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Marvel Contest of Champions - Time Killer (2 Viewers)

I'm the anti-Canadian. I mean I like hockey, but I never played growing up. By the time I was 14, I was 6'2 and a monster of a kid, so I started playing football and became a die-hard football fan.

 
Here in this far off mysterious country to the north, we have a little thing called ice, which has led to a sport called hockey.

You should try to become familiar with it, as its the only franchise in your city with any hope of bringing home a championship.
Also, their logo is awesome.

 
Especially as, in case you haven't heard, Alexander Ovenchin scoring 500 goals is one of the greatest sports moments in D.C. history.
Its been discussed.

Sorry, but its not as pivotal as the achievements in the real sports. :unsure:
I was joking...I'm a loyal little and know way too much about DC sports, politics, weather, and traffic.
Clinton Portis's first carry ever as a Redskin against Tampa Bay >>>>>>>> Ovi's 500th goal

Thats how things work here. But, we'll all show up to Rock the Red once the playoffs start, only to leave disappointed as we exit early yet again.

 
Just peeking in.

Did they ever fix all the frustrating stuff about how huge of a time sink it was to get anywhere in it?
A bit. Lots of crystals ( or partial crystals now ) and rank up materials available through alliance events, which with everyone contributing can be fairly light duty. Still a massive time sink, though, with enough stuff to keep you playing constantly if you choose to.

 
Should I max Recovery before doing anything with Coagulate or the Glass Cannon tree? Willpower already maxed.
Recovery SHOULD'VE been maxed before you opened Willpower if you're doing it right.

You need 15 in defense to open Willpower. Correct allocation is: 1 lesser v, 1 greater v, 1 the regen thing, 3 recovery, 1 perfect block, 4 block prof, 2 stand your ground. That leaves 2 others, you can either put in the regen thing (max PI that way) or anywhere else.

If this is NOT how you allocated the 15 to get to Willpower, I say respec your masteries.

 
Apparently I'm doing it wrong. I started throwing stuff into masteries without really looking into it too much early on. What I have in defense:

Lesser Vitality - 1

Greater Vitality - 6

Salve - 1

Recovery - 1

Block Prof - 4

Perfect Block - 4

Willpower - 3

Now I have one more mastery to play with, was going to put it in Recovery. But you are basically saying I should pull from Perfect Block and load up into Recovery, some Stand Your Ground, and whatever else floats my boat? With all the talk about people building "perfect block" teams, is there any reason I should leave those in there? I have a bunch of units (4400) so I don't mind rebuilding...just don't want to do it multiple times.

 
Just peeking in.

Did they ever fix all the frustrating stuff about how huge of a time sink it was to get anywhere in it?
Yes and no. There are certain arenas where you can win 4* basic heroes for reasonable effort (still not something I bother with) and the event and AQ rewards are helping a lot of people get the T4s to rank up their champs. Since you left, our alliance now has a bunch of Rank 4s and a Rank 5. Hulk has a 5* champ and a number of us are close to getting ours. I don't grind arena really other than to get the basic milestones. They have not really solved the T4 class cat shortage other than to make them much more available to the top alliances. Us middle tier alliances have to basically luck into them.

 
OK, I reset my defense masteries and went with the base setup of RonanNupe shown here. In Utility I have Limber, Parry, and Dexterity at 1 each and nothing else. For offense I have:

Lesser Strength - 1/9

Greater Str - 2/9

Courage - 3/3

Pierce, Lesser Precision, Lesser Cruelty all at 1 each

Greater Precision and Greater Cruelty at 5/5 each

This leaves me with 3 mastery points undistributed. I never grind arenas due to lack of time. Just recently started getting to the 600k threshold in the 4* arena, to give a gauge. So I'm not super worried about increase PI incrementally to get my scores there up a little. I'd like to be more effective in AQs as well as the story quests (maybe eventually ROL, but I doubt I'll ever have the time let alone the roster to make that work).

What are the recommendations for me?

If it matters, my top 4*s are:

Ultron 4/40

Cap Amer 4/40

Rocket Raccoon (duped), BW, Electro, Symbiote Spidey, Iron Fist, Gamora, Iron Man, Black Bolt, The Vision, Thor (all at 3/30)

Magik and Hawkeye working towards 3/30, just need cats.

 
OK, I reset my defense masteries and went with the base setup of RonanNupe shown here. In Utility I have Limber, Parry, and Dexterity at 1 each and nothing else. For offense I have:

Lesser Strength - 1/9

Greater Str - 2/9

Courage - 3/3

Pierce, Lesser Precision, Lesser Cruelty all at 1 each

Greater Precision and Greater Cruelty at 5/5 each

This leaves me with 3 mastery points undistributed. I never grind arenas due to lack of time. Just recently started getting to the 600k threshold in the 4* arena, to give a gauge. So I'm not super worried about increase PI incrementally to get my scores there up a little. I'd like to be more effective in AQs as well as the story quests (maybe eventually ROL, but I doubt I'll ever have the time let alone the roster to make that work).

What are the recommendations for me?

If it matters, my top 4*s are:

Ultron 4/40

Cap Amer 4/40

Rocket Raccoon (duped), BW, Electro, Symbiote Spidey, Iron Fist, Gamora, Iron Man, Black Bolt, The Vision, Thor (all at 3/30)

Magik and Hawkeye working towards 3/30, just need cats.
Rank Black Bolt and the Vision next and go with liquid courage. Then you've got a full poison immune AQ team with +30% attack.Ronannupe guide is the best IMO

 
So on my 6th 4* crystal in the last month and a half or so and finally pull a non-dupe, Thor himself! Sorry Mjolinir!

I wish they would give us a break for a few days on the unique quests, I've barely been playing arena's and never grind Cats anymore. My OCD kicks in and I have to 100% these unique quests. Although, they are pretty much the only way I am getting anything worthwhile outside of our Summoner Advancement & AQ rewards.

Speaking off, they need to rebalance those rewards again. I have like 6 Alpha's in overflow, and some Tier 3 Class cats as well. They should have swapped one or two of the crystals we get in AQ for 4* Sharts. Or let us start selling Tier 3's for Tier 4 sharts.

 
So on my 6th 4* crystal in the last month and a half or so and finally pull a non-dupe, Thor himself! Sorry Mjolinir!

I wish they would give us a break for a few days on the unique quests, I've barely been playing arena's and never grind Cats anymore. My OCD kicks in and I have to 100% these unique quests. Although, they are pretty much the only way I am getting anything worthwhile outside of our Summoner Advancement & AQ rewards.

Speaking off, they need to rebalance those rewards again. I have like 6 Alpha's in overflow, and some Tier 3 Class cats as well. They should have swapped one or two of the crystals we get in AQ for 4* Sharts. Or let us start selling Tier 3's for Tier 4 sharts.
Same, I'm overflowing in alphas and T3 class cats. I've been selling alphas and may have to sell T3s soon. 4*s are not coming in fast enough anymore.

 
So on my 6th 4* crystal in the last month and a half or so and finally pull a non-dupe, Thor himself! Sorry Mjolinir!

I wish they would give us a break for a few days on the unique quests, I've barely been playing arena's and never grind Cats anymore. My OCD kicks in and I have to 100% these unique quests. Although, they are pretty much the only way I am getting anything worthwhile outside of our Summoner Advancement & AQ rewards.

Speaking off, they need to rebalance those rewards again. I have like 6 Alpha's in overflow, and some Tier 3 Class cats as well. They should have swapped one or two of the crystals we get in AQ for 4* Sharts. Or let us start selling Tier 3's for Tier 4 sharts.
Well I finally got a 3* Thor last week and duped him today. So maybe I'll have tbat 4* Thor by next year. My issue with the special quests is there's hardly ever time for story quests anymore. I'm constantly doing t3 cat runs and these special quests, yet I'm always overflowing with alphas and ISO. I ranked up three 4*s today and still have like 5 alphas in my overflow.

 
Do you ever run into willpower once in endless streak?
Yes, occasionally if you run the 'easy' matches, and frequently if you run the 'hard'

I don't really find it to be that much of a problem. My Antman isn't leveled at all so the only champ I run into issues with is my 3* Iron Fist.

 
Come on in Greg. You can cut down to doing AQs and some questing here and there and be fine. You might do the occassional arena though but when you're just focusing on an AQ team instead of trying to build the best arena roster it's not like it was back in the spring.

I'm guessing that after an AQ or two you'll be motivated to put some effort in to arenas to try and collect the better AQ champs, but not necessary.

Also, fighting has changed a bit, I don't think you know what parry and evade are, do you? So that will make it interesting.

 
Kabam is still using the same money grabbing techniques they always have been though.. I know that was one of your biggest gripes. They are who we thought they were.

 
Welp, looks like Blackbolt won't be as awesome as we expected. Kabam is not making any changes to him for now.

http://community.kabam.com/forums/showthread.php?630003-Upcoming-Character-Balance-Changes
GD it, just ranked him to four.Edit: Was hoping with block proficiencies and Guillotine I could finally try RoL
Yeah I tried mentioning it in chat when I saw a few of you ranking him but it was too late. He's still a good champ so it's not like it was a waste, just may have been better off with someone else for the time being.

 
Come on in Greg. You can cut down to doing AQs and some questing here and there and be fine. You might do the occassional arena though but when you're just focusing on an AQ team instead of trying to build the best arena roster it's not like it was back in the spring.

I'm guessing that after an AQ or two you'll be motivated to put some effort in to arenas to try and collect the better AQ champs, but not necessary.

Also, fighting has changed a bit, I don't think you know what parry and evade are, do you? So that will make it interesting.
I'm fairly certain parry and dexterity were around when he was still here.

 
Just throwing the reminder in here that I'm on vacation the next 4 days, so my participation is going to be SEVERELY limited. Also have champs stuck in RoL, so I may not be able to touch the group 3 AQ at all anyway.

 
Welp, looks like Blackbolt won't be as awesome as we expected. Kabam is not making any changes to him for now.

http://community.kabam.com/forums/showthread.php?630003-Upcoming-Character-Balance-Changes
GD it, just ranked him to four.Edit: Was hoping with block proficiencies and Guillotine I could finally try RoL
Yeah I tried mentioning it in chat when I saw a few of you ranking him but it was too late. He's still a good champ so it's not like it was a waste, just may have been better off with someone else for the time being.
Yeah, would have gone with someone else, but oh well. Still have the blocking proficiency and poison immunity with him. I will be able to rank another champ to 4 by next weeks SA with the rate of T4 sharts we are earning anyway.

 
Come on in Greg. You can cut down to doing AQs and some questing here and there and be fine. You might do the occassional arena though but when you're just focusing on an AQ team instead of trying to build the best arena roster it's not like it was back in the spring.

I'm guessing that after an AQ or two you'll be motivated to put some effort in to arenas to try and collect the better AQ champs, but not necessary.

Also, fighting has changed a bit, I don't think you know what parry and evade are, do you? So that will make it interesting.
I'm fairly certain parry and dexterity were around when he was still here.
Yes, had both of those.

Don't think I can make time for it to be worth the while at present, with how things are going at work unfortunately.

 
So on my 6th 4* crystal in the last month and a half or so and finally pull a non-dupe, Thor himself! Sorry Mjolinir!

I wish they would give us a break for a few days on the unique quests, I've barely been playing arena's and never grind Cats anymore. My OCD kicks in and I have to 100% these unique quests. Although, they are pretty much the only way I am getting anything worthwhile outside of our Summoner Advancement & AQ rewards.

Speaking off, they need to rebalance those rewards again. I have like 6 Alpha's in overflow, and some Tier 3 Class cats as well. They should have swapped one or two of the crystals we get in AQ for 4* Sharts. Or let us start selling Tier 3's for Tier 4 sharts.
Rank up a 5 star. It costs 5 alphas.

 
So on my 6th 4* crystal in the last month and a half or so and finally pull a non-dupe, Thor himself! Sorry Mjolinir!

I wish they would give us a break for a few days on the unique quests, I've barely been playing arena's and never grind Cats anymore. My OCD kicks in and I have to 100% these unique quests. Although, they are pretty much the only way I am getting anything worthwhile outside of our Summoner Advancement & AQ rewards.

Speaking off, they need to rebalance those rewards again. I have like 6 Alpha's in overflow, and some Tier 3 Class cats as well. They should have swapped one or two of the crystals we get in AQ for 4* Sharts. Or let us start selling Tier 3's for Tier 4 sharts.
Same, I'm overflowing in alphas and T3 class cats. I've been selling alphas and may have to sell T3s soon. 4*s are not coming in fast enough anymore.
I sold 4 t3 skill cats yesterday. I keep getting them constantly.

 
Welp, finally duped 4* Hulk, my life is complete. No idea when I'll get 3 more t4 science cats, probably take a year.

Speaking of, ranking Ironman to 5... between that and a few other 4s up to rank 3 for SA... I finally burned through my iso stash (selling for gold along the way). I'm broke and not sitting on thousands of iso anymore. Given this, I expect my SA scores will drop starting next week, just a heads up.

 
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Welp, finally duped 4* Hulk, my life is complete. No idea when I'll get 3 more t4 science cats, probably take a year.

Speaking of, ranking Ironman to 5... between that and a few other 4s up to rank 3 for SA... I finally burned through my iso stash (selling for gold along the way). I'm broke and not sitting on thousands of iso anymore. Given this, I expect my SA scores will drop starting next week, just a heads up.
So how much of a jump does it feel using the Iron Man 5 vs 4?

 
Welp, finally duped 4* Hulk, my life is complete. No idea when I'll get 3 more t4 science cats, probably take a year.

Speaking of, ranking Ironman to 5... between that and a few other 4s up to rank 3 for SA... I finally burned through my iso stash (selling for gold along the way). I'm broke and not sitting on thousands of iso anymore. Given this, I expect my SA scores will drop starting next week, just a heads up.
So how much of a jump does it feel using the Iron Man 5 vs 4?
He hits harder, but its not ridiculous or anything.

He definitely lasts a lot longer.

I didn't compare but I'm thinking the health gains were more significant than the attack gains. Although he has the highest of both on my roster, by a good bit.

 
Welp, finally duped 4* Hulk, my life is complete. No idea when I'll get 3 more t4 science cats, probably take a year.

Speaking of, ranking Ironman to 5... between that and a few other 4s up to rank 3 for SA... I finally burned through my iso stash (selling for gold along the way). I'm broke and not sitting on thousands of iso anymore. Given this, I expect my SA scores will drop starting next week, just a heads up.
So how much of a jump does it feel using the Iron Man 5 vs 4?
He hits harder, but its not ridiculous or anything.

He definitely lasts a lot longer.

I didn't compare but I'm thinking the health gains were more significant than the attack gains. Although he has the highest of both on my roster, by a good bit.
His arc reactor must be full of little blue pills.

 
OK, I reset my defense masteries and went with the base setup of RonanNupe shown here. In Utility I have Limber, Parry, and Dexterity at 1 each and nothing else. For offense I have:

Lesser Strength - 1/9

Greater Str - 2/9

Courage - 3/3

Pierce, Lesser Precision, Lesser Cruelty all at 1 each

Greater Precision and Greater Cruelty at 5/5 each

This leaves me with 3 mastery points undistributed. I never grind arenas due to lack of time. Just recently started getting to the 600k threshold in the 4* arena, to give a gauge. So I'm not super worried about increase PI incrementally to get my scores there up a little. I'd like to be more effective in AQs as well as the story quests (maybe eventually ROL, but I doubt I'll ever have the time let alone the roster to make that work).

What are the recommendations for me?

If it matters, my top 4*s are:

Ultron 4/40

Cap Amer 4/40

Rocket Raccoon (duped), BW, Electro, Symbiote Spidey, Iron Fist, Gamora, Iron Man, Black Bolt, The Vision, Thor (all at 3/30)

Magik and Hawkeye working towards 3/30, just need cats.
Rank Black Bolt and the Vision next and go with liquid courage. Then you've got a full poison immune AQ team with +30% attack.Ronannupe guide is the best IMO
So if I do LQ, that reduces my healing effectiveness, correct? So if I take any other debuffs I will still gain health, but not as much? And I assume that with Rec/Will maxed the LC won't actually take any health away from me, even when I'm using non-immune characters. Is that all right? Seems to make sense, I just don't want to screw myself for the regular story quests with other characters and/or for Arenas.

If I go to a place with a heal block node with a regular character, they will actually be losing the 1% health per second, correct?

 
Polish Hammer said:
(HULK) said:
Polish Hammer said:
OK, I reset my defense masteries and went with the base setup of RonanNupe shown here. In Utility I have Limber, Parry, and Dexterity at 1 each and nothing else. For offense I have:

Lesser Strength - 1/9

Greater Str - 2/9

Courage - 3/3

Pierce, Lesser Precision, Lesser Cruelty all at 1 each

Greater Precision and Greater Cruelty at 5/5 each

This leaves me with 3 mastery points undistributed. I never grind arenas due to lack of time. Just recently started getting to the 600k threshold in the 4* arena, to give a gauge. So I'm not super worried about increase PI incrementally to get my scores there up a little. I'd like to be more effective in AQs as well as the story quests (maybe eventually ROL, but I doubt I'll ever have the time let alone the roster to make that work).

What are the recommendations for me?

If it matters, my top 4*s are:

Ultron 4/40

Cap Amer 4/40

Rocket Raccoon (duped), BW, Electro, Symbiote Spidey, Iron Fist, Gamora, Iron Man, Black Bolt, The Vision, Thor (all at 3/30)

Magik and Hawkeye working towards 3/30, just need cats.
Rank Black Bolt and the Vision next and go with liquid courage. Then you've got a full poison immune AQ team with +30% attack.Ronannupe guide is the best IMO
So if I do LQ, that reduces my healing effectiveness, correct? So if I take any other debuffs I will still gain health, but not as much? And I assume that with Rec/Will maxed the LC won't actually take any health away from me, even when I'm using non-immune characters. Is that all right? Seems to make sense, I just don't want to screw myself for the regular story quests with other characters and/or for Arenas.

If I go to a place with a heal block node with a regular character, they will actually be losing the 1% health per second, correct?
If the debuff to healing effectiveness ONLY applies to non-poison immune champs. On poison immune champs, no impact other than +30% attack.

There are situations that are unavoidable where it hurts. But for the most part, it is awesome. Raises your PI a ton too. I was able to do the last T4 cat arena due to how high my PI has gotten finally.

 
Polish Hammer said:
(HULK) said:
Polish Hammer said:
OK, I reset my defense masteries and went with the base setup of RonanNupe shown here. In Utility I have Limber, Parry, and Dexterity at 1 each and nothing else. For offense I have:

Lesser Strength - 1/9

Greater Str - 2/9

Courage - 3/3

Pierce, Lesser Precision, Lesser Cruelty all at 1 each

Greater Precision and Greater Cruelty at 5/5 each

This leaves me with 3 mastery points undistributed. I never grind arenas due to lack of time. Just recently started getting to the 600k threshold in the 4* arena, to give a gauge. So I'm not super worried about increase PI incrementally to get my scores there up a little. I'd like to be more effective in AQs as well as the story quests (maybe eventually ROL, but I doubt I'll ever have the time let alone the roster to make that work).

What are the recommendations for me?

If it matters, my top 4*s are:

Ultron 4/40

Cap Amer 4/40

Rocket Raccoon (duped), BW, Electro, Symbiote Spidey, Iron Fist, Gamora, Iron Man, Black Bolt, The Vision, Thor (all at 3/30)

Magik and Hawkeye working towards 3/30, just need cats.
Rank Black Bolt and the Vision next and go with liquid courage. Then you've got a full poison immune AQ team with +30% attack.Ronannupe guide is the best IMO
So if I do LQ, that reduces my healing effectiveness, correct? So if I take any other debuffs I will still gain health, but not as much? And I assume that with Rec/Will maxed the LC won't actually take any health away from me, even when I'm using non-immune characters. Is that all right? Seems to make sense, I just don't want to screw myself for the regular story quests with other characters and/or for Arenas.

If I go to a place with a heal block node with a regular character, they will actually be losing the 1% health per second, correct?
If the debuff to healing effectiveness ONLY applies to non-poison immune champs. On poison immune champs, no impact other than +30% attack.

There are situations that are unavoidable where it hurts. But for the most part, it is awesome. Raises your PI a ton too. I was able to do the last T4 cat arena due to how high my PI has gotten finally.
So really, better to go with this versus the bleeding one? Doesn't the bleeding eventually stop during a fight whereas this goes on perpetually?

 
Polish Hammer said:
(HULK) said:
Polish Hammer said:
OK, I reset my defense masteries and went with the base setup of RonanNupe shown here. In Utility I have Limber, Parry, and Dexterity at 1 each and nothing else. For offense I have:

Lesser Strength - 1/9

Greater Str - 2/9

Courage - 3/3

Pierce, Lesser Precision, Lesser Cruelty all at 1 each

Greater Precision and Greater Cruelty at 5/5 each

This leaves me with 3 mastery points undistributed. I never grind arenas due to lack of time. Just recently started getting to the 600k threshold in the 4* arena, to give a gauge. So I'm not super worried about increase PI incrementally to get my scores there up a little. I'd like to be more effective in AQs as well as the story quests (maybe eventually ROL, but I doubt I'll ever have the time let alone the roster to make that work).

What are the recommendations for me?

If it matters, my top 4*s are:

Ultron 4/40

Cap Amer 4/40

Rocket Raccoon (duped), BW, Electro, Symbiote Spidey, Iron Fist, Gamora, Iron Man, Black Bolt, The Vision, Thor (all at 3/30)

Magik and Hawkeye working towards 3/30, just need cats.
Rank Black Bolt and the Vision next and go with liquid courage. Then you've got a full poison immune AQ team with +30% attack.Ronannupe guide is the best IMO
So if I do LQ, that reduces my healing effectiveness, correct? So if I take any other debuffs I will still gain health, but not as much? And I assume that with Rec/Will maxed the LC won't actually take any health away from me, even when I'm using non-immune characters. Is that all right? Seems to make sense, I just don't want to screw myself for the regular story quests with other characters and/or for Arenas.

If I go to a place with a heal block node with a regular character, they will actually be losing the 1% health per second, correct?
If the debuff to healing effectiveness ONLY applies to non-poison immune champs. On poison immune champs, no impact other than +30% attack.

There are situations that are unavoidable where it hurts. But for the most part, it is awesome. Raises your PI a ton too. I was able to do the last T4 cat arena due to how high my PI has gotten finally.
So really, better to go with this versus the bleeding one? Doesn't the bleeding eventually stop during a fight whereas this goes on perpetually?
That is true, and there are also bleed immune champs. Keep in mind that in AQ maps 4 and 5 there are heal block nodes, so unless you are immune you are essentially dead since WP won't help you. If you are a Dr. Strange user, he is neither poison nor bleed immune.

 
Ultron, The Vision, Black Bolt

Get LC

Dominate

You can probably get double edge too (I have both), but rank those dudes and go LC first.

 

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