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Marvel Contest of Champions - Time Killer (1 Viewer)

I often forget to donate, but am happy to do so. Just tell me what to throw in and if I have it I absolutely will.

Side question, I usually bring in 4* Ultron and 3* Cap Amer and Marvel (both duped and maxed). These tend to work well on some paths together, Ultron is great with the regen, and Cap Marvel does well against Ultron. I now have a 3/30 4* Cap Amer. Should I bring him in over the duped 3*? Breakdown on them is

rated 1768 - 3* health/attack 6368/471 (dupe level 32 - Perfect Block increases up to 41.2% based on health lost)

rated 2166 - 4* health/attack 9098/671

I'm thinking go with the 4. Greater health means the dupe effect won't need to kick in as soon and the big bonus on attack power should mean shorter fights.

 
Polish Hammer said:
I often forget to donate, but am happy to do so. Just tell me what to throw in and if I have it I absolutely will.

Side question, I usually bring in 4* Ultron and 3* Cap Amer and Marvel (both duped and maxed). These tend to work well on some paths together, Ultron is great with the regen, and Cap Marvel does well against Ultron. I now have a 3/30 4* Cap Amer. Should I bring him in over the duped 3*? Breakdown on them is

rated 1768 - 3* health/attack 6368/471 (dupe level 32 - Perfect Block increases up to 41.2% based on health lost)

rated 2166 - 4* health/attack 9098/671

I'm thinking go with the 4. Greater health means the dupe effect won't need to kick in as soon and the big bonus on attack power should mean shorter fights.
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Bring the 4*. More health and will hit harder.

 
Dickies said:
Polish Hammer said:
I often forget to donate, but am happy to do so. Just tell me what to throw in and if I have it I absolutely will.

Side question, I usually bring in 4* Ultron and 3* Cap Amer and Marvel (both duped and maxed). These tend to work well on some paths together, Ultron is great with the regen, and Cap Marvel does well against Ultron. I now have a 3/30 4* Cap Amer. Should I bring him in over the duped 3*? Breakdown on them is

rated 1768 - 3* health/attack 6368/471 (dupe level 32 - Perfect Block increases up to 41.2% based on health lost)

rated 2166 - 4* health/attack 9098/671

I'm thinking go with the 4. Greater health means the dupe effect won't need to kick in as soon and the big bonus on attack power should mean shorter fights.
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Bring the 4*. More health and will hit harder.
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Other option is Black Widow at 8482/711. Her crits can really get nasty, but I think the blocking of Cap Amer is better. And I don't want to give up Cap Marvel and her energy absorption in AQ quite yet.

 
Dickies said:
I would drop the Capt Marvel too. Even with her skill she is sacrificing so much in terms of HP and attack.
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Her HP is 2100 below BW, but when her power is maxed her attack is at (roughly) 790, plus the absorption for Ultron's L1 and L2 and poison immunity.

But I guess it is worth giving it a try for one AQ run to see how it works.

 
As an advance heads up, I will be mostly MIA on Thursday due to a work meeting. I'm hosting a function that starts at 7:30 and will go until at least 8:30 at night.

 
Dickies said:
guitarmonkiy said:
We can start on map 4. The problem is 10-15 people donate nothing or next to nothing. Another issue is too many people waiting for certain other people to take out the mini bosses. That can lead to waiting around for too long.
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I don't think that is much of an issue. I would rather have one competent person take down the minibosses so that the people who can't don't lose their squads.
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I agree. Having certain studs do the heavy lifting on the bosses allows the rest of us with lesser fighting skills to keep our teams alive to grind the paths.

Just like any sports team certain players do the majority of the scoring and the rest of just team players. I'm just glad that we do have quite a few star players in our alliance. Many alliances don't.

 
As far as AQ scoring goes we need to accept that the 500 shard level is the best we can achieve now. Our score only fell from 9.3mil to 9.1mil and yet we dropped 79 ranks from 191 to 270.

For the math challenged that means that 2400 players / 80 alliances quit their old alliance and started a new one. Just so they could try to complete for the 4* basic hero. More will do the same this week.

 
Speaking of mentally challenged, remind me how this dropping/restarting alliances helps these folks again? Is it because they face easier AQ opponents with stronger characters so they can blow through it quickly? And this speed/ease offsets their prestige drop, I assume?

 
Polish Hammer said:
Speaking of mentally challenged, remind me how this dropping/restarting alliances helps these folks again? Is it because they face easier AQ opponents with stronger characters so they can blow through it quickly? And this speed/ease offsets their prestige drop, I assume?
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The top alliances that win the 4* champ and would get bumped to the next bracket, but instead they disband their alliance, create a new one and win another basic 4* champ.

 
They ditch their upper tier alliances and create new ones so they drop into the training tier AQs. Which is the only tier to offer 4* heroes as prizes.

 
Hmm, that isn't too bad. I may start going that route. I need to build my 3* roster so that I can compete better in the 4* arena. I can easily get the 3* crystal in 4* arena, but I do really need a bigger roster if I ever hope to grab the basic 4*

 
Dickies said:
Hmm, that isn't too bad. I may start going that route. I need to build my 3* roster so that I can compete better in the 4* arena. I can easily get the 3* crystal in 4* arena, but I do really need a bigger roster if I ever hope to grab the basic 4*
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How many endless teams do you have?

 
guitarmonkiy said:
Dickies said:
Hmm, that isn't too bad. I may start going that route. I need to build my 3* roster so that I can compete better in the 4* arena. I can easily get the 3* crystal in 4* arena, but I do really need a bigger roster if I ever hope to grab the basic 4*
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How many endless teams do you have?
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I have 8 teams for endless, but will soon have 9. My problem is that I am at a point where I cannot level many more 3* to that point as I would like to keep 5 champs 1/1 for the sandbag matches. I am leveling way faster than I am gaining new champs.

In 2* arena I have 11

 
Dickies said:
guitarmonkiy said:
Dickies said:
Hmm, that isn't too bad. I may start going that route. I need to build my 3* roster so that I can compete better in the 4* arena. I can easily get the 3* crystal in 4* arena, but I do really need a bigger roster if I ever hope to grab the basic 4*
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How many endless teams do you have?
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I have 8 teams for endless, but will soon have 9. My problem is that I am at a point where I cannot level many more 3* to that point as I would like to keep 5 champs 1/1 for the sandbag matches. I am leveling way faster than I am gaining new champs.In 2* arena I have 11
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I hear ya. I'm sick of duping 3* that are already maxed and duped like 5 times. Thankfully I've been bringing in new 4* pretty consistently.

 
Dickies said:
guitarmonkiy said:
Dickies said:
Hmm, that isn't too bad. I may start going that route. I need to build my 3* roster so that I can compete better in the 4* arena. I can easily get the 3* crystal in 4* arena, but I do really need a bigger roster if I ever hope to grab the basic 4*
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How many endless teams do you have?
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I have 8 teams for endless, but will soon have 9. My problem is that I am at a point where I cannot level many more 3* to that point as I would like to keep 5 champs 1/1 for the sandbag matches. I am leveling way faster than I am gaining new champs.

In 2* arena I have 11
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I've started to not do the sandbag matches until 10 or 11. Running teams between 3400-3900 on matches 9 & 10, usually see teams around 5800 - 6300, 3/30 4*s, leaving only 3 sandbag matches.

 
Dickies said:
guitarmonkiy said:
We can start on map 4. The problem is 10-15 people donate nothing or next to nothing. Another issue is too many people waiting for certain other people to take out the mini bosses. That can lead to waiting around for too long.
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I don't think that is much of an issue. I would rather have one competent person take down the minibosses so that the people who can't don't lose their squads.
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That means for example it comes down me me if the group can continue. So I have to check in and take it out. What if i cant check in due to work?

From my perspective it would be nice if i dont have to pull the group constantly. So now and then it's no problem, but every single time..

 
woot said:
Dickies said:
guitarmonkiy said:
We can start on map 4. The problem is 10-15 people donate nothing or next to nothing. Another issue is too many people waiting for certain other people to take out the mini bosses. That can lead to waiting around for too long.
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I don't think that is much of an issue. I would rather have one competent person take down the minibosses so that the people who can't don't lose their squads.
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That means for example it comes down me me if the group can continue. So I have to check in and take it out. What if i cant check in due to work?

From my perspective it would be nice if i dont have to pull the group constantly. So now and then it's no problem, but every single time..
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I think up until this last batch the groups were leaning heavily on the big guns to clean the mini bosses, partly because you and MJ have the 4/40 Stranges (not sure how group 3 is setup). I think as we are each getting our 4* up to 4/40 that we will each be less of a liability in fighting the mini bosses, it is just a matter of those who have the class advantage getting in and using it.

When we all reach a mini boss, we just don't need one person going 0-3. Better for 3 people to go 0-1 and then a fourth person cleans up the mess. That way everyone at least keeps some interest in the quest. Obviously if the big guns are one of those online when we reach a mini boss it would be preferable to have one person go 1-1

 
It was not the last batch honestly, all of them for weeks now. Last series i randomly joined a group, each group i was in came down to the same thing. Or at least it felt like it. Maybe i need to cut the check-ins, so i see more progress when i take a look.

Btw strange is not that good on mini bosses. His power is too low to take them out in 3mins, and he is too weak to survive 5 hits, even at 40/4.

He has his use on paths, but im way more happy with SIM and Cap on the bosses.

 
we need more balance. The minibosses are really not difficult, and there is no reason why someone with class advantage cant take them down almost every time. I was more than happy to take down the colossus for group 3 last map, but it did seem like everytime I logged on there were a handful of people sitting and waiting at Colossus. Ultimately we fell short of Ultron I believe the final 3 tries.
 
UOFI_316 said:
woot said:
Dickies said:
guitarmonkiy said:
We can start on map 4. The problem is 10-15 people donate nothing or next to nothing. Another issue is too many people waiting for certain other people to take out the mini bosses. That can lead to waiting around for too long.
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I don't think that is much of an issue. I would rather have one competent person take down the minibosses so that the people who can't don't lose their squads.
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That means for example it comes down me me if the group can continue. So I have to check in and take it out. What if i cant check in due to work?From my perspective it would be nice if i dont have to pull the group constantly. So now and then it's no problem, but every single time..
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I think up until this last batch the groups were leaning heavily on the big guns to clean the mini bosses, partly because you and MJ have the 4/40 Stranges (not sure how group 3 is setup). I think as we are each getting our 4* up to 4/40 that we will each be less of a liability in fighting the mini bosses, it is just a matter of those who have the class advantage getting in and using it.

When we all reach a mini boss, we just don't need one person going 0-3. Better for 3 people to go 0-1 and then a fourth person cleans up the mess. That way everyone at least keeps some interest in the quest. Obviously if the big guns are one of those online when we reach a mini boss it would be preferable to have one person go 1-1
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My strange isn't 4/40 yet :(

 
I think some of the waiting around at a mini boss is due to the way the paths get cleared. A handful of people are on at the same time and clear one side of the map so they all reach the boss. They then need to wait for others to join to clear the other side of the map. Those people clear the map and either don't have the class advantage, run out of energy right before the boss, or don't want to fight him. Then someone from the first group logs back in and sees 8 people staring at Colossus.

Not sure how to prevent that other than to say if you reach the boss take a shot at him unless you are class disadvantage. I know I have been bringing 2 Skill with me, so going up against Colossus is not a very good idea for me.

Also, people need to look at what classes people have and how much health they have left before they pick a path. Several times I have gone 1 node down a path where I had 3 or 4 fights were I would have the advantage with almost full health, however due to energy I had to stop. I jump back in a few hours later and someone has run down the entire path. While that is not a problem, if they looked there was another path with someone who only had little health left. Now we have two people with full health sitting at the end of a path, and someone about to die left out in the cold. That forces us to wait for one of the stragglers to show up to clear that last path.

Unfortunately the people who I have seen doing this the last few times aren't on here.

 
I agree with all of that. The thing that drives me nuts is when people make a wrong decision or path and say "oh crap I didn't read the chat log." Well why the hell not? It takes like 10 seconds to read that, and 10 seconds to scout ahead to make a smart decision.

 
I sometimes have the opposite problem. I'll ask which path the leader wants me to take but then have to wait until they are back on and answer to move. I usually know where I think I would be best, but generally defer to those who really know what they are doing. I'll try to be less of a laggard with these things.

Also, it would be nice if the chat extended further back than it does.

 
Polish Hammer said:
I sometimes have the opposite problem. I'll ask which path the leader wants me to take but then have to wait until they are back on and answer to move. I usually know where I think I would be best, but generally defer to those who really know what they are doing. I'll try to be less of a laggard with these things.

Also, it would be nice if the chat extended further back than it does.
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I try to help guide when I'm in there or direct people for when they return. The problem like i said is some people just truck ahead and don't bother even reading any chat. I think you're best bet is just look ahead and take paths based on class advantage, bleed/poison nodes, etc. I try to help when I can by not always taking advantages because I can pretty much deal with any of those guys with hulk and strange.

 
Yeah, I was saying two AQ's ago that I finally understood the frustration people were having with others not following directions.

I had posted in group 1 multiple times that I was taking a certain route and didn't need help and the next person should take a different path. Then I log back in two hours later and someone has cleared the rest of my path and there are other routes totally untouched.

I suck at the bosses by the way. Even mini-boss Thor guarding Ultron kicks my ### most of the time.

 
I'm at 700k in the 3/4* arena. I'm going to have to put in major effort at night, and play once in the morning at least to pull off the kind of score I'll need. I even scheduled a poop break in my calendar so that I could do a round during the day. I need a good 45 minutes to go through my teams.

 
Foosball God said:
I'm at 700k in the 3/4* arena. I'm going to have to put in major effort at night, and play once in the morning at least to pull off the kind of score I'll need. I even scheduled a poop break in my calendar so that I could do a round during the day. I need a good 45 minutes to go through my teams.
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I try to at least get through a few top teams and then when you come back they're ready to go again.

 
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