PVE: Thick as Thieves (2016-09-29 to 2016-10-03)

rainkingucd

Clearance Levels are back!

Event Info:

Episode 3: Thick as Thieves
Length of Event: 4 days
Sub-Events? Yes; Alliance Rewards in Sub-Events? Yes
Number of Sub-Events: 4 Length of Sub-Events: 24 hours
Main Bracket Size: 1000 Sub Bracket Size: 1000
Unique Reward(s): None
Other Notes:

• One node in Main (a team-up node) is repeatable and playable for points throughout the event.
• Enemy Types (Main): Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 1: Family Reunion
  • Length: 24 hours
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 10 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only
  • Enemy Types: Ares, Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*) Iron Man (1*), Magneto (3*), Moonstone, Ragnarok, Venom, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 2: Anderson, Inc.
  • Length: 24 hours
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 10 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable); 1 One-Time Only
  • Enemy Types: Ares, Bullseye (2*), Daken (2*), Moonstone, Ragnarok, Venom, Yelena Belova, ISO-8 Goons, Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 3: Scotland Yard
  • Length: 24 hours
  • Sub-Event Nodes: 9 Total. 6 Regular (repeatable); 3 Essential (repeatable)
  • Enemy Types: Ares, Bullseye (2*) Daken (2*), Juggernaut, Moonstone, Venom, Yelena Belova, Hammer Goons, Maggia Goons
• Sub-Event 4: The Meeting
  • 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*), Hood, Magneto, Moonstone, Ragnarok, Yelena Belova, ISO-8 Goons, Maggia Goons

Link to mags1587 PVE Format Guide:
https://d3go.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=14484

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Progression awards:

Placement rewards:

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Previous runs

PVE: Thick as Thieves (2016-07-24 to 2016-07-27)
PVE: Thick as Thieves (2016-05-29 to 2016-06-02)
PVE: Thick as Thieves (2016-03-10 to 2016-03-14)
PVE: Thick as Thieves (2015-12-10 to 2015-12-14)
PVE: Thick as Thieves (September 28 - October 2)
PVE: Thick as Thieves (July 16-21)
Thick as Thieves - May 7 - May 12
Thick as Thieves (1 Apr - 8 Apr 2015)
Thick As Thieves: Jan 26 - Feb 3
Thick As Thieves: Nov 19th - Nov 25th
Thick as Thieves - Aug 5-11

Quebbster

Kind of tempted to level up my Drax for this one - he and Quake provides a full Rainbow. He only has 12 covers, but could be fun to try at least.
Then again, Professor X and Captain Falcon provides an opportunity to spam away with special tiles...

rainkingucd

Curious about the 63K max progression. A lot higher than past runs. I may forego placement attempt and do exactly 4 clears per sub to see how it goes.

thanos8587

rainkingucd wrote:

Curious about the 63K max progression. A lot higher than past runs. I may forego placement attempt and do exactly 4 clears per sub to see how it goes.

the last run it was absurdly low. i assume this progression is in keeping with the four full clear progression philosophy. kind of a pain but if youre doing it anyway, it just means youre waiting to the last sub to finish.

Quebbster

I Think this is the only four-day PvE that doesn't have one or more 48-hour subs. Four 24-hour subs should make it easier to get Points and reach that progression.

rainkingucd

thanos8587 wrote:

rainkingucd wrote:

Curious about the 63K max progression. A lot higher than past runs. I may forego placement attempt and do exactly 4 clears per sub to see how it goes.

the last run it was absurdly low. i assume this progression is in keeping with the four full clear progression philosophy. kind of a pain but if youre doing it anyway, it just means youre waiting to the last sub to finish.

Agreed, last one was insanely low. I was looking at the other runs and the highest it's been since introduction of the LT / 25 progression has been 54K, and that was a new character launch (Quake).

Maybe I'll do like DTStump and record the point totals for 4 clears for my own curiosity.

rainkingucd

Couldn't do a full clear of Sub 1, but 4 clears of Sub 2 nets 13721 points. With 4 subs and the growing point totals per sub, 63K will probably be exactly 4 clears like the devs said. Apologies for the unfounded paranoia

The goods news is: no more changing point totals per PVE run. Will make updates a lot quicker going forward.

Haxis

anyone running something super fast or super cheese this go around? I'm either running cho/rocket + SW + DP or C.Mags.. not sure what the best choices are here.

sambrookjm

I've been using Cho (5/1/5, LVL 172) along with 4hor (4/3/5 for me, LVL 250) and IM40 (3/5/5, champed) for Cho's required node. I got out of the first 4 fights in his required round with very little damage. The Muscle's abilities never triggered once...but be sure you target him first, or else things will go very poorly.

Hot Dog Stand creating charged tiles for Smite is super helpful. IM40 recharge gives green and blue for Mastermind to be super effective. Just be sure you don't screw up like me the first time I got this working: Be sure to use Mastermind BEFORE Power Surge.

Quebbster

Something I noticed in the last sub: Last run I Believe the one-time node with The Hood awarded the Command Point reward for the sub. This time it Awards 500 ISO, and to get the CP you need to fight Hood and Magneto four times. Guess we can't have nice things...