Prodigal Sun - Feb 24 - March 3

jffdougan

Powered Up:
The Hood
Doctor Doom
Sentry
Ares
Daken (Dark Avengers)
Bullseye

Single Player Rewards

1-2. All rewards from the previous rank + Nick Fury
3-10. 3000 ISO, 100 HP, Iron Fist
11-20. 2500 ISO, 100 HP, Iron Fist
21-50. 1000 ISO, 50 HP, Iron Fist
51-100. 1500 ISO, 50 HP, Iron Fist
101-150. 1000 ISO, 50 HP, Iron Fist
151-200. 1500 ISO, 50 HP, Captain Marvel (Ms Marvel)
201-300. 1000 ISO, 25 HP, Captain Marvel
301-400. 500 ISO, Captain Marvel
401-500. 250 ISO, Standard Token x 3
501-600. 250 ISO, Standard Token x 2
601-800. 20 ISO, Standard Token
801-1000. 250 ISO

Progression Rewards:

150. Standard Token
500. 100 ISO
1000. +3 All Damage Boosts
1500. Health Pack
2000. +3 all stockpile
3000. 250 ISO
4000. Ares
5000. 250 ISO
6000. Event Token
8000. Daken (Dark Avengers)
12000. 50 HP
14000. Bullseye
16000. 1000 ISO
18000. Event Token
20000. 500 ISO
26000. The Hood

Alliance rewards:

1-2. 2000 ISO, 250 HP, Iron Fist
3-50. 2000 ISO, 100 HP, Iron Fist
51-100. 2000 ISO, 50 HP, Iron Fist
101-250. 1500 ISO, 50 HP
251-500. 1000 ISO, 50 HP
501-1000. 500 ISO, 50 HP
1001-1750. 250 ISO, 50 HP
1751-2500. 200 ISO, 50 HP
2501-5000. 200 ISO
5001-10000. 140 ISO

morgh

I might have shot myself in the knee by playing EotS... my crossfire is at 230 just after 1 clear >.<

Bowgentle

morgh wrote:

I might have shot myself in the knee by playing EotS... my crossfire is at 230 just after 1 clear >.<

Mine _started_ at 249.
Enjoy your soft scaling.

Dragon_Nexus

How long are the sub events? I don't want to pick a time that screws me over if they're 12 hour refreshes again.

Bowgentle

First sub is 36 hours.

Dragon_Nexus

Bowgentle wrote:

First sub is 36 hours.

Fantastic, thank you

ironpastor

There are 400 players in slice 3
I will keep saying how many players are until is full

JVReal

Will this one be giving away another Sentry in the final Sub again?

Also, the OP doesn't show an IF cover for Alliance rewards, is that right?

jordanix

Anyone else sitting this one out? I have faithfully gone after the top 150 rewards for the past several months (especially for new characters), but I am finally feeling the burnout kick in. EotS it was all I could stomach to hit max prog, but hood quickly became out of reach. Now with the top prog being I can't even be bothered to reach for that.

Good luck to all the grinders out there.

jojeda654

JVReal wrote:

Also, the OP doesn't show an IF cover for Alliance rewards, is that right?

Looks like OP forgot to update the rewards template. I edited it to include them.

Unknown

I notice that people are clearing nodes two or three times right at the beginning for some strange reason, instead of waiting for the nodes to refresh.

Should I just be happy about that or is there some reason for it?

Unknown

Tripwire wrote:

I notice that people are clearing nodes two or three times right at the beginning for some strange reason, instead of waiting for the nodes to refresh.

Should I just be happy about that or is there some reason for it?

If anything, I'd guess it's an attempt to counter the horrific scaling. The nodes all seem to be starting absurdly high, and they're only going to go higher. Iron Fist's strike tiles got nothin on level 999 Muscle.

GrumpySmurf1002

Cammorak wrote:

Tripwire wrote:

I notice that people are clearing nodes two or three times right at the beginning for some strange reason, instead of waiting for the nodes to refresh.

Should I just be happy about that or is there some reason for it?

If anything, I'd guess it's an attempt to counter the horrific scaling. The nodes all seem to be starting absurdly high, and they're only going to go higher. Iron Fist's strike tiles got nothin on level 999 Muscle.

More likely it's people with things like jobs that don't allow them to play in the middle of the night or all day on a Wednesday, so they're just doing what they can when they have time.

Unknown

Cammorak wrote:

If anything, I'd guess it's an attempt to counter the horrific scaling. The nodes all seem to be starting absurdly high, and they're only going to go higher. Iron Fist's strike tiles got nothin on level 999 Muscle.

The scaling is always high in this event. I remember the last time It ran with Elektra all to well. In the sub "Hell's kitchen" I had wall to wall 395's even the essential nodes were up in the 350 lvl.

slidecage

Cammorak wrote:

Tripwire wrote:

I notice that people are clearing nodes two or three times right at the beginning for some strange reason, instead of waiting for the nodes to refresh.

Should I just be happy about that or is there some reason for it?

If anything, I'd guess it's an attempt to counter the horrific scaling. The nodes all seem to be starting absurdly high, and they're only going to go higher. Iron Fist's strike tiles got nothin on level 999 Muscle.

Yeap and its going to get worse. I was just checking my records. I usually take top 50 easy (top 20 if i want to grind) this is even before the 8 hour refresh the last time it ran, i ended 285th that i how insane my levels were. I dont think im even going to even attempt this (maybe hit each nod once if i make it to top 150 in bracket fine if not who cares anymore)

hit each nod once and im 387th who cares

Unknown

slidecage wrote:

I dont think im even going to even attempt this (maybe hit each nod once if i make it to top 150 in bracket fine if not who cares anymore)

hit each nod once and im 387th who cares

Same here. I love Iron Fist, and he's ridiculously strong, but I'd rather not down a character on every single refresh just to earn a Capt. Marvel cover. Probably just going to chill for a while and do essentials since the DPD characters don't interest me much this week and the PvE is a horrific goonswarm. Guess now's as good a time as any to focus on PvP.

Unknown

They really need to create a decent time zone for people in eastern time in the US. I've got to choose slice 1, which ends at 9 am, because slice 2 and 5 are both horrific times (3 am and 3 pm), Slice 3 ends at 6 pm, right after I get back from work (so I can't grind at the end), and slice 4 ends at midnight, after I go to bed (so I can't grind the first 6 hours at all). 9 am is bad, but it's the only one that gives me the ability to grind earlyish in an event (I can usually do a clear at lunch) and at the end (before work some, plus a lot on saturday and sunday).

I like time slices but hate the times they've chosen.

Bowgentle

Ben Grimm wrote:

They really need to create a decent time zone for people in eastern time in the US. I've got to choose slice 1, which ends at 9 am, because slice 2 and 5 are both horrific times (3 am and 3 pm), Slice 3 ends at 6 pm, right after I get back from work (so I can't grind at the end), and slice 4 ends at midnight, after I go to bed (so I can't grind the first 6 hours at all). 9 am is bad, but it's the only one that gives me the ability to grind earlyish in an event (I can usually do a clear at lunch) and at the end (before work some, plus a lot on saturday and sunday).

I like time slices but hate the times they've chosen.

With 8 hour refreshes it doesn't matter when you play your refreshes, as long as you grind enough at the end.

So just pick midnight end time, grind until 11, sleep, and start the sub when you get up. Shouldn't be a problem.

jffdougan

I'll update the OP later tonight. I was running on empty and missed that the template didn't have an alliance section.

Unknown

Bowgentle wrote:

Ben Grimm wrote:

They really need to create a decent time zone for people in eastern time in the US. I've got to choose slice 1, which ends at 9 am, because slice 2 and 5 are both horrific times (3 am and 3 pm), Slice 3 ends at 6 pm, right after I get back from work (so I can't grind at the end), and slice 4 ends at midnight, after I go to bed (so I can't grind the first 6 hours at all). 9 am is bad, but it's the only one that gives me the ability to grind earlyish in an event (I can usually do a clear at lunch) and at the end (before work some, plus a lot on saturday and sunday).

I like time slices but hate the times they've chosen.

With 8 hour refreshes it doesn't matter when you play your refreshes, as long as you grind enough at the end.

So just pick midnight end time, grind until 11, sleep, and start the sub when you get up. Shouldn't be a problem.

I essentially miss a full clear every round when I do that, and I tend to do better in the 9 am ones when I'm generally not more than a half-clear or so off. If Slice 3 were an hour later, I'd be fine.

ZootSax

I wasn't expecting to say this, but I actually miss having Moonstone boosted for this event. Her red could be pretty brutal boosted and there really aren't too many non-OBW purple options in 2-star land (I don't recall any specific nodes from previous runs of this event, but I am assuming we'll be fighting Black Widow sooner or later).

On the topic of the dark avengers, was Bullseye always an opponent in the essentials for this event? I couldn't recall, but had just assumed that I wouldn't be fighting any of the usual suspects in this event, yet there he is for both essentials here. Ah well, I guess they couldn't have you night fight Bullseye for two straight events...