Finished prologue except ragnarok. Nothing to do now?
Tanglefoot
Posts: 145 Tile Toppler
Have been playing MPQ for about 3 weeks now - I finished the prologue, except for Thor Ragnarok, but I don’t really have a team to beat him. Beat him once out of 10 tries, and only because my first gem match resulted in like a 90 second cascade of matches which fully charged all my powers on all my characters. Stunned him 3x with my 1* black widow and he spent like 15 rounds getting hammered by my 2* iron man. Other than that I can barely dent him before his instant kill strike kills my entire team.
I can barely get through the second stage of the DDQ - fail about 20% of the time, and have no chance to complete the 3rd stage, usually dying without defeating a single enemy character.
PvP matches typically pit me against players with level 100-250 characters - while my 2* captain America is level 86, and I have no one else above 65. So Versus matches are pretty much a pointless waste of time, since I have a 0% chance to win.
Have finished all Throgg missions except the 7 I cannot do because they require characters I don’t have.
I can barely get through the second stage of the DDQ - fail about 20% of the time, and have no chance to complete the 3rd stage, usually dying without defeating a single enemy character.
PvP matches typically pit me against players with level 100-250 characters - while my 2* captain America is level 86, and I have no one else above 65. So Versus matches are pretty much a pointless waste of time, since I have a 0% chance to win.
Have finished all Throgg missions except the 7 I cannot do because they require characters I don’t have.
So, I really have nothing to do in MPQ right now except wait for the first 2 missions of DDQ again tomorrow? It feels really stagnated. Going from playing a couple hours a day to maybe 2 minutes of day feels totally anticlimactic- how do I keep growing with nothing to play?
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Which prologue node are you stuck on, exactly? Call Him Ragnarok in the Dark Avengers tree?
It's been literal years since I was a new player, so I don't recall what the gating looks like for you at this point. Are you able to use Team Ups and/or join an Alliance yet?
If your only 2* champ is Cap, you could try leaning hard on his stun. Ragnarok will create blue tiles if you let him fire his red, but that can be a dangerous game to play. What does your full roster look like? Maybe we can come up with a team for you.
and I just opened my last cover to get cap 13 powers like Monday, so he is 5/4/4 now but I stopped leveling him at 86. The only other 2 star I have maxed is Wolverine 5/3/5, with 1 spare cover.
and I completed all the other nodes in the prologue dark reign before tapping on Ragnarok
Advancing in this game requires time and patience, but you can progress reliably.
Ragnarok's level is 140. So, you don't have to rush to beat him. I remember using 2* Storm, Magneto and Black Widow to beat him. Use black widow to steal aps, Magneto to create blue tiles and Storm to stun and gather APS with her green power.
Could you share your roster? It seems like you are rostering more than one 1*.
Not sure of the best way to share my entire roster, short of typing it in.
yes I have 4 1*s, all full powered
Spiderman lvl 50
black widow lvl 40
juggernaut lvl 40
iron man lvl 50
i use them lots, especially BW with her 5 round freeze, but know I really need to bail on 2 or 3 of them when I need roster spots. Just realized this morning that I had a cover for 3* captain marvel modern expire because I did not free up a spot for her and I could have used her in the Dark Reign Americas which opened up today.
figure I have a couple options for best 2* teams, but they all need to grow
thor 3/4/2 level 60, magneto 2/1/4 lvl 47, storm 4/1/2 lvl 47
OBW 1/2/3 lvl 39, daken 5/5/2 lvl 70, wolverine 5/3/5 lvl 65
also
captain America 5/4/4 lvl 86 but I understand he is not really a great character
hawkeye 2/4/2 lvl 50
ares 2/3/3 lvl 47
for 3*s
iron Man 2/1/1 lvl 55
doc strange 0/0/2 lvl 50
iron fist 1/0/1 lvl 43
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what is currently noise
beast 0/0/1
black widow 1/0/0
deadpool 1/0/0
gambit 0/1/0
msmarvel Kamala khan 0/0/1
luke cage 0/0/1
quicksilver 1/0/0
the hood 1/0/0
wolverinePatch 0/0/1
guessing good 3* teams will probably focus around doctor strange, Ironman, ironfist, quicksilver, Luke cage, though there might be value in the hood and patch, but there are not many skills in there - did I miss anything which should be obvious?
right now only really keeping Deadpool for the Deadpool points - not sure what good they are
Deadpool points are good for when you have his WHALES! WHALES! WHALES! ability. If you use that, you have a choice to "Drop all the Whales!" it costs 28K deadpool points, but will instantly kill the enemies you're currently facing. It won't automatically win a wave node, but can take care of LVL 650 enemies. it's a very good thing to have as a team-up for a Panic button in an otherwise unwinnable node.
Black Widow and Ares are a good combination for a 2-star duo. Rainbow coverage, and you can steal some of the green that Ares gives the opponents with Widow's purple. She can also quasi-heal damage that Ares does to himself with Sunder.
You're correct about Dr. Strange being a top-tier 3-star. In all non-Ultron Sentry events, he is one of the best ones available. I'd probably make him your favorite, if you don't already have a particular favorite character. Piece of advice, though - don't level him up way past the rest of your characters, or else you'll end up in 3-star PvP with him as your only champ. Shards last forever. Between his goon smacking, stun, and passive healing of your characters, he'll help out your longevity more than just about anyone else.
Iron Fist is another good one for his passive damage every turn, and cheap purple that can either board shake or hit very hard. Once you get a couple of true healers (Patch and Daken) Thanos will make very short work of the early event nodes.
Those 4* cover won't screw up your MMR. Generally, MMR is based on your top 3 to 5 highest levelled characters. When you champ your 2*, their levels will be 94 anyway. Wait till you see something more shocking: new players like you with 5* characters with 2-3 covers and champed 2*. It's totally normal. Rostering 5* covers without leveling them up won't affect your MMR. Not that I'm encouraging to use your cp to pull for 5* cover.
The general advice is you need only one 1* and either Juggernaut or Spiderman is a good choice. Spiderman is more versatile imo.
Daken and Wolverine can tank Ragnarok's attack because they can true heal. The top 3* to focus on are: Dr Strange, IM40, Thanos, Hawkeye, Patch. Again, this is my opinion based on PvEs and Lightning Rounds. For PvPs, Luke Cage and Iron Fist is a classic team. You see Dr Strange a lot too.
I find PvPs to be much harder for newer players compared to 2017 due to the higher damage for newer 5*. As you progress up and champ 3*, you will see more and more Polaris and 5* Deadpool, Heimdall, Adam Warlock. That's why I recommend 3* Hawkeye because he can help you gain 2 purple and 2 blue ap when you match enemy special tiles.
PvP is a topic for another day. Timing is important in PvP. Getting top 10 or top 5 in SCL 5/6 is easy. If you are going for wins, play PvP 18-28 hours after the slice that you choose begin. The number of "normal" opponents will be higher. For PvP, choose the highest SCL available because it doesn't affect your MMR.
At your stage, SCL 4 should be manageable for you in story events. Go any higher and you will burn out quickly.