PVE Heroic: Venom (2016-04-25 to 2016-04-28)

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Event Info

Heroic Venom
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): 500 ISO (There are 5 one-time only nodes in the event that award 500 ISO)
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.
• There are 3 one-time only nodes in Main that have 500 ISO rewards. These nodes do not need to be completed to open up the sub-events. They are: From Russia, Black Widow Imposter, Yelena Belova
• Enemy Types (Main): Bullseye (2*), Moonstone, Ragnarok, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 1: Sticky Situation
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 3
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 9 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable)
  • Enemy Types: Loki, Moonstone, Venom, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 2: Rescue Aunt May
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 3
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 10 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only
  • Enemy Types: Cyclops, Daken (2*), Magneto (2*), Mystique, Venom, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons
  • The one-time only node (Rescue Aunt May) has a 500 ISO reward.
• Sub-Event 3:
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 4
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 10 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only
  • Enemy Types: Bullseye (2*), Carnage, Daken (2*), Doctor Octopus, Ragnarok, Venom, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons
  • The one-time only node (Rescue Mary Jane) has a 500 ISO reward.

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Progression awards:

100:
500: 100
1000: Rainbow Power Boost
1500:
2200: Rainbow Stockpile
3100: 140
4300:
5500: 140
7000:
8500: 140
10500:
12000: 250
14000: 25
16000: 250
18000:
20500: 500
23500: 25
27000:
31000: 1000
35000: 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

Sub 1: Sticky Situation




Sub 2: Rescue Aunt May




Sub 3: Rescue Mary Jane

Ending Time Countdowns:

Slice 1
Slice 2
Slice 3
Slice 4
Slice 5

Previous runs
PVE Heroic: Venom (2016-02-08 to 2016-02-11)
PVE Heroic: Venom (2015-12-14 to 2015-12-17)
PVE Heroic: Venom (September 21-25)
PVE Heroic: Venom (29 June - 3 July)
Venom Heroic - Oct 13 - 15
Venom Heroic - Aug 29 - Sep 1
Heroic Venom PvE Discussion Thread 4/10 - 4/17
Venom Heroic (Nov 2013)

TxMoose

sigh. last 3 runs progression has gone from 28K to 32K to 35K. for those willing to put up with a heroic, can't be too generous now... I hate that the one thing that progresses my roster (iso) drives me to play pve. really need a break and we have the busiest days of the week right around the corner.

jackstar0

Guess I'll start right away and just try to hit the progression casually.

Cousin Simpson

Does this use the 8-hour refreshes or the new format?

jgomes32

Cousin Simpson wrote:

Does this use the 8-hour refreshes or the new format?

8h format.

Reinforcements are: Luke, Cap and Storm

DTStump

Don't you loooove when Muscles spam and Loki shuffles them around when you're about to align them, creating ridiculous cascades in the process?

Hey, it's alright, I can defend myself with Shulk and GSBW... not

ammenell

let users slowly progress to a roster with 80+ characters, then lock 90% out, leave only a random handful to play with.

could you run this as a 14 days event?
those breaks are always welcome.

Cunneryn

ammenell wrote:

let users slowly progress to a roster with 80+ characters, then lock 90% out, leave only a random handful to play with.

could you run this as a 14 days event?
those breaks are always welcome.

For me the usage of a limited roster is not a big deal. It allows for potentially fun new combination and I see it as an mean to use the character I don't usually use.

However, when i started playing yesterday night, I remembered how long just opening the sub was and I didn't have it it me to bother with that so I'm skipping the event.
Therefore I do feel that, for me at least, the problem with heroics is how long and annoying it is to open the sub (heroics are not the only culprits though).

Vhailorx

DTStump wrote:

Don't you loooove when Muscles spam and Loki shuffles them around when you're about to align them, creating ridiculous cascades in the process?

Hey, it's alright, I can defend myself with Shulk and GSBW... not

Pssst: gsbw may be a bit slow, but she's one of the very best board control characters in the game. Every one of her abilities give you an opportunity to reshape the board and remove pesky enemy tiles.

TxMoose

Vhailorx wrote:

DTStump wrote:

Don't you loooove when Muscles spam and Loki shuffles them around when you're about to align them, creating ridiculous cascades in the process?

Hey, it's alright, I can defend myself with Shulk and GSBW... not

Pssst: gsbw may be a bit slow, but she's one of the very best board control characters in the game. Every one of her abilities give you an opportunity to reshape the board and remove pesky enemy tiles.

while true, she needs something in way of acceleration to be effective. any of hood, witch, im40 would be a huuuuge help. haven't jumped in yet but there's no acceleration for the best characters available. mainly jean. cap and xfw could be run with obw but she's awful squishy and needs to be tanking. and everything is scaled off of jean and she's probably too good to leave on the bench. looks like lots of jean/cap/xfw.

Vhailorx

First run was fairly smooth. Used mostly xfw + gsbw + lazy cap.

In all but one match I was able to collect 12 of purple or blue or red before a dangerous CD could resolve (i did have one ugly match that required 2 healthpacks). It wasn't an ideal setup, but it was able to handle opponents up to 260 or so without trouble. We'll see how it does against 290+ enemies when my,scaling cranks up later in the sub.

DTStump

TxMoose wrote:

Vhailorx wrote:

DTStump wrote:

Don't you loooove when Muscles spam and Loki shuffles them around when you're about to align them, creating ridiculous cascades in the process?

Hey, it's alright, I can defend myself with Shulk and GSBW... not

Pssst: gsbw may be a bit slow, but she's one of the very best board control characters in the game. Every one of her abilities give you an opportunity to reshape the board and remove pesky enemy tiles.

while true, she needs something in way of acceleration to be effective. any of hood, witch, im40 would be a huuuuge help. haven't jumped in yet but there's no acceleration for the best characters available. mainly jean. cap and xfw could be run with obw but she's awful squishy and needs to be tanking. and everything is scaled off of jean and she's probably too good to leave on the bench. looks like lots of jean/cap/xfw.

Precisely! And Loki giving priority to purple and green while stealing your AP, while you have to align yellow to avoid Muscle CDs going off... phew! Anyway, not saying I cannot beat it, it's just very painful. My top row is Shulk, GSBW, 2* Captain Marvel and CStorm. Considering they pretty much define my scaling, thy have to carry the load too...

Cousin Simpson

DTStump wrote:

Precisely! And Loki giving priority to purple and green while stealing your AP, while you have to align yellow to avoid Muscle CDs going off... phew! Anyway, not saying I cannot beat it, it's just very painful. My top row is Shulk, GSBW, 2* Captain Marvel and CStorm. Considering they pretty much define my scaling, thy have to carry the load too...

She-Hulk's blue can steal enemy strike tiles, and at 9 blue, it's not terribly expensive, not to mention her AOE red has a good chance at destroying special tiles on the bottom couple rows.

Vhailorx

Cousin Simpson wrote:

DTStump wrote:

Precisely! And Loki giving priority to purple and green while stealing your AP, while you have to align yellow to avoid Muscle CDs going off... phew! Anyway, not saying I cannot beat it, it's just very painful. My top row is Shulk, GSBW, 2* Captain Marvel and CStorm. Considering they pretty much define my scaling, thy have to carry the load too...

She-Hulk's blue can steal enemy strike tiles, and at 9 blue, it's not terribly expensive, not to mention her AOE red has a good chance at destroying special tiles on the bottom couple rows.

Yes, tile theft is incredibly strong against muscles. Another decent tactic with a limited roster.

Tatercat

I've still been using Jean grey but without SWitch or IM40 to speed her up , it's not quite the heath pack saver it was last event.

But I have been using Capt Marvel as an accelerator for Ghost Rider with some fun results. It's not great on health packs either because Marvel is tanking so much, but his red adds up damage quick once its gets going and it is very satisfying to fire off a Penance Stare at 150% (4 covers) against a AOE goon like Pyro or Muscle (AOE attacks triple the payback of the Stare).

I'm not caring about placement this time, just need ISO ISO ISO, so its been fun so far just playing when I can, only grinding on the CP nodes. Already at 20813, so progression CP shouldn't be an issue.

JackTenrec

DTStump wrote:

My top row is Shulk, GSBW, 2* Captain Marvel and CStorm. Considering they pretty much define my scaling, thy have to carry the load too...

2* Captain Marvel and 2* Hawkeye aren't the worst pairing, since team-up matches don't trigger Mischief and can also overwrite tiles. It also has a pretty decent chance to trigger Speed Shot.

TxMoose

glad I don't have to place well here. not sure i'll be pushing for the cp. mainly just farming and will see where it gets me. I was right, jean/xf/cap was my main team. not great. jean and cap are strong, but not fast and the few times I got SS off, it was on purple, so that wasn't great. grinding this well will require some health packs.

mazerat

Rescue Aunt May 2 reinforcement is No clue who the 4 and 3 are.

seraphiel

The Drax node is... garbage, to put it mildly.

Quebbster

mazerat wrote:

Rescue Aunt May 2 reinforcement is No clue who the 4 and 3 are.

Quicksilver and Spiderman.

johnmcclane

mazerat wrote:

Rescue Aunt May 2 reinforcement is No clue who the 4 and 3 are.

when one of the available heroes is..another Black Widow. great, more heroes to use!..not.