Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-75.27.39.160-20141110215324/@comment-24510653-20150113152628

First off, I think I know why it may be a bit more difficult for you at the moment. For PVEs generally, the difficulty is set by taking your highest ranked character (without boosting) as your baseline for opponents. Since you have 2 players at 94, that's your baseline. And since your Ares and Doom are fairly low, its making your ride a bit more bumpy.

I did a decent amount of reading on the d3p MPQ forum and found out some stuff like that. So I didn't level up my ** guys to max until I had a full team of 3 there.

Next thing that is huge - Leveling up Daken to 94. Having a true healer on your team drastically reduces your need for health packs. Even if I have my team wiped, its only 10 minutes and 2 health packs before they are back to full health (since I can take Daken into the prologue and heal him in a few matches).

For your current team, I would recommend using OBW, Thor, and boosted Ares as your go to. Before entering a match, try and figure out what color is the most dangerous against you. Go for that one every time it's available, and if it's not a color that is usable b your team, switch out a player for someone that can use that color well. Then I would recommend playing as many matches as you can without using health packs. Even if that last time would possibly mean having two of your guys die. Then immediately use health packs on them after the match.

Also, having a B team to take out the first couple nodes is important, so you don't lose even a bit of health on your big boys. Luke Cage works really well as someone on your low level B team because of his auto protect tile. It keeps your team healthy longer since you don't take much match damage.

Then, my advice would be to start with the highest point getters that you can reasonably play during each refresh, then work your way down to lower ones until you hit the point that your players life/health packs fully recharge at roughly the same time that your point refresh times ends as well.

Before sleeping, try and double or triple tap the highest scoring nodes, and focus on the Essential nodes. I also do that anytime I know I'm going to have to take a long break from playing.

Ok - now for some other big picture stuff.

When you join an event is key. DO NOT join an event before it starts. Do not join right after it starts. Pick a slice you want, and wait at least a few hours after it starts to join. You do not want to be in the hardcore pack that starts immediately. That's for guys in top alliances that have rules within their alliance about reaching crazy point totals. Not only does that hurt you when fighting for placement, but I think it also affects your scaling because people within your slice are playing so much.

Lastly, for your team, Thor is usually the key. Go hard after yellow to start if you can. Leave green on the board if possible. Then use yellow to generate green cascades and call the storm on their assses.

Let me know if you have any other questions. :-) I'll pop back on here to check.