Can't ascend Viper

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  • Yepyep
    Yepyep Posts: 991 Critical Contributor

    She has a unique kit. She fits in with the Hydra folks. Integral, really. Pretty straightforward that one might her to be strong with them. The notion of me being a "PvE person" is almost infinitely comical, however; love that -- it's like being awarded a FIFA Peace Prize, a true honor.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,957 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Yepyep said:
    She has a unique kit. She fits in with the Hydra folks. Integral, really. Pretty straightforward that one might her to be strong with them. The notion of me being a "PvE person" is almost infinitely comical, however; love that -- it's like being awarded a FIFA Peace Prize, a true honor.

    It's stupid but it's always like this.

    Since you've apparently never tried to ascend a 4* quickly, I was trying to work out why you picked this one, and @bluewolf offered a convenient potential explanation. I have no idea who you are.

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,857 Chairperson of the Boards

    I'm hoping we can ascend her tomorrow. But not holding out too much hope. We should have a 5* announcement for tomorrow also and that isn't anywhere that I can see either. Communication has been bad but lately it has been non-existent.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,957 Chairperson of the Boards

    Went back and checked. Maker was released August 7 and became eligible to ascend October 18th.

  • Scofie
    Scofie GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 1,731 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Borstock said:

    @Scofie said:
    I think making characters ascendable was a manual process. It's not the first time it's been missed. Hopefully things will improve from January...

    So, this is literally an "office is closed" issue? There's no one working now who can press that button?

    "I don't know" is the honest answer to that. I assume someone is somewhere pressing buttons but I don't know who or how many there are, if they even do exist. My point was that it will hopefully get more reliable from January. A bit of stability would be nice...

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,774 Chairperson of the Boards

    I dug a bit through the ascended winners and losers thread and found one case where Sidewinder was clearly ascendable on 3/20/25 after releasing 2/20/25 - based on when someone posted his numbers.

    A couple more seemed to be about 6 weeks from release (Aikku and Moonstone) - possibly a little sooner? I can't know exactly, going by when someone posted ascended numbers is what I have to work with.

    In the end it's not like proving it's taking too long, or not proving it, changes the outcome as far as what the devs actually do.

    Viper released on October 30 so if 6 weeks is some kind of guideline then maybe she'll be ascendable....tomorrow? We can hope.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,957 Chairperson of the Boards

    @bluewolf said:
    I dug a bit through the ascended winners and losers thread and found one case where Sidewinder was clearly ascendable on 3/20/25 after releasing 2/20/25 - based on when someone posted his numbers.

    A couple more seemed to be about 6 weeks from release (Aikku and Moonstone) - possibly a little sooner? I can't know exactly, going by when someone posted ascended numbers is what I have to work with.

    In the end it's not like proving it's taking too long, or not proving it, changes the outcome as far as what the devs actually do.

    Viper released on October 30 so if 6 weeks is some kind of guideline then maybe she'll be ascendable....tomorrow? We can hope.

    Yeah, I dug through there too, but usually by the time I have them ready to go they're already eligible. I don't do swaps or hoards, just favorite and pull as I go. Maker was one I remembered for sure. I don't remember having to wait for anybody else, but I might have.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,774 Chairperson of the Boards

    Viper is not, in fact, ascendable tomorrow.

    The wait continues.

  • Krazy
    Krazy Posts: 95 Match Maker

    Viper's data just got updated to "Can Ascend" = true

  • Pantera236
    Pantera236 Posts: 653 Critical Contributor

    https://photos.app.goo.gl/BVbRvp3V7rSBG1Hq7
    Hope this link works. I swapped a bunch of covers to get Viper ascended and her with Red Skull and Zemo are, something else.

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,857 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Pantera236 said:
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/BVbRvp3V7rSBG1Hq7
    Hope this link works. I swapped a bunch of covers to get Viper ascended and her with Red Skull and Zemo are, something else.

    I have them all at 550 but feel a bit stupid as I have no idea the best way to play them. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks.

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 3,193 Chairperson of the Boards

    @LavaManLee said:

    @Pantera236 said:
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/BVbRvp3V7rSBG1Hq7
    Hope this link works. I swapped a bunch of covers to get Viper ascended and her with Red Skull and Zemo are, something else.

    I have them all at 550 but feel a bit stupid as I have no idea the best way to play them. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks.

    Do what they did in the video maybe?

  • Pantera236
    Pantera236 Posts: 653 Critical Contributor

    @Borstock said:

    @LavaManLee said:

    @Pantera236 said:
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/BVbRvp3V7rSBG1Hq7
    Hope this link works. I swapped a bunch of covers to get Viper ascended and her with Red Skull and Zemo are, something else.

    I have them all at 550 but feel a bit stupid as I have no idea the best way to play them. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks.

    Do what they did in the video maybe?

    Yeah, basically lol. Tinkerer and Ebony Maw is to start with black for Zemos black power 1st then refreshment cart on Viper to give 1 purple AP for every power fired so you can fire her purple repeatedly. With any left over black fire her black and if you get red or blue Red Skull can use that. Stuff just dies after all that and anything left over could be taken out with Vipers green. If you couldn't see her green would've done at least 100k aoe.

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,857 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Borstock said:

    @LavaManLee said:

    @Pantera236 said:
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/BVbRvp3V7rSBG1Hq7
    Hope this link works. I swapped a bunch of covers to get Viper ascended and her with Red Skull and Zemo are, something else.

    I have them all at 550 but feel a bit stupid as I have no idea the best way to play them. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks.

    Do what they did in the video maybe?

    It wasn't clear what the link was for nor did the post say the link was a video of how to use them. So, thanks.

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,857 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 15 December 2025, 00:34

    @Pantera236 said:

    @Borstock said:

    @LavaManLee said:

    @Pantera236 said:
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/BVbRvp3V7rSBG1Hq7
    Hope this link works. I swapped a bunch of covers to get Viper ascended and her with Red Skull and Zemo are, something else.

    I have them all at 550 but feel a bit stupid as I have no idea the best way to play them. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks.

    Do what they did in the video maybe?

    Yeah, basically lol. Tinkerer and Ebony Maw is to start with black for Zemos black power 1st then refreshment cart on Viper to give 1 purple AP for every power fired so you can fire her purple repeatedly. With any left over black fire her black and if you get red or blue Red Skull can use that. Stuff just dies after all that and anything left over could be taken out with Vipers green. If you couldn't see her green would've done at least 100k aoe.

    Thanks for the writeup! Appreciated.

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