribution, it's worth trying.  If you keep all your LL and CP til Spidey leaves, you can be pretty sure to have 3 fully covered 5's, on the other hand.

    Bolt is one of the best 5's, so it might be worth going for if you have 4/4/4 of 4/3/4 or something.
  • PurdyPrince
    PurdyPrince Posts: 47 Just Dropped In
    bluewolf said:
    PurdyPrince said:
    What is the consensus on fan favorite tokens? I've read many posts saying it is not worth it but here is my situation. 2 of the 5* stars BB and Strange are in the tokens with increased odds since there isn't so many 5 Stars in this one. I have a hoard of about 170 tokens for LL which i will spend when Spidey leaves LL and around 2300 CP for anything else. Should I save the CP or should I go for it? What do you guys think?
    FF are the same odds as any other legendary token, 15%, with no CS swaps.  But diluted among 8 characters, instead of 3.  That is why people say stay away.  You'll get just a few for each character.

    For 2300 CP you will get 92 pulls.  That would get, if odds work out, about 13 5* covers.  So among 8 characters you could get 2 covers for 5 of them and 1 for 3 more. If you are close to finishing BB or Strange and have even cover distribution, it's worth trying.  If you keep all your LL and CP til Spidey leaves, you can be pretty sure to have 3 fully covered 5's, on the other hand.

    Bolt is one of the best 5's, so it might be worth going for if you have 4/4/4 of 4/3/4 or something.
    Ok. Makes sense. I only have 3 covers total between BB and Strange so it seems like I won't get much for what I have.
  • Brigby
    Brigby ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 7,757 Site Admin
    Beer40 said:
    Brigby said:
    (Disclaimer: I am currently in NYC preparing for NYCC, so I unfortunately will be rather sporadic with my responses. Thank you for understanding)
    kennn712 said:
    Brigby will the Fan Favorites duplicate draws be swappable by CS? 
    kennn712 HxiiiK
    CS will unfortunately not be able to provide cover exchanges for duplicates acquired from the Fan Favorite store.

    When it comes to the store's content, we removed 7 characters from the available 5-Star pool, in order to increase the chances of players acquiring a player-voted character as their favorite. In addition, we have replaced the usual 4-Star latest characters with player-voted ones, in order to give them increased odds.

    *For all other questions, I will try to find time throughout the day to answer them as best as I can. Thanks!
    Ouch! Apologies in advance to Brigby, since he's just the messenger, and it seems like I'm right behind his clarifications lately with something snarky, but....

    No problem removing 5* from the store for better odds of selected 5*.

    And

    Big problem removing 4* from the store for better odds of selected 4*.

    Happy Anniversary!
    Just to clarify, all 4-Star characters are available, it's just that the Latest characters were swapped with fan favorites. The latest 4 star characters are still available, just at classic odds.
    MPQ_Daywalker said:
    Thanks for the clarification on Fan Favorite tokens, Brigby.  How about the Mes Amis store - will swaps be allowed there?

    Also, thank you so much for posting these Anniversary details so early in your day as you're travelling!  I believe we are only missing one other piece of information -- the boosted character list for X-Men vs. Apocalypse.  (I assume it will be X-Men-centric but would be nice to have the specifics.)
    The only character from Mes Amis that is eligible for cover exchanges is Gambit, otherwise cover exchanges are unfortunately unavailable.
  • Alsmir
    Alsmir Posts: 508 Critical Contributor
    First rounds are easy, but I'm not optimistic. Only once I managed to down him after removing special tiles. Every other time it was one-turn-nuke. Death's cds are a bit op imo.
  • whitecat31
    whitecat31 Posts: 579 Critical Contributor
    Brigby said:

    The only character from Mes Amis that is eligible for cover exchanges is Gambit, otherwise cover exchanges are unfortunately unavailable.
    So what you are basically saying is Mes Amis is a horrible deal, you will ignore past precedence, and we should advise our fellow players not to purchase it and wait for Gambit to move into Latest Legendary. Gotcha.
  • Platty616
    Platty616 Posts: 39 Just Dropped In
    This to me seems like a ‘you are supposed to lose’ event, it’s stupidly hard.

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