PVE: Venom Bomb (2015-12-31 to 2016-01-04)

Can i just say how much scaling is a ****.....

The last node of the first sub have lvl 178 enemies. My bosted characters are lvl 159 (except my shethor with 5 covers lvl 190). I couldnt event remove half the health of the first ennemy before dying...

As soon as the event opened I double tapped each node and didn't seem to have a problem with these dang symbiotes this time around... We'll see when it gets to the last subnode when we have to fight Carnage/Venom/Symbiotes again though.

With the characters that are boosted this time i have a team of 3* deadpool (200), 3* iron man (180), 2* human torch (150) was already dreading the final node with venom and carnage after it took me four attempts with a stronger team last time round but thought i'd give it a bash anyway. Two turns in and deadpool is already downed. Noped my way out of there and will be staying far away from that node for the rest of the sub i think!!

This is just a horrible event.

Managed to snipe a bracket and grab a top 10 when Venom was the price, which I'm glad for, 'cause I can't fathom how awful it would be to actually grind these nodes. Just thinking about nightmarish shudders with the power of a thousand suns. I really don't like symbiotes.

apmonte wrote:

This is a terrible event. Whoever thought it was a good idea to put carnage & venom with the guard dog power (mutation) can GFY. This is nothing but a ploy to get people to buy health packs. Maybe people with fully developed rosters aren't having any issues with this, but the point values in my slice are well down from the normal pace. Games are supposed to be fun. This event sucks and needs to be reworked.

is anyone elses scaling going nuts my ess started at 158.. went up to 189 then 2 hours before the end of nod its down to 109.... it sounds like comm scaling but i tthough that was removed long time ago

Comm scaling has to be on in this event... did all nodes besides the last 2 never got wipped my Ess nodes went from 150 to 130s

Just got to 54,000 and the LT (Rulk Gamma!!) - didn't think I would make it as I can't get the final node done and after 14 health packs I thought it wasn't worth it

Even struggled to get the SHulk Ess and only did it once - I was sitting overall top 50 but have slid to 61

I don't have Thoress either so patting myself on the back

I did notice though that whenever I fired off SHulk's furious charge.... The AI's red never ever got touched - Scythes anyone???

Edit - couldn't sleep and did some more grinding of the 'easier' nodes - somehow got back up to 40th overall - patting myself on the back again - it's tough when you have an essential gap

OJSP wrote:

Quebbster wrote:

If my Red Hulk had been worth a damn I would have tried using him, She-Hulk and Scarlet Witch against Carnage. Wanda feeds Rulk purple AP that he uses to drain green, the green AP generated can then be used by She-Hulk to drain two more colors.

I can't really comment much because I couldn't use Red Hulk myself to generate enough green.. but considering this depends a lot on the CD tile resolving, it might be too slow to work against Carnage and the feeder(s).
Not to mention the only damaging power is She-Hulk's Power of Attorney (because we're using all the purple for Gamma Siphon) or tiles stolen from Settlement.

Theoretically, Furious Charge should be able to drain Red or Green with 2 goes at most.. but I've had occasions where I charged 3 times and there's still red left (the only colour I wanted to drain!). I used Hulk, She-Hulk and KK during the the first run, relying on the same principle.

I suppose. I still might try it out with my maxed Kingpin instead of Rul though, he was quite effective last go around, though the boost probably had something to do with it...

Ok, so first of all three clears per sub event are going to be enough to get to LT. I have one more full clear to go but will be slightly short of the LT and I did do some low level grinding on the easy nodes as well. I will probably have to clear the essentials a couple more times after my next complete clear. This is with having all of the essential characters and doing full point value clears.

Yeah carnage with red ap feeders is pretty stupid. I have been fairly fortunate and only wiped once or twice through the whole event. I throw everything at Carnage but the kitchen sink every node he is in. I usually use IF, Cage, LCap on the toughest two nodes on main progression. On the essentials, I use a variety of teams to conserve health packs. Regardless even when I win, my team has been severely damaged due to all of the strike tiles. It is an annoying event and I think this will be my last PvE for a while and I will switch more towards PvP again.