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Marvel - Ultimate Alliance

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Submitted by: RM

Easy Money
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For easy money, health, energy, Extreme Momentum Orbs, and experience for leveling.
make a team consisting of Luke Cage, Elektra, and Dr.Strange. When they each have a
full Momentum bar, get a group of enemies around you. Then, use the power. Elektra
will stun all enemies with her Curse of the Hand. Then Dr. Strange uses his Mystic
Maelstrom to kill all stunned enemies, causing them to drop Extreme Momentum Orbs
for each enemy killed. Then, Luke Cage uses his Sweet Christmas to kill any of the
remaining enemies, giving you +472% more money for each enemy killed in the attack
sequence. This trick is especially useful for leveling characters, unlocking costumes,
and maxing out stats. The best place to do this is in the Shield training simulator
on the Thunderball mission. Even if you run out of time you will still get the levels
and money; do not worry about killing the Boss. Just get your momentum on Luke Cage,
Dr. Strange,and Elektra.

Recommended team
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Use the following trick to make a hard to kill team. Make a team consisting of Wolverine,
Blade, Ghost Rider, and Luke Cage (the Bad To the Bone team). The team bonus will be that
5% of all damage will regained as health. Also, all these characters have a way to
regenerate health. Equip he following outfits. For Wolverine, Astonishing, Max Out Health
Regen and Defense. For Blade, Ultimate, Max Out Health Regen and Defense. For Luke Cage,
New Avengers, Max out Health Regen and Defense. For Ghost Rider, Original, Max out
Resurrect Ally and Defense. It is also recommended that Ghost Rider be equipped with
The Heart of Mephisto (10% of attack damage turned into health) or a similar item because
he is the only character without a Health Regen. Equip other characters with gear that
increases defense or dodging capabilities. Not only will your team be difficult to hurt,
but they will be absorbing and regenerating most of the damage they take. If a teammate
dies, Ghost Rider will have a 50% chance of resurrecting them. Note that Ghost Rider is
the weak point. He does not regenerate, and if he dies resurrection is lost. Also,
Wolverine will regenerate the fastest because he has an inherit ability to regenerate in
addition to the suit's bonus.

Iron Man Comic mission:
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When you get to the end of the mission to battle Ultimo, run back to the door
you came in. Ultimo is so big he cannot pass the edge of the room he is in.
You can just sit back and hit him with your ranged attacks. Then when needed,
fly in and collect the health and energy vials he drops.

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy reference:
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After the third level, go to Iron Man's lab and talk to Spider-Man. He will say "The only
thing that could make this worse is if Earth was blown up to make an intergalactic highway".

Completing the Comic missions:
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To complete all the Comic missions easily and unlock Silver Surfer and get gold
at the same time, wait and play all the missions at the end of the game when
your characters have leveled up and have decent powers. If some are still to
difficult to complete, do some Versus mode missions with those characters
to level them up, or to pick up some Shield Tokens to add to their costume.

Hard mode:
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Do not be afraid of the hard difficulty setting. When you start a game under
hard mode, you can load your characters from a previously saved game.
For example, if you have a level 50 Wolverine from normal mode, you can start
the game with him and all his powers, gear, and costumes that you have gained.
It also adds five more dots to level up your powers with. If you have one maxed
out in normal mode, there is even more room for improvement.

Character specific items:
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When picking up character specific items, such as "Iron Man's Coil", it is
described as doing +3 Damage and +3 Rocket Uppercut. This is not +3 to damage
for the hit; it means that it adds three dots in the Powers area. With this
single item you can go from 129 Damage to 289 Damage. Character specific
gear are thus very valuable.


Easy experience and money:
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When lighting the candles in Mephisto's Realm, there is an area where you are meant to throw
the demon jumpers into the fire to lower the pedestal. If you stand in by the edges of the
level where the jumpers respawn, you can kill as many as desired. Try this as Spider-Man or
any rapid fire projectile user. The enemies constantly drop money and energy refills. If one
walks too far away, hopefully your teammates will chase after them and you can use the
momentum move to wipe them out. Do this for easy experience and money.