Milestone: All of my 2* (except Bag-Man) are Champions.

-J

Excellent!

To be honest those limited characters are not really needed. I waited a good year+ of playing before I had the resources to roster them.

Yes and no.

Early on having them take up a roster spot can be a waste, but later on it is nice to have the 4* ones built up well for those rare times they are an essential PVP character. (But even then you should be fine.)

Speaking of limited characters….
While I am a fan of alternate costumes having no gameplay impact, I would like to see more costumes for Taskmaster and have those costumes add to or replace the power selections he has.
I mean, as it is Taskmaster is frozen in time with a selection of powers that were available when he was released. It would be cool to get some of the newer powers into the mix.
I am thinking that for equity purposes these should be available as champion progression rewards. Maybe even plan ahead for future powers/costumes. Like give him a costume store in his bio page. Instead of earning shards for a 5* he earns widget currency for his store.
Heck, you could probably even do this without the costume, just buy powers directly. They could cost varying amounts. Skuttlebutt costs 300 TM points. Enter the Fray costs 100.

If someone had told me my longest and most frustrating battle would be Yellowjacket vs Florida Loki...

(I did eventually get him.)

-J

The good thing with invisible people is that area of effect powers (and I believe ones that target randomly) hit them.

Got Welcome to SHIELD done for Loki-gator. I used Legion as my third for both Day 2 and 3 of the 5* nodes. I have screen shots of my Day 3 takedown (here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelPuzzl...mments/p6qy2s/) showing the before/after of a 40 minute battle.

I had Legion speced at 5/5/3. With hindsight, my battles may have gone faster if he was 4/5/4. Losing the damage on red and the AP decrease on purple hurts a little, but having blue fortify 3 tiles instead of 2 would have been a huge help.

Also, let your yellow build. While Red solo probably does the most power, over the course of a long match, the computer will amass AP you can use to make the damage from yellow bigger/better than ever.

Battle at Basilica today - anyone remember if Hydro/Molten Man make matches?


EDIT: Yes, they do

I think I was able to get through with the 2 Loki and Throg boosting with Black/Green and the all-for-one boost

SIde note, I'm glad you sent a friend request on FB. I had removed it back in the day when you and one other person were the only 2 folks to get rewards from me ... unfriending you two reset me to random, and I didn't know if refreidnig you would have undone it.

Milestone: Thanks to the SHIELD Level 4 pack today, I have finally cleared all Recruits from the vine with enough HP left for one more slot. I've still got five 3-Stars left to recruit, so I can't get *too* crazy, but at least I can get a dopamine rush opening Standard and Elites. Not going to even risk another 4* until I get all the 3* recruited.

-J

Webbed Wonder has Electro as progression and Knull for placement. That should mean Knull progression next event. And since I'm now 477 shards away from champing him, I figure at least 325 of it will come from those 2 events.

That is only 51 pulls, which I imagine you will be making the next time you do a large LL opening.
If you get luck and hit a 50 shots bonus that goes down to 34.

Yep, I had done that math.

Odin is in the LL store. I wish everyone who is doing a horde-cracking the best of luck in their pulls, I do enjoy seeing how folks do.

I'm still shy an Odin cover. Some folks who play PVP tell me that the 5* prize is based on an alphabetical list of characters. With Mr. Sinister in the BFF event, that might mean Odin is the PVP prize in the next event. SO I might squeeze the 110 shards I need out of that (boy, that's a disheartening amount - I have never cracked 1200 points in PVP, I don't know how I think I might get top 10).

Meanwhile, I SCREWED UP Webbed Wonder this morning. I got into a decent 1.10 bracket around 5am. At 6:30, thinking sub 1 would be done soon, I started doing my final clears. Easy nodes twice, hard nodes twice, I start going through the essentials when I notice the clock. There's just over a day left. It's a 48 hour sub.

Bleh.

Quebbs (maybe jackstar) once posted a breakdown of the general styles of each PVP slice. Like *this one* let's you score high for progression, but you won't place well....*that one* will let you place high, but you won't get many points....*that other one* is like the mpq equivalent of Hufflepuff. Etc.

I also got hosed, but in a different way.
I was on the second play of the easy wave node, in the second wave. The wife called me upstairs as the faucet was leaking. When I got back to the game it reset. The result was as if I died on wave 2 which meant I got wave 1's points without wave 2's, but the timer was going.
So I was not sure if I should do another clear or just wait.
I did the clear which put the timer up to 48 hrs.

I got hosed yesterday in the boss event, too.
In the noon-8pm segment I finished about 2pm. This should have meant that I could get the boss node back at 10pm and get 6 hits in the final segment.
Nope.
I was on my phone at 2pm and shut the game down right after my last 2pm boss hit.
I later opened the app on my tablet about 3:45.
It sort of backed itself up and was at the claim screen for that 2pm boss win.
So it started the boss regeneration timer at that point, meaning if I wanted 6 hits I would have to wait until 11:45 and hope to do a full run in under 15 minutes.
In the end the extra hit was not needed, but this was as close to not finishing as i think i have ever seen our alliance come.