Sorry dude I took an old man nap and left the game on. Apparently it doesn't DC you. Grats on the Cosmic! I finally pulled a Cosmic for my thing yesterday and now tonight I pulled another Cosmic for him plus a unique for him too! Pretty happy with that.

I just wished her Cosmic headgear scaled up. It's only level 13 or so.

Hold onto it, there may be recipes to upgrade them coming.

Oh, that'd be nice. I already have my Pym leveled to rank 6.

Yeah, I think I'm like rank 13 on mine... I never bothered to upgrade the item and armor vendor past level 3 but since supposedly there's a 2 million credit cap, even leveling those vendors is something that will be done down the road at some point.

But yeah, I don't sell anything. I religiously donate everything to Pym. Unless it's something I want to keep in my bank of course, but even then, I've had to revise my inventory many times as I get better items. Just yesterday I had to donate about 10 artifacts and a few team insignias.

Gotta admit, I'm glad I shelled out the $3 for the Crafter Stash. That's going to come in handy. Now I just need to keep leveling up Wanda, I think. MORE LEVELS MOAR!!!!

(And my GOD does the Eidolon Warwear boost you. Geez!)

I may spring for the stash upgrade, I'm running out of room. I finally got my 175 splinters and rolled Hulk. Isn't he supposed to be rare or only available via team pack? I was hoping for Colossus, Emma or really any X-Men member, but big Green should be fun.

I've been donating to Pym, but I only pick up drops that are blue and above along with crafting materials, so it takes awhile.

And Mal, how does one acquire Eidolon Warwear? Is it purchased, dropped, or crafted? Wanda is great.

Rocket is a ton of fun. He's a dodgy little bugger - even has an ability to pop into holes in the ground to temporarily disappear from battle (which doesn't mean he isn't still taking down opponents as we'll discuss in a bit) - and puts up great force-fields. The extra fun from him are his turrets (ergo how he can "disappear" and still be mowing down mobs). I'm an "old timer" so I couldn't resist putting some bonuses into his original costume (on most of the others I vacillate on which costume I want to make "the costume"...the only other sure lock is the Punisher MAX-style trenchcoat but I never seem to have the right crafting items to start building it up).

I'll have to try Mal's version of Cable. While I obviously do a lot of shooting with Nathan, I find I'm using his psychic abilities more than I originally expected. The deflection aura - even though it lasts way briefly - is handier than I expected. His prismatic wall, er, psychic wall is actually pretty darn nifty and he does have that psychic vortex-style ability (using Emma's power name for it, I think) that does DoT plus a huge slowdown. So far I've ignored most of his "gun" tree.

Congrats on getting Hulk. He's not the most complex character out there but there's definite fun to be had in just "run up and smash everything and then use rage to heal back up to full". Sometimes you just need that "Smash!" release, y'know?

By the way, I know you're loving Luke's "pets" - the Heroes for Hire - (and I again note he's just a lot of fun and makes me want to use him which is surprising as Bendis ruined him for me) so you might want to check in to trying to acquire Emma. She's the "pet mistress supreme" (and the cattiness of her lines is just awesomely amusing at times). Do wish her pets wouldn't port into HQ areas with her as the places are crowded enough without a bunch of mind-controlled mobs further clogging up the screen.

Two characters that surprised me as being a lot more fun than I anticipated: Black Panther and Black Widow. I love Widow's "dodginess" (have I over-repeated how much I love passives?) and her high crits but she also gets some neat gadget tricks like the rolling bomblets. She's a bit smushy but that stands to figure. Black Panther is just full of surprises: dodgy, destroys enemy "armour" as he attacks so each follow-up hit ramps up damage, has a fair number of slick movement powers, has a summon (the Dora Milaje) but what really puts in the fun factour, I think, are his traps.

On the flipside, Ms. Marvel is boring. I want her to be better...something about Carol feels like she should be fun (and I like using her in her original costume so it's always tempting to enhance it) but, in actual play, she's just kind-of...there. Not loving her.

The two characters I've pathetically had the most trouble getting a feel for using correctly are Spider-Man and - most disappointing to me, as I'm a huge fan - Captain America. Cap's actually pretty straight-forward and maybe my issue with him is he's just built different than I would've expected (I feel he should have more "shield passives" or something). Spidey - while awesome on those passives I love - is basically "glob a spot with a bunch of webbing and then shoot from a distance". It just feels...off.

I still haven't gotten Human Torch or Storm. Storm doesn't interest me and Johnny's just elusive but I think he'd be great to play with my preference style, so I've been "hoarding" blues+ that I find for him.

Okay, after writing all that, I -have- to get on and play as the craving is hitting.

(I've been behaving and not using Deadpool any too because it feels like it'd be taunting you guys. Truffle would probably put out a hit on me.)

Apparently you can get him in game with splinters, but I don't think you can buy him solo in the store at the moment.

It's a unique that's dropped. But man, the Symbiote mooks you see on Heroic are just rough, I think I've lost more lives to them... arg. Very frustrating. If anyone has a 30ish hero on Heroic, I wouldn't mind tagging along. Trying to get Wanda up there.

Too many games. Not enough time.

Also, unlocked my 2nd hero with splinters last night... got Human Torch.

I AM SO TIRED OF RANGED CHARACTERS GRARARARARARARARARAR.

Torch is more of a 'fly into group of baddies, explode and leave giant (4) logo burnt into the ground' kind of guy in this game.

I gotta start using my splinters to unlock heroes. I've just been sitting on them.

Okay, see, I like that.

Should have just saved up and got Widow at 200. She looks fun.

I'm at 200 ATM. Gonna save up for Rocky.