someone got 1000 HP!?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 22:19 (nine years ago)
Was that me? It was 1000 ISO. I think I've gotten 100 HP, though, but yeah, the ad rewards are completely random.
― Meighton Leeester (Leee), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 23:26 (nine years ago)
Iceman is probably my co-favorite 4* in the game along with Cyclops. They're definitely better than Howard and Carnage, though it depends on how many covers you have there.
― Meighton Leeester (Leee), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 23:28 (nine years ago)
Ghost Rider is mostly useful in boss fights, but only if you have his black at 4 (borderline usable at 3).
only 2 howard covers and only 1 carnage cover
― Mordy, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 23:35 (nine years ago)
Iceman rules. I have him at 1/5/1 and he's capable of eliminating horrifying characters by himself (hi dere boosted Rulk/Hulkbuster)
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 05:43 (nine years ago)
Just wait till you get 5 green for him.
― Meighton Leeester (Leee), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 06:41 (nine years ago)
Iceman is useful at 0/3/0 and amazing at 5/5/3.I am trying to quit this game again. I am 3 days clean.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 07:05 (nine years ago)
I am not trying to quit, not at all, but I don't have time right now. I'd have liked to get those Thing covers (in the PVE and PVP) but it ain't gonna happen. He's not a priority for me but I want all the 4 star covers I can get.
Any thoughts on the IW buff?
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 10:28 (nine years ago)
that blast damage is bananas. i wonder if her bubbles and quicksilver's frozen tiles still get along with each other...
i have her at 8 covers i think so i might boost her a bit to try her out
― jingo unchained (Will M.), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 15:13 (nine years ago)
I have to check, think I have her under leveled at 11 or 12 covers
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 16:53 (nine years ago)
i guess the buff isn't on yet, mine's at 4/2/4 and still looks exactlyu the same. jsut as well bc i'm saving my iso to get my hulkbuster to 270! will be my second maxed 4* :D
― jingo unchained (Will M.), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 18:20 (nine years ago)
At some point I decided to stop spending ISO until I could either a) max a character or b) buff the required 4* for DDQ to the point where I could easily win
After blowing through a couple of SHIELD levels and recycling some 2*s so I could rebuild them, I was sitting on a max of about 260K; I just recently rechamped CStorm and threw 100K at Jean to get her to 240 to see if that would affect her health in Balance of Power (it didn't) and am now hovering around 100K.
This feels like a drastically different game now that I'm not paralyzed due to lack of ISO.
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 18:30 (nine years ago)
That's how you know you've made it to the 4* transition. Welcome. :\
IW buff doesn't roll out till tomorrow with the new season. (Also, that's when Dr. Strang3 gets added to tokens, which is why I have 27 Heroics and 8 Elites hoarded.)
― Meighton Leeester (Leee), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 18:51 (nine years ago)
suddenly regretting merrily ditching all those IW covers
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 18:53 (nine years ago)
I guess I'll champ her? I've had her at max covers for probably two years.
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 18:59 (nine years ago)
one thing that would be really, really nice would be if there was an option to share covers with members of your alliance
like if you are building a 4* and you have maxed out a power but you keep pulling that cover to the exclusion of the others, if there was an option to toss that out to the alliance or someone in the alliance rather than just selling it or letting it expire
OR if you could pay ISO/hero points to transform a cover from one color to another, that would also be nice
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 19:13 (nine years ago)
signed, someone who is trying to rebuild 2* Bullseye and is stuck at 5-5-1 with no green covers in sight, who also ran into this when rebuilding 2* Johnny Storm but luckily grabbed that final black cover before the three reds that accumulated expired
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 19:14 (nine years ago)
That would be great for players! But would totally tank impulse purchases.
― Meighton Leeester (Leee), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 19:41 (nine years ago)
oh I know it will never be implemented
this is why I could never work on a freemium game, I'd be too inclined to actually make it work rather than intentionally break it so ppl have to pay to progress
― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 19:50 (nine years ago)
i am at 5/1/3 deadpool and have already torched one red, and didn't open the deadpool vault because there was only a red, so i guess they lost a lil bit of money there
― jingo unchained (Will M.), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 19:51 (nine years ago)
same here, I just need a purple to max xfdp (at 5-2-5). have one red in my rewards queue now & I just got a 3 star dp that will give me ANOTHER red xfdp.
I'm saving cps to buy that last cover, on leeeeeeeee's advice, but it'll be a while, probably too long to use at least the first of those extra xfdp covers.
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 20:09 (nine years ago)
ack i've gotta stop opening heroic packs bc they keep giving me 4* chars I don't have spots for. i just drew a 4* jean grey (purple cover). so now i have 1 cover each of iceman (expires in 4 days), ghost rider (9 days), cyclops (12 days) and jean grey (14 days).
― Mordy, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 23:16 (nine years ago)
time to pay $$$
― Nhex, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 23:25 (nine years ago)
ooooor delete devil dinosaur, star-lord, howard the duck and carnage and roster them all?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 23:33 (nine years ago)
i've been saving up deadpool tokens and i have 20 savory tokens and the current vault has a yellow invisible woman which iirc can be used to beat the 4* challenge when it comes up (and i have a iw cover already and it just got buffed?) -- what do u guys think, should i spend them all and try to get them (with the risk that i have less than zero spots in case i draw the miles)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 23:37 (nine years ago)
lol Mordy I've stopped opening tokens too, not for roster-space reasons but because I've got quite a few 13-cover 4*s without the ISO to champ them.
Incidentally my current token stockpile:Elite: 10Heroic: 26Legendary: 2Savory: 16Sweet: 71
― Meighton Leeester (Leee), Thursday, 17 November 2016 01:03 (nine years ago)
To your actual questions: In your situation, Iceman, Cyclops, and Jean are among the best 4*s, you should try to accommodate them on your roster. The GR cover is expendable, sell it for sweet ISO.
I'd sell off:DDHowardCarnage
DD and Howard are both gimmicky 4*s and their covers are only available at certain times during the year. Between the two of them, Howard does have more useful powers, but compared to Iceman, Cyclops, or Jean? He's definitely not worth keeping in a roster crunch. Carnage is probably expendable for you too (he used to be useful as a PVP scarecrow, but I've heard that's not the case anymore).
Keep Star-Lord. He's pretty good now as an AP accelerator.
Lastly, I would not open your tacos right now -- with only 20 banked, the odds of getting that yellow IW are very remote. (I believe the number of tacos you should hoard should be around 80-100 if you want a better than 50/50 chance of nabbing a specific cover from your vault.)
― Meighton Leeester (Leee), Thursday, 17 November 2016 01:14 (nine years ago)
thk u :)
― Mordy, Thursday, 17 November 2016 01:16 (nine years ago)
This is something dumb that I should know but: if I hoard taco tokens will they be used for the same vault I have now? Because my current vault has 2 four stars I don't care about presently.
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 17 November 2016 03:38 (nine years ago)
hang onto them, when there's a new vault you can use those tokens on, you can shoot for the new pack of 4*s. just spend em when the vault is active (if it's in the stockpiled mode, it's straight random and i think includes the last pack of 4*s)
― jingo unchained (Will M.), Thursday, 17 November 2016 03:55 (nine years ago)
ok excellent!
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 17 November 2016 12:40 (nine years ago)
I've got quite a few 13-cover 4*s without the ISO to champ them.
― Meighton Leeester (Leee)
Same here. Right now I've got Bullseye, Beast, Colossus and Gamora, with 11-14 days to make the ISO to champ them. Any suggestions for how I should prioritize them, considering I might not earn enough to do all 4?
― Mike Dixn, Tuesday, 22 November 2016 17:57 (nine years ago)
I assume you're talking 3*s?
My first thought would be this priority list:
Bullseye > Beast > Gamora > Colossus
Bullseye in particular can be hilarious if you pair him with someone who buffs special tiles and you use him to deliver death blows; you can flood the board with strike tiles surprisingly quickly, which will also power his purple and make it more likely you can continue flooding the board with strike tiles
Beast is great when buffed, mediocre unbuffed
As I understand it, Gamora is a good support character but I personally find her useless
I love the concept of Colossus and sometimes his yellow tank power is helpful for shielding fragile damage bombers but ultimately his powers are too expensive to rely upon
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 18:01 (nine years ago)
I'd like Colossus a lot more if his protect power was blue or red so I could pair him with a glass cannon and IM40. Are there even any yellow-generating characters?
― mint challop (Will M.), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 18:06 (nine years ago)
Kingpin
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 18:08 (nine years ago)
(of course if you're using Kingpin I don't see using the generated yellow to power Colossus)
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 18:09 (nine years ago)
2 and 3 Thor also kind of generates yellow, but not reliably. 4* Cyclops might generate yellow, but that'd be kind of pointless.
― Meighton Leeester (Leee), Tuesday, 22 November 2016 19:19 (nine years ago)
Anyone try out MTG:PQ to see if it's any good?
― Nhex, Saturday, 26 November 2016 00:32 (nine years ago)
champed my DPXF and 4 Jean this weekend! have seven champed 4 stars now.
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 26 November 2016 20:33 (nine years ago)
I have 3 (XFW, Flaptain, IW)
― ¶ (DJP), Saturday, 26 November 2016 20:35 (nine years ago)
Flaptain would be nice. I guess I'll champ IW too.
I have XFW, XFDP, 4 Jean, 4 Thor, Miles Morales, Star-Lord, and X-23.
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 26 November 2016 21:39 (nine years ago)
Flaptain would be nice.
I just got clued in to this hilarious combo: Flaptain, SWitch, and Jean.
― Meighton Leeester (Leee), Saturday, 26 November 2016 23:02 (nine years ago)
Dan, how do you like the buffed IW? Have you had a chance to flex her new muscles yet?
― Meighton Leeester (Leee), Monday, 28 November 2016 20:31 (nine years ago)
She isn't essential yet BUT she is much, much more useful than she used to be. Her powers now make sense; her yellow can give a brief respite to your entire team and her blue/green combo now goes after opponents' special tiles in a much more predictable manner than before AND gives you strike tiles to boot.
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 28 November 2016 20:43 (nine years ago)
I drew my first OML red yesterday! now 2-2-1, with the black daily reward coming soon. he is now usable!
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 28 November 2016 21:30 (nine years ago)
I will say this: the new IW is a gigantic PITA for an underpowered Quake to take down by herself
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 28 November 2016 21:36 (nine years ago)
My Quake is 2/2/4, and I leveled her to 168, and I beat IW in two (undramatic) tries with a bunch of damage boosts.
― Meighton Leeester (Leee), Monday, 28 November 2016 21:38 (nine years ago)
Hmm. Mine is 3/2/3 lvl 168 and I could barely get her down to 50%.
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 28 November 2016 21:41 (nine years ago)
which damage boosts?
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 28 November 2016 21:42 (nine years ago)