Unstable ISO-8 - Oct 17 - 24

Spoit

Phantron wrote:

Spoit wrote:

Phantron wrote:

CrookedKnight wrote:

IIRC this was the first post-prologue story event, and D3 was still feeling out how they wanted to structure PvE events. But they've run it unaltered at least twice now since working out the whole system of sub-events attached to a main bracket.

The only thing changed about this event is the rubberbanding and it is a horror show of everything that can possibly go wrong with a PvE event when you're new to making them. As players we really don't need to be reminded of how bad things used to be. The only saving grace is that the enemy lineup rarely has Daken so it's one of the weakest DA lineup you'll see.

Nah, scaling was a much bigger (and worse) change than RBing.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that part. The scaling on this event seems to be pretty high too, perhaps to compensate the relative lack of Daken. I have a level 270 goon only node, and sure I won't say that is hard, but it still doesn't take much to die when half of the goon's move can one shot a character from full health when they're at that level.

Well that, and we'll have no relief from the subs refreshing community scaling a bit

Unknown

Hmm, cleared the level 185 Jugs/Venom node without taking much damage. It's amazing what a maxed boosted Steve supported by a Hood can do

Edit: Huh, just realized that with no 3* rewards in the PVE, I have no real need to play this event aside from the ISO/HP/tokens.

fmftint

Finishing rank 3-200 will earn a covers?

Unknown

This is an event that's just impossible for anyone from the EU to do anything in, right? The way it scales means that EU players only get to play it when the daily nodes are already scaled to death? I mean, I got up this morning and my Venezuela Showdown is at 249/250/249. and I only did 2 full clears before now.

Bowgentle

CardinalBiggles wrote:

This is an event that's just impossible for anyone from the EU to do anything in, right? The way it scales means that EU players only get to play it when the daily nodes are already scaled to death? I mean, I got up this morning and my Venezuela Showdown is at 249/250/249. and I only did 2 full clears before now.

Let RB accumulate, play in the last 12 hours only, get t50.
Only sane way to play this PVE.

Unknown

CardinalBiggles wrote:

This is an event that's just impossible for anyone from the EU to do anything in, right? The way it scales means that EU players only get to play it when the daily nodes are already scaled to death? I mean, I got up this morning and my Venezuela Showdown is at 249/250/249. and I only did 2 full clears before now.

I've cleared once and they are lvl 295

GrumpySmurf1002

CardinalBiggles wrote:

This is an event that's just impossible for anyone from the EU to do anything in, right? The way it scales means that EU players only get to play it when the daily nodes are already scaled to death? I mean, I got up this morning and my Venezuela Showdown is at 249/250/249. and I only did 2 full clears before now.

Mine started at 256. Up to 264 after one clear

Unknown

Between the insane scaling, the the new character being a 2*, and the fact this is the most miserable non-heroic PVE, I think I'm going to be taking it relatively easy. As long as I can get into essentials, I"ll get her covers from LRs and PVP eventually. She'll be functionally useless for a while, anyway.

This event would be improved about 300% if they would just reconfigure it into a main/sub arrangement. They could keep it almost identical, just turn the main map rearranging into subs.

Unknown

Some of my goon only nodes are at 350. Given the new rubberband structure puts way more weight on quantity than quality there's not much reason to touch the harder nodes like Juggernaut + Venom. It's not even worth a lot of points to begin with. I happen to be doing the first round a lot just because the 1000 iso rewards are still up due to anniversary, but will probably do less when they go away.

fmftint

New nodes just opened and half are labled Hard/Deadly

Unknown

I don't get it, is this a joke event? Are supposed to be beating lvl 500 goons by day 5 or something?

Oldboy

Of course not. We're supposed to give up

dr tinykittylove

Everything bad about the event aside, I kind of like they're using the event that introduces Moonstone to bring out Ms Marvel. A tinykitty sight better than what they've been doing, tossing out new characters in completely unrelated storylines.

Of course, it could be pure luck that they simply decided to rerun this event at the same time...

xequalsy

I do like that I have zero pressure to do much more than get all progression rewards in this event, since I'll get Ms Marvel from alliance rewards anyway and I already have zero chance of top 2 for X Force in my bracket.

Good timing too, real life getting busier again.

Unknown

So what kind of scaling are people seeing anyway? My highest level character is 270 and I got:

Iso 8 hoarders - 358X3
Iso 8 Folly - 195 196 196
Crossing Borders - 297 298 297
Dockside Deal - 269 270 270
Heist in Spain - 183 184 184

My bracket has 4 players in the top 10 with no characters higher than 100 so I assume they must see significantly lower enemies. Yes there are a lot of goon only levels but when the goons are 350 it's not that easy even if they can't ever move the board when they can kill you if you miss just about any CD.

Unknown

Iso 8 hoarders - 226x3
Iso 8 Folly - 116 115 115
Crossing Borders - 180x3
Dockside Deal - 163x3
Heist in Spain - 112 113 113

My 22 highest leveled characters are all 155. Deadpool isn't though, and he's one of the boosted ones, so that may bring it down a bit.

Interestingly, one of my alliance mates - who tops out at 153, slightly lower than me - had slightly higher levels, so it's not 100% roster.

Unknown

Ben Grimm wrote:

Iso 8 hoarders - 226x3
Iso 8 Folly - 116 115 115
Crossing Borders - 180x3
Dockside Deal - 163x3
Heist in Spain - 112 113 113

My 22 highest leveled characters are all 155. Deadpool isn't though, and he's one of the boosted ones, so that may bring it down a bit.

Interestingly, one of my alliance mates - who tops out at 153, slightly lower than me - had slightly higher levels, so it's not 100% roster.

Yeah, I can see my nodes go up as I do them unlike most recent events where they tend to stay settled after a point. I'm just getting the 1000 iso awards on nodes so I'm not particularly worried about what happens at the end.

GrumpySmurf1002

Ben Grimm wrote:

Iso 8 hoarders - 226x3
Iso 8 Folly - 116 115 115
Crossing Borders - 180x3
Dockside Deal - 163x3
Heist in Spain - 112 113 113

My 22 highest leveled characters are all 155. Deadpool isn't though, and he's one of the boosted ones, so that may bring it down a bit.

Interestingly, one of my alliance mates - who tops out at 153, slightly lower than me - had slightly higher levels, so it's not 100% roster.

Iso 8 hoarders - 228 228 229
Iso 8 Folly - 115 116 115
Crossing Borders - 174x3
Dockside Deal - 155 155 156
Heist in Spain - 111 112 112

So I have some heavier and some lighter. Rogers is 94 (184 boosted), Thor 134 (164), Deadpool 66 (96)

CrookedKnight

I have Thor at level 114 and everyone else tops out at 94. After one clear, I see Folly at level 88, Hoarders at 181, Heist at 81, Borders at 138 and Dockside at 121.

FierceKiwi

dr tinykittylove wrote:

Everything bad about the event aside, I kind of like they're using the event that introduces Moonstone to bring out Ms Marvel. A tinykitty sight better than what they've been doing, tossing out new characters in completely unrelated storylines.

Of course, it could be pure luck that they simply decided to rerun this event at the same time...

I don't think it is luck...this is also the event they used for 3* Carol it seems a bit too lucky for both of them to be released in the same semi-relavent event.