New team after watching Brand New Day

I really appreciate you reopening this sub since the other is going in a broader direction. Many people are new to this game and need a sub. Thanks

In Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 the computer players dish out less damage... but also receive less damage. This, combined with equipping ISOs that make the character targeted more often, has led to designated tanks. These heroes are on the team specifically to survive a beating while reducing damage the rest of the team gets.

So wondering which characters make the best tanks? Here is a tier list of the top 25. It is based on bulk (vitality+durability+resilience) and other factors like resistances (minor influence), healing factor and reliability (example: a high durability but low resilience is less reliable - this influences all scores although only noted for extreme cases).

Please note, Thanos Infinite is excluded because he can't equip ISOs and therefore can't be depended on to absorb as much damage. If he was included he would be #1, at 100%. Also keep in mind that this doesn't include abilities, as a result Invisible Woman is lower than she should be (I didn't want to just toss a lot of points her way, so will let you judge where she should actually be). For those curious, the worst tank in the game is Phoenix (bulk is only 41).

Hey everyone,

I saw a lot of people asking about the old MUA3 Heroes and Teams tool that used to be hosted at dnawoods.com/mua/. It's been offline for a while now and there was no alternative.

So I rebuilt it from scratch as a fully browser-based version. No server needed, it runs entirely client-side.

What works right now:

🧬 Team Generator: find optimal teams sorted by bonus activations, team bonuses, or average stats

⚔️ Hero Comparison

📋 Full Roster with stats for all 52 heroes

Hero exclusion filters, randomizer, multiple sort options

What's coming next:

Hero avatars/portraits

More polished UI and interface

Stats gathered directly from in-game data for maximum accuracy

Improved team generation algorithm

The tool is fully functional right now, it's just the cosmetics and fine-tuning that need work.

🔗 Link: https://mua3teambuilder.tiiny.site/

This is a Community Fan Tool, not affiliated with Marvel or Nintendo. Credits are on the site.

If you have suggestions, let me know! 🙌

So recently i posted a scathing and unfair opinion about mua3. More specifically about the doom castle area.

But then community responded back. And offered advice. And as much as hate to say it, gave me reality check about my opinion, something i needed.

Just wanted to say thanks to community for assistance. Im not going to lie, the dedication for this game is amazing.

Edit: heres the link, yet again, thanks everyone. https://www.reddit.com/r/MUA3/comments/k63hbu/realised_why_i_stop_playing_this_game/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

It really feels like Spider-Man got shafted in his abilities with how eh they are. His unique flavour was and had to be spread out because they had to make the other Spiders have similar yet different powers. Webspinner is eh, Spider-Drone is too slow, Web Crush is eh, and Sticky Situation (or Web Blossom) is ok. What he can do with his webs and all the potential abilties he could have had feels like wasted potential when you see what he got, and what they gave to the other Spiders. The abilities Parker was left with focus on one thing, with that one thing struggling to do it's one job right against the enemies that really matter. He can crowd control, but only so much with how mediocre the Bind attribute is and how that attribute was left in the dust.

I feel Spidey's lackluster abilities and their performance plays in large part with the emphasis on binding, and how bad all but 1 ability is at inflicting it. Bind, despite being classified as an ability attribute, is not treated as such by ISO effects. The abilities Spidey has with the tag don't benefit from ability attribute damage boosts, and they aren't affected at all by, "decrease number of hits needed to inflict a status effect by X", which is a big problem. Bind is a status effect since it counts towards Danger Room missions that need a status effect inflicted, yet it doesn't benefit from those Orange ISOs. Other characters can use those Orange ISOs and actually inflict effects like Shock, freeze, or burning, even on Bosses, but Bind can't, not even for a second (apparently only Dr Strange can bind Bosses with the Crimson bands of Cyttorak, which is weird). The only times Binding is made easier to do it's job in is the actual ability upgrades, which obviously wasn't enough. If bind can be made easier to do there, why is there not an ISO that specifically "improves binding capabilities"? I feel it would drastically improve Spidey's performance alone. While it wouln't make his ability selection any less boring, it would make the binding aspect easier, more practical, and more consistent

TL:DR: Spidey's ability set is wasted potential, with the more unique and fun stuff being split up between him, Miles, and Gwen. For what his character is focused on doing (binding), his current abilities don't do their job of binding very well due to a lack of support for the attribute.

I want to start this post off by saying that I am by no means a theorycrafter or a build experimenter. Therefore I always look for community resources of people having done the math to see how I should equip my character and enjoy the game from there. From playing MUA3 on and off I could never find such resources except for the great character guide video's by TonyBing. Though, browsing each video when I wanted to check what ISO's would be good was becoming quite a hassle. Enough of a hassle for me to have gone and consolidated the builds into a nice easy to read spreadsheet. Since i'm probably not the only one struggling with this I figured I could share this spreadsheet with the reddit community.

Disclaimer: These aren't gonna be the perfect absolutely best builds out there, most are even from the 4 ISO limit, but they are a good base. Unless they are plain wrong, it's no use to contact me with 'this isn't 100% ideal because..' since I didn't make these builds and am not an expert.

If people are up for it I am willing to update this spreadsheet with builds that are provided to me. but i have kept the limit to 3 builds per character for now. DM me with a build and I will add it.

MUA3 Build Compendium

So it was announced in early May that the /r/MAU3 would switch to being about general Marvel games and not specific to Ultimate Alliance.

Despite mostly unanimous protest to that idea, it's been continually confirmed that's the plan. The resolution mentioned was that this sub reddit here would become the new home of Ultimate Alliance 3 discussions. In late May some topics started to be moved over and then... everything stopped.

No more topics were moved over. The other subreddit continues to be used 99% for Ultimate Alliance discussion, and there has been a trickle of activity here.

It feels like whatever is happening got stuck and left in purgatory, leaving us with two places to check for Ultimate Alliance discussions. I guess I'm asking if /u/Hobbesenero or someone else can weigh in.

I do appreciate the time spent on Subreddits, especially busy ones, so not trying to seem ungrateful but curious on what plans are now.

I have to admit that I have a really good time playing with the Fantastic Four. They have a lot of synergy moves, and for the most part seem to bring the damage home. Ben’s ability to block lasers is extremely helpful. Sue does a really good job with the high defense. Johnny is great at stunning enemies. And Reed has some wonderful AOE effects. As a result, they have been my go to team for quite a while now. Does anybody else enjoy using the Fantastic Four?

Here‘s hoping they add these characters since they’re already in the game. Kind of like how the Witcher 3 is getting a new dlc after what, 10 years. A few characters I add will not already be in the game but I hope they still add them:

Rise of Attilan DLC: Black Bolt, Medusa, Ant-Man, Vision

Age of Krakoa DLC: Beast, Rogue (Away), Juggernaut, Mystique

Asgardian Dominion DLC: Odin, Valkyrie, Hela, Enchantress

Earth’s Defenders DLC: White Tiger (Ava Ayala, Away), Misty Knight (Away), Jessica Jones, She Hulk (Away)

Cosmic Annihilation DLC: Nova, Lilandra (Away), Phyla-Vell (Away) Professor X (Away/Sort of, could make him the walkable version like in X-Men 97 with some armor and skins could be Krakoa Professor X)

an extra secret character maybe: Silver Surfer (Away)

I have way too much high hopes and maybe it will happen and maybe it won’t, I’m coping. With this list the total amount should be 72 (InfiThanos 73) characters.

PS-feel free to add ones that should be there.

I didin't expect the main Ultimate Alliance Reddit to be banned off the site before I finished this but hey y'all are still here and it's more specific to this place so here we are

I would like to play online with other people. I have all.the dlc but I'm not sure what level I'm supposed to be or really anything about this game. Haven't touched it in years really because I didn't want to grind characters solo. Anyone have a discord?

I spent so much damn money on that game, and despite the fact that it’s gone I don’t regret a penny. I just jumped on the MUA3 (and Switch) train recently so I’m hoping to get that same attachment to this game.

Finally unlocked Thanos and holy crap what a grind. To respect to all the people out there that grind to unlock this. Not easy at all.

Must be directly related to the game. But that’s about it.

https://twitter.com/DragonJza/status/1299652834049232898/photo/1

Black Panther, Daredevil, Miles Morales, and Hawkeye. Two strong melee heroes supported by two strong ranged users, inflicting heavy damage and shock status to a wide area. They’re light on team bonuses but have no real weaknesses.

https://www.dnawoods.com/mua/compare?h1=Black%20Panther&h2=Daredevil&h3=Miles%20Morales&h4=Hawkeye

Lead with Panther and mash zR Panther Claw. It teleports him directly onto his targets, making him an excellent lead character for directing synergies, to say nothing of having a great stagger busting Charge and a Bastion power that also melts nearby enemies. Since Panther Claw is a very short duration barrage power, reapplying it while still holding zR will add interactions from additional allies until all four members are interacting at once.

zR Panther Claw at your target’s location will trigger Billy Club Blitz from Daredevil, a continuous barrage power. Whereas T’Challa will be reapplying and directing more Panther Claws all over the place, Daredevil stays rooted in the same spot for as long as you keep zR held, conveniently rotating his aim toward T’Challa the entire time.

zR Panther Claw will get a High Voltage out of Miles Morales, laying down an area shock effect, adding shock to T’Challa and Daredevil’s weapons, and causing the elemental barrage synergy with T’Challa as well as Daredevil for as long as it lasts.

zR Panther Claw also gets Shock Value out of Hawkeye, adding a large area of redundancy to Miles’ element interaction as well as a high damage spam

After the Daredevil and Miles interaction is planted, zR Vibranium Bash gets strong interaction from Miles or Hawkeye's bash and impact powers, adding great damage before needing to reapply Miles' shock field.

Here’s the combo in isolation:

https://twitter.com/DragonJza/status/1299664175585665025

T’Challa has one power with no interaction called Aerial Assault; I place this one on Y so when I hold zR I can still use light attacks as needed, for power regen or simply repositioning before my next Panther Claw. Not to mention, Aerial Assault is a high damaging power that lets him use an aerial attack right after, so having it on an attack button when you want to use it with R is a very good idea.

Bypassing staggers on bosses with the shock status effect is really good, but they go on a lockdown after it happens once so knocking out purple bars with a solid Charge synergy is the go-to backup. T’Challa’s Charge move Vibranium Slash is a punchy B/A that doesn’t send him past his target so it’s very good:

https://twitter.com/DragonJza/status/1299653008955813888

Energy Management ISOs on T’Challa and Daredevil and inflict status ISOs on Miles and Hawkeye go a long way. Likelihood of being targeted on T’Challa is really great with the Bastion move returning ranged hits and expelling damage to melee foes, as well as ease of setting up the synergies on balled up targets.

Been eyeing it for a long time, even though it’s still full price I’m loving it so much after burning out on Avengers.

I’m a little surprised it’s so dead here even though it’s a couple years old.

Anyway right now Wolverine, Thor, psylocke, Star lord, hulk, and black panther are my A-listers, I plan on gambit joining them.

Definitely open to any synergy advice for them,I also want to give ice man, moon knight and morbius a fair shake at some point. Always open to thoughts on other heroes too!

I’m sick of Japanese developers getting away with the same scams the western devs do except when it’s a western company people lose their minds. I know it isn’t a multi-platform release so the dlc not being honored hasn’t become a big deal in the mainstream but we also aren’t organizing and spamming that we want answers. I want was was advertised or my money back.

Just saying it’d be nice if it followed the trend of most ARPGs and was consistently updated with new content over time...like how square enix and crystal dynamics are doing with the Marvel Avengers game. We finally get another MUA and it’s just over after a year of content expansions on a platform that’s lacking a little in the ARPG department

I'm trying to make a guide for characters who are optimal to use the ISOs that add an element to the user. These are the ISOs that:

• Add Ice attribute to the user

• Add Fire attribute to the user

• Add Shock attribute the user

The game doesn't explain it well, but these benefit the characters that have a hero trait that says "Element: Fire, Ice, Shock". Once equipped, a weapon or claw will glow with the element and be added as an attack type. This also adds secondary effects, such as burning or the chance to freeze. Below are a list of those characters who are optimal for these ISOs:

• Black Panther

• Blade

• Captain America

• Daredevil

• Deadpool

• Drax

• Elektra

• Gambit

• Gamora

• Nightcrawler

• Psylocke

• Star-lord

• Wolverine

Now not all heroes are optimal. Below are characters that this can work on but are a bad choice for these ISOs:

• Black Widow (weapons already have Shock)

• Ghost Rider (weapon already has Fire)

• Loki (avoid, as his own abilities add Ice)

• Thor (weapon already has Shock)

What I'd love is some input from others. Anything I'm missing? Also can anyone shed some light on Phoenix, who is noted as "weapon element: fire" even though she has no weapon.

Hi. May I ask guys that it's good to have that team on ultimate lvl of story, and on what lvl I can beat dr doom on ultimate difficulty. I want to get thanos infinite. ;)