How do you guys get that many points? I have never been much above 500 for a pvp event and I rarely get battles worth more than 20 - 25 points.

Ah crap, it ended this morning? I should've pushed at least to top 100 this morning.

Some people just play a shit ton. I usually only play until about 300 or 400 before getting tired.

Play one game the first day to get in a bracket and then sit a day out while other people rack up points. That'll let you get some matches where you're getting more points. I've had some where I'm in the high 40's for matches and it's pretty normal to have them in the low-to-mid 30's. It makes it much easier to build up a decent score, though if you get high enough, you will get to the point where you have to settle for around 20 per match.

Same here. Was thinking it ended tonight or I would've pushed up and shielded this morning.

With just 3 Spider-Man covers, I don't have much interest in trying to fill him out, so I may just play the Widow PVP to get the 300 cover reward for a chance at a 3* and then ignore the rest.

I've feeling kind of burned out on the game, as I haven't really transitioned to 3*s and am worn out on 2*s. Here's where I'm at with my high-cover 3*s:

Cap - 104, can go to 166
Falcon - 104, can go to 166
Hood - 104, can go to 166
Thor - 104, can to to 153
Black Panther - 104, can go to 127
Psylocke - 104, can go to 127
Punisher - 104, can go to 127
Patch - 104, can go to 127
Black Widow - 104, can go to 117
Magneto - 104, can go to 114
Daken - 104, maxed
Daredevil - 102, maxed
Doom - 102, maxed
Iron Man - 102, maxed
Sentry - 102, maxed
Hulk - 91, maxed
X-Force Wolvie - 86, can go to 188

I've got over 250k ISO, so I could max two of the three I have full covers for or take quite a few up into the high 120s range. I was really hoping for more Iron Man covers to max him, Cap and Hood at the same time, but that's taking forever. I feel like once I start maxing 3*s, I'm going to end up in far tougher PVE events at a minimum, so I don't want to make the transition with a team that won't do well with that. I've read that having maxed 3*s doesn't affect what PVP groups you end up in, but I've also read that it does, so I don't know if I should be considering that. Any advice from those who've made the transition? I skimmed some threads in the dev forum, but didn't see anything that was much help outside of don't waste any more ISO leveling up Psylocke and Daredevil.

Nick Fury cover for the Top 10 in the new PVE. Two covers for Top 2. Not for Alliances, though.

Blue Spider-Man at 35k progression.

Essential missions require Punisher and Spider-Man.

Spidey was nerfed so hard that I doubt he's a high priority for anyone these days, is he? I was actually surprised to see him in some PvP teams.

Personally, I would max or at least level up the 3*s you have a lot of covers for and you know you'll use (like Lazy Thor, who's one of the best in the game and doesn't look to be nerfed anytime soon), especially if they're tanks, since the higher levels will help them to tank.

Cap is fantastic, but more for PvE (though he's also useful in PvP). Hood really really depends on what covers you have and who you pair him with, Falcon as well.

Why did you max your Daredevil, though? That's one character who is absolutely useless in PvE and who I doubt the computer plays well when on defense.

For context:

I have 3 lvl 166 3*s (Pun, Patch, Mags) and about 4 or 5 max covered 3*s. I am working on brining Sentry up to 166 ATM. My max PvP score so far is 1301.

My first piece of advice is to focus on maxing out characters one at a time. You will find a lot more sucess with 2 maxed out 3*s than 10 at level 110. I have a few thoughts on your roster. First of all, Psylocke is a good utility character and can be super helpful, so whoever told you that ISO is wasted on her is just wrong. It is true that there are a number of better 3*s, but she is not bad by any stretch. Daredevil, on the other hand, is nigh useless. My advice to you would be to max out Hood and either Thor or Cap depending on your covers. If you have 5 in Yellow on Cap, I would max out Thor. The only build for Cap is 5 red, 5 blue. Anything else is not nearly as good. Thor's best build is 5 yellow, 5 green. If you have Cap at 5 red, 5 blue, I would max him because he is dead useful and fun to play with in both PvE and PvP. Thor is the better deffensive character on PvP, but isn't as fun to play with IMO.

Without knowing what your covers are, I would rank your characters as follows (with suggested covers):

Magneto (with a caveat)– 5 blue covers coupled with 5 red covers means you pretty much don’t need health packs any more. Once you get 2 blue matchs and 2 red matches, any blue tiles next to each other means a 4 or 5 match. Once you are out of blue matches, you get 3 board shakeups. This is all on one turn. If you lay down patch’s green, you can then spam red for 1K damage per 2 red AP. It is ridiculous. They have been saying they are going to nerf him for 6 months, so I’m not sure if I would max him out at this time. I personally have him 5 blue, 4 red, 4 purple because red is still pretty spamable and 4 purple gets an unlisted boost in damage so it is pretty powerful. Pretty much any mix is good for him as long as blue is 5.

Patch – I have him 5 green, 5 yellow and use him primarily with Magneto. He is an offensive beast and long lasting due to his regen.

Sentry – Crazy character on defense. You skip the team with maxed him and daken for a reason. They are super fast on offense. You match 3 green, world rupture and watch the other team burn. I have 5 green, 3 red, 5 yellow.

Daken – crazy useful with pretty much any other character. I want him to last longer so I prefer 5 purple, 5 black.

Thor – Great Tank and idiot proof for AI on defense. 5 green, 5 yellow is the only way to go IMO.

Hood – One of the best defensive characters in the game and very useful when teamed up with people who have high AP cost powers (like Cap). Only draw back is low HP. Good to use in PvE or PvP. You have to have 5 in Blue. If you don’t, don’t bother with him. 5 blue, 5 yellow is what I have, but you could argue that you are almost never going to use yellow, so go 5 black. Either way, 5 blue is a must.

Cap – Good HP and good all around utility character. Useful for PvE or PvP. His yellow may as well not exist due to the cost.

Black Panther - They recently changed his yellow power to make it much more useful IMO. His black is devastating. Team him with Thor and you have a very formidable defensive team that won’t need as many health packs because they have a combined 20K HP. His blue is useless IMO.

Psylocke – She has low cost, mid-range damage. She is good for cutting down single opponents fast, but she is not going to be as good as a thor or patch for damage output. Her blue is useless too.

Falcon – I like playing with Falcon for fun, but he is only really scary when teamed up with Lazy Dakin. You match a green, then a yellow and your strike tiles get really scary, really fast. 5 Yellow, 5 blue. Some would argue that his blue is better used when it doesn't take away countdown tiles (specifically when you are facing Sentry, you would rather take down his strike tile than one of 20 world rupture tiles).

Punisher – As long as you have 5 green covers, you can’t srew him up. He works well on pretty much any team. I like 5 red for the level 300 goons on PvE.

Hulk – He is a tank, but not super fun or useful on offense. He is built to be a defensive character, but most high level players have figured out how to deal with him easily. 5 black is a must. So many other characters have better red and green powers that it doesn't matter. Though I will use his green to shake up the board.

Doom – He is pretty tanky, but limited IMO.

Black Widow – I don’t care for her because she sucks on defense, but her purple into green will cut down almost any team. 5 green, 5 purple. Her red is just stupid for the cost.

Daredevil – If you could decide where the traps go, he would be awesome. But, you can’t, so he isn’t.

Iron Man – I see him as only a red/blue battery.

X-Force Wolvie – A total waste of a character. His yellow is substantially worse with 5 covers than it is with 1.

Max - The more I think about it, it really depends on your covers for Cap, Thor and Hood. If you have 5 red, 5 blu for Cap and 5 yellow, 5 green for Thor, I say max out those two first and then focus on bringing Hood to 166. You will find your PvP matches to be much eaiser with Cap/Thor as they pack a punch and they cover 4 colors with hard hitting powers.

orangecrush, thanks for taking the time to type all that out. It was enough to push me into maxing Cap (5b/5r/3y) and Hood (unfortunately 5y/3blue/5black for now). Feels a bit odd to see my ISO sitting down at around 5k, but hopefully it'll punch up the fun on PVP at least. I'm guessing it's worth saving enough HP to buy covers and maxing blue for Hood, assuming I don't get them from draws in the meantime?

Edit to add: My Thor is 5r/2y/5g, so I figured it'd be easier to get the two covers to optimize Hood than the three to optimize Thor. I'll probably save up another 100k ISO, see where my covers are then and push Thor if I haven't gotten enough to make someone else more attractive.

I would definatly try as hard as possible to get 5 blue for hood. His only (and really good) use is in stealing AP. I personally like 5 yellow. You won't use it in most matches, but when you do, it feels really good because you can usually use it to fuel a game ending power.

I am not sure it will be easier to get the blue hood covers than thor for a while just because they had Hood cover rewards twice pretty recently. Either way, you will be happy with Cap. He is a solid, fun character. Once you get over that hump and have a couple 166 3*'s it is a lot easier to get 900+ in PvP.

Edit to add: I would expect to get 20 black hood covers from draws before you get a blue cover just because that is how this game is. How much HP do you currently have?

I've got 750 HP now. Figure if I don't shield much in PVPs for a week or two, I'll probably have the 1250 to get another blue for him, which will at least bump the trigger down to more than 9 instead of more than 10. Then it'll just be the last one to add the other two colors.

I love Hood's 5-cover Yellow. It finally doesn't end the turn AND generates AP which can feed itself Yellow. If I could get the 5th blue cover so he's stealing Yellow and Black as well, then I'd actually get to use it more frequently.

That sounds like a good plan to me. Usually it is only advisable to buy a cover if you are going from 4 to 5 and the jump is really noticable on a good character. Otherwise, You can buy a whole lot of shields with 1250 HP to place top 5 in a PvP event in order to get a 3rd cover for a desirable character (I wouldn't do it in this one for Spiderman). There is also a stratagy for PvP to help you not buy sheilds and still place well. Start the first day by trying to get to around 400-500. Don't play any matches that are less than 25 or if you are sure the other team won't stand a chance if they relaliate. You may get attacked once or twice overnight, but probably not. Try to play off peak hours the next day and push to around 900-1000 and buy an 8 hour shield with 5ish hours left to go. This is a lot easier to do with a faster team (patch/mags, sentry/lazy dakin, etc), but you should be able to do a lot better with cap and hood than you have been. The only thing you need to watch out on with the Hood is he doesn't have a lot of health, so you will want to try to match Red or blue first and foremost. The good thing is once you get enough Red to use Cap, you can easily chain that into killing off the other team in a couple of turns.

orangecrush, what alliance are you in?

I am a commander in AW Reloaded. We usually get top 50-100 in PvP and are currently looking for a couple members. I didn't want to post that here because I know most people are in the DVDTalk alliance, but since you asked... If anyone is looking for a quasi-competitive alliance, send me a PM and apply in game. We aren't crazy competitive, but we all want the extra covers and HP, so we will kick a member if they constantly underperform and don't communicate at all. We only really ask that you get 600 in PvP and try hard in PvE if there is a prize we all want. PvE has become quite the grind, so we don't focus on that as much. The PvP is a very doable number if you are transitioning from 2* to 3* without too much effort.

Got my season 4 ten pack of heroics. got 2 "useful" 4*s (invisible woman and xforce wolv) and 2* torch that i could use.

Looks like someone jumped ship. 19 members now. May want to change the title of the thread saying we have an opening. Also, mrhand hasn't played in forever. I know we can't boot people but maybe he would like to drop so someone who actually plays can take his spot.

It was mentioned before, but I think Mister Hand is Groucho who mentioned he was away and plays via Steam, so he would be inactive for a couple weeks.

Looks like pinata left. Not too surprised, since it sounded like he wanted a more competitive alliance.

who was it that left the group?

I left for the reason fumanstan said. I've been teetering on retiring anyway so I'm going to see if a more competitive alliance can light that fire again with new rewards.

Blue is the only color of Hood I don't have... and I have 5 each in the others.

Good luck rekindling that flame, pinata!

Man, this PvE is especially brutal, probably because the top players are playing to get those Fury covers...

Yeah, i've been up and down on the game overall too. Sometimes events like Deadpool convince me to play a lot, but then when it goes back to the regular PvP and same PvE events, I get bored and stop paying attention other then the daily reward. Over 200 days now!

Saw there was an open slot in the alliance, so I sent an invite. Thanks in advance if I get in.

Next update: Team Up revamp! 'bout time.

- Alliance members can now send Team-Ups to other members
- Characters sent to Alliance members will be "On Patrol" and unavailable for the sender to use for a short time after being sent off
- Characters On Patrol may either come back for use after that time or immediately on use of Hero Points
- Team-Up tiles now correctly deal damage when matched with Strike tiles on the board
- The enemy team is no longer able to use Team-Ups for characters on that team
- Team-Ups can now be deleted
- Enemy teams now use 1 Team-Up instead of 3

Good fixes there. And a way to dump the Yellow Cap team up cards! I dont really understand the "On Patrol" thing