Some highlights: Combined Arms not worth the trouble just for some Rags; Hawkeye’s Speed Shot is glorious; did well in the Deadpool event; A Little Off the Top does 10 damage.

Four 4* characters for what amounted to 150 HP. Plus effort. Not a bad deal but I could’ve saved 75 HP and a bunch of grinding if I had just bought a 12-hour shield right away. Instead I had to recover from a 150 point attack spree.

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erikpeter: Anyone else feel like this was pretty ridiculous? On the plus side, I got a level 351 Supernova team-up and a Psylocke black out of it; not to mention a serious feeling of accomplishment. Yay for level 100 Hood and level 256 Punisher. 140 Thor helped too. And boosts. And a high level team up.

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Went Camping, Missed Deadpool

I won the Unstable ISO-8 event. My X-force has 5 red now, but I still haven’t invested any levels into him yet.

The event was pretty grueling, and by the end most of my nodes were level 395. I haven’t ever rocked 395 before, but thanks to Cmags (who’s only level 80, but whatever) and Patch I was able to handle it, using two blue boosts every match. All in all it felt like way too much work. I’m going to take it easy for a while.

In PVP I lose all the time, and it’s frustrating, and time consuming, and I haven’t managed a top 25 win in the last four events or so. My plan now is to do a few missions with a easy-to-beat team and hopefully get beaten a lot without making much progress until I get placed into an easier tier. My only usable (e.g. not Daredevil) 166 is Punisher and unless I feel like rocking CMags all the time, which gets old, all of my competition is much much better. Too many Hulks.

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Oh, hey I have been having trouble in PVP lately because, as it turns out, I don’t use CMags. I started teaming him up with Punisher (only level 60 right now, but he has level 5 blue) and DEAR ME! He is unbelievable. I won a game on turn 2. I barely take any damage. He’s not as good on defense, especially at such a low level, so I do get beaten a lot, but hopefully that will lower my MMR some. It’s win-win. At least until they nerf him. It’s times like these I wish I could refund all the ISO-8 I wasted on Daredevil. Since PVP was giving me trouble, for the past couple tournaments I’ve tried to do a late-game push. But it backfired; both times I jumped into the tail end of a bracket and I couldn’t even break 200th. Which is too bad, I really would have liked to get another Falcon cover (mine is currently 0/3/0). So in Top Gun I started early and hope I can just grind up to a decent score, thanks to CMags, maybe use Daredevil for defense later on. It still might backfire but at least I’ll get a heroic token out of it, and maybe soften the Season 3 anticlimax (I thought I might get in the top 25 a while ago, now I doubt I’ll get in the top 100). Simulator is going fine. after finishes of 1st/3rd and 5th/2nd I purposefully got into an active bracket for the third round, which will be harder to win, but should get me more points toward the main event (I’m currently in 5th). I’m not going to hold my breath for a top 2 placement or a Laken cover at 150k, but you never know.

Healing and Heat I’ve been meaning to rant a bit about how the recent change to healing is probably good for the game. But I guess there’s not too much to say. The devs correctly identified why OBW was so overused, and dealt with it without spot-nerfing her.

In the context of a single match, healing is balanced, but the utility of being able to play many successive matches was why OBW/Spidey was so overplayed.

Healing through matches borks the adaptive difficulty, which leads to players stuck in “way too hard” mode.

I’m already seeing way fewer OBW, but perhaps that’s because I’m stuck in 141 hell thanks to my recent successes. I dominated the previous round of Heroic Mode. I was in first by a few thousand points. If I can keep that up I might stay top 10 and get all three Sentry covers, which would be nice since I missed him during season 2. Sacrifice is bad enough when the strike tile gets placed in an out of reach corner. Combined with World Rupture… yikes. As mentioned, I’m entering 141 hell. I just got my 13th Punisher cover, which is my second to the 141 cap (Frank is currently 130) after Daredevil. (Now that I think about it, Patch is sitting at 112 but has 13 covers.) And so I do pretty well and face mostly 141 teams and it is hell. And no, no one else is rolling Daredevil. Because he’s pretty shitty. In the Army of One event I skipped 10 matches in a row to try to find a non-powered-up-to-212 Punisher to fight, to no avail. Lots of 141 Hulks. Unless I can stun him going down he’s bound to do at least 5k damage to my team, which means every other fight requires 3 heal packs. I stay the hell away from Dakens. So I roll Punisher and Thor (0/5/5, lvl 115) and swap in DD or GSW or even OBW. And take a lot of damage. It feels like my game is a little slow right now, and doesn’t help when enemy cascades generate 10 AP of every color, which happens too often. This afternoon, I actually had the AI cascade into 5-matches in four different colors on the first turn. I lost that one, unsurprisingly. Hood has been screwing me over lately, stealing just enough to turn a swift victory into a clusterfuck nailbiter. The best was when I matched my 12th yellow to drop him and fuel Thunder Strike, but he ended up with 2 HP left and then stole a yellow AP and popped Twin Pistols, turning the game against me. Maybe I should level mine up. I think he’s got 5 yellow now.

Rolling right along I failed miserably in the Torch event, spend 150 on shields and still only reached 35th which was enough to earn a GSW cover I didn’t need. Placed 8th in the Juggernaut Hard Mode, which netted me one of each She-Hulk cover. She-Hulk is dumb, but she might be a cool character to play with. Juggernaut was OK in that I used a bunch of characters I never use, primarily IM40 and Hawkeye (Modern). GSW and Storm (Modern) also got a lot of play; at the end when I just needed points wherever I could find them, rushing to 11 blue (esp. using IM40’s recharge) for Wind Storm was the fastest way to win. I spent 600 on heal packs to stay in the top 10, seems worth it. I don’t know if just seemed that way playing a lot of matches fast, but I had some really bad luck. I had a couple games where I never saw a 4-match, while the AI was cascading over and over. When I was doing well, Juggernaut always seemed to headbutt the turn before I could kill him, wasting hit points. One time I switched to another character because he was going to be killed next turn by Hawkeye’s countdown tile, and he got 26 Green AP (and tons of other colors too) from one Unstoppable Crash cascade. Didn’t go well from there… Ares mopped up. I’m doing well in season 3. If I keep it up I will probably get at least one 10x cover pack at the end (if it ended right now I’d get 30x). Unfortunately the GSW tournament that just started gets me Daredevil covers I don’t need, but at least that probably means DD is the upcoming featured hero, which will be nice to see him powered up to 212. My LazyThor is 0/5/5 (currently 105). How weird is that!? He’s pretty awesome though and I don’t need to worry about him “wasting” red AP on Mjolnir’s Might, as an AI. Xforce is up to 2/4/1. Still not useable but thanks to the recent heal nerf, maybe better for PvP (not using up heal packs). I think I might try using Patch again…