Event Extended - The Gauntlet

Nellyson

Lidolas wrote:

Thank you. I was able to get a few more nodes and rewards. I've reached the Deadpools/OBW/Ares node and I just can't get past it. But since I don't need the I'll move on to the event.

I gotta say, I enjoyed this event. No need to worry about when to run through. Plenty of time to let health and packs regen. Scaling was challenging. The opposition was interesting. Good job, d3.

Quitter!!! Hahaha...I just cleared the Gauntlet last night....HELLS YEAH! Damn it feels good to beat that! node kicked my butt more than a few times. The same with that node that you're stuck on! Whales! kept killing me! Hahaha...but loved the event. I feel great for making it through! I wish the best of luck for all those still going at it!

rednailz

Too hard for me with my roster to complete. Really appreciate something new though, and something where rewards aren't based on ranking. A fun change.

Unknown

I wońt be able to compete the event with my roster, and i'm so disappointed, i was hoping to complete the second one to get bp ... and surprise, last node requires bp so no way to get the points to get it, not very logic... So i'm wondering if i miss anything and is there another way??

Unknown

No, you didn't miss anything. I'm pretty sure you had to already have BP, GSBW and Punisher in order to get all the rewards for the gauntlet.

CrookedKnight

You had to already have BP and Punisher. GSBW was obtainable in Finale without having to do her Essential nodes.

iamxzo

Okin107 wrote:

iamxzo wrote:

Hey guys, yesterday I finished 2nd part of this event, but I had disconnect and I lost my blue bp cover, today I had few missions like undone( but I had points already) , so I've done all those missions again, and now I have all points, but I don't have last 2 rewards (500 and cover) can I recover it somehow? My nickname in game is xzo, ally xzo, phone xperia z1, help me plz

I recommend you open a ticket from the in-game feature for this. Contacting support is your best chance for getting help. I don't think anyone can have any recommendation that can fix this. It is most certainly a bad sync between the Server and your Client. Depending on when your connection dropped, their database might have been in the middle of registering your stats. So it seems like it kept you points but discarded the rewards and nodes.

I dropped connection while clearing a node in a gauntlet. I was going to win as a I made a big cascade that filled up my Stormneto but then I got D/C and then crash. Next thing I know is Mags is down along with punisher and storm is at 300hp for some reason.

Anyway, I'd say the best way to go is directly contact Support from in game or maybe PM IceIX directly in the forums.

I had your issue few times, when you list connection in most cases game understand it as surrender so u losing half or more hp, not sure, about my bug.. It's kinda funny because I just took gsbw green and still don't have blue bp ;D I've sended them my story and screenshoot so I hope they will fix it for me

DD-The-Mighty

NorthernPolarity wrote:

Jathro wrote:

The cynic in me says they just wanted to see how manu health packs they can sell from people pushing the finale.

But that contradicts the idea to extend it, to an extent.

After hearing this argument so many times, I give up: you guys have convinced me. From now on, any time d3 releases a new character or event, I'm just going to say "d3's only releasing new and interesting content because they want more people to buy health packs".

Tis true. I'm makin it rain.

SunCrusher

The Gauntlet was kick **** fun.

The artificial "If you don't have XYZ Character, you can't complete the required Essentials to earn all the required points for the Final Progression award" wall was kick **** NOT FUN.

1). Why make an Essential Character also be the Final Progression Award?

Obviously, to create an artificial wall to ensure some players - even if they are ready and capable - are unable to get the Final Progression Award.

2). Additionally, why in the HEROIC sub and not in the FINALE sub where the Final Progression reward was the same as the required character?

Why not have made GSBW - an older 3* - be the Essential character? Then at least there's the rationale that she is offered as a login bonus and so people who are ready for 3*s are more likely to have her or had a chance to have her.

Putting the newer character in as the Final Progression Reward for Heroic was a nice gesture BUT REQUIRING THIS SAME CHARACTER AS AN ESSENTIAL defies common sense if one goes by the rationale that the transitioning players ought to have gotten their 3* cover by completing the easier Heroic.

In the end, I saw this whole situation as a push to "try your luck with pulling purchased character packs!" and I refused.

Unlike other PvEs with repeatable nodes that offer the Essential character as the Final Progression Award, with no repeatable nodes, there was NO OTHER WAY BESIDES TOKEN PULLS OR PURCHASED CHARACTER PACKS to get the required/Essential character.

You either had them or you didn't regardless of your ability to finish Heroic.

So much for Heroic being aimed at the transitioning players and so much for all the talk about working hard, earning/deserving covers, or anything equating rewards with ability and skill levels.

This particular scenario had NOTHING to do with any of that.

Final Progression Reward = Essential Character Needed to GET the Final Progression Reward on Heroic is - I'm sorry to say - ****.

Makes me wish I bombed out on Finale completely and had struggled horribly through Heroic.

Lidolas

My guess about the essentials requiring the reward heroes is that this event, hopefully future ones, give the people who have been able to get a few of the covers a chance to gain more. All three (and Pun who is the boosted one) are offered as progressive daily rewards. Everyone who has played long enough should have them (unless they sold them)

Moon Roach

Lidolas wrote:

My guess about the essentials requiring the reward heroes is that this event, hopefully future ones, give the people who have been able to get a few of the covers a chance to gain more. All three (and Pun who is the boosted one) are offered as progressive daily rewards. Everyone who has played long enough should have them (unless they sold them)

Wolveroach had a Punisher cover from some event (not daily rewards, fool), but had no room for it at the time and no one he wanted to drop. And no HP to buy another roster slot.

As I tell my Alliance, a single 3* cover is useless unless it's needed for an essential node, so be prepared to sell it if you don't have room. I've seen rosters full of single-cover 3* with no 2* and only a few mildly levelled 1*. MPQ is impossible with a roster like that.

As to not having a cover I should have, this is the first time it's blocked progress, and probably won't be the last, but them's the breaks.

famousfoxking

My guess, and this is only a guess, is that when the event was created, it was created with a vision of handing out 1 3* cover to X people, 2 3* covers to Y people, and 3 3* covers to Z people. I assume that was the plan, anyway.
I also assume that they chose to err on the side of making things too tough, rather than too easy.
Finally, I am going to guess that they didn't see enough covers handed out, (possibly because of the second point above) so they extended the duration in order to get a little closer to their target.

This was the beta for this type of event, I expect the next one will scale a little differently to see if they can get closer to meeting their budget for covers distributed.

Lidolas

Moon Roach wrote:

Lidolas wrote:

My guess about the essentials requiring the reward heroes is that this event, hopefully future ones, give the people who have been able to get a few of the covers a chance to gain more. All three (and Pun who is the boosted one) are offered as progressive daily rewards. Everyone who has played long enough should have them (unless they sold them)

Wolveroach had a Punisher cover from some event (not daily rewards, fool), but had no room for it at the time and no one he wanted to drop. And no HP to buy another roster slot.

As I tell my Alliance, a single 3* cover is useless unless it's needed for an essential node, so be prepared to sell it if you don't have room. I've seen rosters full of single-cover 3* with no 2* and only a few mildly levelled 1*. MPQ is impossible with a roster like that.

As to not having a cover I should have, this is the first time it's blocked progress, and probably won't be the last, but them's the breaks.

I understand. I was just trying to see from the Dev's eyes. I agree with your advice for the most part. At some point, though, you do have to start your 3* collection somewhere, and I'd say it would be best to start with the covers you are certain to get from the daily reward.

ThatOneGuyjp189512

gotta say this event was the most fun i've had in a while with this game. Got my butt handed to me dozens of times and still was determined to get to the end, 12 hours to go, i reach the final node on the finale(you know the OBW/Sentry/X-Force) and they're level 373 for me....i cringe at the thought but try, 4 times i play, 3 times they get a cascade and supernova me to death....i am determined....4th time they get a just enough to supernova but hood steals one and delays! i feel triumphant! i get off rage of the panther and it *almost* kills sentry....dammit, put out a blue countdown in hopes it'll quell the match damage that they slaughter you with(1k for OBW pink or blue)....and i fail....hard, Hood dies with surgical strike, they get one match and supernova me to death....dammit. I lie in wait for daily reward time....i have enough deadpool points for uber whales!!! 17 minutes to go, i try again....RIP deadpool first time. 2nd try....12 purple, i'm almost there, dammit...supernova. 3rd times a charm! last of the +3 all stockpile....i have 12 purple again....i see a purple match...i hope deadpool and his 1200 hp is enough to not die, i match...and wait...he's not dead! UBER WHALES! i win!*victory Dance* thank you uber whales for saving me.