PVE Heroic: Oscorp (2016-02-29 to 2016-03-03)

rainkingucd

Fun Fact: Oscorp Heroic was the first event where I did event threads on the forum (wow, way back in November). Seems rather fitting that it will be my (second to) last one for a while. I'll be on extended holidays for 2 months, so I won't be in a position to create these threads anymore. If anyone would like to take over starting 07 March, feel free!

Event Info

Heroic Oscorp
Length of Event: 3 days
Sub-Events? Yes
Number of Sub-Events: 3 Length of Sub-Events: 24 hours
Main Bracket Size: 1000 Sub Bracket Size: 1000
Unique Reward(s): None
Other Notes:

• There are Main nodes to open up the sub-events. These nodes are one time only nodes.
• One node in Main (a team-up node) is repeatable and playable for points throughout the event.
• Enemy Types (Main): Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*), Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons
• Sub-Event 1: Oscorp: Heroic - City
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 4
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 9 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable)
  • Enemy Types: Ares, Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*), Juggernaut, Moonstone, Ragnarok, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons
• Sub-Event 2: Oscorp: Heroic - Tower
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 3
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 9 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable)
  • Enemy Types: Ares, Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*), Juggernaut, Moonstone, Ragnarok, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons
• Sub-Event 2: Oscorp: Heroic - Tower II
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 3
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 9 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable)
  • Enemy Types: Ares, Bullseye (2*), Daken (2* & 3*), Moonstone, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons

Link to mags1587 PVE Format Guide

Powered Up (and only usable characters)

(Essential)
(new)






(Essential)







(Essential)

Progression awards:

100:
500: 100
1000: rainbow damage boost
1500:
2300: rainbow AP stockpile
3400: 140
4700:
6000: 140
7500:
9500: 140
11500:
13500: 250
15500: 25
17500: 250
20000:
22500: 500
25500: 25
29000:
33000: 1000
37000: 25

Placement rewards:

1: + rewards for 2-5
2-5: + rewards for 6-10
6-10: + rewards for 11-20
11-20: , 1500 , 50
21-50: , 1000 , 50
51-100: , 1000 , 25
101-200: , 500 , 25
201-300: , 500
301-400: , 250
401-500: x 3, 250
501-600: x 2, 250
601-800: , 250
801-1000: 250


Alliance rewards:
1-2: , 2500 , 100
3-10: , 2500 , 50
11-25: , 1500 , 50
26-50: , 1000 , 50
51-100: , 500 , 25
101-250: 500 , 25
251-500: 250 , 25
501-1000: 250
1001-10000: 140

Sub-Event Placement Rewards

1-2: x2, 1000 , 100 , 2
3-10: , 1000 , 100 , 1
11-50: , 1000 , 50
51-100: , 1000
101-200: , 500
201-300: , 250
301-400: , 250
401-500: x3, 250
5ß1-600: x2, 250
601-800: , 250
801-900: 140
901-1000: 70

Alliance
1-10: , 250
11-50: , 100
51-100: , 100
101-250: ,70
251-1000: x3, 70
1001-2000: x2, 70
2001-5000: , 70
5001-10000:

Reinforcements (will update as known)

Sub 1: Oscorp: Heroic - City




Sub 2: Oscorp: Heroic - Tower




Sub 3: Oscorp: Heroic - Tower II

Previous runs
PVE Oscorp Heroic, 23 November - 26 November 2015
PVE Oscorp Heroic, August 25-29
PVE Heroic Oscorp, June 22-25
Oscorp Heroic (April 24-May 1)
Oscorp: Heroic Jan. 13-21
Oscorp Heroic - July 25-31
OSCORP HEROIC - MAY 8-14

Monged4life

Ahahahahaha, Vision as a Heroic reward. If ever there was a time to take a break...

waywreth

Thank you for making the threads. Hope someone picks it up.

Moon Roach

Monged4life wrote:

Ahahahahaha, Vision as a Heroic reward. If ever there was a time to take a break...

But, but, Vision was just vastly improved. Wasn't he?

Tatercat

Moon Roach wrote:

Monged4life wrote:

Ahahahahaha, Vision as a Heroic reward. If ever there was a time to take a break...

But, but, Vision was just vastly improved. Wasn't he?

I'm psyched for this, that's three more covers toward a red 4* Cyke (for my currently useless 0/3/4 cyke). I'll take him anyway I can get him since RNG has forsaken me.

AsylumTKJ

Tatercat wrote:

Moon Roach wrote:

Monged4life wrote:

Ahahahahaha, Vision as a Heroic reward. If ever there was a time to take a break...

But, but, Vision was just vastly improved. Wasn't he?

I'm psyched for this, that's three more covers toward a red 4* Cyke (for my currently useless 0/3/4 cyke). I'll take him anyway I can get him since RNG has forsaken me.

I'm in the same boat with my 0/3/4 4* cyke...

Pessi

Sub 1 Reinforcements

Oldboy

AsylumTKJ wrote:

Tatercat wrote:

Moon Roach wrote:

Monged4life wrote:

Ahahahahaha, Vision as a Heroic reward. If ever there was a time to take a break...

But, but, Vision was just vastly improved. Wasn't he?

I'm psyched for this, that's three more covers toward a red 4* Cyke (for my currently useless 0/3/4 cyke). I'll take him anyway I can get him since RNG has forsaken me.

I'm in the same boat with my 0/3/4 4* cyke...

Where's the 4* cyke? I only see 4* Deadpool as placement rewards for top 10

Cousin Simpson

Oldboy wrote:

Where's the 4* cyke? I only see 4* Deadpool as placement rewards for top 10

I believe they're talking about getting 4* Cyclops from Vision's champion awards.

Cousin Simpson

Any lineup suggestions for the second-to-last node of sub 1 (i.e. Juggs, Daken, Venom)? 2* Thor/R&G/Captain Marvel scraped by, but I'm thinking that 4hor might be better able to control Juggs. (My IMHB is 3/3/1 -- from what I've heard not ready for prime-time.)

Crowl

Reinforcements for sub 2

Ironman
Captain Marvel
Iron Fist

Tatercat

Cousin Simpson wrote:

Oldboy wrote:

Where's the 4* cyke? I only see 4* Deadpool as placement rewards for top 10

I believe they're talking about getting 4* Cyclops from Vision's champion awards.

Yep, that's exactly what I meant. It's been a long lonely road to red 4* Cyke for me.

Tatercat

Cousin Simpson wrote:

Any lineup suggestions for the second-to-last node of sub 1 (i.e. Juggs, Daken, Venom)? 2* Thor/R&G/Captain Marvel scraped by, but I'm thinking that 4hor might be better able to control Juggs. (My IMHB is 3/3/1 -- from what I've heard not ready for prime-time.)

Your 4hor would work well with Captain Marvel actually. She's got the levels that she should be able to tank 4hor's yellow and maybe even red if she's center position (not sure if the event boosting might throw that off tho). Just get her out in front to accelerate your red and black ap when she gets hit. You may even want to swap out your R&G for someone who can take advantage of the black generation too, like maybe your 3* storm. Her green can help accelerate 4hor too, just be careful not to leave her exposed before they fire off a power.

The stun from 4Hor will help, just make sure you're in position to snatch up any charged red tiles before they can. Her yellow can convert Daken's tiles too.

pabasa130

For me, this is the most miserable heroic I've ever played. I've always enjoyed having a drain support character, and as far as I can remember the previous heroics had at least one of the following: 2* Black Widow (I even have two OBW specifically for these occasions), Hood or Loki.

None of those for this heroic. You allowed Jugs to collect 6 red or 6 green? Suck it up, you're going to need a healthpack for the next fight.

I've never been this annoyed for a heroic, ever. Bye Bye 4* Deadpool...

On a side note I am enjoying 4*Thor, Nick Fury and MoStorm for both their essential nodes, but MoStorm is ridiculously squishy.

TxMoose

I'm with pasaba - this event is horrible. jumped in and my first clear wiped on smash n grab (jugs/daken/venom). scaling hasn't even kicked in yet. might farm some iso, but I doubt I make the cp progression. just not fun without one of: hood, loki, im40, witch. roster restricted to extremely slow characters - hb, 4thor, kp, grocket, gsbw, fury, 2thor - nothing fast in the entire bunch except maybe cmags and ares, but with the nerf, they only do so much against 20K health. hb can just absorb and overwhelm, but that's no fun and there's no strategy to it. we'll see how far I make it in this one - might just go all out on LRs this week - 1/1 for t50.

JeffCascadian

Being limited to character choice really does make this a harder event. I'm doing OK but not great and sure eating through those ol' .

TxMoose

JeffCascadian wrote:

Being limited to character choice really does make this a harder event. I'm doing OK but not great and sure eating through those ol' .

I generally like heroics because I can tinker with new teams. problem here is I have scaling based on a maxed 4* with no accelerators and no speed characters. hard scaling + slow characters + facing jugs/daken/ares = no fun zone.

Tatercat

Oddly enough, I'm finding some success with less than optimally covered characters, at least in regards to accelerating things. I wish my Kingpin was at 5/3/5 instead of the 3/5/5 I currently have (not maxed leveled), but his 5 has actually helped to drain 6 of the strongest enemy color while fueling 8 . Instead of letting Kingpin use it, I've been feeding it to 4hor to get her going. At 5/5/3, her yellow takes care of countdown tiles too, so she's been a godsend when managing goon nodes (I really wish I had been aware of this in the first sub of Rocket & Groot PVE). Once her charged tiles are out, that speeds up the other good stuff too if you can match them quickly.

Captain Marvel also really helps, if you can get her to take the hits (not easy to do if you've got a good HB and 4hor with her tho). Helps minimize to the health pack use to just her. Storm is unfortunately too squishy to go after her so I'm only using her on the essential and trivial nodes.

It's working for now, we'll see how much scaling kicks me in the rear now that I've posted that.

UPDATE: Oh, and of course, Iron Fist makes the 2nd sub a whole lot more fun too.

Cousin Simpson

My Storm has over 10K health with the boost, but yeah, even against goons (who've been scaled up pretty high for me), she doesn't take too many hits before she's a goner.

stowaway

TxMoose wrote:

I generally like heroics because I can tinker with new teams. problem here is I have scaling based on a maxed 4* with no accelerators and no speed characters.

Yeah, the whole "Heroics are great because they let you experiment" argument doesn't really apply when you're forced to use one character on 2/3 the nodes due to scaling. I almost never use Hulkbuster in PvE, but in this event he's 80 levels higher than the next guy down, and no one else can take on level 300+ opponents.

I've been using him with Mohawk and BWGS. Things escalate quickly once you get to 11 purple. Even with Iron Fist as a reinforcement, I'll keep using Tony's sort-of angels. IF is a better accelerator, but I'm keeping health packs in mind before using Buster's black.

Inarius

oh wow, the chances of beating smash and grab node are quite low

allow jug to collect 6 red and you're done, not to mention ALL 3 have been boosted beyond stupid. It's bad enough juggs has 17k HP but don't give danken 10k and venom 13k...it's ridiculous

thank god my vision is already fully covered therefore I require almost nothing from this event