Marvel Heroes, F2P "Diablo-like" game... **Official Thread**

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KeithTalent

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It says when you hover over them the kinds of things you can get. Usually they result in boosts. I'd just open them

Ok cool, thanks. I'll just blow through them now, just wanted to know if there was any benefit to holding on to them or waiting for later. :cool:

KT
 

trmiv

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Yea the drop rate was pretty bad. Nerfed because people were exploiting it I guess. I managed to complete one cake, but I had a 321 piece start from the previous event. Then I accumulated 45 extra pieces. Guess I'll just donate those.
 

SunnyD

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Yea the drop rate was pretty bad. Nerfed because people were exploiting it I guess. I managed to complete one cake, but I had a 321 piece start from the previous event. Then I accumulated 45 extra pieces. Guess I'll just donate those.

It was being exploited badly. There were a couple areas (Lower Asgard Fountains in particularly) where they were just being farmed rapidly. People were farming whole cakes in the span of hours.

That said, I seem to have no issues with the drop rates. I'm seeing 2 to 4 per minute in Midtown without much effort. That coupled with probably a twice as fast splinter drop rate as before is making me a very happy person.
 

lupi

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You are the outlier then. After seeing how I only managed about 30 new slices over 2 hours (with about 150% boost), did a search and came up with link after link of people complaining.
 

trmiv

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Well hell. I just randomed Silver Surfer. Too bad I already own him. 4 damn dupes in a row.
 

zinfamous

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I still see tons of cake slices.

I never did the fountain farm before or directly farmed them, but I managed about 2 cakes since last Friday--mostly while leveling Surfer. I think I have 100 slices again.

For my experience, it's about the same rate I was seeing before the "nerf," just leveling and doing cosmics/legendary quests on various heroes. I can imagine that if you were seeing dozens per minute exploiting the fountain mobs--then, yeah. It would appear to be a crime now.
 

lupi

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Spent a couple hours in midtown, was average slightly more than one per boss and end of mob pack yellow champion. Was getting more splinters than cakes. Haven't logged back in since.
 

SunnyD

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Epic Twelve Event is next. Some highlights...

- BOGO is coming back along with a 15% bonus G sale.
- Cosmic doops will always drop cosmic rings and cosmic medallions.
- Triple Omega Orb bonus for shared quests.
- Increased Team Insignia drop rate.
- Team-Up heroes are 20% off in the G Shop.
- Random times and random places will have brief huge rarity boosts that last between 10-30 minutes.
- Hero tokens will have a chance to randomly drop.

There's a lot more, but those are the ones that caught my eye.
 

trmiv

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Wow pretty big event.

Where do Cosmic Doops spawn? I've never seen one.

And another damn bogo WITH a G sale? I knew I shouldn't have bought those heroes earlier!
 
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SunnyD

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Wow pretty big event.

Where do Cosmic Doops spawn? I've never seen one.

And another damn bogo WITH a G sale? I knew I shouldn't have bought those heroes earlier!

Cosmic doops will always spawn in Midtown on the doop wave after killing 7 of the 8 regular doops. The Cosmic doop will then spawn.

Cosmic doops will also randomly spawn in the normal story world and terminals. I think also in X-Defense as well, but I'm not sure.
 

zinfamous

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oh wow: doop dropping rings and medallions? me likey. also increased insig drop? BTW< I've only seen Cosmic Doop outside of midtown once--He was hanging out in Kingpin's tower (I think cosmic terminal; maybe red).

hmm...maybe I need to dump some spendy ones now? I have this very nice spiderwoman one that the SG is always trying to take from me...

I was very close to spending G on another bank slot last night. Yay for patience!
 

zinfamous

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http://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/107169/anniversary-month-final-weekend-epic-twelve#latest

overall, the event is quite buffed. daily login gifts--gear, free omega points. also, some random dev events where they will release promo codes. So it looks like there will be 10-12 new promo codes over the weekend. So keep your heads up for that.

http://www.hub4heroes.com/promo-codes

is usually up to date with the promo codes. Always a good place to check and see what is available and still active. They will remove it as soon as expired.
 

zinfamous

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awesome. saw that code in guild chat, came to paste it up. Good to see it is still active.

and...I bought Ms Marvel with Gs...got Ms Marvel with the BOGO :|. same thing happened with Storm before. lol
 

lupi

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guess the game really wants me to play thing, got another one of him.