**** Magik (Classic) ****

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  • Kahmon
    Kahmon Posts: 625 Critical Contributor
    Dogface said:
    Got Bishop on 9. Still time to get the 10th, so BH'd him immediately. 
    Bishop is in placement rewards for Hearts of Darkness, so presumably will be in scl 7-9 progression rewards of Strange Sights.
  • Vhailorx
    Vhailorx Posts: 6,085 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited February 2019
    Was looking pretty meh until I read the blue power.  She will be strong, as that power is almost as easy to abuse as Carol's yellow (if not quite so powerful).

    It's irritating that she generates weak tiles and only improves 2 at a time, but her kit still looks very useful overall.  It's probably too late in the 4* lifecycle for her to become an essential character (it probably takes something like Bishop's defensive passives as he is the most interesting 4* since what, grocket? But I don't think she is quite that unique/useful), but she definitely looks like someone for newer players to target.
  • hodayathink
    hodayathink Posts: 528 Critical Contributor
    I know you guys plan these character releases out pretty fair in advance, but New Mutants got moved off of this month a fairly long time ago, so it's interesting that Magik does come out around one of the old release dates for the movie anyway.
  • jamesh
    jamesh Posts: 1,600 Chairperson of the Boards
    3/5/5
    It's a shame there isn't much synergy with Colossus.
    I suppose you could say her repeater power could help gather AP for Colossal Punch, but you're going to be better off casting Magik's red.  Colossus's cheapest power is 8 AP, so that's not a great choice for triggering Magik's blue passive.  And casting Fastball Special with Magik as the target isn't a particularly efficient use of AP.
  • MrEd95
    MrEd95 Posts: 280 Mover and Shaker
    Im sure it isnt just the costume, but she looks like she will pair well with kitty. Now if only there were a 3rd character wearing the same x men duds
  • zodiac339
    zodiac339 Posts: 1,948 Chairperson of the Boards
    MrEd95 said:
    Im sure it isnt just the costume, but she looks like she will pair well with kitty. Now if only there were a 3rd character wearing the same x men duds
    You mean X-23?
  • Tony_Foot
    Tony_Foot Posts: 1,812 Chairperson of the Boards
    Condolences to any 4* transition players. Here’s another 400k for you to find and still no hints to curing the dilution. Maybe 2020.
  • MrEd95
    MrEd95 Posts: 280 Mover and Shaker
    zodiac339 said:
    MrEd95 said:
    Im sure it isnt just the costume, but she looks like she will pair well with kitty. Now if only there were a 3rd character wearing the same x men duds
    You mean X-23?
    Nah, that’s just a copy of wolverines costume. It’s similar though. It shall have to do for now.

    I guess I shall have to find a way to make it work. I guess the extra red matches would feed x-23’s healing and berserker rage. Plus she would create strike tiles too. It wouldn’t hurt to give it a try and see how it works
  • Quebbster
    Quebbster Posts: 8,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    I like the synergy of the SHIELD training characters. Bishop will generate blue, which Iron Fist can then use to fortify Grocket's strike tiles and generate AP.
  • CNash
    CNash Posts: 952 Critical Contributor
    The flavour text on "Ruler of Limbo" / "The Return" makes it sound like she should go invisible while her repeater is out. Otherwise Magik "goes to Limbo"... but the enemy team can follow her there and whack her anyway?
  • jym010
    jym010 Posts: 108 Tile Toppler
    Where are you guys finding out the required characters for the Shield training?

  • jym010
    jym010 Posts: 108 Tile Toppler
    jym010 said:
    Where are you guys finding out the required characters for the Shield training?

    Nevermind....just saw it during my second read through
  • MoosePrime
    MoosePrime Posts: 969 Critical Contributor
    MrEd95 said:
    zodiac339 said:
    MrEd95 said:
    Im sure it isnt just the costume, but she looks like she will pair well with kitty. Now if only there were a 3rd character wearing the same x men duds
    You mean X-23?
    Nah, that’s just a copy of wolverines costume. It’s similar though. It shall have to do for now.

    I guess I shall have to find a way to make it work. I guess the extra red matches would feed x-23’s healing and berserker rage. Plus she would create strike tiles too. It wouldn’t hurt to give it a try and see how it works
    If Kitty is on the team, X-23 won't be making the red matches (and thus won't heal).
  • n25philly
    n25philly Posts: 426 Mover and Shaker
    Friarbundy said:
    You guys are really pushing it with Bishop as the third character in Shield Training.  Why don’t you just make Majik and Namor required too?
    I wonder what takes more effort, designing new characters or the hard work they put into keeping them from us
  • MrEd95
    MrEd95 Posts: 280 Mover and Shaker
    MoosePrime said:
    MrEd95 said:
    zodiac339 said:
    MrEd95 said:
    Im sure it isnt just the costume, but she looks like she will pair well with kitty. Now if only there were a 3rd character wearing the same x men duds
    You mean X-23?
    Nah, that’s just a copy of wolverines costume. It’s similar though. It shall have to do for now.

    I guess I shall have to find a way to make it work. I guess the extra red matches would feed x-23’s healing and berserker rage. Plus she would create strike tiles too. It wouldn’t hurt to give it a try and see how it works
    If Kitty is on the team, X-23 won't be making the red matches (and thus won't heal).
    Good point, you are right. Same with purple as well. Oh well. It was worth a shot
  • Quebbster
    Quebbster Posts: 8,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    n25philly said:
    Friarbundy said:
    You guys are really pushing it with Bishop as the third character in Shield Training.  Why don’t you just make Majik and Namor required too?
    I wonder what takes more effort, designing new characters or the hard work they put into keeping them from us

    The reason a lot of recent characters is featured in SHIELD training is that they use the essential fourstar from the release event in one of the spot. Since they use the latest Three fourstar releases mixed with two older fourstars as Essentials, that means recent fourstars has a higher than average chance to be featured. So it's actually a consequence of making them more available (by featuring them as essential characters more).
  • n25philly
    n25philly Posts: 426 Mover and Shaker
    Quebbster said:
    n25philly said:
    Friarbundy said:
    You guys are really pushing it with Bishop as the third character in Shield Training.  Why don’t you just make Majik and Namor required too?
    I wonder what takes more effort, designing new characters or the hard work they put into keeping them from us

    The reason a lot of recent characters is featured in SHIELD training is that they use the essential fourstar from the release event in one of the spot. Since they use the latest Three fourstar releases mixed with two older fourstars as Essentials, that means recent fourstars has a higher than average chance to be featured. So it's actually a consequence of making them more available (by featuring them as essential characters more).
    More available, as long as you don't dare miss getting any character from previous shield training, make sure you entire life revolves around playing the game and playing way too much of the **** pvp, and you get divine intervention from rng with all the dilution.

    Even on my main account where I play enough to have significant burn in of the game on the screen of my high end samsung tablet I have a whopping 5 covers on him.  I should be able to get 1 from progression next event and maybe 1 additional if I get extremely lucky with rng pulls.  Where is all this availability for getting the character?  They are featured just as much as back when they had the hybrid system except you didn't need a miracle to pull them from a token.  Any attempt to say they are more available is pure delusional **** as best
  • spidyjedi84
    spidyjedi84 Posts: 514 Critical Contributor
    Quebbster said:
    I like the synergy of the SHIELD training characters. Bishop will generate blue, which Iron Fist can then use to fortify Grocket's strike tiles and generate AP.
    Except the first round of SHIELD training is two of those characters and then Magik, to give you an idea how she fares with a team... 
  • skittledaddy
    skittledaddy Posts: 999 Critical Contributor
    3/5/5
    Run Magik with C4ge and each time ANYONE (either team) fires a power you're sending out Protect tiles.
    Then they start fortifying themselves to no end.
    Then fire C4ge's Yellow and you're REALLY in business

    Not fast, but you're hardly going to take any damage the entire time.
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    100% FTP here and I will have Bishop with at least 11 covers by the end of Strange Sight. This is without BH, without lucky pull and without getting the extra cover from his SHIELD Training.

    Not counting Alliance placement rewards and SHIELD Training for Bishop covers, there will be a total of 21 covers that could be earned...:

    1) 2 covers from PvP placements 
    2) 1 cover from PvP progression
    3) 12 covers from PvE placements
    4) 4 covers from PvE progression
    5) 1 cover from previous SHIELD Simulator progression reward (if I'm not wrong)
    6) 1 cover from 12 Days of Marvel

    ... by the end of upcoming Strange Sight PvE. 

    The catch is, I did play competitively to get him to 11 covers.  :p

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    1) Failure is the stepping stone to success, as long as you learn from it.
    2) Staying on top is more difficult than getting there.

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