I tried a red at the weekend (Magneto) and it was ok. Pyro was like facing Doom on Normal, Mags was like facing Loki (in terms of difficulty). I think I died once to Pyro (not managing my health properly) and 4 or 5 times to Mags (a few of those I should have avoided, at the very least).
Geo
1562
I started playing again last week, digging my Captain America out of mothballs (L38 as of last night). Airborne Assault (a crazy high flying leap that does huge splash damage on impact when landing) is awesome – the cooldown is just short enough to prevent constant spamming of it. Some of the shield melee stuff seems to have cooler animations and higher damage now, but I still am happiest just tossing the shield, charging and doing leap attacks.
Since I haven’t played this year, I went ahead and dropped some bucks on The Falcon (modeled after the recent movie’s Falcon, not the older comics) as team up. While I find him great fun to have along, the veterans seem to complain the Team Ups die too often on tougher content. You can choose team-up passives that simply give you a bonus all the time even when the Team Up guy/gal is kaput. He swoops in via jetpack to do group melee damage, and otherwise tends to fire his machine pistols constantly. You don’t afik have any control over them, not even “defend me” or “shoot at what I shoot.”
I dig it though. Outside of events/terminals, doesn’t seem anyone to play with on the campaign missions anymore, so it’s just fun to have the team up partner along imho.
Eager to see how the special powers at 40 and later for the Team Up work. At L40, Falcon’s seem to be either empty his gun clips for a brief period of time (higher rate of fire I guess) or a brief period of jetpack swoop melee (for lack of a better description).
Although I’m playing on Heroic difficulty, it seems like it just doesn’t really have any effect so the campaign missions tend to be rinse-lather-repeat. Which is fun but I kinda wish the difficulty setting had more discernible impact.
Alex, I think Pyro is buffed during this event to be tougher than usual. Magneto has also been substantially powered up in the last couple of patches.
I’ve found the “Dying too often on hard content” to be pretty negligible. My Spiderman is running around with Firestar (now I just need Iceman… am I dating myself here? :P ), and she tends to die when I get swamped in cosmics with 5-10 blues/yellows, or when she gets charged by Rhino/Juggernaut. That’s it. I find those acceptable situations… (if I notice her getting swamped in cosmics I can generally save her, but sometimes I don’t and she tanks for a bit for me and then dies while I’m working something else.) If you choose the power that lowers her cooldown by 1s for every enemy you kill, you’ll often have her right back available, and recharged by the next time it happens.
There are probably certain abilities that make it worse (e.g. Mortar, and she definitely has issues with cosmic circles on bosses in cosmic terminals, but then, don’t we all? :P ) However, this complaint that they’re always dying is bogus unless folks aren’t choosing to equip their “takes less damage” gear which would make it their own choice, IMO.
I had the exact same experience last night. I must have died 20 times. Between this and X-Defense, I’m finding my build for my 60 Black Panther may need some serious reworking.
There is a significant increase in enemy HP and damage between story difficulties. If you’re overlevelled and full of loot from bonuses, especially on a powerful character, though, that may not come across. I certainly noticed it on my first character several months ago, though.
sw001,
Apparently the Back in Black costume is now available in the store, in time for the BOGO! You can’t get any of the new costumes for free in the BOGO box (Loki Siege, Nightcrawler X-Force, Spiderman Back in Black, or Iron Man Heartbreaker, which used to be a freebie half a year ago but they’ve now put in the store to offer up for sale), but all of them come with a BOGO box.
So I guess tonight I need to decide between Future Foundation and Back in Black.
New code for Rune week this week: RUNE1
And I need help. I’m actually thinking about doing the new mega pack. All the heroes from 2013, a costume for each and 8 of each of the Fortune cards…200 bucks.
I need to stop.
If you don’t have many of those guys it is a reasonable buy. Don’t forget it also includes a stash page for each (which can store rings and insignias for characters you don’t care for and is very useful if you ever want to prestige a character.)
Scott
1570
Apparently the Back in Black costume is now available in the store, in time for the BOGO!
Thanks, I grabbed Back in Black! Sadly, my free costume was the Spiderman classic. I just had to laugh at that! Now to I prestige Spiderman and play through with Back in Black? Leaning towards it.
I tried going back to Scarlet Witch to play her up, but she just seems so slow and clunky with mainly dots and area damage and sitting around waiting for things to die… maybe it’s just that post Spidey and his 600k brutals everyone seems slow and clunky. :/
I wanted to ask previously, but how are you achieving such high brutal numbers with Spidey? I’m not seeing numbers anywhere close to that. And I had the same reaction to the Scarlet WItch recently. Wanted to try to get level 60 uniques for her during the bonus, but only made it through one boss rotation before getting bored. I tend to rotate through Spidey, Iron Man, and Ms Marvel for level 60 stuff at the moment.
I’ll get some gear info and such tomorrow, but frankly I don’t know. And to be sure, I don’t see them often (380-450K I do see pretty frequently with his sig, though!), but I do see them occasionally.
I know he’s at something like 31% crit, 20% brutal or somesuch… his power set is just really, really good. I thought NC was a beast, but Spidey has him beat hands down; far more survivable and better damage now that X-Slash is nerfed. (Really don’t think X-slash was overpowered the way it was. :/ )
I’ll take a screenshot next time I log in of stats/gear. It’s not much special (although I -did- finally get a cosmic Doc Ock medal tonight, yay! Decentish roll, at 200ish damage and 300sih crit on area powers…)
Still have yet to find a compelling cosmic ring… though I have some nice purples and some really nice blues.
Sammich
1572
Been meaning to try SW, but I just spent all my splinters on Firestar. I figured I’d buy SW and maybe strike gold with the BOGO box.
And now I have a token to upgrade SW’s Ultimate. I hate you, RNG.
I don’t play the normal campaign when there’s any kind of XP bonus on but otherwise it’s pretty well populated still (at least during UK time).
Ahh, that would probably explain why Pyro seemed to have more health than Mags!
Scott
1574
I’ll get some gear info and such tomorrow, but frankly I don’t know. And to be sure, I don’t see them often (380-450K I do see pretty frequently with his sig, though!), but I do see them occasionally.
Thanks. I looked at my gear, and I have a lot of defense and damage increases on Spiderman, and Excalibur as legendary, but not a lot of crit damage upgrades. So I’m curious how to make him more survivable and put out damage. I have started using Agile attack a bit more per one of your other suggestions and its added to the fun. Something to use while waiting for other powers to cycle, that enhances his speed.
I have noticed some 350k crits while playing Iron Man, so I guess its all gear dependent. (He’s running Gungnir, and a bunch of other crit gear).
Scott
1575
Alex, I think Pyro is buffed during this event to be tougher than usual. Magneto has also been substantially powered up in the last couple of patches.
He’s brutal. I just avoid him in the terminal now unless I’m running Ms. Marvel, who just punches him in the face :).
When I bought the Back in Black costume last night, my freebie was Grey Hulk. I didn’t think I could do worse than the free Human Torch Blue. I was wrong!
At the rate I’m going, I’m scared to buy another costume. My freebie would be Deadpool with his d**k out somehow. (That’s the only costume I can think of that would be worse than the ones I’ve gotten so far!)
So, for people who don’t read the forums regularly:
Until the next patch (i.e. Friday) costume affixes have been reduced to 20% cost due to some bugs with rolling certain affixes with the previous patch.
This mean rank 4 prices go from 40k to 8k. Now’s the time to get your re-rolls for super-good costume affixes just like you want them done!
Yeesh… I need help. I have all but 5 character (all mid tier), and the new Mega Pack is still tempting me. The way I’m counting, 5 chars * 9.00 = 45, and there are about 23 additional costumes I like (I don’t -need- them, of course, but I -like- them enough to say, yeah, that’d be cool to wear!) so value them at like $4.50 per or so and that’s another $100 roughly… then there’s about as many hero stashes I’d like to own @ $3.50 each… so it’s JUST about even there, but I’d also get bonus ultimate tokens and have all the chars.
Bleh… this is the evil of F2P. Sometimes you LIKE the game! :P
Don’t forget the permanent +5% bonuses to RIF/SIF runs away
Actually, a 5% bonus is so unimportant I really don’t care about those. Though I guess they would focus into the bonus category…
