Marvel Puzzle Quest R301 Release Notes (Week of April 22nd)

ThisisClemFandango

@S0kun...... cough, lookoverhere
Oh hello fancy seeing you here, any update on sinister news?

slidecage

@S0kun said:
“Blazing Hot Fries…”

• LAST CHANCE VIP SALE - Grab VIP for 50% before the sale is over! (4/23)

• Blast back to the 90s with this exclusive Mister Sinister costume inspired by Marvel Studios’ X-Men 97! (4/25)

• Golden Week Sale! Watch out for an epic week of sales during our Golden Week celebration. (4/29)

• Get ready to celebrate AAPI Month in MPQ with plenty of limited-time rewards inspired by your favorite AAPI characters! (5/1)

  Thank you for playing!

MPQ 301

**** forgot to get vip last weekend

Waddles_Pines

@slidecage said:

@Waddles_Pines said:
Get ready to celebrate AAPI Month in MPQ with plenty of limited-time rewards inspired by your favorite AAPI characters! (5/1)

Will there actually be AAPI characters featured, or will this repeat the yearly mishandling of new years 🤷‍♂️

Lol thought it said aarp

Old Woman Jubilation 👍

ArchusMonk

@slidecage said:

@S0kun said:
“Blazing Hot Fries…”

• LAST CHANCE VIP SALE - Grab VIP for 50% before the sale is over! (4/23)

• Blast back to the 90s with this exclusive Mister Sinister costume inspired by Marvel Studios’ X-Men 97! (4/25)

• Golden Week Sale! Watch out for an epic week of sales during our Golden Week celebration. (4/29)

• Get ready to celebrate AAPI Month in MPQ with plenty of limited-time rewards inspired by your favorite AAPI characters! (5/1)

  Thank you for playing!

MPQ 301

**** forgot to get vip last weekend

It’s still half off right now, and I’m pretty sure it will be until the end of the month.

liminal_lad

Also Jubilee is AAPI so it fits in another way as well.

Jinx

So we don’t even get a preview before the rebalance goes live? That’s kind of ****.

S0kun

@ThisisClemFandango said:
@S0kun...... cough, lookoverhere
Oh hello fancy seeing you here, any update on sinister news?

Unfortunately I'm missing a few numbers from his purple ability so I won't be able to post this until tomorrow. Here's a preview of his black and blue abilities though.

ThisisClemFandango

Wowzers now that's a power upgrade

qandols

Hmm, even after updating to 301 his stats does not match what is given here: Black lvl 5: prevent 6661 damage and deal 8235 trap damage. Blue: deal 22303 damage. Level 550, didn't see that.

rainkingucd

The purple now does damage and steals, where it was steal only before. The base blue damage is now equivalent to what was nearly max possible blue damage before, without the trap tile, plusit gets the bonus damage of the black or purple traps now.

and modern match (+200)/health(+20K)

@S0kun : the Behold "Before" stats look like a copy paste error from the "After" section. It used to read:

Mister Sinister's plans can only be comprehended b a single mind: his own! Creates 3 Trap Tiles that deal xx damage for each friendly Trap tile on the board (including these tiles; up to 8 tiles) when matched by either team

Jinx

The update is live already. The numbers increase is great, but the biggest difference is that his trap tiles only activated when matched before. Now they activate any time they leave the board. That was the change he always needed to be viable. Okoye will work well with him if she boosts his trap tile damage. Wonder if Wong’s red would do damage when it hits the traps.

Jinx

Wouldn’t get supernatural bonus from Wong, but his red should work on traps and you would get strike tile damage. Maybe Kamala as a third to triple dip on the damage, buff and fortify strikes and use green to do the same thing as Wong’s red.

Jinx

Just used that team on a wave node with mindless ones and it worked remarkably well, but an odd thing happened. After the first wave was downed, Sinister stopped producing trap tiles.
Looking at the powers again though, I may not have had the black I needed and I was probably wiping the enemy team before the goons could even fire a power.

Jinx

I was worried that the special tiles from Wong and Kamala would override the traps, but that didn’t happen. Great team.

bluewolf

Ran him vs a Pol/BRB/mthor team. While the protects etc cause dmg when they overwrite his traps, Thor won’t go after them on a priority basis as they are not seen as specials. And they will fill the board with stuff via passives so that by the time an active is fired, and then they do overwrite a trap, the dmg is heavily mitigated.

He’s much better but still best against submeta teams.

LavaManLee

Is Sinister better than he was yesterday? Definitely. Will I use him when not required? Probably not. But kudos to fixing one of the least playable 5*s.

Jinx

With that Kamala and Wong team, they are passively generating tons of AP and it doesn’t take long before they are doing massive damage.

Seph1roth5

@Jinx said:
So we don’t even get a preview before the rebalance goes live? That’s kind of ****.

Don't need info early lol. Was it a hard decision whether to spend a lot of CP yesterday or save it today for the nothing he's in?

bluewolf

@Seph1roth5 said:

@Jinx said:
So we don’t even get a preview before the rebalance goes live? That’s kind of ****.

Don't need info early lol. Was it a hard decision whether to spend a lot of CP yesterday or save it today for the nothing he's in?

Devs pretty obviously figured out that rebalances don't change people's minds about using CP (especially since if they do a new store, there'll probably be 2 snoozers in it with the new and improved toon). So they just do cash offers, presumably people jump on the costume fairly often and a 5* champ level along with 2000 HP.

It was too bad they didn't get the info out early but yeah, it made no difference for anyone's choices really. They were out of the office on Tues and Wed so it's understandable.

Wolvie171

The in-game preview is up for the 2nd off season PVP, which usually includes the new 3* for placement rewards...

Kinda surprised this one isn't the 5* version