OK, so here is the verdict on the Star-Lord/War Machine/Ironman team (30% blast bonus). The specs for testing were all level 40, four star, full masteries, gear at +9 or 10, skills all around 23-25, ISO sets complete with StarLord having Silent Night for sustain and only with 2 star ISO's in slots. In short, there is plenty of levelling to do. The PROS: this team can auto clear levels easily. I ran them on auto clearing Groot levels (lvl 4) and it was no issue and under 3 minutes each run. They can generally auto levels at level 7...level 8 they have a few problems. In the arena I ran them against an equivalent standard J.I. Team on full auto and they won...barely. Spiderman is the issue here. The bonus makes their basic attacks do a lot of dmg, about 850-1000 a hit...depending on the at or of the opponent. The CONS: the team virtually has no HP, only about 6.5K for each of them which makes them very fragile if they face something they can't handle. They are super weak against speed class characters which is a problem for auto battling. If the boss of the level is speed, you have to take an active role. Fighting in the arena against one of the top-tier speed characters is a mission. In short, if you level them up, they are a very viable team IMO. Star-Lord is the kiting master and super-fun to use. If you cycle through them in the difficult areas, there are stuns from War Machine and Ironman which means you can get a lot of free damage in. Plus, using their synergy ability is dual-laser madness which is immensely pleasurable. If Ironman has his Uniform, this team is even better. Star-Lord is actually my fave Blast character...and the dance. Level him up my brethren.
^this Beyond EP's points, this game is repetitive to an almost insane degree. It's appeal is in "ranching" Marvel characters. Checking in day after day for months to focus on characters you have no interest in just because they're so awesome and powerful according to some internet guy will make for a very dissatisfying experience in short order. Conversely, if you focus on characters you actually like and have an interest in, you take pleasure in seeing them hit another star, another mastery, getting 2 more missions ahead in the "campaign", etc.. The only arguably competitive parts to this game are Villain Siege and Arena. VS requires a whole gaggle of beefed up heroes to do well at. I've yet to crack VS#8 with 43 of 45 characters unlocked, no one below L32, and 5 L4 characters. VS #8 will come in the next couple of weeks, getting close, but #9 is still a ways off. And Arena is mostly about farming daily energy and honor tokens. You can get really serious about it I suppose, but so long as you pick one team trio to focus on initially (went with Iron Mania here) and play every day, you're going to walk away with 180-220 crystals each week in very short order without stress.
Those are 2 top-tier characters it doesnt matter which one you go with. Some observations... Ultron performs better against mobs, Vision is somewhat better against smaller crowds, hence does better in arenas and boss fights. Manual control improves Ultron by a lot, while Vision only a little, coz his strengths already show even in autoplay. Ultron depends on well placed AOE attacks to clear mobs fast, and autoplay doesnt care about that. Vision's more single target bursty nature can take targets out one by one so auto and manual play doesnt have a lot of differences.
Great post. Yeah I don't see the point in min/maxing to any intense degree in this game. Just focus your absolute favorite characters and check off a daily list and in due time you'll progress through the game. With that philosophy, I have only 4 characters left to unlock, a ton of 3*, five 4*, nearly have my first 5*, the ability to complete VS Stage 8 as long as it's Destroyer or Ronan, and I'm creeping into Chapter 8 in the normal campaign and almost through with Chapter 7 in Elite. All without paying a single real dollar. Sure, there are people out there who may average a ton of Crystals in Arena per week because they min/max to ensure a high rank, and people with a ton of 5* and even 6*, but I think I'm making pretty good headway for being a "casual" player. What's most important is having fun. Oh and obsessively collecting as many characters as I can. Guess that's the Pokemon effect
Nice detailed review on the team. I really want to rank Starlord up, but im pouring tokens into someone else for now.
Game just launched in China, #2 in free game downloads, should climb the grossing chart soon. Still top 10 grossing in Korea, because this is one of the few games with one server globally for all platforms, any update in Korea will hit here same day and Netmarbles will be updating this for years to come, regardless of weak US/EU performance. They need to fix arena. Attacker just has it too easy, defender loses nothing. Lower attempts, higher stake! Give us clan wars from Clash of Clans, crusade mode from Heroes Charge!
VS 8... None of my characters are over 40 so the best I've done is get within 20 percent of beating it. I'm still 40ish bios from 5-star punisher and 60ish from Marvel. Vision is awesome. 4-star mastered version at level 37 and I can solo up to a stage 7 Bullseye. I have 5k crystals. Buy AoU set of costumes or cherry pick characters at 750 each? It comes down to is 250 crystals worth 50k gold, some energy and rank 4 xp chips? Edit: part of me expects a 10 to 20 percent sale soon (July 4th maybe?)
So I was wondering, what is the criteria a character has to fill to land in one "Class" over the other? Reason I ask, is it feels like Gamora could have been just as eligible for being a Combat type, and vice versa for Nebula, especially since Nebula's fighting style is at least aesthetically similar to Mockingbird. It just seems like it could have just came down to a crapshoot as to which class the two went under. Plus, in speculating characters who should be added, where would Scarlet Witch likely fall under? And would She-Hulk, despite being the cousin of the premiere brute force character, who very much belongs in Combat, be shoe-horned into Speed simply because of her smaller frame? At least there's no doubt of where Quicksilver should go
You are generally looking for something unique to the character, beyond just simple damage, something you can't get anywhere else. If you look at top tier characters in the game. Vision - Physical immunity for 10 seconds, huge damage, safe moves. War Marchine - Safe moves across the board, great leadership skill. Spiderman - Safe moves, long crowd control time. Luke Cage - Physical immunity for everyone on his team. Ronan - Huge leadership boost. Groot - Heal over time for 50% health. So on and so forth.
A few tidbits that may help others: Over the weekend I did some tests with 5*, fully mastered lvl45 Black Widow in the Arena, just to see how well she performs. My BW has: [*]- uniform, [*]- 2/3* ISO set (Power of Symbiote), [*]- level 10&11 gear. [*]- She's got lvl 30 skills except for Infiltrator (3* skill) that's level 43. Fully automatic she took out 4* lvl40 JI teams without too much problem. Her HP would drop down to 10-30% by the end of it, largely depending on how her skills processed in comparison to her opponents. The outcome was surprising: - Spider-Man wasn't the biggest obstacle. Most of his specials got interrupted or whiffed due to BW's faster skill use and constant barrage of attacks. - Venom was a pain due to the class and his natural tankiness. - Captain Marvel's shield didn't help her from lightning attacks, but her energy attacks still dealt high damage that wasn't fully dodged. Next I pitted her against 5*, lvl 45, fully mastered Spider-Man on full auto. This came down to the wire and showed just how important the timing of skill processing is. This is also where full-auto will let you down, because in the middle of a good attack cycle BW on auto stops to engage the Infiltrator skill, giving Spider-Man almost a second to get the upper hand. In short, BW is a second tier in the mid to late mid game when a host of other heroes picks up, but she definitely shines once she hits rank 5. She's not everyone's cup of tea and may need driving at times but she definitely holds her own and deservedly gets back in the first tier of characters (at least for me). And if you want to hear about rank 5 let downs, Captain Marvel definitely fits the bill. I'm sorry I spent my Arena tokens on her past 4* because her 5* skill is fairly useless at best, outright dangerous for her at worst. Her 5* skill is a pulse AOE energy attack that dissipates rapidly with distance, which means that you have to let mobs surround you before you use it. And because it inevitably won't destroy all the mob you'll be stuck in the middle, either having to tag in a character that's happy to clean up whilst taking on damage (like Ultron) or see your HP dwindle rapidly.
That is a shame about Captain Marvel. I consider her one of my top "laser beamers". Now I get to look at the 26/160 bios for her and feel disappointment that I shouldn't be getting any more. She's still pretty useful for DPS but I don't want to grind for a lackluster skill. So, Gamora or Blackbolt for honor points? Could go for either but I'd prefer Gamora I think.
To me she peaked at 4*, lvl40. Of course I wouldn't have known it if I didn't push for 5*. As part of 5* JI team she probably fits right in; will know in a week or so once I get Spider-Man and Venom up to 5*. I have both Gamora (lvl 31) and Black Bolt (lvl 29) at 3*. Black Bolt was another disappointment, at least at 3*. His skills are average at best and often left him exposed after use. To me Gamora is a clear winner: fast, has decent skills and plenty of team options. I ran her teamed up with Drax (2*) and Angela (4*) under Angela's leadership. They're all physical damage dealers, quick and fun to play. Only drawback to that team is lack of easily available Angela's bios.
I'd tend to agree with this, CM is a fairly underwhelming 5* compared to BW and Luke Cage from what I've seen. Having said that, CM is good for running levels on auto with two lower level characters, as long as the enemies aren't too high a level relative to her (since then her AOE skill takes out enemies much better). BW is better against stronger single enemies and bosses since her ultimate skill isn't AOE. Luke Cage is better than both for running most levels, IMO, since his ultimate is both AOE (for mob killing), and has a stun (for boss killing)
Really good character reviews guys... Especially the CapMarvel info was an eye opener. Keep em coming! If there's anything im not liking with the recent events, is that the double bios from elite stages are preventing me from getting bios for Ronan. Im been really spoiled by a Ronan boosted Ultron right now. Basically just start the missions, switch to Ultron, and let him steamroll through everything in auto.
anyone seen/got Destroyer 5*? How it compare with Ultron *5? I got *4 Ultron and not so impressed with it. My *3 Destroyer impress me more. Created Ones is my 2nd favorite team behind Civil War. In the Name of the King at 3rd.
Only have a 4-star Destroyer and i have the opposite impression between him and Ultron. Destoyer has a stun which is pretty good, but he has pretty bad normal attacks. That, and back when both were 4-star, Ultron was easily outdamaging Destroyer and killing mobs faster with the better AOE. From what i've experienced with the 2, they are somewhat similar but with Ultron having a better AOE. Destroyer's stun is pretty handy for kiting, and is his advantage over Ultron, but it deals somewhat low damage. Ultimately, Ultron is the better brawler (mob clearing, toe-to-toe trading, etc) while Destroyer is the better kiter (hit-n-runs, safe playstyle). On that note though, there are much better kiters like Widow or Ironman. Plus, Destroyer has a pretty bland visual design and his movement animation looks like he has pretty short arms.
