John Parker

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If anyone's looking to join an #mcoc alliance, mine is recruiting. We're AQ mandatory, AW optional. We run Map 4. Great alliance for progression to Cav, Thronebreaker, and Paragon. Min prestige: 8k. We're chill, with main objective of 100% exploration in AQ. Happy to share more!

I'd vote for Brad Lander on the basis of this video alone. I hope he has a job in the upcoming Mamdani administration. Those two are fantastic.

I broke down and bought the platinum track. 😬 It was like banquet rewards because it gave every single day's rewards since the beginning of the event 2.5 months ago. All at once. And that was a lot of crystals. Did get a 6 star Serpent tho. And duped a lot of champs I needed.

it's becoming a borderline obsession....😅

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Do they not give out America Chavez anymore in #mcoc?

I just opened 23 Paragon crystals, 2 5-star nexus crystals, 3 6-star crystals, 2 Science-Mystic crystals, 4 6-six star Nexus crystals, 1 Exalted crystal, & a 7-star generic crystal.

Didn’t even see her in the rotating line of champions. 😭🤔🙄😵‍💫😭

Ooh, thank you!

I had the wildest #mcoc Battlegrounds match last night. The game froze on the ban champs screen. I waited but the red flashing icon popped up so I closed the game. When I reopened it, the match was still going! I got to choose 1 champ with seconds left and then had to fight. It was WILD.

Those are always very, very tempting.

Does anyone else save up all the units they earn over the year to use in December's #mcoc banquet?

I literally don't spend a unit. 😂 My goal is to earn 3,000 units a month and I'm up to 9,967 so far. I'm already dreaming of those banquet crystals...

I thought it was just marketing! Not truth in advertising!

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Let's not talk about Autumn of Agony. Lololol. The site of my greatest failure...oh it was bad. so very, very, very bad.

It's just an annoying node that doesn't add to the fight. Went in with Hercules who always fixes everything for me.

I've been complaining about nonsense nodes, but I really liked Bust A Groove. That was a very interesting node to fight.

An armor break immune node on Emma Frost? 🙄

About the same nonsense as adding an evade node on one of the thousand spider people champs in #mcoc.

It doesn't make me want to figure it out. It's just annoying. Pass.

If you give your cat a two-syllable 1st name, then you can perfectly replace "Thunder" with their name in the Thundercats theme song.

In our household this is sung regularly:

Buffy Cat is on the move! Buffy Cat is loose!
Feel the magic, hear the roar,
Buffy Cat is loose!

Buffy, Buffy, Buffy Cat!

For sure. I spend a lot of time on YT doing that. Especially these days with the new champs play style instructions being so long. I start to scroll and then I'm like nope. Too long, not reading. Off to YouTube.

I know it would be impossible to do, but I would love to see my competitors' fights in #mcoc Battlegrounds. So many INTERESTING choices I wouldn't expect.

Just discovering how many videos are on YouTube of bands doing covers of the Thundercats theme song...and I'm in heaven.

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Literally the only reason why I do BGs....that nexus crystal...

What's a summoner got to do to earn America Chavez? Tell me RNG! For months, I have had all the rank up materials waiting just for her. #mcoc #youngavengers

The one that really made no sense was putting an evade node on a Spiderman (miles morales Thronebreaker event quest). 🙄 Black Widow melts him with her shock debuffs, but why add another evade node on the bazillion Spidermen characters in the game?

Or (very likely) I'm just cranky.

I don't know man. The last week of #mcoc has been annoying. and not fun-figure-it-out annoying. more like these nodes are dumb and it feels like the designers are mistaking annoying for difficult.

Or maybe I need a break.

I finally got to Heimdall. And this is a joke right? I have never been so f-ing annoyed. I'll try your advice, but this is the least fun I have ever had. Clearly I'm not cut out for this...

This is a gold mine. Thanks!

Other champ recommendations? I've been praying to the RNG gods for Chavez for months now.

I think I have 5-star silk and attuma but I haven't been investing in 5 stars for awhile now...

Still learning how to play Onslaught.

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Autumn of Agony is wrecking me. I've never had such little success and lack of improvement in #mcoc before.

Time to spend hours watching how-to videos on YouTube......

When your special 3 takes down the defender to 1% health, but then they knock you out.

🤔 #mcoc 😭

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