MPQ at Marvel.com: (Nico Minoru) (11/28/17)

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  • Dayv
    Dayv Posts: 4,449 Chairperson of the Boards
    TPF Alexis said:
    And then from there, it seems like just about every other paragraph has a set-up for a dirty joke.
    I think that's all you.  I'm a snarky jerk with a dirty mind, and I don't see any of these setups.
  • TPF Alexis
    TPF Alexis Posts: 3,826 Chairperson of the Boards
    Dayv said:
    TPF Alexis said:
    And then from there, it seems like just about every other paragraph has a set-up for a dirty joke.
    I think that's all you.  I'm a snarky jerk with a dirty mind, and I don't see any of these setups.
    I think it's actually because I have a bunch of trans friends, so I still see "staff" jokes there regardless of the character's gender.
  • Brigby
    Brigby ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 7,757 Site Admin
    bluewolf said:
    Brigby  Can you please check to verify if Staff Appreciation Day will reward tokens to the Nico and Friends vault?  The Main Event Hulk PVP rewarded tokens for a post-event store that was non-purchasable.  Thank you!
    Yes. Staff Appreciation Day will reward tokens to the Nico and Friends vault.
    bluewolf said:
    Brigby   Could you please advise whether the SHIELD Training store described in the article is really the Honor Among Thieves token store?  Thank you!
    And yes, SHIELD Training will in fact give tokens to the Honor Among Thieves store.
  • DarthDeVo
    DarthDeVo Posts: 2,178 Chairperson of the Boards
    Crowl said:
    Quebbster said:
    Interesting choice to have blue as the top placement reward. There will be a lot of Nicos out there who can't change their power sets at first.
    It would hardly be the first time they do this kind of move where the colour order seems to be deliberately terrible.
    Quite often a character's best power is the first one listed, which means it gets awarded to the fewest number of players through placement, although then it usually becomes the cover at 2000 points the following season in SHIELD Sim. 

    Which is why I was surprised MEHulk was about the opposite.
  • Jaedenkaal
    Jaedenkaal Posts: 3,357 Chairperson of the Boards
    DarthDeVo said:
    Crowl said:
    Quebbster said:
    Interesting choice to have blue as the top placement reward. There will be a lot of Nicos out there who can't change their power sets at first.
    It would hardly be the first time they do this kind of move where the colour order seems to be deliberately terrible.
    Quite often a character's best power is the first one listed
    Since "Best" here can only mean "most anticipated by the players," this is surely a coincidence. There are only 3 possible places the "best" power can be, clearly some of the time it'll be the top one.

    Btw, Gambit in particular is in stark contrast to this claim ;)


  • DarthDeVo
    DarthDeVo Posts: 2,178 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited December 2017
    Yes, "best" is subjective when it comes to discussing powers. :)

    I'll put it this way: I've been playing for a little over 1.5 years, fairly competitively for at least a year, and really paying attention to the 4* tier (and hence, most release events) since the beginning of this year when I was finishing up covering and champing my 3*s and starting to cover and champ my 4*s.

    I would feel comfortable saying that the majority of the time what's typically considered the most desirable cover or the one that has the most utility is the one rewarded to T10 in PvE and T5 in PvP, and therefore, the most rare.
  • Vold
    Vold Posts: 166 Tile Toppler
    Was testing out her healing and realised there's different words for it...
    not sure what's effecting it, is it the amount healed or is it random...

    Heal! - 500 HP
    Chicken Soup! - 2.7k HP
    Curatio - 3.2k HP
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,275 Chairperson of the Boards
    Vold said:
    Was testing out her healing and realised there's different words for it...
    not sure what's effecting it, is it the amount healed or is it random...

    Heal! - 500 HP
    Chicken Soup! - 2.7k HP
    Curatio - 3.2k HP
    She has different words for all 3 of her powers and her healing is affected by how many protect tiles she has out.

    Details are here - https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/69184/nico-minoru-runaways#latest

  • Quebbster
    Quebbster Posts: 8,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    The different Words is really just fluff to keep it comic accurate - the Staff of One can be used to cast any spell, but each spell can only be cast once. It can be used to cast a very similar spell that's called something else though.
  • Crowl
    Crowl Posts: 1,580 Chairperson of the Boards
    DarthDeVo said:
    Yes, "best" is subjective when it comes to discussing powers. :)

    I'll put it this way: I've been playing for a little over 1.5 years, fairly competitively for at least a year, and really paying attention to the 4* tier (and hence, most release events) since the beginning of this year when I was finishing up covering and champing my 3*s and starting to cover and champ my 4*s.

    I would feel comfortable saying that the majority of the time what's typically considered the most desirable cover or the one that has the most utility is the one rewarded to T10 in PvE and T5 in PvP, and therefore, the most rare.
    Even if they wanted to debate the term 'best' it does seem all too common for any power that is immediately useful or character-defining to be the one that is locked away in what seems like a fairly counter-productive manner since you would think that if a person plays an undercovered character and they still have a useful power then that person is far more likely to consider spending than somebody who has to carry a useless character through the following pve event.
  • HobieCat76
    HobieCat76 Posts: 73 Match Maker
    HobieCat76 said:
    Nico!!!  I'm so happy that she's in the game!!!  :)  I mean this sincerely.  I'm not in the camp of people who've never heard of her.  She's seriously one of my favorite Marvel characters.  Reading the trade of The Runaways (specifically BKV's run) a few years ago was one the biggest reasons why I returned to reading comics after a very long time being away.  If fact, I read A-Force specifically because Nico was in it. 

    Have they previewed which cover that they're using for her?  I hope it's this one:



    RNGesus must have heard me say that Nico was one of my favorite characters because I pulled the Nico cover in my Nico and Friends store with just my 4th token pull!  :smiley:
  • Vold
    Vold Posts: 166 Tile Toppler
    DAZ0273 said:
    Vold said:
    Was testing out her healing and realised there's different words for it...
    not sure what's effecting it, is it the amount healed or is it random...

    Heal! - 500 HP
    Chicken Soup! - 2.7k HP
    Curatio - 3.2k HP
    She has different words for all 3 of her powers and her healing is affected by how many protect tiles she has out.

    Details are here - https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/69184/nico-minoru-runaways#latest

    according to that it's random...
    and i agree

    No. of protect tiles
    1 = Heal
    1 = Chicken Soup
    2 = Curatio
    2 = First Aid
    3 = Heal

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