PVE: The Hunt (2016-04-07 to 2016-04-11)

jojeda654

Event Info

Episode 2: The Hunt
Length of Event: 4 days
Sub-Events? Yes; Alliance Rewards in Sub-Events? Yes
Number of Sub-Events: 3 Length of Sub-Events: 24 or 48 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.
• Enemy Types (Main): Ares, Daken (2*), Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons
• Sub-Event 1: Alaska
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 2
  • Length: 24 hours
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 12 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 3 One-Time Only
  • Enemy Types: Ares, Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*), Moonstone, Ragnarok, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons
• Sub-Event 2: Florida
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 2
  • Length: 48 hours
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 17 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 8 One-Time Only
  • Enemy Types: Ares, Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*), Moonstone, Ragnarok, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons
• Sub-Event 3: Savage Land
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 2
  • Length: 24 hours
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 12 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 3 One-Time Only
  • Enemy Types: Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*), Moonstone, Ragnarok, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons

Link to mags1587 PVE Format Guide

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Progression awards:

100:
500: 100
1000: Rainbow Power Boost
1600:
2800: Rainbow Stockpile
4400: 140
6200:
8500: 140
10500:
13000: 140
15500:
18500: 250
21500: 25
24500: 250
28000:
31500: 500
36500: 25
41500:
47500: 1000
54000: 25

Placement rewards:

1-2: + rewards for 3-10
3-10: , 1500 , 50
11-20: , 1500 , 50
21-50: , 1000 , 50
51-100: , 1000 , 25
101-150: , 500 , 25
151-200: , 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:

Ending Time Countdowns:

Slice 1
Slice 2
Slice 3
Slice 4
Slice 5

Previous runs
PVE: The Hunt (2016-01-28 to 2016-02-01)
PvE The Hunt: November 12 - November 16th, 2015
PvE The Hunt: November 12 - November 16th, 2015
The Hunt (Sep 3rd-8th, 2015)
The Hunt (Jun.25th-Jun.29th, 2015)
The Hunt: March 10 - 16
The Hunt: Jan 21 - 26
The Hunt - Oct. 24-28
The Hunt: July 12-16

OzarkBoatswain

Required characters?

TxMoose

Ozark Boatswain wrote:

Required characters?

the pink crystal indicates the essential boosts. its starlord, gamora, and 2storm. I really enjoy gamora/fist combo, so i'll be riding that in her essentials unless another team composition is needed.

RBwilliams07

Hopefully this event is better than Juggernaut Heroic. I am disappointed though that they keep increasing the amount needed for the 25 CP progression award. I was so happy after getting that in Unstable ISO-8.

TxMoose

RBwilliams07 wrote:

Hopefully this event is better than Juggernaut Heroic. I am disappointed though that they keep increasing the amount needed for the 25 CP progression award. I was so happy after getting that in Unstable ISO-8.

that was a mistake on their part. not the progression level, but leaving rubber-banding on - that provided much more points for non-optimal players and made the progression relatively trivial. that (probably) won't happen again. enjoy the easy one while you got it.

jojeda654

Ozark Boatswain wrote:

Required characters?

I was trying out the crystal icons so that the hero icons line up. I kinda felt guilty asking IceIX to make them and then not use them.
Let me know if I should switch back to text.

RBwilliams07 wrote:

Hopefully this event is better than Juggernaut Heroic. I am disappointed though that they keep increasing the amount needed for the 25 CP progression award. I was so happy after getting that in Unstable ISO-8.

I think the progression is higher since it's a new character release. The last time this ran was for the Nova debut, and the last progression is also at 54k. Before the change to command points, the legendary token was at 43k.

TxMoose

hey, if hood can't steal yellow (if the bug is still active?), im40 might be a decent counter for those nodes.

ZootSax

I feel bad for the 1* & 2* players. Both of the boosted 1*'s and 2/3 of the booster 2*'s are Dark Avengers. Even two of the 3*'s are. Considering these boosted characters seem to affect your scaling, boosting characters who will frequently be locked out of the event seems pretty poor. Especially when the last run of Prodigal Sun didn't have anywhere near as many boosted DA's.

TheWerebison

Deadpool AND Switch powered up this week?

Excuse me for a moment. This requires no less than 15 minutes of maniacal laughter.

slidecage

RBwilliams07 wrote:

Hopefully this event is better than Juggernaut Heroic. I am disappointed though that they keep increasing the amount needed for the 25 CP progression award. I was so happy after getting that in Unstable ISO-8.

they dropped it big time for unstable they even said they lowered it.

FIGURE THIS and aim for it

55k i thin is the goal

10 13 17 20k

if you miss any of those numbers your not going to get the CP

then again we have a 2 day in there so

10 28 20 Min

it does seem very high though cause it used to be 3 clears.. i just hit 5 on every nod and only got 11k on first stage

RBwilliams07

They don't need to lower it so much as they did for Unstable but it would be nice if they lowered it a bit. I don't have all day to play PvE and PvP and hate having to allocate my time towards one or the other.

ZootSax

In case anyone else finds it helpful, the first page of the thread from the last time "The Hunt" was run shows a screenshot from fmftint of all repeatable and non-repeatable nodes in the second sub (Florida). On that same page a reply by motownjunkie mentions which non-repeatable nodes you can save until last. Just FYI...

...also remember that the Florida sub is 48 hrs, so don't grind after 24 if you're going for max points.

Good luck all...unless you're in my bracket, in which case now is a great time to throw in the towel on this event so I can get a Howard the Duck

Edit: Fixed typo (thanks, Quebbster & OJSP )

Quebbster

ZootSax wrote:

...also remember that the Florida sub is 24 hrs, so don't grind after 24 if you're going for max points.

I know you meant to say it was a 48 hour phase, but it's still worth correcting to not lead readers astray.

slidecage

cp is way too high.. i just did 5 clears on each.... and only have 20k on the 2nd stage and 11k...

i will have to hit at least 10k on final grind to have a chance cause stage 3 is a major pain

AaronTheLuigi

Wow, I feel like an idiot.

I though Florida was 24hrs long, so I grinded down hard only to realize it was 48 hours.

Welp, at least I didn't do too much. Worst case scenario is I wait 17 hours for a refresh, and they were the hard nodes I didn't feel like doing.

I just hope T100 isn't out of the question.

LewsTherin0

I have 33k with 1d4h left in slice 3. Should I even bother trying for the CP?

RoboDuck

LewsTherin0 wrote:

I have 33k with 1d4h left in slice 3. Should I even bother trying for the CP?

I'm at 33k with 1d12h to go. At 36th in my bracket. Should be doable, but gonna be tight. Points seem too high, think they overestimated the interest in Howard. Atleast how hard people want to go after a character they will never fully cover.

ZootSax

RoboDuck wrote:

LewsTherin0 wrote:

I have 33k with 1d4h left in slice 3. Should I even bother trying for the CP?

I'm at 33k with 1d12h to go. At 36th in my bracket. Should be doable, but gonna be tight. Points seem too high, think they overestimated the interest in Howard. Atleast how hard people want to go after a character they will never fully cover.

Sub 3 appears to have 4,800 pts of repeatable nodes and 800 of non-repeatable ones. So it should be doable, but with effort. Just FYI...

Quebbster

How much Points is available in the final grind? I'm currently just under 40000 Points with one full clear left and then the final grind. Do you Think I can get the 15000 Points I need to get the final progression reward from that?

Quebbster

OJSP wrote:

Quebbster wrote:

How much Points is available in the final grind? I'm currently just under 40000 Points with one full clear left and then the final grind. Do you Think I can get the 15000 Points I need to get the final progression reward from that?

Another clear will give you 4800. Then you can get around 15000-17500 if you grind until 1, depending on how long you leave the nodes to refresh/start the grind, the order you beat the nodes and how quick. That's not including around 600 points from the loaner node.

Going to come down to the wire then. I'm not on an optimal Schedule, but fortunately the grind is fast with a maxed Thor. Thanks!
(I don't know if I'll bother, but it's good to know it's not completely out of reach at least).

Linkster79

Finished top 100 for the cover on a casual schedule and not even getting max progression. I guess character apathy has helped me out.