New Supports: The Tinkerer (12/4/18)

PERK LIST## Perk 1- Rank 5 Level 250

  • When the supported character fires a power, there’s a 65% chance of creating a strength 551 Strike tile.

Perk 3- Rank 5 Level 250

  • While they are Invisible, the supported character’s powers deal an additional 4180 damage to enemies.

Perk 5- Rank 5 Level 250

  • At the start of battle, there’s a 80% chance to gain 6 Black AP.

Prowler Synergy Perk- Rank 5 Level 250

  • When you match a Fortified enemy Strike, Attack, or Protect tile, deal 456 damage and fortify 2 friendly tiles.

STORE OFFERS

General- New vault and store offering will be made available at 12:00 PM EDT on December 4th.

  • All special offers last for two days.

Supports: The Tinkerer Store- Has all the contents of the Supports Comic Store plus:

  • Vibranium Ore (Wakandan Secret)

  • The Dora Milaje (Protectors of the Throne)

  • Shuri’s Lab (Maker Space)

  • Kimoyo Beads (Vibranium Communicator)

  • Ancestral Plane (Home of Panthers)

  • Royal Talon Fighter (Vibranium Aircraft)

  • Spider-Sense (Danger Detection)

  • Hulkling (Young Avengers)

  • Wasp Gauntlets (Pym Blasters)

  • Quantum Realm (Sub-Atomic Space)

  • Carol’s Communicator (Super Beeper)

  • The Carol Corps (Banshee Squadron)

  • Chewie (Flerken Feline)

  • Mirror Image (Loki’s Trickery)

  • Yaro Root (Not Ripe)

  • Pocket Radio (Party Starter)

  • Lockheed (Dragon Companion)

  • Taskmaster’s Sword (Deadly Blade)

  • Hope Summers (Mutant Messiah)

  • The Tinkerer (Phineas Mason)

  • The Tinkerer is available at 4x odds

  • Has Beginner, Advanced, and Master packs

  • The odds to get a Rank 5 Support in the Master pack is 1 in 27.

  • Only visible if you have a token for the store.

The Tinkerer Vault- A 120 item vault

  • 1x Supports: The Tinkerer Master Token
  • 5x Supports: The Tinkerer Advanced Tokens
  • 9x Supports: The Tinkerer Beginner Tokens
  • 1x random 4-Star Cover
  • 14x random 3-Star Covers
  • 63x random 2-Stars Covers
  • 1x 6,000 Red Iso-8
  • 3x 4,000 Red Iso-8
  • 3x 3,000 Red Iso-8
  • 2x 1,000 Red Iso-8
  • 3x 500 Red Iso-8
  • 2x 5,000 Iso-8
  • 5x 1,500 Iso-8
  • 8x 1,000 Iso-8

Vulture Heroes for Hire- Available to all players

  • Available in the Heroes for Hire store
  • 4,800 Hero Points
  • Maximum 1 purchase.
  • Contents:
  • 1x Vulture Black cover
  • 2x The Tinkerer Advanced Tokens
  • 3x The Tinkerer Beginner Tokens
  • 30,000 Red Iso-8

Kraven the Hunter Heroes for Hire- Available to all players

  • Available in the Heroes for Hire store
  • 250 Command Points
  • Maximum 1 purchase.
  • Contents:
  • 1x Kraven the Hunter Black cover
  • 1x The Tinkerer Master Token
  • 3x The Tinkerer Advanced Tokens
  • 100,000 Red Iso-8

Yawn.

So how about that Captain Marvel trailer, huh?

Oh look a new support…

When can we expect to see this in the support store after this limited vault is over? @Brigby

@brigby, curious: in the past, new supports would come out with new chararers, every two weeks or so, but this it the first new support since 10/23 (Hope Summers). Does this mean we’ll be seeing a slow down of new supports or just nothing that fit the theme for Domino or Bishop?

We need access to Support tokens, and stores need to be updated with all of the existing tokens. Hello, Earth to devs? This has been a problem for months, and we’ve given you an easy and obvious solution for months, and you can’t even give us the dignity of talking about the problem, much less actually doing anything to fix it.

This is crossing the line from infuriating to insulting.

I’m afraid at this moment I don’t have any available news to share about when The Tinkerer may enter the support store.

The only information I’m aware of is that it’s not a guarantee we’ll be releasing a new support alongside each new character, as is evident with Domino and Bishop.

I’m afraid I’m unaware as to the reasoning behind that, but it’s plausible that the inability to find something to turn into a support, that’s both iconic and relevant to the character, is part of the reason for the inconsistency.

Any info on when previous releases will be put into support packs, as that none have been entered since the children of Thanos? Or should we consider these supports limited / one time items

I’m just going to keep on playing as if they don’t exist

I am sorry,this is sad. Not just about this one, but all the ones before. Can a plan please be discussed with the devs and rolled out to us?

Will literally anyone put Tinkerer on Prowler when he could go on Vulture instead?

16 basic support tokens hoard and waiting for the update to the basic support store. Why bother opening a single token when there a 100% chance of getting another dupe?

actually Why not remove the basic support token from the vaults?

Those 16 dupe supports could have been 16 3* covers, which translates to a 4* cover plus all the other iso cp, and hp that I would have gotten off my farms.

until there’s a plan to actually use or update the basic support token store. Please remove the token since it no longer has any use to active players

Keep the One-time Support stores, since there is no plan to merge them into the general support store. The people who want to whale for the support can do so, with out burdening players with tokens to redundant items that aren’t actively manged or updated. Most people already have those basic supports acquired, no need to have empty or null spots in the vault.

*Please keep all comments on the topic of the new The Tinkerer support.

If you wish to discuss the acquisition rate of Supports, then please discuss them in the following thread:

Gosh darn, and I was just about to comment on the acquisition rate of supports, specifically pertaining to the contents of the Tinkerer vault and the sub-optimal results of my single token opening.

Where do we go to discuss our dissatisfaction with the decision to sweep complaints under the rug by directing them to a dead section of the forums instead of addressing complaints and talking to the community like adults?

The fact of the matter is that the availability is extremely relevant, because the availability directly relates to the perks of the support. It is difficult to discuss how beneficial the Rank 5 Perk will be when virtually no players will ever acquire it. Is it worth investing Red ISO into a Rank 1 or 2 Support in hopes of increasing the rank and gaining new perks later? The low availability has a huge impact on that. Is it worth spending HP on one of the bundles or limited vaults to chase this Support? That’s a decision directly made by weighing the strength of the Support against the abysmally low, nigh-nonexistent availability.

Thanks for the reply, @Brigby.

I understand that players are frustrated by the current acquisition rate of Supports, but I assure you that we are not sweeping complaints under the rug. I simply did not want this thread to deviate into another “how would you change the current acquisition method of Supports” discussion, as there are already other threads dedicated to that topic.

As for adjustments to the acquisition rate, the team has already drafted up a design concept as to how they can improve this system. Unfortunately that’s as much news as I have available to pass along, but I will absolutely share details once the team is able to finalize it all and iron out a date as to when it can be implemented.

Considering the artwork would be fitting for someone working with the MCU Vulture and Vulture is even the HfH cover for the Tinkerer tokens, I’d like to think that they considered this.

250 cp for Kraven and you don’t have a guarantee of getting the new support.
whats 1/27 chance of 5%? A: too tinykitty small to bother

Vulture turn one take off is straight broken
the invisible AoE buff is amazing but you also get a big ol strike tile
the synergy perk is really good too but suffers from comparison. If you did run this on Prowler the added fortification would ensure that you team with shuri or Powerman, third option would be T’challa and run his red at 5 but again Vulture can go Airborne on your first turn.