Meet Rocket & Groot - April 14 - April 19

jffdougan

I'm making extensive use of spoiler tags to save space.

End times (all Central Daylight Time, USA):

Slice 1: Sun 19 Apr, 8 AM
Slice 2: Sun 19 Apr, 2 PM
Slice 3: Sun 19 Apr, 5 PM
Slice 4: Sun 19 Apr, 11 PM
Slice 5: Mon 20 Apr, 2 AM

Powered up:

:quicksilver:

Progression Rewards:

100: Standard Token
500: 100
1000: Rainbow damage boost
1500:
2000: Rainbow AP stockpile
3000:
3500: 250
4000: Event token
5000: 250
6000:
8000: 500
10000:
12000: 1000
14000: Event token
16000: 500
18000: :quicksilver:

Placement awards:

1-2. Awards for 3-10, plus
3-10. , 3000 , 100
11-20. , 3000 , 100
21-50: , 2500 , 50
51-100. , 1500 , 50
101-150. , 1000 , 50
151-200. , 1500 , 50
201-300. , 1000 , 25
301-400. , 500
401-500. Standard token x 3, 250
501-600. Standard token x 2, 250
601-800. Standard token, 250
801-1000. 250

Alliance rewards:

1-2. , 5000 , 250
3-10., 5000 , 100
11-25. , 3000 , 100
26-50. , 2000 , 100
51-100. , 1000 , 50
101-250. 1000 , 50
251-500. 500 , 25
501-1000. 500
1001-10000. 250

Subevent rewards:

1-2. Event token x 2, 1000 , 100
3-10. Event token, 500 , 100
11-50. Event token, 250 , 50
51-100. Event token, 250
101-200. Event token, 200
201-300. event token, 140
301-400. Heroic token, 140
401-500. Standard token x 3, 100
501-600. Standard token x 2, 100
601-800. Standard Token, 100
801-1000. 70

Sub-event alliance rewards:
1-10. Event token, 250
11-50. Event token, 100
51-100. Heroic token, 100
101-250. Heroic token, 70
251-1000. 3 Standard tokens, 70
1001-2000: 2 Standard tokens, 70
2001-5000. Standard token, 70
5001-10000. Standard Token

Summary from mags' PVE format guide:

Episode 5: Meet Rocket & Groot
Length of Event: 4.5 days
Sub-Events? Yes; Alliance Rewards in Sub-Events? Yes
Number of Sub-Events: 3
Length of Sub-Events: 36 hours
Main Nodes after Sub-Events End? No
Unique Reward(s): None
Other Notes:

• The first run of the event was 4.5 days with three 36 hour sub-events. The second run of the event was 3.5 days with two 24 hour and one 36 hour sub-events (Sub 1: 24 hours; Sub 2: 24 hours; Sub 3: 36 hours).

Updated at 10:15 CDT on Wednesday to put in format guide and subvert alliance rewards.

Unknown

Eh, Mystique... Was hoping for Steve Rogers. Seems like in the past couple months PvE has rotated from new characters to weak characters, but no established strong characters to build up the roster.

Well, at least everyone will be taking a break so I might got for top 10, maybe...

Moon Roach

Hood fed 4 yellow per turn by 2 goons, Twin Pistols by move 5. Lovely.

morgh

And no XF to deplete yellow by SS ;-P

Quebbster

morgh wrote:

And no XF to deplete yellow by SS ;-P

First sub should have ended by the time the X-force change goes live...

Unknown

morgh wrote:

And no XF to deplete yellow by SS ;-P

don't worry, scaling will decrease and be compensated - HAHAHAHAHH

I can't get through that sentence

Quebbster

I have to admit this is a good event to let players try out Quicksilver. It's one of the few where the opponents (Mystique and Doom) are very likely to match blue, so you get a good idea about what his power can do.
(Likely not much, but still...)

Unknown

Sounds like it'll be push to the progression award and take a nap for a lot of people. I know I need the break.

Malcrof

Was really hoping for a chance at a Rocket and Groot cover from this... too many covers for mystique as it is.

Quebbster

Malcrof wrote:

Was really hoping for a chance at a Rocket and Groot cover from this... too many covers for mystique as it is.

I need another black, so it's nice to see it at the bottom of the price ladder. I'll probably still try to farm the subs for HP, so top 150 should definitely be doable.

TheRealJRad

I move to re-name this first sub to "Twin Pistols and Head Butts"

TxMoose

Moon Roach wrote:

Hood fed 4 yellow per turn by 2 goons, Twin Pistols by move 5. Lovely.

yes, that is by far the hardest node of sub 1. and theres nothing you can do to stop it. even if you manage an aggressive recon it only delays it one turn and then you haven't been gathering attack ap but purple. tough node. the way I did it was fast attacks (i.e. wolvie/daken). was still painful and I lost obw (had to choose one to lose) but finished the node. at least jugs isn't being fed red/green. and the goons aren't using green so you can onslaught away too.

Malcrof

TxMoose wrote:

Moon Roach wrote:

Hood fed 4 yellow per turn by 2 goons, Twin Pistols by move 5. Lovely.

yes, that is by far the hardest node of sub 1. and theres nothing you can do to stop it. even if you manage an aggressive recon it only delays it one turn and then you haven't been gathering attack ap but purple. tough node. the way I did it was fast attacks (i.e. wolvie/daken). was still painful and I lost obw (had to choose one to lose) but finished the node. at least jugs isn't being fed red/green. and the goons aren't using green so you can onslaught away too.

Stun him, that is going to be the only way.

TxMoose

Malcrof wrote:

TxMoose wrote:

Moon Roach wrote:

Hood fed 4 yellow per turn by 2 goons, Twin Pistols by move 5. Lovely.

yes, that is by far the hardest node of sub 1. and theres nothing you can do to stop it. even if you manage an aggressive recon it only delays it one turn and then you haven't been gathering attack ap but purple. tough node. the way I did it was fast attacks (i.e. wolvie/daken). was still painful and I lost obw (had to choose one to lose) but finished the node. at least jugs isn't being fed red/green. and the goons aren't using green so you can onslaught away too.

Stun him, that is going to be the only way.

a cheap, quick stunner would help a lot there. i.e. spidey or an mbw team up would be nice. longer ones like storm would take too long to accumulate - mbw team up might take too long if the board is team-up dry.

Arondite

Malcrof wrote:

TxMoose wrote:

Moon Roach wrote:

Hood fed 4 yellow per turn by 2 goons, Twin Pistols by move 5. Lovely.

yes, that is by far the hardest node of sub 1. and theres nothing you can do to stop it. even if you manage an aggressive recon it only delays it one turn and then you haven't been gathering attack ap but purple. tough node. the way I did it was fast attacks (i.e. wolvie/daken). was still painful and I lost obw (had to choose one to lose) but finished the node. at least jugs isn't being fed red/green. and the goons aren't using green so you can onslaught away too.

Stun him, that is going to be the only way.

She-Hulk

Unknown

Thanks for putting Hood and Jugs on the test Quicksilver node to serve as a lesson in how fragile his whole blue ability is. It's too bad his AP costs are all based on keeping four locked tiles out. I couldn't manage more than two before a twin pistols or a Jugs board shake cleared them.

hex706f726368

Cayasha wrote:

Thanks for putting Hood and Jugs on the test Quicksilver node to serve as a lesson in how fragile his whole blue ability is. It's too bad his AP costs are all based on keeping four locked tiles out. I couldn't manage more than two before a twin pistols or a Jugs board shake cleared them.

Came here to say this, that node really showcases how terrible QS is.

Unknown

I just love how they keep releasing a brand new character, then making him the required for the next PvE. Is this the 3rd week in row they've done this? Only the super hardcore players who had Kingpin could get Quicksilver, and now are the only ones who can rank well in this event. Really frustrating as 2-3* transition player. There's no point in playing, since I can't score the 3* cover and don't need any more 2* covers. At least the progression reward is attainable.

Unknown

clagsmd wrote:

I just love how they keep releasing a brand new character, then making him the required for the next PvE. Is this the 3rd week in row they've done this? Only the super hardcore players who had Kingpin could get Quicksilver, and now are the only ones who can rank well in this event. Really frustrating as 2-3* transition player. There's no point in playing, since I can't score the 3* cover and don't need any more 2* covers. At least the progression reward is attainable.

As far as I can remember, they do it for every new character release. They will be essential in the next pve. And just because you couldn't get Kingpin, doesn't mean you couldn't get Quicksilver. I didn't have Kingpin and I cruised into a top 150 finish to get QS. Just wait patiently until a new bracket opens up in pve and clear all the nodes that you have access to.

Hell, somwtimes you don't even have to clear all nodes for top 150. I cleared each sub once and I stil got top 150.

Unknown

Looking at my bracket's numbers, it seems like people indeed followed through on their claim that Quicksilver is useless and participated relatively little during Prodigal Sun, so even without Kingpin it should've been easy to get a cover for him if you put in a decent effort.

Unknown

Plus you should be able to get the progression Quicksilver early enough to join in on the essensials. As an added bonus a lot of people are burned out on back to back to back new characters so it should be easier to make top 150 for the 3* this time.