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| WildMN34 | Aug 6 2015, 11:51 AM Post #256 |
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Man, I can't do crap in the PvE's lately. Just not getting the xp that I need to get the big cumulative rewards. I missed out on the Jean covers so can't do her nodes at all which put me behind right away. Although, I think I have a shot at the 10 pack in the PvE stuff. So it sort of evens out. Just don't feel like I have the guns right now to do both I kind of have to pick one or the other to focus on which sucks. |
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| jamesh | Aug 6 2015, 05:12 PM Post #257 |
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Level 42
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I agree that the 7 day story events seem like a lot of work for little gain. The bracket I'm in for the current event seems to be quite laid back, and I'm only after the purple Doom cover, so I've been able to manage about 1.5 clears each sub-event to keep in the top 50. I doubt the Deadpool event is going to be anything like that, but at least it is short by comparison. In comparison, once you've got a high enough level roster, it seems like the versus tournaments give more bang for your buck. With the weekly boosted character system, I can occasionally hit top 100 now, and could probably do so more consistently by bumping my roster up a few more levels (I've currently got most of them at level 104 now). I can usually hit the second event token at 650 points, so a higher level roster would probably let me get the cover at 800 points. That'd be two guaranteed 3* covers for 1-3 days play. This also seems to be the quickest path to more 4* covers, with prizes at 1000 and 1300 points (although you probably need to deal with paying for shields at that point). They've also announced yet another character. This one isn't a 4* though, so should be easier to collect: 1* Spider-man: https://d3go.com/marvel-puzzle-quest-new-spider-man-swinging-in/ It's a bit low level to really play with at my point in the game, but the extra web tiles he creates would also make Venom a lot more powerful (you might actually see the instant kill version of his black power). The extra critical tiles would also make it easier to trigger the extra damage from 2* Bullseye's black power. |
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| jamesh | Aug 12 2015, 02:43 AM Post #258 |
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Level 42
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Here's an update on my experience with the vault system. I had been saving up my "sweet" taco tokens since they were introduced, and decided to spend them all this week. I would have had 50 to spend including this week's ones, but spent one before the vault went live so it only took 49 prizes from the vault. I found that spending tokens from "post-event" vault causes the vault to reset after you pick something, so you don't get any benefit from making multiple picks in this mode: you're better waiting the 5 days until those tokens are current again. Next, I found that the vault contents are not saved until you make your first pick from the vault. I was mainly trying to get a Kingpin cover for the Deadpool event, so I restarted the game until two of the three 4* covers in the vault were Kingpin, and then started using the tokens. With 49 tokens, this should have given me a 41% chance of pulling at least one 4* cover, but sadly I didn't get any. What I did get was: - 17500 Iso (2 * 5000 + 5 * 1500) - 750 HP (3 * 250) - 30 health packs (6 * 5) - 5 3* covers - 28 2* covers Sadly I didn't need any of the 3* covers I pulled, but this would have been a pretty good result in a different week. They are also running a vault for the current Juggernaut story event which gives better odds: four 4* covers out of 80 prizes. It is pretty easy to get four tokens from the event (one from progression, and one for top 300 in each sub-event), which should give a 19% chance of pulling at least one 4* cover. And this time I was lucky and got a second red Deadpool cover from my second token. |
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| NMANOZ | Aug 12 2015, 10:59 PM Post #259 |
Level 6
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Is there a limit on the number of tokens you can stockpile? |
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| jamesh | Aug 13 2015, 12:44 PM Post #260 |
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Level 42
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I've got no idea. I had 40 sweet taco tokens stockpiled, and that wasn't a problem. I don't know if there is an upper limit: presumably you could stockpile 300 tokens if you wanted to get everything from one vault, but that would be a bit wasteful (you'd usually be better off waiting 10 days for a reset after getting one 4* token). |
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| NMANOZ | Aug 13 2015, 01:48 PM Post #261 |
Level 6
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I got 21 and 27 saved up, I will probably keep going until I hit a limit if there is any. At this stage I don't even need many 3 star cover, just mostly the newer characters. |
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| jamesh | Aug 13 2015, 02:33 PM Post #262 |
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Level 42
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If you want to work out your chances of pulling at least one of a set of prizes, here's the formula I used expressed as Python program:
Where tokens is the number of tokens I have to open, wanted is the number of items in the vault I want, and vaultsize is the total number of items in the vault. So if I spend one 5-day vault's worth of tokens, the chance I'll pull at least one 4* character is prob(10, 3, 300) == 9.7%. To get even odds of pulling at least one 4*, you'll need 62 tokens. For the Juggernaut vault, the 4 free tokens gave prob(4, 4, 80) == 18.9% as the chance of at least one 4*. |
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| NMANOZ | Aug 15 2015, 03:20 PM Post #263 |
Level 6
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I did pick up a Red Cover for 4 star Thor from the Juggernaut event. Now have 3/0/0 with her (though her covers are going to start in my daily resupply soon). |
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| jamesh | Aug 17 2015, 01:18 PM Post #264 |
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Level 42
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Congratulations. My 4* Thor is at 2/0/0 from a few lucky tokens. I'll be getting an Invisible Woman cover this week from the daily resupply too. It seems like ages since I got 4* Wolverine through the daily rewards. And hot on the heels of the 4* Deadpool release, we've got the Falcon version of Captain America in the next story event: http://marvel.com/news/video_games/24982/piecing_together_marvel_puzzle_quest_sam_wilson_captain_america It seems kind of weird that there are now more 4* characters than 2* characters in the game. It's quite a jump from when I started and there were only 3. |
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| jamesh | Aug 29 2015, 09:52 PM Post #265 |
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Level 42
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And another new 4* character event starting this Thursday, this time for Mr Fantastic: http://marvel.com/news/video_games/25026/piecing_together_marvel_puzzle_quest_mr_fantastic The event will be yet another rerun of "The Hunt", and assuming they stick to the current pattern the essential characters will be 4* Star Lord, 3* Black Widow and 2* Magneto. I'm getting to a point where I can't use many 3* covers I pull from tokens. I've now got 21 characters with a full set of 13 covers, although 9 of those could do with more covers to respec the powers. I've got 5 more sitting at 12 covers, including Cyclops who I managed to get up to 5/3/4 in the recent event. And I still haven't brought my team up to a point where I can regularly win 4* covers. I might give the SHIELD Simulator another go: I made it to 1700 points last season before getting knocked back down, so perhaps getting all the way to 2000 isn't too far out of reach. |
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| WildMN34 | Aug 31 2015, 04:50 PM Post #266 |
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Level 3
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Yeah I feel like I've hit a wall getting "good" covers too. Just haven't been getting much to help. Still slogging away, but feel like I'm running in quick sand and not getting anywhere. |
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| jamesh | Sep 4 2015, 01:10 PM Post #267 |
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Level 42
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They're now adding 5* characters to the game, with Silver Surfer as the first: You'll be able to get them using a new "legendary token", which gives a 5% chance of a 5* cover, and 95% chance of a 4* (so no chance of 1*, 2* or 3*). Among other ways, there will be a legendary token as a progression reward in story events, and a special match in DDQ every 5 days. |
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| WildMN34 | Sep 4 2015, 02:04 PM Post #268 |
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Level 3
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I like the 5 star idea I just feel like I'm not going to have a snowbals chance in hell to get one... :-( |
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| jamesh | Sep 4 2015, 02:16 PM Post #269 |
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Level 42
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Well, being able to get an (almost) guaranteed 4* character each story event doesn't sound too bad. I'm not sure how hard the legendary tokens from DDQ will be. They say it will be a 1v1 fight using a certain essential 4* character. Presumably taking a single cover 4* character into that battle isn't going to work too well. |
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| WildMN34 | Sep 4 2015, 05:54 PM Post #270 |
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Yeah I'm just worried I won't have the guns to even get the token. We'll see maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised. |
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