The Gauntlet: Oct. 30 - Nov. 4

CrookedKnight

It's back! No placement rewards, no 147-minute grinding cycle, just you against a long, long chain of very high-level AI teams.

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Rewards

Round 1: Wilderness Survival
35. 100
123.
235. Recruit Token (Standard)
371. Stockpile (All AP)
597. 100
796. Power Boost (All colors)
968. 200
1164. Recruit Token (Standard)
1423. 500
1858.

Round 2: Alpine Tactics
119. 250
375. Recruit Token (Standard)
655. 250
959.
1353. 500
1720. Recruit Token (The Gauntlet)
2060. 500
2424. 50
2851. 500
3538.

Round 3: Global Domination
203. 100
627.
1075. 250
1547. Recruit Token (The Gauntlet)
2109. 1000
2644.
3152. 1000
3684. 50
4279. 1000
5218.

Placement/Alliance
Nothing! You're free!

orionpeace

Super excited about that as the ULTIMATE reward for the Gauntlet!!!

Those are super rare and everyone wants them.

CrookedKnight

So valuable that they've been given out in both gauntlets!

I'm also totally excited about that Healing & Heat cover, because I definitely have not sold three of them already and would not at all give my right arm to finally draw a freaking purple. Nope.

(I don't want to be too negative about this, though. Regardless of rewards, the Gauntlet is easily the best single-player experience this game has and I am genuinely glad they brought it back so I can play through it again. Getting another rank of Hypersonic Punch is a nice perk.)

Unknown

It looks like blade is required to complete all the missions? Does this mean I cant get Daken if I didnt pick up Blade in the PVE event recently?

If hes not available as a PVP reward soon this is a bit unfair

y2fitzy

I need all the 3* rewards, so you can stick your cynicism

What's more I actually have a Black Panther this time so if they try the old "You need one to get one" trick that they pulled last time, I should be ok (presuming I manage a top 100 spot in PVP and get Marvel as I don't have her yet...)

Unknown

I love the format of the gauntlet. I so wish they weren't so skittish about giving out good covers in it.

Unknown

There is not a single cover reward in there that I need, but I will pay the smallest of kittens out of the gauntlet because it's fun and challenging. And I like and .

Nefesh

Yeah! that's what I really wanted. After a dozen of grindy events finally get some relief of that.
I was already starting to hate this game, now I love it again!

The rewards are not bad at all. Don't want blue Panther cover though (would prefer yellow or black) but will use it until I get others

lukewin

Blade is required for first set of Essentials.

Unknown

Once someone gets there, it would be awesome to update whether any nodes award covers this time around. Thanks!

Unknown

The Gauntlet has its own share of problems but the failure of D3 to give you exactly the covers you want isn't one of them.

Unknown

what? no blade as progression?

CrookedKnight

They did that last time too, where Punisher was the previous event's main award and the featured character, but not awarded on progression. Of course, it wasn't as much of a problem since he was one of the most-used 3* characters and had been in tokens since the Pleistocene Era.

Unknown

As the owner of a 5/2/5 BP I am thrilled with the final reward. As much as I want to take my BP from 153 to 166 there is no way I am spending 1250 HP on a near worthless cover. I also love this format & thank you going 5 days w/out throwing a new character at us.

Unknown

lukewin wrote:

Blade is required for first set of Essentials.

Second set of essentials requires Blade, as well.

Unknown

Who's got two thumbs and already planned on taking tomorrow off of work?!

This guy.

...imagine me pointing to myself, with my thumbs. That's how the joke works.

Anyway, YES. Gauntlet Gauntlet Gauntlet. Thanks, D3!

Unknown

So far it seems like there's no additional scaling for winning the nodes like last time. The Global Domination node started at 236 (can't do, but can see the levels) and is still 236. Hopefully they realized that starting at 236 is still already plenty tough and it'll stay at 236 until I got to that bracket instead of going up to 336.

GrumpySmurf1002

Round 3: 2644 reward is 2* or 3* Marvel?
I desperately need LDaken covers so that's welcome.
Having Blade essentials on the first sub is mean, especially since he won't be awarded from PvP until after the Gauntlet is over.
Almost wonder if their progression awards for this thing isn't set up by RNG.

Edit: I'm an idiot who can't read a calendar. Gauntlet ends after Marvel's PvP. Oops.

CrookedKnight

3* Marvel, yes. 2* is instead of .

Unknown

The Gau......wait....i dont care.

I could give a damn about the challenge or about the **** rewards.

im just happy that i can ignore this thing without worring about leaving my alliance in the cold.

after that soul suck blade release hunt pve...i couldnt care less about anything but a pve break.

best of luck to all that are into this. happy grinding and good luck

marc

Bacon Pants

I don't think I participated in the previous Gauntlet. Were the awards as **** for that one as they are for this one?

Thanks.