Prodigal Sun, Episode 4.5

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  • rkd80
    rkd80 Posts: 376
    Those were the starting values for me...and those suicidal iso-8 loony toons are tough as hell. I thought the maggia were bad...yikes.
  • Unknown
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    Managed to Top 50 Manhattan, but I think I'm going to pay for it from here on out. .__.

    Iso-8 Lab Assault: 33/34/34
    Iso-8 Lab Assault II: 134/135/134
    Iso-8 Lab Assault III: 43/43/43
    Iso-8 Lab Assault IV: 124/124/124
    Iso-8 Lab Assault V: 140/141/140
    Mutant Misdirection: 55/54/54
    Coercive Force: 147/147/147

    Polarity Shift: 35/35/35

    Daken vs. Magneto: 94/95/94
    Daken vs. Yelena: 121/122/121

    Main units I've been using are:

    Ares 5/3/5 Lv111 (Boosted)
    OBW 3/5/5 Lv85
    Wolvie 5/5/3 Lv85
    MN Mags 4/4/5 Lv70

    Here's to hoping I'll be able to end the event decently. Have my doubts, though. icon_razz.gif
  • Unknown
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    Spoit wrote:
    So some people are going to be really unhappy when they join tonight. There's only 568 people in my main bracket, which means that almost half of the people in it are going to miss a whole sub's worth of points

    So Spoit, wanna give me a heads up once your bracket gets filled? Ehh? EHHHH?
  • Unknown
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    Mawtful wrote:
    Sumilea wrote:
    Mawtful wrote:
    This seems like the most likely format, where those last 8 hours will be spent in the main tab on repeatable pins.

    There does not seems to be any pins in main so to do this they have to change the graphic.

    Did anyone else have the odd starting values of 94 Iso-8 Lab assault and and 304 for Deken Vs Yelena. Or is rubber banding off the main?

    So exactly like Thick as Thieves then?
    Same values for me and I was already one refresh behind. Means rubberbanding is off subs, which is even less friendly to late starters in conjunction with the f-ed up bracketing
  • daveomite
    daveomite Posts: 1,331 Chairperson of the Boards
    So...are people waiting to start this sub? Or starting now? I have one 108 point node (was 90 points originally), and the essential was 240 originally, now 350. So, point values going up at least.

    Debating on whether to start them now, or closer to refresh time. You just know there's gonna be grinders in whatever bracket I wind up in, lol.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Well our alliance mate joined late as usual, got same 14+k points in less than 2 hours by doing all missions thrice + a couple on top. He got more points than me with my 3 separate clears - wasn't grinding down to 100 points every time though.
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    soenottelling wrote:
    Spoit wrote:
    So some people are going to be really unhappy when they join tonight. There's only 568 people in my main bracket, which means that almost half of the people in it are going to miss a whole sub's worth of points

    So Spoit, wanna give me a heads up once your bracket gets filled? Ehh? EHHHH?
    Still about 300 more slots, and I joined like 5 hours ago. So...probably wait for tomorrow at this rate
  • daveomite
    daveomite Posts: 1,331 Chairperson of the Boards
    Gotcha...thanks locked. Yeah, last sub, I started almost at the beginning, did a clear...but 12 hours later, 2-300 nodes were able the best offerings. Managed to catch up some in the last two hours, ended around 14.5k in it.

    But would rather let the nodes build up in points more before getting into them this time to see if that helps.
  • Unknown
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    Spoit wrote:
    soenottelling wrote:
    Spoit wrote:
    So some people are going to be really unhappy when they join tonight. There's only 568 people in my main bracket, which means that almost half of the people in it are going to miss a whole sub's worth of points

    So Spoit, wanna give me a heads up once your bracket gets filled? Ehh? EHHHH?
    Still about 300 more slots, and I joined like 5 hours ago. So...probably wait for tomorrow at this rate

    I love how they made a game that rewards not playing.
  • Unknown
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    locked wrote:
    Well our alliance mate joined late as usual, got same 14+k points in less than 2 hours by doing all missions thrice + a couple on top. He got more points than me with my 3 separate clears - wasn't grinding down to 100 points every time though.

    I am always afraid of hitting the max rubber banding this way and losing points but I may try that for this next sub... It's normally what I do. Long live the casual players! icon_rolleyes.gif
  • Unknown
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    locked wrote:
    ZeroUnderscoreOu wrote:
    locked wrote:
    Daken and Bullseye flirting FTW.
    Completed all the nodes, didn't see something similar.
    you need to be a fan(girl) for that
    I'm kinda not, so can you say where you saw that?
  • Unknown
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    It'd be really nice if Detonate doesn't generate black AP until it can be used, or better yet not generate black AP at all since Detonate needs 0 to be used.

    It seems like so far there's a good mix of high and low level nodes and not everything involves a hero. I have level 260ish Psylocke with Detonate goons which is a real pain, but at least it's not Classic Storm with blue AP goons. That'd be ugly.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    ZeroUnderscoreOu wrote:
    I'm kinda not, so can you say where you saw that?
    Xyren wrote:
    (after battle)
    Bullseye: So Osborn's playing favorites. Should have known I wouldn't get to be the teacher's pet.
    Daken: Moonstone's still the teacher's pet. I'm just the watchdog. Get yourself in line.

    Bullseye: You like being the attack dog, don't you? Yeah, me too.
    Daken: If you were a dog, they would've put you down a long time ago. Might be what happens anyway.
    Bullseye: If it does, you won't be the man to do it.
    (after battle)
    Bullseye: You can go back to Osborn and tell him you proved your point. But you better explain all these dead agents to him, too. These ones aren't my fault.
    Bullseye: Watch your back, kid. I might be crazy, but I don't forget who crosses me.
    You might be confused by all the threats and name-calling, but it's actually how Dark Avengers flirt!
  • Unknown
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    sms4002 wrote:
    locked wrote:
    Well our alliance mate joined late as usual, got same 14+k points in less than 2 hours by doing all missions thrice + a couple on top. He got more points than me with my 3 separate clears - wasn't grinding down to 100 points every time though.

    I am always afraid of hitting the max rubber banding this way and losing points but I may try that for this next sub... It's normally what I do. Long live the casual players! icon_rolleyes.gif


    I had to do this because I was forced too. I did the top 20 highest value missions that mean doing Daken vs Bulleye 4 times and came out with 14100 points jumped from 750 to top 20.
  • Unknown
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    And people are grinding again :/ One full clear was worth just over 2000 for me and people in my bracket are way ahead, by 1k and more. I think this event is not for me - I lost 30 places within 5 minutes after I stopped clearing nodes. I don't feel like grinding everything down to 1 and at this point that's probably the only way to catch up. I don't know what's different, but it feels different and not nicely so. Will aim for the progression token at 350000 and a top 200 placement for 50 HP and call it a day.
  • kensterr
    kensterr Posts: 1,277 Chairperson of the Boards
    has the refresh been confirmed to be at 8 hours or 12 hours? lots of work lately, can't play that much. I have to plan my work around the sub's end time. icon_e_sad.gif
  • Unknown
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    I think I'm screwed out of this tournament already :/ Went to bed with about 3 hours of the sub left, and was comfortably in top 10 place in both the main and the sub. Woke up to find myself a top 200 finisher in the sub, and hovering around 200th place in the main. After one pass through the China sub, I'm about 2k behind the leader, and about 5k behind the leader of my main. I see no way at all that I can catch him. It's ridiculous! I don't want to grind the subs to death because my scaling will go through the roof, but even if I did that there still isn't anywhere near enough points to catch him up. Seriously unimpressed with this.
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    soenottelling wrote:
    Spoit wrote:
    So some people are going to be really unhappy when they join tonight. There's only 568 people in my main bracket, which means that almost half of the people in it are going to miss a whole sub's worth of points

    So Spoit, wanna give me a heads up once your bracket gets filled? Ehh? EHHHH?
    Oh I forgot for a while, but it finally filled after like, 7 hours. Half of which were after the sub closed
  • Unknown
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    So is rubberbanding based on your overall bracket? In my sub I did a full clear in the first couple of hours of it opening, and another full clear about 6hrs in. My highest node value is about 200pts yet the highest guy in my sub is 2400 ahead of me - even with insane grinding, I can't see how that is catchable.

    To back that up, I'm 11th in my overall so I can only assume that the low point value in my sub nodes is related to my proximity to the leader in the overall standings.

    Is that right? Or is it just that the leaders in my sub are have done some crazy grinding?
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Crazy grinding, most probably. I cannot catch up to my leaders either but, as history shows, with time you can get closer and closer.

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