Agreed. Round 1 was somewhat challenging to accumulate enough AP. Once I had enough 
, I had to say, it was a piece of cake. One advice is definitely use 
on goons even after KOing tile movers to prevent them accumulating ludicrus amount of AP which if you match to end a round, the next wave tile mover COULD execute a devastating ability.
Question?
How do you beat the final node if you don’t have the following covered well enough..
LCap
Hood
Switch
… basically any 3*
Any help here would be hot. My strategy for the previous wave node is spoiled thanks to being forced into using ant man
Make an online roster, would be much easier to help if we could see whatcha working with!
Is there a link to it somewhere?
Alternately, you can KO the last surviving goon of a wave with Steve’s red to cycle to the next wave, and then stun the new non-goon.
OK this is the tools at my disposal…
I’m about to give it a go with CStorm and OBW see how that pans out…
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In the words of the surfaris… wipe out.
Plan B…
Lets try LCap and Hulk
Ugh, the Hood strategy is out with no blue cover. LCap is great for survival nodes but he’s not got enough covers to target countdowns. Maybe Thor/ModMags/C.Storm? I use them for the 2* DDQ, but I don’t see them lasting that grind. Maybe put in LDaken instead of Thor, for healing and strike tiles? Either way it’s going to be a longshot.
I’ve never really used Human Torch though, maybe someone’s found a strategy using him? You would need some kind of defense, maybe Cage added in with him?
Failed with LCap and Hulk.
Cant do MNMags/Thor/Storm because you have to use the loaner for this node. Tried MnMags and CStorm along with loaner and failed miserably.
I’m not sure there is a strategy to win with my current roster, perhaps I’ll have to scratch this event for now 
I should also add that my enemies are lvl 142-167
I was able to clear this on my first attempt with LCap, OBW, and loaner Antman. This is 2/3 of my DDQ Big Enchilada team, so it’s familiar territory for me (Cage is my third).
The strategy is similar to LCap + Hood, only a little more accessible for those without a usable Hood (i.e. 5 blue covers). Focus on purple, blue, red. OBW collects bonus blue and steals all other AP with her purple; LCap stuns, dishes damage, and overwrites tiles; Antman uses his yellow to add a smidge of extra oomph (or use LCap’s yellow to negate match damage down to 1).
If you’re in a pickle with a countdown timer that you can’t overwrite without enough blue AP for LCap, you can use OBW’s blue to bail you out and heal. That’s where I find OBW to be a little handier than Hood on survival nodes.
LCap is 3/5/5 @ level 120. OBW is 3/5/5 @ level 94. Enemies on final node were level 145.
I might give this strategy a try. My LCap cant overwrite CD tiles but I can at least clear away strike/protect/attack tiles with his red and use OBW blue to heal and delay timers.
After countless tries on the last node, I barely downed it with lvl 140
and lvl 140 
. Was very slow and methodical. Enemies were over lvl 200
Yup, my rainbow team of CMags, Cage and Fist made short work of all the nodes, and then I used Hood, LCap and Loaner Ant Man (my Ant man is 1/0/1).
Once LCap gets going, there’s no stopping him and Ant Man’s blue steals those attack and strike tiles!
I personnally love using beast in those waves, he can create tons of protect tiles (while also producing tattack and strike tiles) and he can heal wich helps greatly (the heal can also produce a protect tile). I personnaly used him in combination with OBW (to remove all their AP) and wolverine (2 stars).
Being in my transition from 2 to 3 stars, I don’t have any fully covered 3 stars, but this strategy allowed me to beat the first wave node at almost full health. Now i’m simply waiting a bit to see if that strategy can be used in the second wave node as well.
After some painful fights against Gorgon in various events, there’s something immensely satisfying about having the loaner Ant-Man one-shot him with growing from his purple to start the last wave.
LazyCap, MNMags and loaner did the final node for me. My Cap is cover-maxed, but level 107 as I wait for other 3*'s to catch up and/or be acquired.
Well, it’s official.
I just threw my top 15 heroes at the SECOND node in the event, and never even dented Doom.
Making the mistake of rostering $ilver $urfer was my first mistake, and rostering OML has proven to be the move that broke my game completely.
I cannot compete in PvP, PvE, and now the one event I was actually looking forward to.
Looks like it’s DDQ (sans the 4* node anyway) from here on out until I [cue raucous laughter] manage to complete and level my 3s and get some 4s going, unless D3 actually steps up and gives us an answer beyond, “don’t open your prizes.”
Good luck to everyone else, and I sincerely hope you enjoy some non-competive MPQ! 
DBC
Beat the final node with maxed Cyclops (3*), level 160 KK, and a 2/1/1 Ant, max-boosting red/yellow and green/black. Strategy listed elsewhere in here was sound: get through the first round as best you can, then hammer the bad guy early and collect AP while dispatching goons for the other rounds. A big plus was stealing two of Sentry’s sacrifice tiles (and laughing as he self-destructed from the second one) with STC.
My advice: don’t forget to use Ant-man’s powers, even if it’s the loaner. Pym Particles add up, and Crooks can swing the match.
Many thanks to the Hood/3-star Cap tip with the Loaner Ant-Man. I tried with a few other teams, and barely made it through the first match with any of them. Give yourself some red and blue before the match, to help get started with Cap’s abilities. Killing the ninja before triggering any of his Caltrops was definitely helpful, especially before the protect tiles started showing up. After that first round, I didn’t take a point of damage. Even the LVL 70 Ant Man survived, and stealing Daken’s tiles was quite helpful. All of the guys were level 198
Now if only I could get a blue cover for Ant-Man, I’d be quite happy… My Ant-Man is currently a 3/0/3 breakdown.
LCap is the key! My Hood lacks blue covers, and IM40 is under-leveled, but I made it through with 3* Captain Marvel accompanying 3* Steve Rogers. When Capt Marvel is hit hard, she feeds red AP over to Steve. Her black includes a brief stun, and the resulting enemy attack tile can be cleaned up by one of Steve’s shields.
Good luck.