Lightning Round: No Holds Barred ELITE - Round 2 - 6/1 ONLY

Arogntbastrd

Emeryt wrote:

Hulk max + Patch max.

Who should join them, regarding good defence?

1. Hood 128 at 543
2. Psy max at 535
3. Cap max at 355
4. CMags 115 at 533
5. Punisher max at 355

I don't think Cap is much of a help, though yellow + blue helps with rainbow.
CMags - no one is afraid of him.
Psy - quick fights, dunno about defence

That cap blue is VERY useful though. I'd say prob psy or cap depending on opponent, stun hulks for example

Unknown

If this is anything like regular PvP, you'll need to shield in at least the last two hours to prevent multiple -40 hits. So shields + entry fee = bad deal.

Unknown

Overall, I don't think this is a bad idea for newer players.

Similar to shielding pricing changes awhile back, the devs are trying to figure out a price point that is attractive enough to warrant a buy-in on a tourney, yet attract a decent crowd.

Good on them for trying to figure this stuff out. I'm not the right audience for this particular incarnation of NHB, but I can see this one being relatively attractive to newcomers (the impulse 12h window will help as well, IMO).

Now, they need to figure out how to make themed events work once more....

Spider-man 6234

Lyrian wrote:

Spider-man 6234 wrote:

Well ****. I'm royally screwed. Got psykopathic in my bracket. Guess that's 150 hp wasted

Top 2 receive the 3*** token. 2nd place costs you net 50 HP, but wouldn't be a total waste.

True but hearing how everyone else was finding people they didn't recognize and plus that my best team is a max cap OBW and and 106 punisher I was hoping for a bunch of people I wouldn't recognize and a possible run at first.

mjh

KevinMark wrote:

That "pack" is kinda misleading there.

extremely misleading, not kind of. The way it's worded says 150coins gets you a 10-pack at the very least. Can anyone confirm this before I waste my coins

MaxCavalera

Ghast wrote:

50 person brackets? Good. Being gently nudged into a death bracket? Bad.

I wonder if this will have a shield bug too.

What good is a small bracket if they are all nudged to be your equals =/ 49 of 50 people enter loose HP. I would enter only for **** and not profit and currently i don't give 2 **** for a random 3* token with the current over population of 3* and w.o being able to see the pull statistics?

Upside its not in season II

Unknown

Lightning Round tokens have (had?) three stars on the front too - but they do not guarantee 3* pulls. My HP is not going anywhere until I get confirmation that the Elite tokens guarantee a 3* minimum.

over_clocked

I only need a handful of 3* covers most of which are Daken, Sentry, HT and Falcon. I could use 2 GSBW purples, but all hope lost on her, just for the sake of completion.
150 HP + minimum 75 HP for a shot at Daredevil?
A terrible deal all around.

They should have called it a 'not-really-elite-we-just-think-we-are-super-at-marketing' tourney.
Hope newbies get some useful covers though.

Unknown

HawkeyeSucks wrote:

KevinMark wrote:

That "pack" is kinda misleading there.

extremely misleading, not kind of. The way it's worded says 150coins gets you a 10-pack at the very least. Can anyone confirm this before I waste my coins

I was about to pull the trigger when I saw "pack" as well, but thankfully I checked the rewards first. I'm hoping that was just a typo on their part, otherwise that is definitely extremely misleading.

ZeiramMR

I think I'll give this a try a bit later in the afternoon. There are still scattered 3 star covers that I need, and even getting a lower ranking with 2 or 3 heroics isn't that bad for 150 HP.

Unknown

hmmm...

already two players shielded. #3 at 352 and #6 at 286... waste of resources.

I don't plan to waste HP on shields, I'm just taking it casually.

Unknown

If there was more hp on offer I would enter I'll leave this to the crazed ones

Unknown

If bracket size is 50, why do prizes go to 52?

HawkeyeSucks wrote:

extremely misleading, not kind of. The way it's worded says 150coins gets you a 10-pack at the very least. Can anyone confirm this before I waste my coins

Agreed. Very misleading. Kind of like the health packs of "5 (Get one free)"

D3/Demuirge or who ever is in charge of marketing are shifty as hell.

Unknown

aaronschmiz wrote:

If bracket size is 50, why do prizes go to 52?

For sandboxed players.

Unknown

Emeryt wrote:

Shields:

75HP 30mins
150HP 1hr
300HP 2hrs


So far I don't know any of the nicknames in my bracket.

The shield prices for this event are crazy! That is utterly ridiculous!!!

Unknown

not worth it unless u got a great 3star team already
its like 150hp for a heroic token

Arogntbastrd

kroateon wrote:

not worth it unless u got a great 3star team already
its like 150hp for a heroic token

I disagree. If I enter this and win it's still kinda useless. OK I'd get some iso but I wouldn't get any thing I need from any tokens even if I won. "Red dd, woo! Wait...oh... "

If someone like my man Aaron here joins and does half decent. Maybe gets 2 or 3 heroics out of it on top of the iso. Not so bad. Then if he ends up winning. Even better

I'd like to take this time to ask all 3*+ rosters to NOT play in this event just so the people that could use these rewards have a better shot.

I personally will sit this out and root for the aarons, amandas, and pamizards of mpq

Unknown

Arogntbastrd wrote:

kroateon wrote:

not worth it unless u got a great 3star team already
its like 150hp for a heroic token

I disagree. If I enter this and win it's still kinda useless. OK I'd get some ISO but I wouldn't get any thing I need from any tokens even if I won. "Red dd, woo! Wait...oh... "

If someone like my man Aaron here joins and does half decent. Maybe gets 2 or 3 heroics out of it on top of the iso. Not so bad. Then if he ends up winning. Even better

I'd like to take this time to ask all 3*+ rosters to NOT play in this event just so the people that could use these rewards have a better shot.

I personally will sit this out and root for the Aaron's, Amanda's, and Pamizard's of MPQ

#4 in my bracket with 353 and only 60 pts behind leader. But I don't recognize ANY on the names I see on the top 10 list in my bracket.

Unknown

HawkeyeSucks wrote:

KevinMark wrote:

That "pack" is kinda misleading there.

extremely misleading, not kind of. The way it's worded says 150coins gets you a 10-pack at the very least. Can anyone confirm this before I waste my coins

"Cover pack" replaced "token" for some time now. And you can look at the prizes before entering -- even the entry button is now really just a button not the whole screen...

IMO this tournament looks quite sensible for people who find heroic tokens usable.

Those looking for *** token better be cautious, top2 is not that easy and will need shields, hard to tell how many, and if many people not needing even ***s enter like we hear about psychopatic, chances go down...

I would have run this NOT having tile "Elite" but something implying it's for intermediates, ** roster people. It's definitely not like the previous elites with no brackets and offering all covers or ton of HP.

Unknown

Ghast wrote:

Lightning Round tokens have (had?) three stars on the front too - but they do not guarantee 3* pulls. My HP is not going anywhere until I get confirmation that the Elite tokens guarantee a 3* minimum.

They had *** and droipped only ***s. Since nerf they are marked ** correctly. I think the prize ladder is still broken though, you get 2 heroics then 1 LR token that is much worse value by any count.