PVE: Unstable ISO-8 (2016-06-26 to 2016-06-30)

rainkingucd

What's this? The is so unstable, it's doubled in amount due to the arrival of an MPQ exclusive character. Hurray! Although the downside of instability is progression inflation. Nearly !double! the last run.

Event Info

Episode 1: Unstable ISO-8
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): Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*), Juggernaut, Moonstone, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 1: Arctic Circle
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 2
  • Length: 24 hours
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 9 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable)
  • Enemy Types: Bullseye (2*), Sentry, The Punisher, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 2: Mediterranean
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 2
  • Length: 48 hours
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 12 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 3 One-Time Only
  • The 3 one-time only nodes must be won before the other 6 regular (repeatable) nodes are available.
  • Enemy Types: Bullseye (2*), Ragnarok, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 3: The Americas
  • Number of Main Nodes to Open Sub-Event: 3
  • Length: 24 hours
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 10 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only
  • Enemy Types: Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*), Moonstone, Ragnarok, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons

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Progression awards:

100:
500: 200
1000: rainbow damage boost
1600:
2700: rainbow AP stockpile
4100: 280
5800:
7500: 280
10000:
12000: 280
14500:
17000: 500
20000: 25
23000: 500
26000:
29500: 500
34500: 25
39500:
45500: 2000
52000: 25

Placement rewards:

1-2: + rewards for 3-10
3-10: , 3000 , 50
11-20: , 3000 , 50
21-50: , 2000 , 50
51-100: , 2000 , 25
101-200: , 1000 , 25
201-300: , 1000
301-400: , 500
401-500: x 3, 500
501-600: x 2, 500
601-800: , 500
801-1000: 500


Alliance rewards:
1-2: , 5000 , 100
3-10: , 5000 , 50
11-25: , 3000 , 50
26-50: , 2000 , 50
51-100: , 1000 , 25
101-250: 1000 , 25
251-500: 500 , 25
501-1000: 500
1001-10000: 280

Sub-Event Placement Rewards

1-2: x2, 2000 , 100 , 2
3-10: , 2000 , 100 , 1
11-50: , 2000 , 50
51-100: , 2000
101-200: , 1000
201-300: , 500
301-400: , 500
401-500: x3, 500
5ß1-600: x2, 500
601-800: , 500
801-900: 280
901-1000: 140

Alliance
1-10: , 500
11-50: , 200
51-100: , 200
101-250: , 140
251-1000: x3, 140
1001-2000: x2, 140
2001-5000: , 140
5001-10000:

Previous runs
PVE: Unstable ISO-8 (2016-03-31 to 2016-04-04)
PVE: Unstable ISO-8 (2016-01-14 to 2016-01-18)
Unstable ISO-8 (Oct.29th-Nov.02nd, 2015) Bracket Size_______(No event info found; substituting with Bracket Size)
PVE Unstable ISO-8 (Aug 20-25)
PVE Unstable ISO-8
Unstable ISO-8 - Oct 17 - 24
Unstable ISO-8 - July 18-24

Quebbster

Double ISO and Peggy Carter means I pick a grind friendly slice, sleep be damned.

EleganceFlawed

Agreed! I want Peggy so much! I'm kinda mad it's a double iso event, it's gonna be harder for me to place.

DTStump

Sooo... 52k in 4 days, that's 13k per day on average. Here's my plan:

Sub 1: 10.5k
Sub 2: 26k
Sub 3: 15.5k

EDIT sub 1: 4 full suboptimal clears (all essentials) and I have 9213 points, which is ~1.3k below my target. Clearly this pace is not gonna cut it. For sub 2 I'll try doing 3 clears after work today, then 1 tomorrow morning, then 5 tomorrow after work and 1 more the next day before work (= 10 clears).

EDIT sub 2: aaaaand it's a failure. I didn't grind as much as I wanted at first because I got bored, so instead of 10 clears I did only 8 (suboptimal, too). This brings my score to 31313 (+22100), whereas the target was 36500 at this stage, so I'm 5187 points behind. Unless I can score considerably more in sub 3 than my prediction, I won't get full progression this time. At least I'm ranked #31 right now, so I can probably get a Peggy cover even if I slow down a bit. That's almost as good as 25CP, right?

EDIT (another for sub 2): had to grind a little bit more to ensure sub top 50, almost finished a 9th clear and now up to 32958 (23745 in sub 2)

EDIT sub 3: yay! I had actually underestimated the points available in the last sub. With 5 clears I was able to reach the goal with 52104 points (+19146). It also doesn't hurt that I'm very likely to be in the top 100 (maybe top 50) for a Peggy token.
For future reference, here's a summary:

Sub 1: 4 clears / 9.2k
Sub 2: 8.5 clears / 23.7k
Sub 3: 5 clears / 19.1k

PeterGibbons316

Is this a test event, or still 8h refreshes?

rixmith

This is a standard event with 8 hr refreshes.

Cunneryn

... The muscles are back... Not having a good board in the last node means death...

mckauhu

Cunneryn wrote:

... The muscles are back... Not having a good board in the last node means death...

Not if you use She-Hulks settlement / Lokis black

optimus2861

IM40 / Fist / Marvel for that final node. As long as you get 6 yellow or 5 purple you should be all right. Purple to black to 2-turn stuns as needed. Yellow to charge everything else.

TxMoose

wow. cp progression is very high here. last run was 33K. 52K seems really high - around 7X per node? guess they expect a ton of high scores in this.

edit: miscalculated the 48 hr middle sub. its right at 4x full pt clears. any suboptimal will add a little to that.

Cascad

mckauhu wrote:

Cunneryn wrote:

... The muscles are back... Not having a good board in the last node means death...

Not if you use She-Hulks settlement / Lokis black

Finally i got some good advice here, thanks! Also maybe I can add here Electra's Purple?

Cascad

optimus2861 wrote:

IM40 / Fist / Marvel for that final node. As long as you get 6 yellow or 5 purple you should be all right. Purple to black to 2-turn stuns as needed. Yellow to charge everything else.

Hmm... sounds good, thanks!

sambrookjm

Cascad wrote:

mckauhu wrote:

Cunneryn wrote:

... The muscles are back... Not having a good board in the last node means death...

Not if you use She-Hulks settlement / Lokis black

Finally i got some good advice here, thanks! Also maybe I can add here Electra's Purple?

With that tip, I tried Elektra and Scarlet Witch on the Hawkeye essential node, as my Hawkeye is fully covered but still LVL 15. That team worked way better than it had any right to work. I was using SW to generate purple for Elektra, but I didn't even think about the combo of SW with Speed Shot until the first time it happened. He's no Professor X, but he still kicks some butt there.

EleganceFlawed

I feel like people underestimate Hawkeye a lot. I have him with Thor and CStorm pretty often and Speed Shot has taken out half a team for me, on top of his being red/blue adding damage to Thor and Storm's matches.

TxMoose

for those with oml black, go with fist and hawkeye on that essential. fist can sometimes luck into a crit. if he does, its ususally enough for some oml strikes. get the strikes down before ss goes off, enemy dies. I just started hawkeye again and my 1/2/2 works great at taking advantage of the strikes. I always like hawkeye, but I think he was my last one sold off when I pared down to 5 2*s. i'll be happy to have him back when he gets re-covered.

slidecage

CP seems very high once again..

veny

So fair i drained all nodes (7/7)... still, i am at 120th place.
2-days sub-events are **** - you either drop in ladder or do nodes without getting a single ISO or another reward... just sayin

PeeOne

Is it the Peggy Carter thing the reason why day 4 sub after my 3 clears I'm still at 180??? And 103 overall??

Has the grinding happened already for placement?!?!

Also is it odd that Peggy is going all the way to position 100 I always thought new characters went top 10 only?

jgomes32

PeeOne wrote:

Is it the Peggy Carter thing the reason why day 4 sub after my 3 clears I'm still at 180??? And 103 overall??

Has the grinding happened already for placement?!?!

Also is it odd that Peggy is going all the way to position 100 I always thought new characters went top 10 only?

It's not about Peggy, it's the double iso that is making the event competitive. And new characters have always been top 100 (since i started playing anyway).

Bowgentle

jgomes32 wrote:

PeeOne wrote:

Is it the Peggy Carter thing the reason why day 4 sub after my 3 clears I'm still at 180??? And 103 overall??

Has the grinding happened already for placement?!?!

Also is it odd that Peggy is going all the way to position 100 I always thought new characters went top 10 only?

It's not about Peggy, it's the double iso that is making the event competitive. And new characters have always been top 100 (since i started playing anyway).

Used to be T50 for individual and alliance placement.
Those were pretty insane times.
And people think alliance shuffling to make T100 is bad NOW.

veny

jgomes32 wrote:

PeeOne wrote:

Is it the Peggy Carter thing the reason why day 4 sub after my 3 clears I'm still at 180??? And 103 overall??

Has the grinding happened already for placement?!?!

Also is it odd that Peggy is going all the way to position 100 I always thought new characters went top 10 only?

It's not about Peggy, it's the double iso that is making the event competitive. And new characters have always been top 100 (since i started playing anyway).

No, its not about ISO boost. I drained all nodes, got all rewards... still i am below top 100 rank. Those above me had to do nodes with drained rewards, so they all grind for Peggy...