Hmm. Ok, I traded away my stun grenade, my 2 full reloads. (likely I will regret that) and A Zarana 2 star - and did a series of trades that netted me this for my joe team.

Beachhead EP 2 Star (2)
Beachead EP 4 Star (3)
Lady Jaye EP 4 Star (4 and level 99)
Flint R 4 Star (1)

Add that to my current roster of

Duke EP Starter (1)
Roadblock 4 Star (1)

And I have a lot of leveling to do.

Lady Jaye's special ability is maxed and she does free healing, which is nice. Haven't seen a vehicle attack from her so I assume she doesn't have one. Would have preferred not to have 2 beachheads on the team, but the price was right.

Thing is, it keeps crashing out of the non event area between logins when I'm doing a mission. So I still can't get past the 3rd mission for Joes.

- R

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The trading is pretty cool, you can see what is available and what they are looking for, then search for that. If you have a plan, you can find an undervalued trade, and then use it to trade. I had to write stuff down to keep it sorted, but it's also nice that anything that passes through your hands this way ends up in your collection.

- R

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Lady J actually dies have a vehicle attack. I believe it's the Armadillo.

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Be careful about trading stun grenades. They can be hard to come by for free. I would save them for capture events where they can get you limited time rare card.

Also be cautious about trading for 4 star characters. They probably won't be leveled properly. It's better to go after 1 star rare cards and level them yourself.

Yeah, I figured as much, but it was extremely frustrating trying to play joes with only commons and uncommons, and I am not known for my patience.

I think that the worst thing about the game is that the power levels between the cards are so astronomically different that the game is completely unplayable with common and uncommon cards. They have no value whatsoever other than as mulch to grow rares and epics, and even then they are limited. I was considering keeping a few around because I liked the pictures and might level them just to have them be useful, but there's no real value in that. Even 2 star rares are too weak to be playable.

It's bad game design (or a very deliberate and transparent moneymaking scheme) to have 90 percent of the cards in the game be useless. A game should allow you to at least find limited success with the lowest available cards in the right combinations - otherwise why bother making them at all?

In this game there isn't even a single uncommon that I've found to be worth keeping.

Kinda tempted to create a second account and start over - but then I would have lost all the effort to get my Epic Cobra commanders...

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That is correct.

raptor, are you referring to the Resolute/25th Beach Head card with the Quick Thinking ability? If so, in my opinion, that was a terrible trade, even with the cards you had. That card is probably the worst one that has a vehicle attack - the ability is absolutely useless against stronger players, and the MOBAT attack is pathetic. I would almost always pick a squad with that card to fight in PvP because they are already essentially one card down. Having two Beach Heads? Ouch! Upgrade as soon as you can!

On the other hand, the ROC Beach Head card, with the Sabotage attack, got to be almost essential since it removes boosts from the other squad, and there were so many Cobra characters that could provide good boosts that it was difficult to beat a Cobra squad without Sabotage.

The length of events was definitely something that bugged me. They were usually fun for the first three or four days, but by then I was ready for them to be over and still had to compete for three or four more days.

Ah, I have one of each of those. So 50/50?

Either way, it's much better to play them than to try to level up with commons and uncommons. Maybe I'll see about making another mobage account and trading myself my good cards.

- R

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The only advice I can give is to load up on characters that throw themselves in front of attacks and then counter attack (Cold Slither Zarana, Dice, PoC Spirit, helmetless jetpack Duke, Leader Flint, etc.). When distributed right, they can decimate the other team without ever actually making an attack of their own (especially that damn Leader Flint...I almost refuse to pvp against any player using that guy).

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Is Serpentor's Coup de Gras ability any good? It sounds like it should be awesome, but I guess it depends on how the killing thing procs against big guys.

And on that note, what abilities should I be looking for? What's good in PvP?

I got the 5 gold tokens for my daily login, and got a bunch of cool rares, including a 4 star ep renegades looking flint.

- R

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I always gravitate toward characters whose abilities hit more than one opponent, AND have a vehicle attack. Roadblock, Destro, Zartan, Firefly. Guys like that. Serpentor never impressed me too much. I did use him for a while when I first started, but I got cards I liked better.

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Just got my 4 lineup. I have my team set up to level, and therefore am getting my ass kicked in PvP. Almost to the point that I want to leave the zone between logins.

I got a message that I was EPICILY DESTROYED and asking if I wanted revenge and the other guy's lineup was 3 legendaries and an uncommon (mixed). How exactly does it calculate who you should be fighting anyway?

But my joe team is leveling up... I'm sure that I'll be cannon fodder until the next event.

I got the Red version of the VvsV bat - and he seems pretty desirable in trades. Is this something I really should consider keeping? It does fit with my all red/black color scheme.

- R

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When you are in non-Event PvP's the fewer Wins you have the lower the oppenent level you go up against. So basically you're an "easy" win for him. As you start winning and going for 9 wins in a row you tend to face off against people above your level. The more wins you get the higher the level of your opponents. The game wants you to one-up the other guy so he'll have to go all out against you and so on. Unfortunately, you will go all out and still lose to that particular squad. You never stood a chance.

In the PvP events, you get put into a daily group. So you're not only going up other opponents but also competing against your overall group in daily points to be promoted.

Usually the weekends between events they run double XP. So tomorrow night check and see and you'll be able tot build them up quicker.

Right now that Red BAT is only available through paid tokens. At least I haven't heard of anyone pulling him with a silver or bronze yet. A trade like that I way how hard it was to get versus what I'm getting for it, what I'm trying to do with my team overall, and the odds of me getting enough of the other cards for that character to be worth holding onto. PoC Spirit started off that way and now he's pretty easy to get. Just something to think about.

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Has anyone received their winnings from the latest event yet?

This might be the longest lag I've had in stuff showing up to my surplus -- and I did fairly well this time.

I drew a red bat from bronze (or silver, but I think bronze) tokens. Traded it pretty much right away (seemed like a good card, but my ranks are full at this point).

I got my event rewards today. Got 2 Hawks and a gold token that got me DTC Spirit. I traded 2 of my Hawks (I had another from the event itself) to upgrade the Spirit fully. Pretty damn good character, so far.

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