Coalition Challenge: Avacyn's Madness (9/29/16)

LakeStone

Hi Everyone -

We want to provide some details for the Coalition Challenge: Avacyn's Madness. We are super excited to bring another brand new event for everyone to check out and we hoped you enjoyed it. Many of you participated in the Challenge and hopefully you earned some great rewards that you were after.

We are going to run the Challenge again on Saturday (10/1) and wanted to share this information with you. We plan to have the next Challenge up for 48 hours but as you know, based on participation, it may be completed sooner.

Please let us know if there is any additional information that you may find helpful and I will look to add them to the details here.

DETAILS

- Only members of a Coalition can play this event.
-Every Coalition fights together to defeat the Invading Boss.
-The Boss has a set amount of HP.
-Player deals damage to the Boss by winning Individual Battle against the Boss’ forces and completing secondary objectives. (both are repeatable.)
-15 different PVE Encounters are available for the Individual Battle: 5 different Nodes of 3 Opponents. The harder the encounter is the more damage you deal to the boss.
-Player must defeat the first opponent of a node to access the second one and so on.
-The Nodes have 3 charges. When the charge are depleted the player must wait for the node to recharge.
-Player earns Individual Progression Rewards for individual performance.
-The event ends when the Boss is defeated. (0% of HP remaining.)
-The Coalitions are Ranked by the Total Damage Dealt (Ribbons) during the time of the event and are rewarded accordingly.

ENCOUNTERS DETAILS
Node 1 - Encounter 1: Quilled Wolf

Ability: Summon a 2/2 green Wolf creature token.

Secondary Objective: Take low damage (lose 10hp or less)

Secondary Objective: Take high damage (lose 25hp or more)



Node 1 - Encounter 2: Stormrider Spirit

Ability: Drain 3 mana from your opponent.

Secondary Objective: Low spell cast (cast 3 or less spells)

Secondary Objective: High spell cast (cast 6 or more spells)



Node 1 - Encounter 3:Hulking Devil

Ability: Summon 2 1/1 red Devil creature tokens.

Secondary Objective: Low support cast (call 3 or less supports)

Secondary Objective: High support cast (call 6 or more supports)



Node 2 - Encounter 1: Twins of Maurer Estate

Ability: Deal 3 damage to your opponent and gain 3 life.

Secondary Objective: High HP remaining (have 40 or more HP at end of fight)

Secondary Objective: Low HP remaining 9 (have 15 or less hp at end of fight)



Node 2 - Encounter 2: Spectral Shepherd

Ability: Summon 3 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens.

Secondary Objective: Defender (cast 0 defenders)

Secondary Objective: Creatures died (have 5 or more of your creatures die)



Node 2 - Encounter 3: Heir to the Night

Ability: All Vampire you control gets +1/+1.

Low creatures died (4 or less creatures were killed)

Creatures died (6 or more creatures you own were killed)



Node 3 - Encounter 1: Flameblade Angel

Ability: Deal 3 damage to your opponent and each of their creatures on the battlefield.

Secondary Objective: Low creatures killed (kill 4 or less creatures)

Secondary Objective: Creatures killed (kill 7 or more creatures)



Node 3 - Encounter 2: Watcher in the Web

Ability: Disable the first creature your opponent control until the beginning of your next turn.

Secondary Objective: Lifelink (0 creatures with lifelink die)

Secondary Objective: Creatures died (more than 7 creatures you control died)



Node 3 - Encounter 3: Ormendahl, Profane Prince

Ability: Destroy all gems from your opponent's color.

Secondary Objective: Low rounds kill the enemy in 7 or less rounds)

Secondary Objective: Low creatures died (have less than 5 creatures die)



Node 4 - Encounter 1: Awoken Horror

Ability: Summon 2 2/2 black Zombie tokens.

Secondary Objective: Take low damage (lose 15 or less hp)

Secondary Objective: Take high damage (take 60 or more damage)



Node 4 - Encounter 2: Soul Swallower

Ability: Summon a 2/2 green Wolf creature token.

Secondary Objective: Low creatures died (have less than 3 creatures die)

Secondary Objective: Creatures died (have 9 or more creatures you control die)



Node 4 - Encounter 3: Persistent Nightmare

Ability: Summon 2 2/2 black Zombie tokens.

Secondary Objective: Low spell cast (cast 2 or less spells)

Secondary Objective: High spell cast (cast 9 or more spells)



Node 5 - Encounter 1: Wolf of Devil's Breach

Ability: Summon 2 1/1 red Devil creature tokens.

Secondary Objective: Take low damage (receive 25 or less damage)

Secondary Objective: Take high damage (take 90 or more damage)



Node 5 - Encounter 2: Geier Reach Bandit

Ability: Summon 3 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens.

Secondary Objective: Low creatures killed (have 5 or less creatures killed)

Secondary Objective: Creatures killed (have 8 or more creatures you control killed)



Node 5 - Encounter 3: Avacyn, the Purifier

Ability: Deal 3 damage to your opponent and each of their creatures on the battlefield.

Secondary Objective: High HP remaining (have 90 HP or more at end of fight)

Secondary Objective: Low HP remaining (have 20 or less hp at end of fight)

Written on 9/29/16

majincob

Will Avacyn have the same amount of HP as last time? Or are you doubling them after seeing the first one last less than 24 hours?

LakeStone

majincob wrote:

Will Avacyn have the same amount of HP as last time? Or are you doubling them after seeing the first one last less than 24 hours?

We will be increasing the HP in this next iteration of the Challenge.

Corn_Noodles

LakeStone wrote:

majincob wrote:

Will Avacyn have the same amount of HP as last time? Or are you doubling them after seeing the first one last less than 24 hours?

We will be increasing the HP in this next iteration of the Challenge.

I hope you are also accounting for higher engagement from players being a weekend event and more efficient attacks against Avacyn since people are now familiar with what to expect. I know you're hoping for 48 hours, but I'd be surprised if she lasts over 36.

Cragger

Now that players have the perception of scarcity, engagement will increase. It's like people that only eat fast food panick buying a gallon of milk before a big storm. Even if the HP for Avacyn is increased, there will be many that will get burned by the unpredictable nature of the event timing.

It may be better to run the event back to back to back over a set amount of time so that the event is there when someone goes to play it.