Completely agree with you to be honest - it's the same thing with the events; apparently there were only a few over a fair few months, and now they're constant with only a day's 'rest'. I think Mobage don't really know how to get that midpoint haha. They are doing better with the R3s, but I've only ever had 2 R4s from the space bridge which doesn't exactly seem fair compared to others' luck. I must have used thousands of medals for weapons and warriors by now as well

I think the reason bosses are not dying goes beyond sniping. I know Mobage is about as perfect of a company as possible, but dare I say: I think they really screwed up the help request system in this event. I've been carefully looking at the battle logs and I think the problem is who the help goes out to. For example: on most of the Slug help requests I see, I've looked at the log and most of the players on the list have a leader of some random R3, and the rest some weak R4 with only a few with a strong leaders. On nearly all of these requests there is some guy who does less than 100k damage. There is no business for a player that low to even be on the help request for a 40 million hp boss! I'm not even worried about sniping anymore, I just want some points. But a lot of these requests just don't look like they will go unless I use multiple cubes and I'm not quite desperate enough to do that yet. Especially on a boss whose bounty is less than 10K!

I agree with the last post.  Some of the designated helpers don't seem to be powerful enough to help take down a boss, but at the same time I'm still annoyed with sniping.  Fair enough we need to adopt strategies, but people just sitting there waiting until they can take the last shot to get a cube back? Well no f***in wonder bosses are going begging cos everyones waiting on each other.  Fair enough, if there is something I can one shot I will go for it, but generally as soon as I see anything appear on my list from Slug lvl 4 upwards then I throw a cube at it.   I'm currently ranked at about 3.5k btw and average about 8 mill damage.  Anyhow, if everyone showed a lot less restraint, and became more selfless like some other kind people about, we would be grinding these m/fing bosses to kingdom come with a lot less fear of losing cubes.  Personally, I also think Mobage could change the help lists, mainly to drastically increase the no. of helpers per boss. 

Anyway, the last day or two of the last event were slow like now, but there's no way I'm putting up with it for another four days like then and the past 24 hrs.  I spend a lot of time playing btw due to being sick, and it did help to alleviate the boredom, but the game can go to hell if it continues to remain this tedious. 

To summarise, yes the game is at fault to some degree, but some players are too.  If anybody thinks that I'm pointing a finger at them then I can only assume that it's their guilty conscience coming to the fore, and if anybody wants to argue with me that sniping is okay then they need to look closer to home and assess their individual selfishness.

Rant over....I'm now going to don my flame retardant jacket and my shield of "don't give a fuck what flamers say".

I dont think its the sniping part that is the problem.

People with high ranks get help from low ranks that do barely 1m dmg, on na 40-50-60m boss, people doing 90k on a L6 boss. Then not to waste all effort a higher rank finishes the boss if they bother at all.

In my case, I snipe everything under 5.5-6m hp, and i tag everything over 12k exp. Other than that, there is no point since the help system is strange and flawed.

Even now, one L6 on my help list, we have 7 people over lvl 60, most is from 2 to 30. How to do 310m dmg with that? You need to spend more cubes in an L6 for 50-60k points, than tagging 4-5  L3-4-5 swoops for same thing, and swoops get killed more often.

BladeRy 2501... are you me?

Ha your strategy is exactly the same as mine. And I've found Swoop and level 1 Grimlock finishing pretty reliable compared to the odd 50k+ boss that pops in for me to tag.

Hey Blade.  I know what you mean about the help system.   Before last event I barely saw a high lvl boss go begging.  In fact it was a struggle to tag them before they were finished off.  However, I don't know if anybody recalls but Mobage ran an update about halfway through the last event.  I can't remember the individual points but it was supposed to have helped the system in some way that people had to basically contribute or something (e.g. contribute requests and help others) otherwise they wouldn't get anywhere (e.g. very few requests coming through).  Alas, I only scanned the points because I just wanted to get into the game.  Can anybody remember this update?  Anyway, it was after this that things seemed to change. 

As for your tactics Blade, you seem to be doing about the same as me.  If a chance to one shot presents itself then you take it, but you're also actively contributing to other requests albeit after assessing the individual request and the potential of it being completed.  You're playing the game as intended and I wouldn't even say you're a sniper.  I define a sniper as somebody who basically only goes for the requests that they can finish off and preserve their cube, and do eff all in other requests.  People have openly admitted to doing this. 

Anyway, the game is becoming stagnant and I realise that it's not just down to sniping, but because of the changes that Mobage have made to the game as a whole.  Everything from the changes to the tier system (less raid cards about and reduced damage capability) to help list issues are having an impact. 

You make a good point about the levels to be honest; looking at it it's basically always like that on higher bosses, kinda ridiculous if you ask me. I have a deck power just shy of 8400 and most damage I've done is 5.6~ million which is annoyingly weak. My whole squad are decepticons (not sure about their weapons though) and I have 2 robot Ratbats...

I think this event is way too long. Still 3 days to go, and the help system is showing its flaws more then ever.

After the last update, i think somehow our dmg or boss armor was tweaked. From easy 6m dmg i can (and did) do on tier 2 bosses, i got a lot survivors, hit a 5m boss he survives with 90k. In last few hours i had a lot of that, Strange, maybe just a unlucky streak.

My deck is finally OVER 9000 :) 9003 to be correct. And still doing 3m on a L6 boss is beyond sad. Without Ratbat and Ramjet + their weapons there would be no hope.

For tactics, I guess its just common sense. No point in sniping all the time, giving a hand  (or cube) here and there keeps me away from looking at the phone all the time. And the damn bastard phone gets insanely hot on this game...

WTF? I just saw a Level 2 player in the game log for Grimlock Level 1. How is that even possible considering you can't join an event until you're level 5. Is this a hack or did Mobage screwed up the help request system so badly that requests are going out to players that aren't even in the event!? It makes no sense someone would hack a level 2 into the event when you only need to be level 5, so I'm starting to think Mobage really screwed something up...

@BladeRy2501 - I find oven gloves come in useful when my phone gets hot lol.

Yeah, the low damage is freakin annoying isn't.  In the past I've invested the cash to get the MTM x3 alt and robot raid cards, then the x5 robot, and then some MTM x2 cards to, but now I only have two Ratbat x3 robot raid cards.  Definitely a big difference now, but I suppose I'm lucky because I've been able to get some decent Decepticon event and episode cards in the past and currently have a deck at about 10400.

Annoyingly, I managed to get a request for a L6 Sludge earlier, only the second I've seen, and I thought it was a dead cert for 50500 points.  Boy was I wrong because the annoying part was that it never got finished.  I had to go for dinner, came back, and nothing.  I think I'm going to pay a visit to the Mobage Suggestion Box and Facebook to see if anybody has posted anything on there lol.