Who to max next?

Marvel Puzzle Quest MPQ General Discussion
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I currently have LDaken maxed at 5/5/3. I have Hulk maxed at 5/3/5.

I’m looking for my next 3 star to max.

My contenders are:
3/4/1 Patch
5/1/4 GSBW
3/2/3 Classic HT (will be 3/2/4, 3/3/4 or 4/3/4 after this tournament, depending on my placement)

Who should I put my iso into? I’m currently leaning towards human torch because I currently don’t have an elite red ability or black ability in my roster and hulk already has a good enough green ability, although GSBW and Patch obviously have good ones.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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No idea if this is worth anything, but I’m up to 7 maxed 3*s. This is the order I went
LCap (first one I got maxed covers for)
Patch
Daken
LThor
Sentry
Punisher
Hood

I bought 4 covers for Daken, 2 for Sentry. Everyone else was just as I won covers (and the ones I bought I have since won). Currently I’m sitting on the following with full covers (but not all covered ideally):
Falcon (needs 1 yellow to fix), Psylocke, GSBW, Torch, Hulk, Shulkie, Spidey, Doom, Rags, Loki. BP needs one more of any color (but 1 yellow, 1 black to be correct).

Right now I’m just hoarding ISO since none of those feel like they’ll make my gameplay significantly better.

If you’re not going to buy any additional covers, the most useful one might be Patch. He’s missing a lot of yellow, but he still has fast regen out of matches, , he’ll regen a tiny bit during and he’ll sit under Daken on green until he’s maxed so he shouldn’t tank too much. Unfortunately, that means his red won’t be as powerful for you as it could be.

GSBW can be a powerful character, but she sort of needs 5 green to be as effective as possible, and even then, 19 is a lot of green. And she’s fragile. Torch is nice, but also fragile, but his red is pretty solid, and the black is no slouch either.

Once you have patch/daken maxed you can play a fairly long time without heavy reliance on health packs, which can be nice in PVE. They’re not the most scary on defense in pvp, but in pvp, any team can beat any other team if they want to.

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I would go Patch for the quickness of regen. Let you climb that much faster.

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Judging by your comment on HT it sounds like you’re not in a top 100 alliance. Unless you have a specific reason not to (e.g. small alliance with only irl friends) then you should look into getting into one. People are leaving the game or taking breaks/going casual all the time, so spots are often up for grabs.

Also, just a note that this type of thread usually goes in the tips and guides section. And it also helps to include more of your roster. I want to tell you that you should max LT or Sentry next, but I have no idea how close you are to getting the covers for them. Patch is a very reasonable answer, but unless you can manage to get HT to 4/3/4 none of those on your list will really be too usable without a few more covers. GSBW is maybe the closest since you have the requisite 5 green and 4 purple makes that power very good. Her red is really bad anyway, so only having one cover for it isn’t so bad. You can just use Hulk’s Smash as a finisher after you either clap a few times or Sniper Rifle.

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That’s my current roster.
LT and Sentry are still pretty low. They would have been my first choices too, because they go so well with Daken, but unfortunately I would have to pay a pretty penny to get them to a level-able place.

I guess I could just bank ISO for a while, but I was just wondering what other people’s opinions were on the subject.

Thank you.

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Hmm… I’d definitely say start banking some ISO and hope for decent rewards from the next few weeks of events. Your current amount of ISO is not going to make much difference on any character currently. Try hoarding it until you’ve got enough to make a big jump on one character who will be a solid addition to your lineup. Currently unless you’re willing to spend a buttload of money (not advisable) on ISO and HP, you’re probably best off running the 2 maxed 3*s you have for a while. It gets boring, but it’s effective.

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GSBW with 5 green is a powerhouse. I have her at 166 and she is a regular hitter for me.

For a while, I was getting my 3* characters to minimum levels. Now I’m taking one at a time to get them all the way to 166. I have seven leveled fully. Definitely worth it.

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HT will take red and black from hulk and take black from Daken, which isn’t the wisest move since your cannon is taking for up your tank, assuming you use two of them together. If you are okay with benching Hulk, HT + Daken is pretty great.

Work on Mags a bit, too. His blue is insane. You’ve already got 4 blue so he’s pretty usable just for that.

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GSBW is made entirely irrelevant by Thor; she isn’t worth the ISO anymore

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Not sure there is a wrong answer and I think it depends what you want to use them for.

5 green for GSBW makes her very useful in PvE but she will be bad on defence in PvP. HT will combo well with Daken (Daken can tank green and black for him). I would go with Patch (though you need more covers). He will combi well with Daken in terms of colours covered and once you have more yellow covers for Patch you will be able to do sustained pushes with them due to character healing. Also you can use Patch with Hulk on defence in PvP - Patch uses green to give enemy strike tiles and enemy then attacks Hulk triggering his black = big health loss for attacking team

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So I just placed #5 in the last PVP and got 3 HT covers.

I also am aiming for that 80000 point red HT cover on the PVE.

Once I get that, My HT will be 5/3/4.

So I’m going to just pump ISO into him once I get enough to jolt him to around level 95 or 100.

Then just wait for either a black of green cover for him.

I may want to go 5/4/4 if I get the choice. 5/3/5 is good with Daken, but I really like the power his black provides for a color that I don’t use on any of my other characters.

What configuration is best for HT? 5/4/4, 5/5/3 or 5/3/5?

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I just got mine to 5/4/4, but there is no wrong way to build him, as long as there is a 5 in front. Black and green scale pretty consistently from 3 to 4 to 5, so no mandatory 5th cover needed. I think 5/4/4 is most versatile, but really can’t go wrong with 5/3/5 or 5/5/3 either. Player preference or whichever covers come in.

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That’s what I figured

Thanks!

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black has an AP drain, so I went 5/3/5.