Alright, so I’ve been playing for a little bit and have a good 2* roster (max Daken, Wolvie, OBW, Thor, and Ares), and I have been doing well in PvE, and sometimes PvP as well (really I just focus on getting to 4000 during the season to get my 10-pack). Here are my 3/4*s with at least 1 of each cover, their current level and covers, and potential max level based on current covers.
I don’t have a red cover for Hulk yet, but I added him anyway since I have been using him with Ares on defense. I have about 94,000 ISO to spend, and am willing to spend some money to buy some more covers once HP goes on sale again, I just don’t know where to start based on the covers that I have.
Any help/recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks!
If you’re willing to spend some cash, I personally would buy one more Blue cover and 2 more Black covers for your Hood and max him out. Hood is an AMAZING support character who works well with any and all teams. It would be a solid place to start.
Only advice I can give is if you have MNMags, level up Mystique a little more (at least 90?) so you can use the combo in tough PVE situations. 4 Blue covers is plenty enough to keep the combo going.
The obvious answer is Xforce. Why anyone would tell you different is mind boggling. Look at every PVP match above 500 points, you’ll likely see an XForce. He’s freakin’ everywhere. Pour everything you have into him. You’ll win more PVP matches, and more people will avoid attacking you simply because you have a high level XForce.
I would add a caveat: you do not want Hood tanking too many colors, because he’s very low on hit points and can’t take much damage. You do not want him as your sole (or even main) leveled 3*.
I disagree. Nothing I like seeing more than a high level useless xforce because he doesn’t have the covers. If you are going to spend the money on covers and get green to at least 4, then sure. But leveling an xforce with those covers is nothing more than free points and a waste of iso.
Xforce is not scary unless he’s built correctly. An xforce without 5 in green and 5 in black is no more threatening than many 2 or 3*s. The only reason I didn’t suggest this is because he would need 2 Green covers and 3 Black covers to build him correctly, and that’s 12,500 HP…he said he was willing to drop “some” cash, not necessarily his life savings
Ben makes a solid point too, if you leave hood at (i think) lvl 121? he hides in the background and does his thing while everyone else takes the hits.
I wouldn’t fully commit to anybody, though you could definitely do worse than putting ISO into Hulk or Captain Marvel (though see note below). X-Force is a little iffy in the current cover situation; while you might scare off some people with 2* rosters, most people with 3* or above will check the covers for X-Force, and one with those covers would be attacked a lot. Hulk doesn’t exactly scare people off, but both he and Captain Marvel are annoying on defense, and you might get attacked less with them. But you don’t currently have anyone with enough covers to really scare off someone with a developed 3* roster. You’re still on the early end of the transition.
But overall, I’d focus on your 2* roster, try working a few of the 3*s in, find out who you like playing with, and focus on getting covers for them. One concern: Hulk and Captain Marvel are both about to be rotated out, so covers are going to be thin for them for the next few months.
Wouldn’t leveling X-Force up screw up my PvE matchmaking? Since I’m still pretty early in the transition, most of my progress is coming from PvE and I don’t want to screw that up unless I am really going to be dominating in PvP (and I’m not convinced even a fully covered X-Force combined with 2*s is going to do that for me).
12,500 HP is not out of the question - I could go as high as 20,000 if there is a sale soon.
Sounds like at least 1 Hood cover to max his blue and then maybe take him to 121, then I could max out 1 or 2 of CMag, Cap, Black Panther, Captain Marvel. Mystique, Blade? What would make the best team you think?
With your current covers I wouldn’t invest anythin into Cmag, BP, or blade personally. I would pick mystique because she gels well with MMags. Although I’m not sure who would be tanking what if you throw her in the mmags and hood. Mystique isn’t going to do a lot for you on deffence for pvp, so it depends what your priorities are. If it’s pve and climbing in pvp then mystique is your girl. If defence on pvp is what you are after then putting a few levels into hulk is your best bet IMO, since red really isnt’ much of anything anyway. I’d almost rather have captain marvel’s red or mmag’s red over a hulk red with a couple covers.
I would save your iso instead of leveling weak covered charecters. And if you are dead set of leveling a 3* that you don’t have enough covers for, I would consider cage maybe…he might help you in low loevel pve at bit
Being only slightly ahead of you in the transition stage I can say none of your current 3*/4* (hood is close) are covered enough to be better than 2s. That can obviously change if you spend HP. X-Force is always an option if you’re willing to spend money on HP. Having him fully covered will automatically make your roster better than all the 2 rosters. Though if you choose to level him up a lot it will screw up your PvE scaling.
Covers for good would be good but like others have pointed out he has low hit points.
I hate that people have to ask this question, or even consider it at all. How broken of a system is it when people are scared to level up their characters…
You only need 5 more covers to have XForce full up. Not sure how you went about getting your current covers for him, but you’ve been a lot more successful than I have. I still think that if you plan on getting XForce playable, you might as well go for it.
If you can I would go for Captain America, with boosts he can take out anyone and leave annoying covers like Hulk permanently stunned if you pair him with Hoods black. He also has the added benefit of being able to take out timers, attack and def tiles. I love my Cap.
As stated above, the obvious answer is X-Force followed by Hood. XF needs to be 5/5/3, while Hood should be fine at 5/5/1. That means you need 5x 4* covers and 1x 3*…so roughly 13,750 HP (but you’ll need some for shields as well). That pair should carry you magnificently for PVE given the third will be a low level and/or loaner. I think I placed top 5 at ~1,100 in the recent Coversquirrel using that pair and the loaner.
As for leveling…this will be tricky. My Hood is over leveled due to the shift a while back, so Im making a second and plan on ~120 (havent fully checked the numbers). Then for XF…i dont really have good advice here. I stopped him at 220 so opposing XFs using SS wouldnt pull green but the recent tweak to damage scaling means the numbers need to be revisited. Plus, he is going to be your main tank and damage dealer so more health is better.
I’d avoid buying xforce covers right now because if you are going to lvl him up then ur scaling will be through the roof. Looking at your current roster, I’d lvl up captain marvel, hulk, and mystique. They all have decent covers and a cap marvel/hulk team could make a decent pvp team. If u are going to spend money on hp, then I’d buy hood’s 5th blue cover in a heartbeat. If you are deadest on max covering xforce, then go for it, but he is squishy at lvl115
Thanks! The 316 is actually a really old Austin 3:16 wrestling reference. I can’t remember the last time I watched or cared about wrestling, but the 316 has stuck ever since.
So thanks to everyone for the solid advice. I think for the time being I’m going to dump my ISO into a maxed MNMags, Mystique, and Hood. And once they have an HP sale I’ll probably pick up whatever Hood and Mystique covers I think I need (probably 1 blue for each) and then fully cover XF then as well. I’ll just level everything up slowly together so as to not destroy my PvE matchmaking. I think this will make for a good start to my 3* transition. Thanks again!
Remember, you’re making the 3* transition, not 4*. Let XForce gradually earn his covers and don’t destroy your scaling throwing ISO into him until he’s full and you have somebody to pair with him.
If Captain America (3*) wasn’t getting vaulted soon, I’d say go for him. a properly leveled LCap (3/5/5) is absolutely brutal with his red doing good damage and replenishing itself, and blue stunning for 2 turns, replenishing and dropping a hefty shield.
If you want to keep PvE scaling reasonable, nothing past 110. I had my group of 3stars at 110 while I collected covers and had no issues playing PvE, as my 2stars could still handle every node. When I bumped them up to 120 (and now 135), my 2 stars have been scaled out of more and more nodes.
For what you have, the only covers worth buying are XForce green and black and Hood Blue. Nothing else is worth the money with your current covers
I probably should have put a tad more detail into the iso portion of my post. While no one is sure, a lot of speculation suggests that it is char level rather than covers which dictate scaling for PVE. So getting the covers for XF/Hood will make those two seriously viable, and with effort get you frequent T25s, but you might want to avoid dumping ISO so they dont not impact your PVE scaling.
