Access Granted: S.H.I.E.L.D. Clearance Level 9 *Updated (9/20/17)

Brigby

Update: Fixed progression rewards to correctly show 10 Command Points at Progression Reward 22. Also adjusted some wording for better clarity.
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Hi Everyone,

Nick Fury has officially granted access to S.H.I.E.L.D. Clearance Level 9 for agents Rank 65 or higher. Prepare yourselves with the briefing documents below:
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Starting with Venom Bomb, S.H.I.E.L.D. Clearance Level 9 (or SCL 9) will be available in all Story Events that already have S.H.I.E.L.D. Clearance Levels. SCL 9 brings players at the highest level a new level of difficulty, while increasing the amount of rewards they can earn.

In addition, a new mission has been added to each Sub-Chapter in SCLs 7, 8, and 9 that features a different 5-Star each event. 

Please see below for more details

• SCL 9 is available to everyone at S.H.I.E.L.D. Rank 65 or higher
• Individual Placement Rewards
• Top placement now receives 2 Latest Legends tokens
• Top 5 now receives 1 Latest Legends token
• Top 20 now receives 2 4-Star covers
• Top 50 now receives 1 4-Star cover
• See tables for more details

• Alliance Placement Rewards
• Top 2 Alliances now receives a 4-Star cover and a Latest Legends token
• Top 10 Alliances now receives a Latest Legends token
• See tables for more details

• Progression Rewards
• 8 more total Command Points than SCL 8
• 1,300 More Iso-8 than SCL 8
• See tables for more details

• 5-Star Required Mission
• Only available to SCL 7 and higher
• Requires a different 5-Star for each event
• This mission is not considered when calculating progression reward tiers
• Difficulty behaves like other Story missions
• Difficulty increases each time the mission is completed (up to 4 times)
• The amount of points the mission is worth goes down after the 4th completion
• Rewards are earned the first 6 times it is completed
• The minimum amount of points this mission is worth is 4 points
• See mission rewards table below

• See tables below for mission difficulty information

*Information is subject to change between the date this was posted and when the event goes live

Moon Roach

Oh my sainted aunt.

rixmith

Who will be the first required 5*?

shardwick

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

Brigby

rixmith said:

Who will be the first required 5*?

The first required 5-Star character will be Star-Lord (Awesome Mix Volume 2)

TeamStewie

Oh goody. Star Lord, my 1 cover bum

LifeofAgony

And thus, the tappers rejoiced.  

zulux21

on the plus side my 5* characters will let me do something with them.
on the minus side the extra rewards still don't remotely seem worth the extra effort moving up from SCL7.

oh well hopefully other people think they are worth it and I will just stay in my happy place of SCL7.

shardwick

Oh goody. Star Lord, my 0 cover bum.

bluewolf

Open your eyes, look up to the skies, and see...

SCL9 is here!

alphabeta

Pvp coming as well?

Akari

On the one hand, CL9, yay!!! On the other hand, Venom Bomb ewww....

Looks good!

The rockett

Can there be a fix for the tappers @Brigby ?  This will now cause even more of this in sl9

Tiger_Wong

Alright! My Starlord is 4/2/5. Only lvl 270 though. 

broll

And the reward bump is practically nothing again. Weee

Edit: progression rewards. 

vinsensual

So the 5* fight will have points that aren't calculated for max progression, but will still be a factor in placements? 

evade420

Really excited for this!!

ShanePHallam

vinsensual said:

So the 5* fight will have points that aren't calculated for max progression, but will still be a factor in placements? 

My guess is it means that the points obtained aren't calculated when they set up progression rewards.  So, if you clear every other node 5 times, you'll get the top progression (30 command points).  If you do the 5* required node, then you can get top progression without 5 clears

sinnerjfl

so they just casually introduced 5* essentials...

bluewolf

Is the required 5* boosted, like 2/3/4*'s?  And does that apply to all SCL's?

Sluggo

We love to complain when things go wrong, so it's only fair to give credit when due: this feels right.

Unlike SCL8, which didn't feel like it had overly compelling rewards when it launched, these SCL9 rewards feel strong enough to entice 5* players to make the jump. There's a lot to digest here, but my initial impression is that these feel like pretty solid rewards. 

I just wish it wasn't Venom Bomb. I'm still trying to forget how it felt the last time when I was dealing with level 450 enemies on day 3.