PVE: Boss Rush (2016-10-13 to 2016-10-17) - Anniversary

rainkingucd
rainkingucd Posts: 1,433 Chairperson of the Boards
Event Info - will collate stuff here if anyone has anything that seems relevant
Like other boss events: once you join, you are locked in with your alliance
Different than previous boss events, in that your placement is within your alliance
Also unlike other boss events, points are your own and not cumulative across your alliance

Rewards Strategy - Temporary Solo Alliance?

(HP as guidance only. Appears there is some personal scaling here)
Round 1:
Wave 1: Ultron - 4K Hit Points
Wave 2: Captain America - 4K Hit Points
Wave 3: Iron Man - 6K Hit Points

Round 2:
Wave 1: Bruce Banner / Incredible Hulk - 10824 Hit Points
Wave 2: Iron Man - 9944K Hit Points
Wave 3: Ultron - 15074 Hit Points

Round 3:
Wave 1: Bruce Banner / Incredible Hulk - 17K Hit Points
Wave 2: Green Goblin - 26K Hit Points
Wave 3: Ultron - 33K Hit Points

Round 4:
Wave 1: Green Goblin - 40K Hit Points
Wave 2: Iron Man - 40K Hit Points
Wave 3: Old Man Logan - 40K Hit Points

Round 5:
Wave 1: Green Goblin
Wave 2: Captain America
Wave 3: Old Man Logan

Round 6:
Wave 1: Old Man Logan
Wave 2: Phoenix
Wave 3: Silver Surfer

Round 7:
Wave 1: Bruce Banner / Incredible Hulk
Wave 2: Silver Surfer
Wave 3: Galactus

Round 8:
Wave 1: Phoenix
Wave 2: Silver Surfer
Wave 3: Galactus

Powered Up
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icon_kingpin.png
icon_wolverine.png

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icon_doctordoom.png
icon_hulk.png
icon_wolverine.png
icon_humantorch.png
icon_storm.png
icon_sentry.png

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icon_ares.png
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Progression awards:
5000: token_standard.png
10000: 200 iso8big.png
20000: token_event.png Anniversary
36500: healthpackbig.png
66700: rainbow AP stockpile
105800: token_event.png Anniversary
152000: star.pngstar.pngicon_ares.pnggreenflag.png
204500: 1000 iso8big.png
262500: token_event.png
325500: token_event.png Anniversary
393500: star.pngstar.pngicon_storm.pnggreenflag.png
465500: token_event.png Anniversary
542000: 25 heropointsbig.png
622000: 1000 iso8big.png
706000: star.pngstar.pngstar.pngicon_doctordoom.pngblackflag.png
776000: 1500 iso8big.png
872000: 25 heropointsbig.png
981500: token_event.png
1101000: 2000 iso8big.png
1200000: 25 commandpointsbig.png

Round rewards:
Round 1: 15000 token_event.png
Round 2: 38000 token_event.png
Round 3: 74000 token_event.png
Round 4: ?? token_event.png
Round 5: ?? star.pngstar.pngstar.pngicon_storm.pngyellowflag.png
Round 6: ?? star.pngstar.pngstar.pngstar.pngicon_peggycarter.pngredflag.png
Round 7: ?? star.pngstar.pngstar.pngstar.pngicon_peggycarter.pngblueflag.png
Round 8: ?? star.pngstar.pngstar.pngstar.pngicon_peggycarter.pngyellowflag.png

Placement rewards:
1: star.pngstar.pngstar.pngicon_storm.pnggreenflag.png , 5000 iso8big.png, 100 heropointsbig.png
2-3: token_heroic.png x 3, 5000 iso8big.png
4-5: token_heroic.png x 2, 4000 iso8big.png
6-10: token_heroic.png , 3000 iso8big.png
11-20: token_lightning.png Elite, 2000 iso8big.png

Alliance rewards:
1-2: icon_storm.pngyellowflag.png , 5000 iso8big.png, 100 heropointsbig.png
3-10: icon_storm.pngyellowflag.png , 5000 iso8big.png, 50 heropointsbig.png
11-25: icon_storm.pngyellowflag.png , 3000 iso8big.png, 50 heropointsbig.png
26-50: icon_storm.pngyellowflag.png , 2000 iso8big.png, 50 heropointsbig.png
51-100: icon_storm.pngyellowflag.png , 1000 iso8big.png, 25 heropointsbig.png
101-250: 1000 iso8big.png, 25 heropointsbig.png
251-500: 500 iso8big.png, 25 heropointsbig.png
501-1000: 500 iso8big.png
1001-10000: 280 iso8big.png

Previous runs
None
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Comments

  • Black Duke
    Black Duke Posts: 694 Critical Contributor
    Despite the fact that D3 screwed up the next anniversary event by eliminating alliance progress, I had a good time using SW, X-Wolvie and IF in the boss waves.
  • Vhailorx
    Vhailorx Posts: 6,085 Chairperson of the Boards
    Can someone please explain how the round scoring is working? Are the scores needed to pass each round just sufficiently low that a single player could reach them with enough effort? Or can each player only apply points against their own personal score?

    If the latter, are round scores significantly lower than in previous boss fights? Ideal play in earlier boss fights meant that 20 dedicated players could beat round 8 in about 5 full 8 hour cycles. Will it take individual players the same amount of time for boss rush?
  • Moon Roach
    Moon Roach Posts: 2,863 Chairperson of the Boards
    That the rewards are now for individual rather than alliance effort is good, because I have a better chance of beating round 8 than the alliance as a whole has. But it's also bad, because I can't use my efforts to help my alliance-mates gain Peggy covers.

    Round 3 ramps up the damage considerably. Ultron doing 15k damage per bomb, after already facing Banner and Goblin? And the match damage alone is not trivial. Played it once, failed it once.
  • waywreth
    waywreth Posts: 303 Mover and Shaker
    Round 3 is Banner/Goblin/Ultron. You need 36k points to advance to R4.
  • To complete round 2 requires 23,000 on top of the 15,000 from round 1 (so 38,000 total).
    To complete round 3 requires 36,000 (so 74,000 total)
  • Blahahah
    Blahahah Posts: 738 Critical Contributor
    Round 3 is tough as nails. Especially when you consider no bosses are able to be stunned and the boosted list isn't the greatest.
    I made it through a clear of it, but only because I got lucky and my IM recharge tiles lived long enough.

    32k health on a boss is pretty hardcore, luckily Banner is easy pickings. If he had 32k hp as well things would get crazy.

    Best team I've found is IM40, Red Hulk, and Elektra. Red Hulk keeps Banner in check, IM40 fuels the big hits which lets Red Hulk almost one-shot Green's phase, and Elektra cheeses out Ultron's beefy explosions.
  • Saeva
    Saeva Posts: 39 Just Dropped In
    Moon Roach wrote:
    That the rewards are now for individual rather than alliance effort is good, because I have a better chance of beating round 8 than the alliance as a whole has. But it's also bad, because I can't use my efforts to help my alliance-mates gain Peggy covers.

    Round 3 ramps up the damage considerably. Ultron doing 15k damage per bomb, after already facing Banner and Goblin? And the match damage alone is not trivial. Played it once, failed it once.
    You have a "better chance" of getting the Peggy covers and you're still crashing out at Round 3. The scaling is insanely stupid and they actually managed to defeat the whole thing that makes Boss events fun -- Alliance cooperation. We can do our own progression, based on our own rosters, for every single other PvE event. This is...

    This Anniversary season has been so messed up. None of the new changes, like CL or three CP goals, that anyone liked. BFF Scaling was broken because the team that designed it didn't figure out the very basic math problem they were dealing with and just copy-pasta'ed the normal MMR scaling. Venom Bomb couldn't reach CP progression without all three Featured Characters, one of which was just introduced, the whole TAH mess. And now the Boss Rush event won't be act like a boss event.

    You have a whole year to plan these things, you decide to introduce new changes to the system right before the Anniversary without giving yourself enough time to change the Anniversary events too (or not bothering to even try), and the changes you do make for special Anniversary events negatively effect players. Way to bomb.png, MPQ. Good job.
  • rainkingucd
    rainkingucd Posts: 1,433 Chairperson of the Boards
    If anyone has the exact Hit point numbers, let me know and I'll update. I've got pieces put together from various posts.
  • sambrookjm
    sambrookjm Posts: 2,166 Chairperson of the Boards
    Just found out that when the game crashes right when the fight starts on the Main Boss Wave fight, you don't get a chance to repeat it. You lose out on the rewards and the 6000 points. Not good at all.
  • sinburn
    sinburn Posts: 43 Just Dropped In
    The constant bugs have ruined this entirely over-hyped anniversary.
  • ClydeFrog76
    ClydeFrog76 Posts: 1,350 Chairperson of the Boards
    Round 3,Green Goblin wave 2...25K health.

    Welp, that's me done.

    I wish I was surprised, I really do. Why does everything have to be so **** hard.
  • sinnerjfl
    sinnerjfl Posts: 1,276 Chairperson of the Boards
    Round 4:

    Green Goblin 41k health
    Iron Man 43k health
    OML 30 or 40k health (not sure)

    Good luck, this is a super nasty round.
  • unlike other boss events, the bosses themselves are subject to personal scaling, since basically this is an individual event. i just finished round 4 and my round 5 boss fight is worth 24,000 and the levels for me are 449-456, just a notch above round 4. round 5 progression 110,000.
  • Blahahah
    Blahahah Posts: 738 Critical Contributor
    edited October 2016
    Round 4 is capped out for me at about 386. Kinda weird, anyways.

    GG is first with 35600 hp, Goblin King now reduces by 2 instead of by 1.

    278 in every color for match damage.


    IM 5* is second with 35600 hp, standard set.

    Last is 5* OML, 35600 hp,
    Green - lashing out (7ap) - deal 6532 damage to a random enemy, destroy 8 random tiles, cannot be stunned/air

    Red - berserker rage (10ap) - deals 5478 damage and an additional 3418 if OML is under 60% health

    Yellow - pushed to the limit (passive) - If OML is under 55%, heal him for 1877 hp. If enemy team is under 50%, create 1 strength 395 strike tiles instead (more tiles on later levels based on wording).

    278 on all match damage across all 3 characters, and of course damage numbers are subject to change based on levels
  • WalrusBrigade
    WalrusBrigade Posts: 94 Match Maker
    edited October 2016
    Round 4:

    Goblin (lvl 373 : 32,191 health : all matches 252??)
    Iron Man (lvl 373 : 33,801 health : redtile.png 340)
    OML (lvl 373 : 32,191 health : all matches 252??)

    Right now I'm trying 4 star.pngicon_wolverine.png , 3 star.pngicon_magneto.png , icon_ironfist.png .

    Dammit! Too slow by one minute. Strange my numbers were slightly lower and IM didn't have across the board match strength. Good news is my team actually made it . . . but it was hard. I don't know how I will be able to compete in Round 6, 7, 8 (assuming I can get luck through Round 5).

    Recap: I did it three times with that team. All three are champed, and the last time I used a 40% all boost, +2 B/U and +2 All Colors. It was easy.
  • sambrookjm
    sambrookjm Posts: 2,166 Chairperson of the Boards
    thanos8587 wrote:
    unlike other boss events, the bosses themselves are subject to personal scaling, since basically this is an individual event. i just finished round 4 and my round 5 boss fight is worth 24,000 and the levels for me are 449-456, just a notch above round 4. round 5 progression 110,000.

    Great...that would explain why the bosses in Round 3 are LVL 265-279 for me while the other fights are still in the LVL 40 range. My top three characters for this fight are X-Force Wolverine (LVL 375), Kingpin (3/3/5 and LVL 320) and 3-star Storm (287). All three use Black and Yellow, with complete overlap for Wolverine and Storm.

    I got really lucky on the Ultron round the first time through. I was using X23, 3-star Daken and Mr Fantastic. I was able to kill Ultron before any of his bombs hit the bottom thanks to two Holding Back (9K damage total) and two matched Hunting Prey tiles (15K damage) Goblin and Banner weren't any problem, and Hulk was actually helpful in letting my stock up on green, giving me extra strike tiles from Daken, and storing up for the Holding Back to take out the other bosses.
  • goozen
    goozen Posts: 16
    Seems to me that unless you have self healing or massive damage reduction it simply cant be done. I made it to OML with 4 star.png wolverine Red hulk and Hood but was almost dead by then
  • sambrookjm
    sambrookjm Posts: 2,166 Chairperson of the Boards
    And here's another fun bug. Green Goblin fortified a Pyro Flamethrower tile. I took Goblin out in Round two with X-23's Berserker Fury, bringing on Ultron in Round 3. The Fortified Flamethrower tile stayed on, even though the Pyro and Goblin were both long gone. The timer was at one, and on the next turn the tile blew up for about 2400 pts of damage to the entire team. icon_evil.gificon_evil.gificon_evil.gificon_evil.gif
  • Blahahah
    Blahahah Posts: 738 Critical Contributor
    Just to note, Jean Grey is a great person to bring for round 4. Her removal bypasses fortify and the AoE damage works wonders on the drones/goons.

    Another smart pick (if you have her covered this early) is Spider Woman. Her black basically no-sells 90% of the damage you'll find until you get OML below 60% and she can remove countdowns as well.
  • Realstuff_NameChange
    Realstuff_NameChange Posts: 64 Match Maker
    Made the huge mistake of bringing 4Thor for round 4. All bosses immune to stun and then iron man did like 19,000 damage in one shot because of all the charged tiles :/