r/MarvelStrikeForce • u/Lanachan1990 Nick Fury • 19h ago

Dev Response Maestro needs a buff. Such trash.

Is he anything more than just stats on a stick? Wasted gold leveling this trash.

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u/IRM_Lorie MSF Player Experience 17h ago

Hi! What part of his kit feels like it’s falling shortest? If you can share some specifics, that’s really helpful for the team when we’re reviewing character feedback.

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u/FullMetalCOS Captain America 16h ago

He’s glacially slow and the game just isn’t built around plug and play characters that take multiple business days to get their turn. Sure he gets damage reduction against incoming damage, but there are characters that ignore or reduce this.

Also his starting ability energy makes absolutely no sense - he starts with turn 1 special into turn 2 ultimate, but on spawn only gains one stack of safeguard - this is a problem because his special doesn’t give safeguard but his ult gives two stacks, so there’s a whole turn between him getting safeguard back. Now admittedly safeguard is less good than it used to be as there are ways to get past it, but on such a slow character having a vulnerability window is just fatal.

Maybe it’s improved when he gets 7* and his eventual diamonds but so far I’ve never seen a Maestro live to do his ult.

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u/Scary_Vanilla2932 9h ago

First of all I love your analysis. I don't have him and I feel better because I long time alliance I was in broke up and I had a hard time getting into a battleworld groove with a new guild so I only have 195 shards. Gonna take me a bit to get him unlike the last few bosses. Feel a bit better now.

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u/Lanachan1990 Nick Fury 16h ago

I feel he needs to be faster from the start. I know he has a bunch of speed up mechanics. Most of the time he is just absorbing a bunch of damage and then dying before he gets to act.

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u/wikked-com Doctor Strange 7h ago

You need diamonds on him... why would a 5 red character be better than your fully maxed diamond characters? (This is the response I'm always given in this sub).

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u/Silent_Creme3278 19h ago

Really? Phew good to know. I was about to unlock him. I have already been disappointed in BM and wasting resources on him. He hasn’t helped me in arena or anywhere. Just took all my resources.

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u/Herbz-QC 16h ago

BM shines most on defense. check his kit

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u/Yokiniibara 18h ago

Get to top 10 in Arena and everyone is using BM there. Set him up on CC Defense and he stops most teams. Put him on War defense and the enemy wastes two or three attacks

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u/wikked-com Doctor Strange 7h ago

No one is using him in top 10 arena unless they're trying to lose. It's a 100% win with Sym6 + Xavier.

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u/Party-Display-7523 4h ago

Who do you drop?

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u/Yokiniibara 2h ago

if you actually were in the top 10, you'd know that enemy BM and QSS goes first and drop most of your offense before your QSS takes turn

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u/Top-Paramedic4171 12h ago

BM is still a pushover no matter what.

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u/Yokiniibara 1h ago

Sounds like a BM without any Red Stars to me, or usage in teams where you're trying to lose

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u/Top-Paramedic4171 22m ago

I use 15M power 4 piece Sym6 with PX. Against similar sized opponents using BM, my team just shrugs off his attacks.

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u/FullMetalCOS Captain America 16h ago

BM is pretty good now he has diamonds

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u/Silent_Creme3278 16h ago

Meh. His is defense only. Only you don’t really get to see him being useful. He is just there. And offensively I have yet to see him be anything.

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u/FullMetalCOS Captain America 16h ago

He’s been handy in pve stuff too. I’m not as down as I was on him when I only had him at 1rs, but I definitely agree that it sucks his ult is better on defence, I really hate that

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u/Salanthas 9h ago

He's been pretty useful for me in towers and is my current mvp in DD9, tho I've barely started.

He was definitely quite bad with 0-1 red stars but he's solid now that mine has diamonds.

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u/SmallhandsnCabbage 18h ago

Maestro on war defense at just 5rs is not to be underestimated. He will wreck you.

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u/FullMetalCOS Captain America 16h ago

This simply isn’t true. He’s a complete pushover

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u/FullMetalCOS Captain America 16h ago

Says the guy scared of Maestro’s

You destroy your own credibility the moment you open your mouth.

Also I wouldn’t be so proud of the shit you spewed on discord

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u/SmallhandsnCabbage 16h ago

Hush honey. I talked to you a bit ago when everyone else was 100% F2P trep and you were stuck on difficulty 8 at 70% lol. And only top 500 war. Tell me how you would handle this?

https://imgur.com/a/CeYtmcR

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u/FullMetalCOS Captain America 16h ago

Ok so it wasn’t me then because I’ve never been stuck at 70% trepidation. You could get 80% without amazing avengers. I agree that I’ve not been overly high ranked in war because there was very little point in caring about war for the longest time and the current rewards (those pathetic iso orbs) are not worth sweating over.

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u/SmallhandsnCabbage 16h ago

Whatever you need to tell yourself to try and impress Msf Reddit. We all know what shit alliance you run.

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u/wikked-com Doctor Strange 7h ago

Any number of teams wouldn't even break a sweat there. A vastly undergeared Undying would smoke that, Liberty with Quasar, Secret Warrior, and of course better teams that you wouldn't even waste on that.

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u/SmallhandsnCabbage 7h ago

Moon girl stops speed bar. Try again. Going to waste quasar on that? Secret warriors lol. They will run out of steam.

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u/wikked-com Doctor Strange 7h ago

ZSwitch stops speed... so Medusa isn't giving them 10%... which means ZKestrel goes first. puts Trauma/Silence on everyone, puts up Battlefield effect, clear all Charged, enemies can't get Safeguard, can't Assist.... etc. etc... idk man, I don't think AAF is winning there, especially once Zug starts getting hit.

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u/SmallhandsnCabbage 7h ago

Go try it. See how it works out for you.

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u/SmallhandsnCabbage 7h ago

The funniest thing about this whole conversation. I'm talking to a bunch of random nubs on here. That's a defense that was taken from a top 5 war alliance. So I guess you all know war better then a leader of a top 5 war alliance. Pretty damn funny.

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u/Cenoflame 19h ago

Similar to Sentry, then.

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u/lordmarboo13 18h ago

He's a 1 man wrecking crew in CC , even in masters. You control the battlefield, you control the win. And he's incredibly useful in the omega towers.

  • 300M TCP vet.

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u/deft-solver 19h ago

Sentry is very good. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about at all.

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u/Cenoflame 19h ago

You must be low level if you think he's good. 

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u/FullMetalCOS Captain America 16h ago

So what level are you at because there’s multiple players at very high power levels that disagree.

I also disagree - Sentry is a beast.

450M+ TCP, master rank CC player.

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u/danimagoo 18h ago

I’m a day 1 player with a tcp over 550 mil. Sentry is niche, but great at what he does, indispensable in crucible, and usable in war as a plug n play. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

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u/Kilrenoir 18h ago

He's not as versatile as Knull, but he's solid in CC. If you don't do much in CC, then obviously he's not as useful to you, but he does hit like a truck and provides decent healing when he turns into the Void.

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u/TallLaw85 18h ago

I’m over 600 million TCP and I use sentry in almost every game mode so I think it’s a user error on your end.

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u/deft-solver 18h ago

Pretty sure you are the only person who thinks that. Or yours isn’t good enough.

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u/thebeastjojo 18h ago

I'm over 400 million tcp and I think Sentry is great. Obviously awesome in crucible but does great things in war as well. Interesting that y'all don't think he's good.