PLAYDOM IS SHUTTING DOWN MARVEL AVENGERS ALLIANCE....
On their site
So I got away from this as I am on facebook. But, yeah its not fun if you have invested in the playdom version. Furthermore, it really bugs me that they would end the game on playdom but not on FB or vice versa. Because they money they save on that is very little, the same design etc would have to be done for both games. So they are making some more time for programmers and QA people by doing this. However, I am pretty sure while they claim this will mean better game experience for us on FB the likely-hood is more that they will just fire those poor people and the quality will stay the same on FB. So bad news.
I would like to say dont invest in the game both on the same time then the game will die? Actually I would wonder about that as the is not nylon to make its own money but also to make people go and watch the movies by the comics etc. Its like Hearthstone by Blizzard, that game makes some money(I dont there is any figures for it) but it also is entwined with the other Blizzard games mainly then of course World of Warcraft and then Blizzard hopes people will pay for the monthly subscription again.
With Marvel Avengers Alliance having a lot of tie in special events with the movies particular but also to comic major cross over like the Avengers vs X-men they are not only to make their own money.
And the Facebook one is much more lucrative for spreading information viral then their own website. Also it was easier to farm on the website etc. So I actually think the Facebook version its safe for now mainly trough its Virality.
Ok Second topic.
People always ask me whats your team. Very standard very normal to ask(same in otehr games like Soul-arena).
While I had been using Magneto and Emma for several seasons in a row. My current defense team is Magneto and War replacing Emma.
My agent runs the same items except one item change from the previous seasons:
Mystic over Waraxe(as War gives this ability anyway) and then the same
Scroll of Angolob
Cube
Sheppard's Staff.
This team jumps in and out of Adamantium league so its pretty good someday I come back to a +70 etc.
The thing is that while this is bad compared to last season of Magneto and Emma. This season that team seems to loses much more.
And overall this season has become very hard to defend, as dot strategies has always been the best ensured win in attack.
The result of the heavily used pestilence and the new item set makes defending harder then previous seasons. Of course its rather stupid if you ask me, dot(damage over time) strategy would have bene as effective last season as well with otehr teams for that. But because Pestilence is the new thing everyone uses him. Very classic human mentality. Because Pestilences oriented team still has the typical drawback of slow wins. So safe but slow wins, absolutely not the best way to farm ladder points.
Anyway bottom line is this seasons if freaking hard to defend and thats why a lot of people are using the extreme glass canons in the game like Quicksilver and Havok.
And I think that those teams are pretty good but they are a little limited in the way that if everyone uses them you can be sure the attackers will counter it(also limited that they dont work if people have high hp/def and/or characters with defensive abilities), thats why I go with this high attack but also high health/defensive oriented team. Note: That I have not used any gold etc this season I have decent armory bonuses I could easily increase my def win ratio purely from upgrading my stats.
Third topic
I have tried to tell them they have to either extend the pvp task or change the drops. PvP roulette is dam useless now, bad planning and a typical refuses of Playdom to admit they have done something wrong.
ICEMAN
Finally we got all the original X-men to play with(if we ignore that Angel is not really how he used to be...well when you think about it he basically just flied around in the original so..I mean he got a real bad mutant power, also Beat was not blue back then)
its very interesting to look at Iceman's design.
Because its actually one of the best designs in the game if not the best in a gameplay perspective.
But on the same time I feel its a huge blunder from a revenue perspective( you know money hungry company like Disney who just fired people--)
The thing with Iceman is that I am unsure if its an intentional good design part from Playdom or you know a lucky break.
But lets go from that its a good idea from them.
Because Iceman is actually very well made in the way that first of all his suit does not make him 100% better. I was actually very thorn in what character is best Iceman or Death(Bruiser of course). I have done like 50+ games with each of them and I have reached the conclusion that Death is still narrowly better. But there are teams were Iceman is better.
And this is what other suits should be, the alternative costumes should give the player some hard decisions to make.
Death has better abilities at the start of the battle. Iceman instead gets much better abilities when he has died once and resurrected.
And here is my question of Playdom's intention of doing this. Because Death ahs the same passive as Iceman but it does nothing. SO either its a Quality issue were they forget to remove it or they forget to add his passive effect on both normal and Death alternative.
So yeah something is wrong at least.
Also Iceman's ultimate is better then Death in many cases except the best team up for Death. Emma Frost. Here is one of the kickers with Death he is great overall and he is a great team synergy with Emma's Mental tap.
His ultimate is like a weak Mental tap but it always does damage and it gives them despiear(no heal no resurrect) combine those 2 attacks and you can easily kill any enemy.
Death's third are far better then Iceman as it got fatal blow which makes it so easy to kill people in PvP. The thing is that deaths fatal blow is like Thane's is not like War or Elektra were they do no damage and basically only works if the enemy has low life. Death Does decent damage with his attack high if he got engage stacks so with average comparable stats he kills any enemy with around 50% hp more if they got stacks. Its also as 3 hits making it hard to miss when killing someone with low life.
His second ability do have deathfrost over chilled which also removes stamina but this move is much worse then Iceman's. Because here lies Iceman major strength when he dies and comes back this move will be the most improved. It now gives everyone frostbrand. This means that all moves agaisnt them will shatter them dealing something around 10-20% max hp average 15%. This happens on his attack, so he will do around 30-40% damage easily.
Then...everything trigger this like Emma's Ultimate, but it also triggered by aoe QA. If you use the scroll after this they all take 15% max hp damage :). As soon as Iceman has hit everyone with his second ability when he has resurrected the game is over. The shatter also triggers if you miss with your aoe attack on them(not his but the next coming one).
This ability is the main reason I could argue for Iceman > Death but otherwise Death is better.
Ok so lets ignore that Iceman exist and only focusing on more of Death skills.
Death will resurrect when he dies its a 100% chance. But he only gets 10% life back. However, he can have more stacks and gain up to 3 so 30% max life. And he removes all shit on himself. All even against a Pestilence. So its the best resurrect effect in the game(ignoring the low health gained) its pretty easy getting in at least one attack after you die once.
His first ability is a decent attack with high critical damage when they are chilled(or Deathfrosted) and he can self coordinate against chilled enemies, attacking after ally attacked one or is attacked by. It does pretty high damage if he gets his enrage on so its an ok attack.
The way Death is played is to spam his second ability the AoE to give everyone Deathfrost and disabled which I have noted actually is good agaisnt some characters in the meta. Then he can coordinate on everyone, everyone is doted as well.
And then you finish them of wit the third ability.
As mentioned earlier if they got good stats or a heavy tanker you use the ultimate to wither omeone down.
Death is a strong and he is surprisingly good in the current meta.
I definitely recommend tinkering with Death.
But I am --- Well Confused on what they actually intended with the character I am always baffled on how Playdom keeps making that happen.
