Gazillion's Marvel MMO - F2P, Play as existing Marvel characters only

[Fordel]

Squirrel Girl does the same thing Ms. Marvel does, where the more shit around you the more you output. Which leads to hilarity in the Holo-sim.

[Typhon]

Deadpool has by far the best quips.

Agree, BY FAR.

The, "I don't wanna!", that he says when you run out of spirit cracks me up every time.  And when he sees Wanda, lol

[Threash]

So i got my first 60, how do i go about gearing up?

[Raguel]

xdef for uniques, and LQs for legendaries and blessings. I

[proudft]

Three more keys today for consumable boofs: RUNE1, RUNE2, RUNE3.   Perfect timing for me... I just used up my last XP buff thing last night.

[Trippy]

Also if you lost some buffs because of the bug that was patched today you can supposedly file a ticket with support. Not sure what they'll be able to give you in compensation, though.

https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/comment/1125365#Comment_1125365

[Fordel]

Today is the last day for the buy one get one sale I believe, so if you still want in on that, now is the time!

[Threash]

Someone explain brutal strike to me please.

[Tyrnan]

They're pretty much super crits.  If you have some brutal strike rating, every time you crit you roll again and if it falls within whatever your brutal strike percentage is, it hits for whatever your brutal damage rating gives you.  Base is 300%.

[ezrast]

It's generally safe to assume that brutal strike rating/damage are worse stats than whatever else you could be gearing for. They're a good bonus on top of whatever you're picking up anyway, but aiming specifically for high brutals is a mistake until you or someone else does the math to prove that it's not.

In particular, Crit Damage affects crits and brutals equally, making Brutal Damage a strictly inferior stat on a 1-for-1 basis.

This makes me desperately want to come up with a viable Ultimate Nullifier build.

[Trippy]

Is there any point on keeping low level crafting elements around (Tier 1 - Tier whatever) if you don't plan on crafting low level items? Or to put it another way for a level 60 hero are there useful items that you can craft that require the low level elements?

[Threash]

One high level element turns into like a million low level ones, so i would imagine no.

[Furiously]

If you are tight on space it makes no sense.

[Trippy]

Cool thanks.

[ezrast]

Are you guys in guilds already? Should I bother making a Bat Country?

[Raguel]

I'm already in a guild The Infinity Watch (I've got Adam Warlock and GotG on my mind 24/7 so I couldn't help but to join).

[Fordel]

https://marvelheroes.com/news/news-articles/bounty-hunter-week-arrives

Bonus Loot Thing

[Trippy]

https://marvelheroes.com/news/news-articles/bounty-hunter-week-arrives

Bonus Loot Thing

Don't like this event. It's just rushing to the same boss* and killing him over and over again.

* Of the two that are flagged per time period there's one that will be faster to kill / get to

[Kanglor]

Yeah this is a pretty boring event, especially if, like me, you get tired of boss rushing quickly.  Midtown is by far the best/most fun bonus to me, but I can't complain too much after the last event.  I  imagine the 1 Year Anniversary event is gonna be pretty huge, especially with the Omega System and raid all coming around then as well.

[Fordel]

Make sure to log in today (saturday) and tommorow for free shit.

I got a pretty nice pair of boots!

[kaid]

new code for some buff I think

ILOVEMOM

[Threash]

Sigh... "wtf is ILO VENOM"? <--- me when i read that.  Sorry mom.

[ezrast]

Going to post a cleaned up version of this on the feedback forum, but wanted to get it out of my system here first.

So on the Test Center is their new "One-shot story" which is basically a terminal that has its own self-contained plot, rather than being an out-of-context dungeon ripped from the main story. This week on Marvel Heroes, we're traveling to Wakanda to help King T'Challa address a dire threat to his country. So, what dastardly villains could be posing enough of a threat to this technologically advanced nation to warrant calling in the aid of Avengers and X-Men?

Yup. Literal spear-chuckers in loincloths and tribal paint. Just in case you hadn't already picked up on the fact that Wakanda is in Africa and needed the extra visual reference, because this is what Africans look like.

Now, I never read any of Black Panther's comics so I have no idea how much of this is grandfathered in because it comes from some bullshit decade before Americans understood that cultural sensitivity was a thing you could have but gets published anyway because blah blah iconic villains, fanbase, editorial oversight from Marvel, whatever. But could they really not think of a better way to introduce the country to the playerbase than by having us put down a bunch of fucking savages with blowguns?

BP tells us they reject the sudden modernization of Wakanda and "want to keep things the way they have been for hundreds of years" which I call bullshit on because a) we are looking at bronze age technology here; hundreds of years my ass, and b) there's no way these guys are hanging out in their loincloths telling each other "You know what? Fuck all this money and power; I much prefer sitting in a mud hut and spending my days hand-rolling couscous so that we don't all starve if we displease the Gazelle Spirit this year" or whatever. Africa has many obstacles to modernization; this is not one of them.

But whatever, the important thing is that Tony Masters up there from the good ol' USA was able to fly in and lend a helping hand. Because the kingdom that is built entirely around its weapons industry just can't quite come up with a solution to this problem without a little backup from whitey.

Jesus.

[Fordel]

That's sadly pretty much what Wakanda is in the comics AND all content has to be OK'ed by Marvel.

[Tannhauser]

I've always liked Wakanda for that reason, they had tech, they just chose to dress traditional.  I figured those spears shot lasers or something.  At least that was my take on it and maybe that makes me a bad person. 

Side note: I wonder if there is a map of the Marvel world, I'd like to see where Wakanda, Latveria and Genosha(sp?) are located.  Off to the google.

[ezrast]

Naw, I'd be okay with laser spears I think. I was expecting alien mind control or something myself, but no. What you see is pretty much what you get.

There's an official wiki that has a fair amount of pointless information on all of those places, e.g. Wakanda ("location" is in the sidebar)

[Raguel]

I like the Priest version: there's the city dwellers, who live in cities  pretty much like any place else you'd see, and then there are the tribespeople; there is a mutual loathing and hatred for one another.

While it bears little resemblance to the real world it must be noted that  Wakanda is unlike any other African nation (or at least any that I'm aware of). They still worship their pagan god, because he's (she's?) a real freaking god. They were never under European imperial control either. So IMO it's kind of like early Byrne FF's Latveria: one of the most technologically advanced civilizations on earth, but the common folk are stuck in time (I'm assuming it's that way because it reminds Doom of his younger days, and that's the way Latveria should stay, dammit).

[Nevermore]

I've always liked Wakanda for that reason, they had tech, they just chose to dress traditional.  I figured those spears shot lasers or something.  At least that was my take on it and maybe that makes me a bad person. 

Side note: I wonder if there is a map of the Marvel world, I'd like to see where Wakanda, Latveria and Genosha(sp?) are located.  Off to the google.

I think Latveria is supposed to be some tiny country near Transylvania, but since the spelling is so close to Latvia I just imagine that's the country they're talking about.

Genosha is supposed to be some small island near Madagascar iirc.

I've literally never read a single comic involving Wakanda so I have no idea where it's supposed to be (besides somewhere in the sub-Sahara I suppose).

[Furiously]

This weekend's codes are: WAKANDAN and MIDTOWN.

[kaid]

That's sadly pretty much what Wakanda is in the comics AND all content has to be OK'ed by Marvel.

Yup that is all pretty much cannon. Heck if you watch the ultimate avengers 2 on netflix I believe that is all around black panther and wakanda. One thing to note about the spear chuckers though they all are using vibranium tipped weaponry so their arrows and shields are capable of penetrating just about anything.

[kaid]

So I got my first hero to 60 when I dinged rocket raccoon in the loot fury that was midtown over the weekend. So I was messing with some low level heroes to see which I would play next. In messing with squirrel girl it is hard not to be amused with a champ thats super powers is squirrelmancy and nut kicking.

[Lantyssa]

They really nailed Squirrel Girl.  She's campy, kick-ass, and other heroes either mock or adore her.  She keeps on going like it's all sunshine and happy adventure though, and really hopeful the Avengers will take note Any Day Now.

Nightcrawler - Honestly loves her happy outlook.
Rocket Racoon - Thinks she's a complete nut and wants her to get away.
Emma Frost - SG doesn't mock her skimpy outfits, just wonders if she gets cold in them.

All her nut facts - She's insane, but in a completely harmless lovable eccentric aunt sort of way.

[Threash]

Loki who condescending mocks absolutely everyone else has this to say "Squirrel girl! finally an enemy worthy of my admiration".

[Trippy]

Yeah they did an excellent job with Squirrel Girl. The only thing I don't like about playing her is in X-Def if I want to min-max I need to spam Squirrel Saboteurs between rounds to keep my squirrel count high.

[Fordel]

Her squirrel passive also doubles as an active squirrel summon, it's not immediately apparent.