Kahmon said: Dogface said: Got Bishop on 9. Still time to get the 10th, so BH'd him immediately. Bishop is in placement rewards for Hearts of Darkness, so presumably will be in scl 7-9 progression rewards of Strange Sights.
Dogface said: Got Bishop on 9. Still time to get the 10th, so BH'd him immediately.
HoundofShadow said: 100% FTP here and I will have Bishop with at least 11 covers by the end of Strange Sight. This is without BH, without lucky pull and without getting the extra cover from his SHIELD Training.Not counting Alliance placement rewards and SHIELD Training for Bishop covers, there will be a total of 21 covers that could be earned...:1) 2 covers from PvP placements 2) 1 cover from PvP progression3) 12 covers from PvE placements4) 4 covers from PvE progression5) 1 cover from previous SHIELD Simulator progression reward (if I'm not wrong)6) 1 cover from 12 Days of Marvel... by the end of upcoming Strange Sight PvE. The catch is, I did play competitively to get him to 11 covers. Two inspirational quotes to motivate those who are feeling down:1) Failure is the stepping stone to success, as long as you learn from it.2) Staying on top is more difficult than getting there.Next stop: Prowler?
bluewolf said: @n25philly Are you wrong, exactly? No.The game is designed to tread a line between giving you rewards through play - feel like you are making progress - while creating tiers of play/rewards for people to try for and therefore feel like they accomplished something. So top players probably have Bishop champed.But if you somehow pushed aside rewards - which are the only real way to accelerate progress in a character other than bonus heroes - you are faced with the major problem of dilution.Bishop was the 72nd or so regularly available 4. Which meant that if you didn't even get 1 cover from PVE (which isn't all that hard, but put that aside) you'd need to make about 720 pulls from a Legendary store (without bonusing him) to have 10 covers. Or get lucky a lot from Heroic pulls. Coming along to this game new feels more and more like a complete exercise in futility if you ever hope to be competitive, unless you are willing to spend hundreds of dollars on it.It may be that you have a lot of classic 4's well covered and find it unfair that a new one is needed now. And that's a legitimate complaint, but this is a way the developers make you feel pressure to maybe spend some money and make up for a missed cover. It may well be that the difference between what you have and would need is far too large to consider throwing money at, but that is what the game is.
n25philly said: The thing is with the old hybrid system we had I likely don't pull enough covers to get him to level 209, but I at least feel there is a chance. With full dilution back it does the opposite of what you say. It feels so impossible and futile I see no reason to spend a penny chasing it.
CNash said: The flavour text on "Ruler of Limbo" / "The Return" makes it sound like she should go invisible while her repeater is out. Otherwise Magik "goes to Limbo"... but the enemy team can follow her there and whack her anyway?
spidyjedi84 said: Quebbster said: I like the synergy of the SHIELD training characters. Bishop will generate blue, which Iron Fist can then use to fortify Grocket's strike tiles and generate AP. Except the first round of SHIELD training is two of those characters and then Magik, to give you an idea how she fares with a team...
Quebbster said: I like the synergy of the SHIELD training characters. Bishop will generate blue, which Iron Fist can then use to fortify Grocket's strike tiles and generate AP.
KGB said: n25philly said: The thing is with the old hybrid system we had I likely don't pull enough covers to get him to level 209, but I at least feel there is a chance. With full dilution back it does the opposite of what you say. It feels so impossible and futile I see no reason to spend a penny chasing it. I'm a F2P player (well I have VIP but the $ for that comes from Google Surveys so technically I'm not spending my money) and I have him at 10 covers
Quebbster said: spidyjedi84 said: Quebbster said: I like the synergy of the SHIELD training characters. Bishop will generate blue, which Iron Fist can then use to fortify Grocket's strike tiles and generate AP. Except the first round of SHIELD training is two of those characters and then Magik, to give you an idea how she fares with a team... Yeah, that's one node. But to get the Magik cover you need to play Three nodes with Bishop, Fist and Grocket, so there is still plenty of opportunity to enjoy the synergy. Heck, I might play that team in the other nodes where only one of them is required...
Dogface said: My last spending was on December 2017, and i got Bishop at 9 covers (no BH). So it's not impossible to get him to 10 before Shield Training as FTP. Considering that he's only recently available, i consider all covers i got for him as gotten through play and luck of draw. I play PVE for placement (T50 SCL7, so no 4* there) and usually don't bother with PVP (some last minute fights in hopefully a slacker bracket).My other account which has him at 7 covers without a penny spent.
skittledaddy said: Run Magik with C4ge and each time ANYONE (either team) fires a power you're sending out Protect tiles. Then they start fortifying themselves to no end.Then fire C4ge's Yellow and you're REALLY in businessNot fast, but you're hardly going to take any damage the entire time.
bbigler said: How about 5*Hawkeye + Magik + Bishop..........Hawkeye fires off a blue arrow, you get 2 fortified protects.....next turn Bishop removes the 2 protects to give you 3 Blue AP......Hawkeye CD tile resolves giving you 3 Blue + 2 Red AP.......to start the cycle all over again (without matching any more blue). It's a true AP engine. Of course, Hawkeye + Coulson is a better engine, but the one above has more defense.