thenoblegamer wrote: Although I'm not really sure how to contribute to the group now.
Kappei wrote: Good placements in the tourneys FTW! Honestly, that's the only way I've been contributing to the alliance (sorry guys), but I managed to get 700+ points in three out of four of the last tourneys, I'm working hard with what I have...
thenoblegamer wrote: I did manage to get 940 during FD, although that's just because for the first time I had some HP to burn on shields. I guess I overdid it a little. I'd love to hear from the team how they get higher points in pvp without spending too much on shields.
Kappei wrote: More than 940? Never got even close to that
Kappei wrote: - I don't enter at the last moment as many others in these forums suggest. Usually those that suggest this already have a 5-blue spidey or OBW that lets them to skip the Health pack limit. Also many alliances nowadays coordinate the timings to enter for their members to avoid them stepping on each other's toes.
Kappei wrote: If you're in Europe or Asia shielding becomes more a necessity, unless you want to go sleepless to win a tournament. In any case I've always used just one shield, 8hr or 3hr depending on how sleepy I was (seriously, right now tourneys end at 6 a.m.). Generally 700 points is attainable with a good L85 roster and it is also a good place to shield to get at least a top 10, unless it's a super-competitive bracket.
thenoblegamer wrote: Is it possible for our alliance to coordinate this? Although I'm not sure if they're all active in the forums. Btw, I'd love to have a cool sig with our alliance. I'm not much of an artist but I'd give it a whirl this weekend.
thenoblegamer wrote: Ugh, we didn't reach top 100 in First Avengers. The last time I checked, we were at top 80. I really wanted GSBW's purple ability. I guess I should've pushed a little bit more.
Kappei wrote: I don't know if I got bad luck, but for me this last tournament has been brutal. I managed to get a top 5 with 708 points, but it took me a couple of hours fighting through retaliations. At one point I almost thought about giving up, since after getting 31 points from a fight, I returned to the main hub only to discover I've been hit by 5 retaliations, making me drop 82 points... Probably the experience has been the same for all of us, since last time I checked we were at position #72. After shielding for the night I've been hit 8 more times, while usually in other tournaments I've been hit 2-3 times, if at all.
thenoblegamer wrote: I'm down to 375 HP, so I'm not sure if I want to push as much effort into Hollowpoint Kiss since I think I'm more interested in getting Lazy Daken than Psylocke.
Also, I'm not sure if I did my tanking correctly, but the queue I got did have lower leveled teams. But most of them had less than 23 points, I ended up having to skip a lot. Did I throw too many fights in the shield training? Anyway, hopefully we'll place fairly well in Unstable Iso-8.
Kappei wrote: Well, you already have Psylocke, so you're not giving up a roster slot if you get her covers in this tournament. Also, you probably shouldn't use that much HP to get in top 10. From what I've seen we're using the same core team (C.Storm/MN Mags/MN Thor) and I have no problems getting even at the end of a tournament. I used to be able to use just a 3h shield to get in top 10, but now I have to resort to a 8h one, unless I want to stay awake till 3 a.m., and still I get my 150 HP back at the end.
thenoblegamer wrote: Btw, which team up do you use in PvP's with a featured character? I usually run x / C. Storm / MN Mags except when Mags is down, then I substitute Thor.
Kappei wrote: It mostly depends on the featured character. Usually it's Storm/Mag for me too, but lately I'm trying to find some variations, mostly because with that composition we're sitting ducks in defense. In the last two (LazyCap & GSBW) I've been trying something different: Thor+M.Storm, playing exclusively in the desert stage. Still weak in defense, but it compensates with stupidly easy victories while attacking. In the current one I've also started racking up defensive victories, evidently GSBW sinergizes well with Thor and Storm... I'm imagining a lot of frustrated players caught in a sequence of stupid, unavoidable cascades followed by a couple of Call the Storm in the face, but probably it's just my imagination running free