Thanos Boss Event: Come and Get Me * Updated (4/27/17)

halirin

Very fun event. Sneaky Venom was a great surprise.

I can't be 100% sure, but it definitely seems like someone with a decent 3* roster would be able to clear this event. Maybe they would wipe on the thanos node once or twice, but it seems utterly doable. 

slidecage

i think this will be the only boss battle i make final reward

Wumpushunter

Tony Foot said:

Wumpushunter said:

adamdivine said:

I will say though, I love the boss mechanics. That part at least is great. And the scaling is appropriate for the boss. Lots of roster levels can compete

Yeah on round 8, so many fully covered 5s and champed 4 rosters can compete, not much else.

Which is perfect is it not? I have a dozen or so 4*s and I have eaten through this. At 1.1m personal progression and will keep going until we finish R8 in an hour or so. Yet 3* rosters should have gotten the rewards they are targetting, 3 Nova covers. They might not get the Purple token but nor should they be expected to and still make it remotely a challenge. TBH I don't know why that matters so much, It's one of the latest and I got Mordo. In 3* land it's not worth busting your **** for a chance at a single 5* SL or one of the latest 4's. You may as well get the Nova covers and go and enjoy your weekend.

So in other words,  us 3 star surfs should be happy with our thin gruel and be appreciative. 

Wumpushunter

Or maybe you can stop being elitist, everyone being able to participate is not entitlement.

revskip

Wumpushunter said:

Tony Foot said:

Wumpushunter said:

adamdivine said:

I will say though, I love the boss mechanics. That part at least is great. And the scaling is appropriate for the boss. Lots of roster levels can compete

Yeah on round 8, so many fully covered 5s and champed 4 rosters can compete, not much else.

Which is perfect is it not? I have a dozen or so 4*s and I have eaten through this. At 1.1m personal progression and will keep going until we finish R8 in an hour or so. Yet 3* rosters should have gotten the rewards they are targetting, 3 Nova covers. They might not get the Purple token but nor should they be expected to and still make it remotely a challenge. TBH I don't know why that matters so much, It's one of the latest and I got Mordo. In 3* land it's not worth busting your **** for a chance at a single 5* SL or one of the latest 4's. You may as well get the Nova covers and go and enjoy your weekend.

So in other words,  us 3 star surfs should be happy with our thin gruel and be appreciative. 

More like enjoy the journey don't sweat the destination.  You'll get there, just not overnight.  Every 4* player now went through exactly what you are going through now in the past.  

Same goes for Gauntlet.  Took me over a year before I could complete it.  Now it isn't hard to even farm for extra rewards.  

DarthDeVo

Wumpushunter said:

Tony Foot said:

Wumpushunter said:

adamdivine said:

I will say though, I love the boss mechanics. That part at least is great. And the scaling is appropriate for the boss. Lots of roster levels can compete

Yeah on round 8, so many fully covered 5s and champed 4 rosters can compete, not much else.

Which is perfect is it not? I have a dozen or so 4*s and I have eaten through this. At 1.1m personal progression and will keep going until we finish R8 in an hour or so. Yet 3* rosters should have gotten the rewards they are targetting, 3 Nova covers. They might not get the Purple token but nor should they be expected to and still make it remotely a challenge. TBH I don't know why that matters so much, It's one of the latest and I got Mordo. In 3* land it's not worth busting your **** for a chance at a single 5* SL or one of the latest 4's. You may as well get the Nova covers and go and enjoy your weekend.

So in other words,  us 3 star surfs should be happy with our thin gruel and be appreciative. 

 It may sound harsh, but everyone has to start somewhere. I started playing about a year ago, right before the first run of Civil War. As you can imagine, I couldn't play very many nodes, and got next to nothing for rewards (wasn't in a very strong alliance either).

I can't remember what the next alliance event was after that (a rerun of Ultron maybe?), but I did a little better on that one. When they reran Civil War again, a little better.  At the Galactus event over Christmas, I almost got personal progression for the first time, and would have if we hadn't been on the road so much.

I've hit it the last event or two they've had. It takes time and roster development. You can pay your way to the top to accelerate that progress, but understand that otherwise it will take time. If you don't get it this time, there's always the next event. I know that's not much consolation right now, but it's the best advice I have. 

You can also try to find a better alliance that will help you get those 4*covers. My alliance happens to be a more casual public alliance. We'll get the first cover, maaaayyyybe the second, but probably not the third. I really, REALLY could have used all three, but it's my fault and mine alone for not finding a different alliance before this event started. It's mostly apathy on my part, so I try not to complain about it. 

granne

I'm in pretty much the same boat as @DarthDeVo, even starting around the same time. My first alliance was super casual, to the extent that my 2-3* roster got me top spot in Boss Rush (some people did stop trying, and I actually wanted that Mohawk cover). It was around that time that I started looking for a new alliance and I lucked into one that suits me perfectly (Go, Team Emerald!), where pretty much the sole criterion for membership is trying in alliance events.

I've enjoyed watching the alliance as a whole advance as my roster has. With each event we do a little better, as individuals and as a whole. We should get the third Nova cover on the next refresh, and a bunch of us will hit max. personal progression. I did just now.

Alliance events aren't like regular PvE; you can't necessarily brute force your way to maximum progression. If you're missing essential characters, you'll miss a lot of points. If you get don't have good synergy in your boss node team, or you get a bad board, and your characters don't have the health to withstand the hits, you'll miss a lot of points. Every point you do get, though, helps your whole alliance.

Hard play will get you so far, and next time it will get you further.

zulux21

so gotta say despite my fears this event went pretty well.

my more casual alliance managed to get full progression already thanks to the massive damage gems on the board. Sure a number of our members wiped but they got a good chunk of points while doing so which is better than a number of other bosses.

So... I guess, I would give this event a positive review in general.

still need to fix unlock scaling as that just gets stupid fast.

NewMcG

Wumpushunter said:

Or maybe you can stop being elitist, everyone being able to participate is not entitlement.

You're confusing "participation" with "easily coasting to the last progression reward". You certainly can do the former. You want the latter. That does sort of seem like a sense of entitlement.

y2fitzy

As someone still working on champing three stars, the highlight for me has been using Agent Venom who I have a load of covers for but is still level 70.

He has absolutely been my MVP against Thanos, hitting that blue stone early has been great fun.

Wasn't expecting to hit full progression, don't have Drax or AntMan, but cruised it in the end

Quebbster

My alliance is fairly casual - most members have been playing a long time but we have no particular participation requirements so the roster strength is fairly varierar. In previous boss battles only the strongest rosters were able to participate in round 8, but this time we're already done with round 8 and 13 members have made max progression.

CNash

So I just got 4* Deadpool's Countdown for What CD tiles to line up with the row destroyed by Infinity Gauntlet - and IG neutralises them by turning them into charged tiles before destroying the row. I was hoping for some Tetris Ultron self-destruction antics...

BlackWidower

y2fitzy said:

As someone still working on champing three stars, the highlight for me has been using Agent Venom who I have a load of covers for but is still level 70.

He has absolutely been my MVP against Thanos, hitting that blue stone early has been great fun.

Wasn't expecting to hit full progression, don't have Drax or AntMan, but cruised it in the end

You'll find once you get more 4s that Agent Venom is sorta meh. When boosted though, he will be one of your favourites. Black is super cheap and high damage and the yellow AOE is quite significant too.

DarthDeVo

Seeing everyone here posting about being in a casual alliance and still making it through Round 8 is just reinforcing the idea I need to find a different alliance. I hit personal progression this morning, but we'll be lucky to make it through Round 6 for the yellow cover. 

I checked the rosters for most of my teammates playing, and most of them have the required characters. They just straight up aren't playing that much, even though the event is easy. I really needed the Nova covers, and could have used the Star-Lord covers from the last alliance event. I think we got at least two in that one, but not the yellow I really needed, which was the reward for clearing Round 7. 

Just frustrated and tired of being constantly let down. Our goals clearly aren't compatible, and I think it's time for me to move on.

CT1888

I had that frustration from my previous alliance DeVo, particularly frustrating in alliance events where I worked like a trooper to get max progression and others didn't seem to lift a finger after joining. When I eventually took the plunge and found a new alliance, the rewards took a huge jump up. Get to the alliance forum and find a new home.

bowla33

I just recently did the same thing. My Alliance was super casual but had some strength but lacked the excitement for these events. 

I switched to a more a active alliance and it's a world of difference, we cleared 8 by mid-Saturday.

I 100% recommend finding a group that meets your wants. 



DarthDeVo said:

Seeing everyone here posting about being in a casual alliance and still making it through Round 8 is just reinforcing the idea I need to find a different alliance. I hit personal progression this morning, but we'll be lucky to make it through Round 6 for the yellow cover. 

I checked the rosters for most of my teammates playing, and most of them have the required characters. They just straight up aren't playing that much, even though the event is easy. I really needed the Nova covers, and could have used the Star-Lord covers from the last alliance event. I think we got at least two in that one, but not the yellow I really needed, which was the reward for clearing Round 7. 

Just frustrated and tired of being constantly let down. Our goals clearly aren't compatible, and I think it's time for me to move on.

Wonko33

It was a great event , even with a super casual alliance we made level 6, Boss was easy at first and got a bit more puzzly after a while, very doable for many levels (at least up to 6) with a good 3* roster. 

zulux21

Wonko33 said:

It was a great event , even with a super casual alliance we made level 6, Boss was easy at first and got a bit more puzzly after a while, very doable for many levels (at least up to 6) with a good 3* roster. 

actually with some luck you can do it with about any roster.
I ran a level 15 storm, level 15 bag man and level 70 IF (aka 3 character I didn't care about) at the last round thanos and

was the end result. obviously I didn't quite kill him but if I had slightly better drops I could have gotten the red gem to finish him off lol. (and no I couldn't use storm's green to try to change the drops, she didn't have that move :P)

DapperChewie

The boss isn't the issue here. An alliance mate beat Thanos with a 1* lineup. 

http://forums.d3go.com/discussion/63892/lowest-level-team-to-defeat-round-8-thanos#latest

The side nodes didn't feel as grueling this time. I've got almost 20 champed 4s and the nodes are still in the 200s.

All in all, I think this boss event had some great execution. 

Bloody_Marvel

I concur. This is the first Boss event that wasn't a complete chore to complete (Day 648 at the start of the event). Even managed to keep playing for the extra Iso-8 and XP, ending up with a score of 2,257,480.

That may be partly down to the 29 4* champs, but I think I mostly beat Thanos with the Infinity Gems. Always putting 4* Star-Lord/Gamora/Rocket & Groot up against Thanos (they were all boosted, and it felt like the right thing to do ), and pairing 4* Wolverine/4* Deadpool with the required characters on the nodes.

I thought the game was well balanced this time around. Hoping they'll keep this scaling for all Boss events in the future.